Ah, I see, you're arguing that the employer owns the entirety of the derived work, including those sections of the original work included within it, but the original author still has a (separate) copyright to the original work. Yeah, I can see them making that argument, but I think it conflicts with 17 USC 103(b), which states
The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material. The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material.
The authors are not the same. The author of a work for hire is the employer (17 USC 201(b)). Therefore the original author still has the copyright on that portion of the derived work he created prior to his employment. Which means that unless he granted his employer license to distribute that work outside the confines of the GPL, they have no such license. Of course you could probably tie the case up for years arguing that he implicitly granted such a license.
(I do think it amusing that the pollies have basically come out and said: "we're delaying the implementation of this policy, because the public response has been too positive";-)
Of course. And if they'd received a high negative response, they'd shelve it for that reason. And if they received little response, they'd decide that the public didn't care that much and therefore shelve the policy for that reason. The public participation is a farce, because whatever the public does, they can come up with a justification based on that response to do what they want anyway.
I was surprised to see your prediction of both conservative and progressive attempts to skew results. According to examples on wikipedia, Google-bombing and Googlewashing are propaganda tools historically used almost exclusively by progressives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
Makes sense; conservatives usually stick to editing Wikipedia.
Since he personally wrote the original code he adapted and extended while employed, the entire body of his work is potentially considered a part of the work for hire.
That is a stretch. The copryight in the original code existed before he was hired, and so could not have been a part of a work for hire. To transfer the copyright would have required a written instrument doing so (and the SCO case shows the courts take that clause very seriously indeed). You might find a judge who would agree with this, but I suspect it's quite literally unprecedented.
That's a good story. I like the anecdote about your father offering to assault the misguided administrator, but I bet in reality he got his way by explaining his position and convincing the admin that the rule was a bit too strictly enforced.
ROTFL. You haven't had much experience with either irate parents OR school administrators, have you? The latter aren't often amenable to reason, and the former don't quit when it doesn't work (if they try it at all).
The problem is that in a regulated industry (in all industries, actually), there is no such thing as a communication that is not "official." If one of your agents makes a representation, and one of your stakeholders acts on that representation, then you are responsible for it. It doesn't matter how that representation was communicated. Whether or not the document was stamped "official" or not is irrelevant.
Of course this isn't so. If you decide to sue the company I work for based on something I said on Slashdot, when their lawyers finish laughing they'll have your case summarily dismissed so fast it will make your head spin. I might get fired in the bargain, though.
I don't have access to a GPS system to play with but just how how quickly does a stationary GPS receiver say it is moving around?
Not very, particularly not since the discontinuing of SA (Selective Availability, which intentionally degraded both the clock and the ephemerides).
The reason I was wondering is just how effective would it be to get GPS receiver and place it at a fixed point and then connect it to a mobile GPS device with say a Zigbee radio link. It should be trivial to take the two locations and find the distance from one to the other. Since all the "errors" should be the same for both devices you should get a very accurate location of your mobile devices distance a direction from the fixed base.
Congratulations, you've just re-invented differential GPS. Yes, it works very well within the vicinity of the fixed receiver. Far enough away and the errors start to diverge, because you're looking through a different part of the atmosphere or because you're seeing different satellites.
Back to the WAAS and LAAS. One does wonder why they didn't add LAAS to every VOR station. Maybe on a sub carrier to the Morse signal.
If you have to ask "why", the answer's probably "money".
This was not about children eating healthier. It was about gum and hard candy making a mess and being banned by the school district.
But the superintendent couldn't leave it at that, because that would leave the school district itself with the responsibility for the rule, which would make them the bad guys. So they tried to fob it off on the relatively unreachable state as well:
The superintendent also noted the state's school nutrition policy bans certain foods of minimal nutritional value, including candy and gum.
The state, however, was having none of that and said
That policy, however, does not apply to lunches that students bring from home or to a candy swap between friends, said Bryan Black, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Or, in other words, "Don't blame us for your insane overreaction".
Not likely. Tylenol is the nastiest of the OTC pain relievers, but two of them (assuming maximum strength, a total of 1g) are well below the toxic level unless the kid's less than 20 pounds. Know any third graders less than 20 pounds?
In this case they were Advil, and only 1 pill each several kids got sick.
Several kids got sick from 200mg each of Advil? Was this a school for the exceptionally drug sensitive, or are you just full of it?
It is against the law in this state for anyone other than the school nurse to issue medication of ANY KIND. If you want your kid to take some Tylenol at school, you need a) a doctors note and b) to have the pills given to the nurse.
And I'll bet it's ALSO against law or regulation for the school nurse to dispense any medication not prescribed by a doctor, right?
Which means that kids who have reason to take non-prescription medications (e.g. OTC antihistamines) even though they don't have a contagious disease (negating your "keep em home" nonsense) are shit out of luck. Been there and done that.
Every video player will verify all those signatures, and if the signature doesn't verify, no play. So pirates will be forced, forced I say, to only upload the original with signatures intact. And those will be easy to detect automatically.
Unless video players are modified. Or unless the pirates re-encode to another standard without the signatures.
"Unbreakable" DRM with some obvious holes a 5-year old could see and a blind man could drive a truck through, sideways? No way!
. . . would a post discussing good hygiene neglect to mention deodorant.
Gotta get the basics down before moving on to the more advanced material. Talk about deodorant before getting the showering thing down, and inevitably some will decide the deodorant is a substitute for the showering, which is just bad all around.
Of course that raises the ugly issue of how often the crappy quality components find their way in to the official product (possibly with faked markings).
Often enough, considering the bad capacitor incidents a while back... a lot of the bad capacitors were properly marked with a "clone" name (usually one very close to a name of a reputable company), but some of them were entirely counterfeit.
It's an absolute travesty that you need to point out things like "have good hygiene". Everyone should have good hygiene. If you don't, you should probably kill yourself.
That's going a bit overboard, and won't work anyway; dead bodies are quite unhygienic. WASHING yourself (i.e. showering -- use soap and shampoo) and brushing your teeth (toothpaste: tastes bad, works good) are the two most important things you can do. Put on clean clothes after showering; this generally means doing laundry now and again, but it's worth it.
Some of this gear is a new class of "counterfeit" to the point that the name doesn't really even apply. It comes from the very same production line as the legit Cisco gear. Cisco orders 1000 units made, the factory makes 1010. The extras get a fake serial number and are not documented for Cisco. Those are the "counterfeit" Ciscos.
The backing, warranty, and support is a real issue, not to mention the deception, but the quality is identical.
Maybe, and maybe not. For instance, the extra 10 (or 100 or 1000) units might be made with crappier components. In one case I've heard about, involving lithium-polymer battery chargers, the boards are identical but 5% resistors were substituted for the more expensive 1% resistors on the real product. So the clones would often destroy (notoriously finicky) LiPo batteries.
Adding an extra phosphor can extend your gamut, increase your dynamic range within your gamut, or give you finer quantization within the gamut, or some combination of all three. The fact that your source material is provided as three quantities (YCbCr, not RGB) doesn't mean four phoshors won't help.
Stop-losses are a way for people with regular jobs to mitigate the risk of being in the market, so by having "no sympathy" for people doing their darndest hold on to their value is akin to saying they shouldn't have even been in the market in the first place.
Precisely. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Lots of OTHER people had automatic buy orders kick in when the stocks dropped, and they _made_ money on the deal. Would you be crying for them if the drop turned out to be long-term instead of ephemeral? Volatility is one of the risks of being in the stock market. You bet that any severe drop would be long-term, and you lost. They bet it would be ephemeral, and they won. I bet neither way (I have stock which dropped and recovered on Thursday, but no automatic orders) and came out roughly even.
If you want to be invested in equity but want someone else to manage the day-to-day risk, there are plenty of companies which will do that for you. You will of course have to accept a lower expected rate of return in exchange for the reduced risk.
Liquidity simply left the world financial markets for about four minutes this afternoon. The bids just vanished. And what else vanished? Remember the vaunted supplemental liquidity providers, led by Goldman Sachs. Remember that they are paid to "provide liquidity" through their predatory high-frequency algos, they are not required to do so. So when the S@#$T hit the fan they just disappeared. In one second more or less someone (and yes, under these circumstances, human beings take control of the machines) made the decision to pull the bids on every equity in the S&P, every financial futures contract, every FX contract in every market in the world. This kind of thing just doesn't happen in a pure auction environment; there just isn't a tight enough communication link between the parties to allow the decisions to propagate within the same second -- even with HFT algorithms. No. Some human made the decision to pull the bids; all of them, all at once. If that is not a condemnation of the concentration of financial power and the systematic risk it engenders I don't know what is.
If the description of what happened is correct, it doesn't sound like a human intervention; the idea that there's one human who could simultaneously pull all the bids from every trader is ludicrous; it implies not just that the market is rigged, but that there's exactly one player rigging it. On the other hand, the idea that an event or events happened that would cause every program bid to disappear is a lot less unbelievable.
1) TFA states that someone made an input mistake and sold 16 billon Fortune 500 stocks instead of 16 millon. Did he have that many to sell? How big a player do you have to be to be able to make these type of mistakes.
This sounds like the sort of apocryphal story someone made up meaning it sarcastically. ("WTF happened? Probably some moron hit 16 billion instead of 16 million!"). If there was a 16 billion dollar sell order, there's a record of it and it wouldn't still be speculation now.
2) TFA states that at one point shares for some companies dropped to a mere penny and then rebounded. Were people able to take advantage of the sudden drop to sweep and get a fast couple of millons due to the glitch?
Some of the exchanges reversed those transactions on some of the stocks, but not all of them. Some people with existing limit orders probably did pretty darned good.
If the constituency wanted the laws to be different, they'd like vote people into power who passed those kinds of laws.
Which is just an argument that every law is for the best, as if they weren't they'd be different. Similar to Dr. Pangloss's claim (in Voltaire's Candide) that this is the "best of all possible worlds".
And no, being deaf isn't being a jackass. Mrs. Grundy blasting her TV at midnight (because she's hard of hearing) secure in the knowledge that the cops won't enforce the noise ordinancy against her, while complaining about noise from a party which she can't even hear all that well and doesn't, in fact, violate the ordinance and being listened to because the cops find it easier to shut the party down than to tell off old Mrs. Grundy... that's jackassery. The exact sort noise ordinances encourage and enable.
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Ah, I see, you're arguing that the employer owns the entirety of the derived work, including those sections of the original work included within it, but the original author still has a (separate) copyright to the original work. Yeah, I can see them making that argument, but I think it conflicts with 17 USC 103(b), which states
The authors are not the same. The author of a work for hire is the employer (17 USC 201(b)). Therefore the original author still has the copyright on that portion of the derived work he created prior to his employment. Which means that unless he granted his employer license to distribute that work outside the confines of the GPL, they have no such license. Of course you could probably tie the case up for years arguing that he implicitly granted such a license.
Of course. And if they'd received a high negative response, they'd shelve it for that reason. And if they received little response, they'd decide that the public didn't care that much and therefore shelve the policy for that reason. The public participation is a farce, because whatever the public does, they can come up with a justification based on that response to do what they want anyway.
Makes sense; conservatives usually stick to editing Wikipedia.
That is a stretch. The copryight in the original code existed before he was hired, and so could not have been a part of a work for hire. To transfer the copyright would have required a written instrument doing so (and the SCO case shows the courts take that clause very seriously indeed). You might find a judge who would agree with this, but I suspect it's quite literally unprecedented.
ROTFL. You haven't had much experience with either irate parents OR school administrators, have you? The latter aren't often amenable to reason, and the former don't quit when it doesn't work (if they try it at all).
Of course this isn't so. If you decide to sue the company I work for based on something I said on Slashdot, when their lawyers finish laughing they'll have your case summarily dismissed so fast it will make your head spin. I might get fired in the bargain, though.
Not very, particularly not since the discontinuing of SA (Selective Availability, which intentionally degraded both the clock and the ephemerides).
Congratulations, you've just re-invented differential GPS. Yes, it works very well within the vicinity of the fixed receiver. Far enough away and the errors start to diverge, because you're looking through a different part of the atmosphere or because you're seeing different satellites.
If you have to ask "why", the answer's probably "money".
Most students enter 1st grade at age 7, so 10 years old towards the end of the third grade is not indicative of being held back at all.
But the superintendent couldn't leave it at that, because that would leave the school district itself with the responsibility for the rule, which would make them the bad guys. So they tried to fob it off on the relatively unreachable state as well:
The state, however, was having none of that and said
Or, in other words, "Don't blame us for your insane overreaction".
Not likely. Tylenol is the nastiest of the OTC pain relievers, but two of them (assuming maximum strength, a total of 1g) are well below the toxic level unless the kid's less than 20 pounds. Know any third graders less than 20 pounds?
Several kids got sick from 200mg each of Advil? Was this a school for the exceptionally drug sensitive, or are you just full of it?
And I'll bet it's ALSO against law or regulation for the school nurse to dispense any medication not prescribed by a doctor, right?
Which means that kids who have reason to take non-prescription medications (e.g. OTC antihistamines) even though they don't have a contagious disease (negating your "keep em home" nonsense) are shit out of luck. Been there and done that.
Because the "WA" is "Wide Area". If you have one at an airport, it's an LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System), and they do exist.
Every video player will verify all those signatures, and if the signature doesn't verify, no play. So pirates will be forced, forced I say, to only upload the original with signatures intact. And those will be easy to detect automatically.
Unless video players are modified. Or unless the pirates re-encode to another standard without the signatures.
"Unbreakable" DRM with some obvious holes a 5-year old could see and a blind man could drive a truck through, sideways? No way!
Right. An XBox is harmless entertainment, whereas a Blackberry is digital crack.
Gotta get the basics down before moving on to the more advanced material. Talk about deodorant before getting the showering thing down, and inevitably some will decide the deodorant is a substitute for the showering, which is just bad all around.
Often enough, considering the bad capacitor incidents a while back... a lot of the bad capacitors were properly marked with a "clone" name (usually one very close to a name of a reputable company), but some of them were entirely counterfeit.
That's going a bit overboard, and won't work anyway; dead bodies are quite unhygienic. WASHING yourself (i.e. showering -- use soap and shampoo) and brushing your teeth (toothpaste: tastes bad, works good) are the two most important things you can do. Put on clean clothes after showering; this generally means doing laundry now and again, but it's worth it.
Maybe, and maybe not. For instance, the extra 10 (or 100 or 1000) units might be made with crappier components. In one case I've heard about, involving lithium-polymer battery chargers, the boards are identical but 5% resistors were substituted for the more expensive 1% resistors on the real product. So the clones would often destroy (notoriously finicky) LiPo batteries.
Adding an extra phosphor can extend your gamut, increase your dynamic range within your gamut, or give you finer quantization within the gamut, or some combination of all three. The fact that your source material is provided as three quantities (YCbCr, not RGB) doesn't mean four phoshors won't help.
Doesn't mean it will, either.
In the 10 years BEFORE 9/11, there was only one in the US (Oklahoma City), so the sample is too small to make any conclusions.
(outside the US there have been plenty of successful terrorist attacks since 9/11, including the London and Madrid train bombings)
Precisely. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Lots of OTHER people had automatic buy orders kick in when the stocks dropped, and they _made_ money on the deal. Would you be crying for them if the drop turned out to be long-term instead of ephemeral? Volatility is one of the risks of being in the stock market. You bet that any severe drop would be long-term, and you lost. They bet it would be ephemeral, and they won. I bet neither way (I have stock which dropped and recovered on Thursday, but no automatic orders) and came out roughly even.
If you want to be invested in equity but want someone else to manage the day-to-day risk, there are plenty of companies which will do that for you. You will of course have to accept a lower expected rate of return in exchange for the reduced risk.
If the description of what happened is correct, it doesn't sound like a human intervention; the idea that there's one human who could simultaneously pull all the bids from every trader is ludicrous; it implies not just that the market is rigged, but that there's exactly one player rigging it. On the other hand, the idea that an event or events happened that would cause every program bid to disappear is a lot less unbelievable.
This sounds like the sort of apocryphal story someone made up meaning it sarcastically. ("WTF happened? Probably some moron hit 16 billion instead of 16 million!"). If there was a 16 billion dollar sell order, there's a record of it and it wouldn't still be speculation now.
Some of the exchanges reversed those transactions on some of the stocks, but not all of them. Some people with existing limit orders probably did pretty darned good.
Which is just an argument that every law is for the best, as if they weren't they'd be different. Similar to Dr. Pangloss's claim (in Voltaire's Candide) that this is the "best of all possible worlds".
And no, being deaf isn't being a jackass. Mrs. Grundy blasting her TV at midnight (because she's hard of hearing) secure in the knowledge that the cops won't enforce the noise ordinancy against her, while complaining about noise from a party which she can't even hear all that well and doesn't, in fact, violate the ordinance and being listened to because the cops find it easier to shut the party down than to tell off old Mrs. Grundy... that's jackassery. The exact sort noise ordinances encourage and enable.