There must be something in the water at DAMTP[1]. People there do brilliant work, become famous, and then go stark raving bonkers. Now it's happened to Hawking, like it happened to Fred Hoyle and Herman Bondi before him.
[1] "DAMn The Physicists" as we used to say in DPMMS.
I took the easy route from H1B to Green Card - I married an American[1]. However, the immigration lawyers who worked on my H1B petition said that permanent status was obtainable, so long as you started the process at the first renewal (3 years).
If someone is in their 6th year of an H1B and has just started to think about permanent residency, they're SOL. The INS moves at a pace that makes continental drift look like Cerenkov radiation.
[1] There are times deportation seems like a better option, and I say this safe in the knowledge that she would never, ever, read/.
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Natalie Portman, nude on Ebay.
Why would anyone pay $62 for this when you can buy a back issue from the publisher for $8?
Apparently it is also a test of 8th grade comprehension, which many people are failing.
Sun has a tool. It converts Linux x86 driver binaries to Solaris x86 driver binaries. This is not a violation of the GPL.
Sun has shipped, as an example of how to use the tool, two of Becker's drivers, which are GPLed. They have not included the source.
Bruce Perens claims this is a flaw in the GPL. It is certainly against the spirit of the GPL, and until today I would have firmly stated that was a violation.
As someone mentioned above, this is the equivalent of Napster including a Metallica mp3 and a Dr. Dre mp3 as examples of how to use their software.
All of the above, with the exception of Overrated, which I think is more for the undoing of previous upwards moderation.
As to the sheep comment, I see someone who is trolling/. today because that's what all his troll buddies do. It's like spray painting your name on the underside of a bus. You get a lot of kudos from your immediate circle, curses from the guy who maintains the bus, and nobody else ever gives a damn.
The reason there is anti-trust legislation in the first place is that is next to impossible to beat a monopoly in the marketplace. Rambus does not have a monopoly,
People tend to talk down to people shorter than them. Hence people in wheelchairs often get treated like children. High-up wheelchairs solve this problem at a huge cost in stability. It looks like Kamen might have solved that problem, too.
Hmmm... intellectually these seem to go hand-in-hand. MP3s (er... that is to say copyrighted ones) everyone will agree are illegal because they contain copyrighted information. We all still love them... The MP3 bits and bytes themselves aren't illegal, but the information they contain is.
Where does it say on the CD that I can't rip the contents into an MP3? MP3s are inherently legal, it's the large-scale non-commercial distribution of them without the copyright holder's permission that's arguably illegal. Commercial distribution is clearly illegal. Small-scale non-commercial distribution is clearly legal.
DeCSS is something more -- this is using "illegal" means to get to right-fully owned copyrighted material.
DeCSS is not illegal. You may legally possess it. However, if you live in Lewis Kaplan's juristiction you may not distribute it or assist others in finding it by means of hyperlinking.
So they're willing to host "gangstas" talking about capping people and pimping hos, but a geek singing about how the DMCA is puhing him down is "offensive".
Not that they're not within their rights to do so, but it's a curious double standard.
Maybe we need something more along the lines of:
My name is Jack Valenti, I'm the baddest mofo in the MPAA
You wanna watch a DVD? I'm the man you gotta pay typedef unsigned char byte;
static byte csstab1[256]=
Gonna cap you if you try to infringe my copyright
Gonna make you take down DeCSS cause I got the lawyers and the might
and so on. I know it's not good. But for a middle-aged white Englishman it's not bad, either, IMHO.
You know, in all the time I've been moderating, I've yet to find a post that was, in my opinion, overrated. You only get five points, and it only takes a few minutes to find 3 or 4 interesting, insightful or informative posts and 1 or 2 trolls or flamebaits. Who has time to mess with overrated? Yet I find my posts marked down as overrated all the time. Are the moderators jealous of my +1 bonus?
I've not used it this time to save you the effort, and me some of my almost-maxed-out karma.
Not everything you learn at college is on the curriculum. Money management is one of the important ones.
I learned a lot about beer. Ask me sometime about Weekender Numbers, the set of numbers where n people drinking at an equal rate can form an arithmetical n-gon with the empties.
I don't think so. You can send the request to the PPP provider's DNS servers. It doesn't have a cached address for KJhjh33.dd_2sT-XXT.dAAoi_f.mydnstunnel.org, so it asks a root server who can resolve addresses for mydnstunnel.org. Then it passes the query on to that server (yours) and passes the response back to the client (you).
The fix is to strip out TXT fields in forwarded DNS replies, but that would probably break some other RFC.
As for used CDs, you have every right to go and buy a used CD. The RIAA doesn't make any money off that sale, because they already made their money of the original sale. Unlike downloading it from the web, the money has already been made, and the person loses the ablility to use the CD once he sells it.
By your argument I actually create value every time I download a song that's on a used CD that's for sale. The artist, the studio and the RIAA lose nothing (because they would have gained nothing from the sale), the used CD store loses nothing because he still has the CD, I have what I want at less than I might otherwise have paid, and the person who uploaded the song in the first place still has the CD, which he may or may not have bought from a used CD store.
Speaking as someone who was on a H1-B for about a month (until my green card came through):
Yes, the minimum salary specified by the INS for a particular position is quite low, and companies are happy to pay that. But the company that sponsored my H1B paid everyone like shit, and that didn't change until I quit.
However, my current employer has more H1B workers than my previous employer (I was the only one) and salaries here are much higher for everyone. Remember that we foreigners (at least the H1B candidates) aren't idiots, and we can tell the difference between an H1B sponsor offering 40k and an H1B sponsor offering 70k as well as any red-blooded American. Result: companies that pay better get first pick of the H1B candidates, just like they do for US residents.
RMS does not have an open source philosophy. He has a free software philosophy. He has stated many times that he will use free software whenever possible, even if it is inferior in quality to proprietary software. From that point of view, the continued success of Linux does not depend on corporate mindshare. The the continued success of Linux depends only on it being available to anyone who wants to be free to use their computer.
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with an assertion that if there exists an x such that x + y = x + z then y = z. This is just addition of real numbers we're talking about.
Alternatively, you could just declare that the value of a nonterminating decimal is the limit of the series and the whole problem goes away.
I can see that this is the kind of problem that leads to flamewars, so I'm eschewing my +1 for the protection of my precious karma.
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I have to admit, I feel a lot better responding to a troll with:
you are dividing by zero between lines 4 and 5;
than the usual:
-1: Troll.
Congratulations.
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There must be something in the water at DAMTP[1]. People there do brilliant work, become famous, and then go stark raving bonkers. Now it's happened to Hawking, like it happened to Fred Hoyle and Herman Bondi before him.
[1] "DAMn The Physicists" as we used to say in DPMMS.
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You've obviously never been to North Dakota.
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I took the easy route from H1B to Green Card - I married an American[1]. However, the immigration lawyers who worked on my H1B petition said that permanent status was obtainable, so long as you started the process at the first renewal (3 years).
/.
If someone is in their 6th year of an H1B and has just started to think about permanent residency, they're SOL. The INS moves at a pace that makes continental drift look like Cerenkov radiation.
[1] There are times deportation seems like a better option, and I say this safe in the knowledge that she would never, ever, read
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Natalie Portman, nude on Ebay.
Why would anyone pay $62 for this when you can buy a back issue from the publisher for $8?
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No, this is a test of the IP schills on /.
Apparently it is also a test of 8th grade comprehension, which many people are failing.
Sun has a tool. It converts Linux x86 driver binaries to Solaris x86 driver binaries. This is not a violation of the GPL.
Sun has shipped, as an example of how to use the tool, two of Becker's drivers, which are GPLed. They have not included the source.
Bruce Perens claims this is a flaw in the GPL. It is certainly against the spirit of the GPL, and until today I would have firmly stated that was a violation.
As someone mentioned above, this is the equivalent of Napster including a Metallica mp3 and a Dr. Dre mp3 as examples of how to use their software.
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All of the above, with the exception of Overrated, which I think is more for the undoing of previous upwards moderation.
/. today because that's what all his troll buddies do. It's like spray painting your name on the underside of a bus. You get a lot of kudos from your immediate circle, curses from the guy who maintains the bus, and nobody else ever gives a damn.
As to the sheep comment, I see someone who is trolling
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...need to basically beef up my popularity so I can go after Brittany. She's the only one who's close to me in winning this game
It sounds really sick. I can't wait.
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The reason there is anti-trust legislation in the first place is that is next to impossible to beat a monopoly in the marketplace. Rambus does not have a monopoly,
yet.
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People tend to talk down to people shorter than them. Hence people in wheelchairs often get treated like children. High-up wheelchairs solve this problem at a huge cost in stability. It looks like Kamen might have solved that problem, too.
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AHRA explicitly permits this.
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Hmmm... intellectually these seem to go hand-in-hand. MP3s (er... that is to say copyrighted ones) everyone will agree are illegal because they contain copyrighted information. We all still love them... The MP3 bits and bytes themselves aren't illegal, but the information they contain is.
Where does it say on the CD that I can't rip the contents into an MP3? MP3s are inherently legal, it's the large-scale non-commercial distribution of them without the copyright holder's permission that's arguably illegal. Commercial distribution is clearly illegal. Small-scale non-commercial distribution is clearly legal.
DeCSS is something more -- this is using "illegal" means to get to right-fully owned copyrighted material.
DeCSS is not illegal. You may legally possess it. However, if you live in Lewis Kaplan's juristiction you may not distribute it or assist others in finding it by means of hyperlinking.
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So they're willing to host "gangstas" talking about capping people and pimping hos, but a geek singing about how the DMCA is puhing him down is "offensive".
Not that they're not within their rights to do so, but it's a curious double standard.
Maybe we need something more along the lines of:
My name is Jack Valenti, I'm the baddest mofo in the MPAA
You wanna watch a DVD? I'm the man you gotta pay typedef unsigned char byte;
static byte csstab1[256]=
Gonna cap you if you try to infringe my copyright
Gonna make you take down DeCSS cause I got the lawyers and the might
and so on. I know it's not good. But for a middle-aged white Englishman it's not bad, either, IMHO.
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You know, in all the time I've been moderating, I've yet to find a post that was, in my opinion, overrated. You only get five points, and it only takes a few minutes to find 3 or 4 interesting, insightful or informative posts and 1 or 2 trolls or flamebaits. Who has time to mess with overrated? Yet I find my posts marked down as overrated all the time. Are the moderators jealous of my +1 bonus?
I've not used it this time to save you the effort, and me some of my almost-maxed-out karma.
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Not until a couple of the cosmonauts sneak off into the jungle outside Novosibirsk for a bit of nookie.
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Shouldn't this have been posted by Hemos?
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Not everything you learn at college is on the curriculum. Money management is one of the important ones.
I learned a lot about beer. Ask me sometime about Weekender Numbers, the set of numbers where n people drinking at an equal rate can form an arithmetical n-gon with the empties.
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I don't think so. You can send the request to the PPP provider's DNS servers. It doesn't have a cached address for KJhjh33.dd_2sT-XXT.dAAoi_f.mydnstunnel.org, so it asks a root server who can resolve addresses for mydnstunnel.org. Then it passes the query on to that server (yours) and passes the response back to the client (you).
The fix is to strip out TXT fields in forwarded DNS replies, but that would probably break some other RFC.
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Mod that up as funny.
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As for used CDs, you have every right to go and buy a used CD. The RIAA doesn't make any money off that sale, because they already made their money of the original sale. Unlike downloading it from the web, the money has already been made, and the person loses the ablility to use the CD once he sells it.
By your argument I actually create value every time I download a song that's on a used CD that's for sale. The artist, the studio and the RIAA lose nothing (because they would have gained nothing from the sale), the used CD store loses nothing because he still has the CD, I have what I want at less than I might otherwise have paid, and the person who uploaded the song in the first place still has the CD, which he may or may not have bought from a used CD store.
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Nothing untoward happens to the Earth's rotation at the solstices.
However, there's a problem I don't know if anyone has thought of. Geostationary orbit is one tenth of the way to the moon. Tides could be a problem.
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Correct. You could think whatever you liked*, unless you were a Tory, which could get you shot.
* Offer only applies to white, property-owning males.
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Speaking as someone who was on a H1-B for about a month (until my green card came through):
Yes, the minimum salary specified by the INS for a particular position is quite low, and companies are happy to pay that. But the company that sponsored my H1B paid everyone like shit, and that didn't change until I quit.
However, my current employer has more H1B workers than my previous employer (I was the only one) and salaries here are much higher for everyone. Remember that we foreigners (at least the H1B candidates) aren't idiots, and we can tell the difference between an H1B sponsor offering 40k and an H1B sponsor offering 70k as well as any red-blooded American. Result: companies that pay better get first pick of the H1B candidates, just like they do for US residents.
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RMS does not have an open source philosophy. He has a free software philosophy. He has stated many times that he will use free software whenever possible, even if it is inferior in quality to proprietary software. From that point of view, the continued success of Linux does not depend on corporate mindshare. The the continued success of Linux depends only on it being available to anyone who wants to be free to use their computer.
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