Actually, you can trademark common words or phrases,and obvious ones, for use in a certain context. IBM trademarked "Crash Protection" as it related to operating systems, as did Microsoft with "Windows". Oh, and "Macintosh" is a common eating apple, but both it and apple have been trademarked.
The signal/noise ratio is worse than it is here, The raving loonies are out in force, and I don't have the time to sort through all of the above to find the useful stuff. Yes, the moderated groups are a little better, but even there... Usenet was cool in the late 80's and early 90's, but today it's just overloaded with sludge. Ah well, such is life.
But don't you just love the machine-gun sound of the line printer when it gets a 100 page print job? It's great to see people dive for cover the first time they hear it.
It lets me know something's happening. The whacka-whacka of the heads seeking. Blinking lights on the panel. Status messages at the console. Kids these days don't know whether the darned thing's on or off!
WP is the standard word processor for lawyers. Has been for years. They have (or had) special add on packs for lawyers. It used to be, back in the DOS days, that only WP could do the special characters used by lawyers.
"These are the kinds of things that make people say, are these really standards, or are they just standard when you can't get people by the short hairs?"
"but when you take something like Kerberos and you say, let's extend it a little bit and --"
"there is a trust issue that goes back to the Halloween Documents."
Youy really think the guy who said that is kissing ass? What are you smoking, and why aren't you sharing!
I dunno, the King James Version has some of the best poetry in the English Language, proof that not everything written by committee is bad. Comparing windows to it is a tad insulting.
there is a lot to be said for the stability of the Chinese government
Let's see, the Chinese gov't has been around for 52 years (since 1949), the US gov't for 212 years (since 1789). Seems to me the US gov't is the more long-lasting of the two.
From thew Constitution of the United States,Article VI
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Guess what, if the Hague Convention is ratified, Freedon of Speech will no longer have Constitutional force.
Chapters 4 and 5 of the report have the analysis of the SIOP for counterforce and countervalue. I've talked to a couple of people who can give informed comments and their only disagreement is the fission component of the weapons used. They regard the assumptions used in targeting as reasonable. Note that the damage calculation part of the sim uses actual code from DoD and LLNL.
a freak incident caused by extreme weather conditions
Sure, that's the line that everyone uses. Challenger, Ford Explorers, anything goes wrong, they blame the weather. I don't believe it. It's a conspiracy involving the manufacturers, the RIAA, the MPAA, and Big Oil.
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Is about the same as your English?
Actually, you can trademark common words or phrases,and obvious ones, for use in a certain context. IBM trademarked "Crash Protection" as it related to operating systems, as did Microsoft with "Windows". Oh, and "Macintosh" is a common eating apple, but both it and apple have been trademarked.
The signal/noise ratio is worse than it is here, The raving loonies are out in force, and I don't have the time to sort through all of the above to find the useful stuff. Yes, the moderated groups are a little better, but even there... Usenet was cool in the late 80's and early 90's, but today it's just overloaded with sludge. Ah well, such is life.
But don't you just love the machine-gun sound of the line printer when it gets a 100 page print job? It's great to see people dive for cover the first time they hear it.
Sigh. There are times I really miss Vaxes.
WP is the standard word processor for lawyers. Has been for years. They have (or had) special add on packs for lawyers. It used to be, back in the DOS days, that only WP could do the special characters used by lawyers.
Great piece, I almost submitted it as a story, but the /. editors don't post that sort of stuff. It's certainly worthy of its own thread.
That actually makes sense. So, who whacked Taco with the clue-stick to get him to pull the original posting?
I suspect that someone from legal saw that, feared a lawsuit, and whacked Taco with a clue-stick. Thus neccessitating a quick edit.
"These are the kinds of things that make people say, are these really standards, or are they just standard when you can't get people by the short hairs?"
"but when you take something like Kerberos and you say, let's extend it a little bit and --"
"there is a trust issue that goes back to the Halloween Documents."
Youy really think the guy who said that is kissing ass? What are you smoking, and why aren't you sharing!
I dunno, the King James Version has some of the best poetry in the English Language, proof that not everything written by committee is bad. Comparing windows to it is a tad insulting.
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But it's a marsupial, not a mammal. Or are marsupials mammals?
Let's see, the Chinese gov't has been around for 52 years (since 1949), the US gov't for 212 years (since 1789). Seems to me the US gov't is the more long-lasting of the two.
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Guess what, if the Hague Convention is ratified, Freedon of Speech will no longer have Constitutional force.
Yeah, but Data was second or third generation. M5, IIRC, didn't have an off switch, or at least not one that was reachable.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Chapters 4 and 5 of the report have the analysis of the SIOP for counterforce and countervalue. I've talked to a couple of people who can give informed comments and their only disagreement is the fission component of the weapons used. They regard the assumptions used in targeting as reasonable. Note that the damage calculation part of the sim uses actual code from DoD and LLNL.
I submitted the NRDC report to slashdot, the editors apparently didn't find it that interesting. Oh well, it's up at kuro5hin.
There's an analysis of the likely SIOP at the NRDC. You may be interested in the section on how the ran their sim.
Yes. There are cameras that take pictures of red light runners, and tickets are then sent out.
Moderation of "-1, troll" applied because of hatred of comment authors supposed politics.
They say it was a server problem at VA Linux, I think it was a LoI attack, myself.
Sure, that's the line that everyone uses. Challenger, Ford Explorers, anything goes wrong, they blame the weather. I don't believe it. It's a conspiracy involving the manufacturers, the RIAA, the MPAA, and Big Oil.
Then I roll around in piles of it, naked, while laughing maniacially.