Dear Sir Please find attached our proposal for the research project "Post facto rationalisation of the value of innovation". The human ethics application is also attached. Although we will be largely following the standard protocols for using freshman Psychology students as experimental subjects, we have requested permission to exclude subjects for whom "640kB of petrified hot grits in a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans" induces a sphincter contraction. Yours, R.E. Searcher, PhD
Applying this "argument" to software, no-one who bangs out code would care how it was used, and therefore how it was licensed. It would not be in their domain of interest.
Scientists are not one homogeneous group. There will be differing views on facets of the science and differing willingness to engage with the political debate, media, etc.
I think the more interesting question is why people would ever think that 1 is not equal to 0.999...? I mean, what do they expect to find in between? (Disclaimer: I am one of them Math "teachers", I suppose)
Mice already know how to interface with computers, having built the greatest computer in all space and time. The mice are running this quake experiment just so that they have a bit of fun "decommissioning" the hardware later.
>mrcaseyj wrote: >> >>> C3ntaur wrote: >>> I invite anyone who claims CO2 is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes. >> >> I invite anyone who claims pure water is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes. > > I invite anyone who claims pure oxygen is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes
I invite anyone who claims pure vacuum is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
You are all wrong: in all these fatal scenarios, the common element is the room. Those do-gooders in Copenhagen should be negotiating an agreement on room reduction.
For those having trouble understanding these esoteric concepts of automobiles and traffic lights, consider the following simple analogy with software licenses: It's as though MAFIAA got Micro$oft to force us to sign a click-through EULA with DRM-encumbered one-click vendor lock-in just to traffic-shape our proprietary torrents, despite any FUDdite knowing prior art exists.
Firefox freezes like this if it is trying to load the details of too previously downloaded files to display in the "downloads" list window. Clear that window (Ctrl-J or Cmd-J to get window, hit "clear list") and problem usually goes. OTOH it could be something else.
As a touch-typist looking for a nice long-travel clickety-clack USB board, this looks abysmal.
I can't see how the claimed RSI benefits will come about - try "typing" on your desktop (real, not virtual) for a bit to see what I mean.
all weapons in australia have not been banned nor confiscated. Also most people here, like in most parts of the world, do not see the strong need to own guns. Without other people with guns around, it is not an issue. I mean, I don't know anyone who has been shot, there have been no shootings at schools, universities, etc and "only" a few work-place shootings, mostly by wackos with gun fetishes. "Guns don't kill, people kill, and people with bfg's kill many".
the copyright law amendment was introduced by the conservative parties, not our slightly pink (i.e. not socialist by a long shot) labor party. They would give Maggie poll-tax Thatcher a run for her money. Sure they're not as anti-state as in the US but this isn't the US.
The current govt is on the way out later in the year. It has a 50's mindset, which is when everyone wishes they had last seen this mob of unimaginative no-hopers
Last election (compulsory voting + preferential voting, remember) they (the conservative coalition made up of the two right-wing parties, named, ironically enough, the liberal and national parties) managed to sneak back into office despite getting (after redistribution of preferences) less than half the vote. They took this as a mandate to introduce a GST (aka consumption tax)
I was in the majority who didn't vote for them (my first pref wasn't the other major party (labor) either, due to the local candidate, but he would have got my preference in the end anyway)
Yes, as the other posters have noted, mainstream media interests are just as active in shaping public opinion and policy here as they are elsewhere. For this reason, I am taking this at face value (ummm, where is the source... Rupert Murdoch's news.com) until I see it elsewhere (thank God/Allah/QEII/Menzies for the ABC). It hasn't appeared on Richard Alstons (the AG) media releases, nor does it appear in the other major papers I have looked through this morning.
There is no specific mention of anything of this sort in the amendments to the copyright act but that doesn't mean that it isn't covered. If I find something out, I will see if I can get an "update" to the article.
There is a quick workaround that I will use if this turns out to be legit -- stick a short "permission" notice in your standard e-mail footer. I am not really sure how this works with transcontinental e-mail. Maybe one day we will all be using a "Permission-to-forward:" mail header that mail clients will be forced to obey.
In the start of 2001, we find that code with the worst millenium bugs in them also suffer from off-by-one bugs...
It is far worse than this. Everyone knows that it has been a common practise for evil unix and linux programmers to represent time in seconds-since-epoch (1-1-1970). Well, their shortsightedness (and their y2k smugness) will come back to bite on the 9th of september, when "unix time" clocks 10^9. Stock up the bunkers with beef jerky, here comes 1970!
plenty of mac virii - the first PC (as in personal computers, not ibm-compatible-intel-based-PC) viruses I encountered were mac only. The code-in-resource-fork model of a traditional mac application made it easy to write virii (nVir et al) that could infect arbitrary executables without screwing too much with the application otherwise. There was also a nasty "autostart" worm a couple of years ago that did unpleasant things to your HD.
Nowadays most of the virii that a mac virus detector sniffs are word macros that fail to work properly on a mac, due to filesystem differences.
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it seems that this is not GPL'd. I have a/lib/modules/2.2.16/net/algore.o
but no/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/net/algore.c
Is algore.o a DDOS trojan kernel module? 8-)
After all, all the pinkscreen does is (shockhorror) remove some of the green photons that constitute and unimpeded view of the original work.
Actually, depending on your interpretation of the wave equations involved, they are not the original photons, or waves.
Think of lenses - they modify the image by bending the lightwaves. Do people with glasses need explicit permission to view a copyrighted work, just because their glasses produce a virtual image of the work that is at a distance that their eyes can naturally focus to?
What happens when a light wave (or the probability distribution associated with a photon's presence) hits a refracting material? It produces another wave within the refracting material that has a different wavelength and usually heads in a different direction. On getting to the other side, a new wave is produced in the air. A derivative work!
(ducks for cover before a real physicist has a chance to correct me)
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Dear Sir
Please find attached our proposal for the research project "Post facto rationalisation of the value of innovation".
The human ethics application is also attached. Although we will be largely following the standard protocols for using freshman Psychology students as experimental subjects, we have requested permission to exclude subjects for whom "640kB of petrified hot grits in a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans" induces a sphincter contraction.
Yours,
R.E. Searcher, PhD
Do the record labels even make record labels any more?
What a strange point of view to find on Slashdot.
Applying this "argument" to software, no-one who bangs out code would care how it was used, and therefore how it was licensed. It would not be in their domain of interest.
Scientists are not one homogeneous group. There will be differing views on facets of the science and differing willingness to engage with the political debate, media, etc.
I think the more interesting question is why people would ever think that 1 is not equal to 0.999...?
I mean, what do they expect to find in between?
(Disclaimer: I am one of them Math "teachers", I suppose)
Have you got a 27B/6 for that?
I was given a homeopathic quantity of a placebo. Unfortunately I don't believe in homeopathy.
Mice already know how to interface with computers, having built the greatest computer in all space and time. The mice are running this quake experiment just so that they have a bit of fun "decommissioning" the hardware later.
sofar wrote:
>mrcaseyj wrote:
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>>> C3ntaur wrote:
>>> I invite anyone who claims CO2 is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
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>> I invite anyone who claims pure water is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
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> I invite anyone who claims pure oxygen is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes
I invite anyone who claims pure vacuum is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
You are all wrong: in all these fatal scenarios, the common element is the room. Those do-gooders in Copenhagen should be negotiating an agreement on room reduction.
So you are criticising my preparation for the afterlife? Other people memorise wodges of religious texts, I choose to memorise digits of pi ...
n/t
For those having trouble understanding these esoteric concepts of automobiles and traffic lights, consider the following simple analogy with software licenses:
It's as though MAFIAA got Micro$oft to force us to sign a click-through EULA with DRM-encumbered one-click vendor lock-in just to traffic-shape our proprietary torrents, despite any FUDdite knowing prior art exists.
Firefox freezes like this if it is trying to load the details of too previously downloaded files to display in the "downloads" list window. Clear that window (Ctrl-J or Cmd-J to get window, hit "clear list") and problem usually goes. OTOH it could be something else.
Simple crack:
http://www.google.com/search?q=what%20is%20the%20opposite%20of%20up
As a touch-typist looking for a nice long-travel clickety-clack USB board, this looks abysmal. I can't see how the claimed RSI benefits will come about - try "typing" on your desktop (real, not virtual) for a bit to see what I mean.
The ABC site says that the minister has dimissed these claims.
Let this discussion on the merits of australian law die.
nice theory, except that
:wq
Nowadays most of the virii that a mac virus detector sniffs are word macros that fail to work properly on a mac, due to filesystem differences.
... just like on all american cars
it seems that this is not GPL'd. I have a /lib/modules/2.2.16/net/algore.o
but no /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/drivers/net/algore.c
Is algore.o a DDOS trojan kernel module? 8-)
how about B-doublesharp? (another enharmonic equivalent to Csharp, in well-tempered tuning)
Actually, depending on your interpretation of the wave equations involved, they are not the original photons, or waves.
Think of lenses - they modify the image by bending the lightwaves. Do people with glasses need explicit permission to view a copyrighted work, just because their glasses produce a virtual image of the work that is at a distance that their eyes can naturally focus to?
What happens when a light wave (or the probability distribution associated with a photon's presence) hits a refracting material? It produces another wave within the refracting material that has a different wavelength and usually heads in a different direction. On getting to the other side, a new wave is produced in the air. A derivative work!
(ducks for cover before a real physicist has a chance to correct me)