I don't know about that. The webserver never really needs to see the CC#s. The customer is probably not going to need (or want) the website to re-display their own number... This is something they already have. All it might need to do -- as you mentioned -- is confirm the number; an action that does not require the webserver to actualyly have the number.
A perfectly viable method would be to send the pending credit-card number over to the database server, and have it (and it alone with access to the actual numbers) confirm it.
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Where did you get the idea that, because their dollar is worth less than our dollar, everything costs less? Things cost mostly the same -- they just spend more 'dollars' on them.
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Big deal. You don't need to send a working copy of your atomic particle-smasher to the Patent Office to get a patent on it. What difference does it make whether they've actually built one or not?
The patent is not on the manifestation of the idea. The patent is on the idea itself.
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That's simply not true. Patent law encourages people to build upon the ideas of others. A mouse-trap may be patented, but the patent system we use in the US allows me to develop a new mouse-trap based on the original specs and patent my design, provided that I have creatively improved upon the original.
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This is true. The original poster was wrong in assuming that Borland would be using any GPL'ed code at all. Trolltech duel-licenses their Qt libraries, under both a commercial license and the GPL (previously the QPL). Borland does not have to release Kylix under the GPL because they are not using any GPL'ed software to begin with... They've paid for the commercial version.
Alternatively, the may have an entirely seperate license from Trolltech that we know nothing about. Regardless, you can be sure that they are not under any obligation to release Kylix under the GPL.
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They do not advocate piracy. However, they most certainly do advocate disregarding of copyright laws when it comes to this community's interests. Just today Slashdot posted this: "The code is afaik unavailable, but hopefully folks who downloaded it will have mirrors soon.", in response to a cease-and-desist order from a company.
It's like saying "Oh crap, we're in trouble -- better make sure they can't do anything about it.", rather than allowing a judge to decide the legality of their code.
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I hope you're kidding. 1) That would not be an NDA and 2) It would be clearly unenforcable, since to actually agree/disagree with the license, you'd already have to view the source code (since you put the license there). On top of this, HTML is an unencoded language, and is tranmitted in a cleartext stream. It's manner of display is determined by the client, not the server, so if I decide that I'd rather look at websites in their raw HTML form (as opposed to using a layout system like IE or Mozilla), that's simply my choice.
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If you mean printed the actual Hex values out, then I don't think so... Since no one could ever interperet a shirt covered in hex-codes as the actual image, you'd be hard-pressed to prosecute such a case.
However, if the picture was recognizable on this t-shirt, it would most definitely be a copyright infringement. The fact that it's on a t-shirt makes no difference.
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I'd have to agree with you in terms of appearance. Sites like Zope's Squishdot and this Hobbes site are made to look *exactly* like their inspiration. I much prefer sites that borrow the ideas of interface, but give appearance its own flavor. A perfect example of this is the now-defunct kuro5hin.org. K5 clearly borrowed almost all of its interface ideas from Slashdot, but in terms of appearance it was much easier on the eyes, and didn't really look like Slashdot at all.
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Well it's fair to say that certain DOS games will not be playable under Win2k, it's not Microsoft's fault if a Windows game-designer doesn't plan ahead in their OS-checking code.
I just downloaded Windows ME from MSDN (the final CD hasn't come yet), and although it looks promising, it runs *less* software, since it doesn't support the NT-side of the Win32 API.
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Win2k breaks all existing apps, eh? Win2k will run almost ALL existing apps. I'm running it now, and the only thing I've had trouble with are some drivers which were written for NT4, and a CD-Writer suite which I downloaded an update for.
I don't know where you got that information from, but it's dead wrong.
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Although I agree with you about why it is so, I don't think it's true that advertisers can't handle the 4-character domains. Look at.co.uk -- there are plenty of them, and if you're in England it's very common to see them advertised. It's just easier to say and remember "DOT COM" than "DOT CO DOT US", so advertisers would rather not switch when they've got it good already.
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You're making a mistake in even assuming that you're "buying" a software license. You're not. You're licensing it. There's a difference, which you clearly understand, else you wouldn't have made the argument in the first place.
In the case of the license plate, the state owns it, and you're just putting it on your car. You don't own it, nor are you licensing it. The only reason it's there is because the law says you have to attach it. When you pay for a vanity plate, you aren't buying that either; what you're buying from them is the usage of a series of digits of your choosing, rather than there's.
The very definition of selling/buying something involves giving up/gaining ownership of it, which in turns makes said item "property". However, just because you've given money to someone for a service, doesn't mean you've bought anything at all.
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It would not go unnoticed that there were large soundwaves at work. As soon as they hit their target (bowels, ears, etc.) they will bounce off and be audible elsewhere.
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I would not consider the keyboard or mouse to be a hardware component of the actual computer. In terms of processing, you can't use an abacus without directly manipulating the hardware. You can certainly do so with a PC.
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There's nothing even remotely constituting an operating system on the abacus. Every operation that can be performed with an abacus has to be manually done by actually interfacing with the hardware.
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Slashdot Mirror
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A perfectly viable method would be to send the pending credit-card number over to the database server, and have it (and it alone with access to the actual numbers) confirm it.
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The patent is not on the manifestation of the idea. The patent is on the idea itself.
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Alternatively, the may have an entirely seperate license from Trolltech that we know nothing about. Regardless, you can be sure that they are not under any obligation to release Kylix under the GPL.
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It's like saying "Oh crap, we're in trouble -- better make sure they can't do anything about it.", rather than allowing a judge to decide the legality of their code.
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However, if the picture was recognizable on this t-shirt, it would most definitely be a copyright infringement. The fact that it's on a t-shirt makes no difference.
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I just downloaded Windows ME from MSDN (the final CD hasn't come yet), and although it looks promising, it runs *less* software, since it doesn't support the NT-side of the Win32 API.
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I don't know where you got that information from, but it's dead wrong.
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In the case of the license plate, the state owns it, and you're just putting it on your car. You don't own it, nor are you licensing it. The only reason it's there is because the law says you have to attach it. When you pay for a vanity plate, you aren't buying that either; what you're buying from them is the usage of a series of digits of your choosing, rather than there's.
The very definition of selling/buying something involves giving up/gaining ownership of it, which in turns makes said item "property". However, just because you've given money to someone for a service, doesn't mean you've bought anything at all.
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