And Word for Windows was a backport of Macintosh Word. MS Word for DOS didn't support windows, so when they need a response to WordPerfect, they looked to the Macintosh division for the base code.
FUCK'S SAKE! I don't AGREE with the anti-internet-gambling laws, I think they're full of shit -- BUT THIS SHIT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Antigua needs to get the fuck over it and move on.
Why? Or, why Antigua? Why doesn't the USA just get over it and follow the law?
Want an analogy? American alcohol companies get pissed they're not allowed to sell to Shariah-law nations, so the US decides to just steal their shit until they capitulate.
Not a good analogy. Neither American nor local companies can sell alcohol in such countries. The beef is that the USA is protecting its local gambling but forbidding international competition, which it has agreed not to do through its membership in the WTO
If I wrote a novel and Antigua started selling it, undercutting me and not compensating me in any way.. yes it would be just about time to grab your guns. This isn't about them being wronged, it's about them not respecting the sovereignty of another nation. They cannot dictate our laws, regardless of if those laws are dumb.
Copyright in stuff you write only extends outside the USA because of agreements with other sovereign nations. If the USA unilaterally breaks those agreements, then it's reasonable for the other parties to reciprocate. And yes, that means YOU got screwed. By your government. Not, actually, by the other nation. Direct your bile accordingly.
Well for NAT, it has a lot to do with quality, just not in any positive sense.:)
If you were searching for synonyms, in the context of "carrier grade NAT" you wouldn't be too far off with "large scale", "group", or "widely distributed".
In fact, many people in the IETF prefer the name LSN (Large Scale NAT) to CGN. Or CHN (Carrier Hosted NAT). "Carrier Grade" carrys an implied endorsement. "Carrier Grade Routers", "Carrier Grade NAT". Oooh, shiny, it must be good.
If Dilbert is most relevant, time to change employers.
After discovering that I was living a Dilbert cartoon, I left that job, and once I'd healed, vowed that if my life ever again imitated that particular piece of art, it was time to leave. Thus far I'm pleased to say I've been OK.
Back in the old days some countries used 111, which could very easily dialed accidentally by clicking the receiver contact a few times (rotary pulse dial phones).
Except that in at least some if not all of those countries, the phone dial went 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Looks sensible does it not? But, as dialled, 0 = ten clicks, then 1 was 9, etc. That meant that 111 was VERY unlikely to be dialled by accident---and I believe that was also the reason the the U.K. adopted "999", with the dial running 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
This is an early example of someone making the decision that the 'user interface' (the order of the digits on the dial) should be as the user might expect (ascending order, starting at 0) rather than reflecting the underlying hardware peculiarities.
Of course, with keypad entry, different criteria apply. We want something short and easy to remember that can't easily be dialled by accident. The latter rule argues against three digits the same, hence 112.
Yeah, I know this is slashdot, but really, read the article. Try to see past "this is GOP so it must be either wonderful or the work of the devil depending on your bigotry". It's a good paper, worthy of debate.
I've got mod points at the moment, but rather than oblivionate the current pathetic trolls, flamebait and fr1st p0st crap, I'd rather encourage some thought.
Hey, at least under first-to-invent, a smaller company that invented has first-to-invent as a defense if it is sued. At least you could bring up prior art. Now there is nothing, nothing stopping the big corporations from getting everything they want, all the time.
Prior Art still exists. That has not changed at all.
Pandora's biggest issue is that they're still blocking everyone outside of the US.
Not everyone any more. According to wikipedia, Pandora is now available in Australia and New Zealand. They apparently negotiated deals with the local licensing bodies.
It depends on the ISP and how you connect, but in many cases the ISP will enable configuration so that if you try and use an IP address other than the one they gave you it will fail. This if for no other reason that a compromised or busted device sending promiscuous ARP with bogus addresses acts as a denial of service attack. See this cisco document for how this works on some equipment.
With reference to gp, to whom you were responding. You need a license to drive a car (and registration). Not to operate a PC.
While YOU certainly know how to secure a router, not everyone does. Anyone, even someone with no tech knowledge (no license required to drive the Internet) can go to the store and buy a WiFi router. Which they set up. And maybe it tells them how to secure it and maybe it doesn't. If they don't, someone can drive by and steal their connection. They can abuse copyright (a civil matter) or download child pornography (felony, so proof beyond reasonable doubt is required).
In any case, who is to blame? The person that didn't secure their router? The store that sold them the gear they didn't secure? The manufacturer that didn't make equipment that had to be secured by default?
More analogy: you leave your door open and someone walks in and downloads pr0n using your router. Is it your fault? You shut your door, which they open and etc. Still your fault? You lock they door but they pick the lock. Still your fault? You barricade the door and triple lock it with three different brands of lock. They enter through the window. Still your fault?
I see what you mean about taking some responsibility, but from a legal point of view (remember, there is no right, no wrong, there is only the Law) what do we want the Law to be?
You appear to inhabit a different dimension to mine, for in mine, first to invent seems to most benefit big, rich corporations. Are you arguing that the current system is NOT broken? Are you arguing that 'first to file' as used everywhere else in the world is better than 'first to invent'? The evidence for this is?
The patent system is broken. Making 'first to file' is not going to fix the whole thing. It probably won't make any significant difference (other changes are needed as well), but it won't make it any worse or any more corrupt.
Start by throwing out business process patents, then software patents. That will fix a lot. I'm almost persuaded that we should just abolish patents altogether, because I don't see much economic justification for them. Are the big companies, at least the ones that actually make something, going to stop innovating because of a lack of patents? Really? REALLY?
Ah, I can't help but recall that when Oscar Wilde was asked why he thought America was such a violent society, he replied "because you have such ugly wallpaper".
There, have I confirmed your prejudices now?
So, you revile good taste, consider love of beauty a weakness and "Wenn ich Kultur höre... entsichere ich meinen Browning!"
(Sorry to disappoint you by the way, but I never got beat up in high school, and I'm not obsessive, an interior decorator, an artist, celibate, gay, or an anonymous coward.)
... but is this really better than good ol' Courier?
Personally, I find san-serif fonts a bit of a strain to read for long periods of time. For a while Lucida typewriter was fine but I keep switching back to Courier.
Yes.:) Well, for me. (De gustibus non disputandum est.) I find Courier to be ugly, and for coding in particular it has too many letter forms that are confusingly similar.
Of the fixed width fonts I have installed, I'd rank them best to worst as:
Inconsolata
Consolas
Source Code Pro
Monaco
Andale Mono
Menlo
Courier
Courier New
The only reason to even keep Courier around is because I get documents that specify it, or when I need to look like it was written on an old typewriter---though for that I'd be tempted to install Harting.
At the quantum level, Feynman treated anti-particles as being particles traveling backwards in time. However, point 2 (or something like it) does in fact seem to hold sway, as set out by the Temporal Consistency Principle and formalized as the Novikov self-consistency principle.
Now, bashing quantum theory and general relativity together into a consistent whole is something that we've not managed to do yet. Both seem to be true in their respective domains---(almost magisteria to listen to the debates) yet they stubbornly resist categorization into a One True Theory of Everything---so far.
I'm waiting for Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer to write a song about the incident. That would be cool. (I am assuming that Brad Hunstable, who by the way has deleted all the comments on his blog (at least one of them was vaguely supportive). would be less happy to have her turning her attention to him).
The problem with that is that the *IAA don't, strictly, make a takedown request. This is a proactive service that Google/Ustream et al offer well above the DMCA requirements. So, there is no way to penalise them for what they will claim they didn't do.
Instead, make the takedown request cost up front. It costs Google/Ustream etc. to implement the bots. It seems reasonable that those benefiting from them should pay.
I suggest something like:
You put $x up front into our account, @$y per implemented block, sufficient to process n takedowns. (n = $x/$y).
Any takedowns in excess of 'n' will not be processed.
At the end of the month, you will be rebated m x $y where 'm' is the number of undisputed takedowns.
Disputed takedowns will not be reblocked. You must file a DMCA takedown f you wish to dispute the case.
Still not perfect, but if the studios don't like it there is always the DCMA.
(What Google get out of this is essentially the interest on the money for a month---not much but enough to compensate them somewhat).
I didn't find Stand on Zanzibar that depressing. It actually has a slightly upbeat ending (the end to war bit you mentioned). "The Sheep Look Up" though (sort of a sequel) is much more depressing.
When I saw the headline for this article, I immediately thought of Jem, only to have it confirmed when I read on. But that's the genius of Pohl. Some of his stores are upbeat, some are downbeat, and you often can't tell until the end which type you're going to get.
You could probably add his short story "The Tunnel Under The World" (everything you know is a lie; you are a lie; now that you know that, here's some more information to show that you situation is even worse than you thought) or his novel "A Plague of Pythons"
There is also "On Wings of Song" by Thomas M. Disch which is more than somewhat bleak.
1. If a person is photographing or recording police activity from a position that impedes or interferes with the safety of members or their ability to perform their duties, a member may direct the person to move to a position that will not interfere. However, a member shall not order the person to stop photographing or recording.
2. If a person is photographing or recording police activity from a position that impedes or threatens the safety of members of the public, a member shall direct the person to move to a position that will not interfere. However, members shall not order the person to stop photographing or recording.
3. A person’s recording of members’ activity from a safe distance, and absent any attendant action that obstructs the activity or threatens the safety of the member(s), does not constitute interference.
4. A person has the right to express criticism of the police activity being observed. So long as that expression does not jeopardize the safety of any member, suspect or bystander; and so long as that expression does not violate the law or incite others to violate the law, the expression does not constitute interference.
So, they may not tell you to stop recording, and they may not take your camera. Later on in the order it explains in more detail how they MAY NOT TAKE your camera as evidence without probable cause, even then they need their supervisor present, and under no circumstances may they delete recordings.
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PowerPoint was originally a Mac program too.
FUCK'S SAKE! I don't AGREE with the anti-internet-gambling laws, I think they're full of shit -- BUT THIS SHIT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Antigua needs to get the fuck over it and move on.
Why? Or, why Antigua? Why doesn't the USA just get over it and follow the law?
Want an analogy? American alcohol companies get pissed they're not allowed to sell to Shariah-law nations, so the US decides to just steal their shit until they capitulate.
Not a good analogy. Neither American nor local companies can sell alcohol in such countries. The beef is that the USA is protecting its local gambling but forbidding international competition, which it has agreed not to do through its membership in the WTO
If I wrote a novel and Antigua started selling it, undercutting me and not compensating me in any way.. yes it would be just about time to grab your guns. This isn't about them being wronged, it's about them not respecting the sovereignty of another nation. They cannot dictate our laws, regardless of if those laws are dumb.
Copyright in stuff you write only extends outside the USA because of agreements with other sovereign nations. If the USA unilaterally breaks those agreements, then it's reasonable for the other parties to reciprocate. And yes, that means YOU got screwed. By your government. Not, actually, by the other nation. Direct your bile accordingly.
"Carrier grade" has nothing to do with quality.
Well for NAT, it has a lot to do with quality, just not in any positive sense. :)
If you were searching for synonyms, in the context of "carrier grade NAT" you wouldn't be too far off with "large scale", "group", or "widely distributed".
In fact, many people in the IETF prefer the name LSN (Large Scale NAT) to CGN. Or CHN (Carrier Hosted NAT). "Carrier Grade" carrys an implied endorsement. "Carrier Grade Routers", "Carrier Grade NAT". Oooh, shiny, it must be good.
1 Best: Basic Instructions http://basicinstructions.net/ 2 Single Best: too many to choose from 3 Best Art: Girl Genius http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ 4 Most Relevant: Dilbert http://dilbert.com/
If Dilbert is most relevant, time to change employers.
After discovering that I was living a Dilbert cartoon, I left that job, and once I'd healed, vowed that if my life ever again imitated that particular piece of art, it was time to leave. Thus far I'm pleased to say I've been OK.
Back in the old days some countries used 111, which could very easily dialed accidentally by clicking the receiver contact a few times (rotary pulse dial phones).
Except that in at least some if not all of those countries, the phone dial went 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Looks sensible does it not? But, as dialled, 0 = ten clicks, then 1 was 9, etc. That meant that 111 was VERY unlikely to be dialled by accident---and I believe that was also the reason the the U.K. adopted "999", with the dial running 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
This is an early example of someone making the decision that the 'user interface' (the order of the digits on the dial) should be as the user might expect (ascending order, starting at 0) rather than reflecting the underlying hardware peculiarities.
Of course, with keypad entry, different criteria apply. We want something short and easy to remember that can't easily be dialled by accident. The latter rule argues against three digits the same, hence 112.
Wikipedia also has an article which includes information on why 911 was chosen for the U.S.
Oh, you are referring to the theft of the laptop, aren't you?
I've got mod points at the moment, but rather than oblivionate the current pathetic trolls, flamebait and fr1st p0st crap, I'd rather encourage some thought.
Hey, at least under first-to-invent, a smaller company that invented has first-to-invent as a defense if it is sued. At least you could bring up prior art. Now there is nothing, nothing stopping the big corporations from getting everything they want, all the time.
Prior Art still exists. That has not changed at all.
Pandora's biggest issue is that they're still blocking everyone outside of the US.
Not everyone any more. According to wikipedia, Pandora is now available in Australia and New Zealand. They apparently negotiated deals with the local licensing bodies.
It depends on the ISP and how you connect, but in many cases the ISP will enable configuration so that if you try and use an IP address other than the one they gave you it will fail. This if for no other reason that a compromised or busted device sending promiscuous ARP with bogus addresses acts as a denial of service attack. See this cisco document for how this works on some equipment.
While YOU certainly know how to secure a router, not everyone does. Anyone, even someone with no tech knowledge (no license required to drive the Internet) can go to the store and buy a WiFi router. Which they set up. And maybe it tells them how to secure it and maybe it doesn't. If they don't, someone can drive by and steal their connection. They can abuse copyright (a civil matter) or download child pornography (felony, so proof beyond reasonable doubt is required).
In any case, who is to blame? The person that didn't secure their router? The store that sold them the gear they didn't secure? The manufacturer that didn't make equipment that had to be secured by default?
More analogy: you leave your door open and someone walks in and downloads pr0n using your router. Is it your fault? You shut your door, which they open and etc. Still your fault? You lock they door but they pick the lock. Still your fault? You barricade the door and triple lock it with three different brands of lock. They enter through the window. Still your fault?
I see what you mean about taking some responsibility, but from a legal point of view (remember, there is no right, no wrong, there is only the Law) what do we want the Law to be?
The patent system is broken. Making 'first to file' is not going to fix the whole thing. It probably won't make any significant difference (other changes are needed as well), but it won't make it any worse or any more corrupt.
Start by throwing out business process patents, then software patents. That will fix a lot. I'm almost persuaded that we should just abolish patents altogether, because I don't see much economic justification for them. Are the big companies, at least the ones that actually make something, going to stop innovating because of a lack of patents? Really? REALLY?
And it looks like wired's embedded ustream feed isn't working...
Maybe their copyright robot decided it sounded too much like science fiction?
Just keep calling it "ECMA Script" until it sticks.
For some reason, "ECMA" always makes me think of "ACNE". Now it will for you, too ;-)
You're welcome.
No, because it already makes me think of eczema which is far more disturbing.
There, have I confirmed your prejudices now?
So, you revile good taste, consider love of beauty a weakness and "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!"
(Sorry to disappoint you by the way, but I never got beat up in high school, and I'm not obsessive, an interior decorator, an artist, celibate, gay, or an anonymous coward.)
... but is this really better than good ol' Courier?
Personally, I find san-serif fonts a bit of a strain to read for long periods of time. For a while Lucida typewriter was fine but I keep switching back to Courier.
Yes. :) Well, for me. (De gustibus non disputandum est.) I find Courier to be ugly, and for coding in particular it has too many letter forms that are confusingly similar.
Of the fixed width fonts I have installed, I'd rank them best to worst as:
The only reason to even keep Courier around is because I get documents that specify it, or when I need to look like it was written on an old typewriter---though for that I'd be tempted to install Harting.
Now, bashing quantum theory and general relativity together into a consistent whole is something that we've not managed to do yet. Both seem to be true in their respective domains---(almost magisteria to listen to the debates) yet they stubbornly resist categorization into a One True Theory of Everything---so far.
Eject the core!
Frog Blast The Vent Core!
I'm waiting for Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer to write a song about the incident. That would be cool. (I am assuming that Brad Hunstable, who by the way has deleted all the comments on his blog (at least one of them was vaguely supportive). would be less happy to have her turning her attention to him).
Instead, make the takedown request cost up front. It costs Google/Ustream etc. to implement the bots. It seems reasonable that those benefiting from them should pay.
I suggest something like:
Still not perfect, but if the studios don't like it there is always the DCMA.
(What Google get out of this is essentially the interest on the money for a month---not much but enough to compensate them somewhat).
When I saw the headline for this article, I immediately thought of Jem, only to have it confirmed when I read on. But that's the genius of Pohl. Some of his stores are upbeat, some are downbeat, and you often can't tell until the end which type you're going to get.
You could probably add his short story "The Tunnel Under The World" (everything you know is a lie; you are a lie; now that you know that, here's some more information to show that you situation is even worse than you thought) or his novel "A Plague of Pythons"
There is also "On Wings of Song" by Thomas M. Disch which is more than somewhat bleak.
Not a tree, a rock, a cathedral, a road, a car, a plane?
I bet we'll find a bunch of cops using this as an excuse to take away your camera...
Nope. From the linked orders
So, they may not tell you to stop recording, and they may not take your camera. Later on in the order it explains in more detail how they MAY NOT TAKE your camera as evidence without probable cause, even then they need their supervisor present, and under no circumstances may they delete recordings.
This article by Chris Keall of the NZ National Business Review gives a very good summary of the context of the remarks, including a link to the video of him making the Pogo reference and a podcast of the subsequent comment that caused the trouble.
Judge Harvey is an interesting person. Here is the page on his web-site where he describes his love of The Lord Of The Rings, and how he won the International Mastermind quiz in 1981 with LOTR as the topic.
Contiki was created by Adam Dunkels at SICS in 2003 and was quickly slashdotted. Its impact has been growing ever since.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.