In the secure area of the Rochester, MN airport there were three indentical doors in the wall. Each has a sign above the door in the same font. The one on the left says MEN. The one on the right says WOMEN. the one in the middle says MECHANICAL.
If you do not stop with the person who posted it and prosecute anyone in the chain of command things get silly very quickly!
Need to arrest the following folks:
ISPs who provide service to the company computer/network hardware makers government officials who allow internet access Indian government Everyone who voted for them people of earth for allowing this government to exist.... God
All of whom (except God) were not aware of the problem ahead of time.
To use the r200 you must buy the special printable media. It works very well on the printable CD's, they impress clients, and they are not too expencive. If you do not buy the special media the ink will smear as it it has not dried (even an hour later).
Currently the printable CDs are not pricey but are much harder to find.
Printable DVDs are not easy to find unless you order them on the web.
I have not tried printing a CD after refilling the ink. (generic ink may not work)
It does take longer to print a CD than it does to print a sheet of paper. When I find out if it works after a refill, I will write a review
Because "First Post" was automatically copywrited the first time it was used, does this mean that you have obtained the rights to copy first posts and are granting it to all for free? Or perhaps you were the original first poster?:-)
There is one high tide when the moon is over head and one when the moon is underfoot.
How is this possible? Well, if they told you what they told me in elementary school, I can understand your confusion.
Remember both the earth and the moon spin around a common center of gravity.
The best way to understand tides is to find or borrow a small child. Hold both her hands and spin in a circle. Her feet get pulled away from you and her hands get pulled toward you.
FYI: We really have four tides in a day. (twice a month the the sun's tides and the moon's tides overlap)
Use your Online Ordination
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Finally a good use for the online ordination I bought from that spammer.
Sorry it took so long to reply to this. I got busy
Electrons are not really charged particles moving in orbit around the nucleus. If there were moving electrical charges, magnetic waves would be generated and the loss of energy would cause things to decay. It is just an easy model to explain things. energy shells are a better model, however still not what is really going on.
electrons shells are potential energy situation, however the orbit model breaks down here
This is also some sort of potential energy situation involing the strong and/or weak forces. My knowledge is somewhat out of date.
I do not think that there really is a true physical description of what is happening at these quantun effects levels. You just use math to describe stuff and predict results.
I beleive that it was orginally created in part to help identify helpful people in the user community so they could be rewarded (becoming and MVP for instance) They do not discriminate against you based on what platform you use as a desk top or what OS your website is hosted on. Just if you regularly post stuff and reply to posts.
I do not know much about the other tool except what is in the article.
The other tool is very much unrelated to newsgroups and like the cue cat on steriods execept I do not belive data goes to the parent company.
I agree with you that SCO will try to claim GPL code is public domain. I do believe they will use a different argument however. My personal feeling is that some newbie laywer at SCO was given a copy of the GPL and told to break it legally and not come out of his office until he had done so. After a while this was the best he could come up with. He has to attack the wording of the GPL to have any hope of winning.
I think they will fail.
If copywrite requires enforcement, then I can copy old 78 records to mp3 files and if they don't catch me within some time period, the files are legit? Or sing the same camp songs for years without paying royalties and if they do not catch me get away with it. Or if I go to a microsoft event and win a free copy of some software, I can copy to my hearts content?
Oh and just to make life fun, since SCO has not actively checked out Linux source code for "stolen code" until now, thier copyrights are invalid as well !
If lack of active enforcement of copyright frees stuff up, we can have all sorts of fun.
I have a physics degree, but it is over 20 years old so bear with me here if this is out of date.
I will speculate a lot based on what I know and the article.
The material works like a battery. It is possible to blast the nucleus with gamma rays and pump the nucleus up to a semi stable state. (the nucleus has energy levels just like electrons but they are not effected by the surronding atoms like electons are.) the math for these levels was concidered extremely difficult if not impossible when I was in school many years ago.
They stay excited until they randomly decay through quantum effects or until additional gamma radiation allows a down state transition which releases the stored energy.
now a little wild unjustified speculation:
I would not be too surpized if they could find a nucleus which was stable in the higher energy state. It might also be possible that gamma rays needed to cause the state transition could be of higher energy than the rays emmited by the atom naturally.
this could be a very nice battery (except for being radioactive when in use!)
I would like to see this looked as a possible source of energy for satellites
Now to get really wild. If an element has truely stable excited states, you would expect to find excited atoms in the wild. It might be possible to bombard the atoms with gamma rays of the correct energy level and get fossil energy from them. This would be very wonderfull as the energy would be free and the total long term radation levels would be reduced. (long term in this case meaning 1/1000 of a second)
You are probably not going to belive this but I had not read your post when I made mine. Could not rememeber when it was published so I had to google for a while and also looked to see if I could find the text to link to.
"The Little Black Bag" By Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1950)
The basic plot deals with a doctors black bag which is sent back in time. The tools and medicines are all so advanced that anyone can use them. Inside the bag is an instuction book. It is a credit card size piece of plastic which has printed info on both sides and you change the printing by flexing the card.
(I may be wrong on the details as I do not have the story with me at the moment) It is a very good story.
If we give them the benifit of the doubt they could be saying that they do not know the true origins of some of the software in Linux and therefore some of the source code could have been stollen from Microshaft for example.
What this should mean is that SCO will never have anything to do with any open source software that was not entirely developed in house (or possibly) has been audited on a line by line basis for IP violations.
Peggy Bresee was in Bear Pond Books recently to buy "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" as birthday gifts for a son who lives in Utah. She had the store purge the purchase records.
Hope they spelled her name correctly!
PS: my first post while running Solaris 9 on a Sparc
Re:Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving?
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If they get hooked on open source and start to require it, then we have a 5th column inside to fight any banning of open source by Palladium. Digital editing machines should be the fastest available. They will always want to run on the fastest hardware.
Also it gives a platform inside the media companies which needs to run non-trusted. This means they will have the same headaches as the rest of us when it comes to moving data in and out of the trusted areas.
Finally, if someone needs to leak a Halloween type of document they have a much better chance of being able to do so.
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In the secure area of the Rochester, MN airport there were three indentical doors in the wall. Each has a sign above the door in the same font. The one on the left says MEN. The one on the right says WOMEN. the one in the middle says MECHANICAL.
I have always wanted a picture of those doors!
PS: It could be gone now (it's been 15 years)
If you do not stop with the person who posted it and prosecute anyone in the chain of command things get silly very quickly!
....
Need to arrest the following folks:
ISPs who provide service to the company
computer/network hardware makers
government officials who allow internet access
Indian government
Everyone who voted for them
people of earth for allowing this government to exist
God
All of whom (except God) were not aware of the problem ahead of time.
To use the r200 you must buy the special printable media. It works very well on the printable CD's, they impress clients, and they are not too expencive. If you do not buy the special media the ink will smear as it it has not dried (even an hour later).
Currently the printable CDs are not pricey but are much harder to find.
Printable DVDs are not easy to find unless you order them on the web.
I have not tried printing a CD after refilling the ink. (generic ink may not work)
It does take longer to print a CD than it does to print a sheet of paper. When I find out if it works after a refill, I will write a review
Because "First Post" was automatically copywrited the first time it was used, does this mean that you have obtained the rights to copy first posts and are granting it to all for free? Or perhaps you were the original first poster? :-)
There is one high tide when the moon is over head and one when the moon is underfoot.
How is this possible? Well, if they told you what they told me in elementary school, I can understand your confusion.
Remember both the earth and the moon spin around a common center of gravity.
The best way to understand tides is to find or borrow a small child. Hold both her hands and spin in a circle. Her feet get pulled away from you and her hands get pulled toward you.
FYI: We really have four tides in a day. (twice a month the the sun's tides and the moon's tides overlap)
Finally a good use for the online ordination I bought from that spammer.
;-)
I don't even need to buy candles!
If SCO goes belly up, what happens to its assets? They get sold to creditors (or perhaps creditors have the option to influence/controll these assets.
If enough people sue SCO and win large judgements, perhaps the UNIX souce could be released under the BSD licence?
IANAL
http://www.rvt.com/~lucas/heinlein/faq/collections .html
A very interesting IP story written in 1940.
Most slashdot folks would like it. I will not post a spoiler here unless you want me too.
Sorry it took so long to reply to this. I got busy
Electrons are not really charged particles moving in orbit around the nucleus. If there were moving electrical charges, magnetic waves would be generated and the loss of energy would cause things to decay. It is just an easy model to explain things. energy shells are a better model, however still not what is really going on.
electrons shells are potential energy situation, however the orbit model breaks down here
This is also some sort of potential energy situation involing the strong and/or weak forces. My knowledge is somewhat out of date.
I do not think that there really is a true physical description of what is happening at these quantun effects levels. You just use math to describe stuff and predict results.
the other reply I see here is informative as well
This is not some conspiracy thing where Microsoft is trying to collect secret data on individuals.
The article is about this guy at MS and what he does there. The are several projects he is involved with.
One is the Netscan tool. This is available for use by the general public. You can run it yourself and seen what it can and can not do.
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/
I beleive that it was orginally created in part to help identify helpful people in the user community so they could be rewarded (becoming and MVP for instance) They do not discriminate against you based on what platform you use as a desk top or what OS your website is hosted on. Just if you regularly post stuff and reply to posts.
I do not know much about the other tool except what is in the article.
The other tool is very much unrelated to newsgroups and like the cue cat on steriods execept I do not belive data goes to the parent company.
I agree with you that SCO will try to claim GPL code is public domain. I do believe they will use a different argument however. My personal feeling is that some newbie laywer at SCO was given a copy of the GPL and told to break it legally and not come out of his office until he had done so. After a while this was the best he could come up with. He has to attack the wording of the GPL to have any hope of winning.
I think they will fail.
If copywrite requires enforcement, then I can copy old 78 records to mp3 files and if they don't catch me within some time period, the files are legit? Or sing the same camp songs for years without paying royalties and if they do not catch me get away with it. Or if I go to a microsoft event and win a free copy of some software, I can copy to my hearts content?
Oh and just to make life fun, since SCO has not actively checked out Linux source code for "stolen code" until now, thier copyrights are invalid as well !
If lack of active enforcement of copyright frees stuff up, we can have all sorts of fun.
ianal
I have a physics degree, but it is over 20 years old so bear with me here if this is out of date.
I will speculate a lot based on what I know and the article.
The material works like a battery. It is possible to blast the nucleus with gamma rays and pump the nucleus up to a semi stable state. (the nucleus has energy levels just like electrons but they are not effected by the surronding atoms like electons are.) the math for these levels was concidered extremely difficult if not impossible when I was in school many years ago.
They stay excited until they randomly decay through quantum effects or until additional gamma radiation allows a down state transition which releases the stored energy.
now a little wild unjustified speculation:
I would not be too surpized if they could find a nucleus which was stable in the higher energy state. It might also be possible that gamma rays needed to cause the state transition could be of higher energy than the rays emmited by the atom naturally.
this could be a very nice battery (except for being radioactive when in use!)
I would like to see this looked as a possible source of energy for satellites
Now to get really wild.
If an element has truely stable excited states, you would expect to find excited atoms in the wild. It might be possible to bombard the atoms with gamma rays of the correct energy level and get fossil energy from them. This would be very wonderfull as the energy would be free and the total long term radation levels would be reduced. (long term in this case meaning 1/1000 of a second)
how about:
Using dcma to stop sale info
I don't know if it went to court, I think people just folded.
You are probably not going to belive this but I had not read your post when I made mine. Could not rememeber when it was published so I had to google for a while and also looked to see if I could find the text to link to.
Oh, well
"The Little Black Bag" By Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1950)
The basic plot deals with a doctors black bag which is sent back in time. The tools and medicines are all so advanced that anyone can use them. Inside the bag is an instuction book. It is a credit card size piece of plastic which has printed info on both sides and you change the printing by flexing the card.
(I may be wrong on the details as I do not have the story with me at the moment) It is a very good story.
I think you can opt out over the phone. I wonder if you could put everyone in an area code on the do not call list?
"Hey Boss, I'm done!"
"What do you mean you are done? That is impossible, I gave you a whole area code"
"Well, the computer says everyone opted out!"
Please do not try this at home! I honestly hope they have a way to prevent this from happening, but I could not really explain why!
or Hot Cash
Try to avoid spending your microwaved cash until after it has stopped smoking!
Would that be a good reason to contribute code to the kernel?
It would buy a couple of nice sports cars and...
Richard Nixon only made his tapes for historical purposes. So that he could have acurate notes when his autobiography was written.
"No President since Nixon has been dumb enough to tape record things in the office"
If the most powerfull person in the US can not keep recordings from biting his rear, what chance do we have?
If we give them the benifit of the doubt they could be saying that they do not know the true origins of some of the software in Linux and therefore some of the source code could have been stollen from Microshaft for example.
What this should mean is that SCO will never have anything to do with any open source software that was not entirely developed in house (or possibly) has been audited on a line by line basis for IP violations.
I got a Hippo for Christmas - Now I find out that I have to send it to school too?
I have a mouse at home which came with a CompUSA PC back when I still bought PCs assembled. It has an EULA taped to the wire.
It basicly stated that this mouse was for sale/use only with a new computer...
Basicly the same microsoft language you used to see on there OEM OS cds. (This was in the days when PC's came bundled with W98 first edition
Peggy Bresee was in Bear Pond Books recently to buy "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" as birthday gifts for a son who lives in Utah. She had
the store purge the purchase records.
Hope they spelled her name correctly!
PS: my first post while running Solaris 9 on a Sparc
ready...
PULL !!!
FIRE
no microwave oven required.
If they get hooked on open source and start to require it, then we have a 5th column inside to fight any banning of open source by Palladium. Digital editing machines should be the fastest available. They will always want to run on the fastest hardware.
Also it gives a platform inside the media companies which needs to run non-trusted. This means they will have the same headaches as the rest of us when it comes to moving data in and out of the trusted areas.
Finally, if someone needs to leak a Halloween type of document they have a much better chance of being able to do so.