it sounds to me that what he needs more is a company paid blackberry. as a high-level it manager, its a safe assumption that being reachable 24x7 is a requirement of the job, so it shouldn't be unreasonable at all that he either have a company provided phone, or a way to bill the company back for a second phone for their benefit. heck, as an additional line on a family plan he could get down to a $40/month charge to the company for the line. hardly unreasonable for his line of work. of course he may already be expensing the cost of service, at which point the company ought to be able to make rules about how the data access is used.
as an interesting aside, i find it incredibly ironic that most employers will not let users bring their own personal equipment (i.e., laptops) and connect to the corporate network, but won't hesitate to have employee's blackberries around, and from outside their network no less.
imho, you friend is an idiot for allowing that to happen. if the company insists that all internet traffic from a personal phone go through the company's network, the company should be providing the device. quite frankly, the fact that the company isn't providing the device is stupid on their part.
Using binary prefixes confuses almost nobody except those who haven't heard of it, and those people will understand it quickly, and it's much clearer and more precise than using kilo, mega, etc.
at which point they'll laugh, and go on their merry way doing things exactly as they (and their windows computers, as well as my leopard based macintosh) have done for years, whether knowingly or not, using the base 10 prefixes for base 2.
can someone point me to the si specification for a byte? i've looked and never found it. because until i see the byte become an official si unit, i refuse to use the asinine-looking, ridiculous-to-pronounce binary prefixes simply because kilo- "has a specific meaning". kilo- only has a specific meaning in the context where it is defined. with the seven base si units it is a 1000 multiplier. great. the byte is not one of those units, and therefore any prefixes used, whether stolen from another system of units or otherwise, serve entirely at the leisure of their creator, and use their creator's definition.
interesting how things end up changing. by the time i got to high school in the early 90s (at the district's business magnet, no less), typing classes were all but dead. as someone who has sat at a keyboard for the better part of 33 years, this "right way" bs is exactly that. bs. the "right way" is however you can type to get the job done in a manner that's the most comfortable to you. you just have to ask yourself if your skills are "good enough". if they are, then this is really a moot question. if not, figure out how to improve them. as others have said, i never learned how to touch type, and by the time i got to high school, my piss poor typing skills would have gotten me great grades for numbers, but lousy grades for form. for me, my typing skills fall into that good enough category (i just noticed that i type the y with my left hand, weird) for me, so retraining all of the muscle memory seems like a huge waste of time.
now, since you mentioned slashdot numbers, get off my lawn!
just a small correction for you. a true pots switch port cannot carry DSL. its the port that does the low-pass filtering. just before the switch, the copper pair is split (just like it is at the CPE). One pair off the split goes to the DSLAM, the other goes to the phone switch. Just like the cable company, which squeezes many communication channels over a single copper pair, so does the phone company. they're just in different parts of the frequency spectrum. The characteristics of the transmission line dictate that the higher frequencies used by DSL are more strongly attenuated at longer distances than the lower frequencies used by voice, thus the distance limitations.
i never had a problem using my cheap us power strip in the uk or the rest of europe for that matter, even without using a transformer in between. That's probably the key though: cheap. Only thing it had was a resettable circuit breaker, which was probably rated at 250 volts to begin with.
Per the NEC you're not allowed to draw more than 12 amps continuously through it (the 80% rule, or the 125% rule depending on your point of view, where continuous is defined as anything over 3 hours). Hair dryers can and do draw 15 A regularly and assuming a 125V nominal voltage that works out to 1875W.
if you had a patent on a cure for something it would be in your best interests to produce it and make money while the patent is still active. if you had a cure and held it as a trade secret, your best interests (financially at least) are to sit on it. this can, and commonly does, happen in labs all the time. according to my sister, who's in that line of research, there's a cure for the herpes simplex virus out there sitting on a shelf that will never see the light of day because treating the symptoms of herpes is far more lucrative than curing it.
Which means on a "pure" IPv6 network with no firewall controls in place at the router an attacker can easily nmap every single box on your private network, then start running targeted attacks against every single thing
FTFY
ipv6 routers will be no different than their ipv4 counterparts now, except that the concept of nat will be eliminated. you will still have to allow specific services through to specific machines from the wan side. you'll just be able to allow more machines to have more services with ipv6, since multiple machines will be able to be presented to the outside world on port 80, port 443, or port 25.
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are--
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
it should be noted that well-regulated != organized
having read the patent, it has one novel aspect differentiating it from a general message system: it relies on two or more gateways to relay messages to different user devices, allowing users to prioritize the order in which their devices receive notification. this as opposed to, say, only an sms gateway, or only an email gateway.
that said, i don't pay enough attention to twitter to know whether or not its actually infringing.
The problem no one else will not be able to publish it at the Apple store because more than likely, Apple will reject it because of a similar app already exists.
the only things i've seen apple rejecting are apps that are too similar to what apple provides with the os, not things that are too similar to other apps in the store. there's plenty of anecdotal evidence with apps that supports this as well.
This has a lot in common with TiVo's use of Linux, where they use it and distribute their sources, and still make it difficult to replace the version that's installed on the hardware you own
it is also very different from tivo's use of linux in that anyone can get a mac, download the iphone sdk, pay apple the requisite $99, acquire a provisioning certificate, and install their own apps on their phone. that's not possible on the tivo because there is no way to get a signed hacked image that will run on a tivo.
Apple puts restrictions on what you can do with the application once you've downloaded it
true. however, there are no restrictions saying that the developer can't release the source code him/herself (at least not since the nda's got removed, i know, i've read the developer agreements). you are perfectly free to download the source code, pay apple the $99, and tweak away.
If I recall RMS has make it clear, that he doesn't approve of trying to make a profit with no contributions given back, or value added
ahh. but a) contributions are given back in this case. the source code to the iphone port is made available for download and b) there is a value added in that the application is available on a previously unavailable platform.
actually, there is a rising trend at educational institutions to go the opposite direction, as far as ip that is academic in nature. the university of minnesota in 2007 adopted new copyright guidelines in which "The University shall maintain the strong academic tradition that vests copyright ownership of academic works in the faculty."
going further into that policy,
In this spirit, the University encourages faculty and students to exercise their interests in ownership and use of their copyrighted works in a manner that provides the greatest possible scholarly and public access to their work.
and
Consistent with academic tradition, University faculty and students shall own the copyright in the academic works they create...
and then goes on to list exceptions consistent with other third-party contracts, directed works, specially commissioned works, etc.
given its rankings, i'd consider the university of minnesota to be a "major" university.
i would argue that the court applied the "new work" prong correctly, as well as the second and third prongs. however, by creating the "new works", turnitin in essence created a market for students' works, even if it was a market completely internal to itself. in doing so, it raised the market value of the students' works from the value they have from potential plagiarizers (i like to think that we can agree that prior to turnitin, this is the only market that probably 99% of student assignments has) to value as a tool used by those who would combat plagiarism. this conclusion seems logical because were it not for the students' works in the first place, turnitin wouldn't have a product to market.
Slashdot Mirror
Numerous incidents of unplanned releases of radioactivity
as opposed to, say, planned releases of radioactivity?
it sounds to me that what he needs more is a company paid blackberry. as a high-level it manager, its a safe assumption that being reachable 24x7 is a requirement of the job, so it shouldn't be unreasonable at all that he either have a company provided phone, or a way to bill the company back for a second phone for their benefit. heck, as an additional line on a family plan he could get down to a $40/month charge to the company for the line. hardly unreasonable for his line of work. of course he may already be expensing the cost of service, at which point the company ought to be able to make rules about how the data access is used.
as an interesting aside, i find it incredibly ironic that most employers will not let users bring their own personal equipment (i.e., laptops) and connect to the corporate network, but won't hesitate to have employee's blackberries around, and from outside their network no less.
imho, you friend is an idiot for allowing that to happen. if the company insists that all internet traffic from a personal phone go through the company's network, the company should be providing the device. quite frankly, the fact that the company isn't providing the device is stupid on their part.
Using binary prefixes confuses almost nobody except those who haven't heard of it, and those people will understand it quickly, and it's much clearer and more precise than using kilo, mega, etc.
at which point they'll laugh, and go on their merry way doing things exactly as they (and their windows computers, as well as my leopard based macintosh) have done for years, whether knowingly or not, using the base 10 prefixes for base 2.
can someone point me to the si specification for a byte? i've looked and never found it. because until i see the byte become an official si unit, i refuse to use the asinine-looking, ridiculous-to-pronounce binary prefixes simply because kilo- "has a specific meaning". kilo- only has a specific meaning in the context where it is defined. with the seven base si units it is a 1000 multiplier. great. the byte is not one of those units, and therefore any prefixes used, whether stolen from another system of units or otherwise, serve entirely at the leisure of their creator, and use their creator's definition.
interesting how things end up changing. by the time i got to high school in the early 90s (at the district's business magnet, no less), typing classes were all but dead. as someone who has sat at a keyboard for the better part of 33 years, this "right way" bs is exactly that. bs. the "right way" is however you can type to get the job done in a manner that's the most comfortable to you. you just have to ask yourself if your skills are "good enough". if they are, then this is really a moot question. if not, figure out how to improve them. as others have said, i never learned how to touch type, and by the time i got to high school, my piss poor typing skills would have gotten me great grades for numbers, but lousy grades for form. for me, my typing skills fall into that good enough category (i just noticed that i type the y with my left hand, weird) for me, so retraining all of the muscle memory seems like a huge waste of time.
now, since you mentioned slashdot numbers, get off my lawn!
Copyright infringement and theft are completely different, unrelated things to everyone except the ??AA.
FTFY
If only I had mod points right now. The only problem of course is that the government didn't implement it and can't take credit for it.
just a small correction for you. a true pots switch port cannot carry DSL. its the port that does the low-pass filtering. just before the switch, the copper pair is split (just like it is at the CPE). One pair off the split goes to the DSLAM, the other goes to the phone switch. Just like the cable company, which squeezes many communication channels over a single copper pair, so does the phone company. they're just in different parts of the frequency spectrum. The characteristics of the transmission line dictate that the higher frequencies used by DSL are more strongly attenuated at longer distances than the lower frequencies used by voice, thus the distance limitations.
ahh. another four-digit user.
i never had a problem using my cheap us power strip in the uk or the rest of europe for that matter, even without using a transformer in between. That's probably the key though: cheap. Only thing it had was a resettable circuit breaker, which was probably rated at 250 volts to begin with.
Per the NEC you're not allowed to draw more than 12 amps continuously through it (the 80% rule, or the 125% rule depending on your point of view, where continuous is defined as anything over 3 hours). Hair dryers can and do draw 15 A regularly and assuming a 125V nominal voltage that works out to 1875W.
except that it can't replace my directv high-def receiver. at least not while recording and re-displaying in high-definition.
if you had a patent on a cure for something it would be in your best interests to produce it and make money while the patent is still active. if you had a cure and held it as a trade secret, your best interests (financially at least) are to sit on it. this can, and commonly does, happen in labs all the time. according to my sister, who's in that line of research, there's a cure for the herpes simplex virus out there sitting on a shelf that will never see the light of day because treating the symptoms of herpes is far more lucrative than curing it.
Which means on a "pure" IPv6 network with no firewall controls in place at the router an attacker can easily nmap every single box on your private network, then start running targeted attacks against every single thing
FTFY
ipv6 routers will be no different than their ipv4 counterparts now, except that the concept of nat will be eliminated. you will still have to allow specific services through to specific machines from the wan side. you'll just be able to allow more machines to have more services with ipv6, since multiple machines will be able to be presented to the outside world on port 80, port 443, or port 25.
unorganized though it may be, it is regulated. for instance, as another poster pointed out, there is mandatory selective service registration.
for those who will demand the citation
10 usc 311
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are--
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
it should be noted that well-regulated != organized
having read the patent, it has one novel aspect differentiating it from a general message system: it relies on two or more gateways to relay messages to different user devices, allowing users to prioritize the order in which their devices receive notification. this as opposed to, say, only an sms gateway, or only an email gateway.
that said, i don't pay enough attention to twitter to know whether or not its actually infringing.
The problem no one else will not be able to publish it at the Apple store because more than likely, Apple will reject it because of a similar app already exists.
the only things i've seen apple rejecting are apps that are too similar to what apple provides with the os, not things that are too similar to other apps in the store. there's plenty of anecdotal evidence with apps that supports this as well.
This has a lot in common with TiVo's use of Linux, where they use it and distribute their sources, and still make it difficult to replace the version that's installed on the hardware you own
it is also very different from tivo's use of linux in that anyone can get a mac, download the iphone sdk, pay apple the requisite $99, acquire a provisioning certificate, and install their own apps on their phone. that's not possible on the tivo because there is no way to get a signed hacked image that will run on a tivo.
Apple puts restrictions on what you can do with the application once you've downloaded it
true. however, there are no restrictions saying that the developer can't release the source code him/herself (at least not since the nda's got removed, i know, i've read the developer agreements). you are perfectly free to download the source code, pay apple the $99, and tweak away.
If I recall RMS has make it clear, that he doesn't approve of trying to make a profit with no contributions given back, or value added
ahh. but a) contributions are given back in this case. the source code to the iphone port is made available for download and b) there is a value added in that the application is available on a previously unavailable platform.
quoting myself from a week ago:
actually, there is a rising trend at educational institutions to go the opposite direction, as far as ip that is academic in nature. the university of minnesota in 2007 adopted new copyright guidelines in which "The University shall maintain the strong academic tradition that vests copyright ownership of academic works in the faculty."
going further into that policy,
In this spirit, the University encourages faculty and students to exercise their interests in ownership and use of their copyrighted works in a manner that provides the greatest possible scholarly and public access to their work.
and
Consistent with academic tradition, University faculty and students shall own the copyright in the academic works they create...
and then goes on to list exceptions consistent with other third-party contracts, directed works, specially commissioned works, etc.
given its rankings, i'd consider the university of minnesota to be a "major" university.
Your chances of making anything off any paper or code you write for a course (other than by using them to pass the course) are essentially nil.
and without my paper and those of other students, the chances of turnitin making anything aren't essentially nil, they are nil.
i would argue that the court applied the "new work" prong correctly, as well as the second and third prongs. however, by creating the "new works", turnitin in essence created a market for students' works, even if it was a market completely internal to itself. in doing so, it raised the market value of the students' works from the value they have from potential plagiarizers (i like to think that we can agree that prior to turnitin, this is the only market that probably 99% of student assignments has) to value as a tool used by those who would combat plagiarism. this conclusion seems logical because were it not for the students' works in the first place, turnitin wouldn't have a product to market.