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  1. Re:Only in America... on Is Law Copyrighted? · · Score: 1

    Woman: "Here's a copy of my GPL'ed laws, and you'll note that my version specifies that Speed Limit signs are in units of MilliParsecs per Hour. I was well under that speed."

  2. This Conversation Is Illegal on Is Law Copyrighted? · · Score: 2

    And because the DCMA makes it illegal to break a protection system, any part of this conversation about changing this copyrighted law is illegal.

  3. Relevant on Questioning C-14 Dating · · Score: 1
    As you said, C14 is of interest for dating organic matter. That's all it can be used for, so this is relevant to that.

    Notice, however, that they specifically suspect that a supernova shock wave could have caused what they measured. I assume that their literature search revealed the 35 kyr-old Be-10 anomalies, which probably were caused by a supernova shockwave. Indeed, footnote 4 (page 17 of PostScript paper) of "Geological Isotope Anomalies as Signatures of Nearby Supernovae" refers to Raisbeck finding a rise in the C14/C12 ratio during the period of this stalagmite study.

  4. Re:Plastic on Miracles Of The Next Fifty Years, As Of 1950 · · Score: 1

    Ecological disaster? How is a flexible rock more disastrous than the 100 km of rock that we're living on? Are there highways with "Watch For Falling Plastic" signs?

  5. Re:Where is my flying car? on Miracles Of The Next Fifty Years, As Of 1950 · · Score: 2

    Your Moller flying car is being tested in the lab now. (Notice the "update" link at the top of the page)

  6. Flying Messages on Miracles Of The Next Fifty Years, As Of 1950 · · Score: 2

    He predicted a decrease in messenger/telegraph services due to high-speed transportation such as jet planes, and the proliferation of fax machines. He missed the jet-plane-caused overnight messenger/package services, and the GPS-map-equipped wireless-dispatched messenger services.

  7. Expensive Flame on Anti Spam Bills Continue · · Score: 2
    "a $500 is to light"

    You use a $500 bill to light things on fire? That's a little expensive.

  8. Intrusive Rock on Molehill Mountain Detected From Space · · Score: 1

    If magma is causing the bulge, it may not "sink back". If all it does is cool and harden, it just becomes a layer of intrusive rock.

  9. Hope It's Not A Caldera on Molehill Mountain Detected From Space · · Score: 1

    Well, if it's a caldera we'll all want to be in Florida. Everyone this side of Europe will be displeased to be downwind of such a mess. At least with a caldera there should be a lot more warning activity than what's been seen at this site.

  10. Re:Eruption from beginning to end? on Molehill Mountain Detected From Space · · Score: 1
    The article states that this is the first time that a ground movement like this has been detected. I wonder how many radar images were created and studied before this one was discovered.

    As another reply mentions, there have been many studies of assorted other earth motions in the past. Assorted sophisticated equipment has been scattered across California and Japan for decades, along with active volcanic areas. Indeed, one of the deaths at Mount St. Helens was David A. Johnston who had taken laser measurements 90 minutes earlier. Two geologists were flying overhead when the eruption began.

  11. Re:Professionalism on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 2
    Unauthorized access to a machine is often illegal.

    It might be entertaining to include on your company web page: "Clients Who Passed Our Weekly Security Scan: <counter> Potential Clients Who Failed Our Scan: <counter>".

    Unfortunately you can't do that.

  12. Re:Nifty on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    Actually, when I programmed the quadratic formula solution I learned it better than before I did so. I had to internalize the process in order to know how to tell the computer how to do it.

  13. Calculators Allowed on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1
    Calculators are banned at your school, or at least in the classes which you've taken so far. Some other schools allow them for various courses. They're always banned where you have to show that you know how to do a calculation -- if you only have to show that you know how to solve a problem then they are sometimes allowed.

    An introductory statistics course may require you to manually calculate "8!" to answer a probability question. But an advanced course might allow calculators for solving the same calculations -- because at that level the challenge probably is to realize that a certain probability calculation is required, and the actual calculation is a detail.

    Various schools have various policies.

  14. Neural Net Blocking on AOL Introduces Neural-Net Content Filtering · · Score: 1

    But because AOL Neural Net Blocking is stopping people from reading about neural nets, most people will not know what the Neural Nets are doing.

  15. So you wanna be an Internet Service Provider (ISP) on On Starting a Successful ISP? · · Score: 1
    Particularly in Australia, you surely want to read "So you wanna be an Internet Service Provider (ISP)". Those not in Australia will also find it very informative.

    Then open up a spreadsheet and figure out the financials yourself.

  16. Re:Maxwell's Equations on What Formula Would You Tattoo? · · Score: 2

    "Excuse me, my shoe phone is ringing..."

  17. Spoiled Rotten on Review: The Mummy Returns · · Score: 3
    "...dessicated...embalming...SPOILAGE WARNING."

    You mean the spoiled prince is rotten? Did he ferment, or only break down?

  18. Decrypting System on Digital Display Encryption Details Leaked · · Score: 2
    Just make a decrypting system: A camera pointed at a view-inhibited monitor.

    [I suppose this post violates the DCMA because it describes a system to break a protection method.]

  19. All Your Network Are... on Networked MAME - Kaillera · · Score: 1

    OK, so now there can be a networked live view of "All Your Base Are..."?

  20. Re:Old news on A Wireless Revolution From The Garage · · Score: 2

    Well, it does say he's been working on it for decades, so some of us have heard of it. Assorted info in the field can be found in aGoogle search "wideband+pulses".

  21. Re:Microsoft blurs definitions on MS VP Speech Online · · Score: 1
    Another example of Microsoft blurring definitions was in its reallocating for itself a chunk of characters. Now the MS proprietary character set leaks out of its applications to where it does not belong. If you read the exec's speech with a non-MS browser you see garbage characters scattered about, mainly expressed as question marks where apostrophes belong.

    So one thing which MS is giving away is question marks.

  22. Re:LCD Eyepiece on Forget the Palm - Give Me The Finger · · Score: 1
    Well, you actually can already buy a little box with an eyepiece that you hold to your eye when you want to see the display. There are computers that you could fit in a slightly larger box.

    Of course, if this were finger-sized then you could hold and view a handful of computers at the same time...

  23. Re:Computer for the masses. on Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer: The Simputer · · Score: 1

    SimVapor

  24. Re:$5 110 Punchdown on RJ45/11 Crimpers & Punchdown Tools for the Road? · · Score: 1

    Let's ignore the article and just look at the headline where it says "and Punchdown Tools".

  25. My Examples on Report From The 2600 Appeal Hearing · · Score: 3
    1. Why and how is a computer program expressive speech?

    How about the "Obfuscated C Contest" entries? Some are expressive in creative ways. Some are expressive in the representation of their code, some are more expressive in their results, some in both.

    2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form?

    I'd like to be able to copy my DVD collection to the next generation of media. Any DVDs which I own I should be able to view even if DVD players no longer exist. Ten or twenty years from now all my DVD players will be broken and I won't be able to buy a replacement because everyone will be using different technology.