In the context of this story, one could argue that a language is "fictional" if it isn't mutually intelligible with any pre-1923 language. Quenya, Sindarin, and the Black Speech aren't.
Nonsense. Quenya is the language written in real life as Linear A.
Silly me. If I were looking for a technical definition of the Java language, I would look for the Java language specification
That can be copyrighted and licensed. From there it follows that Oracle can dictate terms for reading the specification and implementing the language.
Does not follow. Copyright covers a number of things (reproduction, distribution, public performance, etc) -- the right to read is not one of them, nor is the right to use whatever you happened to read.
And no, I don't think an implementation of the language is a performance of the specification.
You know, the one where you actually had to establish some sort of legal duty that was breached before you could support a claim of negligence, not just come up with something you wish they would have done and then sue them for not doing it.
People who think being "rational" equals reasoning correctly are simply using a modern definition of the word; the literal derivation from the word "ratio" doesn't come into it.
And it's a fairly common technique. The first one I personally dealt with was an Estes rocket launcher. It stole power from the ignition circuit to light a light bulb without allowing so much current that it triggered the launch. That was even more clever since that meant the bulb indicated not only the armed condition but that there was continuity with the igniter and the battery. Also, it was simple enough for a child to understand its theory of operation.
Totally different technique. That was DC, not AC; the light bulb was wired in parallel with the switch and in series with the ignitor. The light bulb was the current limiting device.
That said, I'm sure power stealing from control circuits using exactly these techniques has been done for a long time. But according to the patent office and its apololgists, if it's a new area, it deserves a new patent, even if it's an application of an existing techique. So if the patent covers the first time it has been done on a _residential thermostat_, it's valid.
Let's see.... photos of the hanging of effigies of Gates and Ballmer constantly appearing in the media? No. Suggestions that Microsoft execs be tried for treason and intentional infliction of emotional distress for inflicting Windows upon us? No. Calls to "nuke Redmond from orbit"? Only in the comments sections.
Nope, seems like they're being treated WAY more than fairly.
Oh, wait, I forget: Occasionally spelling Microsoft with a dollar sign... OK you got us there.
Just last night I saw an ad on craigslist where the employer wanted me to click on a emloyment site that used Facebook as a login and requirement. I figured it was a scam. But it did offer a new password that you could choose different from Facebook but you had to friend the site first... and the employer can check to see if you have a pic drinking or do a grammar and spelling check on your casual entries etc.
Such trolling opportunities. Fake facebook account, with goatse et al shared to "friends only".
I just don't like this talk of "the military will stop them before they get here". It is entirely possible for them to get here before we can do anything about it and cause a lot of damage.
If they just want to cause a lot of damage, there's no need to send people; nukes will do just fine. If they want to control territory, they're going to need an invasion route and supply line across the Pacific.
If China invades us, our allies will likely help us. I don't think most of Europe has forgotten World War II. The layperson considers the landings at Normandy the moment we turned the tide against the Nazis.
If China invades us, it's the US, Canada (which would help out of self-interest if nothing else), and the UK. The rest of Europe won't lift a hand, and there will probably be a lot of sentiment about how we had it coming from France and Spain.
Of course, first China has to defeat the US Navy (they're building up, but they've got a long way to go). And they have to consider whether we'd go nuclear on them.
It's tough getting an embedded job unless you already have experience with the specific processor and OS the company hiring uses. Which is ridiculous, but it's one way false shortages are created.
10g is nonsense. If black politicians are being investigated for corruption more than whites, it's either bias on the part of the investigators, or incompetence on the part of the crooked black politicians.
Yes, yes. Let's take an incident that killed 1,500 people in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic and make it a ride. It's bad enough that Cameron turned the tragedy into some bogus "love story" - that scene in the water with Winslet and DiCaprio makes me want to puke - then the woman ditches the necklace into the open water with an "oops". Call me jaded, but I think the movie is a bigger tragedy than the actual event.
I'm guessing you're not going to like the "Springtime For Hitler" Experience either. Sort of like "Pirates of the Carribean", only with Nazis.
You mean freedom? It's time has come... and gone. It got started during the enlightenment, had its heyday in the 19th century, battled totalitarianism in the 20th... and having apparently beat it, collapsed like a bee colony early in the 21st. It appears a kindler and gentler authoritarianism is the best we can hope for. Those world-wide wheels of "freedom" you refer to are actually the wheels of Islamic theocratic totalitarianism, one of the poorer outcomes.
And even more interesting, in all three studies the pesticide was intentionally fed to the bees in the sugar water; it wasn't collected by the bees. The Harvard study also points out the bee keepers feed their colonies HFCS, which apparently started containing trace amounts of the pesticide about the time they noticed colony collapse become a problem. Kind of sounds like they need to stop feeding HFCS.
Which would be a very neat conclusion... if it weren't for the fact that non-HFCS fed bees have also been hit by CCD. It doesn't let the insecticide or even tainted HFCS off the hook, but it does suggest that that it's not so simple as "stop feeding HFCS, bees survive".
Nope, the DMCA states exactly the opposite: a proper counternotice allows the service provider to restore the material until they are notified that a lawsuit will be filed. Once they are notified the lawsuit will be filed, the material goes down and stays down until the court rules otherwise.
I'm saying it's a waste of effort or worse to jump through the DMCA's hoops when you can't win anyway. End of the day, the video remains taken down because you can't answer in US court (because you're in another country, or because the other guy has better lawyers)
As a licensed driver for 35yrs I say anyone who cannot comprehend that point and obey the posted speed limit is NOT a competent driver. Turns out any fool with lady luck in the passenger seat can push a rust busket to it's 'safe limits' and survive to drink another beer. I was definitely an incompetent driver when I was young and I fully deserved the 4-5yrs of constant legal trouble that came my way because of it. Looking back now, having seen friends and teenage children of friends die from the sheer arrogant stupidity that seems inate to young men in cars I realise how very fortunate I was not to have maimed or killed someone. As a licensed driver for 25 years, most of that driving done over the speed limit, I say that you have succumbed to the nervous-nelliedom of old age. Yeah, I drove a little crazier when I was younger because I didn't know the limits of my abilities or those of the car, but I knew then and I know now that those abilities have nothing to do with the number on the sign.
Ignoring speed limits and driving at the 'safe limits' of a car on a public road really requires the ability to accurately read the minds of everyone else around you. Since accurate mind reading requires an exchange of tea leaves we have the next best thing, road rules!
Sure, you can't really drive at the full limits of your car's ability on a public road. I've taken my car around a certain set of curves with the speedometer pegged (somewhere north of 110mph, probably). No way could I do that with traffic on the road. On the other hand, the road is posted at 55mph -- there's a lot of room in between.
There's another set of curves where I used to joke that that limit only made sense for a dump truck in a blizzard. Until I ended up going through those curves behind a dump truck in a blizzard, and he was doing 10mph over with no problem.
If they ever start setting them appropriately, maybe I'll start paying attention (probably not, I'm too old and set in my ways). But until then, I'm not even going to feel an iota of guilt for violating them.
DMCA is worse than useless. Mr. Bell would have to accept US jurisdiction (the Australian judgement is useless)... and the video would remain down for the duration of the case.
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Nonsense. Quenya is the language written in real life as Linear A.
Does not follow. Copyright covers a number of things (reproduction, distribution, public performance, etc) -- the right to read is not one of them, nor is the right to use whatever you happened to read.
And no, I don't think an implementation of the language is a performance of the specification.
You know, the one where you actually had to establish some sort of legal duty that was breached before you could support a claim of negligence, not just come up with something you wish they would have done and then sue them for not doing it.
People who think being "rational" equals reasoning correctly are simply using a modern definition of the word; the literal derivation from the word "ratio" doesn't come into it.
Totally different technique. That was DC, not AC; the light bulb was wired in parallel with the switch and in series with the ignitor. The light bulb was the current limiting device. That said, I'm sure power stealing from control circuits using exactly these techniques has been done for a long time. But according to the patent office and its apololgists, if it's a new area, it deserves a new patent, even if it's an application of an existing techique. So if the patent covers the first time it has been done on a _residential thermostat_, it's valid.
Err, at the risk of getting wooshed, that's exactly what they did... they're suing Nest for, among other things, having a round thermostat.
Never mind that Honeywell put out their first version of the round thermostat in 1955, which means that patent ought to be good and expired by now.
Let's see.... photos of the hanging of effigies of Gates and Ballmer constantly appearing in the media? No. Suggestions that Microsoft execs be tried for treason and intentional infliction of emotional distress for inflicting Windows upon us? No. Calls to "nuke Redmond from orbit"? Only in the comments sections.
Nope, seems like they're being treated WAY more than fairly.
Oh, wait, I forget: Occasionally spelling Microsoft with a dollar sign... OK you got us there.
Such trolling opportunities. Fake facebook account, with goatse et al shared to "friends only".
If they just want to cause a lot of damage, there's no need to send people; nukes will do just fine. If they want to control territory, they're going to need an invasion route and supply line across the Pacific.
What do you figure the odds are that this is used only against those who abuse the system?
Specifically, I believe "Just One" is one of the epithets of Allah.
If China invades us, it's the US, Canada (which would help out of self-interest if nothing else), and the UK. The rest of Europe won't lift a hand, and there will probably be a lot of sentiment about how we had it coming from France and Spain.
Of course, first China has to defeat the US Navy (they're building up, but they've got a long way to go). And they have to consider whether we'd go nuclear on them.
It's tough getting an embedded job unless you already have experience with the specific processor and OS the company hiring uses. Which is ridiculous, but it's one way false shortages are created.
A lot of people talk about it, then get shouted down with screaming about Bush, blood for oil, being told we're lacking in imagination, etc.
10g is nonsense. If black politicians are being investigated for corruption more than whites, it's either bias on the part of the investigators, or incompetence on the part of the crooked black politicians.
I'm guessing you're not going to like the "Springtime For Hitler" Experience either. Sort of like "Pirates of the Carribean", only with Nazis.
If the NSA doesn't watch you, how do they know if you're innocent or guilty?
You mean freedom? It's time has come... and gone. It got started during the enlightenment, had its heyday in the 19th century, battled totalitarianism in the 20th... and having apparently beat it, collapsed like a bee colony early in the 21st. It appears a kindler and gentler authoritarianism is the best we can hope for. Those world-wide wheels of "freedom" you refer to are actually the wheels of Islamic theocratic totalitarianism, one of the poorer outcomes.
Now that would really be something.
Which would be a very neat conclusion... if it weren't for the fact that non-HFCS fed bees have also been hit by CCD. It doesn't let the insecticide or even tainted HFCS off the hook, but it does suggest that that it's not so simple as "stop feeding HFCS, bees survive".
Nope, the DMCA states exactly the opposite: a proper counternotice allows the service provider to restore the material until they are notified that a lawsuit will be filed. Once they are notified the lawsuit will be filed, the material goes down and stays down until the court rules otherwise.
I'm saying it's a waste of effort or worse to jump through the DMCA's hoops when you can't win anyway. End of the day, the video remains taken down because you can't answer in US court (because you're in another country, or because the other guy has better lawyers)
Which just means losing, over and over and over again.
It's not going to be repealed. It'll only be replaced by something worse.
DMCA is worse than useless. Mr. Bell would have to accept US jurisdiction (the Australian judgement is useless)... and the video would remain down for the duration of the case.