If I have a used car with a blue book value of $2,000, and you want to purchase it, and I refuse to sell it for less than $3,000, have I done something wrong? No; it's my damn property, and you're free to not buy it.
However, if you're a car dealer, and your cars are 50% more expensive than the cars from the dealer across the street, you will soon find yourself out of business. The situation the telcos are in now is that they have legislation saying every car dealer in town has to buy cars from them, at whatever prices they set.
It's a trade off, like everything else. No-one wants their street dug up every week by dozens of different phone, gas, electricity or cable companies, so we give one company a limited monopoly as a "reward" for putting in one set of infrastructure. Yes it's their copper. Yes, they paid to put it in. No, they can't charge whatever they want to use it, because that wasn't part of the deal.
I don't think we'll know until at least tomorrow. Remember, this thing is going to stay in propagation mode for another 18 days.
I checked my Apache logs first thing this morning - nothing. Since 3pm UTC I've had a couple (one from China, one from Korea) of hits (compared with 19 last time). Asking around the office of others with home web servers, this seems typical, per IP address.
It really doesn't matter what the GPL considers a derivative work. The question is what constitutes a derivative work in copyright law. I'm sure the FSF would love to be able to declare that dynamically linking to an object (e.g. COM, CORBA) constitutes a derivation, but unfortunately it's not so.
My experience with hotmail differs from his. I signed up for a homtail account before taking an extended overseas trip. The first time I checked my account I had 6 pornographic spams waiting for me.
handguns were used in 3,685 offences last year compared with 2,648 in 1997, an increase of 40 per cent Actually it's very slightly over 39%, but whatever.
It reveals an increase in crimes using shotguns [not banned], up from 580 in 1997 to 693 last year. That's 19%.
Offences involving air weapons [not banned] show an even more startling rise, from 7,506 in 1997 to 10,103 last year [2000]. That's
34%.
So, although the soundbite is "ban handguns, crime up 40%", the actual effect is an annual increase of between 2% and 7%. As a gun-hating liberal, I was quite surprised by this. If the gun-nuts used that number more people might listen to them. But instead they prefer to whip their supporters into a frenzy, while alienating people who can actually do math.
Actually, computerizing the voting process (be it in a polling place or over the internet) would actually help people who can't punch a hole in a card, because you could give them immediate feedback that they had spoiled their ballot. In my mind, the major problem with the Florida system was the lack of user feedback.
It doesn't matter if you're the copyright holder or not. Copyright does not allow you to tell me whether or not I can make a copy of your CD.
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right, the gravity does not affect the balance. But it does affect the loading on the "arms" of the structure. In lower gravity you can build longer, thinner arms.
Right, but you can print "this CD is not to be copied" all you want, and I will still ignore it because you are asserting a right you do not have.
Even Microsoft softens this position a little when they print "Do not make illegal copies of this disk" on their CDs. Thus throwing the whole issue of the legality of copying back up in the air.
I would far rather children were taught to share first, and get into the legal intricacies later.
This troll is so well fed it's obese! It also happens to be one I agree with.
Far from speaking for the world, you speak for the rational, non-porn-viewing portion of it, which is vanishingly small. If there weren't a lot of loud mouthed bigots out there telling him he couldn't look at pr0n, he wouldn't need our reassurance that it was OK.
I have submitted a large number of mindpixels to GAC (and verified ten times as many). I have yet to see it answer questions better than 50% of the time. In my more suspicious moments, I wonder if it's all a big hoax, and that there's just a random number generator underneath it. Sometimes I wonder if it will ever work. There seems to be a lot of natural language recognition work yet to be done.
However, if the engine ever does work, it will know quite a lot. Even if most of it is about pr0n.
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That's like giving everyone in the world a key to your house and getting angry when people you don't want in there come in anyway.
Actually, it's like leaving the door unlocked. I expect you to go away if I ignore you. If I go a step further and tell you to go away, I don't expect you to sell my address to a thousand of your mates who will knock on my door because they know I'm at home.
My phone number is in the phone book. That doesn't give everyone in the world the right to make collect calls to it (particularly not from Korea).
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If I have a used car with a blue book value of $2,000, and you want to purchase it, and I refuse to sell it for less than $3,000, have I done something wrong? No; it's my damn property, and you're free to not buy it.
However, if you're a car dealer, and your cars are 50% more expensive than the cars from the dealer across the street, you will soon find yourself out of business. The situation the telcos are in now is that they have legislation saying every car dealer in town has to buy cars from them, at whatever prices they set.
It's a trade off, like everything else. No-one wants their street dug up every week by dozens of different phone, gas, electricity or cable companies, so we give one company a limited monopoly as a "reward" for putting in one set of infrastructure. Yes it's their copper. Yes, they paid to put it in. No, they can't charge whatever they want to use it, because that wasn't part of the deal.
is to see who can drive the most traffic to a random PDF on the professor's website.
A+ for a slashdotting.
And of course the cost of healthcare has not risen at all since you were a child.
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Democrat he may have been, but he certainly wan't a liberal.
Oh, and to thwart the 20 second rule:
You don't need to decode the GPS transmission. Just home in on it.
... but how fast is it spreading?
I don't think we'll know until at least tomorrow. Remember, this thing is going to stay in propagation mode for another 18 days.
I checked my Apache logs first thing this morning - nothing. Since 3pm UTC I've had a couple (one from China, one from Korea) of hits (compared with 19 last time). Asking around the office of others with home web servers, this seems typical, per IP address.
Konqueror showed me the PDF just fine. This is an out-of-the-box Mandrake 8.0 installation.
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It really doesn't matter what the GPL considers a derivative work. The question is what constitutes a derivative work in copyright law. I'm sure the FSF would love to be able to declare that dynamically linking to an object (e.g. COM, CORBA) constitutes a derivation, but unfortunately it's not so.
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My experience with hotmail differs from his. I signed up for a homtail account before taking an extended overseas trip. The first time I checked my account I had 6 pornographic spams waiting for me.
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Thank you.
last year below means 2000.
handguns were used in 3,685 offences last year compared with 2,648 in 1997, an increase of 40 per cent Actually it's very slightly over 39%, but whatever.
It reveals an increase in crimes using shotguns [not banned], up from 580 in 1997 to 693 last year. That's 19%.
Offences involving air weapons [not banned] show an even more startling rise, from 7,506 in 1997 to 10,103 last year [2000]. That's
34%.
So, although the soundbite is "ban handguns, crime up 40%", the actual effect is an annual increase of between 2% and 7%. As a gun-hating liberal, I was quite surprised by this. If the gun-nuts used that number more people might listen to them. But instead they prefer to whip their supporters into a frenzy, while alienating people who can actually do math.
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If you don't want someone arrested, why would you call the FBI and accuse them [Skylarov] of a felony?
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Source of your 40% figure, please?
Guns have never been as common in Britain as they are in the US. A criminal would have no expectation that their victim would be armed.
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This is just Doubleclick & friends trying to persuade people that web advertising works at all, not how much.
<img src="HugeAnimatedBanner.gif" width=640 height=480>
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From the article:
All press inquiries to the U.S. Attorney's Office should be directed to Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew J. Jacobs at (415) 436-7181
Or maybe we should just get jonkatz to call them? He's a member of the press, right?
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Actually, computerizing the voting process (be it in a polling place or over the internet) would actually help people who can't punch a hole in a card, because you could give them immediate feedback that they had spoiled their ballot. In my mind, the major problem with the Florida system was the lack of user feedback.
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It doesn't matter if you're the copyright holder or not. Copyright does not allow you to tell me whether or not I can make a copy of your CD.
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right, the gravity does not affect the balance. But it does affect the loading on the "arms" of the structure. In lower gravity you can build longer, thinner arms.
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Right, but you can print "this CD is not to be copied" all you want, and I will still ignore it because you are asserting a right you do not have.
Even Microsoft softens this position a little when they print "Do not make illegal copies of this disk" on their CDs. Thus throwing the whole issue of the legality of copying back up in the air.
I would far rather children were taught to share first, and get into the legal intricacies later.
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The War of 1812 by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.
"And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies wah-wah-wah"
Link for the goatse-averse: http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/166/166947.ht
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but the Sahara is a dry heat.
Cut to the scene from "Silk Stockings" where the three Russian agents are discussing the merits of Siberia (as they're about to be sent there):
Agent1: There's no humidity there
Agent2: Plenty of winter sports
Agent3: Switzerland's like that - people pay money to go there.
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Direct link to the aki_nude.jpg doesn't work. That picture is at the bottom of the page at the first link.
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And "invented" is too strong of a term. The evolution from the childrens game of rounders is obvious to anyone who's ever seen both.
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tags I am going to send a whole bunch to Australia.
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This troll is so well fed it's obese! It also happens to be one I agree with.
Far from speaking for the world, you speak for the rational, non-porn-viewing portion of it, which is vanishingly small. If there weren't a lot of loud mouthed bigots out there telling him he couldn't look at pr0n, he wouldn't need our reassurance that it was OK.
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I have submitted a large number of mindpixels to GAC (and verified ten times as many). I have yet to see it answer questions better than 50% of the time. In my more suspicious moments, I wonder if it's all a big hoax, and that there's just a random number generator underneath it. Sometimes I wonder if it will ever work. There seems to be a lot of natural language recognition work yet to be done.
However, if the engine ever does work, it will know quite a lot. Even if most of it is about pr0n.
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That's like giving everyone in the world a key to your house and getting angry when people you don't want in there come in anyway.
Actually, it's like leaving the door unlocked. I expect you to go away if I ignore you. If I go a step further and tell you to go away, I don't expect you to sell my address to a thousand of your mates who will knock on my door because they know I'm at home.
My phone number is in the phone book. That doesn't give everyone in the world the right to make collect calls to it (particularly not from Korea).
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