If you don't distribute the copies, but they really are for backup purposes, it could be argued that they fall under fair use.
True (17 USC 1.117), though the post to which I replied put "backup" in quotes. The implication appeared to be that they weren't really for archival purposes.
Are you forgetting that Minnesota is the same state the at elected Jesse Ventura as it's governor?
For those not familiar with Ventura's tenure as governor in Minnesota:
No, the media jackals are -- what I'm saying there -- really, the book -- I take shots at politics. I take shots at the media. But ultimately, the book is taking a shot at us, the American public, because we are getting what we are asking for.
We are not holding politicians accountable. We are not holding the media accountable.
October 2000 - Ventura tells radio listeners he drank gin shots with President Clinton at the White House. White House unamused. Ventura says he was joking.
January 2001 - Ventura toys with run for president. Las Vegas odds makers give him respectable 20-1 shot. Ventura doesn't run. He now says he fanned flames for fun.
February 2001 - Reporters rebel at Ventura's plan to make them wear credentials designating them an "Official Jackal." Ventura backs off the plan.
April 2001 - While lashing out at a columnist critical of his natural resources policies, Ventura says "Until you've hunted man, you haven't hunted yet."
May 2002 - The legislative session ends on a low note for Ventura, whose plan for fixing a deficit was ignored. Budget bills were passed over his vetoes. He went fishing while legislators balanced the budget, and golfing as they trudged through the last day of session.
June 2002 - Ventura lashes out at the media over reports that his 22-year-old son, Tyrel, used the governor's mansion as a party pad. A day after the story broke, Ventura announced he wouldn't seek re-election. He said his heart was no longer in the job but also criticized the media for invading his family's privacy.
This isn't really necessary, and will probably achieve nothing but undue stress for immigrants, and prompt deportation if an illegal gets caught at a traffic stop (presuming that these IDs can not be forged).
Police already do ID checks of drivers they pull over, and will arrest people on outstanding warrants. Is that a violation of the driver's privacy, or a completely within the realm of law enforcement? If someone is in the country illegally, do we not have justification for deportation?
I believe the discussion locally (I live in Minnesota) involved the fact that those legally in the country could acquire a driver's license valid for four years, which might last longer than their visa. A lot of this is based on perception of vulnerability rather than any actual one. Everyone wants to scramble to prevent another 9/11, but they want to plug every hole they can think of, whether or not it actually helps or makes sense.
Not to reveal my age, but when I was an engineering student in the early 60s the big science news was that flat screen TV was only 2 years away, and that CRTs would be rendered obsolete. Flat screen TV was perpetually 2 years away in the future for most of my life, but it finally did arrive.
I think this is a fundamental problem with estimates based off too-little information or analysis. As a software developer, I unfortunately see this too often. At some point, some projects hit a "just another week" stage and sometimes remain there for months.
and would love to implement Bugzilla for issue tracking but statements like this - 'Making Bugzilla work on Windows is still a painful processes.' in the OS-Specific installation notes don't make it seem reasonable.
It's really as simple as following the instructions to get it up and running with the standard configuration. I setup Bugzilla for our project team under Windows and it was a relative snap, much easier than I expected.
Of course, then came the requests to modify Bugzilla to change states and various things...
7th Heaven? 7TH HEAVEN?? If you want to experience true murderous rage, please watch this show.
(cue slightly-related Family Guy bit)
ANNOUNCER: We now return to 'Touched By An Angel'. LAWYER: Now Billy, show us exactly where the Angel touched you. BILLY: Umm...here? (BILLY POINTS TO THE DOLL'S CROTCH) ANGEL: Oh, come on! Who you going to believe?! I got a freakin' halo for God's sake!
Smut filled? Where have you been watching TV? TV in the US is far too prudish already for anything like that! Have you not watched TV in other countries?
No kidding. I remember when the movie Aliens first aired on network television, they censored the word "bitch". (Among a lot of other words; for those who haven't seen it, the movie has fairly colorful dialogue.) I remember being startled later when they finally aired that movie with "bitch" in the clear. Now "bitch" is being censored again.
Counterfeit drugs, according to the FDA, is any drug supplied from any source which does not have EXACTLY the same packaging and EXACTLY the same markings on the drug as have been registered with the FDA. This is Regardless of whether the drug is from the same production line, but put into a different style of packaging by the same manufacturer.
Interesting anecdote related to the counterfeit drug issue.
In the very back of this month's National Geographic is a drug company advertisement pointing out why it would be bad to import drugs from Canada. Their reasoning? Because when they ordered drugs from a spamvertised drug website, the drug they received actually came from China or something.
That's like saying birth control is bad because a prostitute you visited supplied a faulty condom.
Even the most recent game, WoW, the majority of quests that you perform have no real impact - you do play a part in the story line, moving item A to location B, but you can create a new character and do the exact same quest! So, basically, my first character did nothing!
This may work for a handful of characters, but doesn't scale very well beyond that. With hundreds of thousands to millions of players, how would you possibly be able to create unique, meaningful quests for any significant fraction of the players?
Presumably this refers to the kernel itself and not the horde (hoard?)
HURD?
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From http://educate-yourself.org/ozone/: Also, some cold plasma units have the capability of producing short-lived isotopes of ozone which include O4, O5, O6, O7 etc. These isotopes are even more reactive than O3.
This is a usage of the term 'isotope' I'm not familiar with. An isotope of an element is an atom with a different number of neutrons, but with similar chemical properties. I've never seen varying numbers of a particular element in a molecule as an 'isotope' before. Is this correct usage?
The MiniGRAIL detector is a cryogenic 68 cm diameter spherical gravitational wave antenna made of CuAl(6%) alloy with a mass of 1400 Kg, a resonance frequency of 2.9 kHz and a bandwidth around 230 Hz, possibly higher. The quantum-limited strain sensitivity dL/L would be ~4x10-21. The antenna will operate at a temperature of 20 mK. An other similar detector is being built in São Paulo, which will strongly increase the chances of detection by looking at coincidences. The sources we are aiming at are for instance, non-axisymmetric instabilities in rotating single and binary neutron stars, small black-hole or neutron-star mergers etc.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/1 9/1426239&tid=134
Funny, this looks like the website's text, verbatim:
The MiniGRAIL detector is a cryogenic 68 cm diameter spherical gravitational wave antenna made of CuAl(6%) alloy with a mass of 1400 Kg, a resonance frequency of 2.9 kHz and a bandwidth around 230 Hz, possibly higher. The quantum-limited strain sensitivity dL/L would be ~4x10-21. The antenna will operate at a temperature of 20 mK. An other similar detector is being built in São Paulo, which will strongly increase the chances of detection by looking at coincidences. The sources we are aiming at are for instance, non-axisymmetric instabilities in rotating single and binary neutron stars, small black-hole or neutron-star mergers etc.
http://www.minigrail.nl/
It is possible for machines to provide you the wrong information, but to be nit-picky, they don't lie.
How is providing wrong information to create the wrong impression not lying? Is it the landmine that attacks you, the person who set the landmine, or both?
...it's that I don't trust the other cars on the road. When your car bases some of its navigation decisions on wireless messages received from other cars, who can guarantee another car (or something pretending to be another car) isn't LYING?
On a rural road, I could easily imagine thugs with a computer emitting signals that fake a deer-sighting or accident-ahead event, causing you to pull over and slow down. You are then easy prey to carjacking or simple robbery.
This is similar to spam and envelope/header forgery. For a long time, email software trusted everything that was said in the SMTP transaction and the email header. We're still dealing with that today, slowly adding features to try to limit email's exploitability.
Since car navigation presumably affects the passengers' lives, you can't simply add wireless warning protocols to the navigation computer without thinking seriously about how much it should trust those signals.
You dont have to make the deadline but miss enough and they has a reason to fire you.
(IANAL) I don't know about you, but I've always been hired as an "at will" employee, meaning that either party could abort the relationship at any time, for any reason. (Barring reasons that are prohibited by law, like race, religion, gender, etc.)
As a non USAnian I just have to ask: What does "unpaid overtime" mean in the US anyway?
When an employer assumes that the absense of a stated weekly workload implies, not the customary 40-hour week, but rather an unlimited work schedule for the poor employee. The employee in such a situation is usually salaried and thus "exempt" from overtime pay.
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However, the gratuitous changes to the storyline, key plot elements, and key characterizations were totally unnecessary and unforgivable.
I could have forgiven the rest if they had not tried to shoehorn Arwen into the action at every opportunity.
Well, that and the way they changed the decision of the Entmoot and made Treebeard thick-headed.
Actually, don't million-to-one chances prove correct .0001% of the time?
Not on the Discworld.
If you don't distribute the copies, but they really are for backup purposes, it could be argued that they fall under fair use.
True (17 USC 1.117), though the post to which I replied put "backup" in quotes. The implication appeared to be that they weren't really for archival purposes.
I especially like the "TOH Members Are Tax Exempt" screed.
So if I make lots of "backup" copies of Windows CDs before I agree to the EULA I'm fine then?
A that point you're not breaking the EULA, but you are violating copyright.
Oceans 11
I watched the original Oceans 11 after seeing the remake. To me, the remake is much more entertaining.
"It also includes an invisible, digital watermark capable of carrying security data such as date of birth."
2D barcode written in lemon juice.
For those not familiar with Ventura's tenure as governor in Minnesota:
This isn't really necessary, and will probably achieve nothing but undue stress for immigrants, and prompt deportation if an illegal gets caught at a traffic stop (presuming that these IDs can not be forged).
Police already do ID checks of drivers they pull over, and will arrest people on outstanding warrants. Is that a violation of the driver's privacy, or a completely within the realm of law enforcement? If someone is in the country illegally, do we not have justification for deportation?
I believe the discussion locally (I live in Minnesota) involved the fact that those legally in the country could acquire a driver's license valid for four years, which might last longer than their visa. A lot of this is based on perception of vulnerability rather than any actual one. Everyone wants to scramble to prevent another 9/11, but they want to plug every hole they can think of, whether or not it actually helps or makes sense.
Not to reveal my age, but when I was an engineering student in the early 60s the big science news was that flat screen TV was only 2 years away, and that CRTs would be rendered obsolete. Flat screen TV was perpetually 2 years away in the future for most of my life, but it finally did arrive.
I think this is a fundamental problem with estimates based off too-little information or analysis. As a software developer, I unfortunately see this too often. At some point, some projects hit a "just another week" stage and sometimes remain there for months.
and would love to implement Bugzilla for issue tracking but statements like this - 'Making Bugzilla work on Windows is still a painful processes.' in the OS-Specific installation notes don't make it seem reasonable.
A better set of instructions to use:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/win32install.html
It's really as simple as following the instructions to get it up and running with the standard configuration. I setup Bugzilla for our project team under Windows and it was a relative snap, much easier than I expected.
Of course, then came the requests to modify Bugzilla to change states and various things...
7th Heaven? 7TH HEAVEN?? If you want to experience true murderous rage, please watch this show.
(cue slightly-related Family Guy bit)
ANNOUNCER: We now return to 'Touched By An Angel'.
LAWYER: Now Billy, show us exactly where the Angel touched you.
BILLY: Umm...here?
(BILLY POINTS TO THE DOLL'S CROTCH)
ANGEL: Oh, come on! Who you going to believe?! I got a freakin' halo for God's sake!
Smut filled? Where have you been watching TV? TV in the US is far too prudish already for anything like that! Have you not watched TV in other countries?
No kidding. I remember when the movie Aliens first aired on network television, they censored the word "bitch". (Among a lot of other words; for those who haven't seen it, the movie has fairly colorful dialogue.) I remember being startled later when they finally aired that movie with "bitch" in the clear. Now "bitch" is being censored again.
Counterfeit drugs, according to the FDA, is any drug supplied from any source which does not have EXACTLY the same packaging and EXACTLY the same markings on the drug as have been registered with the FDA. This is Regardless of whether the drug is from the same production line, but put into a different style of packaging by the same manufacturer.
Interesting anecdote related to the counterfeit drug issue.
In the very back of this month's National Geographic is a drug company advertisement pointing out why it would be bad to import drugs from Canada. Their reasoning? Because when they ordered drugs from a spamvertised drug website, the drug they received actually came from China or something.
That's like saying birth control is bad because a prostitute you visited supplied a faulty condom.
Even the most recent game, WoW, the majority of quests that you perform have no real impact - you do play a part in the story line, moving item A to location B, but you can create a new character and do the exact same quest! So, basically, my first character did nothing!
This may work for a handful of characters, but doesn't scale very well beyond that. With hundreds of thousands to millions of players, how would you possibly be able to create unique, meaningful quests for any significant fraction of the players?
I mean that's a full terabyte almost every minute and a half. What has so much data?
Full-immersion remote presence, perhaps? Common use of audio/video emails? Use your imagination.
I would imagine most people 20 years ago wouldn't be able to conceive how one would use hundred-gigabyte hard drives and multi-gigabyte memory cards.
It's widely believed by a large percentage of the populace
You mean like the large percentages of a certain segment of the population that still believe Iraq was supporting al Qaeda, that it had WMDs, and that evidence of both of these was actually found?
Presumably this refers to the kernel itself and not the horde (hoard?)
HURD?
From http://educate-yourself.org/ozone/: Also, some cold plasma units have the capability of producing short-lived isotopes of ozone which include O4, O5, O6, O7 etc. These isotopes are even more reactive than O3.
This is a usage of the term 'isotope' I'm not familiar with. An isotope of an element is an atom with a different number of neutrons, but with similar chemical properties. I've never seen varying numbers of a particular element in a molecule as an 'isotope' before. Is this correct usage?
Funny, this looks like the website's text, verbatim:It's not quoted or attributed. Nice.
It is possible for machines to provide you the wrong information, but to be nit-picky, they don't lie.
How is providing wrong information to create the wrong impression not lying? Is it the landmine that attacks you, the person who set the landmine, or both?
You're correct, your comment is very nit-picky.
...it's that I don't trust the other cars on the road. When your car bases some of its navigation decisions on wireless messages received from other cars, who can guarantee another car (or something pretending to be another car) isn't LYING?
On a rural road, I could easily imagine thugs with a computer emitting signals that fake a deer-sighting or accident-ahead event, causing you to pull over and slow down. You are then easy prey to carjacking or simple robbery.
This is similar to spam and envelope/header forgery. For a long time, email software trusted everything that was said in the SMTP transaction and the email header. We're still dealing with that today, slowly adding features to try to limit email's exploitability.
Since car navigation presumably affects the passengers' lives, you can't simply add wireless warning protocols to the navigation computer without thinking seriously about how much it should trust those signals.
A basic axiom of a joke is that, if you have to explain it, it's not.
:- forall( inClass(person, class), isFunnyTo(joke, person) ).
isJoke(joke, class)
You dont have to make the deadline but miss enough and they has a reason to fire you.
(IANAL) I don't know about you, but I've always been hired as an "at will" employee, meaning that either party could abort the relationship at any time, for any reason. (Barring reasons that are prohibited by law, like race, religion, gender, etc.)
As a non USAnian I just have to ask: What does "unpaid overtime" mean in the US anyway?
When an employer assumes that the absense of a stated weekly workload implies, not the customary 40-hour week, but rather an unlimited work schedule for the poor employee. The employee in such a situation is usually salaried and thus "exempt" from overtime pay.