Except that all of this information is marked as
Lawyers eyes only and Microsoft would get killed
by a judge if they actually used this information
for anything except the lawsuit. Anytime there
is a lawsuit between companies, enormous amounts
of confidential material is exchanged between the
two companies. Just think of patent cases, where
looking at the design of a competitors invention
is necessary to find out if it infringed your
patent.
Or you hire a lawyer on contingency basis and you go after them. You know that is one nice thing about the American legal system. If you have a patent which a large company is infringing, you can get a lawyer on a contingency basis to sue them.
Why does this have a +5 Insightful? The author just took a quote from the article. He wrote nothing orginal. If SlashCode allowed you to moderate the article, then it should have gotten the +5. This comment should have gotten a -1 Redundant (with the article).
Multiple companies can hold a trademark on the same name because the trademark system is broken into several fields. There are 66 trademarks that contain the name Drexel and at least 20 of those are the name Drexel by itself.
One of the biggest problems in domain name fights is when two people who both have a trademark on the name fight it out with each other. Then the regular rules of "give it to whoever has the TM" doesn't work.
However, what you are paying typically doesn't cover the cost of your education. If you are attending a state school, taxpayers are subsidizing your education. By not paying attention in class, you are wasting the gift that the state is giving you, and the professor (an employee of the state) should be allowed to do what he wants. Even if you are attending a private school, most tuition at private schools does not cover the cost of running the school. The private school uses money out of its trust to keep the school running. So as an employee of the corporation, the professor has the right to refuse to teach you.
Finally, you are not paying to attend the class. You are paying to be taught. A professor is (supposedly) hired because she knows how to teach you best. If you could teach yourself, then you wouldn't have paid for the education. Thus, the professor has the right to hold your hand if she thinks you will learn better.
Actually, you are quite wrong. Microsoft does not sell you a copy of frontpage. Microsoft grants you a license to use a copy of Frontpage. Microsoft has the right to revoke your license of its use, and you can no longer use the product. Because of the nature of the license, Microsoft has much less legal liability in areas such as consumer defects.
The first paragraph of Microsoft's Fronpage EULA says, "This Software Product is licensed, not sold. "
The entire court ruling is dealing with that issue. A court must have "personal jurisdiction" over a defendant to hear a case. The main requirement to have personal jurisdiction over someone is that the defendant must have had minimum contacts with the state. The level of minimum contacts has been very hard to determine in the age of the Internet.
The court decided that the defendant knew that his actions would hurt someone in California (the huge tirade about where Hollywood is). By putting the DeCSS code on the net, the defendant broke California law, and could be prosecuted.
The California judicial system can enforce its ruling by getting Texas or Illonois to enforce it. The States have to give "full faith and confidence" to other states judicial rulings.
Actually, the patent doesn't require you to log on. The claims of a patent set out what it protects. The first claim doesn't have any requirements of logging on. The second claim (dependant on the first) provides that limitation. Thus, it covers systems that don't require people to log on.
IANAL, but the general rule is that precautions must be taken to perserve secrecy. There are two types of precautions: security and confidentiality. In one court case, the judge did not remove the trade secret status of documents even though the plant they were in had no guards, security systems, or locked storage. I would doubt that a judge would say that the lack of an effective virus scanner is lax security. The confidentiality precaution can be met if the document is marked confidential or secret.
In another case,however , a company sold an old computer with confidential data encrypted on it. They forgot to erase the harddrive. The person who bought the computer found out the password from a previous employee, and got to the information. The judge ruled that they forfeited protection by not erasing it.
Actually, according to the law in most states, you can't rape your wife. The criminal definition of rape explicitly says that forcing your wife to have sex with you is not rape.
It has an older version of KDE 2.0. It is really targeted to working with Gnome, not KDE. KDE doesn't come installed by default, but you can easily install it using apt-get.
Actually, it is targeted for use in networked workstations. It works well as a distro for beginners, but Progeny wants to be able to create clusters of workstations.
Apt-get is great if all of your packages come from the same place. I have had problems installing debs from other distributions (tossing WordPerfect on my laptop from my Corel distribution). I don't think that there are easy ways around the problems. You really just have to get used to how apt-get does things. I was very happy that I could upgrade from Progeny RC2 to Progeny Release (53 package updates) with one command.
I have been using Progeny Linux on my Thinkpad since RC2, and I have been very happy with it. I am starting to become a convert to apt-get, even though it does have some very odd little quirks. I think that Progeny needs a little bit of work before it becomes as user friendly as Mandrake 7.2.
Re:Dissappointed to hear it is biased.
on
Republic.Com
·
· Score: 1
I don't know who moderated this as informative, but this is so clearly a troll it isn't even funny.
Let me summerize his post:
Governments suck, and the left wing promotes the government, so the left wing sucks. The right wing RULES!! This book is written by a left-winger, thus it sucks.
Gee, I guess you don't agree with his views
on
Republic.Com
·
· Score: 4
Just because you don't agree with the views that are espoused in a book, does mean that it isn't a good book. You critize the book just because he uses the NRA as his example of people getting into collective thought. What if he had used something a little closer to our hearts?
Most people who visit/. sit around reading all the great things about Linux/Open Source and they convince themselves how great Linux is. Most of the time, good arguments about Closed Source/commercial software aren't made on/. because of the environment that discourages it.
Sunstein thinks that people need to have good knowledge of all sides of an issue before they decide what they believe, and that people who can filter out what information they receive won't have that knowledge.
Perhaps Sunstein's main idea is much more important than his idea of Public.Net. Peer pressure is a very strong force. If people are stuck in an environment where all of their peers believe one thing, they will be extreme discouraged from developing their own ideas. We need to promote more diversity in our discussions, and not flame people who have differing ideas. People should actually try to help their opponents devlop better arguments so that better debates can be held.
Yes I do know I was rambling a lot, but you shouldn't dismiss Sunstein so quickly. He is not a dumb man.
Re:enough with the april fools crap already
on
TCP/IP Over HTTP
·
· Score: 3
Its February 4th? Damn, that international date line thingy really isn't working well these days is it?:)
Yeah, all of the lawyers who are on the staff of major corporations get paid on commission right? Oh wait, they don't. Amazon filed this patent just so they could sue competitors. That is a business decision. Complain about Bezos, not lawyers in general.
As the saying goes, everyone hates lawyers until they need one.
I got started with Linux in 1993 using a distribution called SLS. I started Debian later that year, and have been using Debian ever since. So, I guess that makes SLS my second-favorite distribution.
Most servlet engines interface with the webserver by using a custom module that sends all messages the module receives off to the JVM that is running the servlet engine. From what I can tell, tux would speed up the communication until it hit the JVM. Unfortunately, this communication is extremely fast anyway. The main speed problems occur from the JVM being slow. Don't expect any noticible speed improvements from TUX and using servlets.
I am sure everyone wants to know how much everything here costs. Here are the calculations for the linux boxes(info is off of the va linux custom configuration program):
webservers (type 1) = $4505 each
NFS server (type 2) = $7040
database server (type 3) = $25739
So the grand total is $68819. I haven't found the prices for the switches and firewall. I would suspect that the BSD box is close in price to the webserver (prob. a bit less).
Dre is being sued by LucasArts for using the trademarked THX sound at the beginning of his latest album. He asked for permission and was denied, but he went ahead and used it.
You can put the PHP functions in separate files which you then include in your html file. As long as you include the files before you use the function, there are no problems.
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Yeah, nations have always had the right to make certain
substances contraband...like pirated software.
Except that all of this information is marked as
Lawyers eyes only and Microsoft would get killed
by a judge if they actually used this information
for anything except the lawsuit. Anytime there
is a lawsuit between companies, enormous amounts
of confidential material is exchanged between the
two companies. Just think of patent cases, where
looking at the design of a competitors invention
is necessary to find out if it infringed your
patent.
Or you hire a lawyer on contingency basis and you go after them. You know that is one nice thing about the American legal system. If you have a patent which a large company is infringing, you can get a lawyer on a contingency basis to sue them.
Why does this have a +5 Insightful? The author just took a quote from the article. He wrote nothing orginal. If SlashCode allowed you to moderate the article, then it should have gotten the +5. This comment should have gotten a -1 Redundant (with the article).
Multiple companies can hold a trademark on the same name because the trademark system is broken into several fields. There are 66 trademarks that contain the name Drexel and at least 20 of those are the name Drexel by itself.
One of the biggest problems in domain name fights is when two people who both have a trademark on the name fight it out with each other. Then the regular rules of "give it to whoever has the TM" doesn't work.
You can look up trademarks at tess.uspto.org.
However, what you are paying typically doesn't cover the cost of your education. If you are attending a state school, taxpayers are subsidizing your education. By not paying attention in class, you are wasting the gift that the state is giving you, and the professor (an employee of the state) should be allowed to do what he wants. Even if you are attending a private school, most tuition at private schools does not cover the cost of running the school. The private school uses money out of its trust to keep the school running. So as an employee of the corporation, the professor has the right to refuse to teach you.
Finally, you are not paying to attend the class. You are paying to be taught. A professor is (supposedly) hired because she knows how to teach you best. If you could teach yourself, then you wouldn't have paid for the education. Thus, the professor has the right to hold your hand if she thinks you will learn better.
Actually, you are quite wrong. Microsoft does not sell you a copy of frontpage. Microsoft grants you a license to use a copy of Frontpage. Microsoft has the right to revoke your license of its use, and you can no longer use the product. Because of the nature of the license, Microsoft has much less legal liability in areas such as consumer defects.
The first paragraph of Microsoft's Fronpage EULA says, "This Software Product is licensed, not sold. "
The entire court ruling is dealing with that issue. A court must have "personal jurisdiction" over a defendant to hear a case. The main requirement to have personal jurisdiction over someone is that the defendant must have had minimum contacts with the state. The level of minimum contacts has been very hard to determine in the age of the Internet.
The court decided that the defendant knew that his actions would hurt someone in California (the huge tirade about where Hollywood is). By putting the DeCSS code on the net, the defendant broke California law, and could be prosecuted.
The California judicial system can enforce its ruling by getting Texas or Illonois to enforce it. The States have to give "full faith and confidence" to other states judicial rulings.
Amen Brother!
Actually, the patent doesn't require you to log on. The claims of a patent set out what it protects. The first claim doesn't have any requirements of logging on. The second claim (dependant on the first) provides that limitation. Thus, it covers systems that don't require people to log on.
IANAL, but the general rule is that precautions must be taken to perserve secrecy. There are two types of precautions: security and confidentiality. In one court case, the judge did not remove the trade secret status of documents even though the plant they were in had no guards, security systems, or locked storage. I would doubt that a judge would say that the lack of an effective virus scanner is lax security. The confidentiality precaution can be met if the document is marked confidential or secret.
In another case,however , a company sold an old computer with confidential data encrypted on it. They forgot to erase the harddrive. The person who bought the computer found out the password from a previous employee, and got to the information. The judge ruled that they forfeited protection by not erasing it.
Actually, according to the law in most states, you can't rape your wife. The criminal definition of rape explicitly says that forcing your wife to have sex with you is not rape.
It has an older version of KDE 2.0. It is really targeted to working with Gnome, not KDE. KDE doesn't come installed by default, but you can easily install it using apt-get.
Actually, it is targeted for use in networked workstations. It works well as a distro for beginners, but Progeny wants to be able to create clusters of workstations.
Apt-get is great if all of your packages come from the same place. I have had problems installing debs from other distributions (tossing WordPerfect on my laptop from my Corel distribution). I don't think that there are easy ways around the problems. You really just have to get used to how apt-get does things. I was very happy that I could upgrade from Progeny RC2 to Progeny Release (53 package updates) with one command.
I have been using Progeny Linux on my Thinkpad since RC2, and I have been very happy with it. I am starting to become a convert to apt-get, even though it does have some very odd little quirks. I think that Progeny needs a little bit of work before it becomes as user friendly as Mandrake 7.2.
I don't know who moderated this as informative, but this is so clearly a troll it isn't even funny.
Let me summerize his post:
Governments suck, and the left wing promotes the government, so the left wing sucks. The right wing RULES!! This book is written by a left-winger, thus it sucks.
Just because you don't agree with the views that are espoused in a book, does mean that it isn't a good book. You critize the book just because he uses the NRA as his example of people getting into collective thought. What if he had used something a little closer to our hearts?
/. sit around reading all the great things about Linux/Open Source and they convince themselves how great Linux is. Most of the time, good arguments about Closed Source/commercial software aren't made on /. because of the environment that discourages it.
Most people who visit
Sunstein thinks that people need to have good knowledge of all sides of an issue before they decide what they believe, and that people who can filter out what information they receive won't have that knowledge.
Perhaps Sunstein's main idea is much more important than his idea of Public.Net. Peer pressure is a very strong force. If people are stuck in an environment where all of their peers believe one thing, they will be extreme discouraged from developing their own ideas. We need to promote more diversity in our discussions, and not flame people who have differing ideas. People should actually try to help their opponents devlop better arguments so that better debates can be held.
Yes I do know I was rambling a lot, but you shouldn't dismiss Sunstein so quickly. He is not a dumb man.
Its February 4th? Damn, that international date line thingy really isn't working well these days is it? :)
Yeah, all of the lawyers who are on the staff of major corporations get paid on commission right? Oh wait, they don't. Amazon filed this patent just so they could sue competitors. That is a business decision. Complain about Bezos, not lawyers in general.
As the saying goes, everyone hates lawyers until they need one.
Read from the beginning:
1) Distributions
(Score:5, Interesting)
by Chalst
What's your second-favourite Linux distribution?
Ian:
I got started with Linux in 1993 using a distribution called SLS. I started Debian later that year, and have been using Debian ever since. So, I guess that makes SLS my second-favorite distribution.
Yes and no.
Most servlet engines interface with the webserver by using a custom module that sends all messages the module receives off to the JVM that is running the servlet engine. From what I can tell, tux would speed up the communication until it hit the JVM. Unfortunately, this communication is extremely fast anyway. The main speed problems occur from the JVM being slow. Don't expect any noticible speed improvements from TUX and using servlets.
I am sure everyone wants to know how much everything here costs. Here are the calculations for the linux boxes(info is off of the va linux custom configuration program):
webservers (type 1) = $4505 each
NFS server (type 2) = $7040
database server (type 3) = $25739
So the grand total is $68819. I haven't found the prices for the switches and firewall. I would suspect that the BSD box is close in price to the webserver (prob. a bit less).
Dre is being sued by LucasArts for using the trademarked THX sound at the beginning of his latest album. He asked for permission and was denied, but he went ahead and used it.
You can put the PHP functions in separate files which you then include in your html file. As long as you include the files before you use the function, there are no problems.