The copyright extension act (passed at the behest of Disney and the Gershwin heirs, who cynically manipulated the death of Sonny Bono to their own ends) was a bad law. What's more, I think it is an unconstitutional laws. Whatever you think of copyright, the law in the US is clear. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution provides Congress the power to grant copyright solely for the public benefit. It is part of what has been called the "copyright bargain". The public gives up for limited times the freedom to copy the work, in return for the production of new works as a result of the exclusive copying incentive. Retro-actively extending existing copyrights by definition cannot encourage the production of new works, which is a major justification for copyright law. (The companies will surely argue in friend of the court briefs that giving them additional copyright time will cause them to keep old works in distribution, which is a public benefit. We'll have to see how this plays out).
Companies like Disney don't need gov't subsidies. The Gershwin heirs should go get jobs. Authors already had life+50 years protection before the new law. How much more can you want?
Download the acclaimed Ad Aware program here.
It searches your registry and all your drives for running and installed spyware
programs. It works great.
Apparently, AOL logs all of your personal info for this purpose. AOL allows the internal advertisements to bill your recorded information for products that you 'order'.
Since when is somebody's modded DOWN as a troll for giving facts in a post? I never said the search was an accurate measuring tool. By clicking the link, however, you can get a list of some of the more common bugs in OpenBSD. Granted,you will not get a full 20,500 useful posts, but enough to keep you busy for a while.
I was scammed when buying a highly collectable item from someone on EBay. He did have 0 feedback, but he was verified on Paypal (where I payed for the item.) I thought that was enough to be covered, but alas, it is not. His phone number got de-listed, email address is gone, etc. I recieved a total of $8 from Paypal and EBay's "Insurance" policies. If you ever get scammed, don't count on those 'insurances' to get you ANY money back.
Yahoo (who helpfully censors search results and monitors online chats)
You sure about this? You would be amazed (or maybe you wouldn't...)at the amount of underage sexual
activity, including child
porn, easily flowing on Yahoo Chat. Not to mention the ridiculous
amount of spam occurred
on Yahoo's servers. Yahoo seems to have little, if any, direct moderation of their online chats and, subsequently, probably has little monitoring going on.
Hey! Since when do us geeks have to be concerned with such trivial matters as this
"Valentines Day" that you speak of? We have
far more important things to occupy our minds.
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A preview is available at UpcomingMovies.com
The official site is here.
Lots of info on Embedded Linux at the Embedded Linux Consortium
ZDNet recently posted this interesting story about LinuxCare.
See other Alan Cox interviews here and here.
Read the full text of the Copyright Term Extension Act at the Tech Law Journal.
The copyright extension act (passed at the behest of Disney and the Gershwin heirs, who cynically manipulated the death of Sonny Bono to their own ends) was a bad law. What's more, I think it is an unconstitutional laws. Whatever you think of copyright, the law in the US is clear. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution provides Congress the power to grant copyright solely for the public benefit. It is part of what has been called the "copyright bargain". The public gives up for limited times the freedom to copy the work, in return for the production of new works as a result of the exclusive copying incentive. Retro-actively extending existing copyrights by definition cannot encourage the production of new works, which is a major justification for copyright law. (The companies will surely argue in friend of the court briefs that giving them additional copyright time will cause them to keep old works in distribution, which is a public benefit. We'll have to see how this plays out). Companies like Disney don't need gov't subsidies. The Gershwin heirs should go get jobs. Authors already had life+50 years protection before the new law. How much more can you want?
Of course, If you want to stick it to the man, you could do the reverse and Block MSIE from your Site.
Learn the basics of ACPI, and some more, at acpi.info, webopedia, and Microsoft
...to UCANT. (Universal Controller of All Network Traffic
Considering the current state of the Be, they should probably change their name to Was.
Download the acclaimed Ad Aware program here. It searches your registry and all your drives for running and installed spyware programs. It works great.
Apparently, AOL logs all of your personal info for this purpose. AOL allows the internal advertisements to bill your recorded information for products that you 'order'.
Do Doctors (Medics) get guns that are twice as fast as those given to us, the average Joe?
Come on, let's keep personal insults OFF the comments section please! ;)
Since when is somebody's modded DOWN as a troll for giving facts in a post? I never said the search was an accurate measuring tool. By clicking the link, however, you can get a list of some of the more common bugs in OpenBSD. Granted,you will not get a full 20,500 useful posts, but enough to keep you busy for a while.
Very true, but there must be a decent number of quality results, if only by luck, when you get 20,500 responses for a fairly specific search.
Just searching for 'OpenBSD Bug' on Google Groups retrieves over 20,500 queries.
Havent the video game makers created a program that creates animation based almost solely on physics yet? ;)
I was scammed when buying a highly collectable item from someone on EBay. He did have 0 feedback, but he was verified on Paypal (where I payed for the item.) I thought that was enough to be covered, but alas, it is not. His phone number got de-listed, email address is gone, etc. I recieved a total of $8 from Paypal and EBay's "Insurance" policies. If you ever get scammed, don't count on those 'insurances' to get you ANY money back.
You will be forced to connect to Windows Mobile Messanger before you can actually USE your phone's features! Brace yourselves for NokiaXP...
Yahoo (who helpfully censors search results and monitors online chats)
You sure about this? You would be amazed (or maybe you wouldn't...)at the amount of underage sexual activity, including child porn, easily flowing on Yahoo Chat. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of spam occurred on Yahoo's servers. Yahoo seems to have little, if any, direct moderation of their online chats and, subsequently, probably has little monitoring going on.
Wonderful! Now, when my grandmother is knitting me a sweater with her foot-pedeled sewing machine, she can power my laptop too!
For more information on ROX Desktop, check out the Freshmeat details.
Be advised, an easier-to-read list is available at groupbt.
Hey! Since when do us geeks have to be concerned with such trivial matters as this "Valentines Day" that you speak of? We have far more important things to occupy our minds.