The article had a good point, that Capitol Hill didn't give a damn when it was MS vs. other software companies, but when it was a household name like Kodak, then they take notice.
Now, (in my mind) I'm the last person to encourage lawyers, but we need more "traditional" companies to do the sort of thing that Kodak did, and stand up to MS. Since the Congresscritters know that Joe Citizen doesn't care about iWhoeverTheDotComOfTheWeekIs, but know and understand "Kodak", they pay attention.
I think Kodak could have got an injunction if they really wanted. I also hope the NY AG uses this in the new MS hearings.
Where the hell do you live, zhensel? My wife is a nurse, and in 12 years of work, she has NEVER been offered payment for her required C.E. until the last year.
She only got it now because she no longer works in a hospital or doctor's office. She now works for the (evil) insurance industry (go figure -- they're the ones who'll pay!).
According to my local radio station's (KNX1070) financial reporter, it was simply a matter of too many buy orders all coming in at once, and they needed to sort it all out.
Obviously the marketroids and suits who drove SCO into the ground with their insane pricing got control of Caldera after they bought SCO.
Seriously, though, isn't this a change to the existing Linux kernel license? Are they allowed to change it like this? Can Linus tell them they can't use the Linux name?
Dan, that stuff is on THEIR nickel, not mine. Now, granted I am personally on an fixed-per-month cost line, but people do exist who are metered (anyone remember ISDN?). The time and cost for downloading their spam comes on MY nickel.
That's the basic argument, the same sort of argument for the anti-junkfax law.
Driving at the posted 55 (say) in pissing rain or 20feet visibility fog is theoretically legal
Not in California. There is a law called the "Basic Speed Law" which says "as fast is it is safe." Of course, there's also the posted limit to deal with... I suspect then, that it's: MIN(safe speed,posted limit).
<HUMOR>
This fungus is obviously derived from the space fungus on the Mir station. It landed on Earth when Mir crashed, and began to mutate. Now it is attacking our CDs!
This is not a coincidence, the space aliens planned it this way so as to destroy our information systems in preparation for their invasion! THEY were the ones who introduced the space fungus into Mir. THEIR agents caused NASA and the Russian Space Agency to crash Mir on Earth!
People of Earth, Unite against this invasion!!!!
</HUMOR>
You forgot a point, too... Under UCITA, a clause in the EULA that says "By opening the shrink-wrap, you accept this EULA" would be valid, even if you have to open the package BEFORE you can read the EULA!
The site was in fact neopets.com, and they have a policy that for kids to have a full account, they have to get a snailmail form from a parent (they have a page to print it out).
What happened was that my daughter tried to bypass this without asking me (she tried to email them as me and ask them to activate a full account). I got this surprise email from them saying essentially, "Sorry, we need a hardcopy". Since I had never sent them anything, it was kind of obvious what had gone on.
It wasn't a bad site at all. It was neopets.com. It's been a while, but IIRC, I had told her that she couldn't open accounts without my approval, and I didn't like the info they asked for (I don't remember exactly).
I laid out the ground rules with my 10 year old daughter. The usual, pretty much Jamie's list above.
Then one day I get an email from some site saying that they couldn't comply with *my* request to authorize my daughters account for something or other unless via snailmail.
She'd forged an email from me (not hard... it's a family PC running 'doze) and tried to say "I forgot my password. Please authorize....". Luckily the site required snailmail confirmation in that situation.
Needless to say, there was a discussion about responsibility and lying... I let her know that it would be some time before I could trust her fully online again, and oh, yes... she was grounded from the computer for a week, and after that, she was not allowed online for a month without me or my wife literally looking over her shoulder...
I agree. I don't like many of his decisions/opinions, yet they are always well-reasoned. That's the problem that I had when Thomas was nominated. It wasn't that he was a conservative, he was nowhere near the legal genius that Scalia is. Also, at the time of the Bork nomination, I was a Democrat, and I thought Bork should have been confirmed for the same reason.
Indeed, and without trying to invoke Godwin, the Great Depression was part of what led to Hitler's rise. Germany was so economically depressed that it was ripe for a demagogue like him.
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The article had a good point, that Capitol Hill didn't give a damn when it was MS vs. other software companies, but when it was a household name like Kodak, then they take notice.
Now, (in my mind) I'm the last person to encourage lawyers, but we need more "traditional" companies to do the sort of thing that Kodak did, and stand up to MS. Since the Congresscritters know that Joe Citizen doesn't care about iWhoeverTheDotComOfTheWeekIs, but know and understand "Kodak", they pay attention.
I think Kodak could have got an injunction if they really wanted. I also hope the NY AG uses this in the new MS hearings.
Dude:
Remember what Ben Franklin said:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Where the hell do you live, zhensel? My wife is a nurse, and in 12 years of work, she has NEVER been offered payment for her required C.E. until the last year.
She only got it now because she no longer works in a hospital or doctor's office. She now works for the (evil) insurance industry (go figure -- they're the ones who'll pay!).
Nurses in CA need 30 hours every 2 years to renew their licenses.
According to my local radio station's (KNX1070) financial reporter, it was simply a matter of too many buy orders all coming in at once, and they needed to sort it all out.
Obviously the marketroids and suits who drove SCO into the ground with their insane pricing got control of Caldera after they bought SCO.
Seriously, though, isn't this a change to the existing Linux kernel license? Are they allowed to change it like this? Can Linus tell them they can't use the Linux name?
Dan, that stuff is on THEIR nickel, not mine. Now, granted I am personally on an fixed-per-month cost line, but people do exist who are metered (anyone remember ISDN?). The time and cost for downloading their spam comes on MY nickel.
That's the basic argument, the same sort of argument for the anti-junkfax law.
Will they have a "Roger the Shrubber" action figure for those of us who wish we could design shrubberies?
NI!
A good place to learn about military simulation is at the Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command web site.
Anyone seriously interested in this should also research DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation) and HLA (High Level Architecture [for simulation]).
We should all write to Microsoft and ask for a copy of the source to Word. Point to the C|Net interview.
Driving at the posted 55 (say) in pissing rain or 20feet visibility fog is theoretically legal
Not in California. There is a law called the "Basic Speed Law" which says "as fast is it is safe." Of course, there's also the posted limit to deal with... I suspect then, that it's: MIN(safe speed,posted limit).
She: I'm so fat! I've gained a ton!
He: No, Honey. It's just all those neutrinos that collided with you...
<HUMOR>
This fungus is obviously derived from the space fungus on the Mir station. It landed on Earth when Mir crashed, and began to mutate. Now it is attacking our CDs!
This is not a coincidence, the space aliens planned it this way so as to destroy our information systems in preparation for their invasion! THEY were the ones who introduced the space fungus into Mir. THEIR agents caused NASA and the Russian Space Agency to crash Mir on Earth!
People of Earth, Unite against this invasion!!!!
</HUMOR>
You forgot a point, too... Under UCITA, a clause in the EULA that says "By opening the shrink-wrap, you accept this EULA" would be valid, even if you have to open the package BEFORE you can read the EULA!
And that it often doesn't matter, since even the professional associations don't have the weight to throw around that large industry does.
There's a difference here. Politicians don't care about the AMA. They probably do care about the ABA, since many of them are lawyers.
No, no, no... The number of the 733ts winds up as
rws-wx-wt
Please get it right!
Well, sure, for an OC-3, they'll give you good service... you're paying a few thousand a month for that one!
Whoops... My mistake.
The site was in fact neopets.com, and they have a policy that for kids to have a full account, they have to get a snailmail form from a parent (they have a page to print it out).
What happened was that my daughter tried to bypass this without asking me (she tried to email them as me and ask them to activate a full account). I got this surprise email from them saying essentially, "Sorry, we need a hardcopy". Since I had never sent them anything, it was kind of obvious what had gone on.
In all, I applaud neopets for their policy.
It wasn't a bad site at all. It was neopets.com. It's been a while, but IIRC, I had told her that she couldn't open accounts without my approval, and I didn't like the info they asked for (I don't remember exactly).
I laid out the ground rules with my 10 year old daughter. The usual, pretty much Jamie's list above.
Then one day I get an email from some site saying that they couldn't comply with *my* request to authorize my daughters account for something or other unless via snailmail.
She'd forged an email from me (not hard... it's a family PC running 'doze) and tried to say "I forgot my password. Please authorize....". Luckily the site required snailmail confirmation in that situation.
Needless to say, there was a discussion about responsibility and lying... I let her know that it would be some time before I could trust her fully online again, and oh, yes... she was grounded from the computer for a week, and after that, she was not allowed online for a month without me or my wife literally looking over her shoulder...
Still better than filtering...
Because Napster was designed to be used by individuals.
This software is designed to be used by Evil Corporations(tm).
If you're worried about van Eck phreaking, you need to get yourself TEMPEST certified stuff.
You could start by building a Faraday cage into your walls...
I agree. I don't like many of his decisions/opinions, yet they are always well-reasoned. That's the problem that I had when Thomas was nominated. It wasn't that he was a conservative, he was nowhere near the legal genius that Scalia is. Also, at the time of the Bork nomination, I was a Democrat, and I thought Bork should have been confirmed for the same reason.
Let's say my source architecture uses interrupt-based I/O. My target uses memory-mapped. Will this translator be able to handle that?
Non Sequiter argument. You can have interrupt based memory mapped I/O (ask any PPC developer!).
I assume you meant to say port-mapped vs. memory-mapped.
Indeed, and without trying to invoke Godwin, the Great Depression was part of what led to Hitler's rise. Germany was so economically depressed that it was ripe for a demagogue like him.