a bill that would make it a crime to "operate a motor vehicle while reading, writing or sending electronic messages."
Whoa, sparky. This is a law. You need to KEEP SUBJECTS DISTINCT.
The driver is not a subject in this fragment, only the motor vehicle. It makes it illegal for the motor vehicle to read/write/send electronic messages? Now, let's see what this wording outlaws, off the top of my head:
While I admire the Sorkinesque desire to make a dangling participle joke, the "while" makes it perfectly clear that the motor vehicle is the object, not the subject of the fragment.
They're not studying _other_ players; they're looking at video of their own at-bats to determine their own subtle tendencies during times when they were hitting well and when they weren't.
I searched Dell.com for Linux (nothing), and also browsed about a dozen laptop configurations in the small business section (not an option).
Well... it says small business, but I just bought a Latitude C500 for school next year, and they don't require any real proof that you're a small business.
Until 7/12 there's also a $200 small business discount that was quite appreciated by my... um... small business.:)
The Nature piece says the times were 5% to 7% faster than the speed of light. Where does the figure of 300x faster come from?
The 300x figure comes from the NYT article, which talks about an experiment involving cesium gas. The Nature piece is referring to an experiment involving microwave radiation, which were observed to travel at 5-7% of c.
This is a well-written article that gets all of the basic points right.. but there's one problem.
For his part, Garbus will submit that DeCSS is an exercise in cryptography, an innovation in interoperability, and protected speech to boot. Under that argument, the program should be covered by the "fair use" principle of the First Amendment--putting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and freedom of expression atirreconcilable odds.
Fair use has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Fair use is part of copyright law, which is located in the US code.
He will argue that DeCSS falls under the First Amendment's fair-use exception to the Copyright Act. The doctrine of fair use permits, for example, a reporter to quote paragraphs from a book or print sections of a pamphlet.
Again, the author confuses the Bill of Rights with copyright law. He gets the fair use doctrine right, but he cites the wrong document.
Oh well. Despite this stuff, it's a great article. Neat pictures too.
NEW YORK--MCI-WorldCom and Bank One-Chase Manhattan merged in a blockbuster $112 billion deal Monday, forming the world's largest telecommunications/banking company and reducing the number of existing corporations to six.
"This is an exciting move for both companies," said Donald Cosgrove, CEO of MCI-WorldCom, whose subsidiaries include SBC-Ameritech, Bell Atlantic-NYNEX and McDonnell Douglas. "As a result of this historic merger, we should be in much better position to consolidate vast amounts of wealth and power in the coming years."
The other five remaining corporations are Daimler-Chrysler, Monsanto-American Home Products, Shearson-Lehman-Chemical-Citicorp-Travelers Group, Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, and Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico.
According to Forbes managing editor Russell Belanger, at the current rate of mergers, there will be only one corporation in the world by 2000.
"The six remaining corporations have shown great interest in merging with each other," Belanger said. "Clearly, the stage is being set for the long-discussed creation of UniCorp, a $92 trillion corporation that produces every product on earth, from canned yams to basketballs to poison gas."
Belanger said mergers are desirable because they give corporations "synergy," enabling them to better sell their products. "Take Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, for example," he said. "Disney makes the movie, Joel Siegel of Paramount-owned ABC-TV gives the movie a rave review, and Disney subsidiaries Blockbuster and McDonald's promote the video release of the movie in their respective stores with mail-in rebates and Happy Meal action figures. It's a win-win scenario."
Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday's merger as "an excellent move."
A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month.
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. I have tons (95%) of legal MP3s which would get flagged and I would get in trouble for. Is this what you want?
No, I have tons of legal MP3s myself. But I'm not dumb enough to put them on a web server.
I agree that the MP3 debate on/. is painfully one-sided, and I disagree with most of the arguments presented (IP is not physical property, etc.) However, I don't want the RIAA taking away my right to distribute my own music in MP3 format, which is exactly what they're doing by attempting to stigmatize the MP3 format as a whole.
Ok Jon, this stuff was interesting, even compelling the first few times. Now it's a bit stale, though, don't you think? Simply rehashing for the n-th time another "hellmouth" incident and bemoaning the "Draconian school measures" and "ignorant media," however true these things may be, isn't going to help anything. Perhaps, in your next article, you might try presenting actual THEORIES about how these things might be solved! Just think of it... you could, instead of simply complaining about how horrible things are (from second hand accounts, mostly), you could actually contribute to the solution. But I suppose that's for other people to think about. Oh well.
(I suppose this I'm another "Voice from the Hellmouth," as I'm submitting this from the computer lab of my public high school...)
Hacker as "programming enthusiast" not "computer terrorist" is the/old school definition/.
Yes. The original meaning of "hacker" was completely benign. Now, however, with the popularization of the internet, and the ignorance of the media, it has undergone a semantic change. While we might cling to our original definiton, the word has now become synonomous with "criminal."
This type of semantic change is common, though it usually takes a much longer time. The word "villian," for example, used to mean simply "farm laborer." Gradually, it began to take on all sorts of negative connotations until it reached its present meaning.
We can keep using our own definitions of words, but in popular culture, the meaning of the word has shifted. Bleh.
I'm in a band, and though I consider us to be a fairly good one, I don't really have any aspirations of fame and fortune. I'd like to go to college in two years, and a world tour would dash my hopes of access to a campus T1 line.:)
I like what MP3.com is doing... it's not buying into the backstreet boys/britney spears/make-money-quick scheme. It's becoming the meeting place for internet musicians. While the author of this particular article feels that this is a bad thing, I think it's great.
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a bill that would make it a crime to "operate a motor vehicle while reading, writing or sending electronic messages."
Whoa, sparky. This is a law. You need to KEEP SUBJECTS DISTINCT.
The driver is not a subject in this fragment, only the motor vehicle. It makes it illegal for the motor vehicle to read/write/send electronic messages? Now, let's see what this wording outlaws, off the top of my head:
While I admire the Sorkinesque desire to make a dangling participle joke, the "while" makes it perfectly clear that the motor vehicle is the object, not the subject of the fragment.
They're not studying _other_ players; they're looking at video of their own at-bats to determine their own subtle tendencies during times when they were hitting well and when they weren't.
Or come to Dartmouth College... I'm sitting in a cafe on campus using our wireless network right now. ;)
The site is no more... but here's the Google cache.
Well... it says small business, but I just bought a Latitude C500 for school next year, and they don't require any real proof that you're a small business.
:)
Until 7/12 there's also a $200 small business discount that was quite appreciated by my... um... small business.
The 300x figure comes from the NYT article, which talks about an experiment involving cesium gas. The Nature piece is referring to an experiment involving microwave radiation, which were observed to travel at 5-7% of c.
This is a well-written article that gets all of the basic points right.. but there's one problem.
For his part, Garbus will submit that DeCSS is an exercise in cryptography, an innovation in interoperability, and protected speech to boot. Under that argument, the program should be covered by the "fair use" principle of the First Amendment--putting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and freedom of expression atirreconcilable odds.
Fair use has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Fair use is part of copyright law, which is located in the US code.
He will argue that DeCSS falls under the First Amendment's fair-use exception to the Copyright Act. The doctrine of fair use permits, for example, a reporter to quote paragraphs from a book or print sections of a pamphlet.
Again, the author confuses the Bill of Rights with copyright law. He gets the fair use doctrine right, but he cites the wrong document.
Oh well. Despite this stuff, it's a great article. Neat pictures too.
(http://theonion.com/onion3322/si xcorporations.html)
NEW YORK--MCI-WorldCom and Bank One-Chase Manhattan merged in a blockbuster $112 billion deal Monday, forming the world's largest telecommunications/banking company and reducing the number of existing corporations to six.
"This is an exciting move for both companies," said Donald Cosgrove, CEO of MCI-WorldCom, whose subsidiaries include SBC-Ameritech, Bell Atlantic-NYNEX and McDonnell Douglas. "As a result of this historic merger, we should be in much better position to consolidate vast amounts of wealth and power in the coming years."
The other five remaining corporations are Daimler-Chrysler, Monsanto-American Home Products,
Shearson-Lehman-Chemical-Citicorp-Travelers Group, Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, and Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico.
According to Forbes managing editor Russell Belanger, at the current rate of mergers, there will be only one corporation in the world by 2000.
"The six remaining corporations have shown great interest in merging with each other," Belanger said. "Clearly, the stage is being set for the long-discussed creation of UniCorp, a $92 trillion corporation that produces every product on earth, from canned yams to basketballs to poison gas."
Belanger said mergers are desirable because they give corporations "synergy," enabling them to better sell their products. "Take Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, for example," he said. "Disney makes the movie, Joel Siegel of Paramount-owned ABC-TV gives the movie a rave review, and Disney subsidiaries Blockbuster and McDonald's promote the video release of the movie in their respective stores with mail-in rebates and Happy Meal action figures. It's a win-win scenario."
Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday's merger as "an excellent move."
A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month.
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. I have tons (95%) of legal MP3s which would get flagged and I would get in trouble for. Is this what you want?
/. is painfully one-sided, and I disagree with most of the arguments presented (IP is not physical property, etc.) However, I don't want the RIAA taking away my right to distribute my own music in MP3 format, which is exactly what they're doing by attempting to stigmatize the MP3 format as a whole.
No, I have tons of legal MP3s myself. But I'm not dumb enough to put them on a web server.
I agree that the MP3 debate on
Ok Jon, this stuff was interesting, even compelling the first few times. Now it's a bit stale, though, don't you think? Simply rehashing for the n-th time another "hellmouth" incident and bemoaning the "Draconian school measures" and "ignorant media," however true these things may be, isn't going to help anything. Perhaps, in your next article, you might try presenting actual THEORIES about how these things might be solved! Just think of it... you could, instead of simply complaining about how horrible things are (from second hand accounts, mostly), you could actually contribute to the solution. But I suppose that's for other people to think about. Oh well.
(I suppose this I'm another "Voice from the Hellmouth," as I'm submitting this from the computer lab of my public high school...)
Hacker as "programming enthusiast" not "computer terrorist" is the /old school definition/.
Yes. The original meaning of "hacker" was completely benign. Now, however, with the popularization of the internet, and the ignorance of the media, it has undergone a semantic change. While we might cling to our original definiton, the word has now become synonomous with "criminal."
This type of semantic change is common, though it usually takes a much longer time. The word "villian," for example, used to mean simply "farm laborer." Gradually, it began to take on all sorts of negative connotations until it reached its present meaning.
We can keep using our own definitions of words, but in popular culture, the meaning of the word has shifted. Bleh.
I think the author was referring to the quality of the music itself, rather than the audio quality of the MP3s.
I'm in a band, and though I consider us to be a fairly good one, I don't really have any aspirations of fame and fortune. I'd like to go to college in two years, and a world tour would dash my hopes of access to a campus T1 line. :)
I like what MP3.com is doing... it's not buying into the backstreet boys/britney spears/make-money-quick scheme. It's becoming the meeting place for internet musicians. While the author of this particular article feels that this is a bad thing, I think it's great.