Nice try, but all works have an automatic copyright under current law. As was pointed out in a recent/. article that I'm too lazy to look up, you can even register with the Copyright Office AFTER the violation has taken place in order to sue someone.
Note that the law just says "copyrighted works". Does this mean that CPAN needs signed authorization from every author of every revision of the code on their website? Its hard to see why not. I know that I plan to take the freeware off my website if this passes, because I don't have anything in writing from the authors, and I don't think the comments in a README file will stand up in court as authorization.
Weirdly enough, this is only true for Americans. Foreigners are automatically granted copyright protection without registering under the Berne Convention. American authors still have to register in order to sue someone so that we maintain full employment at the the US Copyright Office.
Also, I think the Berne Convention lets you bid no-trump if you hold three aces, but I have to check my notes.
I think you've stomped on a few too many mushrooms, fella. You need to get out more.
The Unix server market was $4.3B in 1st qtr 2003. Of that HP and Sun are tied for first, IBM gaining rapidly. The SCO debacle is mostly about competing with IBM for the big server market, less about holding off Linux, which after all, will run on any hardware. Look at IBM's "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach toward Linux.
Actually, phone ringer voltage can hit 70V. Plenty to give you a shock. Normally this would not go into the telephone ringer, but when thats disabled, there is probably a much smaller voltage leaking through the filter components (required to meet FCC lemissions limits). Thats what is getting to the case and giving you a shock.
Possibly you did not read the parent post. There was nothing about calling people back in it. Also, the point is to allow people to sign up, even spammers, just not robots. The idea is very good, it prevents 1000's of auto-accounts from being generated, while allowing any human who can't or won't read the funny picture.
-- Companies rush buggy bloatware out the door because, within certain limits, that's what sells.
To be more precise, that's what Sales and Marketing says sells. I think if you ask most customers, they'ld prefer software that works and solves their problem. Generally, Sales blames any lost sale on the feature that the other guy has and you don't. Thats why the emphasis is on adding features over quality, its to take away the sales excuse, not to satisfy customer demand.
SCSI and fibre channel drives have used SCA (single connector attach) for years. Telephone and realtime control industries are big on cPCI also. But the reason isn't to make it easy to install hardware, its because the servers run an OS that supports hot plug. The goal is zero downtime, even for maintenance.
5% of the entire federal budget doesn't sound like a lot? 5% of all of Defense, Social Security, Medicare, the US highway system, etc. is staggeringly huge. Just to put US footprints on the moon before the Russians. No (real) scientific goals. Give me a break.
er.. because SCO isn't claiming they took code and put it in AIX. They claim that the joint work they did on Monterey (proposed Unix for Intel-based) leaked over into Linux.
You might as well ask them to diff z/OS. Maybe they stole code for their mainframes.
"Companies who contract or subcontract with the government and who have more than 150 employees are required to hold the resumes of job applicants for two years as well as keep a breakdown of applicant demographics, such as gender, race and job applied for, says Lorber, a former deputy assistant secretary of labor and director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs."
The purpose is to make sure that government contractors comply with EEOC regulations in regards to hiring decisions, which is a good thing. Obviously the 60,000 spam resumes were not taken into account.
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I set up osirusoft RBL filtering at my company and just didn't tell anybody. So far (3 months) nobody has complained, and I'm blocking 500 spams/day. I've had to whitelist a couple of legitimate people, but I keep an eye on the stuff that's filtered to make sure we aren't losing customers.
" Linux is based on thirty year old technology, and it hasn't replaced Windows. He's right. You know it."
Windows is based on 30-year old technology and hasn't replaced Unix. In fact, the dominant form of computing 30 years ago was the mainframe. Windows hasn't even replaced that.
Well, technically, the only thing we're conscious of is the Matrix. Reality can't be directly experienced, except by a few... was that a phone ringing?
Actually, they took the chart from here. Note that they added the connection from Unix to Linux, since the original chart shows it based on ideas from Minix.
Thats it exactly. I doubt if the Texas lege cares whether they have the source code for the applications. The point of all of these "must use OSS" initiatives is to get control of the data. I've seen systems that make it impossible to export the data in any useful format, just to prevent you from ever upgrading to a competitor.
An interesting compromise would be to allow proprietary software, but to require a complete published spec for the data format. Nothing like a good compromise to incense both sides!
Now if we could just get state websites to stop putting up doc files....
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Nice try, but all works have an automatic copyright under current law. As was pointed out in a recent
Note that the law just says "copyrighted works". Does this mean that CPAN needs signed authorization from every author of every revision of the code on their website? Its hard to see why not. I know that I plan to take the freeware off my website if this passes, because I don't have anything in writing from the authors, and I don't think the comments in a README file will stand up in court as authorization.
Weirdly enough, this is only true for Americans. Foreigners are automatically granted copyright protection without registering under the Berne Convention. American authors still have to register in order to sue someone so that we maintain full employment at the the US Copyright Office.
Also, I think the Berne Convention lets you bid no-trump if you hold three aces, but I have to check my notes.
Maybe, but that idea of getting around the world in 80 days is just nonsense. The check-in at Logan is three hours.
"Just make sure any test craft are equipped with self-destruct mechanisms"
You are suggesting that in the current climate, the US Gov. will encourage people to build rockets with warheads and fire them in the US?
Yeah. Right.
I think you've stomped on a few too many mushrooms, fella. You need to get out more.
The Unix server market was $4.3B in 1st qtr 2003. Of that HP and Sun are tied for first, IBM gaining rapidly. The SCO debacle is mostly about competing with IBM for the big server market, less about holding off Linux, which after all, will run on any hardware. Look at IBM's "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach toward Linux.
so?
From the article:
" Sony shocked investors in April
Actually, phone ringer voltage can hit 70V. Plenty to give you a shock. Normally this would not go into the telephone ringer, but when thats disabled, there is probably a much smaller voltage leaking through the filter components (required to meet FCC lemissions limits). Thats what is getting to the case and giving you a shock.
"Dr. Mertz is more interested in facilitating our learning process ..."
What the hell does that mean?
Possibly you did not read the parent post. There was nothing about calling people back in it. Also, the point is to allow people to sign up, even spammers, just not robots. The idea is very good, it prevents 1000's of auto-accounts from being generated, while allowing any human who can't or won't read the funny picture.
-- Companies rush buggy bloatware out the door because, within certain limits, that's what sells.
To be more precise, that's what Sales and Marketing says sells. I think if you ask most customers, they'ld prefer software that works and solves their problem. Generally, Sales blames any lost sale on the feature that the other guy has and you don't. Thats why the emphasis is on adding features over quality, its to take away the sales excuse, not to satisfy customer demand.
SCSI and fibre channel drives have used SCA (single connector attach) for years. Telephone and realtime control industries are big on cPCI also. But the reason isn't to make it easy to install hardware, its because the servers run an OS that supports hot plug. The goal is zero downtime, even for maintenance.
Standard PCI is laughable for high availability.
Parity is for farmers -- Seymour Cray
5% of the entire federal budget doesn't sound like a lot? 5% of all of Defense, Social Security, Medicare, the US highway system, etc. is staggeringly huge. Just to put US footprints on the moon before the Russians. No (real) scientific goals. Give me a break.
Last I heard, fiber optic cable was lighter, has better bandwidth and is cheaper per foot than copper. Oh, and its immune to interference.
Downside, higher cost per connector.
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because SCO isn't claiming they took code and put it in AIX. They claim that the joint work they did on Monterey (proposed Unix for Intel-based) leaked over into Linux.
You might as well ask them to diff z/OS. Maybe they stole code for their mainframes.
Who told Tolkien that he was a poet? I loved the books, but the poetry is laugh-out-loud material.
For epic fantasy try Spencer, CS Lewis or the latest Federal budget.
You forgot Wallace Shawn. Inconceivable!
From here
"Companies who contract or subcontract with the government and who have more than 150 employees are required to hold the resumes of job applicants for two years as well as keep a breakdown of applicant demographics, such as gender, race and job applied for, says Lorber, a former deputy assistant secretary of labor and director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs."
The purpose is to make sure that government contractors comply with EEOC regulations in regards to hiring decisions, which is a good thing. Obviously the 60,000 spam resumes were not taken into account.
I set up osirusoft RBL filtering at my company and just didn't tell anybody. So far (3 months) nobody has complained, and I'm blocking 500 spams/day. I've had to whitelist a couple of legitimate people, but I keep an eye on the stuff that's filtered to make sure we aren't losing customers.
" Linux is based on thirty year old technology, and it hasn't replaced Windows. He's right. You know it."
Windows is based on 30-year old technology and hasn't replaced Unix. In fact, the dominant form of computing 30 years ago was the mainframe. Windows hasn't even replaced that.
Well, technically, the only thing we're conscious of is the Matrix. Reality can't be directly experienced, except by a few
Fizzer uninstaller:
format c:
I don't see any adverse effects.
Actually, they took the chart from here. Note that they added the connection from Unix to Linux, since the original chart shows it based on ideas from Minix.
Not only that, but they migrated to Linux from SCO Unix!
Thats it exactly. I doubt if the Texas lege cares whether they have the source code for the applications. The point of all of these "must use OSS" initiatives is to get control of the data. I've seen systems that make it impossible to export the data in any useful format, just to prevent you from ever upgrading to a competitor.
An interesting compromise would be to allow proprietary software, but to require a complete published spec for the data format. Nothing like a good compromise to incense both sides!
Now if we could just get state websites to stop putting up doc files....