Actually the Supreme Court of the United States has said that students do not shed their first amendment rights at the schoolyard gate. The case was Tinker -v- Des Moines and was related to students being suspended for wearing black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. I not sure the current court would find for Tinker though.
In Texas you can have a verbal contract. Lets say you own a multi-Billion dollar oil company (Getty Oil) and verbally agree to sell it for a certain price to another larger oil company (Penzoil). Before the contracts can be written down an even larger oil company (Texaco) offers you more money and you go with them. Would the courts enforce the verbal contract? Yes. Penzoil was awarded $11 Billion in damages but settled for $3 Billion after Texaco declared bankruptcy.
and massively fine anyone who advtises with them. My mom has called me in tears because she could not use her computer due to popups etc. The only way to end this problem is to fine the advertisers.
Oh, and they did manage to turn back anyone who "self-responded" like the convoy of rescuers with boats who assembled from the Lafayette area the day after the storm.
I had wondered about this. I am from Houston and I am pretty sure it is a state law in Louisiana that everyone have a boat. There may be more boats in Louisiana than people. I couldn't believe there wasn't a huge convoy of people anxious to put their boats to good use rescuing people. Every time there is a flood, people with boats come from miles around. I couldn't understand whay that didn't happen after Katrina.
If FEMA stopped a convoy of boats, the whole management team should be run off. Do you have some support for this? I missed seeing it on TV or hearing it on the radio.
You didn't see this in school? All of your assignments were flawless and on time? All of your programs did error checking of all user input? You spent half of the time on every assignment doing error testing with data sets generated to test every boundary condition? What about that History or Literature course that you couldn't care less about?
The idea of "good enough" or "I am sick and tired of this project" is not just found in the business world, it is basic human nature.
I would even accept an OS on those terms. There is a huge market for books telling users stuff that is not in the manuals. O'Reilly's whole business model is augmenting system documentation as was SSC's (Linux Journal Publisher).
That having been said, I don't disagree with your basic premise.
I used to work for 3M company. We had an electron beam recorder that wrote on microfilm for computer output. This was THIRTY years ago. The EBR ran a strip of 16MM microfilm through some very tight seals into a vacuum chamber where the computer generated data was transfered from 9 track tape to the film. It was really cool.
Edison used to perform demonstrations where he would put an animal on a grid and apply DC voltage to it. The animal would not be harmed. Then he would apply an AC current. The animal would be electrocuted or "Westinghoused" as Edison put it. General Electric's distribution system was DC. Westinghouse's was AC. Edison also invented the electric chair which used AC.
Another neat trick. At the time each company had their own lamps and fixtures which were incompatible with each other. GE came out with an adapter that allowed you to screw an Edison base lamp into a Westinghouse socket. The catch was that the adapter had barbs on it and once screwed in couldn't be removed.
GE won on the lamp base but lost on the AC.
You could wind up in a very bad situation. Let's say you "mess with" the power panel and then there is a fire. Let's also suppose that in this fire someone dies. City inspectors determine that the work you did was not up to code and caused the fire. You could go to jail for homicide. If that isn't enough to disuade your boss from letting/requiring you to "mess with" the power panel. Then tell him he could also go to jail in the above circumstance. It has happened before. Do a search on Tyson chicken fire.
American automobile manufacturers tried very hard a few years back to limit the third party auto parts supply. The third party manufacturers, auto supply stores and do-it-yourself mechanics screamed loudly enough that it didn't pass.
Actually it already has been tried and was indeed found unconstitutional. Back in the '30s, during The Great Depression, California tried to limit who could move to the state. Agricultural workers from the dust bowl states were moving in. Their laws were appealed and overturned. Rent The Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda to get a picture (or read the book).
What about taking your hard earned tax money and giving it to some goofy electrical engineers out in California to do experiments making computers communicate over phone wires. Where do we find that in the Constitution?
If this is true then everything compiled for vxWorks with Windriver's Tornado (which is based on gcc) is covered by the GPL. The same would be true of the LynxOS compiler which is also gcc.
I heard of cases where truckers with linear amps on their CB radios could make certain computer controlled cars (I'm thinking BMWs but I'm not sure) accelerate by clicking the mike buttons. Imagine, you're driving down the highway and all of a sudden your car speeds up for no aparent reason.I don't know if this is true or not but the truth should never get in the way of a good story.
Code written under contract belongs to the agency, division or even the branch that paid for it. If any other department wants to use it they have to get it from the one that paid. They may or may not want to share it at all or they may want other departments to share in the development costs if they use the code. It often boils down to "If we have to pay we'll write (or buy) our own." I'd be happy if we had open source (BSD or GPL) WITHIN the Federal government.
Yes the technology is out there. In Houston the cell phone providers refused to implement it because they were concerned about liability if the system was inaccurate.
I remember when Music CD's first came out and you could get.. well.. "CD Quality" sound for a fraction of the cost of a serious turntable etc. The audiophiles claimed you would get better bass response if you marked the edge with a green felt tip or something. Some PC magazine ran a story that said "yea and the Encarta CD will give you 20% more entries if you use the marker on it."
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Actually the Supreme Court of the United States has said that students do not shed their first amendment rights at the schoolyard gate. The case was Tinker -v- Des Moines and was related to students being suspended for wearing black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. I not sure the current court would find for Tinker though.
In Texas you can have a verbal contract. Lets say you own a multi-Billion dollar oil company (Getty Oil) and verbally agree to sell it for a certain price to another larger oil company (Penzoil). Before the contracts can be written down an even larger oil company (Texaco) offers you more money and you go with them. Would the courts enforce the verbal contract? Yes. Penzoil was awarded $11 Billion in damages but settled for $3 Billion after Texaco declared bankruptcy.
and massively fine anyone who advtises with them. My mom has called me in tears because she could not use her computer due to popups etc. The only way to end this problem is to fine the advertisers.
Oh, and they did manage to turn back anyone who "self-responded" like the convoy of rescuers with boats who assembled from the Lafayette area the day after the storm.
I had wondered about this. I am from Houston and I am pretty sure it is a state law in Louisiana that everyone have a boat. There may be more boats in Louisiana than people. I couldn't believe there wasn't a huge convoy of people anxious to put their boats to good use rescuing people. Every time there is a flood, people with boats come from miles around. I couldn't understand whay that didn't happen after Katrina. If FEMA stopped a convoy of boats, the whole management team should be run off. Do you have some support for this? I missed seeing it on TV or hearing it on the radio.
Read the US constitution.
You didn't see this in school? All of your assignments were flawless and on time? All of your programs did error checking of all user input? You spent half of the time on every assignment doing error testing with data sets generated to test every boundary condition? What about that History or Literature course that you couldn't care less about?
The idea of "good enough" or "I am sick and tired of this project" is not just found in the business world, it is basic human nature.
I would even accept an OS on those terms. There is a huge market for books telling users stuff that is not in the manuals. O'Reilly's whole business model is augmenting system documentation as was SSC's (Linux Journal Publisher). That having been said, I don't disagree with your basic premise.
I used to work for 3M company. We had an electron beam recorder that wrote on microfilm for computer output. This was THIRTY years ago. The EBR ran a strip of 16MM microfilm through some very tight seals into a vacuum chamber where the computer generated data was transfered from 9 track tape to the film. It was really cool.
Edison used to perform demonstrations where he would put an animal on a grid and apply DC voltage to it. The animal would not be harmed. Then he would apply an AC current. The animal would be electrocuted or "Westinghoused" as Edison put it. General Electric's distribution system was DC. Westinghouse's was AC. Edison also invented the electric chair which used AC.
Another neat trick.
At the time each company had their own lamps and fixtures which were incompatible with each other. GE came out with an adapter that allowed you to screw an Edison base lamp into a Westinghouse socket. The catch was that the adapter had barbs on it and once screwed in couldn't be removed. GE won on the lamp base but lost on the AC.
You could wind up in a very bad situation. Let's say you "mess with" the power panel and then there is a fire. Let's also suppose that in this fire someone dies. City inspectors determine that the work you did was not up to code and caused the fire. You could go to jail for homicide. If that isn't enough to disuade your boss from letting/requiring you to "mess with" the power panel. Then tell him he could also go to jail in the above circumstance. It has happened before. Do a search on Tyson chicken fire.
American automobile manufacturers tried very hard a few years back to limit the third party auto parts supply. The third party manufacturers, auto supply stores and do-it-yourself mechanics screamed loudly enough that it didn't pass.
Actually it already has been tried and was indeed found unconstitutional. Back in the '30s, during The Great Depression, California tried to limit who could move to the state. Agricultural workers from the dust bowl states were moving in. Their laws were appealed and overturned. Rent The Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda to get a picture (or read the book).
What about taking your hard earned tax money and giving it to some goofy electrical engineers out in California to do experiments making computers communicate over phone wires. Where do we find that in the Constitution?
If this is true then everything compiled for vxWorks with Windriver's Tornado (which is based on gcc) is covered by the GPL. The same would be true of the LynxOS compiler which is also gcc.
I heard of cases where truckers with linear amps on their CB radios could make certain computer controlled cars (I'm thinking BMWs but I'm not sure) accelerate by clicking the mike buttons. Imagine, you're driving down the highway and all of a sudden your car speeds up for no aparent reason.I don't know if this is true or not but the truth should never get in the way of a good story.
Code written under contract belongs to the agency, division or even the branch that paid for it. If any other department wants to use it they have to get it from the one that paid. They may or may not want to share it at all or they may want other departments to share in the development costs if they use the code. It often boils down to "If we have to pay we'll write (or buy) our own." I'd be happy if we had open source (BSD or GPL) WITHIN the Federal government.
A much more valid reason to avoid cellphones is radiation.
This is just silly.
Yes the technology is out there. In Houston the cell phone providers refused to implement it because they were concerned about liability if the system was inaccurate.
So if everyone started naming their files with movie and song titles the bots would be overloaded with useless hits. That would be terrible.
%touch nirvana.mp3
%touch OrdinaryDay.mp3
I remember when Music CD's first came out and you could get .. well.. "CD Quality" sound for a fraction of the cost of a serious turntable etc. The audiophiles claimed you would get better bass response if you marked the edge with a green felt tip or something. Some PC magazine ran a story that said "yea and the Encarta CD will give you 20% more entries if you use the marker on it."