If you go to the store and buy Coca-Cola, do you not want to receive "the real thing", made by Coca-Cola company as opposed to some nasty tasting knock-off? How about if you buy a "Corvette"? Is it okay for me to sell you a knock off Corvette? That's why brands, trademarks, are protected, so you can know what you're buying.
How about a word processor called Word Perfect? In fact, neither Word nor Office are registered trademarks, for the reason the GP said - they are generic, what trademark law calls "merely descriptive".
Maybe that's a good first step, maybe not. Ending the contest would screw over the people already involved. They've spoken to Barr and it's entirely possible he indicated he would rather then not shut it down at this point. It's also possible that they're stupid.
Adecco has publicly admitted it was "a mistake" and they want to "make it right". So at this point there's no question they were in the wrong. It's just a matter of figuring out what to do about it.
* had Adecco offered a settlement WITHOUT admitting they were wrong, that offer couldn't be used against them in court . Here, they admitted it was a mistake to use that name, and that they need to make it right.
Coke didn't invent soda, Slashdot didn't invent news aggregation and discussion. What belongs to each of these companies is the NAMES they do business under In order to know whether you're buying soda made by Coca-Cola or some other company, the law protects the Coke mark. His mark is Around the World in 80 Jobs. It seems that employees of Arecco contacted Barr, thinking that he was part of the promotion. If their use of the Around the World in 80 Jobs mark confused their own employees, it could certainly confuse the public, making them think Barr was involved in the promotion.
They are protecting Barr. Are you under the impression that just because Adecco typed TM they'll win? It is pretty clear that Barr's trademark has priority under law and he's virtually guaranteed to win. It seems Barr and Adecco just haven't yet agreed on how much Adecco needs to pay Barr to make up for their employee's misbehavior .
Read some specs. No, or almost no, digital protocols allow signal levels between 0.4 and 0.6. That is considered "too close to call" because digital normally doesn't permit something that islikely to be erroneous. Slashdot grammar proves that our analog wetware has no problem deciphering error filled signals.
what is wrong with a good old fashioned light bulb?
It used energy, and was made of sand. Therefore your 50 cent light bulb needed to be replaced with a $50 biohazard made of mercury and other toxins sold by campaign contributors.
To summarize the Yahoo answer, copper wire can carry a range of voltages , so it CAN carry an ANALOG signal. It can also carry a digital signal like Morse or Baudot, which is what telegrams use.
Radio is exactly the same way - it can carry analog signal such as old fashioned AM ratio, or a digital signal like GSM.
> binary, by itself, doesn't (I'm pretty sure but may be mistaken) confer "digital" status.
The defining distinction between digital and analog is that analog can represent a continuous range, whereas digital can only represent specific values. A phonograph, for example, can represent an infinite range of values between silence and full volume. A CD, on the other hand, can only encode certain volumes, not any in between. That's what makes a phonograph analog and a CD digital. Therefore, binary is BY DEFINITION digital - it uses just two values, not an infinite range
That's good and bad for both. With digital, you get back EXACTLY what you debt, with no degradation. With analog, you can receive a signal even if it can't be received perfectly, because it can receive 0.46 when its not possible to distinguish between 0 and 1.
Analog: composed of continuously variable values Digital: composed of discreet values Binary: composed of two possible values
Since traditional telegraphs consist of only dots and dashes, they are digital, and binary. If they were analog, they would include "dot and a half", with infinite valid values between dot and dash.
I submit that the guilty can more often be convicted based on good evidence, without a questionable interrogation . Therefore, removing questionable interrogations benefits the innocent more.
Without the fifth: Innocent person is convicted based on questionable interrogation Guilty person is convicted based on questionable interrogation
With the fifth amendment: Innocent is not even interrogated .
Guilty person is convicted on the basis of independent evidence .
The fifth means the state has to PROVE their case, not just bully a random suspect.
You two should suggest these ideas to your congressman. Something along those lines could work. It might actually get passed because the dems have never seen a tax they didn't like, and the repubs like ideas that could help businesses operate more efficiently, spending time providing products and services instead of fighting lawsuits. Both parties might like this.
As a small inventor myself, doing R&D and rendering those inventions as software, I wouldn't mind a system where I could declare the value at "no more than $500,000" and the fee would be proportional.
I don't yet own any flash drives either. I have about 40 magnetic drives. One reason I didn't buy flash drives was write endurance. I recently found out that the newer Flash drives have the same or better life expectancy as magnetics, though. They have enough write cycles for like 40 years of hard use now, so that's basically a solved problem. Also, when they fail they normally become read-only, so you can copy everything over to a replacement drive. 18 months ago I wouldn't have purchased flash drives, but now that they have improved I will. To reinforce what I read, I have watched Flash drives perform reliably in busy database and web servers. Not that the eight or so flash drives in those servers are statistically significant, but it's nice when your own anecdotal experience is consistent with the studies.
Yes, of course one particular drive might last a long time or a short time. I've had magnetic disks that lasted a long time and magnetic disks that died quickly. On average, an SSD will last just as long as a spinning platter .
Given that's the definition of socialism, all do. Well, that's ONE definition of socialism from a respected dictionary. A better definition might be "a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned or controlled by the state" (changing AND to OR).
Are you thinking of a socialist country that doesn't meet that definition?
Given that's the definition, that's why when Obama said the government needs to exercise it's "ownership and management responsibilities" of General Motors, and similar statements, people call those ideas socialist - because government "ownership and management" is the very definition of socialism.
Last I checked, Windows doesn't have sed, grep, awk, etc. Nor is the OS designed to allow such tools to work. How would you: find/etc -mtime -2
You can't. There simply no way to find recent configuration changes in Windows. In Linux, it takes less than a second. That powerful DOES mean you'd need to have learned how to use "find". (or just use the GUI like you would under Windows.)
If you spend some time learning the command line, ordinary tasks can be done ten times faster and tasks that are impossible under Windows become possible, if not trivial.
Learning the commands is SO much faster then clicking through layers and layers of menus. Windows is very easy to use in that it's discoverable. A three year old can sit down and start clicking around on Windows and discover how to use it. You don't have to know anything. On Linux, at least with the command line, you need to know what you're doing. The difference is similar to talking to someone who know vs trying
to communicate with someone without knowing the language . You CAN communicate using gestures, without having to learn the language first, but DANG it's slow and cumbersome. Windows is like that. You don't have to know anything in order to do it, and things take ten times as long as they take if you learn the (Linux) language.
True, almost all software produced has quite a few security holes. I just fixed some security holes in online classes that - cybersecurity. These are courses put out by a well known government agency that specializes in safety and security, but that agency doesn't come close to securing it's own systems.
HOWEVER our buildings are also quite vulnerable to Chinese missiles. We haven't secured our shopping centers, our sports stadiums, or our power plants. China could very easily wipe out any of them. Does that mean we'd accept it if they did? If China shot down a US airliner would we say "eh, it's our own fault for not securing our airspace"? Of course not. We'd hold China accountable, very quickly. Probably within a matter of hours. That's the biggest failing - we've chosen to sit down and allow China to attack us for the last several years, with no real response from us.
Anyone can easily kick in the front door of your house. If they do so, we don't blame the victim for not having a six inch thick steel door. We throw the assailant in the slammer.
Probably, our software will never be secure for the same reasons our houses won't be secure - because security is HARD. It's much easier to break something than to build something. Building something that can't be broken is almost impossible. To be competent at software security takes about six years of training for a typical corporate programmer, one who doesn't really understand software engineering as a science. An otherwise skilled programmer could learn to make his good software into fairly secure software in three years. That's about, what an extra $40k - $60k per year for a programmer with several years worth of extra education / training. How many organizations are willing to pay that cost for secure systems?
I have fifteen YEARS of experience in software security, but no one is offering me a job that pays a reasonable salary, not when they can instead hire an idiot for $40K to create a heaping pile of garbage that mostly "works", for a year or two until he's in a different position.
Yep, all that mumbo jumbo about time cloaks comes down to this:
They found a way to turn a laser on and off really fast, and at the other end of the fiber undo it so it appears to have stayed on. The whole "cloak" thing is just the idea that while the laser is off, some other signal could be sent on the fiber. Yay, with more refinement they can use it to send two channels on one fiber. The current implementation isn't able to read the second channel.
In theory, you could cut into a backbone provider's fiber and insert one of these transmitters that adds a second channel. At the other end of the fiber, you could insert the "undo" unit, so the owner of the fiber couldn't see your signal. You'd be using their fiber without their knowledge. Of course, a fiber equipped router at each end would achieve the same result.
I looked over my previous relationships, romantic and otherwise, and made a list of problems, and what caused them. Mainly, things about ME that caused them. From that list, I worked on a list of what I was looking for. There were a few things I wanted IN a relationship, like honesty. Relationships are (I thought) hard work, so I needed to look at what I was getting FROM the relationship, and there were a few things specific to the kind of PERSON I wanted to be with. I wish I were a home right now, where I stil have my list around somewhere. I can remember a few, though:
Characteristics of the relationship I wanted:
Honesty
Trust
Mutual respect (both politeness and some admiration)
Peace, not drama (home should be a refuge)
If I'm going to work hard on a relationship, what do I want to gain from it?:
Companionship (we should really be present, not mentally somewhere else)
Fun! (Willing to get up and do things, try new things. What else does "fun" mean to me?)
A reasonable sex life
Encouragement
What kind of person
From above - honest, trusting, respectful, no drama queens, reasonable sexual attitudes
Good mother or no kids - I don't want to marry a "bad" mom
There were a couple more that I don't recall. Reading over the list from time to time, I proceeded to try to BE those things. If I want an honest, respectful woman, I better be an honest, respectful man, for example. I prayed for help on most of that. I had to read it a few times to remind myself.
After meeting my wife, I found something else that's near the top of the list for marriage. When I'm not sure of something, when I'm "of two minds" about something, I think about it, discuss it, or read more information to make a decision. I don't yell and argue with myself, of course. That would be ridiculous. When a married couple is of two minds about something, can they not also think about it, discuss it, and get more information, just as one would do if you were split between two options? My wife and I do that, for the most part. I don't think we've ever really argued - just discussed and learned moe information until a decision became clear.
If your mouth is hurting you, you do not get angry at your mouth. Rather, you care for it, identifying the problem and tending to it to stop the hurt. In a marriage, if a mouth causes pain, doesn't it make sense that the couple should find the problem and take care of it, rather than getting angry at the hurt from the mouth? It doesn't matter if it's the mouth I was born with causing me pain or if it's the mouth my wife was born with causing me pain, as a life-long couple we deal with either in pretty much the same way. So I've added to my list this instruction:
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2 verse 24)
(Yes, I've learned that implies it's wise to be very careful who you cleave unto and become one flesh with!)
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Bryan is kind of an odd choice - not a city that most people would think of unless they live there. If by chance you DO live in Bryan, howdy neighbor.
If you go to the store and buy Coca-Cola, do you not want to receive "the real thing", made by Coca-Cola company as opposed to some nasty tasting knock-off? How about if you buy a "Corvette"? Is it okay for me to sell you a knock off Corvette? That's why brands, trademarks, are protected, so you can know what you're buying.
How about a word processor called Word Perfect?
In fact, neither Word nor Office are registered trademarks, for the reason the GP said - they are generic, what trademark law calls "merely descriptive".
Maybe that's a good first step, maybe not.
Ending the contest would screw over the people already involved.
They've spoken to Barr and it's entirely possible he indicated he would rather then not shut it down at this point.
It's also possible that they're stupid.
Adecco has publicly admitted it was "a mistake" and they want to "make it right".
So at this point there's no question they were in the wrong. It's just a matter of figuring out what to do about it.
* had Adecco offered a settlement WITHOUT admitting they were wrong, that offer couldn't be used against them in court .
Here, they admitted it was a mistake to use that name, and that they need to make it right.
Coke didn't invent soda, Slashdot didn't invent news aggregation and discussion.
What belongs to each of these companies is the NAMES they do business under
In order to know whether you're buying soda made by Coca-Cola or some other company, the law protects the Coke mark.
His mark is Around the World in 80 Jobs. It seems that employees of Arecco contacted Barr, thinking that he was part of the promotion. If their use of the Around the World in 80 Jobs mark confused their own employees, it could certainly confuse the public, making them think Barr was involved in the promotion.
They are protecting Barr. Are you under the impression that just because Adecco typed TM they'll win?
It is pretty clear that Barr's trademark has priority under law and he's virtually guaranteed to win. It seems Barr and Adecco just haven't yet agreed on how much Adecco needs to pay Barr to make up for their employee's misbehavior .
A petabyte disk could hold 250 TB repeated four times, making it robust against scratches.
Read some specs. No, or almost no, digital protocols allow signal levels between 0.4 and 0.6. That is considered "too close to call" because digital normally doesn't permit something that islikely to be erroneous. Slashdot grammar proves that our analog wetware has no problem deciphering error filled signals.
The ability and willingness to learn when a mistake is pointed out publicly makes you smarter than 98% of Slashdotters,I would guess.
what is wrong with a good old fashioned light bulb?
It used energy, and was made of sand. Therefore your 50 cent light bulb needed to be replaced with a $50 biohazard made of mercury and other toxins sold by campaign contributors.
To summarize the Yahoo answer, copper wire can carry a range of voltages , so it CAN carry an ANALOG signal.
It can also carry a digital signal like Morse or Baudot, which is what telegrams use.
Radio is exactly the same way - it can carry analog signal such as old fashioned AM ratio, or a digital signal like GSM.
> binary, by itself, doesn't (I'm pretty sure but may be mistaken) confer "digital" status.
The defining distinction between digital and analog is that analog can represent a continuous range, whereas digital can only represent specific values. A phonograph, for example, can represent an infinite range of values between silence and full volume. A CD, on the other hand, can only encode certain volumes, not any in between. That's what makes a phonograph analog and a CD digital. Therefore, binary is BY DEFINITION digital - it uses just two values, not an infinite range
That's good and bad for both. With digital, you get back EXACTLY what you debt, with no degradation. With analog, you can receive a signal even if it can't be received perfectly, because it can receive 0.46 when its not possible to distinguish between 0 and 1.
More than just digital, they are BINARY.
Analog: composed of continuously variable values
Digital: composed of discreet values
Binary: composed of two possible values
Since traditional telegraphs consist of only dots and dashes, they are digital, and binary. If they were analog, they would include "dot and a half", with infinite valid values between dot and dash.
I submit that the guilty can more often be convicted based on good evidence, without a questionable interrogation .
Therefore, removing questionable interrogations benefits the innocent more.
Without the fifth:
Innocent person is convicted based on questionable interrogation
Guilty person is convicted based on questionable interrogation
With the fifth amendment:
Innocent is not even interrogated .
Guilty person is convicted on the basis of independent evidence .
The fifth means the state has to PROVE their case, not just bully a random suspect.
You two should suggest these ideas to your congressman. Something along those lines could work. It might actually get passed because the dems have never seen a tax they didn't like, and the repubs like ideas that could help businesses operate more efficiently, spending time providing products and services instead of fighting lawsuits. Both parties might like this.
As a small inventor myself, doing R&D and rendering those inventions as software, I wouldn't mind a system where I could declare the value at "no more than $500,000" and the fee would be proportional.
That should say a three year warranty, unaffected by TBs written.
If you want to look at the warranty, some OCZ SSDs have a year limit - no limit on TB.
I don't yet own any flash drives either. I have about 40 magnetic drives. One reason I didn't buy flash drives was write endurance.
I recently found out that the newer Flash drives have the same or better life expectancy as magnetics, though. They have enough write cycles for like 40 years of hard use now, so that's basically a solved problem. Also, when they fail they normally become read-only, so you can copy everything over to a replacement drive. 18 months ago I wouldn't have purchased flash drives, but now that they have improved I will. To reinforce what I read, I have watched Flash drives perform reliably in busy database and web servers. Not that the eight or so flash drives in those servers are statistically significant, but it's nice when your own anecdotal experience is consistent with the studies.
Yes, of course one particular drive might last a long time or a short time. I've had magnetic disks that lasted a long time and magnetic disks that died quickly. On average, an SSD will last just as long as a spinning platter .
Given that's the definition of socialism, all do. Well, that's ONE definition of socialism from a respected dictionary. A better definition might be "a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned or controlled by the state" (changing AND to OR).
Are you thinking of a socialist country that doesn't meet that definition?
Given that's the definition, that's why when Obama said the government needs to exercise it's "ownership and management responsibilities" of General Motors, and similar statements, people call those ideas socialist - because government "ownership and management" is the very definition of socialism.
Last I checked, Windows doesn't have sed, grep, awk, etc. /etc -mtime -2
Nor is the OS designed to allow such tools to work. How would you:
find
You can't. There simply no way to find recent configuration changes in Windows. In Linux, it takes less than a second.
That powerful DOES mean you'd need to have learned how to use "find". (or just use the GUI like you would under Windows.)
If you spend some time learning the command line, ordinary tasks can be done ten times faster and tasks that are impossible under Windows become possible, if not trivial.
Learning the commands is SO much faster then clicking through layers and layers of menus. Windows is very easy to use in that it's discoverable. A three year old can sit down and start clicking around on Windows and discover how to use it. You don't have to know anything. On Linux, at least with the command line, you need to know what you're doing. The difference is similar to talking to someone who know vs trying
to communicate with someone without knowing the language . You CAN communicate using gestures, without having to learn the language first, but DANG it's slow and cumbersome. Windows is like that. You don't have to know anything in order to do it, and things take ten times as long as they take if you learn the (Linux) language.
True, almost all software produced has quite a few security holes. I just fixed some security holes in online classes that - cybersecurity. These are courses put out by a well known government agency that specializes in safety and security, but that agency doesn't come close to securing it's own systems.
HOWEVER our buildings are also quite vulnerable to Chinese missiles. We haven't secured our shopping centers, our sports stadiums, or our power plants. China could very easily wipe out any of them. Does that mean we'd accept it if they did? If China shot down a US airliner would we say "eh, it's our own fault for not securing our airspace"? Of course not. We'd hold China accountable, very quickly. Probably within a matter of hours. That's the biggest failing - we've chosen to sit down and allow China to attack us for the last several years, with no real response from us.
Anyone can easily kick in the front door of your house. If they do so, we don't blame the victim for not having a six inch thick steel door. We throw the assailant in the slammer.
Probably, our software will never be secure for the same reasons our houses won't be secure - because security is HARD. It's much easier to break something than to build something. Building something that can't be broken is almost impossible. To be competent at software security takes about six years of training for a typical corporate programmer, one who doesn't really understand software engineering as a science. An otherwise skilled programmer could learn to make his good software into fairly secure software in three years. That's about, what an extra $40k - $60k per year for a programmer with several years worth of extra education / training. How many organizations are willing to pay that cost for secure systems?
I have fifteen YEARS of experience in software security, but no one is offering me a job that pays a reasonable salary, not when they can instead hire an idiot for $40K to create a heaping pile of garbage that mostly "works", for a year or two until he's in a different position.
Yep, all that mumbo jumbo about time cloaks comes down to this:
They found a way to turn a laser on and off really fast, and at the other end of the fiber undo it so it appears to have stayed on. The whole "cloak" thing is just the idea that while the laser is off, some other signal could be sent on the fiber. Yay, with more refinement they can use it to send two channels on one fiber. The current implementation isn't able to read the second channel.
In theory, you could cut into a backbone provider's fiber and insert one of these transmitters that adds a second channel. At the other end of the fiber, you could insert the "undo" unit, so the owner of the fiber couldn't see your signal. You'd be using their fiber without their knowledge. Of course, a fiber equipped router at each end would achieve the same result.
That's an interesting question.
I looked over my previous relationships, romantic and otherwise, and made a list of problems, and what caused them. Mainly, things about ME that caused them.
From that list, I worked on a list of what I was looking for. There were a few things I wanted IN a relationship, like honesty. Relationships are (I thought) hard work, so I needed to look at what I was getting FROM the relationship, and there were a few things specific to the kind of PERSON I wanted to be with. I wish I were a home right now, where I stil have my list around somewhere. I can remember a few, though:
Characteristics of the relationship I wanted:
Honesty
Trust
Mutual respect (both politeness and some admiration)
Peace, not drama (home should be a refuge)
If I'm going to work hard on a relationship, what do I want to gain from it?:
Companionship (we should really be present, not mentally somewhere else)
Fun! (Willing to get up and do things, try new things. What else does "fun" mean to me?)
A reasonable sex life
Encouragement
What kind of person
From above - honest, trusting, respectful, no drama queens, reasonable sexual attitudes
Good mother or no kids - I don't want to marry a "bad" mom
There were a couple more that I don't recall. Reading over the list from time to time, I proceeded to try to BE those things. If I want an honest, respectful woman, I better be an honest, respectful man, for example. I prayed for help on most of that. I had to read it a few times to remind myself.
After meeting my wife, I found something else that's near the top of the list for marriage. When I'm not sure of something, when I'm "of two minds" about something,
I think about it, discuss it, or read more information to make a decision. I don't yell and argue with myself, of course. That would be ridiculous. When a married couple is of two minds about something, can they not also think about it, discuss it, and get more information, just as one would do if you were split between two options? My wife and I do that, for the most part. I don't think we've ever really argued - just discussed and learned moe information until a decision became clear.
If your mouth is hurting you, you do not get angry at your mouth. Rather, you care for it, identifying the problem and tending to it to stop the hurt. In a marriage, if a mouth causes pain, doesn't it make sense that the couple should find the problem and take care of it, rather than getting angry at the hurt from the mouth? It doesn't matter if it's the mouth I was born with causing me pain or if it's the mouth my wife was born with causing me pain, as a life-long couple we deal with either in pretty much the same way. So I've added to my list this instruction:
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2 verse 24)
(Yes, I've learned that implies it's wise to be very careful who you cleave unto and become one flesh with!)