Not at all. You just need to scrutinize the IP traffic logs for the anonymous proxy, the anonymous proxy's ISP, the anoynmous proxy's ISP's provider, and so on, and reassemble the puzzle.
Or you could just put your own packet sniffer out there and capture the traffic as it is happening.
Patents cover an idea. If it's patented, you can't do it. You can't black-box reverse engineer it. You can't get divine inspiration and get it out of the thin air.
No, patents cover a process, not an idea. You can reverse-engineer all you like, but it is hardly necessary since patent protection requires a public disclosure of the patented process. What you cannot do is use the patented process without the permission of the patent holder during the lifetime of the patent -- yes, even if you invent the same process completely independently.
Now, if you can produce the same end product using a different process, you could be home free!
IANAL, but it is looking more and more like we should each become one...
Okay, say I admit I believe in God. And He is Eros.
Clearly, without a doubt, the pornographers are "right". The DOJ is "wrong". Ashcroft has condemned himself to an eternal life without any happiness. In fact, he's already started. ("Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance...") Maybe he has already crossed over.
Do you mean to tell me I am "wrong" about God? How can that be? You said God defines "right" and "wrong". If your view of "right" and "wrong" does not match "mine", then obviously you are the one mistaken about God!
When I left a full-time office position to work full-time from home, I made a concerted effort to maintain planned human contact in other situations. For instance, I became more active in Toastmasters. That helped me maintain human contact -- especially with positive people. I also scheduled racquetball games with friends and former colleagues.
I also worked very well in that arrangement. I never burned out because I could always take a break when I needed it. Take a nap, see a movie, whatever I needed when I needed it. I produced very well because I was doing the work when I wanted to do it, and the customer loved the work. If only they had kept paying their bills!
No, hydrogen is. Gram-for-gram, the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium produces the most energy of any physical reaction that we know. If we could produce fusion without using radioactive hydrogen (deuterium or tritium), then such a process would be perfectly clean.
Put nuclear fusion aside, the chemical reaction of hydrogen with oxygen to make water is clean and also produces more energy than any carbon-compound solution.
The feasibility of both of these methods have been studied for years. The latter is used to launch objects into orbit. Success of either method, however, would appear to threaten the business model of certain corporations as well as the personal power that their respective executives and large stockholders have. Human nature being what it is, my hopes are high but my expectations a bit lower.
Considering that parents can sue schools for teaching religious doctrines with which they disagree, would it not folow that they could also sue schools for teaching political doctrines with which they disagree?
After all, equating copyright infringement to stealing is a political doctrine, is it not? It certainly is not the law.
Not necessarily. You would need more storage, perhaps, but capacitors and inductors are a whole lot cleaner than furnaces. Batteries, well, they could certainly be messier, but they would still be a whole lot cheaper!
As I recall, Amazon only got a preliminary injunction. Barnes & Noble eventually gave in and settled; the cost of the battle simply was not worth it. The validity of One-Click has not been settled in court, so the patent remains.
So if patents were created to protect the independent inventor, why is it that the deepest pockets have the advantage?
Is there some reason a BSD license is insufficient for your work? Or any other OSS license?
Your argument really is that Sun should relinquish Java to a standards body. This is an ongoing debate with interesting points on both sides. Simply put, though, Sun cannot be forced to do this, so if you hope to convince them you need to present a case that it would be in Sun's best interest to do so. You have not yet done this.
2) You get the source code for all of the classes/libraries that come with java when you download Sun's JDK. These include the core classes like java.lang.String, etc, etc. The only thing missing, as stated above is the source code for the compiler/interpreter and other tools.
Though Sun provides the source code, it has not relinquished rights to that code. It is useful at times to peruse the code to see how some things get done, but don't copy or you may be violating Sun's copyright.
Sun can set the terms as they wish for their implementation. Others have written their own API implementations, usually in parallel with their own virtual machine implementations. The FSF's efforts (GNU Classpath and GNU Classpath Extensions) are unfortunately lagging. The really frustrating part is that I can't help them along at all because I have seen Sun's source code. I could, but they would refuse my help to avoid copyright violations.
ADD and ADHD did not become chronic conditions until after drug companies were allowed to advertise to the general public. Coincidence?
What if drugs were not necessary? As a hypnotist, I know some techniques that could help in focusing as well as releasing emotional tensions that may be causing many of these hyperactivity and distractions. Other alternative modes could be effective as well for far cheaper. Why do you have to swallow a pill for every conceived ill?
If your neighbors can watch your television from across the street and not miss any details, that advertises your ability to spend large amounts of money on fancy equipment.
"Now I can watch 'The Simpsons' from 30 miles away!"
Would you want to step foot on a ship whose captain is primarily interested in how quickly the trip can be completed?
And somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall the Titanic's trip was less than 72 hours before it hit the iceberg, and it was not far at all from reaching port when that happened. So why is a 3-day trip so surprising almost 90 years later?
Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth was Gore's Florida campaign chairman. As chief law-dude, he's the one quoting the law saying that a recount is mandatory.
But the Attorney General doesn't handle elections in Florida; the Secretary of State does. The current Secretary of State is Katherine Harris. She's a Republican.
Clay Roberts, a Republican, is the director of the Division of Elections.
Harris, Roberts, and Jeb certify the election. Changes the slant, doesn't it?
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They are only using one of the most widely used bug tracking systems, especially for open source projects.
If I can get a large organization of mostly non-technical people (the National Office, that is, not the entire association -- yet!) to learn and use Bugzilla with little to no pain, then I have faith that a well-dispositioned and patient Slashdot user can certainly figure it out in a few minutes.
Not at all. You just need to scrutinize the IP traffic logs for the anonymous proxy, the anonymous proxy's ISP, the anoynmous proxy's ISP's provider, and so on, and reassemble the puzzle.
Or you could just put your own packet sniffer out there and capture the traffic as it is happening.
No, patents cover a process, not an idea. You can reverse-engineer all you like, but it is hardly necessary since patent protection requires a public disclosure of the patented process. What you cannot do is use the patented process without the permission of the patent holder during the lifetime of the patent -- yes, even if you invent the same process completely independently.
Now, if you can produce the same end product using a different process, you could be home free!
IANAL, but it is looking more and more like we should each become one...
Without any God, there is no right or wrong.
Okay, say I admit I believe in God. And He is Eros.
Clearly, without a doubt, the pornographers are "right". The DOJ is "wrong". Ashcroft has condemned himself to an eternal life without any happiness. In fact, he's already started. ("Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance ...") Maybe he has already crossed over.
Do you mean to tell me I am "wrong" about God? How can that be? You said God defines "right" and "wrong". If your view of "right" and "wrong" does not match "mine", then obviously you are the one mistaken about God!
When I left a full-time office position to work full-time from home, I made a concerted effort to maintain planned human contact in other situations. For instance, I became more active in Toastmasters. That helped me maintain human contact -- especially with positive people. I also scheduled racquetball games with friends and former colleagues.
I also worked very well in that arrangement. I never burned out because I could always take a break when I needed it. Take a nap, see a movie, whatever I needed when I needed it. I produced very well because I was doing the work when I wanted to do it, and the customer loved the work. If only they had kept paying their bills!
-Steven
quite ready for that again
And what institutions would those be?
No, hydrogen is. Gram-for-gram, the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium produces the most energy of any physical reaction that we know. If we could produce fusion without using radioactive hydrogen (deuterium or tritium), then such a process would be perfectly clean.
Put nuclear fusion aside, the chemical reaction of hydrogen with oxygen to make water is clean and also produces more energy than any carbon-compound solution.
The feasibility of both of these methods have been studied for years. The latter is used to launch objects into orbit. Success of either method, however, would appear to threaten the business model of certain corporations as well as the personal power that their respective executives and large stockholders have. Human nature being what it is, my hopes are high but my expectations a bit lower.
Considering that parents can sue schools for teaching religious doctrines with which they disagree, would it not folow that they could also sue schools for teaching political doctrines with which they disagree?
After all, equating copyright infringement to stealing is a political doctrine, is it not? It certainly is not the law.
Not necessarily. You would need more storage, perhaps, but capacitors and inductors are a whole lot cleaner than furnaces. Batteries, well, they could certainly be messier, but they would still be a whole lot cheaper!
As I recall, Amazon only got a preliminary injunction. Barnes & Noble eventually gave in and settled; the cost of the battle simply was not worth it. The validity of One-Click has not been settled in court, so the patent remains.
:)
So if patents were created to protect the independent inventor, why is it that the deepest pockets have the advantage?
-Steven
Any officers out there willing to poke around some congressional rep's eBay purchases or PayPal transactions?
If the EU does this, large US companies will crush EU software developers
At which point the EU software developers will show the EU that the large US companies are harming EU interests. Look, Ma, no jobs!
Where did you get this idea that Sun had to do this?
GCC for your JVM
GNU Classpath for the core APIs
Is there some reason a BSD license is insufficient for your work? Or any other OSS license?
Your argument really is that Sun should relinquish Java to a standards body. This is an ongoing debate with interesting points on both sides. Simply put, though, Sun cannot be forced to do this, so if you hope to convince them you need to present a case that it would be in Sun's best interest to do so. You have not yet done this.
2) You get the source code for all of the classes/libraries that come with java when you download Sun's JDK. These include the core classes like java.lang.String, etc, etc. The only thing missing, as stated above is the source code for the compiler/interpreter and other tools.
Though Sun provides the source code, it has not relinquished rights to that code. It is useful at times to peruse the code to see how some things get done, but don't copy or you may be violating Sun's copyright.
Sun can set the terms as they wish for their implementation. Others have written their own API implementations, usually in parallel with their own virtual machine implementations. The FSF's efforts (GNU Classpath and GNU Classpath Extensions) are unfortunately lagging. The really frustrating part is that I can't help them along at all because I have seen Sun's source code. I could, but they would refuse my help to avoid copyright violations.
A bridge between the open source community and the commercial software development world...
So apparently not Open Source.
Quite correct. It means the law must change!
Or punish every violator, thereby disrupting enormous proportions of society and spawning disorder all in the name of the law.
ADD and ADHD did not become chronic conditions until after drug companies were allowed to advertise to the general public. Coincidence?
What if drugs were not necessary? As a hypnotist, I know some techniques that could help in focusing as well as releasing emotional tensions that may be causing many of these hyperactivity and distractions. Other alternative modes could be effective as well for far cheaper. Why do you have to swallow a pill for every conceived ill?
There is no ether!
History . Learn it or repeat it.
Generics were not in the first release.
The language continued to change for well over a decade before being standardized by ANSI.
If Java had been done "right", it would not have been done at all.
If your neighbors can watch your television from across the street and not miss any details, that advertises your ability to spend large amounts of money on fancy equipment.
"Now I can watch 'The Simpsons' from 30 miles away!"
(By chance is this guy's name Frank?)
She caught him in the bathroom with his Playboy!
And somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall the Titanic's trip was less than 72 hours before it hit the iceberg, and it was not far at all from reaching port when that happened. So why is a 3-day trip so surprising almost 90 years later?
-Steve :)
Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth was Gore's Florida campaign chairman. As chief law-dude, he's the one quoting the law saying that a recount is mandatory.
But the Attorney General doesn't handle elections in Florida; the Secretary of State does. The current Secretary of State is Katherine Harris. She's a Republican.
Clay Roberts, a Republican, is the director of the Division of Elections.
Harris, Roberts, and Jeb certify the election. Changes the slant, doesn't it?
-Steve :)
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