I'll be glad when the war on terrorism is over and there's no more terrorism, like that time we had a war on drugs and all of the sudden there weren't any drugs anymore. Which sucks, because I could really fucking use some marijuana right now.
Uh, this isn't legislation through litigation. This is enforcement of existing code via litigation. The Department of Justice is the appropriate government agency, here, because it's the executive branch's responsibility to enforce the laws.
The case against fast food restaurants for making them fat wasn't for making them fat, it was for them not disclosing that yes, if you ate their food regularly and didn't get exercise you would become fat, or rather that via their advertising they deceived consumers into believing their food was healthy (or at least not unhealthy). It was then SUMMARILY DISMISSED by a judge who didn't agree with the argument at all.
It's not a matter of stupidity with this case; it's a matter of clear, outright deception, in that these advertisements masqueraded as being parts of the operating system favored by millions.
Have you tried playing Hell yet? It's not really so easy, dude. You can't make the game harder unless you make the resistances -200% and give everybody MSLE.
First: It's "Engels." Second: In communism, money still exists. In Russia, there was cash currency. What doesn't exist is private property. You still own things, but you don't own your land or the food you grow.
Slashdot reported on a patent without crying foul or making any disparaging remarks toward Microsoft? Did I sign into Yahoo! News or something on accident?
In CMYK, Slashdot's green is 89% C, 39% M, 54% Y, 17% K.
Good idea on that. Since the lameness filter might kill this post, I'll go on to say that CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, blacK, with the K used because "B" already meant blue. My uncle works in the printing business (actually, he's kind of responsible for some of your dead tree spam) and this is in fact the standard; RGB can show colors outside spec of the CMYK colorspace.
Maybe 1899 as an arbitrary year is bad, but Edison created both the phonograph and the nickelodeon (though the Lumiere brothers did the latter as well in France). I'd say alternate methods of doing things would count as variations on an invention (LCDs, plasma screens, CRTs instead of projection). Compact discs are descendents of records; instead of pits and grooves they have bits. Digital photography isn't very different from analog photography, except, again, bits instead of embossed light onto film. There's been some innovation, but is it worthy of patent?
The only inventions made after that point were just improvements or changes to existing inventions. The US would be a lot better off if we had government-sponsored research with the fruits of that research sold or licensed at the cost or slightly above the cost of research.
The SCOTUS did say that having a librarian temporarily disable the filter is acceptable (and that's why the case was decided this way, in part; it isn't an undue burden, if a legit site is blocked it can be bypassed, and it will prevent a majority of porno or whatever.) Take a look over at SCOTUSblog, there's more information there.
Crafty isn't just an integer benchmark, it's also a very mature chess engine (I think it's version number is up to 19 or 20 by now; it's been around for some time.)
That's what's cool about Fritz, is it only looks at the most promising moves. If you match it up against Microsoft Chess (you know, from the old Entertainment Pack) it'll win in about 17 moves. Fritz's built-in coach will tell you that a few of its moves will guarantee a loss.
Re-reading it, per the request of another replier, I found I was mistaken and it's saying that if I were to go into his home and read his emails, I can't publish them. Which is well and good. But I think you're mistaken, anyhow; cite me some law sources. As we found with the Linda Tripp tapes, I can record and release tapes where I know the conversation is being taped and the other party doesn't.
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You mean the post-evil, pre-offshoring IBM, right?
I'll be glad when the war on terrorism is over and there's no more terrorism, like that time we had a war on drugs and all of the sudden there weren't any drugs anymore. Which sucks, because I could really fucking use some marijuana right now.
Uh, this isn't legislation through litigation. This is enforcement of existing code via litigation. The Department of Justice is the appropriate government agency, here, because it's the executive branch's responsibility to enforce the laws.
Well, diabolical is really the right word here; in Christianity the devil exists only to further lies and deceit.
No, see, there's this law against what's called "false advertising". Advertisements should not be deceptive.
I'm surprised you didn't post AC.
The case against fast food restaurants for making them fat wasn't for making them fat, it was for them not disclosing that yes, if you ate their food regularly and didn't get exercise you would become fat, or rather that via their advertising they deceived consumers into believing their food was healthy (or at least not unhealthy). It was then SUMMARILY DISMISSED by a judge who didn't agree with the argument at all.
It's not a matter of stupidity with this case; it's a matter of clear, outright deception, in that these advertisements masqueraded as being parts of the operating system favored by millions.
No, record labels don't do that. They put out records. Promoter companies promote and book tours.
Have you tried playing Hell yet? It's not really so easy, dude. You can't make the game harder unless you make the resistances -200% and give everybody MSLE.
Or you could just put the optical media in a caddy the same size as the cartridge.
First: It's "Engels." Second: In communism, money still exists. In Russia, there was cash currency. What doesn't exist is private property. You still own things, but you don't own your land or the food you grow.
There wasn't an "or else." They were trying to initiate conversation and were being impolitely ignored. Microsoft didn't even say "FUCK YOUSE GUYS."
I read all of your comment, but one thing escapes me: do you love HP printers?
(Fun fact: HP's printer division is based in my hometown of Boise, Idaho.)
Slashdot reported on a patent without crying foul or making any disparaging remarks toward Microsoft? Did I sign into Yahoo! News or something on accident?
In CMYK, Slashdot's green is 89% C, 39% M, 54% Y, 17% K.
Good idea on that. Since the lameness filter might kill this post, I'll go on to say that CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, blacK, with the K used because "B" already meant blue. My uncle works in the printing business (actually, he's kind of responsible for some of your dead tree spam) and this is in fact the standard; RGB can show colors outside spec of the CMYK colorspace.
Shari Steele = Sharing is Stealing. It sounds like an RIAA cartoon rabbit, really.
A lot must have changed at the ESRB in the last seven months since both these men wanted congressional hearings on video game ratings.
The video game industry threw money at them.
here's some info about the legitimacy of the quote to begin with.
Maybe 1899 as an arbitrary year is bad, but Edison created both the phonograph and the nickelodeon (though the Lumiere brothers did the latter as well in France). I'd say alternate methods of doing things would count as variations on an invention (LCDs, plasma screens, CRTs instead of projection). Compact discs are descendents of records; instead of pits and grooves they have bits. Digital photography isn't very different from analog photography, except, again, bits instead of embossed light onto film. There's been some innovation, but is it worthy of patent?
The only inventions made after that point were just improvements or changes to existing inventions. The US would be a lot better off if we had government-sponsored research with the fruits of that research sold or licensed at the cost or slightly above the cost of research.
Librarians rock. that's all I have to say about that.
The SCOTUS did say that having a librarian temporarily disable the filter is acceptable (and that's why the case was decided this way, in part; it isn't an undue burden, if a legit site is blocked it can be bypassed, and it will prevent a majority of porno or whatever.) Take a look over at SCOTUSblog, there's more information there.
Crafty isn't just an integer benchmark, it's also a very mature chess engine (I think it's version number is up to 19 or 20 by now; it's been around for some time.)
Winboard and XBoard (for windows and X, respectively) both are able to connect to FICS immediately after download. Use them, they're good.
I'm mkilly; finger mkilly to check if I'm online and see my terrible ratings in everything but suicide chess. Who're you, jtcm?
That's what's cool about Fritz, is it only looks at the most promising moves. If you match it up against Microsoft Chess (you know, from the old Entertainment Pack) it'll win in about 17 moves. Fritz's built-in coach will tell you that a few of its moves will guarantee a loss.
Correction: Deep Fritz is multi-threaded, Fritz is the single-processor version. Both are available for purchase here.
Re-reading it, per the request of another replier, I found I was mistaken and it's saying that if I were to go into his home and read his emails, I can't publish them. Which is well and good. But I think you're mistaken, anyhow; cite me some law sources. As we found with the Linda Tripp tapes, I can record and release tapes where I know the conversation is being taped and the other party doesn't.