Microsoft could open-source some of the code - what they wrote themselves - but there's still code in there from Mosaic, which MS licensed from Spyglass. Not sure if Spyglass owns the rights or has just licensed them, but the ownership seems a little murky to me. Does UIUC own it? NCSA? The citizens of the USA, who paid for much of its development?
I dunno, but I'm betting that MS couldn't easily release IE as OSS even if they were so inclined.
Passive blacklists don't seem to do much, except cause headaches for legit users whose emails fall into the black holes caused by spammers.
Apropos this article, I think the solution is that ISPs should refuse to peer with other ISPs that tolerate spammers on their nets. If no one will peer with them, they'll go belly-up pretty quickly.
It seems like 99 cents per song, which has become the de facto standard price for online music sales, is much too expensive. That comes out to almost $14/full CD - approximately the same as buying a CD at retail. BUT... there's no manufacturing/printing cost, no inventory cost, low distribution cost, etc.
A much more reasonable (and acceptable, to me) price would be in the 50 cent range per track. At 99 cents, I'm staying away. At 50 cents, I'm not just testing the water, I'm diving right in.
I'm not sure whiich part of the FCC regulations 802.11b falls under, but it's probably the part that covers other unlicensed transmissions. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these phased-array antennae are not up-to-snuff legally, due to WAY high effective radiated power (ERP). The whole idea of unlicensed transmission is that it is in spectrum and at ERP levels that will not have an affect outside an extremely circumscribed area or cause undue interference... and this is definitely NOT what the new array's goal is... quite the opposite, in fact.
Actually, if you stumbled on the Coke recipe and published it, they couldn't legally do anything to you. That formula is protected not by copyright but as a trade secret. It's Coke's responsibility to keep their secrets secret, it's not our responsibility. In any case, if the formula were protected by copyright or patent, it would have long since been in the public domain.
1) The C Programming Language - Kernighan & Richie
2) The Art of Computer Programming (all) - Knuth
3) UNIX Network Programming - Stevens
4) TCP/IP Illustrated (Vols 1-3) Stevens
5) The Mythical Man-Month - Brooks
6) Programming Perl - Wall et al.
7) Java In A Nutshell - Flanagan
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Microsoft could open-source some of the code - what they wrote themselves - but there's still code in there from Mosaic, which MS licensed from Spyglass. Not sure if Spyglass owns the rights or has just licensed them, but the ownership seems a little murky to me. Does UIUC own it? NCSA? The citizens of the USA, who paid for much of its development?
I dunno, but I'm betting that MS couldn't easily release IE as OSS even if they were so inclined.
Hasn't OS X had biometric user verification/login, albeit voice not fingerprint, since it was first released back in 2000 (or was it 1999?)
Passive blacklists don't seem to do much, except cause headaches for legit users whose emails fall into the black holes caused by spammers.
Apropos this article, I think the solution is that ISPs should refuse to peer with other ISPs that tolerate spammers on their nets. If no one will peer with them, they'll go belly-up pretty quickly.
It seems like 99 cents per song, which has become the de facto standard price for online music sales, is much too expensive. That comes out to almost $14/full CD - approximately the same as buying a CD at retail. BUT ... there's no manufacturing/printing cost, no inventory cost, low distribution cost, etc.
A much more reasonable (and acceptable, to me) price would be in the 50 cent range per track. At 99 cents, I'm staying away. At 50 cents, I'm not just testing the water, I'm diving right in.
I'm not sure whiich part of the FCC regulations 802.11b falls under, but it's probably the part that covers other unlicensed transmissions. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these phased-array antennae are not up-to-snuff legally, due to WAY high effective radiated power (ERP). The whole idea of unlicensed transmission is that it is in spectrum and at ERP levels that will not have an affect outside an extremely circumscribed area or cause undue interference ... and this is definitely NOT what the new array's goal is ... quite the opposite, in fact.
Actually, if you stumbled on the Coke recipe and published it, they couldn't legally do anything to you. That formula is protected not by copyright but as a trade secret. It's Coke's responsibility to keep their secrets secret, it's not our responsibility. In any case, if the formula were protected by copyright or patent, it would have long since been in the public domain.
1) The C Programming Language - Kernighan & Richie
2) The Art of Computer Programming (all) - Knuth
3) UNIX Network Programming - Stevens
4) TCP/IP Illustrated (Vols 1-3) Stevens
5) The Mythical Man-Month - Brooks
6) Programming Perl - Wall et al.
7) Java In A Nutshell - Flanagan