a 3x3" sticker could easily be photocopied even if you DO change the color every month. Try spotting a fake at 70MPH when the fake is almost perfect to begin with.
Even if a sticker was $100/mo (or more), make 8-10 photocopies for your "friends" and it's suddenly only $10/month.
MadCow.
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The "information" that is covered under the NDA is NOT the source code itself. The information is WHAT source code they're referring to.
Just because I have an english dictionary, it doesn't mean that you can't cover words in English under and NDA.
The amount of energy it takes to launch a given mass into orbit is basically a constant.
A railgun would need to exert that energy over an extremely short time period, which has two implications: 1) you'd squash anyone/anthing in the vehicle due to G forces 2) you'd have to store and release MASSIVE amounts of energy in an EXTREMELY short period... think "nuclear" here
As for a sling, you're using energy stored in the momentum of the sling. Sure, the sling falls a bit each time you use it, but you can restore that energy over a LONG period, a little at a time. If it takes a month to move the sling back to full orbit after use, no big deal.
>>If technology firms like Sony and Microsoft have their way, songs and movies will expire after a single play -- unless you pay the copyright holder their due.
Sure... IF they're charging $1/view I'll gladly pay each time I watch a movie. However, if they think they can still charge the $26.99/DVD they're charging now (or more), then no fucking way.
When I "buy" a VHS movie, I keep it for a lifetime, and will definately watch it multiple times (depending on movie, of course). 30 views over a lifetime is not unexpected. So, 1/30th the price is reasonable for a 1-time view, right?
>> IBM's license for SysV code for AIX gives the rights for technologies they come up with and add to AIX back to the owner of the System V codebase
Not only would it have to give SCO rights to IBM-developed technology incorporated into AIX, those would have to be EXCLUSIVE rights... meaning that IBM couldn't use that technology in other projects once it was incorporated into AIX.
Ludicrous, if you ask me... I can't imagine IBM signing a contract that went that far, or a court upholding such a contract if they did. But, IANAL and the law is definately fucked up to begin with.
Wow... there is such a thing? (no, I'm not being sarcastic!)
I have yet to see a program of more than a thousand lines of code that is truly "bug free"... however well something may work, there is no such thing as a perfect program.
Yes, I'm a programmer, and yes I'm VERY concerned about quality. I'm also a realist though; if you didn't ship a product until it was "bug free", you'd never ship a product.
I agree with your comments, but I think the there is a distinction between push and pull type information.
Web sites, etc. where people voluntarily go seek out information are a different story than email thats spam-blasted to everyone they can get an address for. Unsolicited porn, penis-and-breast-enlargement offers, and get-rich-quick schemes in my 9-year-old daughter's inbox is where I draw the line, sorry.
Glad to hear it... but I hope you are a little more delicate in phrasing it to your kids! q:]
In the end, it's all the same message, but I like to take the tact that I'm not there to make their lives difficult, the real motives are to protect them (whether they see it that way or not) and make sure they grow up to be normal, healthy people.
Do I moderate their email discussions with their friends? No. Do I regularly snoop in their email from friends on the "approved" whitelist? No. Do I want to weed out the smut shot-gunned to every man woman and child on the internet, and put some level of protection between them and perverts? Yes.
If they have no way to ensure that the person who's checking that email box IS over 18, then they shouldn't send porn at ALL!
That's like a magician saying "Gee, I have no way to tell how many kids will be in the audience tonite, so I guess I'll just go ahead and do my live-sex-act-with-both-nuts-tied-behind-my-back trick anyways."
If you can't be sure, don't do it. If you do and it "happens" to reach inappropriate recipients, pay the consequences.
99% of spam originates overseas (ok, that's probably an exaggeration...).
Joe Spammer in China couldn't give a rats ass if it's illegal in the USA to send porn to kids... it's too much bother and cost to try to verify/edit their distribution lists for NO benefit to them.
Hey, tell her you really SHOULD take it one step further too, but won't for now.
I also have full access to my kids' email, and it's not deleted from my server until I say it is... I don't make a habit of checking it, but I've made it known that I CAN.
I'm not there to invade my kids' privacy, but I DO need to be there to protect them from the scum that's out there on the Internet. Even if spammers ARE held liable for what they send my kids, try enforcing it on some Russian punk running a server out of Outer Mongolia.
It's a good start to weed out the obvious spam, but spammers write their messages (more and more) to get through specific filters like that.
Better idea:
1) use SpamAssassin 2) use a further white list for "authorized" emailers 3) anyone not on the whitelist gets an auto-reply saying "You have reached the email address of a MINOR, and your email has been temporarily blocked. To be un-blocked, send an email and the reason why you are contacting daughter@mydomail.com to daddy@mydomain.com"
If the reply-to address bounces, it was likely spam anyways.
At death, the Government takes ANOTHER whack at "your" posessions before your relatives have a chance to get any of it. Think of Copyright being part of that (at least the way things are now, anyways).
I don't agree with it, but that's the way things are.
Go ahead... your patent will run out before the first 50-year period comes up for renewal (assuming this is not retroactive, which it probalby would be).
1) Send him an enquiry through the "Contact Seller" link on the page (online web form that hides his email address), asking a question about the item that he should answer (something simple, but legitimate question)
2) He replies through normal email (the only way he can... he'll probably use a "real" reply-to address)
3) Contact his ISP or mail provider asking for them to identify him due to copyright infringement. A legal-looking request in a certified letter will many times get an actual response. If not, then you might have to go the DMCA route with them or Ebay.
4) Send him a legal letter from your lawyer outlining the complaint and the ways he can resolve the issue, as well as how he must PROVE that he's in compliance in the future.
IANAL like everyone else, but that's worked for me in the past with some GPL'd shareware.
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a 3x3" sticker could easily be photocopied even if you DO change the color every month. Try spotting a fake at 70MPH when the fake is almost perfect to begin with.
Even if a sticker was $100/mo (or more), make 8-10 photocopies for your "friends" and it's suddenly only $10/month.
MadCow.
No.
The "information" that is covered under the NDA is NOT the source code itself. The information is WHAT source code they're referring to.
Just because I have an english dictionary, it doesn't mean that you can't cover words in English under and NDA.
MadCow.
I've got a good stud for breeding them then... he's a natural! Call me if you want to make a deal for his "services". q:]
MadCow
The amount of energy it takes to launch a given mass into orbit is basically a constant.
A railgun would need to exert that energy over an extremely short time period, which has two implications:
1) you'd squash anyone/anthing in the vehicle due to G forces
2) you'd have to store and release MASSIVE amounts of energy in an EXTREMELY short period... think "nuclear" here
As for a sling, you're using energy stored in the momentum of the sling. Sure, the sling falls a bit each time you use it, but you can restore that energy over a LONG period, a little at a time. If it takes a month to move the sling back to full orbit after use, no big deal.
MadCow.
That should read:
'The European law sets the right benchmark rather than the loser U.S. system,'
MadCow.
>>If technology firms like Sony and Microsoft have their way, songs and movies will expire after a single play -- unless you pay the copyright holder their due.
Sure... IF they're charging $1/view I'll gladly pay each time I watch a movie. However, if they think they can still charge the $26.99/DVD they're charging now (or more), then no fucking way.
When I "buy" a VHS movie, I keep it for a lifetime, and will definately watch it multiple times (depending on movie, of course). 30 views over a lifetime is not unexpected. So, 1/30th the price is reasonable for a 1-time view, right?
MadCow.
Not only would it have to give SCO rights to IBM-developed technology incorporated into AIX, those would have to be EXCLUSIVE rights... meaning that IBM couldn't use that technology in other projects once it was incorporated into AIX.
Ludicrous, if you ask me... I can't imagine IBM signing a contract that went that far, or a court upholding such a contract if they did. But, IANAL and the law is definately fucked up to begin with.
MadCow.
At least GWB wouldn't be in violation of it then...
14.4? Man, 300 baud was all we had... the perfect speed to read text as it came across the wire!
MadCow.
>>Natural Gas utilities to provide fibre-in-the-gas-pipe-infrastructure.
Cool... until you turn the shutoff valve! q:]
"No! Don't turn off the gas!"
"But sir, your house is on fire?"
"You'll kill my broadband!"
"............(muttering) f$%#ing geeks...."
MadCow.
Wow... there is such a thing? (no, I'm not being sarcastic!)
I have yet to see a program of more than a thousand lines of code that is truly "bug free"... however well something may work, there is no such thing as a perfect program.
Yes, I'm a programmer, and yes I'm VERY concerned about quality. I'm also a realist though; if you didn't ship a product until it was "bug free", you'd never ship a product.
MadCow.
On gamer's machines it should read:
"Over 1 billion severed"
I agree with your comments, but I think the there is a distinction between push and pull type information.
Web sites, etc. where people voluntarily go seek out information are a different story than email thats spam-blasted to everyone they can get an address for. Unsolicited porn, penis-and-breast-enlargement offers, and get-rich-quick schemes in my 9-year-old daughter's inbox is where I draw the line, sorry.
MadCow.
You can solve the Yahoomail problem very easily... use your own DNS and point mail.yahoo.com somewhere harmless.
MadCow.
Error 404, Page Not Found...
Yup... besides, by the time they're old enough to be able to get around that, hopefully they can take care of themselves a bit more (we'll see...)
MadCow.
Glad to hear it... but I hope you are a little more delicate in phrasing it to your kids! q:]
In the end, it's all the same message, but I like to take the tact that I'm not there to make their lives difficult, the real motives are to protect them (whether they see it that way or not) and make sure they grow up to be normal, healthy people.
Do I moderate their email discussions with their friends? No. Do I regularly snoop in their email from friends on the "approved" whitelist? No. Do I want to weed out the smut shot-gunned to every man woman and child on the internet, and put some level of protection between them and perverts? Yes.
MadCow.
You're making this too complicated...
If they have no way to ensure that the person who's checking that email box IS over 18, then they shouldn't send porn at ALL!
That's like a magician saying "Gee, I have no way to tell how many kids will be in the audience tonite, so I guess I'll just go ahead and do my live-sex-act-with-both-nuts-tied-behind-my-back trick anyways."
If you can't be sure, don't do it. If you do and it "happens" to reach inappropriate recipients, pay the consequences.
MadCow.
99% of spam originates overseas (ok, that's probably an exaggeration...).
Joe Spammer in China couldn't give a rats ass if it's illegal in the USA to send porn to kids... it's too much bother and cost to try to verify/edit their distribution lists for NO benefit to them.
MadCow.
Hey, tell her you really SHOULD take it one step further too, but won't for now.
I also have full access to my kids' email, and it's not deleted from my server until I say it is... I don't make a habit of checking it, but I've made it known that I CAN.
I'm not there to invade my kids' privacy, but I DO need to be there to protect them from the scum that's out there on the Internet. Even if spammers ARE held liable for what they send my kids, try enforcing it on some Russian punk running a server out of Outer Mongolia.
MadCow.
It's a good start to weed out the obvious spam, but spammers write their messages (more and more) to get through specific filters like that.
Better idea:
1) use SpamAssassin
2) use a further white list for "authorized" emailers
3) anyone not on the whitelist gets an auto-reply saying "You have reached the email address of a MINOR, and your email has been temporarily blocked. To be un-blocked, send an email and the reason why you are contacting daughter@mydomail.com to daddy@mydomain.com"
If the reply-to address bounces, it was likely spam anyways.
Works for me... wouldn't have it any other way.
MadCow.
I guess you've never heard of Estate Taxes then?
At death, the Government takes ANOTHER whack at "your" posessions before your relatives have a chance to get any of it. Think of Copyright being part of that (at least the way things are now, anyways).
I don't agree with it, but that's the way things are.
Go ahead... your patent will run out before the first 50-year period comes up for renewal (assuming this is not retroactive, which it probalby would be).
q:]
MadCow.
>>I don't watch ads. Period.
Then they don't give a flying F*#K about what you watch. Period.
MadCow.
Do YOU want to sit there while a highschool-dropout cashier at McDonalds tries to count your change in $0.83 coins?
Time efficiency or number-of-coins efficiency... gee, which would you prefer? q:]
(No, I didn't read the article, and I'm sure that's discussed, ok?)
MadCow.
1) Send him an enquiry through the "Contact Seller" link on the page (online web form that hides his email address), asking a question about the item that he should answer (something simple, but legitimate question)
2) He replies through normal email (the only way he can... he'll probably use a "real" reply-to address)
3) Contact his ISP or mail provider asking for them to identify him due to copyright infringement. A legal-looking request in a certified letter will many times get an actual response. If not, then you might have to go the DMCA route with them or Ebay.
4) Send him a legal letter from your lawyer outlining the complaint and the ways he can resolve the issue, as well as how he must PROVE that he's in compliance in the future.
IANAL like everyone else, but that's worked for me in the past with some GPL'd shareware.
MadCow.