Kurtz created a display of small soy, corn and canola plants growing under large incubating lamps. The exhibit said some of the plants had been treated with a compound that made them vulnerable to herbicide. A nearby computer screen explained that, if successful, the compound would be the newest weapon in the war on advanced agricultural technology.
Read that last line. This guy is against what the ag industry is doing to food, and was looking for a way to stop it.
Also, further in the article, one of the things he was incubating was E. Coli. That's hardly harmless, despite what "da Costa" said, in the article. She's a freaking artist for crying out loud! No background in this stuff!
Oh get off it. Your e-mail can be searched with the same court orders that have been in place for years, well before Ashcroft and Poindexter, I might add.
There are plenty of things to be paranoid about, but this isn't one of them.
First, I'm pretty sure you can't trademark a number.
Second, trademarks only extend to similiar areas. Two companies in the same business can't use the same trademark, but two companies that aren't in the same business can. When Apple came out with the Mac Classic, people assumed that they licensed the name "Classic" from Coca-Cola... not so. They licensed it from a small South Florida firm that made (makes?) the Modcomp Classic. Question is, can the people that are considering suing make the stretch?
With the internet, that's all blurred, because of big domain name race.
Third, and the most interesting part of the article, was that the person that's considering suing is a compensation specialist for a Silicon Valley firm.
My guess is they're going for stock options before the IPO.
Of course they have a high opinion of themselves. Take a look at all the website nominees, and you'll see where the Webby people lean politically. That goes hand in hand with how I've seen people like that act.
Well, perhaps GPLDAN is an *actual* observer of the events at NCSA. There were certainly plenty around.
How many interviews have you seen with those folks? I know of one, and every time it's brought up in/., people cry "sour grapes". The spin behind what happened has always been out of Andressen and Netscape.
If Tim Berners-Lee hadn't invented the web browser, then we might still be using Gopher. If there hadn't been a Mosaic, someone else would have completed a browser... there were plenty of other folks that were working on them at the time.
Fork out the bucks to put a few of the directed sound systems in. You won't have stolen equipment, and you'll serve the same purpose. Getting something that patrons will handle will cost you a lot more long term.
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Apparently you don't go to museums much. Our local museum has this technology at various display points throughout the various exhibits.
I'm just switching because I don't like the fact that RH dropped the current version I'm using, and now seems like a reasonable time to switch. I don't need "Enterprise" anything at home.
Shame they dropped it though... I paid for the up2date stuff so I wouldn't have to wait until their servers load average went down. I would have kept paying too, if they kept the consumer version.
A company sees a threat (and Microsoft seems to see threats hiding everywhere anyway), and says in internal memos that it needs to do something about it. They dismiss it in public.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but how is that any different from any other company?
You know, I can understand why people want those things on their cars, but it's gonna be pretty sad when some kid gets abducted, and the police will have to tell the parents they couldn't get the license number because the perv you kidnapped their kid had one of those things on his car.
Apparently half the readers don't live in Florida...
They have a HUGE problem with people running lights here. I mean, HUGE. It's not a one or two car going through lights...it's like FIVE going through the lights. It's not like it's at one intersection either. Happens all the time.
Maybe this will finally cut down on that from happening, and the accidents it's been causing.
I read about folks on/. that don't think there's anything wrong with stealing software because it's not hurting anyone, they're just "stickin' it to the man!" Any lost revenue isn't really "lost".
Yet, these same slashdotters complain that they can't find a job anywhere, and they want jobs from these same corporations that can't afford to hire more folks.
"On the issue of affluent Americans paying more income taxes, John Kerry is, as always, consistent in his inconsistency," Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr writes.
"On the campaign trail, he's in favor of raising taxes on everybody who makes over $200,000 a year. Unless, of course, he's the one being asked to pay more, in which case, forget about it.
"We know this because of a little whoopee cushion recently inserted into the income tax forms of his home state of Massachusetts," Mr. Carr writes.
"Weary of liberals always clamoring for higher taxes on other people, an antitax group managed to place a line on the tax form giving Bay Staters the option of paying at the old, since-repealed 5.85 percent rate, rather than at the current 5.3 percent rate.
"For two years now, John Kerry has had the opportunity to pay his 'fair share.' But like some Benedict Arnold CEO, the Democratic Party candidate for president has taken the money and ran.
" 'Why do you even call asking about this?' his spokesman, Michael Meehan, said Saturday morning. 'He has made the same decision as 99.9 percent of his fellow Massachusetts residents.'
"Actually, it's more like 99.97 percent. Of 2,104,326 Massachusetts state returns filed by April 15, exactly 624 taxpayers had opted to pay at the higher rate, a very small number indeed, considering that in a statewide referendum, 1,055,181 good liberals voted against cutting the income-tax rate."
I hope all these "pro-union" folks start their own businesses, have their employees organize into unions, and really see what it means to have a unionized workforce.
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Read that last line. This guy is against what the ag industry is doing to food, and was looking for a way to stop it.
Also, further in the article, one of the things he was incubating was E. Coli. That's hardly harmless, despite what "da Costa" said, in the article. She's a freaking artist for crying out loud! No background in this stuff!
Oh get off it. Your e-mail can be searched with the same court orders that have been in place for years, well before Ashcroft and Poindexter, I might add.
There are plenty of things to be paranoid about, but this isn't one of them.
When I was able to get a GMail account, I knew full well that they would do this (the ads). I'm fine with that.
It's not like having a GMail account is a right or anything; If you don't want the ads, don't use GMail. Simple.
This was revealed way back when they had that Star Wars poster/magazine in the 70s. That was before any book, including Splinter of the Mind's Eye.
Lucas was interviewed, and he said Vadar falls into the volcano during the fight with Kenobi.
When I first looked at this, it said a Terabyte, now it's back down to a Gig.
Looks like a glitch folks... that's why they're still in beta.
Well, besides the fact that the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic was created way back in 1919, there are couple of other points:
First, I'm pretty sure you can't trademark a number.
Second, trademarks only extend to similiar areas. Two companies in the same business can't use the same trademark, but two companies that aren't in the same business can. When Apple came out with the Mac Classic, people assumed that they licensed the name "Classic" from Coca-Cola... not so. They licensed it from a small South Florida firm that made (makes?) the Modcomp Classic. Question is, can the people that are considering suing make the stretch?
With the internet, that's all blurred, because of big domain name race.
Third, and the most interesting part of the article, was that the person that's considering suing is a compensation specialist for a Silicon Valley firm.
My guess is they're going for stock options before the IPO.
But they only filed in in October of 2003; they had to file within one year of it being shown in public.
This patent shouldn't have been granted just based on that.
Of course they have a high opinion of themselves. Take a look at all the website nominees, and you'll see where the Webby people lean politically. That goes hand in hand with how I've seen people like that act.
Your Al Jazeera comment... you've got to be kidding. All they do is cover one side of the story and make up "facts".
Perhaps that's his mileage on the highway, where yours is mainly city driving?
Well, perhaps GPLDAN is an *actual* observer of the events at NCSA. There were certainly plenty around.
/., people cry "sour grapes". The spin behind what happened has always been out of Andressen and Netscape.
How many interviews have you seen with those folks? I know of one, and every time it's brought up in
If Tim Berners-Lee hadn't invented the web browser, then we might still be using Gopher. If there hadn't been a Mosaic, someone else would have completed a browser... there were plenty of other folks that were working on them at the time.
Fork out the bucks to put a few of the directed sound systems in. You won't have stolen equipment, and you'll serve the same purpose. Getting something that patrons will handle will cost you a lot more long term.
Apparently you don't go to museums much. Our local museum has this technology at various display points throughout the various exhibits.
Man, it'd sure be weird if the RIAA started grabbing some of these compromised systems for their own use.
It'd kinda leave some people in a quandry, wouldn't it?
I'm just switching because I don't like the fact that RH dropped the current version I'm using, and now seems like a reasonable time to switch. I don't need "Enterprise" anything at home.
Shame they dropped it though... I paid for the up2date stuff so I wouldn't have to wait until their servers load average went down. I would have kept paying too, if they kept the consumer version.
Anyway, thanks for the info on up2date.
Ok,so the up2date program on RedHat has been a nice feature.
Does any other distro do that? I'd like to know, so I can make the switch.
I'm not sure what people expect.
A company sees a threat (and Microsoft seems to see threats hiding everywhere anyway), and says in internal memos that it needs to do something about it. They dismiss it in public.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but how is that any different from any other company?
Of course it does. It's a big problem down here.
You know, I can understand why people want those things on their cars, but it's gonna be pretty sad when some kid gets abducted, and the police will have to tell the parents they couldn't get the license number because the perv you kidnapped their kid had one of those things on his car.
Apparently half the readers don't live in Florida...
They have a HUGE problem with people running lights here. I mean, HUGE. It's not a one or two car going through lights...it's like FIVE going through the lights. It's not like it's at one intersection either. Happens all the time.
Maybe this will finally cut down on that from happening, and the accidents it's been causing.
I read about folks on /. that don't think there's anything wrong with stealing software because it's not hurting anyone, they're just "stickin' it to the man!" Any lost revenue isn't really "lost".
Yet, these same slashdotters complain that they can't find a job anywhere, and they want jobs from these same corporations that can't afford to hire more folks.
Geesh.
Do this, and you'll end up with the same problem regular unions have... deadweight employees who don't do their job, yet you can't get rid of them.
Yeah...that sounds GREAT....NOT.
Easy to say, hard to do.
Kinda like paying extra taxes, and Kerry, eh?
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"On the issue of affluent Americans paying more income taxes, John Kerry is, as always, consistent in his inconsistency," Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr writes.
"On the campaign trail, he's in favor of raising taxes on everybody who makes over $200,000 a year. Unless, of course, he's the one being asked to pay more, in which case, forget about it.
"We know this because of a little whoopee cushion recently inserted into the income tax forms of his home state of Massachusetts," Mr. Carr writes.
"Weary of liberals always clamoring for higher taxes on other people, an antitax group managed to place a line on the tax form giving Bay Staters the option of paying at the old, since-repealed 5.85 percent rate, rather than at the current 5.3 percent rate.
"For two years now, John Kerry has had the opportunity to pay his 'fair share.' But like some Benedict Arnold CEO, the Democratic Party candidate for president has taken the money and ran.
" 'Why do you even call asking about this?' his spokesman, Michael Meehan, said Saturday morning. 'He has made the same decision as 99.9 percent of his fellow Massachusetts residents.'
"Actually, it's more like 99.97 percent. Of 2,104,326 Massachusetts state returns filed by April 15, exactly 624 taxpayers had opted to pay at the higher rate, a very small number indeed, considering that in a statewide referendum, 1,055,181 good liberals voted against cutting the income-tax rate."
I hope all these "pro-union" folks start their own businesses, have their employees organize into unions, and really see what it means to have a unionized workforce.
Give me a break with the conspiracy theory crap.
Every salary contract I've seen is a yearly contract for work for a set amount of money. It's been that for the 20 years I've been working.
If it was hourly, then that'd be different.