> The problem for companies is that they might have lost track of what patents > cover a given product, or might have forgotten to update packaging to remove > numbers of patents that had expired.
Don't "lose track". Don't "forget". Or don't mark (it isn't required). Problem solved.
> Excuse me, but WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF ASSHOLES think that users should take > responsibility for crashes?
I assume he means that they should take responsibility for reporting crashes.
> You should devise some automated way to gather information about crashes > without requiring the poor users of your piece of shit to do your job for > you.
And syslog's remote logging facility makes this easy.
It might be possible to combine this high-absorption technology with a high-efficiency one such as multijunction to achieve a high overall conversion efficiency.
Wrong war. This is the Korean War memorial. It portrays a column of soldiers in ponchos, not a flag raising. The Battle of Iwo Jima took place during WWII.
I read the decision as a straightforward and reasonable interpretation of fair use. It may clarify some points, but I don't see that it narrows fair use.
Most medical antibiotics are based on naturally-occuring antibiotics found in soil organisms. Of course, as these organisms evolved the antibiotics the bacteria around them co-evolved defenses. This means that for most antibiotics there are bacteria around that have genes that make them resistant. Since bacteria trade their genes around it's only a matter of time until the resistance genes find their way into disease organisms. Hospitals contain concentrations of people being treated with antibiotics and so that is where the resistant disease organisms tend to appear.
We need antibiotics based on novel modes of action not found in nature, but these are hard to develop. The ability to sequence the genes of bacteria as well as the ability to synthesize proteins with predictable characteristics will help.
...is frequently mentioned here in approving tones. You wouldn't want people to go on doing things without permission, would you? The State knows what's best.
> Time has the ballistic and aerodynamic properties of a medieval wooden > projectile?:)
No, but its diptera prefer that class of object (or perhaps it's just that one measures the speed of two-winged insects and wooden projectiles in a similar way).
This is not a criminal case. The spammers can appear in court and ask the judge to rescind the order and make Microsoft compensate them for their losses.
The spammers need merely appear in court and show that the order was unjustified and the judge will reverse it. They can also ask him to order Microsoft to compensate them for whatever damage they suffered as result of the takedown.
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> The problem for companies is that they might have lost track of what patents
> cover a given product, or might have forgotten to update packaging to remove
> numbers of patents that had expired.
Don't "lose track". Don't "forget". Or don't mark (it isn't required). Problem solved.
> Excuse me, but WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF ASSHOLES think that users should take
> responsibility for crashes?
I assume he means that they should take responsibility for reporting crashes.
> You should devise some automated way to gather information about crashes
> without requiring the poor users of your piece of shit to do your job for
> you.
And syslog's remote logging facility makes this easy.
Oh. Wait...
...with no "Dismiss" button. The message would stay on the screen until the user talks to you and you tell them how to get rid of it.
It might be possible to combine this high-absorption technology with a high-efficiency one such as multijunction to achieve a high overall conversion efficiency.
If you were to read the decision you would see that the Wikipedia article is a classic example pf fair use.
Wrong war. This is the Korean War memorial. It portrays a column of soldiers in ponchos, not a flag raising. The Battle of Iwo Jima took place during WWII.
> Silly me... I thought the point of a memorial was for it to be placed in the
> trust of (or outright given to) the public...
Perhaps you should have told the government that fifteen years ago so that they would have purchased the copyright (hint: they didn't).
> That being the case, how does this decision affect other images of public
> art?
I doubt that it has any relevance at all to most. Read the opinion.
I read the decision as a straightforward and reasonable interpretation of fair use. It may clarify some points, but I don't see that it narrows fair use.
Most medical antibiotics are based on naturally-occuring antibiotics found in soil organisms. Of course, as these organisms evolved the antibiotics the bacteria around them co-evolved defenses. This means that for most antibiotics there are bacteria around that have genes that make them resistant. Since bacteria trade their genes around it's only a matter of time until the resistance genes find their way into disease organisms. Hospitals contain concentrations of people being treated with antibiotics and so that is where the resistant disease organisms tend to appear.
We need antibiotics based on novel modes of action not found in nature, but these are hard to develop. The ability to sequence the genes of bacteria as well as the ability to synthesize proteins with predictable characteristics will help.
First, most cattle are fed little or no antibiotics and second the "supergerms" are found in hospitals, not on farms.
> ...the manager ignored it...
Or he decided that it was so important that he had to do it himself.
> "This seems almost unprecedented to me, for a government document."
This seems quite ordinary to me, for a government document.
...is frequently mentioned here in approving tones. You wouldn't want people to go on doing things without permission, would you? The State knows what's best.
> ...nor was it some anomaly from memory.
How do you know that?
Why do you assume that the people who live at the European Southern Observatory are not well protected?
Ah. So you will just port all their data from their old proprietary database system to a new proprietary database. Piece of cake.
> Time has the ballistic and aerodynamic properties of a medieval wooden :)
> projectile?
No, but its diptera prefer that class of object (or perhaps it's just that one measures the speed of two-winged insects and wooden projectiles in a similar way).
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> In fact the only thing.
Not true.
> Isn't this an easy fix?
And you'll port their software for them at no charge?
1980's mainframes did not use reel-to-reel tape. They used tape cartridges, often managed by automatic tape libraries.
> There's a reason why you can be sued for sexual harassment at work for
> saying something obscene...
It's your employer who can be sued.
This is not a criminal case. The spammers can appear in court and ask the judge to rescind the order and make Microsoft compensate them for their losses.
The spammers need merely appear in court and show that the order was unjustified and the judge will reverse it. They can also ask him to order Microsoft to compensate them for whatever damage they suffered as result of the takedown.
How do the bots find out what the new domains are?