Many years ago, I wrote a little blurb about this one topic (to remain confidential), and published it on my web page, complete with copyright notice. It sat there neglected for a while, and eventually I took the page down.
Very recently, however, I discovered Encyclopedia Brittanica used my blurb for their entry on the subject. They stole my intellectual property.
I am hereby announcing my forthcoming lawsuit against Encyclopedia Brittanica. I am looking to enjoin them from distributing any further copies, either in paper or electronic form. I will also be seeking royalty payments from anyone owning a copy produced since 2001. And no, I will not disclose which entry it is they stole, since I do not anyone reprinting it even as a news article.
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Yes, the above is fiction. It was written to illustrate how stupid SCO is being. Why no judge has forced them to disclose said infringing code is beyond me. Frankly, since if the code were disclosed it would be removed, it seems like they are ENCOURAGING further infringement, which I would take as their not defending their copyright adequately.
I figure that, if I have a copy of SCO Linux lying around, if SCO actually decides to sue me, I can go to the judge and tell him I already have a license from SCO. In fact, everyone ought to have a copy.
Trying to sell that source, or give it away, or market the binaries yourself, may put you in deep kimchee if whomever putatively owns the IP for that company ever finds out.
If on the other hand, that source eventually does find its way onto the net, and it can't be traced back to you, then chances are you can't be held liable. Especially if there are any differences between the released code and what you had, and they seem to be because it came from a different or earlier set. *wink nod say no more*
I think you've got the wrong concept of what you want to do... While you can download textbooks off the net, usually they're meant either for printing out, or displaying on an e-book. But reading a textbook online, at least for me, usually results in a major eye-ache (something your particular readers will especially dislike).
I would recommend you use this little invention called hypertext to build an in-depth document. One way to arrange this would be to have a summary of a few pages, or even a few paragraphs, and then allow people to click on terms and be able to explore them in depth.
One website that's used this methodology with good results is Chilling Effects. I suggest you do a little exploring there.
I've used my Letherman super-tool (old-style) for just about everything, not just repairing PCs but for everything from furniture to my car. I've tried the newer-style ones, but prefer the old ones, with the hokey lock you have to open another blade to get loose.
Not to mention, an enormously restrictive society based on the people who supply those components, and a struggle against those who wish to break the connection.
Something like today's IP fight; does anyone see the connection?
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The precision needed even for simple CD-ROM drives is also pretty darn tight. The manufacturing costs on those is well under $10 apiece though. (I'm talking manufacturing cost; both this and the hard drive would retail much higher.)
Could someone explain to me, please, why it's impossible to manufacture a slow, low-capacity hard drive for $10 per unit? What makes a hard drive so much more difficult to build than a CD drive? Is it because the write head has to be so close to the medium?
Kind of difficult to be walking around covering a story when you're tethered to a laptop. If anything, tethering it to an extended battery pack clipped to your belt would be better.
Starving artists in the movie industry? You mean, like the ones who made 405, or Batman: Dead End? They're happy they were able to get their content on the net, where it would be appreciated and would demonstrate their talent.
It may be pretty warm outside, but the machines will take it so long as you can dissipate localized heat build-up. Get a few circulating fnns and set 'em up around the room, with one blowing air directly in through a window. (You DO have a window, I hope.)
BitTorrent is NOT meant to handle pirated data! The tracker servers for the torrents are fixed targets, easy food for governments. BT is meant to distribute legitimate content. Frankly, I've been taking advantage of the pirate sites while they've been up, but I'm not surprised they're going kablooey.
Depending on the sort of illegitimate content you're looking for or distributing, try some other protocol. Freenet, or Gnutella2 or something else based on supernodes, will work a lot better than BitTorrent.
How often do those pay phones get beat up, abused, have the receivers torn off and their coin slots filled with glue? I suspect that, unless you armored your phones like tanks, you'd wind up having to replace them every other week, or worse.
What you might consider is REDUCING the number of payphones, and putting them in easy sight of concession stands, etc, wherever your security will normally be stationed. That way they'll get more traffic per phone. And yes, it's a convenience, but cell phones have mostly put pay phones out of business already.
The question is, did Linux take it from SCO, or did they both take it from an earlier reference?
If it had been distributed before under a free license, SCO can't slap its copyright on it and call it proprietary. It's essentially "prior art".
On the other hand, if it actually came from SCO, then their refusal to disclose it IMO means they aren't taking steps to protect their intellectual property, by not allowing the Linux community to produce a clean-room equivalent.
In other news... I am suing Encyclopedia Brittanica because they stole my work in their entry for... Well, I'm not going to say.
There is a HUGE difference between "nanotechnology" and "nanoscale". Some modern corporations started using the term interchangeably because nanotech sounded cooler. Please don't follow their example.
Well, plants run at horrible efficiency levels, thanks to their passive circulation systems; and genetically engineering them to have hearts would probably have eco-nuts screaming at you, telling you they can't be chopped down because they're animals now.
On the other hand, periodically harvesting weedy growth for fuel instead of building solar panels may prove more environmentally sound and more convenient, depending on the methods used to construct those solar panels. I'm sure that growing stuff just to burn it might prove more practical.
Myself, I'm in favor of nuclear technology. It's amazing, even in the few reactors we're operating now, how much potential energy we're just throwing away, thanks to our phobia of Plutonium.
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They don't get charged for web bandwidth by the gigabyte. :-P
Many years ago, I wrote a little blurb about this one topic (to remain confidential), and published it on my web page, complete with copyright notice. It sat there neglected for a while, and eventually I took the page down.
Very recently, however, I discovered Encyclopedia Brittanica used my blurb for their entry on the subject. They stole my intellectual property.
I am hereby announcing my forthcoming lawsuit against Encyclopedia Brittanica. I am looking to enjoin them from distributing any further copies, either in paper or electronic form. I will also be seeking royalty payments from anyone owning a copy produced since 2001. And no, I will not disclose which entry it is they stole, since I do not anyone reprinting it even as a news article.
* * * * * * *
Yes, the above is fiction. It was written to illustrate how stupid SCO is being. Why no judge has forced them to disclose said infringing code is beyond me. Frankly, since if the code were disclosed it would be removed, it seems like they are ENCOURAGING further infringement, which I would take as their not defending their copyright adequately.
Oh, I'm aware of that. But it'd be nice to have in hand.
I figure that, if I have a copy of SCO Linux lying around, if SCO actually decides to sue me, I can go to the judge and tell him I already have a license from SCO. In fact, everyone ought to have a copy.
We C0B0L programmers aren't obsolete after all!
Trying to sell that source, or give it away, or market the binaries yourself, may put you in deep kimchee if whomever putatively owns the IP for that company ever finds out.
If on the other hand, that source eventually does find its way onto the net, and it can't be traced back to you, then chances are you can't be held liable. Especially if there are any differences between the released code and what you had, and they seem to be because it came from a different or earlier set. *wink nod say no more*
I think you've got the wrong concept of what you want to do... While you can download textbooks off the net, usually they're meant either for printing out, or displaying on an e-book. But reading a textbook online, at least for me, usually results in a major eye-ache (something your particular readers will especially dislike).
I would recommend you use this little invention called hypertext to build an in-depth document. One way to arrange this would be to have a summary of a few pages, or even a few paragraphs, and then allow people to click on terms and be able to explore them in depth.
One website that's used this methodology with good results is Chilling Effects. I suggest you do a little exploring there.
I've used my Letherman super-tool (old-style) for just about everything, not just repairing PCs but for everything from furniture to my car. I've tried the newer-style ones, but prefer the old ones, with the hokey lock you have to open another blade to get loose.
VNC will do what he wants, 'cept for the mousing across screens gimmick. It could probably be added easily, though, and sounds like it'd be fun!
Not to mention, an enormously restrictive society based on the people who supply those components, and a struggle against those who wish to break the connection.
Something like today's IP fight; does anyone see the connection?
The precision needed even for simple CD-ROM drives is also pretty darn tight. The manufacturing costs on those is well under $10 apiece though. (I'm talking manufacturing cost; both this and the hard drive would retail much higher.)
Could someone explain to me, please, why it's impossible to manufacture a slow, low-capacity hard drive for $10 per unit? What makes a hard drive so much more difficult to build than a CD drive? Is it because the write head has to be so close to the medium?
Kind of difficult to be walking around covering a story when you're tethered to a laptop. If anything, tethering it to an extended battery pack clipped to your belt would be better.
This guy's funnier than I am!
Isn't Quicktime 4 already out? And who's Trolltech? I thought Apple made Quicktime...
Starving artists in the movie industry? You mean, like the ones who made 405, or Batman: Dead End? They're happy they were able to get their content on the net, where it would be appreciated and would demonstrate their talent.
It may be pretty warm outside, but the machines will take it so long as you can dissipate localized heat build-up. Get a few circulating fnns and set 'em up around the room, with one blowing air directly in through a window. (You DO have a window, I hope.)
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00048.htm
president@whitehouse.com instead.
I always liked whitehouse.com better than whitehouse.gov...
BitTorrent is NOT meant to handle pirated data! The tracker servers for the torrents are fixed targets, easy food for governments. BT is meant to distribute legitimate content. Frankly, I've been taking advantage of the pirate sites while they've been up, but I'm not surprised they're going kablooey.
Depending on the sort of illegitimate content you're looking for or distributing, try some other protocol. Freenet, or Gnutella2 or something else based on supernodes, will work a lot better than BitTorrent.
The calendar says it's July 11th... Why does it feel like it's April 1st?
How often do those pay phones get beat up, abused, have the receivers torn off and their coin slots filled with glue? I suspect that, unless you armored your phones like tanks, you'd wind up having to replace them every other week, or worse.
What you might consider is REDUCING the number of payphones, and putting them in easy sight of concession stands, etc, wherever your security will normally be stationed. That way they'll get more traffic per phone. And yes, it's a convenience, but cell phones have mostly put pay phones out of business already.
The question is, did Linux take it from SCO, or did they both take it from an earlier reference?
If it had been distributed before under a free license, SCO can't slap its copyright on it and call it proprietary. It's essentially "prior art".
On the other hand, if it actually came from SCO, then their refusal to disclose it IMO means they aren't taking steps to protect their intellectual property, by not allowing the Linux community to produce a clean-room equivalent.
In other news... I am suing Encyclopedia Brittanica because they stole my work in their entry for... Well, I'm not going to say.
There is a HUGE difference between "nanotechnology" and "nanoscale". Some modern corporations started using the term interchangeably because nanotech sounded cooler. Please don't follow their example.
Oh.
Well, plants run at horrible efficiency levels, thanks to their passive circulation systems; and genetically engineering them to have hearts would probably have eco-nuts screaming at you, telling you they can't be chopped down because they're animals now.
On the other hand, periodically harvesting weedy growth for fuel instead of building solar panels may prove more environmentally sound and more convenient, depending on the methods used to construct those solar panels. I'm sure that growing stuff just to burn it might prove more practical.
Myself, I'm in favor of nuclear technology. It's amazing, even in the few reactors we're operating now, how much potential energy we're just throwing away, thanks to our phobia of Plutonium.