Can you actually state any *laws* to that affect? Hiring a registered private investigator to discover the identity of a whistle blower.. yep, perfectly legal. Witness protection is more myth than fact. Confidential documents remain confidential until they are lawfully obtained by the people you want to keep them confidential from, then they no longer are. My SSN? I think I have one of those from back when I worked in the USA.. assuming that everyone else reading this has one or considers it a secret is a pretty big assumption. Trade secrets are exactly the same as confidential documents.. with the added fun of reverse engineering.. also perfectly legal as has been upheld by the supreme court dozens of times.
People have a perfect right to protect their secrets, otherwise they wouldn't be secrets.
India is on the brink of a revolution. The creation of a middle class between the very rich and the very poor is imminent. The writing is on the wall and the corporations are already moving on to Africa. So I'll ask again, how many years has it been? The elevation of the poorest people in the world to a western standard of living is happening in our lifetime.
Meh, these power grabs weren't even anything to do with "IP".. they were attempts to circumvent the legal system which has already rejected the nefarious claims of the music companies.
Wow, when I was a kid I got told to leave school immediately and come home if a teacher tried to take my clothes.. this actually happened a few times, as I went to a school that required uniforms and I never wore the uniform.
No. You just need a multi-image bootloader. Like GRUB. Then you load the appropriate filesystem up as a module, the same way you load the kernel up in a single-image bootloader - by pre-caching the block numbers.
Meh, the uproar over Internet censorship is much greater than the uproar over film censorship.. this is true.. but it's still just a fringe issue that has no leadership. There's no orator stepping up to take the message to the public.
Thankfully I'm entirely too lazy to go trolling through my comments on Slashdot from months ago where I said that the Government was primarily interested in blocking "hard core" porn sites.. otherwise I think some "nya, nya, told ya so" would be in order for the slashtards who disagreed with me. The kind of porn people regularly access on the Internet has been "illegal" in every state of Australia (but not the territories) for a long time now. Why do people find it so surprising that those-who-like-to-censor would apply the same standard to Internet porn that they do to video tape porn? It just makes sense that they would. People failed to object to film censorship. They failed to object to video censorship. They failed to object to videogame censorship. Now, finally, when they do try to object, the established censorship mechanism of government is too strong.
I don't get it. Who says the cost of an item today should be the same as the cost of the item tomorrow.. or a "couple of days" later. And, that said, who says the listed price is the price you have to pay? What ever happened to the haggle?
Hehehe.. anyone who wrote ANY code in that device and put it under the GPL can sue Tom Tom for placing extra restrictions on the redistribution of the software.. as the license specifically states that extra restrictions are not allowed.
I don't understand why you say "not true" when you're clearly agreeing with me. For anyone else who missed the point: those old 8-bit games are not supported on modern platforms because the only person who is allowed to be interested in making them run on modern platforms is the copyright owner.. and they don't.
You have no idea what is of use to other people. Maybe they're thinking of visiting your local area. Maybe they have friends that live there. Maybe they're thinking of setting up a similar board for their own area and want to know how yours is going. Put down your ego for a minute.
You are aware that fusion ignition is typically studied in fission reactors right? You need a certain high temperature to achieve ignition and nuclear reactors are about the only place where it can be readily achieved. Other than in H-bombs.. ya know they're fission too right?
Nope. It's pure science. They have no other goals except "study the ignition of nuclear fusion". It's a bit hard to do that inside a nuclear reactor (or bomb) and thus the big freakin' lasers.
Heh, the NIF could produce energy for the next 1000 years and it wouldn't repay what has gone into it. This method of fusion may yield some interesting research but it is not commercializable in its current form.
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Can you actually state any *laws* to that affect? Hiring a registered private investigator to discover the identity of a whistle blower.. yep, perfectly legal. Witness protection is more myth than fact. Confidential documents remain confidential until they are lawfully obtained by the people you want to keep them confidential from, then they no longer are. My SSN? I think I have one of those from back when I worked in the USA.. assuming that everyone else reading this has one or considers it a secret is a pretty big assumption. Trade secrets are exactly the same as confidential documents.. with the added fun of reverse engineering.. also perfectly legal as has been upheld by the supreme court dozens of times.
People have a perfect right to protect their secrets, otherwise they wouldn't be secrets.
No-one said they didn't.
Does an American have the right to post political opinion online anonymously?
Sure.
May a government official breach that anonymity absent a compelling state interest?
Why yes. Everyone has the right to keep their identity a secret.. but no-one has the right to prevent others from discovering their secrets.
India is on the brink of a revolution. The creation of a middle class between the very rich and the very poor is imminent. The writing is on the wall and the corporations are already moving on to Africa. So I'll ask again, how many years has it been? The elevation of the poorest people in the world to a western standard of living is happening in our lifetime.
Yes, because we all know you have to throw out the baby with the bathwater every 5 years to "innovate". Uh huh.
Kinda seems like KDE is the imitator.. kinda seems like KDE has always been the imitator.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/346-Fable-2
Yes, yes you did.
Piracy is a serious issue.
Indeed, but copyright is a fucking joke.
Meh, these power grabs weren't even anything to do with "IP".. they were attempts to circumvent the legal system which has already rejected the nefarious claims of the music companies.
Wow, when I was a kid I got told to leave school immediately and come home if a teacher tried to take my clothes.. this actually happened a few times, as I went to a school that required uniforms and I never wore the uniform.
Microsoft Sues Chimps.
You also have the choice of just ignoring the windbags. It's called "taking your chances".
No. You just need a multi-image bootloader. Like GRUB. Then you load the appropriate filesystem up as a module, the same way you load the kernel up in a single-image bootloader - by pre-caching the block numbers.
Meh, the uproar over Internet censorship is much greater than the uproar over film censorship.. this is true.. but it's still just a fringe issue that has no leadership. There's no orator stepping up to take the message to the public.
Thankfully I'm entirely too lazy to go trolling through my comments on Slashdot from months ago where I said that the Government was primarily interested in blocking "hard core" porn sites.. otherwise I think some "nya, nya, told ya so" would be in order for the slashtards who disagreed with me. The kind of porn people regularly access on the Internet has been "illegal" in every state of Australia (but not the territories) for a long time now. Why do people find it so surprising that those-who-like-to-censor would apply the same standard to Internet porn that they do to video tape porn? It just makes sense that they would. People failed to object to film censorship. They failed to object to video censorship. They failed to object to videogame censorship. Now, finally, when they do try to object, the established censorship mechanism of government is too strong.
I don't get it. Who says the cost of an item today should be the same as the cost of the item tomorrow.. or a "couple of days" later. And, that said, who says the listed price is the price you have to pay? What ever happened to the haggle?
Hehehe.. anyone who wrote ANY code in that device and put it under the GPL can sue Tom Tom for placing extra restrictions on the redistribution of the software.. as the license specifically states that extra restrictions are not allowed.
Just switch file systems. Seriously, why the hell are you using FAT anyway.
I don't understand why you say "not true" when you're clearly agreeing with me. For anyone else who missed the point: those old 8-bit games are not supported on modern platforms because the only person who is allowed to be interested in making them run on modern platforms is the copyright owner.. and they don't.
Ha, it might not be very convenient but it happens to be the only way ignition has ever been achieved. Thus the excitement over the NIF.
You have no idea what is of use to other people. Maybe they're thinking of visiting your local area. Maybe they have friends that live there. Maybe they're thinking of setting up a similar board for their own area and want to know how yours is going. Put down your ego for a minute.
You are aware that fusion ignition is typically studied in fission reactors right? You need a certain high temperature to achieve ignition and nuclear reactors are about the only place where it can be readily achieved. Other than in H-bombs.. ya know they're fission too right?
A lot has changed since then.. including the widespread suppression of nuclear research..
Or to a lot of classified papers that won't be seen by the general public for another 30 years.
Nope. It's pure science. They have no other goals except "study the ignition of nuclear fusion". It's a bit hard to do that inside a nuclear reactor (or bomb) and thus the big freakin' lasers.
Sorry, what? If you can find a single claim by anyone involved with the NIF that this technology is commercializable, please, do share.
Heh, the NIF could produce energy for the next 1000 years and it wouldn't repay what has gone into it. This method of fusion may yield some interesting research but it is not commercializable in its current form.