I never realized the breadth and reach of the patent office's slimy tentacles. This gives me new hope that my patent application for the process "death" will be approved.
Explain... are they suing the student, or are they suing the interview? This reminds me of the old "table for sale by lady with Heppelwhite legs" joke I heard in English class.
Our Novell network is so secure, I can't get out! I'd be working right now (instead of reading Slashdot) if I could only ftp a couple of files down to my PC, but now I'm going to have to go home and burn them to another CD again.
I'm afraid I don't understand this complaint. I can go down to my local state courthouse, wherein is housed a law library, which is publicly accessible, and avail myself of anything that West pubishes. I don't have to be an attorney to get in; the only difference between this and a public library is that you can't check anything out. I can even get printouts and copies made at the cost of reproduction only. There's a librarian there to help find stuff, although there's a plethora of signs reiterating the obvious - that they cannot offer legal advice.
Okay, this country has de-regulated broadcast TV, broadcast radio, the cable industry, the satellite industry, and the phone companies.
So why does the FCC ask for more people and a bigger budget every year? If the trend continues, they'll be spending every last penny in the federal budget to do nothing! (but at least we'll all have a job there...)
Not too concerned here to see Moore's law finally fizzle out... just as long as Black's corrollary to Moore's law survives. That's the one that postulates that "the amount of porn available over the Internet will double every six months".
When it looks like Black's is going to fizzle, maybe we can come up with a wide-scale parallel distributed porn-server project - we could call it TITS@home.
Before anybody jumps in to defend Microsoft, this was exactly the same approach Microsoft used several years ago to mop the floor with Novell. Just put an NT box in front of a Netware server, and you only have to pay Novell for one user license.
Given the history of this tactic, it seems amazing that Microsoft would leave the same loophole in their own EULA.
I just killed an Adobe Pagemaker sale today. No fanfare, no big deal, I just wrote "denied" on the purchase request and sent it back. I told him to find something else, and as long as it's not from Adobe I'll sign off on it.
That one's for you, Jon. And so's the next one. And the one after that. And as many as it takes until Adobe fully appreciates the delicacy of vendor-customer relationships, and acknowledges who's really in charge.
I thought we were against digitized cops with access to all our private data.
I can tell you exactly what info the cops want. They want whatever they can get their hands on that will enable them to go home alive after their shift and be with their families. Nothing more, nothing less.
A very intentional side effect of this is that you'll probably stand a better chance of doing the exact same thing.
... was DEC's adoption of exclusionary tactics. Smack dab in the middle of the interoperability wars that bestowed fleeting fame on AT&T UNIX, DEC decided to build walls around every product they made. OSF/1 may have been a superior O/S but it wasn't SVR4 and it wasn't FIPS compliant, and for a while we couldn't purchase it. And a just a little while later, it didn't matter.
Ken Olsen was spot on with his snake oil pronouncement, but it helped kill the company.
I thought this problem had already been adequately solved by that scientist who used his penis to sink heat away from his laptop. So maybe this new heatpipe won't get blisters?
I offer my son as proof that life originates underwater... undoubtedly due to that bit of sex in the hot tub with the wife-to-be one cold August night.
1. Manufacture mountains of PC-related waste.
2. Promote laws to subsidize PC waste disposal.
3. Apply for those selfsame government subsidies.
4. Profit!
Wal-Mart has cast-iron gonads to pull this shit. For $DEITY's sake, they're the sneaky underhanded outfit that sends spies into all the neighboring stores with UPC scanners and laptops so they can undercut the competition by $.01 and drive them out of business. If you try to throw a Wal-Mart spy out of your store, they get all up-tight and start screaming about freedoms and rights and the law and all that shit.
Sounds to me like Wal-Mart is way overdue for a taste of their own medicine.
Join the U.S. armed services and you may soon be able to make a high-tech vacation to Baghdad to see some of their many engineering projects... and bomb them into rubble.
Now if he'd gotten it fitted into a 'Z' scale loco, that would've earned him some serious bragging rights indeed! HO is for people with big basements; us apartment-dwellers are stuck with 'Z', or if you're unmarried with a spare bedroom maybe 'N'. BTW 'Z' scale = 1:220, the smallest commercially available scale.
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I never realized the breadth and reach of the patent office's slimy tentacles. This gives me new hope that my patent application for the process "death" will be approved.
Hmmm, I wonder who owns the patent on "taxes"?
Interview with Student Sued by RIAA.
Explain... are they suing the student, or are they suing the interview? This reminds me of the old "table for sale by lady with Heppelwhite legs" joke I heard in English class.
/* Drunk. Fix later. (Dennis R) */
Our Novell network is so secure, I can't get out! I'd be working right now (instead of reading Slashdot) if I could only ftp a couple of files down to my PC, but now I'm going to have to go home and burn them to another CD again.
So... you're a U.S citizen then?
Copyright law is meaningless in a nation of illiterates.
I vaguely remember seeing a few humdred threads on this very topic just this week.
I'm afraid I don't understand this complaint. I can go down to my local state courthouse, wherein is housed a law library, which is publicly accessible, and avail myself of anything that West pubishes. I don't have to be an attorney to get in; the only difference between this and a public library is that you can't check anything out. I can even get printouts and copies made at the cost of reproduction only. There's a librarian there to help find stuff, although there's a plethora of signs reiterating the obvious - that they cannot offer legal advice.
That blows the snot out of the old "even episodes good", "odd episodes bad" theorem. Or was that the other way around? I can never remember....
Okay, this country has de-regulated broadcast TV, broadcast radio, the cable industry, the satellite industry, and the phone companies.
So why does the FCC ask for more people and a bigger budget every year? If the trend continues, they'll be spending every last penny in the federal budget to do nothing! (but at least we'll all have a job there...)
Not too concerned here to see Moore's law finally fizzle out... just as long as Black's corrollary to Moore's law survives. That's the one that postulates that "the amount of porn available over the Internet will double every six months".
When it looks like Black's is going to fizzle, maybe we can come up with a wide-scale parallel distributed porn-server project - we could call it TITS@home.
Big deal, you ain't seen destruction until you've seen one of our shop's daily tempests in a teapot.
Before anybody jumps in to defend Microsoft, this was exactly the same approach Microsoft used several years ago to mop the floor with Novell. Just put an NT box in front of a Netware server, and you only have to pay Novell for one user license.
Given the history of this tactic, it seems amazing that Microsoft would leave the same loophole in their own EULA.
I just killed an Adobe Pagemaker sale today. No fanfare, no big deal, I just wrote "denied" on the purchase request and sent it back. I told him to find something else, and as long as it's not from Adobe I'll sign off on it.
That one's for you, Jon. And so's the next one. And the one after that. And as many as it takes until Adobe fully appreciates the delicacy of vendor-customer relationships, and acknowledges who's really in charge.
"Life Confirmed At Extreme Depths"
For some reason I thought this story was going to be about Slashdot.
I thought we were against digitized cops with access to all our private data.
I can tell you exactly what info the cops want. They want whatever they can get their hands on that will enable them to go home alive after their shift and be with their families. Nothing more, nothing less.
A very intentional side effect of this is that you'll probably stand a better chance of doing the exact same thing.
... was DEC's adoption of exclusionary tactics. Smack dab in the middle of the interoperability wars that bestowed fleeting fame on AT&T UNIX, DEC decided to build walls around every product they made. OSF/1 may have been a superior O/S but it wasn't SVR4 and it wasn't FIPS compliant, and for a while we couldn't purchase it. And a just a little while later, it didn't matter.
Ken Olsen was spot on with his snake oil pronouncement, but it helped kill the company.
AT&T does not own the UNIX "brand". The UNIX trademark has belonged to the Open Group for more than a decade.
http://www.unix.org/
I thought this problem had already been adequately solved by that scientist who used his penis to sink heat away from his laptop. So maybe this new heatpipe won't get blisters?
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http://www.manningworldnews.com/archives/00000264
I offer my son as proof that life originates underwater... undoubtedly due to that bit of sex in the hot tub with the wife-to-be one cold August night.
1. Manufacture mountains of PC-related waste.
2. Promote laws to subsidize PC waste disposal.
3. Apply for those selfsame government subsidies.
4. Profit!
Wal-Mart has cast-iron gonads to pull this shit. For $DEITY's sake, they're the sneaky underhanded outfit that sends spies into all the neighboring stores with UPC scanners and laptops so they can undercut the competition by $.01 and drive them out of business. If you try to throw a Wal-Mart spy out of your store, they get all up-tight and start screaming about freedoms and rights and the law and all that shit.
Sounds to me like Wal-Mart is way overdue for a taste of their own medicine.
Join the U.S. armed services and you may soon be able to make a high-tech vacation to Baghdad to see some of their many engineering projects... and bomb them into rubble.
Now if he'd gotten it fitted into a 'Z' scale loco, that would've earned him some serious bragging rights indeed! HO is for people with big basements; us apartment-dwellers are stuck with 'Z', or if you're unmarried with a spare bedroom maybe 'N'. BTW 'Z' scale = 1:220, the smallest commercially available scale.
... it cured my insomnia.