Chuck all the stupid crap toys you have that use proprietary connectors.
I have made a decision: In the small electronics area, I will ONLY buy devices that use the mini-USB style connectors.
I think it was South Korea that mandated that ALL cell phones should charbe via the mini-USB style connectors. Hopefully, this will soon extend to other similar devices (If only by consumer preference).
OK, so this looks like what almost everybody can agree is a proper application of copyright law -- although I'd actually be willing to argue that he got off light with this sentence. Normally, I'd expect the restitution to be a multiple of the profits. ( granted, IANAL ).
Nothing wrong with bias -- per se.
on
Grokking SCO's Demise
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
If, after looking at everything carefully, you conclude that the GNU/Linux people were right, how can you call what they say, "partisan crowd noise" ?
Ain't nothing sacred about being right. People become partisan because we believe that there's something 'right' about that partisan attitude. Sometimes we're right. Sometimes we're wrong.
PJ is, in this case, both clearly pro-Linux and clearly right. She claims and I believe) that if things were coming out tha would have been clearly bad for the linux side, she would have documented it just as clearly (unhappily but clearly).
As somebody else intimated, pretending to be unbiased is one of the prime inauthenticities. Journalists (unfortunately) get taught to write like they're dispassionate (no matter how biased they are -- or are told to be -- about what's going on). It really messes up the people who buy that line.
That's part of the reason why I like (pseudo) amateur rags.... they'll actually say things like "We hate so and so. we think you should to, and here's why (no matter how sucky the reasons why may be). That way, you at least know their bias, and can read around it.
PJ is about the best I think we can hope for: She's open about her bias and attempting to produce the most clean record possible inside of that bias. Sge states her bias and her opinions, and then gathers together as much of the documentation a spossible so that you can check her opinions against reality.
A few years ago, a friend of mine came up with a wonderful description of breating which might actually pass the patent test, but I then concluded that... as well described as it was, no patent examiner was going to be stupid enough to pass the patent.
It's useful to recognize the differenc. A mistake is where you don't know any better.. misformation is where you intend that others not know any better. This is clearly an example of the latter.
Methinks that the definition that you're using for dogma is itself a dogma (wrongly held)... That is simply one of a few possible dogmas (in terms of definitions).
Dogma?
If it was dogma the priests of chemistry would be denying the evidence and punishing its discoverers.
A Dogma is simply any commonly (even formally) held belief.
You need not be dogmatic about a dogma, but leaders being dogmatic about a dogma can result in actions such as are cited above.
You need not, however, be dogmatic about a dogma.... Relativity, for example, can be considered a dogma for (and by) many, nonetheless, there are a good number of theoretical physicists who are doggedly (same root) looking for improved alternatives.
"And I have acted, and will continue to act, to ensure that my words are translated into reality so that the conduct described in this report does not occur again at the department."
It's convenient to say you won't let it happen 'again' -- given that it's after 6-8 years of skewed hiring/firing practices, and in the twilight of a lame-duck presidency. In the meantime, you have an AG department that is purged of 'liberals'. and stacked with 'good republicans'.
If he really means what hey says, he should go back and order the hiring of all of the people were arbitrarily denied the opportunity to work for the department. at least, then, there would be at least somecorrection of the nastiness that was done through most of this administration.
What Bush 'is' is pretty much going to be described based on what his government did. If that's a function of who he chose to run his administration, the so be it.
It's like if I said that I'm all for the separation of church and state, and then I hired the pope as my Attorney General. You can go by what I said, or what I did.
I don't think you can copyright most of the board....
They may have gotten a design patent, but the design patent would have expired before I was born.
Yeah, they have Trademark rights, but scabulous vs scrabble may be a bit of a difficult similarity to litigate over. I'm guessing that they're intending to succeed by outspending the scrabulous brothers. They've cut off their air-supply via facebook... now, all they have to do is litigate them into the ground.
It can take a couple of decades between exposure to a cancer-causing event and a noticable tumor, and cell phone usage has really only started ramping up since the mid 1990's-early 2000's. In other words, we're not likely to see really useful data for another 10-25 years -- but, by then, we'll have about 1 billion guinea pigs and precious few control subjects....
If nothing else, this warning might produce a few more control subjects (i.e. people with minimal cell-phone exposure) for 20 years down the road.
Well, M$ isn't gonna put uch energy int killing something that they don't see as a threat to their monopoly. The only reason why they're going to pressure OEMs to not put BEOS onto their machines is that OEMs were considering (or in the process of) putting BeOS on their machines.
Something that's threatening to make inroads into the marketplace is not something that I would consider 'already dying'.
sudo ipfw add 100 drop tcp from any to ${eth0} 6881 tcpflags rst
(I can't remember the exact syntax, right now)... The point is that you want to allow yourself to send RSTs outbound, but ignore them inbound on your internet-facing port.
Well, if you're getting bitten by ComCast (or other e.g. Canadian) ISPs that are resetting connections, then it's probably better to leave connections open that shouldn't be than to close connections that should stay open.
It's a response to a violation of the TCP protocol to begin with, so it's not surprising that it has some negative side effects.
Probably the best thing to do would be to build a filter that registers the presence of the RST packet and waits to see if you get more data from the site that supposedly sent it.
* If the site that the RST packet supposedly came from continues to act like it's got an open session, then you can ignore the RST as a forgery.
* If you have no more non-closure packets after the RST, then you can apply an aggressive timeout and then deliver the RST after 2-3 seconds of silence.
In other words, Minerva can either plead that they've violated the (implied) contract to deliver the source code with their binaries, or they can plead that they've violated copyright by distributing binaries without accepting the terms of the GPL. Personally, (IANAL), I think that they're better off coping to a breach-of-contract plea, because statutory copyright damages can be a killer.
Try booting off of an attached drive in a USB enclosure. Most Motherboards will boot off of that these days. You can install on the drive with another (working) system.
It was actually posted on April 1, and it simply took this long to be processed and publicly posted.
The reason why it's listed as having been filed on November 6 is that whomever filed it forgot to turn of the auto-predating feature. (Yeah, I know it's illegal, but we're talking about Microsoft, here).
So whats Anti-trust legislation then? In the US (and Canadian) legal/political environment, it's mostly useless. When a company (or group of them) gets big enough that anti-trust legislation is worth applying, they also have enough money to successfully lobby the government for explicit extensions and/or litigate the anti-trust watchdogs into submission.
Laws are only as good as their teeth, and -- when you're dealing with a megacorp, you need extremely big and sharp teeth.
You really can't 'fine tune' Vista very much. Most of the cost of what slows down vista is tha basic design decision to build in the cross-checking intended to make the DRM relatively bullet-proof (or, at least, bullet resistant). The only way to 'fine tune' that out would be to reverse the DRM decision and allow driver makers to make DRM-less drivers... but you wouldn't be able to use a vista machine with DRM-less drivers unless ALL of the drivers were DRM-less.
This would, effectively, be more like the XP with a Vista skin that another responder alluded to, than a fine-tune of Vista.
Vista is not a failure...... It'll only be a failure if they never release another version of Windows,....! I'd call that a rip-roaring success,,, Oh: you mean 'for microsoft'
In any case, Microsoft has enough Money in the bank (and other semi-liquid assets) that the only way that they'd never survive to put out another operating system is if they're the victim of a massive class-action suit that they don't manage to drag out for a decade or so.
They'll put out another 'windows' -- Whether the market wants it or not.. and even a worst-case crash and burn for Vista is unlikely to be enough to stop that.
Slashdot Mirror
at 5V/0.5A, however, he's gonna have to wait about 6 weeks for it to fully charge.
Chuck all the stupid crap toys you have that use proprietary connectors.
I have made a decision: In the small electronics area, I will ONLY buy devices that use the mini-USB style connectors.
I think it was South Korea that mandated that ALL cell phones should charbe via the mini-USB style connectors. Hopefully, this will soon extend to other similar devices (If only by consumer preference).
OK, so this looks like what almost everybody can agree is a proper application of copyright law -- although I'd actually be willing to argue that he got off light with this sentence. Normally, I'd expect the restitution to be a multiple of the profits. ( granted, IANAL ).
If, after looking at everything carefully, you conclude that the GNU/Linux people were right, how can you call what they say, "partisan crowd noise" ?
Ain't nothing sacred about being right. People become partisan because we believe that there's something 'right' about that partisan attitude. Sometimes we're right. Sometimes we're wrong.
PJ is, in this case, both clearly pro-Linux and clearly right. She claims and I believe) that if things were coming out tha would have been clearly bad for the linux side, she would have documented it just as clearly (unhappily but clearly).
As somebody else intimated, pretending to be unbiased is one of the prime inauthenticities. Journalists (unfortunately) get taught to write like they're dispassionate (no matter how biased they are -- or are told to be -- about what's going on). It really messes up the people who buy that line.
That's part of the reason why I like (pseudo) amateur rags.... they'll actually say things like "We hate so and so. we think you should to, and here's why (no matter how sucky the reasons why may be). That way, you at least know their bias, and can read around it.
PJ is about the best I think we can hope for: She's open about her bias and attempting to produce the most clean record possible inside of that bias. Sge states her bias and her opinions, and then gathers together as much of the documentation a spossible so that you can check her opinions against reality.
Now, however, I'm having second thoughts.
It's useful to recognize the differenc. A mistake is where you don't know any better.. misformation is where you intend that others not know any better. This is clearly an example of the latter.
Dogma?
If it was dogma the priests of chemistry would be denying the evidence and punishing its discoverers.
A Dogma is simply any commonly (even formally) held belief.
You need not be dogmatic about a dogma, but leaders being dogmatic about a dogma can result in actions such as are cited above.
You need not, however, be dogmatic about a dogma.... Relativity, for example, can be considered a dogma for (and by) many, nonetheless, there are a good number of theoretical physicists who are doggedly (same root) looking for improved alternatives.
"And I have acted, and will continue to act, to ensure that my words are translated into reality so that the conduct described in this report does not occur again at the department."
It's convenient to say you won't let it happen 'again' -- given that it's after 6-8 years of skewed hiring/firing practices, and in the twilight of a lame-duck presidency. In the meantime, you have an AG department that is purged of 'liberals'. and stacked with 'good republicans'.
If he really means what hey says, he should go back and order the hiring of all of the people were arbitrarily denied the opportunity to work for the department. at least, then, there would be at least somecorrection of the nastiness that was done through most of this administration.
It's like if I said that I'm all for the separation of church and state, and then I hired the pope as my Attorney General. You can go by what I said, or what I did.
They may have gotten a design patent, but the design patent would have expired before I was born.
Yeah, they have Trademark rights, but scabulous vs scrabble may be a bit of a difficult similarity to litigate over. I'm guessing that they're intending to succeed by outspending the scrabulous brothers. They've cut off their air-supply via facebook... now, all they have to do is litigate them into the ground.
(yeah, I know -- it's tastless... .but Randy Pausch and this spam slime died today. Guess who gets my respects.
"It's not that the good die young -- it's just that we don't care as much when the slimeballs die".
If nothing else, this warning might produce a few more control subjects (i.e. people with minimal cell-phone exposure) for 20 years down the road.
(little wonder that it's an internal target)
Something that's threatening to make inroads into the marketplace is not something that I would consider 'already dying'.
sudo ipfw add 100 drop tcp from any to ${eth0} 6881 tcpflags rst
(I can't remember the exact syntax, right now)... The point is that you want to allow yourself to send RSTs outbound, but ignore them inbound on your internet-facing port.
It's a response to a violation of the TCP protocol to begin with, so it's not surprising that it has some negative side effects.
Probably the best thing to do would be to build a filter that registers the presence of the RST packet and waits to see if you get more data from the site that supposedly sent it.
* If the site that the RST packet supposedly came from continues to act like it's got an open session, then you can ignore the RST as a forgery.
* If you have no more non-closure packets after the RST, then you can apply an aggressive timeout and then deliver the RST after 2-3 seconds of silence.
In other words, Minerva can either plead that they've violated the (implied) contract to deliver the source code with their binaries, or they can plead that they've violated copyright by distributing binaries without accepting the terms of the GPL. Personally, (IANAL), I think that they're better off coping to a breach-of-contract plea, because statutory copyright damages can be a killer.
Try booting off of an attached drive in a USB enclosure. Most Motherboards will boot off of that these days. You can install on the drive with another (working) system.
The reason why it's listed as having been filed on November 6 is that whomever filed it forgot to turn of the auto-predating feature. (Yeah, I know it's illegal, but we're talking about Microsoft, here).
Laws are only as good as their teeth, and -- when you're dealing with a megacorp, you need extremely big and sharp teeth.
"No vote is a vote for the status quo."
This would, effectively, be more like the XP with a Vista skin that another responder alluded to, than a fine-tune of Vista.
In any case, Microsoft has enough Money in the bank (and other semi-liquid assets) that the only way that they'd never survive to put out another operating system is if they're the victim of a massive class-action suit that they don't manage to drag out for a decade or so.
They'll put out another 'windows' -- Whether the market wants it or not .. and even a worst-case crash and burn for Vista is unlikely to be enough to stop that.
There explanations besides simple atomic evolution for results like this.