Although we all know SCO doesn't have a case, most investors aren't that savvy.
I'm just curious how many slashdotters have shorted SCO's stock. I've been told it's a bad idea for stock market newbies to jump right in with shorting, but this seems like a good bet...
Slashdotters need to be able to talk about slashdot-specific issues every once in a while. Not as much as with kuro5hin, but at least a little bit. And I strongly strongly feel that these posts shouldn't be marked down offtopic because there is nowhere else that these discussions can take place.
The reason I felt this was a "meta" issue is that the parent's-parent post was marked down to -1 in a very short span of time, something that usually doesn't happen unless the post is intentionally offensive. This seemed to me that an admin did it, which as I pointed out would probably be productive to the community, but I thought it should be pointed out and discussed at least a little bit since I've never heard of it.
I don't know if it's the general community consensus or the admins who mark these meta discussions down, but either way I think it's quite opposed to the open ideals most of us typically have...
Then you will never see a "true PAR", at least in the US.
Federal copyright law prohibits advanced program schedules for radio broadcasts (see 17 USC 114, "advance program schedule" shows up all over). You've probably never seen a radio analoge of TVGuide in the US, and that's why. So you'll never get your dream radio Tivo.
The math isn't quite that simple... in that, how do you know how fast the foam would be traveling when it hit the wing? NASA already did the calculations for you: 531mph. Was that calculation a back-of-the-napkin calculation too? Would NASA administrators automatically believe you that it was going 531 mph?
Actually, the article clearly says they tested a piece of foam traveling 531 miles per hour. So that's the speed they expected the foam to have accelerated up to by the time it hit, but not necessarily the speed of the air going by.
Isn't there a provision in the DMCA to prevent people from making arbitrary requests to take down arbitrary content under the DMCA safe harbor provisions? Aren't there some legal or economic ramifications that would keep me from, say, asking EBay's ISP to take down their homepage?
Also, this isn't a legal/economic ramification for the accuser, but the defendant can always file a put-back notice to the ISP, which sounds entirely suitable here.
Some geek use doesn't even require 512mb, but some do. Geeks who play around with Photoshop semi-seriously like to work with images that are several times larger than what the final copy will be, and if you have more than a couple layers on a 3000x2000 image, you're going to need more than 512mb.
When software is released under the GPL, it is covered under copyright, and that's what allows the GPL to differ from public domain, and for those few restrictions to have teeth (eg. if you choose to not agree to release your variations on the code, then you fall back to traditional copyright and will have to negotiate a price with the copyright holder).
So in a sense, it is still owned by AOL, and they alone have the freedom to release WASTE under a different license (eg. MIT, or to make the next version proprietary).
On the other hand, they may have a policy that goes something like: all of our IP is proprietary confidential unless approved by Legal. If you release our IP without authorization by Legal (eg. take our code and sell it to a competitor, or post it on the internet as public domain, etc.), we'll fire you and sue your ass.
"Law-abiding motorists should have nothing to fear"
Yeah. So they thought about this long enough to realize there'd be at least a small public backlash, but didn't do much thinking beyond that.
If we're going to go down this road, fine, but as papers on the Transparent Society suggest, this should be much more open.
Everyone, not just police officers, should be able to use it to track people. Charge whatever fees are required to support it, but you should be able to track anyone.
Everyone should have access to the transaction logs and should be able to see who's tracking who.
Everyone benefits... the police and "law-abiding motorists" get their criminals, McCarthys get to entertain their delusions, politicos get to have their watergates, and the public and press get a little entertainment over the whole thing.
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AFAIK, infrared filters simply block all visible light, and assume that the film/CCD/cornea behind it will be slightly sensitive to infrared light. This assumption is true, but (other than infrared film) those sensors aren't very sensitive to infrared so the image will be very dim, so you either have to look at the sun, or use long exposure times for the camera.
If instead there was a filter that converted infrared light to visible light completely, then the sensors would be much much more sensitive to it and viewing normal things with your eyeball would be very practical.
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I'm just curious how many slashdotters have shorted SCO's stock. I've been told it's a bad idea for stock market newbies to jump right in with shorting, but this seems like a good bet...
- P.S. SCO's stock is going up like crazy today. Big volume too.
Yup, up 30% today. That's okay though; short high, sell low.Blackberries cost 150-200% what a Hiptop does, no?
Slashdotters need to be able to talk about slashdot-specific issues every once in a while. Not as much as with kuro5hin, but at least a little bit. And I strongly strongly feel that these posts shouldn't be marked down offtopic because there is nowhere else that these discussions can take place.
The reason I felt this was a "meta" issue is that the parent's-parent post was marked down to -1 in a very short span of time, something that usually doesn't happen unless the post is intentionally offensive. This seemed to me that an admin did it, which as I pointed out would probably be productive to the community, but I thought it should be pointed out and discussed at least a little bit since I've never heard of it.
I don't know if it's the general community consensus or the admins who mark these meta discussions down, but either way I think it's quite opposed to the open ideals most of us typically have...
Federal copyright law prohibits advanced program schedules for radio broadcasts (see 17 USC 114, "advance program schedule" shows up all over). You've probably never seen a radio analoge of TVGuide in the US, and that's why. So you'll never get your dream radio Tivo.
It's valid to clean out the noise and get things back on topic since the problem was fixed, but I hope those moderations didn't affect my karma....
Ahh, you're right, there's several .java files that look like they're an SSH app.
We're all subscribers! Even anonymous cowards are! We all get to see the story before they let the rifraf in. Woohoo!
I'd buy one of these things pretty quickly if they could do SSH. Does anyone know if that's working on the SideKick?
The math isn't quite that simple... in that, how do you know how fast the foam would be traveling when it hit the wing? NASA already did the calculations for you: 531mph. Was that calculation a back-of-the-napkin calculation too? Would NASA administrators automatically believe you that it was going 531 mph?
Actually, the article clearly says they tested a piece of foam traveling 531 miles per hour. So that's the speed they expected the foam to have accelerated up to by the time it hit, but not necessarily the speed of the air going by.
Also, this isn't a legal/economic ramification for the accuser, but the defendant can always file a put-back notice to the ISP, which sounds entirely suitable here.
There's copyrighted code in the various microcontrollers onboard.
Some geek use doesn't even require 512mb, but some do. Geeks who play around with Photoshop semi-seriously like to work with images that are several times larger than what the final copy will be, and if you have more than a couple layers on a 3000x2000 image, you're going to need more than 512mb.
So in a sense, it is still owned by AOL, and they alone have the freedom to release WASTE under a different license (eg. MIT, or to make the next version proprietary).
On the other hand, they may have a policy that goes something like: all of our IP is proprietary confidential unless approved by Legal. If you release our IP without authorization by Legal (eg. take our code and sell it to a competitor, or post it on the internet as public domain, etc.), we'll fire you and sue your ass.
- "Law-abiding motorists should have nothing to fear"
Yeah. So they thought about this long enough to realize there'd be at least a small public backlash, but didn't do much thinking beyond that.If we're going to go down this road, fine, but as papers on the Transparent Society suggest, this should be much more open.
Everyone benefits... the police and "law-abiding motorists" get their criminals, McCarthys get to entertain their delusions, politicos get to have their watergates, and the public and press get a little entertainment over the whole thing.
So glue some of these (not necessarily work safe, depending on your employer's opinion on synthetics) to two 8-way joysticks. It's still far cheaper.
Especially because it can seemingly be replaced with two cheap 8-way joysticks. That's all it is, two joysticks with fancy boob coverings.
- from the don't-email-about-misspelling dept.
But apparently posting is fine?It's probably also illegal for your girlfriend to use a strap-on on you, but it feels the same as this Real BS.
Agreed, most definitely. But supporting gzip as a transport mechanism doesn't make it not readable.
If they were worried about size, why can't you send .ps files to the printer in gzipped form?
Oh my god, my funny bone just burst.
If instead there was a filter that converted infrared light to visible light completely, then the sensors would be much much more sensitive to it and viewing normal things with your eyeball would be very practical.
Thank You!. You don't have to install wxPython or GTK libraries or anything. :)
My cable modem is contributing a paltry 12KB/s now, best I can do. :( But I'm at work, so I don't care that my downstream is now shit.