If I sell you a newspaper with a plagiarized article . . . no one can legally approach you for more license money later, since you never committed a crime
This guy even offered up a similar scenario:
Imagine, for example, buying a car and finding out a couple of years later that the inventor of the
windshield wiper was suing you for the misappropriation of the patent. Wouldn't you want the company that sold you the car to accept responsibility for the claims?
They already do -- in this case Anderson or her heirs would go after the manufacturer.
#include <ianal.h>//But I read a lot of Groklaw
I can't imagine any legal theory under which such a suit wouldn't be summarily dismissed, and I wouldn't be surprised if the dismissal were with predudice and possibly even sanctions against the filer. Of course, given the RIAA's success at terrorizing people for downloading music (not distributing it) such a theory may somehow exist.
The German government is taking actions that might be considered 'police state' tactics. As much as it pains me to hear (as an American of predominantly German extraction, having been called the 'other N-word' by my share of idiots), it is inevitable that the N*zi comparisons will come out. Personally I find it ironic that there are laws in Germany today that forbid the expression of ideas associated with the N*zis, which is itself the sort of thing the N*zis did.
Lest we forget what happened, H*tler was elected, but did not immediately go 'round killing Jews and sending his secret police out to terrorize the remainder of the population. Instead, he promoted such 'civilized' measures as gun control
Oh, even more irony: most American Jews support gun control, even knowing that many of their relatives in Europe were slaughtered, deprived the means to defend themselves against the butchers. I'm pleased to know a few exceptions to this rule, including one who was quite 'liberal' until he spent a year in Israel and found out that H*tler's intellectual offspring are still to be found in abundance.
Only after he got the preparations in order did his government turn overtly ugly. But by then it was too late. He'd already established the means to neutralize anyone who would oppose him.
And here I thought it was an homage to the Good Doctor for inspiring millions of budding robot scientists with stories that didn't revolve around the robots going mad and trying to kill or enslave the humans (Terminator, Matrix, Galactica...) by inventing the three (four) Laws of Robotics.
All 8's might not be legal, since '888' is one of the toll-free area codes.
Under the old North American phone number system, an area code was [2-9][01][0-9] (with x00 reserved for special uses, and x11 and in some places 999 excepted - those aren't 'area codes', but complete phone numbers). Exchanges were [2-9][2-9][0-9]. Note that the letters listed on the telephone are only assigned to [2-9]. KC home improvement contractor Standard Improvement Company has run ads since forever using the old-style "WEstport 1-7100' (816-931-7100) in their jingle (./ers who have ever lived here are now humming that jingle involuntarily - "boom-boom-boom-boom boom").
If you dialed an AC, the telco switching system knew it, so you didn't have to dial the AC on a LD call within the same AC as your phone.
But about 10 years ago, the phone companies were running out of area codes, and they changed the system. Now both area codes and exchanges are [2-9][0-9][0-9] (with certain special exceptions such as x11, x00, and 8xx). It's no longer possible for the telco to know that it's an AC instead of an exchange most of the time. So, in places where two or more ACs are local calls, the other ACs can't be used as exchanges (here in KC, the MO side is 816 and KS is 913, so there will never be an 816-913 or 913-816 nunber in the local calling area) nor should an AC contain an exchange with its own number (no 816-816 or 913-913).
We've had 888-* numbers here long before there was an 888 AC.
Would you object to reading a newspaper that reported on your town's local news every day but was layed out and printed in some other city before it came to you?
You apparently don't know much about the newspaper business. It's not uncommon for rural newspapers to be printed in a larger city where the economies of scale allow for better equipment. In some cases, the rural papers are even owned by the big-city paper, and maintain a token local editorial and reportage presence, as well as the ad sales force.
It's simple economics. Everything must be assigned a price and the purpose of production and distribution is profit.
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If a thing has no price it has no value.
Actually, it's worse than that. Economists will tell you that their field deals with the exchange of (relatively) scarce items. Land is an economic good because there's a finite supply of it. The laws of supply and demand really don't apply to computer software precisely because it isn't a finite resource - your possession of a copy of Debian or Fedora doesn't in any way impair my ability to possess the same thing. In fact, the more people who have software, the easier it is for others to get it. I find it an aberration that a software publishing industry grew, organized as if it were selling automobiles
Haven't you noticed the convergence between OS and office suite version numbers and automobile model years - 'Windows Server 2003' sounds an awful lot like '2004 Toyota Camry' to me - the software people just have to catch on to the idea that the model year begins about 3 months early, not 6 months late
with the perverse difference that those automobiles can be expected to stay in service over a decade, while this year's gotta-have software title will somehow be 'obsolete' in half that time.
I think this way atleast it appeals to a broader audience, not just the CS audience who would know what a binary min heap is if I were to use it.
I have a modest suggestion for you to relay to your editor. There's this really cool feature of HTML that lets you put in a 'link' to another document. If your 'dumbed-down' article would use one or more of these to let the more technically-minded pursue that detail, you'd have the best of both worlds - an Executive Summary for PHBs and the nitty-gritty look behind das Blinkenlights that the hardcore geek demands.
Exactly. I work in tech support, and have come to the conclusion that the pinnacle of platform stability for a workstation is the NetTerminal, if for no other reason because no (l)user has yet figured out how to install the Unholy Trinity (Bonzi Buddy, Gator, and buggy screen savers) on it.
Won't be long before this thing is pointed at *us*.
Obviously, you don't grasp the significance of this research being done in Cal-ee-fornia. Once Ahnold takes office as Govahnatah, the plan can proceed without interference from weak humans.
The TRON Specifications define the interface of a computer, not the hardware or software it is founded on. It also defines the interface of the OS, but not the OS itself. . . .
In this sense, *TRON is best described as a family of operating systems, more like Unix, which also has a published specification to which implementations must conform in order to earn the name.
That having been said, it's also not really fair to call (GNU/)Linux 'an OS' - it's really a toolkit for building OSes. There is a huge variety of systems that are called Linux but can't run each other's programs without porting effort.
And the same can be said for Windows - 9x, NT, Me, 2K, XP, CE (and server variants, including 2003) have annoying incompatibilities between them that preclude considering them the same OS.
Imagine someone suggesting the idea of turning over the Department of Transportation to a consortium of General Motors, Ford, and Daimler-Benz, based on the idea that non-commercial interests are holding back auto sales. Would anyone take such a proposal seriously?
There's an old saying that fits here: "Dance with the one that brung ya." If Verisign thinks they can do a better job managing the Internet, let them go out and design Internet II and see who wants to play by their rules. That wouldn't work, because the original Internet would still be here, and its principal virtue of free exchange of information between consenting parties will always beat one-sided conversations like television, movies, music, and Mintel. The only way they can get people to join their new network is to destroy the existing Internet as we know it.
Since when does regions conquered in wartime count as "stolen?" It was won, fair and square.
I have never understood this double standard either. Back in WWII, Germany lost Silesia, Pomerania, and East Prussia to Poland, and the Russians wouldn't even entertain the notion of ending their occupation of the DDR and letting it reunify with the BRD until it was stipulated that Germany forever renounced any claims to that land. I fail to see how Judaea/Samaria, the Gaza Strip and Golan Heights should be any different - Jordan, Egypt, and Syria respectively lost those lands to Israel and that should be the end of it.
When Jordan was the only country to support Iraq in Gulf War I, I thought the proper punishment should have been to rename the country 'Palestine' and tell all those who consider themselves 'Palestinians' that they had a homeland now and could stop fighting.
"I'm working from home today about I don't want replies to my business email sent to my home account."
If your employer hasn't set up a VPN tunnel for you to post your emails to their corporate mail server (whose address would already be on the approved list) and you simply must use your home account...
Reply-To: dumbass@company.com
In case you don't know how to set your Reply-To address, you can even do it in Outlook Express. Any mail client that isn't better than OE should be ashamed of itself.
Supposedly, when you put a USB 1.0 device on a USB 2 hub, it can limit all the devices
on that hub to USB 1.0 speeds
and you said:
This is not true....
I have a 1.1 hub with all of my periphials (mouse, keyboard, PDA, 1.1MS reader, USB audio) and then I have a 2.0 CF reader attached to the other port on my computer
Do you have a 2.0 hub to try plugging one of your USB 1.0 devices into, and then measure the speed of the flash reader? Has anyone else tried this to either confirm or deny its truth?
Does a USB mouse need to be able to transmit data in excess of 400mbit/sec?
Not necessarily. But it does need to not force every other device on the same hub down to the lower speed. Supposedly, when you put a USB 1.0 device on a USB 2 hub, it can limit all the devices on that hub to USB 1.0 speeds. I haven't verified this personally, and don't know whether USB 2 devices that don't run at the high speed limit the speed of other devices on the hub or not - the article doesn't even cover this.
Why else then do entire teams commonly wear the same exact brand of shoe?
Well, at the professional and major-college level, the official reason is that the players wear 'uniforms'. And the reason they're called 'uniforms' is that they're supposed to be, well, 'uniform'.
NFL rules expressly forbid any deviation between what's worn by the members of a team, other than the player number and name, and the size and position of those items is controlled. Years ago, before there was a rule governing shoes, Billy 'White Shoes' Johnson of the Oilers earned his nickname because he correctly reasoned that if his shoe was the same color as the sideline stripe, an official might not notice if he just barely touched the sideline with one foot while trying to evade a defensive back. This was long before instant replay would have caught him at it, so it made sense. Now that there's a rule that requires the team to wear identical shoes (with a special dispensation for kickers, who occasionally wear a different color shoe on the kicking foot) guess what color everyone wears? I'll give you one guess, and it isn't black.
That's not to say that the teams or leagues don't get paid to wear a certain brand, of course. In fact, it's to make sure that the individual players do NOT screw up the exclusive deal that the team or league has with the shoe makers.
What the hell is a WAN port? Is it ethernet or not?
It's an Ethernet port that's configured to be connected to your cable/DSL/whatever to access the rest of the world. Since this thing's acting as a firewall, I assume it's like the 486SLC-40 I turned into a Linux Router Project box a few years ago. I had two NICs in it, and labeled the back of the case LAN and WAN.
The distinction between WAN port and LAN port is that someone coming in from the WAN side is assumed to be a script kiddie until proven otherwise. And that's if you open up any access from the outside at all. The Prime Directive of Firewalls says that an attempt to open a socket from the WAN side should fail. The most notable exception is for FTP, but the corresponding socket must have been opened from the LAN side out first. Also, they mention VPN capability - the tunneled traffic is considered to be LAN for firewall purposes.
Yes, they could call the ports 'eth0', 'eth1', and 'eth2', but that doesn't explain their functions.
Among Open Firmware's many features, it provides a machine independent device interface, which can be used to boot plug-in cards without providing OS-specific and/or machine dependent binary programs on the plug-in card. This feature enables plug-in card manufacturers to easily support several independent computer architectures without needing to supply different firmware for each one.
Well, here's a radical idea... Why not port OF to i86 and offer it as an OPEN alternative to this proprietary PMS BIOS thing? Insist that you won't use a BIOS that isn't IEEE-1275-compliant.
Junk fax laws are an entirely different animal. They make it illegal to make someone else pay for unwanted communication, . . .
Where there is no direct financial harm to the recipient, such as the DNC list law
If a telemarketer calls my cell phone, and I answer the call, it costs me 25 cents even if I dump the call within the first minute. That's more than the cost of a sheet of paper and some toner or ink to receive a junk fax. It's a considerable amount more than the measurable cost of receiving spam, for which California is going to start fining a grand per instance.
a village in eastern India was struck by a
meteorite
When it was doing the 'striking', it would technically be a meteor, but the moment it came to rest on the Earth's surface it would be a meteorite. Or is it the instant it actually makes contact? Now I'm not so sure....
You don't indemnify. With no indemnification, there is substantial legal exposure. This message resonates with PHBs who care more about contracts than quality. SCO's ridiculous claims, by not being answered, are implicitly validated.
You do indemnify. That means there's something to indemnify against. This message resonates with PHBs who care more about controversy than quality. SCO's ridiculous claims, by being answered, have been dignified thereby.
I think that you have a point here, but I think that reasonability will kick in
So, you want a law that is so broadly worded that we have to count on the reasonability of the policing agency to not apply the law in an arbitrary and/or discriminatory manner? Who do you think will be per^H^Hrosecuted under this law - someone with good lawyers to defend them, or Mom-n-Pop operators who commit some technical infraction?
If I don't want to look at spam, I don't look at it. I can even filter based on headers alone and delete messages without ever downloading the message body if I prefer. I don't need the government to pass a law over this.
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#include <ianal.h> //But I read a lot of Groklaw
I can't imagine any legal theory under which such a suit wouldn't be summarily dismissed, and I wouldn't be surprised if the dismissal were with predudice and possibly even sanctions against the filer. Of course, given the RIAA's success at terrorizing people for downloading music (not distributing it) such a theory may somehow exist.The German government is taking actions that might be considered 'police state' tactics. As much as it pains me to hear (as an American of predominantly German extraction, having been called the 'other N-word' by my share of idiots), it is inevitable that the N*zi comparisons will come out. Personally I find it ironic that there are laws in Germany today that forbid the expression of ideas associated with the N*zis, which is itself the sort of thing the N*zis did.
Lest we forget what happened, H*tler was elected, but did not immediately go 'round killing Jews and sending his secret police out to terrorize the remainder of the population. Instead, he promoted such 'civilized' measures as gun control
Only after he got the preparations in order did his government turn overtly ugly. But by then it was too late. He'd already established the means to neutralize anyone who would oppose him.If you dialed an AC, the telco switching system knew it, so you didn't have to dial the AC on a LD call within the same AC as your phone.
But about 10 years ago, the phone companies were running out of area codes, and they changed the system. Now both area codes and exchanges are [2-9][0-9][0-9] (with certain special exceptions such as x11, x00, and 8xx). It's no longer possible for the telco to know that it's an AC instead of an exchange most of the time. So, in places where two or more ACs are local calls, the other ACs can't be used as exchanges (here in KC, the MO side is 816 and KS is 913, so there will never be an 816-913 or 913-816 nunber in the local calling area) nor should an AC contain an exchange with its own number (no 816-816 or 913-913).
We've had 888-* numbers here long before there was an 888 AC.
Exactly. I work in tech support, and have come to the conclusion that the pinnacle of platform stability for a workstation is the NetTerminal, if for no other reason because no (l)user has yet figured out how to install the Unholy Trinity (Bonzi Buddy, Gator, and buggy screen savers) on it.
That having been said, it's also not really fair to call (GNU/)Linux 'an OS' - it's really a toolkit for building OSes. There is a huge variety of systems that are called Linux but can't run each other's programs without porting effort.
And the same can be said for Windows - 9x, NT, Me, 2K, XP, CE (and server variants, including 2003) have annoying incompatibilities between them that preclude considering them the same OS.
There's an old saying that fits here: "Dance with the one that brung ya." If Verisign thinks they can do a better job managing the Internet, let them go out and design Internet II and see who wants to play by their rules. That wouldn't work, because the original Internet would still be here, and its principal virtue of free exchange of information between consenting parties will always beat one-sided conversations like television, movies, music, and Mintel. The only way they can get people to join their new network is to destroy the existing Internet as we know it.
When Jordan was the only country to support Iraq in Gulf War I, I thought the proper punishment should have been to rename the country 'Palestine' and tell all those who consider themselves 'Palestinians' that they had a homeland now and could stop fighting.
I'm sorry, but I can't see Hu Jintao's name without thinking of Hu's on First
NFL rules expressly forbid any deviation between what's worn by the members of a team, other than the player number and name, and the size and position of those items is controlled. Years ago, before there was a rule governing shoes, Billy 'White Shoes' Johnson of the Oilers earned his nickname because he correctly reasoned that if his shoe was the same color as the sideline stripe, an official might not notice if he just barely touched the sideline with one foot while trying to evade a defensive back. This was long before instant replay would have caught him at it, so it made sense. Now that there's a rule that requires the team to wear identical shoes (with a special dispensation for kickers, who occasionally wear a different color shoe on the kicking foot) guess what color everyone wears? I'll give you one guess, and it isn't black.
That's not to say that the teams or leagues don't get paid to wear a certain brand, of course. In fact, it's to make sure that the individual players do NOT screw up the exclusive deal that the team or league has with the shoe makers.
The distinction between WAN port and LAN port is that someone coming in from the WAN side is assumed to be a script kiddie until proven otherwise. And that's if you open up any access from the outside at all. The Prime Directive of Firewalls says that an attempt to open a socket from the WAN side should fail. The most notable exception is for FTP, but the corresponding socket must have been opened from the LAN side out first. Also, they mention VPN capability - the tunneled traffic is considered to be LAN for firewall purposes.
Yes, they could call the ports 'eth0', 'eth1', and 'eth2', but that doesn't explain their functions.
This message resonates with PHBs who care more about contracts than quality.
SCO's ridiculous claims, by not being answered, are implicitly validated.
This message resonates with PHBs who care more about controversy than quality.
SCO's ridiculous claims, by being answered, have been dignified thereby.
If I don't want to look at spam, I don't look at it. I can even filter based on headers alone and delete messages without ever downloading the message body if I prefer. I don't need the government to pass a law over this.