Is this guy just making stuff up as he goes along. I swear he comes off like Gibson at GRC for christ sake. Secret groups of anti-social 11 year olds taking down whole isp's because their male "competition" for the heart of an equally dysfunctional haxo4 chica is a subscriber.
Since among the many disputed statements in HARDOCP articles is whether the Phantom is vaporware, filing a suit is a great way to find out whether the thing actually exists. If Infinium challenges the statement that they don't really have a product, then they have to show that they do have a product and HARDOCP gets to see it.
If they actually want to start giving corporations police powers then we are all in trouble. The day that Vivendi can freeze your bank account or search your house cause you copied a cd for a friend is the day that smart people stop putting their money in banks and start holding on to their cash for privacy reasons. If I were an EU bank I would be worried because if people think that their money is not safe in banks the banks will start failing and the economy will tank.
But they would still have to give the money back right? Afterall SCO would have to take the "license" back if its decided in court that they have no right to sell such licenses.
"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."- Attributed to Mark Twain
Good to see that on issues of technology and consumer choice they are gaining some ground cause they always seem to have those itsy bitsy riots when they oppress minorities
I would think that no disclaimer can get you out of trouble if it is found out that you sold someone something that was not yours to sell. If and when SCO loses their case against ibm and quite possibly loses to Novell as well then their claims on Linux will be false. (as if they were not already) If I go out and sell licenses on Microsoft software in addition to the ones companies already have and later it is proven that I have no right to sell such licenses then those companies have the right to get their money back or I am very likely in criminal law territory for fraud. No contract between two private parties can render a person or company immune from criminal liability and in the case of fraud such as selling something that is not yours to sell, the contract would be void anyways. IANAL but those half dozen big companies are big enough to convince the justice dept to send SCO's officers to prison for fraud when the time comes. Darl may very well end up where he belongs, well at least in club fed.
"McBride said the arrangement with EV1Servers.net is perpetual and that SCO doesn't offer companies their money back if courts later find SCO's claims baseless. It will bring in revenue that will be material to SCO's financial results, he added."
I will be voting in the primary in Maryland. Well Actually I will only be voting for school board cause I am not a registered republicrat. I am very curious to see whether this touch screen crap is gonna work or not.
Every other form of invention or creative work is protected by either copyright or Patent. Not both. Software should only be copyrightable not patentable because it is an expression of an idea. This allows other entities to emulate, imitate, and make competing versions of the idea. Patents protect an idea or invention. Copyrights protect a particular expression of an idea. Copyright terms need to be shortened for certain but software patents are extremely disruptive because they do not require that the actual code even be written. In addition patents are far more expensive to obtain than copyrights and they benefit mainly those with big pockets and those who think they are gonna use the patents to sue big pockets.
The other big problem with software patents is that the Patent office is totally out of touch and is essentially selling patents, not reviewing them.
Business models and methods should also not be patentable
The solution to every problem is to force everyone to pay for something they don't need or want while surrendering both privacy and personal freedom because someone might commit a crime.
This law consistutes a search of everyone who drives a car every time they turn the car on and again when they drive for 20 minutes or so.
Its ridiculous. It will probably not pass because it puts the burden on everyone except those who drive drunk.
What states should really do is enforce good neighbor laws that tell businesses such as gun stores and liquor stores and bars not to sell to people who are already intoxicated or those who the business operator reasonably believes will use said product for an illegal purpose or in the case of alcohol will drive.
Another thing is that people who are caught on DWI should have their right to buy alcohol suspended as well as their right to drive. A note should be put on their driver's license/state id that they are not permitted to purchase alcohol until x amount of months after the DWI/DUI
They gave absolutely no mention to the number one assertion of Bit Torrents Web site. That BT is designed to be used to distribute files from their creators who either cannot afford the bandwidth or whose bandwidth cannot possibly meet demand at release time.
IANAL and I am wondering whether these kinds of agreements have to expire after a certain time by law. Or whether such clauses have to be excercised by the company by a certain time after the invention is created or after employment ends.
I have had that same problem. Some old games just won't work with anything beyond windows 95/98. Its not like they really can't work, rather they put some kind of os checker in the app to make sure you had 95 or 98 running and it won't let you run without it.
I think that congress needs to make the patent office responsible for legal fees incurred by defendants in patent cases when a patent is found to be unenforceable. That would reduce the number of obviously non-original and non-novel patents being granted to unscrupulous lawyers who think they are going to hit the jackpot by patenting something that has already been done and then suing the companies that have two decades of prior art.
It says in my passport that you can lose your US citizenship by serving in the armed forces of another state. I know its not enforced often but if he is knighted can we stop him from coming back to the US...please?
I am starting a class for my CCNP, but its not a boot camp. Its just a cheap community college class.Its something to do while i take a semester of from my immensely crappy university.
If you are looking for a job now, you might consider getting a certification in something thats still emerging. VOIP is heating up and Wireless is hot so maybe one of those two things might help with a job. You don't need a cert for them but just learn as much as you can about them and if there is a one-test ($125) cert that might help you get recognition than go for it.
Otherwise just make the consulting thing full time cause consumers are where the money is these days.
I have to agree with that. The Sybex books are far superior to the Cisco Press books almost across the board.
I took a CCNA boot camp (I had never even seen a cisco device before) about 2 years ago and passed on the first try. I took it from Lammle's company Global Net Training. It was expensive but the class was very small and I gained a lot of confidence on a topic I had previously had almost no experience with.
I am starting a CCNP course thats based on the Cisco Academy courses next week. I am guessing it will not be as good but it is only 1500 bucks plus $105 for the 4 book Cisco Press CCNP kit. If thats not enough to pass the exams, then I will pick up the Sybex books again.
That sucks about your working environments. I work from home mostly and my girlfriend does to. She likes to get frisky under the desk while I play final fantasy on the clock.
Turnitin.com has a legal opinion they had written up to explain the issues with what they do. In the opinion they admit that some aspects, particularly the archiving and the commercial (for-profit) use of other's work is not necesarily covered by fair use. http://turnitin.com/static/legal/Legal_Docum ent.pd f
Even if you had signed an agreement to this effect. You are essentially giving them something for nothing. Ownership of your papers goes to the university but you are not compensated in any way. Your education does not count because you pay tuition and fees for that. It is a contract without "consideration" for the student, so even if that guy was right which I am quite certain he is not since I know I never signed any contract with my evil university and they are exactly the type of place that would try this sort of thing, therefore the contract probably would not be enforceable.
If a school wants to run its papers through a service like turnitin then that is fine. I don't really care if they use a service to find cheaters. There are so many cheaters in colleges it would be nice for those of us who are honest to have a chance again. I was recently in an exam and the professor left the room for a few minutes (his fault I admit) and instantly everyone was asking for answers from each other. And in several cases this year I was offered money to other people's work. Obviously they found someone to do it.
My real problem with turnitin.com is that they collect a database of papers from those submitted and those published. They are using original works of others without permission or compensation and making millions at it.
I am starting to add a copyright notification at the end of my papers specificly prohibiting their storage in turnitin.com's database.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I don't recall seeing any mention whatsoever granting specific powers of any kind to the FBI in excess of what is stated in the constitution. Of course no one really cares about such details when guys with guns and facemasks to hide their identity are dragging you out of your house in the middle of the night for extrajudicial executions. We are not too far from it now.
Actually at the time I bought the Ipod, the Music Match software was the official apple endorsed PC to Ipod software with the Ipod manager thing in the background.
Itunes for windows is currently rife with problems related to the Ipod and I am not going to try it so long as Apple insists that it does not have a responsibility towards Ipod owners who don't also own a Mac.
I have a 15GB second generation ipod. I bought it online in May of 2003. I got it engraved and it took about a month to arrive. I saved about 10% by going through the education store and then spent that on the engraving and shipping.
At first getting it to work was a bit difficult on Windows XP. But a few minutes of fiddling fixed that.
Then Music Match pissed me off in about 1 day. I switched to Ephpod. Ephpod works much better but still tends to be a bit flakey.
Basically PC+Ipod=Flaky. I love my ipod, but only when it does that thing I like (ie. when it works)
In august the very flimsy cable attached to the remote started flaking out and I had to get the remote replaced at the Apple store. They were nice enough to just replace it there because they had extras otherwise they would have expected me to wait for one to arrive in the mail. 2nd Gen Ipods and 3rd Gen Ipods are very difficult to use in the car without a remote.
Occasionally the battery seems to die for no reason, which is probably just cause it kept being turned back on by something touching it or the auto matic off did not do its thing.
Mostly my problems relate to syncing where it does not excel. I can move about 3GB which is the extent of the playlists I have on it in about 10-15 minutes over firewire. However it does not always go. Long songs like dj sets and comedy routines cut off after a few minutes and some songs that play fine on the computer do not play correctly, all the way, or at all on the ipod.
I love my ipod but if and when it breaks I am probably going to be more price conscious when buying my next mp3 player since it will likely not be a birthday present. That means I probably won't buy another ipod unless they come down in price in a year or so.
The Wright brothers did manage to get US patents for their adjustable wings that let them control the aircraft. However their patents were virtually ignored in Europe while they fought tooth and nail to defend them in the US. By the time they were done fighting for their IP, the US had fallen into last place in aviation technology.
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Is this guy just making stuff up as he goes along. I swear he comes off like Gibson at GRC for christ sake. Secret groups of anti-social 11 year olds taking down whole isp's because their male "competition" for the heart of an equally dysfunctional haxo4 chica is a subscriber.
Since among the many disputed statements in HARDOCP articles is whether the Phantom is vaporware, filing a suit is a great way to find out whether the thing actually exists. If Infinium challenges the statement that they don't really have a product, then they have to show that they do have a product and HARDOCP gets to see it.
If they actually want to start giving corporations police powers then we are all in trouble. The day that Vivendi can freeze your bank account or search your house cause you copied a cd for a friend is the day that smart people stop putting their money in banks and start holding on to their cash for privacy reasons. If I were an EU bank I would be worried because if people think that their money is not safe in banks the banks will start failing and the economy will tank.
But they would still have to give the money back right? Afterall SCO would have to take the "license" back if its decided in court that they have no right to sell such licenses.
"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."- Attributed to Mark Twain
Good to see that on issues of technology and consumer choice they are gaining some ground cause they always seem to have those itsy bitsy riots when they oppress minorities
I would think that no disclaimer can get you out of trouble if it is found out that you sold someone something that was not yours to sell. If and when SCO loses their case against ibm and quite possibly loses to Novell as well then their claims on Linux will be false. (as if they were not already) If I go out and sell licenses on Microsoft software in addition to the ones companies already have and later it is proven that I have no right to sell such licenses then those companies have the right to get their money back or I am very likely in criminal law territory for fraud. No contract between two private parties can render a person or company immune from criminal liability and in the case of fraud such as selling something that is not yours to sell, the contract would be void anyways. IANAL but those half dozen big companies are big enough to convince the justice dept to send SCO's officers to prison for fraud when the time comes. Darl may very well end up where he belongs, well at least in club fed.
"McBride said the arrangement with EV1Servers.net is perpetual and that SCO doesn't offer companies their money back if courts later find SCO's claims baseless. It will bring in revenue that will be material to SCO's financial results, he added."
I will be voting in the primary in Maryland. Well Actually I will only be voting for school board cause I am not a registered republicrat. I am very curious to see whether this touch screen crap is gonna work or not.
Every other form of invention or creative work is protected by either copyright or Patent. Not both. Software should only be copyrightable not patentable because it is an expression of an idea. This allows other entities to emulate, imitate, and make competing versions of the idea. Patents protect an idea or invention. Copyrights protect a particular expression of an idea. Copyright terms need to be shortened for certain but software patents are extremely disruptive because they do not require that the actual code even be written. In addition patents are far more expensive to obtain than copyrights and they benefit mainly those with big pockets and those who think they are gonna use the patents to sue big pockets.
The other big problem with software patents is that the Patent office is totally out of touch and is essentially selling patents, not reviewing them.
Business models and methods should also not be patentable
The solution to every problem is to force everyone to pay for something they don't need or want while surrendering both privacy and personal freedom because someone might commit a crime.
This law consistutes a search of everyone who drives a car every time they turn the car on and again when they drive for 20 minutes or so.
Its ridiculous. It will probably not pass because it puts the burden on everyone except those who drive drunk.
What states should really do is enforce good neighbor laws that tell businesses such as gun stores and liquor stores and bars not to sell to people who are already intoxicated or those who the business operator reasonably believes will use said product for an illegal purpose or in the case of alcohol will drive.
Another thing is that people who are caught on DWI should have their right to buy alcohol suspended as well as their right to drive. A note should be put on their driver's license/state id that they are not permitted to purchase alcohol until x amount of months after the DWI/DUI
They gave absolutely no mention to the number one assertion of Bit Torrents Web site. That BT is designed to be used to distribute files from their creators who either cannot afford the bandwidth or whose bandwidth cannot possibly meet demand at release time.
IANAL and I am wondering whether these kinds of agreements have to expire after a certain time by law. Or whether such clauses have to be excercised by the company by a certain time after the invention is created or after employment ends.
I have had that same problem. Some old games just won't work with anything beyond windows 95/98. Its not like they really can't work, rather they put some kind of os checker in the app to make sure you had 95 or 98 running and it won't let you run without it.
I think that congress needs to make the patent office responsible for legal fees incurred by defendants in patent cases when a patent is found to be unenforceable. That would reduce the number of obviously non-original and non-novel patents being granted to unscrupulous lawyers who think they are going to hit the jackpot by patenting something that has already been done and then suing the companies that have two decades of prior art.
It says in my passport that you can lose your US citizenship by serving in the armed forces of another state. I know its not enforced often but if he is knighted can we stop him from coming back to the US...please?
I am starting a class for my CCNP, but its not a boot camp. Its just a cheap community college class.Its something to do while i take a semester of from my immensely crappy university.
If you are looking for a job now, you might consider getting a certification in something thats still emerging. VOIP is heating up and Wireless is hot so maybe one of those two things might help with a job. You don't need a cert for them but just learn as much as you can about them and if there is a one-test ($125) cert that might help you get recognition than go for it.
Otherwise just make the consulting thing full time cause consumers are where the money is these days.
Does this mean that Xine and Mplayer can now be distributed with libdvdcss included.
I have to agree with that. The Sybex books are far superior to the Cisco Press books almost across the board.
I took a CCNA boot camp (I had never even seen a cisco device before) about 2 years ago and passed on the first try. I took it from Lammle's company Global Net Training. It was expensive but the class was very small and I gained a lot of confidence on a topic I had previously had almost no experience with.
I am starting a CCNP course thats based on the Cisco Academy courses next week. I am guessing it will not be as good but it is only 1500 bucks plus $105 for the 4 book Cisco Press CCNP kit. If thats not enough to pass the exams, then I will pick up the Sybex books again.
That sucks about your working environments. I work from home mostly and my girlfriend does to. She likes to get frisky under the desk while I play final fantasy on the clock.
Turnitin.com has a legal opinion they had written up to explain the issues with what they do. In the opinion they admit that some aspects, particularly the archiving and the commercial (for-profit) use of other's work is not necesarily covered by fair use.m ent.pd f
http://turnitin.com/static/legal/Legal_Docu
warning pdf file, your eyes may bleed.
Even if you had signed an agreement to this effect. You are essentially giving them something for nothing. Ownership of your papers goes to the university but you are not compensated in any way. Your education does not count because you pay tuition and fees for that. It is a contract without "consideration" for the student, so even if that guy was right which I am quite certain he is not since I know I never signed any contract with my evil university and they are exactly the type of place that would try this sort of thing, therefore the contract probably would not be enforceable.
If a school wants to run its papers through a service like turnitin then that is fine. I don't really care if they use a service to find cheaters. There are so many cheaters in colleges it would be nice for those of us who are honest to have a chance again. I was recently in an exam and the professor left the room for a few minutes (his fault I admit) and instantly everyone was asking for answers from each other. And in several cases this year I was offered money to other people's work. Obviously they found someone to do it.
My real problem with turnitin.com is that they collect a database of papers from those submitted and those published. They are using original works of others without permission or compensation and making millions at it.
I am starting to add a copyright notification at the end of my papers specificly prohibiting their storage in turnitin.com's database.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I don't recall seeing any mention whatsoever granting specific powers of any kind to the FBI in excess of what is stated in the constitution. Of course no one really cares about such details when guys with guns and facemasks to hide their identity are dragging you out of your house in the middle of the night for extrajudicial executions. We are not too far from it now.
Actually at the time I bought the Ipod, the Music Match software was the official apple endorsed PC to Ipod software with the Ipod manager thing in the background.
Itunes for windows is currently rife with problems related to the Ipod and I am not going to try it so long as Apple insists that it does not have a responsibility towards Ipod owners who don't also own a Mac.
I have a 15GB second generation ipod. I bought it online in May of 2003. I got it engraved and it took about a month to arrive. I saved about 10% by going through the education store and then spent that on the engraving and shipping.
At first getting it to work was a bit difficult on Windows XP. But a few minutes of fiddling fixed that.
Then Music Match pissed me off in about 1 day. I switched to Ephpod. Ephpod works much better but still tends to be a bit flakey.
Basically PC+Ipod=Flaky. I love my ipod, but only when it does that thing I like (ie. when it works)
In august the very flimsy cable attached to the remote started flaking out and I had to get the remote replaced at the Apple store. They were nice enough to just replace it there because they had extras otherwise they would have expected me to wait for one to arrive in the mail. 2nd Gen Ipods and 3rd Gen Ipods are very difficult to use in the car without a remote.
Occasionally the battery seems to die for no reason, which is probably just cause it kept being turned back on by something touching it or the auto matic off did not do its thing.
Mostly my problems relate to syncing where it does not excel.
I can move about 3GB which is the extent of the playlists I have on it in about 10-15 minutes over firewire. However it does not always go. Long songs like dj sets and comedy routines cut off after a few minutes and some songs that play fine on the computer do not play correctly, all the way, or at all on the ipod.
I love my ipod but if and when it breaks I am probably going to be more price conscious when buying my next mp3 player since it will likely not be a birthday present. That means I probably won't buy another ipod unless they come down in price in a year or so.
The Wright brothers did manage to get US patents for their adjustable wings that let them control the aircraft. However their patents were virtually ignored in Europe while they fought tooth and nail to defend them in the US. By the time they were done fighting for their IP, the US had fallen into last place in aviation technology.