RCU was patented by Sequent. As I understand it this is not a problem because Sequent was acquired by IBM, and IBM contributed the code implementing RCU to Linux, and one of the conditions the GPL puts on distribution is that the distributor grants royalty-free licenses for any relevant patents to anyone receiving the code.
The Parliament cannot overrule the Commission either. In fact it must vote by a majority of total members (not a majority of members present) to make any changes to the Commission's version of the directive. If the Parliament and Commission cannot agree a final version, nothing happens. This is one of the fundamental weaknesses of democracy in the EU. (Another being, that MEPs represent constituencies of millions of people, whose individual voices are therefore infinitesimally quiet.)
About a month back I was among several local members of the Liberal Democrats who went to help out with a by-election. We shared the local Liberal Democrat MEP's car and had lunch together. When I told him what I did for a living he brought up the topic of software patents and we had something of a lively debate. Now the party has a policy against software patents, but its MEPs are part of a group that is for them with a few reservations. When I emailed him before the first full parliamentary vote his (probably canned) reply stated categorical opposition to software patents. Unfortunately it seems he has been swayed towards them since them. What depressed me most was his reply to my claim that small businesses were mostly against them: "we must represent the large companies too". Shit, and there I was thinking they were representing people!
For instance, the Chamberlen family invented obstetrical forceps in the early seventeenth century---and kept it a secret. Many women died needlessly in childbirth because it was more profitable to the Chamberlens to maintain their secret.
Or, in the modern day, the drug companies who find it more profitable to price their patented AIDS drugs well out of reach of the average third-world AIDS victim. Looks like patents don't solve that problem.
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I don't know whether GWB chose his advisors or whether it was the other way round.
OK, you're right. I distinctly remember seeing earlier documentation from AMD that said 16-bit programs weren't supported in 64-bit mode. However it's possible that that was really documenting what Windows would support on AMD64. In fact, now that I think about it, 16-bit addressing doesn't require a different processor mode to 32-bit addressing so it makes no sense to disallow it. I suppose Microsoft has just had enough of supporting the 16-bit compatibility layer in Windows.
I've yet to come up with a legitimate reason for why they'd drop support for that since (IIRC) AMD64 supports running 16-bit code while running in Long mode, but there's one thing to be mindful of.
VAG stands for Volkswagen AG, and you forgot Bugatti, Seat, Skoda
Skoda is a great example of cheaper brands. Several Skoda models are almost identical to VW and Audi models, only they're made in the Czech Republic where labour is cheaper. VAG apparently sent its best QA people over there for a while, making the Skodas actually more reliable than their more expensive VW and Audi counterparts.
*snort* Unix development was funded as the basis for a typesetting system for the patent department of AT&T! Still, they didn't file a load of patents on their software - the setuid bit is the only patented Unix feature I'm aware of.
You can spoof it if you can guess what will be sent back. The TCP handshake involves exchanging initial sequence numbers (ISNs) and an attacker would normally need to know the peer's ISN to be able to complete the handshake. However, many older implementations of TCP generated the ISN in such a way that it was highly predictable and so it was possible for an attacker to guess it within a small enough range that it was practical to send subsequent packet streams based on each of the possible ISNs.
As a protest against the previous system of apartheid in South Africa, there was a widespread boycott of its businesses, including Cape. On 26 April 1994 the first elections were held in which people of all races could vote, marking the end of apartheid.
Getting a credit check can lower your rating temporarily if the institution making the check says you're applying for credit (rather than, say, applying for a job or rental). If you're applying for a whole bunch of credit cards or loans at the same time, that suggests you may be trying to borrow rather more than you can afford (or at least than the banks think you can afford).
XHTML won't work properly in older browsers (broken or not), whatever you label it as. You would have to give them regular HTML while giving the newer browsers XHTML. Then you would have to have two versions of your client-side scripts and stylesheets to work with the HTML DOM and the XML DOM, or try to find techniques to work around the differences. So it's a whole lot of work, not just one line of code.
Thankfully it doesn't just test the From header, as this would break bouncing and various other useful functions. The draft spec includes an algorithm for determining the "purported responsible address" that checks Resent-Sender, Resent-From, Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, Envelope-To, Sender and From fields.
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RCU was patented by Sequent. As I understand it this is not a problem because Sequent was acquired by IBM, and IBM contributed the code implementing RCU to Linux, and one of the conditions the GPL puts on distribution is that the distributor grants royalty-free licenses for any relevant patents to anyone receiving the code.
Voodoo 3, you say?
The Parliament cannot overrule the Commission either. In fact it must vote by a majority of total members (not a majority of members present) to make any changes to the Commission's version of the directive. If the Parliament and Commission cannot agree a final version, nothing happens. This is one of the fundamental weaknesses of democracy in the EU. (Another being, that MEPs represent constituencies of millions of people, whose individual voices are therefore infinitesimally quiet.)
About a month back I was among several local members of the Liberal Democrats who went to help out with a by-election. We shared the local Liberal Democrat MEP's car and had lunch together. When I told him what I did for a living he brought up the topic of software patents and we had something of a lively debate. Now the party has a policy against software patents, but its MEPs are part of a group that is for them with a few reservations. When I emailed him before the first full parliamentary vote his (probably canned) reply stated categorical opposition to software patents. Unfortunately it seems he has been swayed towards them since them. What depressed me most was his reply to my claim that small businesses were mostly against them: "we must represent the large companies too". Shit, and there I was thinking they were representing people!
Or, in the modern day, the drug companies who find it more profitable to price their patented AIDS drugs well out of reach of the average third-world AIDS victim. Looks like patents don't solve that problem.
I don't know whether GWB chose his advisors or whether it was the other way round.
3 cores running at 3.5 GHz is going to be pretty impressive even at the end of next year.
The car driver is financially liable, but there is no legal presumption of guilt. I can't see the use of this myself.
You've never heard of the Death Tobacco Company?
OK, you're right. I distinctly remember seeing earlier documentation from AMD that said 16-bit programs weren't supported in 64-bit mode. However it's possible that that was really documenting what Windows would support on AMD64. In fact, now that I think about it, 16-bit addressing doesn't require a different processor mode to 32-bit addressing so it makes no sense to disallow it. I suppose Microsoft has just had enough of supporting the 16-bit compatibility layer in Windows.
Unfortunately it isn't likely to make it into sarge, so it probably won't be in stable until 2006.
Unfortunately NT for Alpha is 32-bit.
You remember wrongly.
C S Lewis was a close friend of Tolkien. He was hardly an unbiased critic!
Skoda is a great example of cheaper brands. Several Skoda models are almost identical to VW and Audi models, only they're made in the Czech Republic where labour is cheaper. VAG apparently sent its best QA people over there for a while, making the Skodas actually more reliable than their more expensive VW and Audi counterparts.
The rental company?
Modern agriculture also requires lots of fuel for farm machinery, irrigation in some cases, and distribution.
*snort* Unix development was funded as the basis for a typesetting system for the patent department of AT&T! Still, they didn't file a load of patents on their software - the setuid bit is the only patented Unix feature I'm aware of.
You can spoof it if you can guess what will be sent back. The TCP handshake involves exchanging initial sequence numbers (ISNs) and an attacker would normally need to know the peer's ISN to be able to complete the handshake. However, many older implementations of TCP generated the ISN in such a way that it was highly predictable and so it was possible for an attacker to guess it within a small enough range that it was practical to send subsequent packet streams based on each of the possible ISNs.
If you refuse to pay they can't make you.
As a protest against the previous system of apartheid in South Africa, there was a widespread boycott of its businesses, including Cape. On 26 April 1994 the first elections were held in which people of all races could vote, marking the end of apartheid.
Getting a credit check can lower your rating temporarily if the institution making the check says you're applying for credit (rather than, say, applying for a job or rental). If you're applying for a whole bunch of credit cards or loans at the same time, that suggests you may be trying to borrow rather more than you can afford (or at least than the banks think you can afford).
BBC channels 1-3 seem to match the grandparent's description now, though I have to admit I hardly bother to see what's on TV any more.
Besides which, intensive farming and firewood gathering can quickly turn fertile watered land into desert.
XHTML won't work properly in older browsers (broken or not), whatever you label it as. You would have to give them regular HTML while giving the newer browsers XHTML. Then you would have to have two versions of your client-side scripts and stylesheets to work with the HTML DOM and the XML DOM, or try to find techniques to work around the differences. So it's a whole lot of work, not just one line of code.
Thankfully it doesn't just test the From header, as this would break bouncing and various other useful functions. The draft spec includes an algorithm for determining the "purported responsible address" that checks Resent-Sender, Resent-From, Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, Envelope-To, Sender and From fields.