I don't have a problem with you choosing to use blocking software on your own computer. However, I think that you should have the right to be able to see what is block and what's not blocked, and to correct the mistakes on the list.
I do have a problem with libraries using blocking software, as they have traditionally been strong proponents of free speech, and this is a dangerous precedent to set.
No-one expired the certificates of pilots qualified on the 737 when the 757 came out.
Just because a new product has come out, which the manufacturer would like you to use instead of their existing product, is not a reason that their previous skills are expired.
A similar situation would be if you were required to do a check exam each year to remain qualified as a MSCE.
This point in particular is one of the most annoying ones frequently made by anti-GNU revisionist. Much has been said about open source and the power of 'gotta scratch that itch' development. However, there are some problems which 'scratch the itch'-motivation do not solve very easily. No one would write a C compiler just to scratch an itch with the old one, at least not except for in the most severe of circumstances. GCC exists because RMS realised that it (or something like it) had to.
Why do you think that no-one else would have started a compiler project if RMS hadn't?
Come to think of it, why do you think that no-one else woudl have started a compiler project even if RMS had? You can get lcc from here or bcc from here.
Granted, I belive that gcc is a better compiler than bcc or lcc, but that's mainly because it is the most popular, and much work has been put into improving it by various parties. If gcc had not existed, and say bcc had been the standard compiler most people chose, then I'm sure that it's code generation & the number of targets would be as good as gcc's.
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html gives 1.4 milliseconds per day per century,ie, the day is 1.4 milliseconds longer today than it was 100 years ago.
1.This is is a copyright violation issue. The list of encrypted URLs was posted. This is copyright material. Period.
That's debatable. Copyright is to protect creative effort, and courts have decided that automatic generation of data is not protected by copyright. That why people can take the phone book, scan it in, and put it on the net.
If the url list was created by a program scanning for words, even with manual modification it may not be legally copyrighted.
The difference is that it costs a library to obtain books, neccessating a judgement about which books are obtained and which are not.
Once the cost of accessing any site has been paid, it doesn't cost any more to access any site. In fact, the filtering software costs money to obtain, configure and keep up to date.
I also don't agree that not placing a book on the open shelves is any sort of censorship. There are many books which should not be places on open shelves, any book which is rare, valuable or delicate for example. However, people can and do get access to the restricted books, usually just by asking for the book in question.
In the drug industries, whenever one company makes a drug, it's competitors immediatly make copycat drugs, where the chemical is changed enough to beat the patent, but not enough that it stops the drug from acting is basically the same way. I think this shows that patents are not neccessarily a good thing even in those industries.
If the drug company has a choice of spending $x on making yet another variation on an existing drug, or 10*$x making a truely original drug, they probably going to spend the smaller amount and make the copycat.
I think we should go back to the original reason for patents, to promote inovation, and work out what's best for that. In some industries, that might mean no patents at all. In some, it might mean existing type patents, and in some it might mean even broader patents.
If the drug manufacturer had to show that the new copycat drug was a significant improvement over the existing drug in order to be able to sell the new drug without infringing the patent, they are more likely to be truely inovative.
Getting a few hundred books delivered to your house would be quite a pain for most people to deal with, especially if in that shipment there are some books you did order & want.
A denyal of service attack is still an attack, even if there isn't any perment damage, and a security hole that permits DoS attacks is still a security hole.
This is different from fashions. Fashions are usually based on standard looks. The iMac was an attempt to totally redefine the look.
and every so often, someone comes out with a new look. Maybe it's a new fabric, maybe it's a new garment. I belive that Vivian Westwood was the first to come out with punk, yet soon many people were doing it. Once the bikini didn't exist, now it does.
Expensive fashion shows try to completely redesign the entire look of clothes. Any designer that copied another would immediately lose all credit for origionality.
There are many designers who are paid to design clothes for chain stores etc who are paid to mimic the latest paris fashion styles. The designer for Kmart, or the Delta Burke collection is not paid to win awards for originallity, they're paid to produce functional clothing at the price range dictated by their sponser.
This is no different to the cases above. Apple was the original designer, making high priced stuff for a select few, and there were many people deciding that this new fashion was something they wanted to sell, so they paid their designers to design something inspired by the original.
Cars are allowed to all look the same because all cars look the same. If GM were to copy the looks of the GT40 then yes, Ford should get upset.
I hate to break it to you, but PC's do all look the same, within a few basic types. Pretty much the same as cars. A few years ago one company introduced the minivan, a new look in cars. Within a few years, all the major car manufacturers had a minivan, with the almost identical new shape. A few years ago one company introduced the translucent case with colour highlights, a new look in computers. Within a few years, all the major computer manufacturers had introduced a similar case.
Apple spent time and money coming up with the design of the iMac, and came up with something that looked great, so people wanted to buy it. If you copy that design, you're living off their time and money, and someone else's design vision. They should have some law -- be it copyright, design, or trademark -- to protect their work
Why? It's just a fashion. It's no different to big fashion designers deciding that bell bottoms are in, and other fashion designers designing bell bottoms.
Cars are all basically the same shape nowadays, with the few exceptions being obvious exceptions. Should Ford be able to sue GM because Ford was the first to use a particular shaped door?
Films often come in batches of similar themes. Should the producers of Armageddon be able to sue the producers of Deep impact because they're both about asteroids hitting the earth?
Just because you spent time doing something does not stop others from spending their time doing something similar.
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One problem is that there are too many trademarks.
If you take all the US trademarks, and all the Canadian trademarks, and all the Australian trademarks, and all the German trademarks etc etc etc, you'll end up with no names left over at all.
Trademarks should not automatically convey ownership of a domain, there should be provisions for previous ownership (EG in the etoy.com case) and in the likelyhood of confusion.
One reason we should be worried is North American 1-800 telephone numbers. When the 1-888 code came out, because the 1-800 code was full, anyone with a 1-800 number was given the option of getting the matching 1-888 number as well, "to avoid confusion". The 1-800 code took 30 years to fill up, the 1-888 code took 2 years.
That said what is so wrong with the merger? NSI provides domain names and Verisign provides e-commerce services and security.
The problem is that they're both so horribly bad at customer service. Anyone who has dealt with either company has a horror story to tell. I can't imagine what they'll be like when they're both one .
Again on the Saturn and the Titian. If you loose an engine on lauch you where doomed. That is why they had an escape tower on Saturn and ejection seats on Titan for maned launches.
Actually, they did loose engines on launch, for example Apollo 13's centre engine on the SII stage shutdown 2 minutes early, on a 7:30 minute planned burn.
The UID field is just that, an ID. It's got nothing to do with the email address, except that for many people they wish to include their email address to assure people that they've got the correct address.
You can fill it in with anything you want, as long as the people who you wish to use your key know that it's your key.
Relying on colour to convey information is generally a bad idea, not only in the HTML world, but also in the real world. Around 10% of males of european genetic background are colour blind, with slightly lower percentages of males of other backgrounds. Women are much less prone to being colour blind, but still around 0.5% of women are.
While some combinations of colours are unambigious, eg blue/white, some are terrible, eg red/green.
That seems unlikely to me. The loss of the tail happened around 30 million years ago, well before humans split off from the other primates around 5 million years ago.
Our closest relatives, the apes like chimpanzees and gorillas are also tailless, but their brains are much smaller than ours, with chimps between 300 and 500 cc (average 400), and gorillas between 400 and 700 cc (average 500), while modern humans have a range of 1000 to 2000 (average 1400).
I think a simpler explaination is that in moving away from a quadraped arrangement the apes did not find a use for their tails, unlike the monkeys, and like all unused organs, it became vestigal. If we've kept our tails for balance, like the old world monkeys, or it had become prehensile, like the new world monkeys, then we would still have tails.
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The objections are due to the unneccessary fast cancellations of the NT4 certificates.
I do have a problem with libraries using blocking software, as they have traditionally been strong proponents of free speech, and this is a dangerous precedent to set.
Just because a new product has come out, which the manufacturer would like you to use instead of their existing product, is not a reason that their previous skills are expired.
A similar situation would be if you were required to do a check exam each year to remain qualified as a MSCE.
PR1ME were mini's, competing with PDP10's and other similar sized systems.
Why do you think that no-one else would have started a compiler project if RMS hadn't?
Come to think of it, why do you think that no-one else woudl have started a compiler project even if RMS had? You can get lcc from here or bcc from here.
Granted, I belive that gcc is a better compiler than bcc or lcc, but that's mainly because it is the most popular, and much work has been put into improving it by various parties. If gcc had not existed, and say bcc had been the standard compiler most people chose, then I'm sure that it's code generation & the number of targets would be as good as gcc's.
The Edison lightbulb patent was eventually denied, because of the evidence of prior art.
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html gives 1.4 milliseconds per day per century ,ie, the day is 1.4 milliseconds longer today than it was 100 years ago.
Those of us who were awake noticed them on April 1st.
That's debatable. Copyright is to protect creative effort, and courts have decided that automatic generation of data is not protected by copyright. That why people can take the phone book, scan it in, and put it on the net.
If the url list was created by a program scanning for words, even with manual modification it may not be legally copyrighted.
Once the cost of accessing any site has been paid, it doesn't cost any more to access any site. In fact, the filtering software costs money to obtain, configure and keep up to date.
I also don't agree that not placing a book on the open shelves is any sort of censorship. There are many books which should not be places on open shelves, any book which is rare, valuable or delicate for example. However, people can and do get access to the restricted books, usually just by asking for the book in question.
Who said life is fair?
If the drug company has a choice of spending $x on making yet another variation on an existing drug, or 10*$x making a truely original drug, they probably going to spend the smaller amount and make the copycat.
I think we should go back to the original reason for patents, to promote inovation, and work out what's best for that. In some industries, that might mean no patents at all. In some, it might mean existing type patents, and in some it might mean even broader patents.
If the drug manufacturer had to show that the new copycat drug was a significant improvement over the existing drug in order to be able to sell the new drug without infringing the patent, they are more likely to be truely inovative.
A denyal of service attack is still an attack, even if there isn't any perment damage, and a security hole that permits DoS attacks is still a security hole.
Of course not, they're pining for the fjords!
If your total income is $20, then no advertiser will be prepared to spend $20 to influence you.
vold under solaris or magicdev under linix both automatically detect the insertion of cd's and floppies and mounts them for you.
and every so often, someone comes out with a new look. Maybe it's a new fabric, maybe it's a new garment. I belive that Vivian Westwood was the first to come out with punk, yet soon many people were doing it. Once the bikini didn't exist, now it does.
Expensive fashion shows try to completely redesign the entire look of clothes. Any designer that copied another would immediately lose all credit for origionality.
There are many designers who are paid to design clothes for chain stores etc who are paid to mimic the latest paris fashion styles. The designer for Kmart, or the Delta Burke collection is not paid to win awards for originallity, they're paid to produce functional clothing at the price range dictated by their sponser.
This is no different to the cases above. Apple was the original designer, making high priced stuff for a select few, and there were many people deciding that this new fashion was something they wanted to sell, so they paid their designers to design something inspired by the original.
Cars are allowed to all look the same because all cars look the same. If GM were to copy the looks of the GT40 then yes, Ford should get upset.
I hate to break it to you, but PC's do all look the same, within a few basic types. Pretty much the same as cars. A few years ago one company introduced the minivan, a new look in cars. Within a few years, all the major car manufacturers had a minivan, with the almost identical new shape. A few years ago one company introduced the translucent case with colour highlights, a new look in computers. Within a few years, all the major computer manufacturers had introduced a similar case.
A good example is anything which contains a lot of text. You have to say so much, that typing is much much faster.
Why? It's just a fashion. It's no different to big fashion designers deciding that bell bottoms are in, and other fashion designers designing bell bottoms.
Cars are all basically the same shape nowadays, with the few exceptions being obvious exceptions. Should Ford be able to sue GM because Ford was the first to use a particular shaped door?
Films often come in batches of similar themes. Should the producers of Armageddon be able to sue the producers of Deep impact because they're both about asteroids hitting the earth?
Just because you spent time doing something does not stop others from spending their time doing something similar.
If you take all the US trademarks, and all the Canadian trademarks, and all the Australian trademarks, and all the German trademarks etc etc etc, you'll end up with no names left over at all.
Secondly, some trademark owners take an overbroad view of their ownership. McDonalds is a classic case, who will harass anyone who uses "Mc" in any food related context, even if McDonalds does not and never has used the particular word in question, or even go against a bank for giving out beanie babies to people opening accounts.
Trademarks should not automatically convey ownership of a domain, there should be provisions for previous ownership (EG in the etoy.com case) and in the likelyhood of confusion.
One reason we should be worried is North American 1-800 telephone numbers. When the 1-888 code came out, because the 1-800 code was full, anyone with a 1-800 number was given the option of getting the matching 1-888 number as well, "to avoid confusion". The 1-800 code took 30 years to fill up, the 1-888 code took 2 years.
The problem is that they're both so horribly bad at customer service. Anyone who has dealt with either company has a horror story to tell. I can't imagine what they'll be like when they're both one .
Actually, they did loose engines on launch, for example Apollo 13's centre engine on the SII stage shutdown 2 minutes early, on a 7:30 minute planned burn.
You can fill it in with anything you want, as long as the people who you wish to use your key know that it's your key.
While some combinations of colours are unambigious, eg blue/white, some are terrible, eg red/green.
Our closest relatives, the apes like chimpanzees and gorillas are also tailless, but their brains are much smaller than ours, with chimps between 300 and 500 cc (average 400), and gorillas between 400 and 700 cc (average 500), while modern humans have a range of 1000 to 2000 (average 1400).
I think a simpler explaination is that in moving away from a quadraped arrangement the apes did not find a use for their tails, unlike the monkeys, and like all unused organs, it became vestigal. If we've kept our tails for balance, like the old world monkeys, or it had become prehensile, like the new world monkeys, then we would still have tails.