Is a mother taking nude pictures of her daughter (non-pornographic, but nude) child porn? Common sense says no, but I know of at
least one case where a mother was approached by social services after being reported by the photo developing house (I hit google, but
can't find a link for it -- anyone?).
Is Doctor Who Magazine published by the BBC? It's certainly going to be licensed by them, not doubt at non-zero expense. You may be seeing a 'copyright owner who would like to make lots of money off of fans' attitude instead.
The receiver (The company that sells the assets) will sell every asset in order to pay off the creditors. Someone will have bought the IP, even if they just bought a 'all remaining assets' black box.
Surely it only makes sense to worry about actual difficulties than theoretical ones?
If person A is looking after their sick daughter, then it makes no difference if it's Alice or Alex, they have equal requirements. Similiarly if person B spends all their nights watching who wants to be a millionaire, it makes no difference if it's Betty or Brian.
However, I'd say that in most circumstances there should be no special consideration for family responsibilities. Anyone is entitiled to take a bit of time off, someone might be getting a new fridge delivered, someone else might be taking his daughter to the hospital. However, if the amount of time off gets exessive, it impacts their ability to do the job, and starts unfairly impacting their co-workers.
I've got a PAM module I wrote once. You drop it into your pam directory, and a bit of configuring, and then you can use the ibutton either in addition to, or instead of, passwords.
Solaris does come with the machine, but the OS supported compiler doesn't, neither do most of the other things that Sun sell to run on Solaris.
/proc is a very good way of exposing the state of a system without complicated API calls. Yes, in theory you can do it all through IOCTL calls, but it's easier to have a file you can read.
Incidentally,/proc is older than linux. I first used it on SVR4, where it had simply the memory image of each process.
Are you talking about HTTP cookies, or earlier ones?
The idea of giving a token to transform a sessionless system into a sessioned one goes way back. In fact, I don't know of any packet switched network implementing sessions without them. TCP has sequence numbers, which do the same thing. HTTP cookies were just the same idea, except level 7.
I have done all of 1) above, and to be honest, I'd rather do Sparc/Solaris than RedHat/Solaris.
Solaris is not the ideal OS, it's/proc is primative compared to Linux, it's obviously more expensive. However, the advantages of having the manufacturer support their own OS are obvious. I KNOW all the drivers will work. I know that the X server will have decent performance.
If Linux was mainly hosted on Sparc, it would be different. But if I'm going to use Sparc hardware, I'm going to choose the OS which is most commonly used on that hardware.
I'm about to look at cataloging my books. I was planning to use a lookup on Amazon to get the details from the UPC code, but this looks like it will be a better resource. (Note, I'll be typing the barcode manually, since I don't have any reader, and I don't belive Radio Shack canada is distributing the cuecats. I have no moral concerns about using one if I'm wrong though).
Got any more good sites you want to tell us about?
The factory owners didn't try to put anyone out of business, except in the same way that businesses are put out today, by being out competeted. If you can make a loom which reduces the cost of making cloth by 95%, then the demand for handmade cloth will go down. No-one was forced to take a job in the mills, in fact many people moved into the areas where the mills are just so they could get a job in one. Yes it was hard work, but it was a better life than working on a farm. It was dangerous, but that was the acceptable standard at the time. Many other jobs, eg mines, were equally dangerous. I have no doubt that in the future, life in the late 20C/Early 21C will be considered dangerous - "You mean you didn't have daily cancer screenings!".
Your examples aren't very comparabile to the suit-counter suit situation.
With for example bread, the baker wins because he gets paid for the bread. I win, because I get bread.
With the suit-counter suit situation, probably at the end of the day there will be a cross licensing agreement made, where macromedia are allowed to continue doing what they are doing, and so are adobe. They could have avoided the whole mess by not doing anything. In this case the lawers win, because they get paid, but the companies loose, because they pay but get nothing in return.
The bar association has complained that the slime molds could be mistaken for lawyers. In a suit filed in federal court the bar claims that slime molds are "slimy, disgusting, and unwanted, all attributes traditionally associated with lawyers."
I meant the process of making a physical item. For example, the process where aluminum is made from bauxite.
If someone gives you some aluminum, and some bauxite, it's not obvious how you got one from the other. You need the patent in order to find this out. If someone gives you ronco's patent electric egg scrambler (in the shell no less), then you can take it apart and find how it works.
There are lots of things that I don't want to do. Doesn't mean that I can't see others having value in doing it.
However, I can certainly see the value of an encrypting filesystem. I'd save my mail on it, so that if someone was to open the case on my system and remove the drive, it doesn't do them any good.
Everyone has some files they'd like to keep private. Unless you go for secured hardware, encryption is the only way to do this. Unless the program supports encryption nativily, then an encrypting filesystem is the second best option.
Patents were originally designed to cover processes. If you had a widget, then the patent would encourage manufactuers to release their way of making widgets, for the benefit of preventing others from making widgets for the period of the patent. This was needed because you can't look at a physical object and know how it was manufactuered.
However, if an algorythm is used in a software product, then it's not impossible for a suitably skilled & equipped programmer to work out what that program is doing, and reproduce it. The process is unseperable from the implementation. In many cases, the exact process used isn't needed, just the concept that it's possible. I don't need to know how widgetsoft's right justification algorythm works, I can make my own. The chances are that my algorythm will be either the same, or quite similar.
I think that explictly legalizing reverse engineering would be a much better way of ensuring that algorythms are not kept properitary.
That's the number of albums they bought, not the size of the segment.
The music industry's customers are like there are 3 teenagers, and 1 adult. Each teenager buys 1 album a month, but the adult buys 4. There are therefore more sales to adults, but the largest segment size is the teenagers. The most profitable market is when you can sell 9 million copies of the same CD, so the teenagers are the ones who the record companies are targetting.
It will take a long time before any sort of screen has the resolution of even the cheapest paperback book. 2400 or 4800 lpi printing is cheap, but even the best monitors don't usally go very much past 100 ppi. Unless we can close this gap, paper copies will be easier to read.
The biggest section of the CD buying public is teenage girls, who don't have credit cards, so you cannot limit purchasers to those who have credit cards.
Are you sure about that, or are you just guessing?
The top selling albums of 1999: BACKSTREET BOYS Millenium,BRITNEY SPEARS,...Baby One More Time, RICKY MARTIN, Ricky Martin. Not albums which the 40+ crowd are going to be buying.
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Salon did a feature on this.
Spend the money on making a large target, which we can put selected people on. When mir crashlands, it will take out those people.
Is Doctor Who Magazine published by the BBC? It's certainly going to be licensed by them, not doubt at non-zero expense. You may be seeing a 'copyright owner who would like to make lots of money off of fans' attitude instead.
The receiver (The company that sells the assets) will sell every asset in order to pay off the creditors. Someone will have bought the IP, even if they just bought a 'all remaining assets' black box.
If person A is looking after their sick daughter, then it makes no difference if it's Alice or Alex, they have equal requirements. Similiarly if person B spends all their nights watching who wants to be a millionaire, it makes no difference if it's Betty or Brian.
However, I'd say that in most circumstances there should be no special consideration for family responsibilities. Anyone is entitiled to take a bit of time off, someone might be getting a new fridge delivered, someone else might be taking his daughter to the hospital. However, if the amount of time off gets exessive, it impacts their ability to do the job, and starts unfairly impacting their co-workers.
I've got a PAM module I wrote once. You drop it into your pam directory, and a bit of configuring, and then you can use the ibutton either in addition to, or instead of, passwords.
Now go and buy Visual C++ like uncle Bill tells you to do.
That sounds more like copyright to me. I can't make a speaker the same as yours without copying the design.
Incidentally, /proc is older than linux. I first used it on SVR4, where it had simply the memory image of each process.
The idea of giving a token to transform a sessionless system into a sessioned one goes way back. In fact, I don't know of any packet switched network implementing sessions without them. TCP has sequence numbers, which do the same thing. HTTP cookies were just the same idea, except level 7.
Solaris is not the ideal OS, it's /proc is primative compared to Linux, it's obviously more expensive. However, the advantages of having the manufacturer support their own OS are obvious. I KNOW all the drivers will work. I know that the X server will have decent performance.
If Linux was mainly hosted on Sparc, it would be different. But if I'm going to use Sparc hardware, I'm going to choose the OS which is most commonly used on that hardware.
I belive, according to USPS regulations, if you get something sent to you unsolicitated, inform the sender, and they do not pay for return shipping, then it then becomes your property. Unfortunatly, there isn't much on this on the USPS website, but at Federal law prohibits the shipment of unordered merchandise. Such a practice may constitute an unfair trade practice. Merchandise mailed in violation of United States Code may be treated as a gift by the recipient without any obligation to the sender.
Got any more good sites you want to tell us about?
The factory owners didn't try to put anyone out of business, except in the same way that businesses are put out today, by being out competeted. If you can make a loom which reduces the cost of making cloth by 95%, then the demand for handmade cloth will go down. No-one was forced to take a job in the mills, in fact many people moved into the areas where the mills are just so they could get a job in one. Yes it was hard work, but it was a better life than working on a farm. It was dangerous, but that was the acceptable standard at the time. Many other jobs, eg mines, were equally dangerous. I have no doubt that in the future, life in the late 20C/Early 21C will be considered dangerous - "You mean you didn't have daily cancer screenings!".
With for example bread, the baker wins because he gets paid for the bread. I win, because I get bread.
With the suit-counter suit situation, probably at the end of the day there will be a cross licensing agreement made, where macromedia are allowed to continue doing what they are doing, and so are adobe. They could have avoided the whole mess by not doing anything. In this case the lawers win, because they get paid, but the companies loose, because they pay but get nothing in return.
The bar association has complained that the slime molds could be mistaken for lawyers. In a suit filed in federal court the bar claims that slime molds are "slimy, disgusting, and unwanted, all attributes traditionally associated with lawyers."
If someone gives you some aluminum, and some bauxite, it's not obvious how you got one from the other. You need the patent in order to find this out. If someone gives you ronco's patent electric egg scrambler (in the shell no less), then you can take it apart and find how it works.
How long until someone mentions vi or emacs?
I thought that windows _WAS_ random crap.
However, I can certainly see the value of an encrypting filesystem. I'd save my mail on it, so that if someone was to open the case on my system and remove the drive, it doesn't do them any good. Everyone has some files they'd like to keep private. Unless you go for secured hardware, encryption is the only way to do this. Unless the program supports encryption nativily, then an encrypting filesystem is the second best option.
However, if an algorythm is used in a software product, then it's not impossible for a suitably skilled & equipped programmer to work out what that program is doing, and reproduce it. The process is unseperable from the implementation. In many cases, the exact process used isn't needed, just the concept that it's possible. I don't need to know how widgetsoft's right justification algorythm works, I can make my own. The chances are that my algorythm will be either the same, or quite similar.
I think that explictly legalizing reverse engineering would be a much better way of ensuring that algorythms are not kept properitary.
The music industry's customers are like there are 3 teenagers, and 1 adult. Each teenager buys 1 album a month, but the adult buys 4. There are therefore more sales to adults, but the largest segment size is the teenagers. The most profitable market is when you can sell 9 million copies of the same CD, so the teenagers are the ones who the record companies are targetting.
It will take a long time before any sort of screen has the resolution of even the cheapest paperback book. 2400 or 4800 lpi printing is cheap, but even the best monitors don't usally go very much past 100 ppi. Unless we can close this gap, paper copies will be easier to read.
There are some newer books, such as the HomeBrew HomePages Put YOU On The World Wide Web, or The Hacker Crackdown. These are books which have been explictly gifted to the public domain, or to Guttenburg itself.
The top selling albums of 1999: BACKSTREET BOYS Millenium,BRITNEY SPEARS, ...Baby One More Time, RICKY MARTIN, Ricky Martin. Not albums which the 40+ crowd are going to be buying.