Its time to put an end to these childish rivalries and Machiavellian plots. I think a good start would be for Dice-K to go over and personally meet each of the Yankees TODAY, and tell them how much he appreciates their skills and looks forward to seeing them in June at Fenway.
Way more interesting than another bash MS case is the link to the US Cort of Appeals setting up their own wiki. Now we will be seeing reports that the rate of convictions has tripled over the last decade.
Q. Are Social Security Numbers re-assigned after a person dies?
A. No. We do not re-assign Social Security numbers. We have assigned more than 440 million Social Security numbers and each year we assign about 5.5 million new numbers. Even so, the current system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future.
Your concern is backwards. According to the US constitution, all powers not delineated by the constitution are reserved to the states and the people, not vice versa.
Torture also predates US law and might have been used to force Mr Wolf to testify. Although it is illegal (in most cases), clever prosecutors might find a way to get around the law, just as they did with the protection for journalists. After all, getting a conviction while staying within the letter of the law is all that matters. Not upholding the spirit of the law, right?
And what federal law was broken? It doesn't bother you that the federal government can detain someone for over 7 months because someone wants to get around a state law? Regardless of what you think of the CA law, the federal court overstepped its boundaries.
The webserver is not "allowing" copies. It is the one making the copies and distributing them. The browser client requests a copy using GET, so if the server doesn't want to make a copy, it can just refuse. There is nothing in the copyright law about "caches" either.
By supporting the http protocol, you are inherently agreeing to allow others to make copies of your website. That is exactly what http does and what it is intended to do. You seem to be arguing that the law includes some kind of "time-limited" copyright which allows one to make a copy for a limited time. No such provision exists in US copyright law, although the Google cache did lose such a case in Belgium.
What you are looking for is contract law, since a contract can define arbitrary permissions and behaviors, including time limits. I suspect that is why the case being described is not a copyright case, it is a contract case.
Any competent software that has to deal with locations in multiple time zones uses UTC. The only thing that ever worries about DST is conversions to local time.
By far the most successful animal species on Earth is the ant. They have exactly the type of determination that you describe. Imagine a technologically advanced species with similar attitude - every individual has a pre-determined role supporting the species plan of conquering every available planet. As for revolts and warfare, there is plenty of war between different ants. Hasn't prevented them from becoming the dominant type, on the order of 1/4 - 1/3 of the total animal biomass.
If you live in a typical suburban neighborhood, there are at least 200 houses within a 30-minute walk. How many have you visited? How many would you visit if it took the entire output of your civilization for 10 years in order to visit?
Anyway, amongst the nearest alien species this is called the "Brakloo'tj Paradox".
By definition, shouldn't any post about spam be marked redundant?
Anyway, I run a mailserver. What I see is surges of email for whatever happens to be the current scam. Last year it was mostly mortgage offers (Get a cheap, misspelled mortqaq3 today!!!) Spamassassin + RBLs eliminate about 70% of the flood. Image-only email is flagged by spamassassin. Now random text is added to get past the Bayesian filters. The arms race continues.
BTW, if you are the type to send copies of spam to abuse addresses, I advise you to remove identifying info and post it through an anonymous account to avoid retaliation. ISPs tend to forward it to the spammer.
Lots of things other than power glitches can cause a system to crash and reboot. Voting machines write each vote to non-volatile storage so that even if they reboot, no votes are lost.
I'm hoping that the storage is write-once, and has a header signed by the poll workers when they certify that the totals are zero, then the votes, then a footer signed by the poll workers saying that the election is over. But I don't know that they do that.
I was trying to think of a good, cheap countermeasure. I guess gluing a small speaker to the window connected to a white noise generator (or the company music-on-hold system) would work.
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Roger should have an easy time at Fenway. Massachusetts has laws against abuse of the elderly.
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Its time to put an end to these childish rivalries and Machiavellian plots. I think a good start would be for Dice-K to go over and personally meet each of the Yankees TODAY, and tell them how much he appreciates their skills and looks forward to seeing them in June at Fenway.
Way more interesting than another bash MS case is the link to the US Cort of Appeals setting up their own wiki. Now we will be seeing reports that the rate of convictions has tripled over the last decade.
Q. Are Social Security Numbers re-assigned after a person dies?
A. No. We do not re-assign Social Security numbers. We have assigned more than 440 million Social Security numbers and each year we assign about 5.5 million new numbers. Even so, the current system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future.
No bureaucracy? What China are you talking about?
Your concern is backwards. According to the US constitution, all powers not delineated by the constitution are reserved to the states and the people, not vice versa.
Torture also predates US law and might have been used to force Mr Wolf to testify. Although it is illegal (in most cases), clever prosecutors might find a way to get around the law, just as they did with the protection for journalists. After all, getting a conviction while staying within the letter of the law is all that matters. Not upholding the spirit of the law, right?
And what federal law was broken? It doesn't bother you that the federal government can detain someone for over 7 months because someone wants to get around a state law? Regardless of what you think of the CA law, the federal court overstepped its boundaries.
"Shoot enough of them in the head == less violent crime!"
Do you work for the Bush administration?
Some time take a look at the claim that the murder rate is lower in death penalty states. Did you ever notice that they don't count the executions?
The webserver is not "allowing" copies. It is the one making the copies and distributing them. The browser client requests a copy using GET, so if the server doesn't want to make a copy, it can just refuse. There is nothing in the copyright law about "caches" either.
By supporting the http protocol, you are inherently agreeing to allow others to make copies of your website. That is exactly what http does and what it is intended to do. You seem to be arguing that the law includes some kind of "time-limited" copyright which allows one to make a copy for a limited time. No such provision exists in US copyright law, although the Google cache did lose such a case in Belgium.
What you are looking for is contract law, since a contract can define arbitrary permissions and behaviors, including time limits. I suspect that is why the case being described is not a copyright case, it is a contract case.
Any competent software that has to deal with locations in multiple time zones uses UTC. The only thing that ever worries about DST is conversions to local time.
By far the most successful animal species on Earth is the ant. They have exactly the type of determination that you describe. Imagine a technologically advanced species with similar attitude - every individual has a pre-determined role supporting the species plan of conquering every available planet. As for revolts and warfare, there is plenty of war between different ants. Hasn't prevented them from becoming the dominant type, on the order of 1/4 - 1/3 of the total animal biomass.
If you live in a typical suburban neighborhood, there are at least 200 houses within a 30-minute walk. How many have you visited? How many would you visit if it took the entire output of your civilization for 10 years in order to visit?
Anyway, amongst the nearest alien species this is called the "Brakloo'tj Paradox".
"Go on. Eat a bug. Go on. Go on. Here's some money. Eat a bug."
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True enough for most software patents. Reverse engineering software frequently takes longer than writing it did.
Not true for drugs, for example, because most of the cost is in testing, not production.
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By definition, shouldn't any post about spam be marked redundant?
Anyway, I run a mailserver. What I see is surges of email for whatever happens to be the current scam. Last year it was mostly mortgage offers (Get a cheap, misspelled mortqaq3 today!!!) Spamassassin + RBLs eliminate about 70% of the flood. Image-only email is flagged by spamassassin. Now random text is added to get past the Bayesian filters. The arms race continues.
BTW, if you are the type to send copies of spam to abuse addresses, I advise you to remove identifying info and post it through an anonymous account to avoid retaliation. ISPs tend to forward it to the spammer.
That's odd. I wonder why they haven't gotten a subpoena?
X=X++ is interesting. I don't think it means what you think it means.
perl -e '$i=2; $i=$i++; print $i;'
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Lots of things other than power glitches can cause a system to crash and reboot. Voting machines write each vote to non-volatile storage so that even if they reboot, no votes are lost.
I'm hoping that the storage is write-once, and has a header signed by the poll workers when they certify that the totals are zero, then the votes, then a footer signed by the poll workers saying that the election is over. But I don't know that they do that.
He meant Sanskrit with no serifs.
It's interesting that Wikipedia also removed the edit history so that we can't tell what was there or who contributed it in the first place.
payola n, Illegal promotion of music where record companies pay radio stations to play their songs.
playlist n. Legal promotion of music where record companies pay promoters to pay radio stations to play their songs.
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I was trying to think of a good, cheap countermeasure. I guess gluing a small speaker to the window connected to a white noise generator (or the company music-on-hold system) would work.