Well, it's not exactly rational. But it certainly makes sense by government standards. Instead of a cheap contact-based solution, use an expensive RFID solution... then use an expensive passport cover to make it not work at a distance.
SCOTUS didn't take this case to decide the narrow issue of whether or not there was a substantial non-infringing use for the software. They took it to decide if they will overturn Betamax and change the test. Perhaps going from the nice bright-line existence of a substantial non-infringing use to a dull and muddy balancing test of infringing uses versus non-infringing uses (made clearer only by the single data point that Kazaa fails the test)
Better still, when Timothy McVeigh killed hundreds in the bombing of the federal building in OK, where were the mobs running around threatening white males of Christian background?
Sure; it's not so bad when they demand I solve an NP-complete problem... code works, it just has performance issues. It's when they ask me to solve the halting problem that I tend to balk.
If you'd been really clever, you'd have written some software -- preferably a whole suite of trivial related items, posted it somewhere, then "found" all the holes you put in them:-)
"Sorny" and "Magnetvox" would likely already be trademark infringement, whether or not they come up under "Sony" and "Magnavox". This ruling doesn't change that; it just means that if you search for Sony you can get ads from Magnavox and vice-versa.
Really, competitors have been doing this for years less-obviously. Ever buy a brand-name product at a grocery store and get a register coupon for a competing product? Same thing.
Copyright law is ALREADY a relic of our pre-digital past. The only question is whether or not the MPAA and RIAA will be able to kill the technology to rescue it. My bet is on "yes"; I expect the Betamax decision to be overturned in 2005.
Useless fact: sidetone used to be provided along an audio path through the hollow center of the handset. There was a precisely-specified cotton ball in there to regulate the volume.
It's a firefly. The "smoke" is the wings (illuminated by the firefly's own light), the bright flash is the light, the dark path the firefly's path before lighting up.
Anyone know if there are fireflies in that area?
When I want to play something from my PowerBook onto my home entertainment system (oh, who am I kidding, it's just a stereo and a TV), I hook up the Powerbook via the S-VHS and (audio) line out ports.
The statistical anomalies relate to optical scan voting machines. This means there's a paper ballot for each vote, thus a built-in audit trail.
The e-voting machines (which do not provide an audit trail) do not show these anomalies. And despite the claims by some that the only difference between precincts which show these anomalies and those that don't is the voting machine type, this is pretty clearly not true -- there are considerable demographic differences correlated with voting machine type. Consider that Duval (Jacksonville), Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach are all e-voting.
I see what you mean, but I can't help think this is going to turn into a cold-war style escalation which will lead us to the point where all resumes are considered fiction and no one is ever believed about anything they say.
The results of that, are anybody's guess.
Wikipedia is not an authoritative source (heck, I just changed it myself). I note that Canadians do not think of themselves as "Americans" -- they will occasionally make that claim, but only to annoy Americans. The Spanish term "americanos" may refer to people of the Americas, but the English term "Americans" does not.
Maps generally use the long name for the country, the "United States of America".
There is no continent called America. There's a "North America" and a "South America", however. "America" is an accepted name for the United States of America, and only anti-American trash who are as provincial as they like to claim Americans are claim otherwise.
Use of Coca-Cola or Pepsi as a pesticide doesn't sound like a good idea; even if it works, the high sugar content seems likely to promote the growth of fungi and other undesirable critters.
Don't be discouraged -- find yourself a copy of some Microsoft source code. Or read some of their object code (but do it in a Faraday cage to avoid the DMCA warriors). By the time you're done spotting a good deal of the ugliness, your humility and modesty will have given way to a healthy egotism.
Adding an item to a singly-linked list in a thread-safe way is pretty easy, but requires an extra primitive:
(in some C-like language)
Item item = new Item(); do { item->next = first; } while(!compare_and_swap(first, item->next, item));
Where compare_and_swap atomically compares the first argument to the second argument and if they are equal, sets the first argument equal to the third and returns nonzero. If they are not equal, returns zero.
For resume arithmetic, if I've been working with five technologies at a job I've been at for five years, I've got five years of experience in all five. If prior to that I had five years of experience in another technology that I've only used occasionally since, that's ten years of experience in that technology.
It's not the most useful reckoning for determining skills, but given the requirements in job postings, it's the most useful in getting your foot in the door without actually lying.
Spanish-speaking Europeans might use it, but "estadounidense" wouldn't make too much sense to a resident of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
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Really? Please explain -- exactly -- how copyright laws prevent you from taking anything you want apart in your own home, figuring out how to hack it, hacking it, and not do anything to distribute that hack.
Both the access and the device provisions of the DMCA forbid this sort of activity. If you don't distribute it, you're unlikely to get caught -- but following the Eleventh Commandment ("Thou shalt not get caught") is no substitute for freedom.
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Well, it's not exactly rational. But it certainly makes sense by government standards. Instead of a cheap contact-based solution, use an expensive RFID solution... then use an expensive passport cover to make it not work at a distance.
SCOTUS didn't take this case to decide the narrow issue of whether or not there was a substantial non-infringing use for the software. They took it to decide if they will overturn Betamax and change the test. Perhaps going from the nice bright-line existence of a substantial non-infringing use to a dull and muddy balancing test of infringing uses versus non-infringing uses (made clearer only by the single data point that Kazaa fails the test)
They'll know
1) You're too smart for the good of the country and
2) You're disloyal enough to cozy up to a foreign spy agency.
Can you say "do-not-fly list"? Thought so.
Sure; it's not so bad when they demand I solve an NP-complete problem... code works, it just has performance issues. It's when they ask me to solve the halting problem that I tend to balk.
If you'd been really clever, you'd have written some software -- preferably a whole suite of trivial related items, posted it somewhere, then "found" all the holes you put in them :-)
You can't copyright your company name. And if you aren't making real revenue off a product, either it isn't popular or it's free.
"Sorny" and "Magnetvox" would likely already be trademark infringement, whether or not they come up under "Sony" and "Magnavox". This ruling doesn't change that; it just means that if you search for Sony you can get ads from Magnavox and vice-versa.
Really, competitors have been doing this for years less-obviously. Ever buy a brand-name product at a grocery store and get a register coupon for a competing product? Same thing.
Copyright law is ALREADY a relic of our pre-digital past. The only question is whether or not the MPAA and RIAA will be able to kill the technology to rescue it. My bet is on "yes"; I expect the Betamax decision to be overturned in 2005.
If you picked up a buzz from the GPS unit, it was probably from the backlight of the units display. And your headphones suck if they pick that up.
Useless fact: sidetone used to be provided along an audio path through the hollow center of the handset. There was a precisely-specified cotton ball in there to regulate the volume.
The Mac has the password-storage part already (Keychain).
Our American Football programs are still tops!
It's a firefly. The "smoke" is the wings (illuminated by the firefly's own light), the bright flash is the light, the dark path the firefly's path before lighting up. Anyone know if there are fireflies in that area?
When I want to play something from my PowerBook onto my home entertainment system (oh, who am I kidding, it's just a stereo and a TV), I hook up the Powerbook via the S-VHS and (audio) line out ports.
Low tech but effective.
The statistical anomalies relate to optical scan voting machines. This means there's a paper ballot for each vote, thus a built-in audit trail.
The e-voting machines (which do not provide an audit trail) do not show these anomalies. And despite the claims by some that the only difference between precincts which show these anomalies and those that don't is the voting machine type, this is pretty clearly not true -- there are considerable demographic differences correlated with voting machine type. Consider that Duval (Jacksonville), Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach are all e-voting.
Wikipedia is not an authoritative source (heck, I just changed it myself). I note that Canadians do not think of themselves as "Americans" -- they will occasionally make that claim, but only to annoy Americans. The Spanish term "americanos" may refer to people of the Americas, but the English term "Americans" does not.
Maps generally use the long name for the country, the "United States of America".
There is no continent called America. There's a "North America" and a "South America", however. "America" is an accepted name for the United States of America, and only anti-American trash who are as provincial as they like to claim Americans are claim otherwise.
Use of Coca-Cola or Pepsi as a pesticide doesn't sound like a good idea; even if it works, the high sugar content seems likely to promote the growth of fungi and other undesirable critters.
Don't be discouraged -- find yourself a copy of some Microsoft source code. Or read some of their object code (but do it in a Faraday cage to avoid the DMCA warriors). By the time you're done spotting a good deal of the ugliness, your humility and modesty will have given way to a healthy egotism.
Where compare_and_swap atomically compares the first argument to the second argument and if they are equal, sets the first argument equal to the third and returns nonzero. If they are not equal, returns zero.
(compare_and_swap is not a function call)
For resume arithmetic, if I've been working with five technologies at a job I've been at for five years, I've got five years of experience in all five. If prior to that I had five years of experience in another technology that I've only used occasionally since, that's ten years of experience in that technology.
It's not the most useful reckoning for determining skills, but given the requirements in job postings, it's the most useful in getting your foot in the door without actually lying.
Spanish-speaking Europeans might use it, but "estadounidense" wouldn't make too much sense to a resident of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
Both the access and the device provisions of the DMCA forbid this sort of activity. If you don't distribute it, you're unlikely to get caught -- but following the Eleventh Commandment ("Thou shalt not get caught") is no substitute for freedom.