Good for you, but I hope you're a pre-law major and can make a project out of it, because the university will likely discipline (e.g. suspend, expel, or boot from housing) first and read the regs only when forced to at lawyerpoint.
Your problem is that you've decided the status quo is one extreme and the total control of everything that the RIAA wants is another. So anyone who suggests that INDUCE simply ought to be shitcanned is now somehow an extremist. This is obviously bullshit.
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No downside? How about lousy cold-temperature performance, high cost, and poor color rendering index. Unless you don't mind not being able to see red.
And that's assuming you get ones that don't flicker and buzz.
Of course, some people would argue that a strong social conscience has more to do with things like poverty, war and the like than it does with the GPL
And those people would be fools. Because in contrast to the GPL, there's not much the average system adminstrator can do about poverty, war, and the like. It's easy to have a social conscience when that just means a little handwringing.
The RIAA doesn't need to target poor people. They've got enough money and enough potential damages that provided they avoid anyone named "Hilton", "Walton" or "Rockefeller", they can simply raise the stakes to the point where the other guy will have to fold.
In fact, wealthier people are EASIER to force to cave. Go after some working-class person working paycheck-to-paycheck and sharing his MP3 collection on a secondhand computer over a dialup connection, and he doesn't HAVE the $3,000 to pony up. He has to fight (pro se, no less, so the RIAA gets to eat him alive); to him, the $3000 they want is no better than the $150,000 per violation they claim copyright law entitles them to.
Compare this to Jack Richboy, making $200,000/year, and owning a $1,000,000 house and two $30,000 cars. He pays off the RIAA for $3,000, maybe he has to take a vacation in California instead of Hawaii this year. He fights, and they win, and he's totally ruined -- and even if he wins, the lawyer fees are more than $3,000.
It's extortion by lawyer, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't MATTER if Jack Richboy has never shared an MP3 in his life; defending himself against the accusation will cost more than settling, and there's always the chance the RIAA will win and ruin him.
The defective batteries were manufactured the last week of 2003. Get the feeling the regular (senior) QC people were taking the whole week off and the poor slobs at the bottom of the totem pole were stuck at work during the holiday?
(yes, both Christmas and New Years Day are Korean holidays)
I knew one or two female computer nerds in college. And at least one since. Maybe two... there's a very quiet woman working as a programmer at my current company, but I don't know her well enough to know if she's the genuine article.
Ob"Sexist"remark: All have been at least passably attractive.
If women are so fragile they can't take hearing people claim women aren't as good as men at something, that's their problem. And it's not like women can't dish it out -- studies which purport to show than women are superior to men in some way are trumpeted from the rooftops by (female) self-proclaimed feminists.
As for affirmative action -- well, if you're going to have it, you open yourself up to accusations that people have benefited only because of it.
Walking into a lecture hall where you're the only female: What, you want the university to draft more female students? Someone's got to be first.
Having most of the men you meet assume that you only got where you are because of your looks, your youth, or affirmative action: How do you know what they assume? Maybe this is your own insecurity speaking.
He understood my point when I mentioned that so far that day I'd had 3 unwelcome advances from guys, ones who'd done it before. Just in that day. Guys, it's like spam. Really. Once is flattery, thirty times a week is "I'm going somewhere else, really". I consider myself pretty damned boring as girls go. I'm plain, overweight, completely unstylish and still this amount of attention pops up.
It IS like spam. Only a relatively few do it, but they generate a LOT of it. And even though 99%+ of their advances get nowhere, they still do a lot better than the non-spammers who make no advances at all.
But if unwanted advances from poorly-socialized male geeks keeps women out of computer science, why are there more women in SALES, even? Salesguys are a LOT more likely to hit on anything female that walks by.
At least in the office. And in college. I don't know about the real jungle, but in those places, procrastination lets you avoid doing unnecessary work, even if you don't have Dilbert's nose for it.
For instance, suppose you're told to write some software to fulfill requirements X, and given a month to do it. Even if it'll only take you a week, you'd be a fool to do it immediately. Because you know that within that month, requirements will be added, subtracted, and changed, until a week before the deadline, you're supposed to be writing software to fulfill requirements X'. Where X' intersect X = the empty set. By waiting until the last minute, you avoided doing the work many times over, and had more time for slashdot/surfing pr0n at work/etc.
In college, I had professors who would amend the assignments weeks after assigning them. Same thing applied there.
Civil disobedience of the form you describe is an outdated tactic; governments have responded by hiking the penalties sky-high so no one can publicly violate the law, take their medicine, and get on with their life. It also never works if the violation isn't in the public eye to begin with. Instead, what happens if you try civil disobedience, is that you're quietly arrested, tried, and found guilty. You go to jail for a long time, get AIDS via forcible sodomy, and assuming you do get out, when you get out you're a felon, unable to make any political waves and unable to even work in any decent-paying capacity. Civil disobedience is self-neutralization under these conditions.
Breaking the law remains willful disobedience even if you don't go that route. And breaking a law which is wrong can still be right even if you endeavor to avoid the penalties.
You run 802.11a because the 2.4Ghz spectrum is so crowded. Or at least, that's why I run it. There's about 7 802.11b/g networks around my townhouse, not to mention neighbors' cordless phones and microwaves.
802.11a has three bands allocated for it; one is 5.8Ghz, which is overlapped by those 5.8Ghz phones, but the other two are in the 5.2Ghz range.
...for the patent issue: Open Source's usual strength is its weakness here. Since anyone can look at the source, anyone -- including hostile IP companies -- can fairly easily find infringing code. With a proprietary OS, the patent-holder first has to reverse-engineer the code to find the infringement. Which isn't so easy.
As for the claim above that no one has sued an end user: nonsense, of course. SCO has, for one. And one company was even successfully sued for a program which did not embody or use a patented process or device, but simply wrote one bit of data that, when inserted into another device, would cause it to execute the patented process in a manner violating the license granted to the manufacturer of the second device.
Score, -1, disinformative.
The DMCA is not a general copyright act. It includes two major divisions.
One sets up rules which exempt ISPs from liability for copyright violations provided they jump through certain hoops -- this is a tricky way of avoiding 1st amendment scrutiny while mandating those hoops (which amount to the ability of a copyright holder to obtain the equivalent of a permanent restraining order against an alleged infringer without the benefit of a hearing). This is 17 USC 512. It's clearly unconstitutional prior restraint, but the Golden Rule says otherwise.
The other major provision is the anti-circumvention section, 17 USC 1201. This is what disallows bypassing access controls or manufacturing, trafficking in, or marketing devices which allow bypassing of access or copy controls.
Curiously, the 512 provisions don't apply to the 1201 provisions -- that is, a copyright holder can't send a valid takedown notice to an ISP based on a user making available a tool which bypasses technological prevention measures.
None of this has any bearing on SCO v. IBM at all.
The original metric inch was 1/39.37 meter (now called a "US survey inch". The current 2.54 cm inch came later (1959).
This is important(?) when figuring speeds in furlongs per fortnight, because US furlongs are defined in terms of survey feet, not the later, international feet.
They used 9.5" satellite dishes. Gain on those things is somewhere around 40dBi, a quick google seems to reveal. Power output on the cards is 15dBm, for an EIRP of 65dBm. FCC limit is 4 watts, or 36dBm. However, on directional links for every 1dB you drop below 1W on the transmitter, you are allowed 3 more dBi in antenna power. They are 15dBm below 1 watt, which allows them 30dBm over the 4W limit -- so at 65dBm, they are barely legal!
Not using string concatentation in queries is a great idea, but there's a nasty problem: Some queries cannot be written as parameterized queries, specifically "IN" queries. There's no way to do a parameterized "SELECT B.FOO FROM BAR B WHERE B.BAZ IN ('GEORGE','ALLEN','HAMILTON)"
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Good for you, but I hope you're a pre-law major and can make a project out of it, because the university will likely discipline (e.g. suspend, expel, or boot from housing) first and read the regs only when forced to at lawyerpoint.
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Here's the FCC's take on the subject:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch
Cellphones on airplanes are covered by 47 CFR 22.925 "Prohibition on airborne operation of cellular telephones". It really IS a Federal Regulation.
Wouldn't McCain-Feingold effectively prevent this?
Your problem is that you've decided the status quo is one extreme and the total control of everything that the RIAA wants is another. So anyone who suggests that INDUCE simply ought to be shitcanned is now somehow an extremist. This is obviously bullshit.
No downside? How about lousy cold-temperature performance, high cost, and poor color rendering index. Unless you don't mind not being able to see red. And that's assuming you get ones that don't flicker and buzz.
Yeah, but people said that about Nikita Khruschev's Russian as well.
(and of course Ramius spoke English with a Scottish accent)
Settlement builds no legal precedent.
As for the RIAA; they're probably right legally, as they, along with their fellow-travelers (MPAA, ASCAP, etc) pretty much wrote the fucking law.
The RIAA doesn't need to target poor people. They've got enough money and enough potential damages that provided they avoid anyone named "Hilton", "Walton" or "Rockefeller", they can simply raise the stakes to the point where the other guy will have to fold.
In fact, wealthier people are EASIER to force to cave. Go after some working-class person working paycheck-to-paycheck and sharing his MP3 collection on a secondhand computer over a dialup connection, and he doesn't HAVE the $3,000 to pony up. He has to fight (pro se, no less, so the RIAA gets to eat him alive); to him, the $3000 they want is no better than the $150,000 per violation they claim copyright law entitles them to.
Compare this to Jack Richboy, making $200,000/year, and owning a $1,000,000 house and two $30,000 cars. He pays off the RIAA for $3,000, maybe he has to take a vacation in California instead of Hawaii this year. He fights, and they win, and he's totally ruined -- and even if he wins, the lawyer fees are more than $3,000.
It's extortion by lawyer, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't MATTER if Jack Richboy has never shared an MP3 in his life; defending himself against the accusation will cost more than settling, and there's always the chance the RIAA will win and ruin him.
The defective batteries were manufactured the last week of 2003. Get the feeling the regular (senior) QC people were taking the whole week off and the poor slobs at the bottom of the totem pole were stuck at work during the holiday? (yes, both Christmas and New Years Day are Korean holidays)
Flamethrows aren't illegal.
I knew one or two female computer nerds in college. And at least one since. Maybe two... there's a very quiet woman working as a programmer at my current company, but I don't know her well enough to know if she's the genuine article. Ob"Sexist"remark: All have been at least passably attractive.
Yeah, boys get more attention in school... they're suspended and sent to detention far more often. You really want that kind of attention for girls?
If women are so fragile they can't take hearing people claim women aren't as good as men at something, that's their problem. And it's not like women can't dish it out -- studies which purport to show than women are superior to men in some way are trumpeted from the rooftops by (female) self-proclaimed feminists.
As for affirmative action -- well, if you're going to have it, you open yourself up to accusations that people have benefited only because of it.
Walking into a lecture hall where you're the only female: What, you want the university to draft more female students? Someone's got to be first.
Having most of the men you meet assume that you only got where you are because of your looks, your youth, or affirmative action: How do you know what they assume? Maybe this is your own insecurity speaking.
It IS like spam. Only a relatively few do it, but they generate a LOT of it. And even though 99%+ of their advances get nowhere, they still do a lot better than the non-spammers who make no advances at all.
But if unwanted advances from poorly-socialized male geeks keeps women out of computer science, why are there more women in SALES, even? Salesguys are a LOT more likely to hit on anything female that walks by.
At least in the office. And in college. I don't know about the real jungle, but in those places, procrastination lets you avoid doing unnecessary work, even if you don't have Dilbert's nose for it.
For instance, suppose you're told to write some software to fulfill requirements X, and given a month to do it. Even if it'll only take you a week, you'd be a fool to do it immediately. Because you know that within that month, requirements will be added, subtracted, and changed, until a week before the deadline, you're supposed to be writing software to fulfill requirements X'. Where X' intersect X = the empty set. By waiting until the last minute, you avoided doing the work many times over, and had more time for slashdot/surfing pr0n at work/etc.
In college, I had professors who would amend the assignments weeks after assigning them. Same thing applied there.
Civil disobedience of the form you describe is an outdated tactic; governments have responded by hiking the penalties sky-high so no one can publicly violate the law, take their medicine, and get on with their life. It also never works if the violation isn't in the public eye to begin with. Instead, what happens if you try civil disobedience, is that you're quietly arrested, tried, and found guilty. You go to jail for a long time, get AIDS via forcible sodomy, and assuming you do get out, when you get out you're a felon, unable to make any political waves and unable to even work in any decent-paying capacity. Civil disobedience is self-neutralization under these conditions.
Breaking the law remains willful disobedience even if you don't go that route. And breaking a law which is wrong can still be right even if you endeavor to avoid the penalties.
You run 802.11a because the 2.4Ghz spectrum is so crowded. Or at least, that's why I run it. There's about 7 802.11b/g networks around my townhouse, not to mention neighbors' cordless phones and microwaves.
802.11a has three bands allocated for it; one is 5.8Ghz, which is overlapped by those 5.8Ghz phones, but the other two are in the 5.2Ghz range.
...for the patent issue: Open Source's usual strength is its weakness here. Since anyone can look at the source, anyone -- including hostile IP companies -- can fairly easily find infringing code. With a proprietary OS, the patent-holder first has to reverse-engineer the code to find the infringement. Which isn't so easy.
As for the claim above that no one has sued an end user: nonsense, of course. SCO has, for one. And one company was even successfully sued for a program which did not embody or use a patented process or device, but simply wrote one bit of data that, when inserted into another device, would cause it to execute the patented process in a manner violating the license granted to the manufacturer of the second device.
Most of your examples are properly in the realm of computer engineering, not computer science.
Score, -1, disinformative. The DMCA is not a general copyright act. It includes two major divisions. One sets up rules which exempt ISPs from liability for copyright violations provided they jump through certain hoops -- this is a tricky way of avoiding 1st amendment scrutiny while mandating those hoops (which amount to the ability of a copyright holder to obtain the equivalent of a permanent restraining order against an alleged infringer without the benefit of a hearing). This is 17 USC 512. It's clearly unconstitutional prior restraint, but the Golden Rule says otherwise. The other major provision is the anti-circumvention section, 17 USC 1201. This is what disallows bypassing access controls or manufacturing, trafficking in, or marketing devices which allow bypassing of access or copy controls. Curiously, the 512 provisions don't apply to the 1201 provisions -- that is, a copyright holder can't send a valid takedown notice to an ISP based on a user making available a tool which bypasses technological prevention measures. None of this has any bearing on SCO v. IBM at all.
The original metric inch was 1/39.37 meter (now called a "US survey inch". The current 2.54 cm inch came later (1959). This is important(?) when figuring speeds in furlongs per fortnight, because US furlongs are defined in terms of survey feet, not the later, international feet.
They used 9.5" satellite dishes. Gain on those things is somewhere around 40dBi, a quick google seems to reveal. Power output on the cards is 15dBm, for an EIRP of 65dBm. FCC limit is 4 watts, or 36dBm. However, on directional links for every 1dB you drop below 1W on the transmitter, you are allowed 3 more dBi in antenna power. They are 15dBm below 1 watt, which allows them 30dBm over the 4W limit -- so at 65dBm, they are barely legal!
The TiBook has the antennas in the bottom part, so it's real easy to block it with your body. Cheapest solution is an 802.11g PCMCIA card.
Not using string concatentation in queries is a great idea, but there's a nasty problem: Some queries cannot be written as parameterized queries, specifically "IN" queries. There's no way to do a parameterized "SELECT B.FOO FROM BAR B WHERE B.BAZ IN ('GEORGE','ALLEN','HAMILTON)"