(b) ADDITIONAL VIOLATIONS. (1) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that (etc.)
and
(c) OTHER RIGHTS, ETC., NOT AFFECTED. (1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
Nothing about possessing or using technology that bypasses encryption. Its legal to have, use and modify, just not distribute. Kind of like the GPL.
I have to agree with you that one is more productive writing in Java than C++. However, saying Java is fast as long as you don't use Swing is like saying Phelps isn't much of an athlete except for the swimming. One of the main reasons for the existence of Java is platform-independent graphics.
Personally I have found Perl to be just as fast as Java, and easier to implement graphics applications. I can prototype in perl and code in C+OpenGL if I want speed. As for your statistic, a correctly written OpenGL app spends most of its time in the OpenGL library, which is all written in C.
So do you believe movie actors should be able to sell pictures taken on the set before the movie is out?
How about if your Dr. posts pictures of your operation on the web. Its her free speech, right? You have no reason to be outraged.
The money that pays for the Olympics is raised by the IOC. If you want to be part of it, you don't interfere with their right to distribute the goods and recoup the costs. The article doesn't say spectators, only the people who work for or participate. In other words, the ones who are there at the invitation of the IOC. And the ban is only until the Olympics is over.
Heh. Very funny. Look up "differential pricing" on google and then hit the econ. textbooks. In fact, it pays to sell below costs to low payers when you can prevent your software from crossing borders back to the high payers, which is done by localization and aggressive customs inspections. Just ask the drug companies.
PowerPC has around 185 instructions, many of which have modifiers to make multiple forms. Makes you wonder about that "R" in RISC. Some personal favorites from the vast selection are:
frsqrte - Floating Reciprocal Square Root Estimate eieio - Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O lfsux - Load Floating-Point Single with Update Indexed (pronounced: Life Sucks)
Protective blocks are already happening. Many ISPs (like mine) block outgoing email and incoming http requests so that mail and websites must be on their servers. When I first got on the net, I had telnet access to the ISP servers, too. That's long gone.
Don't work on Ashcroft, tho. Track down the spammers and report them to IRS. How many do you think are reporting taxes?
WEP is so insecure it is being replaced by WPA + RADIUS. WPA can change 256-bit keys every 50 minutes to eliminate cracks by programs like Airsnort. RADIUS gives you central admin instead of having to change a key on every device manually. Cisco LEAP uses a separate one-time key for each session, which seems pretty secure.
The DP site does OCR and proofreads the results for Project Gutenberg. Anyone can join and spend a few minutes once in a while proofreading books. If you are kind of ADD like me, it lets you read about 3 pages of a book once in a while without having to actually sit down and do cover-to-cover.
Fourth Amendment "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
You can't be searched without probable cause in the US. A huge number of cases have limited what law enforcement can gather as evidence without your consent.
Supply and demand. In Massachusetts, you need 6000 hours as an apprentice pipefitter to advance to journeyman. Anyone can be called a software engineer. No degree, certification or apprenticeship. What we need is a guild.
How about looking at it this way? Based on a sample size of two (Mars and Earth) both having the chemistry needed for life what is the probability that life exists elsewhere in the universe? I'd say pretty good.
OK, you asked for it. You can't patent something that "exists in nature", however there are a lot of grey areas. Most law deals with plants, but its been wedged more and more open over the years.
- Louis Pasteur patented a yeast in 1873.
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980) found that genetically engineered bacteria useful for cleaning up oil spills by ingesting hydrocarbons were patentable because they are modified.
- The Plant Patent Act of 1930 established patent rights for developers of new varieties of seed-propagated plants (not hybrids). Carrots, celery, cucumbers, okra, peppers, and tomatoes were initially exempted, but were added in 1980. In 1994 F1 hybrids were added as well (corn and potatoes).
- Ex Parte Hibberd (1985) allows utility patents with no exemptions, on methods used to produce GM plants, which includes the genetic sequence inserted (or removed) from the plant.
Umm.. Journalism? If you purport to be a news site, don't you think you have an obligation to be unbiased? (or "Fair and Balanced" in Fox terminology). Are the standards suddenly looser because it is web-based? All news reports suffer from bias, but at least the NYT makes an attempt. Its hard for me to imagine MS (or any captive corporate news site) reporting a case of plagiarism from their own staff.
I reached around the back of some equipment once to hold it steady while attaching a cable. Didn't realize that there were two exposed studs for +5V and ground. Shorted a 1000W Lambda power supply with my wedding ring and got a very hot finger before I pulled it away. I had to polish the melted spots out of the ring. I always take jewelry off now, even if its low voltage. The equipment never noticed the power glitch.
To run Linux, you need to download and install the nvidia drivers, but other than that it isn't hard to configure. With the Batesias 17" flat screen it replaced a big loud desktop with a tiny, quiet work area. I love it.
Before you go all Sally Field on Microsoft, can you name another common Internet spec that you have to sign an agreement to use?
You call it a License, which it is not, Microsoft calls it an Agreement.
A License is a one-way set of conditions. Anyone can use the product under the terms of a License. The GPL is a license to use copyright works.
An Agreement (or License Agreement, or Legal Agreement, they all mean the same thing) is a contract with mutual obligations. You can make any set of conditions that you want in a contract as long as both sides agree and sign.
This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works.
This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights
Note that "the authors" is: J. Lyon Microsoft Corp M. Wong pobox.com
I used to be an SPF fan, largely because it was the source of many hilariously mistaken/. posts, but now I think I need some clarification.
telnet uiuic.edu 25 ::220 tarantula.cso.uiuc.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:23:26 -0500 (CDT) HELO crumpet.mine.nu ::250 tarantula.cso.uiuc.edu Hello xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.net [xx.xx.xx.xx], pleased to meet you MAIL FROM: bgates@microsoft.com ::250 2.1.0 bgates@microsoft.com... Sender ok RCPT TO: xxxx@uiuc.edu ::250 2.1.5 xxxx@uiuc.edu... Recipient ok data ::354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself TO: happy feet FROM: crazy horse Do you like to get spam? . ::250 2.0.0 i21FrEK09714 Message accepted for delivery QUIT
Just to clarify for everyone, an SPF record on the domain microsoft.com would prevent this email.
Thanks! PCB installed on my linux box and looks really well polished and well documented (for OSS). The libraries that came with it are great. I plan on being up all night playing with this.
There are a lot of companies who will do small runs of PC boards for you, but you have to give them finished layouts (gerber files). This gut provides the tools to do the layout as well as doing the boards, so it saves you a huge investment in software and learning a layout system.
Machine shops are the same way. If you design something in AutoCad and give them a finished print, they will quote on it and make you a part. His adavntage again is providing the tools and doing the quote instantly.
Most websites for machine shops are a single static page with a name and phone number, or scanned images of a paper catalog. This guy is 10 years more advanced in internet technology (and that's 70 dog years).
Desireable search terms can go for $0.45/click. If you have a website that forwards clicks to google, you get a share of the revenue, which is what is driving the fraud.
One way to combat would be to compare the search rate from the website to the total hits on the website compare that ratio to hits on the google main page or to other affiliates. If 90% of the people hvisiting the website click on the ad link, it would be kind of suspicious.
Er, no. The motto of well-written code is be tolerant of what you accept and strict on what you emit. Accepting incorrect, but unambiguous JS does not mean IE is poorly written. Accepting buffer overflowas and Active-Xploits is what means IE is poorly written.
Slashdot Mirror
Bull...
(b) ADDITIONAL VIOLATIONS. (1) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that (etc.)
and
(c) OTHER RIGHTS, ETC., NOT AFFECTED. (1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
Nothing about possessing or using technology that bypasses encryption. Its legal to have, use and modify, just not distribute. Kind of like the GPL.
I have to agree with you that one is more productive writing in Java than C++. However, saying Java is fast as long as you don't use Swing is like saying Phelps isn't much of an athlete except for the swimming. One of the main reasons for the existence of Java is platform-independent graphics.
Personally I have found Perl to be just as fast as Java, and easier to implement graphics applications. I can prototype in perl and code in C+OpenGL if I want speed. As for your statistic, a correctly written OpenGL app spends most of its time in the OpenGL library, which is all written in C.
So do you believe movie actors should be able to sell pictures taken on the set before the movie is out?
How about if your Dr. posts pictures of your operation on the web. Its her free speech, right? You have no reason to be outraged.
The money that pays for the Olympics is raised by the IOC. If you want to be part of it, you don't interfere with their right to distribute the goods and recoup the costs. The article doesn't say spectators, only the people who work for or participate. In other words, the ones who are there at the invitation of the IOC. And the ban is only until the Olympics is over.
Heh. Very funny. Look up "differential pricing" on google and then hit the econ. textbooks. In fact, it pays to sell below costs to low payers when you can prevent your software from crossing borders back to the high payers, which is done by localization and aggressive customs inspections. Just ask the drug companies.
PowerPC has around 185 instructions, many of which have modifiers to make multiple forms. Makes you wonder about that "R" in RISC. Some personal favorites from the vast selection are:
frsqrte - Floating Reciprocal Square Root Estimate
eieio - Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O
lfsux - Load Floating-Point Single with Update Indexed (pronounced: Life Sucks)
Protective blocks are already happening. Many ISPs (like mine) block outgoing email and incoming http requests so that mail and websites must be on their servers. When I first got on the net, I had telnet access to the ISP servers, too. That's long gone.
Don't work on Ashcroft, tho. Track down the spammers and report them to IRS. How many do you think are reporting taxes?
WEP is so insecure it is being replaced by WPA + RADIUS. WPA can change 256-bit keys every 50 minutes to eliminate cracks by programs like Airsnort. RADIUS gives you central admin instead of having to change a key on every device manually. Cisco LEAP uses a separate one-time key for each session, which seems pretty secure.
The DP site does OCR and proofreads the results for Project Gutenberg. Anyone can join and spend a few minutes once in a while proofreading books. If you are kind of ADD like me, it lets you read about 3 pages of a book once in a while without having to actually sit down and do cover-to-cover.
Fourth Amendment
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
You can't be searched without probable cause in the US. A huge number of cases have limited what law enforcement can gather as evidence without your consent.
Supply and demand. In Massachusetts, you need 6000 hours as an apprentice pipefitter to advance to journeyman. Anyone can be called a software engineer. No degree, certification or apprenticeship. What we need is a guild.
Easy. Only accept replies to mail that you've sent. A sendmail filter could be set up to do this easily.
How about looking at it this way? Based on a sample size of two (Mars and Earth) both having the chemistry needed for life what is the probability that life exists elsewhere in the universe? I'd say pretty good.
OK, you asked for it. You can't patent something that "exists in nature", however there are a lot of grey areas. Most law deals with plants, but its been wedged more and more open over the years.
- Louis Pasteur patented a yeast in 1873.
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980) found that genetically engineered bacteria useful for cleaning up oil spills by ingesting hydrocarbons were patentable because they are modified.
- The Plant Patent Act of 1930 established patent rights for developers of new varieties of seed-propagated plants (not hybrids). Carrots, celery, cucumbers, okra, peppers, and tomatoes were initially exempted, but were added in 1980. In 1994 F1 hybrids were added as well (corn and potatoes).
- Ex Parte Hibberd (1985) allows utility patents with no exemptions, on methods used to produce GM plants, which includes the genetic sequence inserted (or removed) from the plant.
Sun service engineer: I'm trying to fix this CPU, but all I have is sky pieces, anyone have a piece with a little bit of a boat?
Umm.. Journalism? If you purport to be a news site, don't you think you have an obligation to be unbiased? (or "Fair and Balanced" in Fox terminology). Are the standards suddenly looser because it is web-based? All news reports suffer from bias, but at least the NYT makes an attempt. Its hard for me to imagine MS (or any captive corporate news site) reporting a case of plagiarism from their own staff.
I reached around the back of some equipment once to hold it steady while attaching a cable. Didn't realize that there were two exposed studs for +5V and ground. Shorted a 1000W Lambda power supply with my wedding ring and got a very hot finger before I pulled it away. I had to polish the melted spots out of the ring. I always take jewelry off now, even if its low voltage. The equipment never noticed the power glitch.
How about classical Latin?
vini, vidi, vitellus
* I came, I saw, I had a cow
To run Linux, you need to download and install the nvidia drivers, but other than that it isn't hard to configure. With the Batesias 17" flat screen it replaced a big loud desktop with a tiny, quiet work area. I love it.
Before you go all Sally Field on Microsoft, can you name another common Internet spec that you have to sign an agreement to use?
You call it a License, which it is not, Microsoft calls it an Agreement.
A License is a one-way set of conditions. Anyone can use the product under the terms of a License. The GPL is a license to use copyright works.
An Agreement (or License Agreement, or Legal Agreement, they all mean the same thing) is a contract with mutual obligations. You can make any set of conditions that you want in a contract as long as both sides agree and sign.
From the copyright for RFC2821: (SMTP):
/. posts, but now I think I need some clarification.
This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works.
From the copyright for Sender ID:
This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights
Note that "the authors" is:
J. Lyon
Microsoft Corp
M. Wong
pobox.com
I used to be an SPF fan, largely because it was the source of many hilariously mistaken
Thanks! PCB installed on my linux box and looks really well polished and well documented (for OSS). The libraries that came with it are great. I plan on being up all night playing with this.
There are a lot of companies who will do small runs of PC boards for you, but you have to give them finished layouts (gerber files). This gut provides the tools to do the layout as well as doing the boards, so it saves you a huge investment in software and learning a layout system.
Machine shops are the same way. If you design something in AutoCad and give them a finished print, they will quote on it and make you a part. His adavntage again is providing the tools and doing the quote instantly.
Most websites for machine shops are a single static page with a name and phone number, or scanned images of a paper catalog. This guy is 10 years more advanced in internet technology (and that's 70 dog years).
Desireable search terms can go for $0.45/click. If you have a website that forwards clicks to google, you get a share of the revenue, which is what is driving the fraud.
One way to combat would be to compare the search rate from the website to the total hits on the website compare that ratio to hits on the google main page or to other affiliates. If 90% of the people hvisiting the website click on the ad link, it would be kind of suspicious.
Er, no. The motto of well-written code is be tolerant of what you accept and strict on what you emit. Accepting incorrect, but unambiguous JS does not mean IE is poorly written. Accepting buffer overflowas and Active-Xploits is what means IE is poorly written.