nerd herds:: That kind of arrogance and belief in superiority of your "own tribe" is also a part of herd behaviour, where people in a group can act without preplanning and the kind of bullying behaviour that is re-inforced by being part of a pack, though there is no specific article about pack behaviour. So I would think it would definitely also occur in a herd of nerds, and where do they congregate? Often at university.
Thanks for the pointer to the story. I can only hope, like you do, that there is some strange higher-level understanding that requires the law to be that way. I've read part of the dissent pdf file and the first issue seems to be:
Therefore, although she was indeed physically helpless
in the ordinary sense of the term, she was not physically
helpless for purposes of the statute.), and State v.
Bucknell, 144 Wn. App. 524, 529â"30, 183 P.3d 1078 (2008)
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There also seems to be a bizarre point about whether or not the victim had been taught any sexual information in the sense that if they didn't know about it how could they deny consent for it? Would that be the break that would allow the rape of children who had not yet been taught the facts of life and/or were brought up to respect authority?
That is a sad, sad, story. I've got two replies to you. The first re your content: the ruling would then imply that necrophilia would not be illegal nothwithstanding any other laws regarding sex with the dead, and would also imply that sex with a drunk/drugged passed-out woman or man would also be legal as such a passed-out person also would not put up enough of a fight
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re "However Slashdot threads are only good for 2 days anyway so I won't find it before everyone leaves anyway", I agree with you. It's annoying because I found (through a backlink from a reply to my comment to another comment to a fairly recent story) that I could not submit a response to a/. story that was just barely 2 weeks old because the article had already been "archived" and would not allow for any more postings.
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WTF? So someone who cares enough to follow an interesting story and may have something very on-point to contribute can't add anything? If they're worried about spammers, they could limit additions to articles greater than a few days old to higher-karma posters or to logged in posters only (allowing them anonymity as needed), but just outright denying them access to post?
What if I'd missed reading/. for a few days and was just browsing back day by day and found something interesting? It's sad, but I have to agree with your conclusion that these threads are only good for a couple of days.
Thanks for the pointer to that "Yes, Minister" clip. That is exactly the scene I was thinking of! The scary part seems to be that much of politics probably plays out the same way even today. The rest of the episode is amazing, and there's pretty much something to learn (at least for me) in every episode of that series. And something in every episode is "spot on" relevant to politics in SD at the city level, or CA at the state level, or the USA at the national level.
Consider the crazy spam we get now with just textual and visual and auditory messages. Can you imagine the kind of crap that could be sent with olfactory, taste, and touch senses added to that?
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``My god, it's made up of sensory stimuli!''
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And what craziness would ensue for those who has cross-sensory transference known as synesthesia.
People with synesthesia have abnormal but recurring cross-sensory stimulus associations, such as the letter L being associated with the color pink, or a certain musical note having a particular flavor associated with it. It's not the color of noise electrical engineers and audio people talk about with white noise or pink noise, but colorful noise as in noise inciting color stimuli centers in the brain. Muy cool. But I would hate to receive cross sensory spam.
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And I'm thinking that there are some science fiction stories that talk about attack advertisements that sneak up on you. Perhaps Philip K Dick, but a girlfriend says perhaps Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison, instead. Anyone know for sure?
Click on their Test Me link to see how much information your browser gives away, and how well you could be tracked even if you opt-out of cookies, and tracking, and Flash cookies, and use Ghostery etc. A lot of your identifying information leaks out anyway.
Opt in is the right way to do this sort of tracking or marketing to, but the problem with the opt-in is that then they'd get no takers. It's the same reason that MS did so well by bundling IE into the OS: people stick with the default option and do not change things.
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It's the same way that political polls and statisticians can lie with numbers: you can ask the same question in ways that can "force" or "prompt" a particular answer. (See also episodes of Yes, Prime Minister for examples.
Relevant to this is how the US Code defines militia in terms of the United States:
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The current United States Code, Title 10 (Armed forces), section 311 (Militia: Composition and Classes), paragraph (a) states: "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_States)#Twentieth_century_and_current
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Thus every male over the age of 18 and under 45 in the USA is a member of the militia of the USA, along with all female citizens who are members of the National Guard. This destroys the ambiguity, or adds to it, doesn't it? We just don't hear it that often, but every male USA-ian of the proper draft-able age is a member of the militia, and thus by suffix extension, also a militant.
2 - MS creates IE, and charges for it, but no one buys it because it sucked.
3 - MS, still wanting browser market share, starts giving away IE for free. People continue to use Netscape.
4 - MS bundles IE with Windows and forbids OEMs from adding an alternative browser. Some people switch to IE because it saves them the download step.
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re 2: MS ``created'' IE by licensing it from Spyglass Software which had license the NCSA Mosaic code from NCSA. Microsoft did not charge for it; in fact, Microsoft specifically gave IE away in order to screw Spyglass. Their contract with Spyglass called for MS to pay royalties of a percentage of revenue earned for Internet Explorer. MS screwed them by bundling and giving away IE with the OS, thus making it possible to say that IE earned NO revenue and thus MS owed Spyglass NO royalty payments. Spyglass had to take them to court to ultimately settle for just $8M(us dollars). MSIE continued to acknowledge Spyglass as its code base right up to IE-7.
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re 3 MS always gave IE away for free.
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re 4 You are correct about that, and about your following items too.
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It's too easy to forget all of the things that Microsoft has done in the past.
Don't forget how Microsoft screwed Spyglass software by licensing Spyglass' version of NCSA Mosaic (which Spyglass had licensed from NCSA) and promising them a royalty on all revenue, and then giving it away for free (bundling it), thus making the revenue on IE equal to zero dollars and thus no royalty due at all.
(ref: see wikipedia page on Spyglass and the browser wars' casualties)
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In 1995, Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass as the basis of Internet Explorer 1.0, which was released as an add-on to Windows 95 in the Microsoft Plus! software package. The deal stipulated that Spyglass would receive a base quarterly fee for the Mosaic license plus a royalty from Microsoft's Internet Explorer revenue.
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And that's the other screwing by bundling / unbundling / re-arranging revenues and expenses so as to maximise one's own profit and minimize giving any money to others. If you're shaking hands with microsofties, count your fingers afterwards! (and check for your watch, too!)
Questions now are raised as to why the Port Authority's $100 million Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS), loaded up with closed-circuit cameras and motion sensors, failed completely, and how a man can walk such a distance unnoticed.
This is not JFK Airport's first perimeter breach, however. In early 2009, a trio of boaters ran ashore at the airport, wandered across a runway and showed up at the Port Authority Police rescue station themselves. They had become lost in their inflatable fishing raft during a storm.
Former NYPD veteran and former MTA deputy security director told ABC News âoeI think he should be given dinner and a bottle of champagne for showing us our faults,â but after a 3-mile swim, breaching an airport perimeter and a 2-mile walk in heavy, wet clothes, perhaps he should be given a trophy and a Navy SEAL Trident as well.
and clickable
magnet linky
seriously, a tracker at tracker . i stole . it ???
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This link provided in the same capacity that the New York Times provides links in a newsy-informative-way, and not in a these-breadcrumbs-lead-to-anything-you-shouldnot-see kind of way. It's like a binocular closeup view of what you would have seen had you been able to follow the link in the parent post. Are we paranoid enough yet?
True about the rhyming, and "Nachtmusik" didn't rhyme either. And I don't think we want to be pahking any coops in Hahvahd Yahd, though maybe you could put the coops in/near the Hahvahd Coop.
Universities and independent inventors that do not want to patent (and therefore prevent anybody else from implementing) ideas should not be forced to protect anything
I think you're mistaken. Under the current rules of "first to invent", one may invent but must have filed within one year of the first presentation of that invention/concept in a public forum/journal. Exposing the concept and not having the patent application in place invalidates your patent application if it is not filed within that year. In that case, no one can patent that idea, as it exists as prior art. But since there is not a patent on it, there is no one to enforce that patent and stop people from using that invention.
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Under the new to be approach in the USA of first to file, being the first to invent and having the log books and documentation to prove that you were the first to invent will have no benefit at all. You have to be the first to file. Thus, if an idiot exposes an idea without getting a patent application in beforehand, too fuckin' bad; someone else can become the first to file and become the official patent holder and patent owner. In this case, a university academic or anyone else who deigns to not want a patent and exposes an idea without patenting it is just a schmuck who didn't take the available money and has put out candy for someone to steal.
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IADNALNAPA (i am definitely not a lawyer, nor a patent attorney), so anyone with real legal-eagle-ness can correct my misunderstanding of the situation.
Yeah, but look at what's happened in the past when NASA has used an external hosting system and the bonkers automated copyright enforcement bots:
The copyright bots have tagged the NASA streams+videos (and possibly the NASA stills also, though I don't recall hearing about that happening) as being the copyright infringers even though NASA was the original producer of the content, the Scripps news service (which copied the NASA stream) was able to initiate and conclude an automated takedown of the NASA stream by claiming copyright infringement.
Similar inaccurate DMCA takedown notices have occurred in the past. Thus, the wisdom of hosting your own videos means that you are not the mercy/whim of idiots like Google and Flickr who willingly accept bot declarations of copyright infringement and takedown non-infringing original content submitted by the original creators of that content.
Two other scenarios where similar things are done to escape liability and the ability to be sued while making sure to retain the profits as maximally as possible (second-hand FOAF's-parents' business whinings overheard about not being able to sue or losing money in investments):
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-- Land / real-estate developers form limited-time-extent limited liability corporations to buy the land and other LLCs to develop it and pay each other fees (to maximise profits). As soon as the last house is built, a shell corporation may be formed to hold onto control of the home-owners association / condominium association until the first meeting where the home-owners/condo-owners elect their own board and take over. Then, it's like Keyser Soh-zay (sp?), poof, they vanish like they never existed. And in terms of corporate-person-hood, they no longer do exist to be sued or sue-able. So when the home-owners find out that there was shoddy construction and other problems, there's no one to sue or to recover damages from. Egregious e.g., Trump, claims to make money, licenses his name to skyscraper apartments as in San Diego downtown, burns his losses in bankruptcy, and writes another book about how to become a real estate millionaire. (my tldr opinion for his book: steal other peoples' money is how to become a millionaire in real estate)
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Hollywood-movie-productions - even though there's a production company, there will be a limited time extent corporation formed for each film made so that consulting fees and production fees and lease fees can be paid to the shell companies owned by the profit-takers, while the idiots who signed on to finance and receive a share of profits also lose out. (Hint, always get gross points, net points are for chumps and chimps)
Also, all of the cameras / lenses / production equipment used on set is all highly-insured and always seem to be "damaged beyond repair" during filming (or most conveniently, at the end of filming.)
And then don't forget about the idiots who signed on for a cut of the "net profits" which
Hollywood Accounting shows never exist: no movies in the history of hollywood after a certain year has ever shown a profit. After you put in all the consulting fees and promotion fees, etc, even Forrest Gump and the Star W*rs franchises never officially made any profit at all!
Actually, even browser preferences and bookmarks can be synced to a website (even if you don't have a Chromebook) with firefox addons. So even the browser preferences don't have to be a loss if you lose the hardware.
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I've got a lot of specifics in by firefox setup and I hate it when I liveboot and need to reconfigure all my browser specs and reinstall all my addons, so I personally have a couple of preset settings for my iceweasel preferences that I keep saved as tar.bz2 files on my live-boot Knoppix usb-stick:
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I generated the pref-tars in my home directory with
tar c.mozilla | bzip2 > m.tar.bz2
and have a setup.sh file called at boot-up which cd's to the home directory and runs
tar xvjf/path-to-stick/prefs/m.tar.bz2
There's no reason that you couldn't back up your browserprefs.tar.bz2
file somewhere on a server.
Even sadder is that you comment is currently modded down to a score of (-1) currently! I completely agree with you that this is a good hard-core tech topic and I'd like it if there were more comments and conversation on this board. It makes no sense to have your comment modded down when you are definitely on point about this... If I had moderator points, I'd mod your comment back up to the living.
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At least the SSL article has over 100 posts on it, but the
21st IOCCC Source Code Released article also only has 22 posts on it. Either this means coders are actually out on Friday and Saturday nights (not zehr likely;>) ) or the population at this watering hole is not what it purports to be...
Why couldn't they get the winner to provide a text, or LaTeX, or PDF, or even HTML version of their talk/speech, and make it easier to visually scan and re-read, rather than worry about lame encoder/video/flash/html5 issues and plug-ins?
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You'd think a society like the ACM could know and use computing machinery, wouldn't you, or is that expecting too much in this world? And you'd think that people on/. would be all over this topic, whereas there are NO comments rated over (or even AT) 2 points currently (9:40 PM PDT, 2012-10-20 Saturday in California).
The little details I remember noticing that aren't mentioned that often again are:
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Zimmerman's father was formerly a judge (retired from being a magistrate in Virginia) who knew the police chief in the town of Sanford. That may have been a key factor in G. Zimmerman not being charged as he brought up the "stand your ground defense". Zimmerman was brought in to the police station and interrogated for at least 5 hours [according to the wikipedia page and a few orlando sentinel stories]:
EMTs treated Zimmerman at the scene, after which he was taken to the Sanford Police Department. Zimmerman was detained and questioned for approximately five hours.[17][18][19] He was then released without being charged;...
It may mostly be a thin-blue line encompassing judges and former judges that just wasn't able to hold because of all of the publicity which ensued.
VHS tapes are pretty much the same way. Take out the screws, flip the case, remove covering half, et la voila. Every piece in the interior can be taken out one by one (mostly) by lifting straight up, and reassembly just requires reversing the sequence. The only jig-zig is to thread the tape around the spools/capstans correctly. Then all of the pieces are locked in place with the grooves and recesses built into the plastic interior of the half-case-cover. (Had to do this to fix my mother's VHS tape of some early 1990's TV show!) It's a fun project to see all of the little locking mechanisms in place to keep the tape winding in one direction only unless the pin is pressed into the hole correctly. Many cool springs and little axle pieces that can be lost easily, and it's cool that you can buy one for less than a buck and have half-an-hour of fun taking it apart and putting it back together.
Slashdot Mirror
nerd herds:: That kind of arrogance and belief in superiority of your "own tribe" is also a part of herd behaviour , where people in a group can act without preplanning and the kind of bullying behaviour that is re-inforced by being part of a pack, though there is no specific article about pack behaviour. So I would think it would definitely also occur in a herd of nerds, and where do they congregate? Often at university.
Therefore, although she was indeed physically helpless in the ordinary sense of the term, she was not physically helpless for purposes of the statute.), and State v. Bucknell, 144 Wn. App. 524, 529â"30, 183 P.3d 1078 (2008)
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There also seems to be a bizarre point about whether or not the victim had been taught any sexual information in the sense that if they didn't know about it how could they deny consent for it? Would that be the break that would allow the rape of children who had not yet been taught the facts of life and/or were brought up to respect authority?
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re "However Slashdot threads are only good for 2 days anyway so I won't find it before everyone leaves anyway", I agree with you. It's annoying because I found (through a backlink from a reply to my comment to another comment to a fairly recent story) that I could not submit a response to a /. story that was just barely 2 weeks old because the article had already been "archived" and would not allow for any more postings.
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WTF? So someone who cares enough to follow an interesting story and may have something very on-point to contribute can't add anything? If they're worried about spammers, they could limit additions to articles greater than a few days old to higher-karma posters or to logged in posters only (allowing them anonymity as needed), but just outright denying them access to post?
What if I'd missed reading /. for a few days and was just browsing back day by day and found something interesting? It's sad, but I have to agree with your conclusion that these threads are only good for a couple of days.
Thanks for the pointer to that "Yes, Minister" clip. That is exactly the scene I was thinking of! The scary part seems to be that much of politics probably plays out the same way even today. The rest of the episode is amazing, and there's pretty much something to learn (at least for me) in every episode of that series. And something in every episode is "spot on" relevant to politics in SD at the city level, or CA at the state level, or the USA at the national level.
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``My god, it's made up of sensory stimuli!''
.
And what craziness would ensue for those who has cross-sensory transference known as synesthesia.
People with synesthesia have abnormal but recurring cross-sensory stimulus associations, such as the letter L being associated with the color pink, or a certain musical note having a particular flavor associated with it. It's not the color of noise electrical engineers and audio people talk about with white noise or pink noise, but colorful noise as in noise inciting color stimuli centers in the brain. Muy cool. But I would hate to receive cross sensory spam.
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And I'm thinking that there are some science fiction stories that talk about attack advertisements that sneak up on you. Perhaps Philip K Dick, but a girlfriend says perhaps Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison, instead. Anyone know for sure?
- the details and specificity of your browser of choice as indicated by your browser agent,
- your browser settings,
- your screen real estate in pixels,
- your system fonts,
- your browser plug-ins,
- and the content of your HTTP_ACCEPT headers,
- your time-zone,
- and your javascript-abilities. My browser as set gives out 18.43 bits of identifying information as calculated by the EFF at
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https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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Click on their Test Me link to see how much information your browser gives away, and how well you could be tracked even if you opt-out of cookies, and tracking, and Flash cookies, and use Ghostery etc. A lot of your identifying information leaks out anyway.
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It's the same way that political polls and statisticians can lie with numbers: you can ask the same question in ways that can "force" or "prompt" a particular answer. (See also episodes of Yes, Prime Minister for examples.
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The current United States Code, Title 10 (Armed forces), section 311 (Militia: Composition and Classes), paragraph (a) states: "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_States)#Twentieth_century_and_current
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Thus every male over the age of 18 and under 45 in the USA is a member of the militia of the USA, along with all female citizens who are members of the National Guard. This destroys the ambiguity, or adds to it, doesn't it? We just don't hear it that often, but every male USA-ian of the proper draft-able age is a member of the militia, and thus by suffix extension, also a militant.
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re :
2 - MS creates IE, and charges for it, but no one buys it because it sucked.
3 - MS, still wanting browser market share, starts giving away IE for free. People continue to use Netscape.
4 - MS bundles IE with Windows and forbids OEMs from adding an alternative browser. Some people switch to IE because it saves them the download step.
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re 2: MS ``created'' IE by licensing it from Spyglass Software which had license the NCSA Mosaic code from NCSA. Microsoft did not charge for it; in fact, Microsoft specifically gave IE away in order to screw Spyglass. Their contract with Spyglass called for MS to pay royalties of a percentage of revenue earned for Internet Explorer. MS screwed them by bundling and giving away IE with the OS, thus making it possible to say that IE earned NO revenue and thus MS owed Spyglass NO royalty payments. Spyglass had to take them to court to ultimately settle for just $8M(us dollars). MSIE continued to acknowledge Spyglass as its code base right up to IE-7.
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re 3 MS always gave IE away for free.
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re 4 You are correct about that, and about your following items too.
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It's too easy to forget all of the things that Microsoft has done in the past.
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In 1995, Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass as the basis of Internet Explorer 1.0, which was released as an add-on to Windows 95 in the Microsoft Plus! software package. The deal stipulated that Spyglass would receive a base quarterly fee for the Mosaic license plus a royalty from Microsoft's Internet Explorer revenue.
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And that's the other screwing by bundling / unbundling / re-arranging revenues and expenses so as to maximise one's own profit and minimize giving any money to others. If you're shaking hands with microsofties, count your fingers afterwards! (and check for your watch, too!)
Jet Skier Breaches JFK Airport Perimeter, Wanders to Terminal 3 Undetected
Questions now are raised as to why the Port Authority's $100 million Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS), loaded up with closed-circuit cameras and motion sensors, failed completely, and how a man can walk such a distance unnoticed. This is not JFK Airport's first perimeter breach, however. In early 2009, a trio of boaters ran ashore at the airport, wandered across a runway and showed up at the Port Authority Police rescue station themselves. They had become lost in their inflatable fishing raft during a storm.
Former NYPD veteran and former MTA deputy security director told ABC News âoeI think he should be given dinner and a bottle of champagne for showing us our faults,â but after a 3-mile swim, breaching an airport perimeter and a 2-mile walk in heavy, wet clothes, perhaps he should be given a trophy and a Navy SEAL Trident as well.
Don't you mean a Ctrl-Alt-F7 away? At least, that how I change between x-server windows on Debian...
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the bits on the token-ring go round-and-round... zoom-n-zoom... round-n-round...
the bits on the token-ring go whoosh-and-whoosh... 'til you give up the to-ken!
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and clickable magnet linky seriously, a tracker at tracker . i stole . it ???
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This link provided in the same capacity that the New York Times provides links in a newsy-informative-way, and not in a these-breadcrumbs-lead-to-anything-you-shouldnot-see kind of way. It's like a binocular closeup view of what you would have seen had you been able to follow the link in the parent post. Are we paranoid enough yet?
True about the rhyming, and "Nachtmusik" didn't rhyme either. And I don't think we want to be pahking any coops in Hahvahd Yahd, though maybe you could put the coops in/near the Hahvahd Coop.
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eine kleine Volierendraht should take care of it!
I will NAK that as a joke....
Universities and independent inventors that do not want to patent (and therefore prevent anybody else from implementing) ideas should not be forced to protect anything
I think you're mistaken. Under the current rules of "first to invent", one may invent but must have filed within one year of the first presentation of that invention/concept in a public forum/journal. Exposing the concept and not having the patent application in place invalidates your patent application if it is not filed within that year. In that case, no one can patent that idea, as it exists as prior art. But since there is not a patent on it, there is no one to enforce that patent and stop people from using that invention.
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Under the new to be approach in the USA of first to file, being the first to invent and having the log books and documentation to prove that you were the first to invent will have no benefit at all. You have to be the first to file. Thus, if an idiot exposes an idea without getting a patent application in beforehand, too fuckin' bad; someone else can become the first to file and become the official patent holder and patent owner. In this case, a university academic or anyone else who deigns to not want a patent and exposes an idea without patenting it is just a schmuck who didn't take the available money and has put out candy for someone to steal.
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IADNALNAPA (i am definitely not a lawyer, nor a patent attorney), so anyone with real legal-eagle-ness can correct my misunderstanding of the situation.
The copyright bots have tagged the NASA streams+videos (and possibly the NASA stills also, though I don't recall hearing about that happening) as being the copyright infringers even though NASA was the original producer of the content, the Scripps news service (which copied the NASA stream) was able to initiate and conclude an automated takedown of the NASA stream by claiming copyright infringement.
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The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords
Similar inaccurate DMCA takedown notices have occurred in the past. Thus, the wisdom of hosting your own videos means that you are not the mercy/whim of idiots like Google and Flickr who willingly accept bot declarations of copyright infringement and takedown non-infringing original content submitted by the original creators of that content.
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-- Land / real-estate developers form limited-time-extent limited liability corporations to buy the land and other LLCs to develop it and pay each other fees (to maximise profits). As soon as the last house is built, a shell corporation may be formed to hold onto control of the home-owners association / condominium association until the first meeting where the home-owners/condo-owners elect their own board and take over. Then, it's like Keyser Soh-zay (sp?), poof, they vanish like they never existed. And in terms of corporate-person-hood, they no longer do exist to be sued or sue-able. So when the home-owners find out that there was shoddy construction and other problems, there's no one to sue or to recover damages from. Egregious e.g., Trump, claims to make money, licenses his name to skyscraper apartments as in San Diego downtown, burns his losses in bankruptcy, and writes another book about how to become a real estate millionaire. (my tldr opinion for his book: steal other peoples' money is how to become a millionaire in real estate)
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Hollywood-movie-productions - even though there's a production company, there will be a limited time extent corporation formed for each film made so that consulting fees and production fees and lease fees can be paid to the shell companies owned by the profit-takers, while the idiots who signed on to finance and receive a share of profits also lose out. (Hint, always get gross points, net points are for chumps and chimps)
Also, all of the cameras / lenses / production equipment used on set is all highly-insured and always seem to be "damaged beyond repair" during filming (or most conveniently, at the end of filming.)
And then don't forget about the idiots who signed on for a cut of the "net profits" which Hollywood Accounting shows never exist: no movies in the history of hollywood after a certain year has ever shown a profit. After you put in all the consulting fees and promotion fees, etc, even Forrest Gump and the Star W*rs franchises never officially made any profit at all!
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I've got a lot of specifics in by firefox setup and I hate it when I liveboot and need to reconfigure all my browser specs and reinstall all my addons, so I personally have a couple of preset settings for my iceweasel preferences that I keep saved as tar.bz2 files on my live-boot Knoppix usb-stick:
.
I generated the pref-tars in my home directory with
tar c .mozilla | bzip2 > m.tar.bz2
and have a setup.sh file called at boot-up which cd's to the home directory and runs
tar xvjf /path-to-stick/prefs/m.tar.bz2
There's no reason that you couldn't back up your browserprefs.tar.bz2 file somewhere on a server.
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At least the SSL article has over 100 posts on it, but the 21st IOCCC Source Code Released article also only has 22 posts on it. Either this means coders are actually out on Friday and Saturday nights (not zehr likely ;>) ) or the population at this watering hole is not what it purports to be...
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Why couldn't they get the winner to provide a text, or LaTeX, or PDF, or even HTML version of their talk/speech, and make it easier to visually scan and re-read, rather than worry about lame encoder/video/flash/html5 issues and plug-ins?
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You'd think a society like the ACM could know and use computing machinery, wouldn't you, or is that expecting too much in this world? And you'd think that people on /. would be all over this topic, whereas there are NO comments rated over (or even AT) 2 points currently (9:40 PM PDT, 2012-10-20 Saturday in California).
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Zimmerman's father was formerly a judge (retired from being a magistrate in Virginia) who knew the police chief in the town of Sanford. That may have been a key factor in G. Zimmerman not being charged as he brought up the "stand your ground defense". Zimmerman was brought in to the police station and interrogated for at least 5 hours [according to the wikipedia page and a few orlando sentinel stories]:
EMTs treated Zimmerman at the scene, after which he was taken to the Sanford Police Department. Zimmerman was detained and questioned for approximately five hours.[17][18][19] He was then released without being charged;...
It may mostly be a thin-blue line encompassing judges and former judges that just wasn't able to hold because of all of the publicity which ensued.
;>)
--giatb