Of course, it's worth noting that the article says nothing about banning for using foul language. It's what I like to call a "story troll" like the headline about GM corn yesterday.
OK, some of those I'll buy, some of them I won't. "Biblical name for the hero"? "Vision of x while y is dying"? What a load of crap. There is also a huge difference between Vader's relationship to Luke and the Baron's relationship to Paul. For Star Wars, Luke fears he will fall as his father did an becomes interested in redeeming him. For Dune, the relationship is used for irony (the Baron killed by his own granddaughter) and to tie the bloodlines together.
On the other hand, the parallels between the mystical powers in Dune and the mystical powers of the Jedi are much more plausible. In fact, the site misses one: both Jedi and various factions in the world of Dune have the ability to see into the future.
I'm going to echo the other respondant and recommend Georgia On My Mind and Other Places. It is chock full of excellent stories, showing both the breadth of his work and the depth of his ideas.
It is a monopoly. It was created to be a monopoly. It has to be a monopoly, because, in the end, DNS to IP mappings can't conflict or they would become useless. Because of this, it was supposed to be accountable to the public. It's not, and should be scrapped and replaced with something less intrusive and more responsive.
The point isn't to hide the data you're encrypting in, it's to be able to recover the original image. With a naive steganography scheme, you lose information in the original image. This is bad, if for instance, the encrypted information is a time/date/id stamp and the image is a crime scene photo--you could obscure important evidence.
Why can you save 20-25% of your salary tax free, but only if you work for a Corp? If you don't you're limited to the $3000 IRA max? Unequal application of law is unconstitutional, no?
401K contributions are limited to 15% of your salary. If you work for yourself, you can set up your own defined benefits plan and save much more thana allowed by an IRA. IRAs just involve very little paperwork. See a tax advisor.
Since neither Hebrew nor Arabic is written with Latin characters, I find the "it's the name of a month" argument rather weak. Furthermore, the owner of www.nissan.com is incorporated in the United States, where "Nissan" cannot be considered a common word
As far as the "waiting until 1999" argument goes, it sounds like Nissan is claiming he didn't infringe until 1999 when he started linking to car sites, meaning he was generating revenue based on visitors who were looking for www.nissanmotors.com. I think this argument holds water.
However, the remedy the company is asking for is way out of proportion. Nissan Motors should be granted an injunction against www.nissan.com being used to adverstise cars.
I can go to a store and buy a pair of 32 inch length pants. You can go to a store and buy a pair of 32 inch length pants. I can go to Southwest's website and get their Internet-only pricing. He can't go to Southwest's site and get Internet-only pricing.
On a similar note, probably marginally more expensive, those IR systems they have by the doors that trigger when someone walks across them would probably work well to.
Another possibility I thought of is a slider switch like they sell for dimmer lights. You can get some that actuate very smoothly with a small range of motion.
Easy--say c = 1/t, where c is the speed of light and t is the time since the Big Bang (this is just an example, I'm not claiming it's the case). Since as t->0, c->infinity, I'd say "immediately after the Big Bang c was close to infinity" would be a reasonable English translation.
I would say there was a tech boom. I can't see where Dr. Matloff says there wasn't a tech boom. He just states that there wasn't a shortage of domestic workers (do to factors like rising CS enrolment in American universities).
I don't think Transmeta is a PLC killer since embedded chips have been around for years. Look at the Motorola MPC8xx series--PCMCIA, ethernet, LCD controller, etc. all available integrated on a full 32 bit chip with decent power consumption. If they haven't knocked off PLCs, I doubt Transmeta will. On the other hand, I could see Transmeta chips making inroads in the embedded processor market--but it's not quite the same.
The BEEP activity I noticed most recently was on a proposal for syslog-reliable, and I believe there are some intrusion detection things using it in the academic space.
I was working in the IDWG (intrustion detection working group) and was on team that started implementation of the BEEP version of the intrusion detection exchange protocol. It was certainly less work getting the BEEP version functional than the hacked-HTTP protocal that IAP (the first version of the protocol) was using. It also gave us some benefits vis a vis pluggable autentication/encryption. Most of the people involved got kinda busy, so I'm not sure how far the project has gone. I think we still have a webpage up under java-idxp on Sourceforge.
My favorite is the bugs in the Tundra Universe/Universe II.
In the Tundra Universe, if multiple interrupts come in at different interrupt request levels, the response cycles can get confused. Therefore, applications can really only use one interrupt level.
In the Tundra Universe II, if more than four boards assert the same interrupt level at the same time, the responding board can not pull the signal high to acknowledge and the bus locks up. Therefore, applications must use different interrupt levels.
Therefore, you can't really mix Universe and Universe II chips in the same bus application.
Do you have a source on this? Fair use is a part of US law, Title 17, Chapter 1, Sec. 107. I've never heard of it being established by judicial decision.
Also, and I don't have a source for this, I thought the courts had held the that first sale doctrine only protected your right to sell unopened copies of softare without restriction.
"Would you accept the equivalent assertion about books? If not, why would software be different?"
Because books don't have a sticker that you have to break before opening warning that you must agree to the liscense or return the product. Nor do they have a liscense saying "You do not own this software. You are granted a limited liscense to use this software..." Almost all software is liscensed. It is copyrighted only to prevent someone who "found it on the street" from freely distributing it (since they cannot be bound by a liscense agreement which you cannot prove they had to agree to).
I find it ironic that the root parent of your post about the moderation system "working" is +2 Insightful currently even though the ground it covers is already in the article.
If they developed the techonology first, then no one else can patent it. If they do patent it, Red Hat can ignore them and use the tech anyway. If they sue, RedHat can countersue and get triple damages.
Actually, note that 57% of respondents didn't pay for "copyrighted content" they downloaded from the Internet. That includes music. The 12% that pirate software probably don't pay for their music either, but it's a completely seperate issue. It's not surprising that fewer people pirate software. First, there's the virus problem. Second, software is on the whole more reasonably priced and/or comes with your computer.
Why do you assume he's not doing it? Someone once asked the economics professor at my school "If you know so much about starting companies, why aren't you a millionaire?" He answered "I am."
Rygar is an awesome arcade game. My dorm in college owned it, meaning it got a lot of drunken abuse. Plus, there was the whole "cat living in it for two weeks" which probably didn't help its survival either.
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Of course, it's worth noting that the article says nothing about banning for using foul language. It's what I like to call a "story troll" like the headline about GM corn yesterday.
OK, some of those I'll buy, some of them I won't. "Biblical name for the hero"? "Vision of x while y is dying"? What a load of crap. There is also a huge difference between Vader's relationship to Luke and the Baron's relationship to Paul. For Star Wars, Luke fears he will fall as his father did an becomes interested in redeeming him. For Dune, the relationship is used for irony (the Baron killed by his own granddaughter) and to tie the bloodlines together.
On the other hand, the parallels between the mystical powers in Dune and the mystical powers of the Jedi are much more plausible. In fact, the site misses one: both Jedi and various factions in the world of Dune have the ability to see into the future.
I'm going to echo the other respondant and recommend Georgia On My Mind and Other Places. It is chock full of excellent stories, showing both the breadth of his work and the depth of his ideas.
It is a monopoly. It was created to be a monopoly. It has to be a monopoly, because, in the end, DNS to IP mappings can't conflict or they would become useless. Because of this, it was supposed to be accountable to the public. It's not, and should be scrapped and replaced with something less intrusive and more responsive.
The point isn't to hide the data you're encrypting in, it's to be able to recover the original image. With a naive steganography scheme, you lose information in the original image. This is bad, if for instance, the encrypted information is a time/date/id stamp and the image is a crime scene photo--you could obscure important evidence.
401K contributions are limited to 15% of your salary. If you work for yourself, you can set up your own defined benefits plan and save much more thana allowed by an IRA. IRAs just involve very little paperwork. See a tax advisor.
Since neither Hebrew nor Arabic is written with Latin characters, I find the "it's the name of a month" argument rather weak. Furthermore, the owner of www.nissan.com is incorporated in the United States, where "Nissan" cannot be considered a common word
As far as the "waiting until 1999" argument goes, it sounds like Nissan is claiming he didn't infringe until 1999 when he started linking to car sites, meaning he was generating revenue based on visitors who were looking for www.nissanmotors.com.
I think this argument holds water.
However, the remedy the company is asking for is way out of proportion. Nissan Motors should be granted an injunction against www.nissan.com being used to adverstise cars.
I can go to a store and buy a pair of 32 inch length pants. You can go to a store and buy a pair of 32 inch length pants. I can go to Southwest's website and get their Internet-only pricing. He can't go to Southwest's site and get Internet-only pricing.
On a similar note, probably marginally more expensive, those IR systems they have by the doors that trigger when someone walks across them would probably work well to.
Another possibility I thought of is a slider switch like they sell for dimmer lights. You can get some that actuate very smoothly with a small range of motion.
Yes, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at the Marx brothers. --From A Demon-Haunted World
Easy--say c = 1/t, where c is the speed of light and t is the time since the Big Bang (this is just an example, I'm not claiming it's the case). Since as t->0, c->infinity, I'd say "immediately after the Big Bang c was close to infinity" would be a reasonable English translation.
I would say there was a tech boom. I can't see where Dr. Matloff says there wasn't a tech boom. He just states that there wasn't a shortage of domestic workers (do to factors like rising CS enrolment in American universities).
I don't think Transmeta is a PLC killer since embedded chips have been around for years. Look at the Motorola MPC8xx series--PCMCIA, ethernet, LCD controller, etc. all available integrated on a full 32 bit chip with decent power consumption. If they haven't knocked off PLCs, I doubt Transmeta will. On the other hand, I could see Transmeta chips making inroads in the embedded processor market--but it's not quite the same.
I was working in the IDWG (intrustion detection working group) and was on team that started implementation of the BEEP version of the intrusion detection exchange protocol. It was certainly less work getting the BEEP version functional than the hacked-HTTP protocal that IAP (the first version of the protocol) was using. It also gave us some benefits vis a vis pluggable autentication/encryption. Most of the people involved got kinda busy, so I'm not sure how far the project has gone. I think we still have a webpage up under java-idxp on Sourceforge.
For example, calling yourself "Island Mercury" if you were a car repair shop but not an authorized Ford dealer.
My favorite is the bugs in the Tundra Universe/Universe II.
In the Tundra Universe, if multiple interrupts come in at different interrupt request levels, the response cycles can get confused. Therefore, applications can really only use one interrupt level.
In the Tundra Universe II, if more than four boards assert the same interrupt level at the same time, the responding board can not pull the signal high to acknowledge and the bus locks up. Therefore, applications must use different interrupt levels.
Therefore, you can't really mix Universe and Universe II chips in the same bus application.
Thanks--it's always good to learn something new.
Do you have a source on this? Fair use is a part of US law, Title 17, Chapter 1, Sec. 107. I've never heard of it being established by judicial decision.
Also, and I don't have a source for this, I thought the courts had held the that first sale doctrine only protected your right to sell unopened copies of softare without restriction.
"Would you accept the equivalent assertion about books? If not, why would software be different?"
Because books don't have a sticker that you have to break before opening warning that you must agree to the liscense or return the product. Nor do they have a liscense saying "You do not own this software. You are granted a limited liscense to use this software..." Almost all software is liscensed. It is copyrighted only to prevent someone who "found it on the street" from freely distributing it (since they cannot be bound by a liscense agreement which you cannot prove they had to agree to).
I find it ironic that the root parent of your post about the moderation system "working" is +2 Insightful currently even though the ground it covers is already in the article.
If they developed the techonology first, then no one else can patent it. If they do patent it, Red Hat can ignore them and use the tech anyway. If they sue, RedHat can countersue and get triple damages.
Actually, note that 57% of respondents didn't pay for "copyrighted content" they downloaded from the Internet. That includes music. The 12% that pirate software probably don't pay for their music either, but it's a completely seperate issue. It's not surprising that fewer people pirate software. First, there's the virus problem. Second, software is on the whole more reasonably priced and/or comes with your computer.
Why do you assume he's not doing it? Someone once asked the economics professor at my school "If you know so much about starting companies, why aren't you a millionaire?" He answered "I am."
"[I]t omits the many successes that came of plodding along after initial disappointments"
So, which companies are you thinking of?
Rygar is an awesome arcade game. My dorm in college owned it, meaning it got a lot of drunken abuse. Plus, there was the whole "cat living in it for two weeks" which probably didn't help its survival either.