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  1. Re:End Predicted on Gaming Crash up Ahead · · Score: 2
    • End of Fossil Fuels (1975: Club of Rome)
    • End of Fossil Fuel Electric Plants (fission power plants)
    • End of Invention (1800s: everything's been invented)
    • End of Theater (movies)
    • End of Musicians (sound recordings)
    • End of Writing (typewriter)
    • End of Coal Heating (oil)
    • End of Disease (penicillin)
    • End of Painting (photography)
    • End of Writing (printing press)
    • End of Wood Heating Shortages (coal)
    • End of The World (ongoing)
  2. Re:It's somewhere in case law, I guess on Fair Use And Game Mods? · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes, of course they're copyrighted. Any print, film, blahblahblah, is copyrighted whether registered or not. Of course Disney has plenty of registrations.

  3. End Predicted on Gaming Crash up Ahead · · Score: 3
    • Predictions:
    • Y2K
    • End of Internet (ongoing)
    • End of Usenet (bandwidth)
    • End of Email (UUCP routing map complexities)
    • End of Movies (videotape)
    • End of VHS (Betamax quality)
    • End of Movie Theaters (TV)
  4. 0.01571 inch on A Well-Chilled 750GHz Feasible Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    $ dc
    186000 5280 * 12 * p
    11784960000
    20 k
    750000000000 / p
    .01571328000000000000
    q
    So 0.1571 inch is the distance light travels in a vacuum; I don't know about the speed in these materials.

  5. Re:It's somewhere in case law, I guess on Fair Use And Game Mods? · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, for "Field" select the "Owner Name and Address" and search for Walt Disney. Gee, look at all those entries.

  6. Re:It's somewhere in case law, I guess on Fair Use And Game Mods? · · Score: 1
    "I've heard many times that characters (e.g. Mickey Mouse, Batman, etc) are copyrighted. Not trademarked, but copyrighted."

    Maybe that is not true, even if someone said it. Go search the Trademark database for Mickey Mouse.

  7. Re:Nethack Mod... on Fair Use And Game Mods? · · Score: 1
    What did you have in mind -- letting people shoot letters out of an image of the Nethack license? Sounds like that would be illegal indeed.

    "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license, but changing it is not allowed."

  8. Definitely Not on Fair Use And Game Mods? · · Score: 5
    No, you can make whatever you want for your personal enjoyment. You're infringing on copyright as soon as you let a copy out of your personal computers or an image from it hits someone else's eyeballs.

    Warner Brothers has the copyright on the Animaniacs cartoon characters. Any representation of them is protected, except for "fair use". Just because you produce something which WB has not does not let you use their images. And you can't use your own drawings of Animaniacs cartoon characters any more than you can use wooden hand-carved renditions of Disney's mermaid as a fish restaurant logo...not without permission.

    Of course, if you happen to independently create cartoon characters which happen to bear a coincidental similarity to Animaniacs then it's a different matter. But juries and art critics get to decide such issues, so an artist unlucky enough to have created similar creatures would probably try to create different ones instead.

  9. Re:Public domain? on Read To Your Children, Go To Jail (Not Really) · · Score: 1
    They might have changed a few things (such as some "does not" to "doesn't") so they can tell if you're reading from their version. Or perhaps by comparing pauses in your reading to their page breaks.

    Mapmakers and mailing list creators often make similar alterations for copyright protection -- in the case of maps, by adding false streets or altering the length of streets; in the case of mailing lists by adding fake addresses and addresses to mailboxes which the mailing list creators own.

  10. You Are Not A Member on Why Language Advocacy is Bad · · Score: 4
    The Slashdot Tribe is voting you out.

    (I wonder in how many years will "vote out of tribe" not be recognizable in the same way that "drink the Kool-Aid" is not recognizable by people who don't know the news story behind it)

  11. Re:Where's the beef? on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 3

    It reads as if a gamer wrote it. One who is a team player that shares strategies or cheats with others, not a loner who figures out the game on her own. Apparently writtein by one who assumes that all gamers are like themselves.

  12. IE Danger on L0pht Joins MS As BUGTRAQ Outcasts · · Score: 2
    With MS's site, there is another danger: It can stop working for browsers other than IE.

    There already are assorted non-IE irritants scattered throughout the site, and a month ago the main page went blank for two weeks with my Netscape version (due to bad Javascript in the Netscape-oriented page). They're already not supporting Netscape well, and if they made IE their only supported browser then things can easily break.

  13. User Friendly on How Can Marketing And Techies Best Work Together? · · Score: 1

    Be sure to have a cartoonist hang around and document the interaction.

  14. Squeaky Wheel on Credit Card Database Stolen -- 4 Months Ago · · Score: 2

    We only hear about problems. We don't hear when things work correctly. We also don't know how many people do actually rattle doorknobs at Amazon, much less how many Amazon stomps on while it continues working.

  15. Re:of hitting someone? on NASA's Odds For Iridium De-Orbit Casualties · · Score: 1

    I can fit 250 people in my yard, therefore I was guaranteed to have a piece of an Iridium satellite. If it were one of the first satellites, I'd auction it off quickly -- before everyone in the neighborhood got their pieces.

  16. World In Texas on NASA's Odds For Iridium De-Orbit Casualties · · Score: 1
    You can do the math. Look up the current numbers.

    • World Population 5988070000
    • Square feet in Texas 7.30174e+12
    • Square feet per person 1219.38
    • Square miles in Texas 261914
    • Square feet per square mile 27878400
    • Square feet in Texas 7.30174e+12
  17. Tiny Thickness on Intel Creates 30-Nanometer Transistors · · Score: 2

    The description only mentions the thickness, not how wide or long these transistors must be. Perhaps they can build them sideways where they need to fit a lot of them together.

  18. CHEE-ops on Could Tesla's Broadcast Power System Work? · · Score: 2
    Well, I didn't think Tesla's system broadcast in the upper atmosphere. I thought it was a ground wave system, which he hoped to give long range by tuning to the "right" frequency. Well, you can pull power from the sky right now with a diode-based AM receiver ("crystal radio").

    However, I've heard that systems like that are not compatible with wired societies, nor ones using metal-framed structures. Blasting electromagnetic pulses across the countryside will produce a lot of heating and sparks....and never mind your TV and radio reception, because those towers will cross far too many different levels of potential.

  19. Enterprise Commuting on Linux Support For The Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Commuting to the Enterprise involves catching an arrestor cable, and a catapult launch in the evening.

  20. Re:I would say 'not yet' on Linux Support For The Enterprise? · · Score: 1
    If you've got 90,000 computers (or 900) you're not going to depend on Usenet. You hire some in-house staff, and you also buy a support contract so you also have access to a wider pool of expertise.

    I've used many operating systems. With SCO Xenix and Microsoft Windows, all you could do was report a bug and hope they eventually fixed it. With CDC Kronos and Linux, you at least have the source and have the option to throw resources at the problem and try to fix it yourself (whether the "resources" are in-house or external). [Well, with Xenix you also could work around some non-OS system problems by replacing system programs such as getty]

  21. Re:It's not as good on BugTraq No Longer Able To Publish MS Security UPDATED · · Score: 2

    The text on the Microsoft sites can change at any time, so a link to text makes comments about the remote page unstable. The page being linked to can change in ways which change the meaning of the BugTraq information. The actual text being referred to is necessary, particularly with the obtuse phrasing which Microsoft uses. (ie, bypassing server security with a non-Microsoft client is the fault of the client and not the server)

  22. It's not bunk on Power Shortages And Tech Industry · · Score: 2

    We haven't been building enough power plants. Look at capacity versus demand charts from whatever sources you want. The Bureau of the Census also has the info, but it's not as pretty.

  23. Re:Mister House on Wired Homes of the Rich · · Score: 1

    Nice.

  24. Re:Seriously? on Wired Homes of the Rich · · Score: 2
    ...starving college students like myself...

    Why are you spending all that money at your school instead of feeding yourself and other hungry people?

  25. Re:Money could be used for better things on Wired Homes of the Rich · · Score: 2

    Alaska is for people who are freezing for a reason, or who like freezing.