The point of the parent was that we get most of our chips from other countries, and maybe they will stop giving them to us if they are used to kick their ass.
Its not a valid point tho. We buy chips from po-dunk asian countries because they are cheap, not because we can't make them ourselves. Further, the bulk of the chips we do buy from overseas are commodity chips, RAM and processors, which we can get from anywhere. All the custom logic stuff would be made here, because it would be too classified to send over to korea/taiwan
the URL standad allows for a username and password, but it is not required. However, the HTTP and HTTPS section of the URL standard specifically disallow the use of a username and password
read section 3 : (some of the text below is garbled, because I dont feel like escaping out all the > and < in the text below, however that does not change the important bits.)
3.3 HTTP The HTTP URL scheme is used to designate Internet resources accessible using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).
The HTTP protocol is specified elsewhere. This specification only describes the syntax of HTTP URLs.
An HTTP URL takes the form:
http://>:/?
where and are as described in Section 3.1. If : is omitted, the port defaults to 80. No user name or password is allowed. is an HTTP selector, and is a query string. The is optional, as is the and its preceding "?". If neither nor is present, the "/" may also be omitted.
Within the and components, "/", ";", "?" are reserved. The "/" character may be used within HTTP to designate a hierarchical structure.
When the RFC actually specifies that a username and password ARE NOT ALLOWED, I think that is quite reasonable to eliminate a security threat, AND become more in line with the actual standard.
they don't have to prove libel to just cancel your service.
First ammendment says you get to say what you want. It doesnt say that any particular company/newspaper/tv station has to help you broadcast your message.
The "reproductive advantage" is when a particular animal has some trait that lets it live long enough to reproduce, thereby letting its genes move forward through the generations.
a) It is concivable that there is some trait that will allow this fish to survive better, but since it cannot reproduce, at worst, the problem will only last for the lifetime of any individual animals out in the wild.
b) many animals will move on to a new mate if they don't get fertilized (except those that mate for life, and I don't think many fish do that). Therefore the sterile fish just gets laid, but shoots blanks (yes, I know fish dont actually have sex that way, its a metaphor). and then the female finds someone else.
c) even if a particular animal in the wild does "tie up" one otherwise fertile animal out there, the number of animals in the wild, compared to the number of unmodified animals in the wild would be so small as to be insignificant.
I think its a pretty big step between saying "I can make an arm, and a leg, and a heart, and hell, everything else" that is better than a human one,
AND
"I can put your brain into a computer"
Now I could see, putting your brain in a box, with a big pipe connected to it, and living via a robot you controlled by RC, and having thousands of eyes (webcams) all over the world that you were seeing through simultaniously. But actually living in the computer (ala Lawnmowerman) is a long long way away.
Well, obviously we are a nation largly comprised of immigrants, but most people have had their families been in the country for several generations. Its concivable that my father has allegances to foreign powers, and has instilled those alleigences in me as well.
How is this less communication than when using a punch card? These people are paid by the hour. Therefore there needs to be a good way to tell the time that the showed up, and the time that they left.
Game companies can control that very easily, by raising their prices. This both increases revenue per subscriber, and reduces the number of subscribers to whatever level they want.
Just normal economy of scale.
Also, they could create an artificial shortage, by not raising prices, but just capping the maximum number of users.
Have you read the EU constitution? That is the biggest pile of beurocracy and pork and crap that there ever was. Buerocracy (and yes, I know I am misspelling that word, I just cant be bothered to look it up at the moment) is the source of corruption.
GPL is enforcable. The reason it is "enforcable" against a minor is because someone bound by the contract has no incentive to nullify the contract. If they nullify it (which they could, by saying they are a minor), they lose the ability to use or distribute the code.
Implied agreement to the contract. Since you are using the content, you agreed. If you didn't agree, you dont have the license, and are violating the law.
Verbal contracts are binding, and you didnt sign anything there either.
You recived the license to use the code. In exchange, you agreed to certain restrictions on that use. Further, if you want to use it a certain way (by distributing it), you agreed to even more. Thats what your obligation is.
Simmilarly, a settlement for a civil suit : I agree to give you money, you agree to not suing me. You didn't actually give me anything, just a promise to do something (or not do something) in the future.
The paralegal got it 1/2 right. There is a difference between a contract and a license, however, the GPL is both.
A license is one thing : permission to use something that isn't yours.
A contract is a set of obligations for two or more parties.
a EULA is a license, given if you comply with the terms of the contract (pay, release code into the GPL).
The license is revoked if you fail to comply with the contract.
But the license is the permission, not the terms.
He is correct, that you would try to suesomeone under copyright law, rather than contract law, but this has nothing to do with which laws are applicable : both are.
However, the remedies available under copyright law are much more stringent, and therefore more useful.
Under contract law, pretty much all you can get are recouped losses, and a nullification of the contract.
In the case of the GPL, the losses are nothing, since nothing was paid, and the nullification of the contract just revokes the license. That gets you back to use of the content without a license, which is handled under copyright law.
Actually, there have been several times where people have found "bugs" in the market. Examples:
second traders, who buy from one broker and sell to another, in the split second with the two brokers have different prices, and make instant money.
Currency Exchangers that find descrepancies in the exchange rates of different currencies, and can exchange the money "in a circle" and make money.
In both of these cases, either laws were created, or broker trading rules were changed, or the exchange rates eventually balanced out. However the gains made prior to the changes were not retroactively removed.
I think what made us cool was that suddenly we could pull down 40-60K right out of school, and Some of us make millions, while the Football QB is pulling down 30k in his insurance sales position.
He was correctly stating that Physics (like all science) is the pursuit of knowledge, and then usually the dissenmination of that knowledge so you can get nifty awards, and have people build off of your work, and you can have your name be immortal. Therefore that is quite the opposite of hidden.
On the other hand, esoteric might be a more applicable word.
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The point of the parent was that we get most of our chips from other countries, and maybe they will stop giving them to us if they are used to kick their ass.
Its not a valid point tho. We buy chips from po-dunk asian countries because they are cheap, not because we can't make them ourselves. Further, the bulk of the chips we do buy from overseas are commodity chips, RAM and processors, which we can get from anywhere. All the custom logic stuff would be made here, because it would be too classified to send over to korea/taiwan
No, you are incorrect.
the URL standad allows for a username and password, but it is not required. However, the HTTP and HTTPS section of the URL standard specifically disallow the use of a username and password
URL RFC
read section 3 : (some of the text below is garbled, because I dont feel like escaping out all the > and < in the text below, however that does not change the important bits.)
3.3 HTTP
The HTTP URL scheme is used to designate Internet resources accessible using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).
The HTTP protocol is specified elsewhere. This specification only describes the syntax of HTTP URLs.
An HTTP URL takes the form:
http://>:/?
where and are as described in Section 3.1. If : is omitted, the port defaults to 80. No user name or password is allowed. is an HTTP selector, and is a query string. The is optional, as is the and its preceding "?". If neither nor is present, the "/" may also be omitted.
Within the and components, "/", ";", "?" are reserved. The "/" character may be used within HTTP to designate a hierarchical structure.
When the RFC actually specifies that a username and password ARE NOT ALLOWED, I think that is quite reasonable to eliminate a security threat, AND become more in line with the actual standard.
they don't have to prove libel to just cancel your service.
First ammendment says you get to say what you want. It doesnt say that any particular company/newspaper/tv station has to help you broadcast your message.
The "reproductive advantage" is when a particular animal has some trait that lets it live long enough to reproduce, thereby letting its genes move forward through the generations.
a) It is concivable that there is some trait that will allow this fish to survive better, but since it cannot reproduce, at worst, the problem will only last for the lifetime of any individual animals out in the wild.
b) many animals will move on to a new mate if they don't get fertilized (except those that mate for life, and I don't think many fish do that). Therefore the sterile fish just gets laid, but shoots blanks (yes, I know fish dont actually have sex that way, its a metaphor). and then the female finds someone else.
c) even if a particular animal in the wild does "tie up" one otherwise fertile animal out there, the number of animals in the wild, compared to the number of unmodified animals in the wild would be so small as to be insignificant.
if it costs $8 to buy a new battery, and $4 to buy a new calculator, just buy a new calculator.
Bush gave the right of every Iraqi family to have an ak47 and clips actually. (You can't have a bunch of AKs tho, if you do that makes you a bad guy).
Its really disgusting that when you sign a contract, you need to read every clause.
perhaps there is some selctive advantage for being a latent carrier of that gene.
I think its a pretty big step between saying "I can make an arm, and a leg, and a heart, and hell, everything else" that is better than a human one,
AND
"I can put your brain into a computer"
Now I could see, putting your brain in a box, with a big pipe connected to it, and living via a robot you controlled by RC, and having thousands of eyes (webcams) all over the world that you were seeing through simultaniously. But actually living in the computer (ala Lawnmowerman) is a long long way away.
Robocop I could see in the next 50 years.
Well, obviously we are a nation largly comprised of immigrants, but most people have had their families been in the country for several generations. Its concivable that my father has allegances to foreign powers, and has instilled those alleigences in me as well.
I am very white, and I get stopped every single time I fly, and my luggage is searched.
My dad is an immigrant, but thats the only thing wierd about me.
How is this less communication than when using a punch card? These people are paid by the hour. Therefore there needs to be a good way to tell the time that the showed up, and the time that they left.
thats a feature of the editor you are using. Its looking for the ; to terminate the edit mode.
More GUI oriented editors dont have that feature/issue
Game companies can control that very easily, by raising their prices. This both increases revenue per subscriber, and reduces the number of subscribers to whatever level they want.
Just normal economy of scale.
Also, they could create an artificial shortage, by not raising prices, but just capping the maximum number of users.
Have you read the EU constitution? That is the biggest pile of beurocracy and pork and crap that there ever was. Buerocracy (and yes, I know I am misspelling that word, I just cant be bothered to look it up at the moment) is the source of corruption.
I think you are overestimating the population of north america at the time.
GPL is enforcable. The reason it is "enforcable" against a minor is because someone bound by the contract has no incentive to nullify the contract. If they nullify it (which they could, by saying they are a minor), they lose the ability to use or distribute the code.
You do not have the right to use the code through normal copyright law. You need a license to use it. If you don't have a license, that is piracy.
Implied agreement to the contract. Since you are using the content, you agreed. If you didn't agree, you dont have the license, and are violating the law.
Verbal contracts are binding, and you didnt sign anything there either.
You recived the license to use the code. In exchange, you agreed to certain restrictions on that use. Further, if you want to use it a certain way (by distributing it), you agreed to even more. Thats what your obligation is.
Simmilarly, a settlement for a civil suit : I agree to give you money, you agree to not suing me. You didn't actually give me anything, just a promise to do something (or not do something) in the future.
The paralegal got it 1/2 right. There is a difference between a contract and a license, however, the GPL is both.
A license is one thing : permission to use something that isn't yours.
A contract is a set of obligations for two or more parties.
a EULA is a license, given if you comply with the terms of the contract (pay, release code into the GPL).
The license is revoked if you fail to comply with the contract.
But the license is the permission, not the terms.
He is correct, that you would try to suesomeone under copyright law, rather than contract law, but this has nothing to do with which laws are applicable : both are.
However, the remedies available under copyright law are much more stringent, and therefore more useful.
Under contract law, pretty much all you can get are recouped losses, and a nullification of the contract.
In the case of the GPL, the losses are nothing, since nothing was paid, and the nullification of the contract just revokes the license. That gets you back to use of the content without a license, which is handled under copyright law.
Actually, there have been several times where people have found "bugs" in the market. Examples :
second traders, who buy from one broker and sell to another, in the split second with the two brokers have different prices, and make instant money.
Currency Exchangers that find descrepancies in the exchange rates of different currencies, and can exchange the money "in a circle" and make money.
In both of these cases, either laws were created, or broker trading rules were changed, or the exchange rates eventually balanced out. However the gains made prior to the changes were not retroactively removed.
I think what made us cool was that suddenly we could pull down 40-60K right out of school, and Some of us make millions, while the Football QB is pulling down 30k in his insurance sales position.
He knows what it means. Occult means hidden.
He was correctly stating that Physics (like all science) is the pursuit of knowledge, and then usually the dissenmination of that knowledge so you can get nifty awards, and have people build off of your work, and you can have your name be immortal. Therefore that is quite the opposite of hidden.
On the other hand, esoteric might be a more applicable word.