Bait-and-switch huh? so if I lure a child into my house with a cookie, and then lock the door behind them, it's not kidnapping? That's ridiculous, the FBI is in the wrong.
Contract \Con"tract\, n. [L. contractus, fr. contrahere: cf. F. contrat, formerly also contract.] 1. (Law) The agreement of two or more persons,
upon a sufficient consideration or cause...
consideration means benefit - so yes, mutual benefit is required for a contract to exist. IANAL, but IWasAALStudent.
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65,635 orders can also be placed at any time to overflow an INT in a poorly designed database.... on a 16 bit machine... on a 32 bit server (IE every server on the internet) you are going to have to get together 4G of your closest friends...
It seems that the problem with patents is in how they are gained. Submit a paper with enough impressive sounding language to somebody in the patent office who doesn't understand what you're talking about, and the patent is yours. Then it's up to the courts to take away your patent if it has no merit.
I think that instead, the "burden of proof" so to speak (that the patent has merit) should lay more fully upon the submitter of the patent. Basically, the patent office needs to hire qualified individuals, or subject patent review to independent (but knowledgable) 3rd parties. Maybe the right to sit on a patent review committee should be a high honour, bestowed upon our most knowledgable of citizens. Kind of like a Phd.
They didn't say that software was unpatentable, they said it was unpatentable when it provides no technological innovation, which is pretty much status quo.
The part that is au contraire US is the fact that business methods may not be patented. Like one click shopping. Now that is a good thing. But i gather that this is also pretty much status quo for the UK, as the article seems to indicate that they have never allowed patenting of business methods.
I have heard many web developers on slashdot, in this and other articles, complaining about the difficulty of making a site multi browser. It makes me think of the accomplishments of GNU, and in particular, autoconf - allowing the GNU utilities to run on a multitude of hardware/software platform combinations despite all being written in a fairly non-portable language (compared to Perl or Java, not assembly). Why could a web server not format outgoing documents based on the browser that is accessing the information, much like autoconf configures a software package to run on many systems?
When a trademark is diluted, you legally loose your
trademark (Kleenex and Xerox are the textbook examples). Don't stab him in the back for supporting open source by taking away
his brand name, which was a major marketing investment.
I think its too late for that... the trademark has already been sufficiently diluted - I started using OpenSSH about 4 months ago, and I had never even heard of the company until this article.
Linux is the fastest-growing operating system program for running server computers, according to research firm IDC. It accounted for 27
percent of unit shipments of server operating systems in 2000. Microsoft's Windows was the most popular on that basis, with 41 percent.
Wow, I never really appreciated how much of an impact linux was having... and that's probably just boxed shipments from commercial distributions and pre-installed server units... theres also gotta be uncounted downloads... not to mention the BSD's!
So are you saying that your friends went to coke etc only because of the weed, and not, as I hypothesized, because they realized
that they'd been egregiously lied to about weed and assumed that meant that the other stuff was ok? Are you certain that you know
their decision to do coke intimately enough to understand why they went from a to b?
Ok, this is horribly off-topic now - and no, I can't prove anything regarding causality of a and b - all I can do is note that I have never myself known anyone who went straight to coke. Only ever through weed. Whether the progression is caused by the smoking of weed or by the realization that they had been lied to about weed is immaterial - the fact is that there is an obvious weed->coke relationship, which you don't see go the other way nearly as often
You need to check reality. You'll note from my previous post that i am speaking from personal experience. All the causality I need is to see my friends go from weed to worse shit.
The article doesn't even say that it's been proven incorrect - it just says that the rate has been dropping for people born after the 70's. Oooh... big news there - not as many people doing coke now as in the 80's - kinda obvious.
All it really proves is the power of education and awareness, as more people understand the devastating effects of "hard" drugs and are waking up to the fact that weed isn't instant death, their are more people smoking weed who don't graduate to blo. It doesn't mean that there isn't a higher frequency amongst pot smokers of hard drug use than their is amongst the general population.
I do not really feel like arguing the validity
of the 'stepping stone' myth regarding marijuana,
but I tend to think that it is greatly
overstated by its supporters.
You gotta be kiddin' me... it happens the same way every time - nobody (that I know) has ever just gone out and started snorting blo for no particular reason. Everyone I know that does coke and cid got started on weed and liquor. I'm not saying that I'm entirely against weed, I've been known to indulge occasionally myself, but if you don't think that the "gateway drug" argument is valid, then you are sadly naive.
What's at issue is not "ratting" on other kids who have commited crimes - the problem is that kids are being encouraged to inform on kids who may commit a crime, because they are displaying supposedly "suspicious" or "dangerous" behaviour.
Yeah, like schoolkids are qualified to make that judgement.
.. that the work you and np were doing on the SA1100/1110 is gonna slow down significantly? I've been hoping for some time that we would see a unified UCB1200 driver come out so that we could do sound and touch screen (and modem) at the same time without IRQ conflicts/problems.
I wonder what this means for people who have large numbers of these types of neurons and can somehow be proven to empathize with certain roles in an interaction. IE, if it can be shown that a person physiologically empathizes more with the attacker than the victim in some sort of altercation, would governments want to use that as a way to discriminate against that person in a court room?
...and i've seen firsthand how the union can stop individuals from having their chance to stand out, because let's face it - unions are socialism - and socialism protects those that cannot, or will not, protect themselves, sometimes at the expense of those who have the drive to do great things.
Once my dad had to deal with a situation in which a younger guy working in a warehouse doing forklift work, etc. wanted to improve himself by taking a position of greater responsibility, and was willing to do it for the same wages he was currently getting. The union wouldn't allow it, of course, because it undermined the union to have someone working for less than they had negotiated for that position.
Are you going to let unions take away your right to work harder for your company to get ahead,and stand out from your less able/less willing colleagues?
Slashdot Mirror
Oo! you can get to /. with slashdot.com? Excuse me while I go update my bookmarks...
Bait-and-switch huh? so if I lure a child into my house with a cookie, and then lock the door behind them, it's not kidnapping? That's ridiculous, the FBI is in the wrong.
Contract \Con"tract\, n. [L. contractus, fr. contrahere: cf. F. contrat, formerly also contract.] 1. (Law) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause...
consideration means benefit - so yes, mutual benefit is required for a contract to exist. IANAL, but IWasAALStudent.
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:04:21 -0500
From: "David Anthony"
Reply-to: danthony@mckinneyisd.net
Subject: Re: Sean Sheeley
Due to federal law, FERPA, I cannot discuss the facts regarding this issue.
The content of your post makes your .sig ironic. Idiot.
65,635 orders can also be placed at any time to overflow an INT in a poorly designed database.... on a 16 bit machine... on a 32 bit server (IE every server on the internet) you are going to have to get together 4G of your closest friends...
I didn't realize that... wow... that is incredibly stupid. Well, some of my other suggestions would help take care of things like this.
It seems that the problem with patents is in how they are gained. Submit a paper with enough impressive sounding language to somebody in the patent office who doesn't understand what you're talking about, and the patent is yours. Then it's up to the courts to take away your patent if it has no merit.
I think that instead, the "burden of proof" so to speak (that the patent has merit) should lay more fully upon the submitter of the patent. Basically, the patent office needs to hire qualified individuals, or subject patent review to independent (but knowledgable) 3rd parties. Maybe the right to sit on a patent review committee should be a high honour, bestowed upon our most knowledgable of citizens. Kind of like a Phd.
We zany Canadian spell (some of those words) like that too. Ok, only colour. But we have a lot of other `ou' words that you just wouldn't beleive.
They didn't say that software was unpatentable, they said it was unpatentable when it provides no technological innovation, which is pretty much status quo.
The part that is au contraire US is the fact that business methods may not be patented. Like one click shopping. Now that is a good thing. But i gather that this is also pretty much status quo for the UK, as the article seems to indicate that they have never allowed patenting of business methods.
I have heard many web developers on slashdot, in this and other articles, complaining about the difficulty of making a site multi browser. It makes me think of the accomplishments of GNU, and in particular, autoconf - allowing the GNU utilities to run on a multitude of hardware/software platform combinations despite all being written in a fairly non-portable language (compared to Perl or Java, not assembly). Why could a web server not format outgoing documents based on the browser that is accessing the information, much like autoconf configures a software package to run on many systems?
When a trademark is diluted, you legally loose your trademark (Kleenex and Xerox are the textbook examples). Don't stab him in the back for supporting open source by taking away his brand name, which was a major marketing investment.
I think its too late for that... the trademark has already been sufficiently diluted - I started using OpenSSH about 4 months ago, and I had never even heard of the company until this article.
Linux is the fastest-growing operating system program for running server computers, according to research firm IDC. It accounted for 27 percent of unit shipments of server operating systems in 2000. Microsoft's Windows was the most popular on that basis, with 41 percent.
Wow, I never really appreciated how much of an impact linux was having... and that's probably just boxed shipments from commercial distributions and pre-installed server units... theres also gotta be uncounted downloads... not to mention the BSD's!
So are you saying that your friends went to coke etc only because of the weed, and not, as I hypothesized, because they realized that they'd been egregiously lied to about weed and assumed that meant that the other stuff was ok? Are you certain that you know their decision to do coke intimately enough to understand why they went from a to b?
Ok, this is horribly off-topic now - and no, I can't prove anything regarding causality of a and b - all I can do is note that I have never myself known anyone who went straight to coke. Only ever through weed. Whether the progression is caused by the smoking of weed or by the realization that they had been lied to about weed is immaterial - the fact is that there is an obvious weed->coke relationship, which you don't see go the other way nearly as often
You need to check some causality.
You need to check reality. You'll note from my previous post that i am speaking from personal experience. All the causality I need is to see my friends go from weed to worse shit.
The article doesn't even say that it's been proven incorrect - it just says that the rate has been dropping for people born after the 70's. Oooh... big news there - not as many people doing coke now as in the 80's - kinda obvious.
All it really proves is the power of education and awareness, as more people understand the devastating effects of "hard" drugs and are waking up to the fact that weed isn't instant death, their are more people smoking weed who don't graduate to blo. It doesn't mean that there isn't a higher frequency amongst pot smokers of hard drug use than their is amongst the general population.
I do not really feel like arguing the validity of the 'stepping stone' myth regarding marijuana, but I tend to think that it is greatly overstated by its supporters.
You gotta be kiddin' me... it happens the same way every time - nobody (that I know) has ever just gone out and started snorting blo for no particular reason. Everyone I know that does coke and cid got started on weed and liquor. I'm not saying that I'm entirely against weed, I've been known to indulge occasionally myself, but if you don't think that the "gateway drug" argument is valid, then you are sadly naive.
What's at issue is not "ratting" on other kids who have commited crimes - the problem is that kids are being encouraged to inform on kids who may commit a crime, because they are displaying supposedly "suspicious" or "dangerous" behaviour.
Yeah, like schoolkids are qualified to make that judgement.
.. that the work you and np were doing on the SA1100/1110 is gonna slow down significantly? I've been hoping for some time that we would see a unified UCB1200 driver come out so that we could do sound and touch screen (and modem) at the same time without IRQ conflicts/problems.
I wonder what this means for people who have large numbers of these types of neurons and can somehow be proven to empathize with certain roles in an interaction. IE, if it can be shown that a person physiologically empathizes more with the attacker than the victim in some sort of altercation, would governments want to use that as a way to discriminate against that person in a court room?
...and i've seen firsthand how the union can stop individuals from having their chance to stand out, because let's face it - unions are socialism - and socialism protects those that cannot, or will not, protect themselves, sometimes at the expense of those who have the drive to do great things.
Once my dad had to deal with a situation in which a younger guy working in a warehouse doing forklift work, etc. wanted to improve himself by taking a position of greater responsibility, and was willing to do it for the same wages he was currently getting. The union wouldn't allow it, of course, because it undermined the union to have someone working for less than they had negotiated for that position.
Are you going to let unions take away your right to work harder for your company to get ahead,and stand out from your less able/less willing colleagues?
You'll never see a union at a place like McDonald's or 7-11
Actually, we had one McDonald's here in Vancouver (BC, Canada) organize, or at least they came very close - anyhow, it is possible.
"We repeat, the right of a mailer stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
The language from that ruling is actually suitable for unmodified application to spam.