I'd think that the nvidia logo displayed by Xorg at startup might qualify as prior art. as part of Xorg, it is arguably part of the OS, and stops the progress of the OS while it is displayed on screen. it certainly is advertising.
In this case: The person who legally obtained a copy of the binary code.
This means that every person who has obtained binary code but not source, can seek injunction from the distributor through a court of law. They're the ones that can initiate legal relief against HTC.
Quite often in GPL cases, someone who _owns_ copyright in said code, will purchase a device with said binary code, since as a copyright holder, they can demonstrate merit (a violation of a license means copyright applies, and the copyright holder can then sue for copyright violation). Without a copyright holder, a licensee can still sue for his/her rights under the license, but this hasn't been proven in court as far as I know.
maybe, but Toyota overstepped a line, and it's her due right to try to make them accountable.
In the end, Toyota impersonated another person and royally overstepped the boundary of the agreement with her to send her marketing messages from Toyota.
Consider: If I grant access to my restricted private house to friend X, I can surely legally restrict that same person if he impersonates another person. According to the original agreement I must provide access to friend X, but I have no legal way to distinguish between friend X and what he impersonates, so I can clearly deny him access. The same holds for Toyota: they cannot impersonate the US President, the Police and waive this lawsuit away by saying that they had the right to send messages. While impersonating the Police is a felony (obviously), impersonating someone random immediately voids the e-mail agreement, since there is no way for the "victim" here to distinguish between them. (Toyota can send her messages, vs. Toyota impersonating a stalker).
IOW, this is in terrible bad taste. Toyota screwed up badly, and the law will likely be against them.
You're not judging the scientific value, but the presentation instead.
Many wild and ingenious scientific discoveries have been produced with less pretty and less well-documented publications. Perhaps it would be best to review the data instead?
I don't get how anyone can claim they have the right to being cured of any sickness they get. Doctors work their asses off to get where they are. How fair is it for those doctors to have to treat bums off the street who haven't contributed anything to society.
Let's talk after you lose your job (and insurance) and get into an accident. Like for instance a drunk driver T-boning you. Let's also talk after you lose your house, retirement and savings. I for sure, hope that will never happen to anyone. Yet it does.
Just like medical predators and ambulance chasing lawyers, I congratulate them for driving health care costs to the point where litigation avoidance - not patient care or comfort, is the deciding factor in medical decisions. No one can afford to get sick without insurance in the US, and frankly not everyone can even afford the insurance. Thus, the health care system is broken, and thus - it HAS to get fixed NOW.
What makes you assume that it will get fixed? As far as I can see, there is a significant portion of people in the government that would love to continue seeing it "broken". As a matter of fact, plenty of people will attest that US health care is not broken at all.
Personally, I don't think that "US health care" even exists.... but that's just me.
Microsoft did admit it. In an internal memo Bill Gates wrote in 1991:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
it's not a good idea. While it may alleviate symptoms right now just watch the bots catch up with this game and start scanning all ports on your system.
what would you rather have? a bot that scans all ports or *just* port 22?
trying to defeat this problem by 'obscurity' will not work. that has been proven many times before. Just secure your port 22 properly like everyone else, and the problem will go away over time.
well, you're forgetting that it's perfectly legal to get sick and die inside your own property. And never have bought health insurance nor use health care.
skip gym? I had plenty of fun at gym when I went to public school in the Netherlands. Like 15 years ago. Oh, yeah, I forgot we didn't have fat kids really in school either. And we all pretty much had fun. We even played baseball and basketball.
I never skipped gym, that was a rather rare thing to happen anyways. But we weren't plugged in and treated like lab rats either.
a referral note to a doc docters' referal note to the parents is the right thing to do if teachers suspect kids are falling behind. Monitoring their medical status is borderline going too far, especially if records are kept. Schools are not puppy breed farms, thank you. Kids come there to learn, not to be plugged into monitors or pee in cups daily.
mrcaseyj wrote: > >> C3ntaur wrote: >> I invite anyone who claims CO2 is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes. > > I invite anyone who claims pure water is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
I invite anyone who claims pure oxygen is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes
Someone is making money over your need, and artifically keeping the price high
We've already paid for fifty generations of Windows software, yet received only 7. You lost a significant amount of money. You paid for it through your government taxes, your school tuition, your cost of living, everything.
Now is the time to STOP paying for windows. The longer everyone uses windows, the more you will lose in the long run. And you've lost a lot.
If your school would be 100% open source, and you would be too, you wouldn't have to pay 100$ for office (openoffice is still free) and another 199$ for windows 7 (slap on ubuntu for... free!).
Your school would see reduced virus outbreaks, reduced software license costs, reduced support cost because everyone is running on open standards etc.
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imagine the subtitles.....!
I'd think that the nvidia logo displayed by Xorg at startup might qualify as prior art. as part of Xorg, it is arguably part of the OS, and stops the progress of the OS while it is displayed on screen. it certainly is advertising.
Who is it that administers the GPL?
In this case: The person who legally obtained a copy of the binary code.
This means that every person who has obtained binary code but not source, can seek injunction from the distributor through a court of law. They're the ones that can initiate legal relief against HTC.
Quite often in GPL cases, someone who _owns_ copyright in said code, will purchase a device with said binary code, since as a copyright holder, they can demonstrate merit (a violation of a license means copyright applies, and the copyright holder can then sue for copyright violation). Without a copyright holder, a licensee can still sue for his/her rights under the license, but this hasn't been proven in court as far as I know.
maybe, but Toyota overstepped a line, and it's her due right to try to make them accountable.
In the end, Toyota impersonated another person and royally overstepped the boundary of the agreement with her to send her marketing messages from Toyota.
Consider: If I grant access to my restricted private house to friend X, I can surely legally restrict that same person if he impersonates another person. According to the original agreement I must provide access to friend X, but I have no legal way to distinguish between friend X and what he impersonates, so I can clearly deny him access. The same holds for Toyota: they cannot impersonate the US President, the Police and waive this lawsuit away by saying that they had the right to send messages. While impersonating the Police is a felony (obviously), impersonating someone random immediately voids the e-mail agreement, since there is no way for the "victim" here to distinguish between them. (Toyota can send her messages, vs. Toyota impersonating a stalker).
IOW, this is in terrible bad taste. Toyota screwed up badly, and the law will likely be against them.
The DOE stated.
but seriously, if it came back through time we should be able to detect it.
You're not judging the scientific value, but the presentation instead.
Many wild and ingenious scientific discoveries have been produced with less pretty and less well-documented publications. Perhaps it would be best to review the data instead?
that would need scientists to answer then, not lawyers.
I don't get how anyone can claim they have the right to being cured of any sickness they get. Doctors work their asses off to get where they are. How fair is it for those doctors to have to treat bums off the street who haven't contributed anything to society.
Let's talk after you lose your job (and insurance) and get into an accident. Like for instance a drunk driver T-boning you. Let's also talk after you lose your house, retirement and savings. I for sure, hope that will never happen to anyone. Yet it does.
Out of curiosity, where did you emigrate to? How does this country live up to the US? Was this a major factor?
Just like medical predators and ambulance chasing lawyers, I congratulate them for driving health care costs to the point where litigation avoidance - not patient care or comfort, is the deciding factor in medical decisions. No one can afford to get sick without insurance in the US, and frankly not everyone can even afford the insurance. Thus, the health care system is broken, and thus - it HAS to get fixed NOW.
What makes you assume that it will get fixed? As far as I can see, there is a significant portion of people in the government that would love to continue seeing it "broken". As a matter of fact, plenty of people will attest that US health care is not broken at all.
Personally, I don't think that "US health care" even exists.... but that's just me.
well, THIS certainly is a great way to make the US market even less appealing for Toyota.
All this will accomplish is: more expensive cars, less innovation, less competition. Exactly what patents are designed to achieve.
the double of 64 bits address space is ... 65 bits of address space ;)
Microsoft did admit it. In an internal memo Bill Gates wrote in 1991:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
it's not a good idea. While it may alleviate symptoms right now just watch the bots catch up with this game and start scanning all ports on your system.
what would you rather have? a bot that scans all ports or *just* port 22?
trying to defeat this problem by 'obscurity' will not work. that has been proven many times before. Just secure your port 22 properly like everyone else, and the problem will go away over time.
well, you're forgetting that it's perfectly legal to get sick and die inside your own property. And never have bought health insurance nor use health care.
skip gym? I had plenty of fun at gym when I went to public school in the Netherlands. Like 15 years ago. Oh, yeah, I forgot we didn't have fat kids really in school either. And we all pretty much had fun. We even played baseball and basketball.
I never skipped gym, that was a rather rare thing to happen anyways. But we weren't plugged in and treated like lab rats either.
students can talk. simply asking how they are doing is a much better way to mitigate the threat of a lawsuit than showing a heart rate monitor output.
we're talking about people here, not lab rats.
how convenient
a monitor won't show that the child has complained ten times. or is dehydrated. or is developing a headache.
OT, but please, indulge me how you are looking at the various possible health care reform plans that are being discussed in Congress right now!
no
a referral note to a doc docters' referal note to the parents is the right thing to do if teachers suspect kids are falling behind. Monitoring their medical status is borderline going too far, especially if records are kept. Schools are not puppy breed farms, thank you. Kids come there to learn, not to be plugged into monitors or pee in cups daily.
mrcaseyj wrote:
>
>> C3ntaur wrote:
>> I invite anyone who claims CO2 is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
>
> I invite anyone who claims pure water is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.
I invite anyone who claims pure oxygen is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes
How can you draw that parallel? That's just wrong. Your logic must have a field day^H^H^Hdecade.
Almost every organization you have contact with pays money to Microsoft, pretty much none pay money to the other two organizations you mention above.
it can't ever be as cheap as purely open source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Someone is making money over your need, and artifically keeping the price high
We've already paid for fifty generations of Windows software, yet received only 7. You lost a significant amount of money. You paid for it through your government taxes, your school tuition, your cost of living, everything.
Now is the time to STOP paying for windows. The longer everyone uses windows, the more you will lose in the long run. And you've lost a lot.
If your school would be 100% open source, and you would be too, you wouldn't have to pay 100$ for office (openoffice is still free) and another 199$ for windows 7 (slap on ubuntu for ... free!).
Your school would see reduced virus outbreaks, reduced software license costs, reduced support cost because everyone is running on open standards etc.