It's been pointed out already that Photoshop, etc. look for something else in the money. Maybe it's the US Treasury seal, or the pattern of lines in the background.
Is there a blacklist of eqipment that doesn't reproduce currency? I am curious if *everybody* does this, or just HP. Is this typically done in software or hardware?
Actually, all the admin has to do now (in Win 2k or Win XP) is change the setting for "Allow users to manage devices" and the users can't add devices, even USB devices, without admin priviledges. This sounds like a more pointed approach, so you can add/remove other things, but not USB keys.
I don't know if the public (or the SEC) will go after him, but I bet his lawyers will want ap iece of him, particularly if he runs out of money and dowsn't pay them. Oh, the delicious irony of him become Boies, Schillers' permanent love slave.
Ah, yes. This reminds me of the 60 Minutes bullshit, where they interview some enviromentalist who thinks the auto industry is conspiring to sell gas guzzlers, and the only reason noone buys cars with better fuel economy is that the auto companies are hiding the truth! Of course, the environmentalists leave out the part about the cost being massive, the loss of durability, and little things like the heavy metals and toxic chemicals required.
I would worry less about the fuel filter and more about the plastic parts in fuel system dissolving. A number of them are made of plastics that are great in gasoline, M85, and regular dead-dinosaur diesel, but will melt away in Biodiesel, especially the European stuff made out of rapeseed oil. I think it's safe to say you will void your warranty if you use this stuff. Yes, I work in automotive fuel systems.
What do you think RedHat says if they don't currently support your mouse? (Assuming you are insisting on not buying a new, supported mouse, which it sounds like you were.)
Probably something along the lines of, "No problem, sir. Have you looked about on the mailing lists for a driver?" That's the great thing about Linux. Someone probably already ran into your problem and did some work to figure it out.
They list the following affirmative defenses: failure to state a claim, waiver, estoppel, laches, unclean hands and acquiescence, lack of capacity to sue, lack of standing, lack of case or controversy, lack of breach/cure of alleged breach, mitigation of damages, Plaintiff's claims are moot, bar by third-party contract, and reservation of right.
Michigan has had the "use tax" for a long time. It mainly applied to mail order, but the Internet is a natural extension of it. It only applies to out-of-state purchases you make in-state (i.e. mail order/catalog order/internet order). I'm not sure how it can be enforced, unless the state is furnished with a copy of every transaction you ever make. I think that requires help from the Feds, since the transactions are interstate commerce.
I guess it's also a general rule that any company that has any kind of presence in your state (not necessarily even the place where the product is) must collect your state's sales tax from you, even over the Internet.
Is there a blacklist of hardware and software somewhere. I don't have any interest in counterfeit currency, but I *DO* have an interest in hardware and software that decide they know better than I do what the law is. The producers of such garbage must be held accountable in the only place possible--the store.
errno.h goes way back in time, so I don't think SCO can even prove it's theirs. Remember the "ancient UNIX," like Version 7, was already publically released by SCO/Caldera some time ago under a BSD license.
Actually, to throw another complication into the matter, SCO doesn't even own the System V code, tachnically. That belongs to Novell. SCO gets to use the copyright to exclusively license the System V code to other companies, like IBM. SCO argues they get more than that, based on "Amendment 2" to their agreement with Novell, but Novell says otherwise. See the Novell website.
There is also a part in that same agreement with Novell that says Novell reserves the right to act on SCO's behalf when it doesn't think SCO is properly administering the license with other companies. In this case, Novell says IBM license to use the System V code continues, even though SCO revoked it. It doesn't really have much to do with Linux, but more about SCO accusing IBM of misusing IBM's own code without permission from SCO.
*If* there was SCO-owned code (aka System V or XENIX) in Linux (much like *if* the Moon was made of green cheese), then SCO could go after IBM and Linus Torvalds, et al, for copyright infringement (this still wouldn't affect Linux users).
SCO can't seem to prove that (earlier code, like Version 7 of the code doesn't count, since SCO/Caldera released that under a BSD-like license some time ago--there is even a story on/. about this), so they are also accusing IBM of violation some terms of the System V license, which supposedly restrict IBM from ever transferring code from AIX (IBM UNIX) to any third party. However, as part of this accusation and lawsuit, SCO isn't claiming ownership of the code, so they can't accuse Linux of copyright violations (only IBM could do that). Linus Torvalds, et al, were never party to this contract, so they are not liable. Therefore, this also does not affect Linux users.
IBM's defense, which is pretty strong, is that the code they contibuted to Linux is different from what is in AIX, although the concepts and even the function might be the same. SCO is trying to say that even though the code is different from AIX, the mere fact that it functions the same makes it AIX code, and thus it falls under the same terms of the System V license. This gets into a whole thing about whether derived works must be treated like the original work, and SCO's argument is pretty weak.
The Earth First people that were sitting in trees to prevent the massive logging in Northern California would count. To wit: A) It's dangerous to the people sitting up in the trees, and it's illegal; B) It's trying to influence the government to prevent logging; C) It occurs in Northern California, a United States jurisdiction.
Indeed. I believe Intel is already working with kernel developers on EFI. I see posts on EFI in the linux-kernel mailing list archives. I think this won't affect Linux much at all, although I don't know whether it will be able to take over EFI calls the same way it does BIOS calls.
If you RTFA (Wait, what was I thinking! This is/.) you would find that this only applies to consumer electronics (DVD players, TV's, etc.) and portable memory devices, like Compact Flash and those little USB memory sticks. At least for right now. And it only counts if it comes preformatted from the mfr.
I suspect this will drive most manufacturers to not format their media, or it will drive them to an open format, like jffs.
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It's been pointed out already that Photoshop, etc. look for something else in the money. Maybe it's the US Treasury seal, or the pattern of lines in the background.
Yes. Go to Suprnova.org and search for the "banknote patch" torrent.
Is there a blacklist of eqipment that doesn't reproduce currency? I am curious if *everybody* does this, or just HP. Is this typically done in software or hardware?
Actually, all the admin has to do now (in Win 2k or Win XP) is change the setting for "Allow users to manage devices" and the users can't add devices, even USB devices, without admin priviledges. This sounds like a more pointed approach, so you can add/remove other things, but not USB keys.
I don't know if the public (or the SEC) will go after him, but I bet his lawyers will want ap iece of him, particularly if he runs out of money and dowsn't pay them. Oh, the delicious irony of him become Boies, Schillers' permanent love slave.
I fail to see how we can build an asteroid defense system that doesn't involve Bruce Willis.
So, when then Venus Transit is over, can we resume staring directly into the Sun?
Ah, yes. This reminds me of the 60 Minutes bullshit, where they interview some enviromentalist who thinks the auto industry is conspiring to sell gas guzzlers, and the only reason noone buys cars with better fuel economy is that the auto companies are hiding the truth! Of course, the environmentalists leave out the part about the cost being massive, the loss of durability, and little things like the heavy metals and toxic chemicals required.
I would worry less about the fuel filter and more about the plastic parts in fuel system dissolving. A number of them are made of plastics that are great in gasoline, M85, and regular dead-dinosaur diesel, but will melt away in Biodiesel, especially the European stuff made out of rapeseed oil. I think it's safe to say you will void your warranty if you use this stuff. Yes, I work in automotive fuel systems.
Probably something along the lines of, "No problem, sir. Have you looked about on the mailing lists for a driver?" That's the great thing about Linux. Someone probably already ran into your problem and did some work to figure it out.
What? Is that ALL they could come up with?
IRS is Federal. Why do they care about state sales tax? Did your cousin tried to deduct it on his Federal tax return?
Michigan has had the "use tax" for a long time. It mainly applied to mail order, but the Internet is a natural extension of it. It only applies to out-of-state purchases you make in-state (i.e. mail order/catalog order/internet order). I'm not sure how it can be enforced, unless the state is furnished with a copy of every transaction you ever make. I think that requires help from the Feds, since the transactions are interstate commerce. I guess it's also a general rule that any company that has any kind of presence in your state (not necessarily even the place where the product is) must collect your state's sales tax from you, even over the Internet.
Will this be implemented over avain carrier? The pigeon would fly over your house and poop on your computer.
Is there a blacklist of hardware and software somewhere. I don't have any interest in counterfeit currency, but I *DO* have an interest in hardware and software that decide they know better than I do what the law is. The producers of such garbage must be held accountable in the only place possible--the store.
errno.h goes way back in time, so I don't think SCO can even prove it's theirs. Remember the "ancient UNIX," like Version 7, was already publically released by SCO/Caldera some time ago under a BSD license.
Actually, to throw another complication into the matter, SCO doesn't even own the System V code, tachnically. That belongs to Novell. SCO gets to use the copyright to exclusively license the System V code to other companies, like IBM. SCO argues they get more than that, based on "Amendment 2" to their agreement with Novell, but Novell says otherwise. See the Novell website.
There is also a part in that same agreement with Novell that says Novell reserves the right to act on SCO's behalf when it doesn't think SCO is properly administering the license with other companies. In this case, Novell says IBM license to use the System V code continues, even though SCO revoked it. It doesn't really have much to do with Linux, but more about SCO accusing IBM of misusing IBM's own code without permission from SCO.
The answer is: "nothing."
/. about this), so they are also accusing IBM of violation some terms of the System V license, which supposedly restrict IBM from ever transferring code from AIX (IBM UNIX) to any third party. However, as part of this accusation and lawsuit, SCO isn't claiming ownership of the code, so they can't accuse Linux of copyright violations (only IBM could do that). Linus Torvalds, et al, were never party to this contract, so they are not liable. Therefore, this also does not affect Linux users.
*If* there was SCO-owned code (aka System V or XENIX) in Linux (much like *if* the Moon was made of green cheese), then SCO could go after IBM and Linus Torvalds, et al, for copyright infringement (this still wouldn't affect Linux users).
SCO can't seem to prove that (earlier code, like Version 7 of the code doesn't count, since SCO/Caldera released that under a BSD-like license some time ago--there is even a story on
IBM's defense, which is pretty strong, is that the code they contibuted to Linux is different from what is in AIX, although the concepts and even the function might be the same. SCO is trying to say that even though the code is different from AIX, the mere fact that it functions the same makes it AIX code, and thus it falls under the same terms of the System V license. This gets into a whole thing about whether derived works must be treated like the original work, and SCO's argument is pretty weak.
I see they also reduced the requirements for reporting to Congress. See Section 361.
The Earth First people that were sitting in trees to prevent the massive logging in Northern California would count. To wit: A) It's dangerous to the people sitting up in the trees, and it's illegal; B) It's trying to influence the government to prevent logging; C) It occurs in Northern California, a United States jurisdiction.
So, will the Intel x86-64 use the same instructions as the AMD x86-64, or is this still the Yamhill thing?
Indeed. I believe Intel is already working with kernel developers on EFI. I see posts on EFI in the linux-kernel mailing list archives. I think this won't affect Linux much at all, although I don't know whether it will be able to take over EFI calls the same way it does BIOS calls.
Will there be a duet with Leonard Nimoy?
If you RTFA (Wait, what was I thinking! This is /.) you would find that this only applies to consumer electronics (DVD players, TV's, etc.) and portable memory devices, like Compact Flash and those little USB memory sticks. At least for right now. And it only counts if it comes preformatted from the mfr.
I suspect this will drive most manufacturers to not format their media, or it will drive them to an open format, like jffs.
Does AIW have any digital rights denial "features?" If so, how does one shut them off. I am thinking of Macrovision, DTV Broadcast Fag, etc.