Don't be ridiculous! You KNOW the USPTO would never allow somebody to patent something that had already been invented! Or something that was completely obvious!
Re:Last time I checked, UNIX was a trademark
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What is UNIX, Anyway?
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If Linux is a kernel, where is Solaris/Linux (in the same misbegotten naming scheme as GNU/Linux)? That makes no sense, of course, since the operating system *is* the kernel plus whatever runs on it. Linux is Linux, GNU is GNU, and Solaris is Solaris. Name/modifier is crap/shit. Just say no to crap/shit.
You jerk! You moderated my off-topic posting as Flamebait! How could you?!? It was offtopic! See it in the menu there?!? Offtopic, not Flamebait! Get it right next time, sheesh! Now I'm going to wear out the exclamation mark on my keyboard because of you!
Yes, that was exactly my point. The "product" was directed at school administrators who had to be seen to be "doing something" about Internet porn. My assumption was that the product would never succeed at blocking porn, but instead it would succeed at insulating administrators from irate parents. THAT is a solvable problem, and THAT is why school administrators are so happy and willing to buy these products (whether legally mandated or not).
What about KA9Q's NOS? That was around from the early 80's as part of TCP/IP experiments in amateur radio. Original version ran on an Amiga. KA9Q is one of the reasons why hams have their own class-A network (44). -russ
This is all about the war on drugs. Yes, never leave a bank with more than $5K in cash. If a criminal catches you with it, it's gone. If a cop catches you with it, it's gone. What has this country come to?
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that nobody else here is either. If you want legal advice you can rely on in a court of law, you should ask a lawyer. -russ
Exactly! Nobody uses more than 10% of Word. What happens is that Microsoft can amortize the cost of a feature over so many sales that everybody gets everybody else's feature. In an OpenDocument world, you would use a word processor that only had the features you need. -russ
pgaccess started down that road, but it's written in TCL/Tk (ewwwww, yuck -- the only thing worse than a byte-coded interpreted language is a string interpreted language -- and I say that from the perspective of having written one of each).
Many years ago on the com-priv mailing list, I posted a message "announcing" the creation of a company which would sit on your network, watching the sites that your users visited. When a "bad" site was visited, it would forge a TCP RST to close down the connection. Various categories of badness were proposed, with varying fees. I thought "This is an idea too stupid for words, so I'll put it into words so everyone can see how stupid it is." Well, I had several parties contact me for availability and pricing, because they WANTED to censor their users' browsing. I was so naive. -russ
Interesting. My 50' tower supported against a building at 15' had a 1" ice load and didn't fail. No wind, though. None at all. Damn good thing, because trees were falling all around us. You could go outside and hear another limb crack every 30 seconds. The trees still haven't fully recovered from the Great Ice Storm of 1998.
No, overengineering was the amount of concrete he buried. He's got enough foundation for a tower twice that height. No, make that three times. All he really needed was four feet (no, wait, he's in Canada; make that 3.3 meters unless he's in Quebec in which case make it 3.3 metres) of Sonatube filled with about four square feet of concrete; barely more than a yard.
Ahhh, but if you have a pickup truck, you don't need a tower. Just get two 10' poles from Radio Shack. Stick 'em together to make a 20' pole. Get their guy wire mounting kit. Get four tie-down straps, and the mount points for the stake holes in the pickup. Attach the tie-downs to the guy mounting ring. Attach your antenna to the top of the pole. Hoist the pole up, and attach the tie-downs to the mount points. Voila'! A tower in a bed. Hey, it gets you 23' up in the air, which isn't bad for temporary. -russ p.s. you may need help hoisting the pole. 20' is damn long.
Big companies don't steal unproven ideas. They wait until you've made a ton of money off your idea, and THEN they steal it whether you have a patent or not. So, the real question is: do you want J. Randoms to be able to patent ideas which are already in the public domain (status quo), or would you rather live without those few ideas which require a huge up-front investment before they even begin to make money? I'd prefer the latter to having my ideas stolen (and I've already had my ideas stolen by a patent thief, thankyouverymuch).
You need to read more recent news reports, because they've back-pedalled from the initial news reports proclaiming the death of the whitelist. And if you're sending lots of mail and can't get on their whitelist, well, you deserve to be blocked. -russ
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That's why you run djbdns -- by default it's closed to recursive queries.
Don't be ridiculous! You KNOW the USPTO would never allow somebody to patent something that had already been invented! Or something that was completely obvious!
If Linux is a kernel, where is Solaris/Linux (in the same misbegotten naming scheme as GNU/Linux)? That makes no sense, of course, since the operating system *is* the kernel plus whatever runs on it. Linux is Linux, GNU is GNU, and Solaris is Solaris. Name/modifier is crap/shit. Just say no to crap/shit.
I vote for syslog as the most drug-induced facility.
http://worldwindcentral.com/ is more likely to have scientific data sets than Google Earth.
GOOG won't be a value stock any time soon.
And it should be on a private island.
You jerk! You moderated my off-topic posting as Flamebait! How could you?!? It was offtopic! See it in the menu there?!? Offtopic, not Flamebait! Get it right next time, sheesh! Now I'm going to wear out the exclamation mark on my keyboard because of you!
Yes, that was exactly my point. The "product" was directed at school administrators who had to be seen to be "doing something" about Internet porn. My assumption was that the product would never succeed at blocking porn, but instead it would succeed at insulating administrators from irate parents. THAT is a solvable problem, and THAT is why school administrators are so happy and willing to buy these products (whether legally mandated or not).
What about KA9Q's NOS? That was around from the early 80's as part of TCP/IP experiments in amateur radio. Original version ran on an Amiga. KA9Q is one of the reasons why hams have their own class-A network (44).
-russ
This is all about the war on drugs. Yes, never leave a bank with more than $5K in cash. If a criminal catches you with it, it's gone. If a cop catches you with it, it's gone. What has this country come to?
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that nobody else here is either. If you want legal advice you can rely on in a court of law, you should ask a lawyer.
-russ
So, Taco-breath, when are we going to be able to moderate articles? Because surely this one deserves to be rated -1, Troll.
Exactly! Nobody uses more than 10% of Word. What happens is that Microsoft can amortize the cost of a feature over so many sales that everybody gets everybody else's feature. In an OpenDocument world, you would use a word processor that only had the features you need.
-russ
pgaccess started down that road, but it's written in TCL/Tk (ewwwww, yuck -- the only thing worse than a byte-coded interpreted language is a string interpreted language -- and I say that from the perspective of having written one of each).
Many years ago on the com-priv mailing list, I posted a message "announcing" the creation of a company which would sit on your network, watching the sites that your users visited. When a "bad" site was visited, it would forge a TCP RST to close down the connection. Various categories of badness were proposed, with varying fees. I thought "This is an idea too stupid for words, so I'll put it into words so everyone can see how stupid it is." Well, I had several parties contact me for availability and pricing, because they WANTED to censor their users' browsing. I was so naive.
-russ
Sure ... almost anything .... except baling wire.
Interesting. My 50' tower supported against a building at 15' had a 1" ice load and didn't fail. No wind, though. None at all. Damn good thing, because trees were falling all around us. You could go outside and hear another limb crack every 30 seconds. The trees still haven't fully recovered from the Great Ice Storm of 1998.
s/3.3/1.3/g
Sigh.
No, overengineering was the amount of concrete he buried. He's got enough foundation for a tower twice that height. No, make that three times. All he really needed was four feet (no, wait, he's in Canada; make that 3.3 meters unless he's in Quebec in which case make it 3.3 metres) of Sonatube filled with about four square feet of concrete; barely more than a yard.
Ahhh, but if you have a pickup truck, you don't need a tower. Just get two 10' poles from Radio Shack. Stick 'em together to make a 20' pole. Get their guy wire mounting kit. Get four tie-down straps, and the mount points for the stake holes in the pickup. Attach the tie-downs to the guy mounting ring. Attach your antenna to the top of the pole. Hoist the pole up, and attach the tie-downs to the mount points. Voila'! A tower in a bed. Hey, it gets you 23' up in the air, which isn't bad for temporary.
-russ
p.s. you may need help hoisting the pole. 20' is damn long.
Big companies don't steal unproven ideas. They wait until you've made a ton of money off your idea, and THEN they steal it whether you have a patent or not. So, the real question is: do you want J. Randoms to be able to patent ideas which are already in the public domain (status quo), or would you rather live without those few ideas which require a huge up-front investment before they even begin to make money? I'd prefer the latter to having my ideas stolen (and I've already had my ideas stolen by a patent thief, thankyouverymuch).
How do we know that their patent actually worked if they didn't have a product for sale?
You need to read more recent news reports, because they've back-pedalled from the initial news reports proclaiming the death of the whitelist. And if you're sending lots of mail and can't get on their whitelist, well, you deserve to be blocked.
-russ
I put a 50' tower up here and nobody complained.