How much of that is bureaucracy at work, and how much is technical?
Remind me not to fly on any plane that you worked on the avionics for. There are times when overwhelming paranoia is an asset. When your Playstation crashes you can always start a new game. When your main engines get told to hardover on launch because of a failed chip, you die.
It's quite simple. By international treaty, the US government is responsible if a rocket launched by a US corporation lands on somebody, no matter where it is launched from. Thus, these guys need US approval, unless they want to sit in jail if they ever come back to the US.
As someone upthread has noted, Baikonur is an easy place to get clearance from, since we've already worked out the price on the one Yak we might hit on a launch abort.
With Hollywood getting a percentage, I think Billy could get enough backing to have our beloved Congress shove this down our throats. All in the interest of "helping the artists," of course. Neither party particularly gives a shit about the citizens, errr consumers.
they are being quite shortsighted by releasing an OS which ties all of a consumer's digital media to their current machine.
Of course, by moving to a subscription model for the OS, which ties your media to your subscription fee, they can make sure that Joe Consumer forks over however much they want to ask for in subscription fees. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I think this is where MS is headed with this.
Even the paint on an airliner adds significantly to the weight
Lest you think he's kidding, this is exactly why NASA no longer paints the Shuttle's external tank. Look for pictures of the early launches and you'll see a pretty white tank, not the rust-red version we've got now.
Let us see, US bank in the UK, very likely to observe labor laws and be expert in them.
Let us see, UK solicitors wrote the contract, since US attorneys cannot practice law in the UK. You bet your sweet bippy it's enforceable. Either that, or it's so craftily written that it will take decades of legal wrangling before any settlement is worked out. Can you pay the lawyers while you're out of a job for ten or more years? I think your faith in the system is a bit naive.
And modifying and redistributing a binary is not a copyright violation? It's textbook. There is absolutely no shade of gray here.
Now if Apple was going after a web site that described how to do perform the patch, without having a modified binary on the site? Now we have some shades of gray...
Actually, OWC violated a license agreement. If OWC had violated the GPL, say by taking a Free DVD writing application, bundling it with the external drive and not distributing the source, I'm sure you'd be singing a different tune.
Apple's license agreement says that you are not to modify or patch iDVD or distribute any modified binary. Perhaps using the four-letter word in the cease-and-desist was a bit of overkill, but it doesn't change the fact that what they did was a violation of the iDVD license.
It doesn't matter if you get the right answer on Slashdot. HIPPA is a legal monster and you must get advice from competent legal counsel.
To give a marginally related example, a lawyer might give you good medical advice, but you'd be a fool not to check with a doctor before you took the lawyer's advice.
Again, find a lawyer who's a HIPPA expert. No other advice counts.
Or Pathological. Particularly in the 11th hour of and all-night debugging session. I still prefer Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister as the translation. Particularly with the quality (cough) of the data I'm passing through it.
Wow. I really didn't realize that a sense of humor could be surgically removed. Did it hurt much? From you reaction to my humorous post, I would guess that it did.
For the record, I bought a 512k Mac in 1985 and have owned or supported Mac OS pretty much continously since then. I'm saving for a TiBook right now. I also work or have worked with everything else you've listed, plus a hell of a lot more. In that time, I've learned not to take myself, or my choice in computing environments very seriously. I recommend the same for you. It'll save you a fortune in blood-pressure medication.
I didn't think that too many people would know that PostScript is essentially a Forth derivative. I think Warnock implemented the original version in Forth.
Errr. No. The Gemini's lifted on Titan II's. Atlas didn't have enough thrust to loft the capsule. That's why the official NASA history of the Gemini program is titled On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini.
Atlas was used to loft the Agena upper stage used as docking target in the latter Gemini missions though.
I think HP is making some mistakes in ASSuming they can incorporate some technologies so easily (TruCluster, AdvFS) while throwing away the rest of such a solid OS.
One of the many reasons I have started to refer to HomPaq as "Unisys - The Next Generation." I figure that they'll be down to a contract service firm within the next ten years or so.
I think you are overstating your case a bit. A strong case can be made that the term "people" when used in the Constitution is synonomous with "citizen." Consider the following:
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union..."
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This is the kind of situation that consititutional law professors like to assign as term papers. I don't think it's ever been totally settled, and the interpretation of when "people" is applied generically, and when the term means "citizen" only is settled.
That said, what the FBI did still sucks on an ethical basis.
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Well, misconduct at sea is the second definition of barratry at the 'Lectric Law Library, after this one:
BARRATRY - The practice of instituting groundless judicial proceedings - a crime in a number of jurisdictions.
In old law French barat, baraterie, signifying robbery, deceit, fraud. In modern usage it may be defined as the habitual moving, exciting and maintaining suits and quarrels, either at law or otherwise.
A man cannot be indicted as a common barrator in respect of any number of false and groundless actions brought in his own right, nor for a single act in right of another; for that would not make him a common barrator.
Barratry, in this sense, is different from maintenance and champerty.
An attorney cannot be indicted for this crime merely for maintaining another in a groundless action.
That only took 5 minutes of Googling. It was the second hit, after the definition at dictionary.com, which also lists the maritime offense as a second definition.
Hope that clears up any confusion. Of course, I've got a feeling that posted based on the theory of "if you can't be smart, at least be a smart-ass," but you never can tell.
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As someone else has noted, enforcement of the statute is usually left to the state Bar Assoctiation, which is a case of the fox watching the henhouse. On the other hand, making enough of a stink about it, such that the incident makes the papers, usually gets some action. I think the lawyers realize that they could be playing out the final scenes from Frankenstein at any time.
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Thou shalt not threaten litigation prior to having evidence of illegal activity by the defendant.
Look up the Barratry statutes in your jurisdiction and you'll find this is already there. It's a disbarrable offense for a lawyer to engage in that kind of conduct.
Actually, they aren't. Neither the U.S. nor the Russians used their manned moon rockets as ICBMs. It's massive overkill. Bombs don't weight as much as manned capsules do.
Even satellite launch systems don't usually make very good ICBMs, since the satellite rockets tend to use cheaper liquid fuels, while the ICBMs use more expensive solids. This allows the ICBMs to be on call more often, since you don't have to periodically de-tank the fuel. The Russians may still have a liquid-fueled ICBM, but we got rid of ours after we developed Minuteman.
The ICBM designs we've used in the manned space program:
Redstone: (not really an ICBM, but still a military rocket.) Sub-orbital Mercury missions.
Atlas: Mercury orbital missions, umanned launch of the Agena target vehicles for Gemini.
Titan II: Gemini.
That's it, and each of these began as missiles and turned into launchers, not vice-versa. We've never turned a Saturn or a Shuttle into an ICBM. Nor have we used their engines or other structures in ICBM designs. I think the early shuttle designs used modified Minuteman IIs for the SRBs, but that was discarded in favor of a partially reusable design. Not much need to re-use an ICBM, if it works.
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Remind me not to fly on any plane that you worked on the avionics for. There are times when overwhelming paranoia is an asset. When your Playstation crashes you can always start a new game. When your main engines get told to hardover on launch because of a failed chip, you die.
As someone upthread has noted, Baikonur is an easy place to get clearance from, since we've already worked out the price on the one Yak we might hit on a launch abort.
To be reading furniture manualizations is easy. Understand not people say who hard to read they are.
With Hollywood getting a percentage, I think Billy could get enough backing to have our beloved Congress shove this down our throats. All in the interest of "helping the artists," of course. Neither party particularly gives a shit about the citizens, errr consumers.
Of course, by moving to a subscription model for the OS, which ties your media to your subscription fee, they can make sure that Joe Consumer forks over however much they want to ask for in subscription fees. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I think this is where MS is headed with this.
Even the paint on an airliner adds significantly to the weight Lest you think he's kidding, this is exactly why NASA no longer paints the Shuttle's external tank. Look for pictures of the early launches and you'll see a pretty white tank, not the rust-red version we've got now.
Let us see, UK solicitors wrote the contract, since US attorneys cannot practice law in the UK. You bet your sweet bippy it's enforceable. Either that, or it's so craftily written that it will take decades of legal wrangling before any settlement is worked out. Can you pay the lawyers while you're out of a job for ten or more years? I think your faith in the system is a bit naive.
Then the GPL itself is not legally valid. Remember, RMS's cultural jam was to use copyright law against itself.
Now if Apple was going after a web site that described how to do perform the patch, without having a modified binary on the site? Now we have some shades of gray...
Apple's license agreement says that you are not to modify or patch iDVD or distribute any modified binary. Perhaps using the four-letter word in the cease-and-desist was a bit of overkill, but it doesn't change the fact that what they did was a violation of the iDVD license.
It doesn't matter if you get the right answer on Slashdot. HIPPA is a legal monster and you must get advice from competent legal counsel. To give a marginally related example, a lawyer might give you good medical advice, but you'd be a fool not to check with a doctor before you took the lawyer's advice. Again, find a lawyer who's a HIPPA expert. No other advice counts.
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Or Pathological. Particularly in the 11th hour of and all-night debugging session. I still prefer Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister as the translation. Particularly with the quality (cough) of the data I'm passing through it.
For the record, I bought a 512k Mac in 1985 and have owned or supported Mac OS pretty much continously since then. I'm saving for a TiBook right now. I also work or have worked with everything else you've listed, plus a hell of a lot more. In that time, I've learned not to take myself, or my choice in computing environments very seriously. I recommend the same for you. It'll save you a fortune in blood-pressure medication.
Well, it still does crash occasionally, and they charge a lot for the upgrade. You could say they ripped those two features off...
I didn't think that too many people would know that PostScript is essentially a Forth derivative. I think Warnock implemented the original version in Forth.
Sadly, I feel compelled to add that this is a joke, of course. Some people are way too literal minded...
Errr. No. The Gemini's lifted on Titan II's. Atlas didn't have enough thrust to loft the capsule. That's why the official NASA history of the Gemini program is titled On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini .
Atlas was used to loft the Agena upper stage used as docking target in the latter Gemini missions though.
I was going to make a crack about it running Postscript real well, but I thought it might be too obscure...
One of the many reasons I have started to refer to HomPaq as "Unisys - The Next Generation." I figure that they'll be down to a contract service firm within the next ten years or so.
This is the kind of situation that consititutional law professors like to assign as term papers. I don't think it's ever been totally settled, and the interpretation of when "people" is applied generically, and when the term means "citizen" only is settled.
That said, what the FBI did still sucks on an ethical basis.
That only took 5 minutes of Googling. It was the second hit, after the definition at dictionary.com, which also lists the maritime offense as a second definition.
Hope that clears up any confusion. Of course, I've got a feeling that posted based on the theory of "if you can't be smart, at least be a smart-ass," but you never can tell.
As someone else has noted, enforcement of the statute is usually left to the state Bar Assoctiation, which is a case of the fox watching the henhouse. On the other hand, making enough of a stink about it, such that the incident makes the papers, usually gets some action. I think the lawyers realize that they could be playing out the final scenes from Frankenstein at any time.
Look up the Barratry statutes in your jurisdiction and you'll find this is already there. It's a disbarrable offense for a lawyer to engage in that kind of conduct.
Even satellite launch systems don't usually make very good ICBMs, since the satellite rockets tend to use cheaper liquid fuels, while the ICBMs use more expensive solids. This allows the ICBMs to be on call more often, since you don't have to periodically de-tank the fuel. The Russians may still have a liquid-fueled ICBM, but we got rid of ours after we developed Minuteman.
The ICBM designs we've used in the manned space program:
- Redstone: (not really an ICBM, but still a military rocket.) Sub-orbital Mercury missions.
- Atlas: Mercury orbital missions, umanned launch of the Agena target vehicles for Gemini.
- Titan II: Gemini.
That's it, and each of these began as missiles and turned into launchers, not vice-versa. We've never turned a Saturn or a Shuttle into an ICBM. Nor have we used their engines or other structures in ICBM designs. I think the early shuttle designs used modified Minuteman IIs for the SRBs, but that was discarded in favor of a partially reusable design. Not much need to re-use an ICBM, if it works.