It has been decided that the deciding factor with the GPL is whether or not something links to it.
I thought the deciding factor was whether or not you redistributed the GPL code. I've read many times on Slashdot that the GPL only adds rights and doesn't take them away. It grants you the right to distribute GPL'd code as part of your project if you license your project under the GPL as well. As long as the kernel isn't distributed with the code that links to it, how does the GPL come into play at all?
Math and physics journals pretty much all accept LaTeX and many require it, while most other fields don't seem to use LaTeX, including computer science. To answer the grandparent's question, yes I have submitted articles (and had them accepted for publication) using LaTeX. The journal was Physics Letters B, published by Elsevier, and they provide a document class for article submissions. They may accept DOC files now, but when I submitted, LaTeX was the only way to go.
There are free, open source PDF creators and readers out there. Actually, I like the Acrobat readers up to version 5.0. After that it became bloatware. What I like about PDF is that fonts are embedded right in the file, so you know that documents will look the same and print correctly on a Linux, Mac, or Windows environment. Images and text are stored compactly. Compare a typical PDF file size to the equivalent PostScript size. It is also a very convenient way of getting files to a printer. I have PDF writers installed everywhere, and if I am using a computer with no printer attached, I print to a PDF and copy it to my USB key drive. I can then print the file on any computer with a printer attached and it comes out looking correct. Most other file formats get screwed up if the other computer doesn't have the same fonts installed, or has a different version of the software used to decode the file. The P in PDF stands for portable, and in my experience, it is.
Nice try, but it is a violation of federal law to bring a fire-arm onto public school property.
Actually, that law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme court on the grounds that schools are under state jurisdiction. I believe is was the Lopez decision, but I'm not sure. This was a landmark decision in that it reversed a long trend of eroding state's rights in favor of the federal government. Most states do have similar laws, though.
I could not for the life of me think of a reason why you would watch a man with a gun walk in and start shooting your friends and NOT DO ANYTHING TO DEFEND YOURSELF.
Here's the reason: the shooting took place in a gun free zone. According to school rules, no one was allowed to have guns, making them all sitting ducks. Obviously the shooter new this, and this probably had something to do with his choice of location. You really think throwing textbooks at this guy's head would have had any effect against someone armed with two semi-automatic weapons???
There are already enough planes that have satellite television (including news channels) along with air phones (at a very high cost - yes but still a source of information.
Yes, but these can be turned off by the pilot should a problem arise. I seem to recall a flight that was having a problem with its landing gear, and it was shown circling around the airport on CNN. I also remember hearing that the satellite TVs in the plane had been turned off, so the passengers wouldn't panic. If people had their own cellphones, TVs, GPSs, etc. the pilot would have no control over these devices and hence no control over the information passengers receive. I honestly can think of no other reason for banning GPSs, for instance.
How long before someone patents the idea of using this for a video game controller? Imagine how cool it would be for your kids and their friends to sit in front of the TV wearing helmets and playing a video game without using their hands!
That's absolutely correct. In fact, it is quite common for particles to travel through a medium faster than light travels through that medium. That is the principle behind how a Cherenkov detector works.
If someone is "cyberbullying" you through IM, then close your IM window, and open a new account with a different screen name you share only with trusted friends. If they abuse that trust and share the name with someone malicious, then change it again and don't share the name with that friend.
If they are bullying you through e-mail, get a new e-mail account, and share the address only with trusted friends/family. I personally have changed my address at least three times when spam was becoming a problem. If changing it is inconvenient, create an e-mail account just for school friends, and a separate one for more important correspondence for which it would be more difficult to change the address. Change your school address as necessary when/if cyberbullying becomes a problem.
Bullied via the web? Stop visiting the web pages where the offending content is posted.
Bullied via hackers? Keep you machine patched and behind a firewall. You should be doing this anyway!
In all cases, the victims must leave open some kind of portal for the bullies to get in. Why can't the victim simply close the portal? I don't see why this is an issue that school administrators need to get involved it at all. Perhaps the school should hand out some advice to students like that shown above. It would seem to me the problem could be ended simply and painlessly with no erosion of First Amendment rights at all.
Read the article. The kid posted the video just before he and his family moved to Canada, out of the reach of British law and the school's disciplinary procedures. The teacher is more upset about the video than the broken window, because it makes the teacher look like a fool and there is nothing he/she can do about it.
Both static and dynamic linking are considered creating a "derivative work".
Considered by whom? I've heard this claim bandied about quite a bit, but can anyone actually point to any case law? As long as you don't distribute the libraries with your work, you aren't distributing any of the copyrighted (or should I say copylefted) materials, and so you shouldn't be subject to the license (GPL or otherwise) in the first place. I'd really like to see some solid precedents which point to executables being considered derived works to the DLLs which they load when executed. Of course, if you distribute the DLLs with your product, you are subject to redistribution limits which govern that code, such as the GPL.
I know many have stated a contrary opinion, but can anyone point to some actual case law?
You follow the law of the nation you're in, not the law of the nation you're from. And the NYTimes is in the U.S.
That's generally true, but it is possible that the New York Times may have a business presence in the U.K. which changes that situation a bit. They most likely distribute newspapers there, as they are the largest U.S. newspaper, and they may have offices there, both for distribution and for their British correspondents. When a company has a business presence in a country, they do need to be a bit more careful of running afoul of the laws of that country, else they could be subject to sanctions.
One of the most brilliant of British mathematicians and physicists after Newton. Showed great intellect at an early age, learning several languages as a child. Was also a notoriously bad poet. He is best known for applying the least action principle to problems of classical mechanics and optics. Studying him might also get kids interested in quaternions which have been largely and unjustly forgotten.
If you cant spend $1k on a laptop, and $1k on a projector, my company wont be providing what you cant afford, and wont be doing business with you.
Personally, I don't consider anyone professional if they don't also show up with the conference table, carpeting, chairs, and ceiling lamps.
It may be reasonable to expect people to come with their own laptop, buy why should people be expected to lug around heavy projectors when most conference rooms already have them. Would you consider it unreasonable for a prospective visitor to phone ahead and ask if a projector would be available, for instance?
unless you want to make the data we store on our computers completely ungovernable.
I imagine most readers here, myself included, would like to make the data stored on our computers ungovernable by any but us. That's why in most countries, strong encryption is legal with no requirement to turn over the keys.
I agree that child pornography is a serious problem, but I think we should distinguish between those who produce it and in the process abuse children, and those who simply download a picture, intentionally or otherwise. It is perfectly legal to possess footage and images of other crimes (robberies and sometimes worse are frequently broadcast on the evening news), yet we want to toss someone into jail just for possessing pictures of kids being abused. Given how easy it is to transfer files to an unsuspecting user through e-mail attachments (which even if the user deletes without opening can still leave "evidence" on their hard drive), or web pages which can leave images in their cache, I think the lesser of two evils would be to abolish laws which criminalize possession of kiddie porn.
If I understand the summary correctly, the procedure would cause the ionosphere to stop reflecting signals, which would indeed disrupt radio communications which use the ionosphere as a "mirror". But the GPS system relies on signals being sent directly from the satellites to the receivers and doesn't use the mirror effect. Indeed, "bounced" signals would destroy the accuracy of the system as the signal path length would be way, way off.
A better analogy is this. Joe moves all his valuable possessions into the house, and on the second month the landlord claims Joe owes $2000 a month rather than $1000. On studying the lease, it isn't really clear whether or not the landlord has the right to do this, but in any case, Joe doesn't want to rent a house for $2000 a month, so he decides to move out. When he shows up to retrieve his possessions, however, he finds that the landlord has changed the locks and Joe can't get in to get his stuff.
I was born, raised, and live in Canada, and I use mm/dd/yy. I have lived in the States, and most people there also use mm/dd/yy. Is dd/mm/yy a European thing? I thought they use yyyy-mm-dd. Who uses dd/mm/yy?
I work at a university where we recently adopted the free open source Sakai learning management system. Does anyone know if these patents will threaten our ability to use it? I know that Sakai plans to add Blackboard-like functionality in the future, so it seems likely that at the very least these patents will halt development in that direction.
Is there anyone here on the Sakai team, or other Sakai users who can shed some light on this issue?
The article doesn't seem to mention what condition the patients in the clinical trials were in when they took part. Most patients who are given high risk drugs are already terminally or severely ill. Is is possible that these patients would have died had they not tried this new drug? The article seems very light on those types of details. Perhaps the drug will have lengthened their lives by a few years.
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Ancient pagans fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them. If you claim any link with them you can not then disclaim their bad side.
You could say the same about Christians, if you study your history. Remember the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, slave owners in America and elsewhere? Does that mean that someone who claims to be a Christian today supports all of these activities?
Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS.
Am I the only one who thinks that things like media and entertainment should not be core parts of an OS, but rather should be handled by applications that run on the OS? We're not buying a television, after all.
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It has been decided that the deciding factor with the GPL is whether or not something links to it.
I thought the deciding factor was whether or not you redistributed the GPL code. I've read many times on Slashdot that the GPL only adds rights and doesn't take them away. It grants you the right to distribute GPL'd code as part of your project if you license your project under the GPL as well. As long as the kernel isn't distributed with the code that links to it, how does the GPL come into play at all?
Codec stands for COmpression/DECompression algorithm. There certainly are data formats for video which are uncompressed, but they are not Codecs.
Math and physics journals pretty much all accept LaTeX and many require it, while most other fields don't seem to use LaTeX, including computer science. To answer the grandparent's question, yes I have submitted articles (and had them accepted for publication) using LaTeX. The journal was Physics Letters B, published by Elsevier, and they provide a document class for article submissions. They may accept DOC files now, but when I submitted, LaTeX was the only way to go.
I like PDF.
There are free, open source PDF creators and readers out there. Actually, I like the Acrobat readers up to version 5.0. After that it became bloatware. What I like about PDF is that fonts are embedded right in the file, so you know that documents will look the same and print correctly on a Linux, Mac, or Windows environment. Images and text are stored compactly. Compare a typical PDF file size to the equivalent PostScript size. It is also a very convenient way of getting files to a printer. I have PDF writers installed everywhere, and if I am using a computer with no printer attached, I print to a PDF and copy it to my USB key drive. I can then print the file on any computer with a printer attached and it comes out looking correct. Most other file formats get screwed up if the other computer doesn't have the same fonts installed, or has a different version of the software used to decode the file. The P in PDF stands for portable, and in my experience, it is.
Nice try, but it is a violation of federal law to bring a fire-arm onto public school property.
Actually, that law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme court on the grounds that schools are under state jurisdiction. I believe is was the Lopez decision, but I'm not sure. This was a landmark decision in that it reversed a long trend of eroding state's rights in favor of the federal government. Most states do have similar laws, though.
I could not for the life of me think of a reason why you would watch a man with a gun walk in and start shooting your friends and NOT DO ANYTHING TO DEFEND YOURSELF.
Here's the reason: the shooting took place in a gun free zone. According to school rules, no one was allowed to have guns, making them all sitting ducks. Obviously the shooter new this, and this probably had something to do with his choice of location. You really think throwing textbooks at this guy's head would have had any effect against someone armed with two semi-automatic weapons???
There are already enough planes that have satellite television (including news channels) along with air phones (at a very high cost - yes but still a source of information.
Yes, but these can be turned off by the pilot should a problem arise. I seem to recall a flight that was having a problem with its landing gear, and it was shown circling around the airport on CNN. I also remember hearing that the satellite TVs in the plane had been turned off, so the passengers wouldn't panic. If people had their own cellphones, TVs, GPSs, etc. the pilot would have no control over these devices and hence no control over the information passengers receive. I honestly can think of no other reason for banning GPSs, for instance.
How long before someone patents the idea of using this for a video game controller? Imagine how cool it would be for your kids and their friends to sit in front of the TV wearing helmets and playing a video game without using their hands!
That's absolutely correct. In fact, it is quite common for particles to travel through a medium faster than light travels through that medium. That is the principle behind how a Cherenkov detector works.
If someone is "cyberbullying" you through IM, then close your IM window, and open a new account with a different screen name you share only with trusted friends. If they abuse that trust and share the name with someone malicious, then change it again and don't share the name with that friend.
If they are bullying you through e-mail, get a new e-mail account, and share the address only with trusted friends/family. I personally have changed my address at least three times when spam was becoming a problem. If changing it is inconvenient, create an e-mail account just for school friends, and a separate one for more important correspondence for which it would be more difficult to change the address. Change your school address as necessary when/if cyberbullying becomes a problem.
Bullied via the web? Stop visiting the web pages where the offending content is posted.
Bullied via hackers? Keep you machine patched and behind a firewall. You should be doing this anyway!
In all cases, the victims must leave open some kind of portal for the bullies to get in. Why can't the victim simply close the portal? I don't see why this is an issue that school administrators need to get involved it at all. Perhaps the school should hand out some advice to students like that shown above. It would seem to me the problem could be ended simply and painlessly with no erosion of First Amendment rights at all.
Thats what TrueCrypt's hidden volumes function is for.
Read the article. The kid posted the video just before he and his family moved to Canada, out of the reach of British law and the school's disciplinary procedures. The teacher is more upset about the video than the broken window, because it makes the teacher look like a fool and there is nothing he/she can do about it.
That reminds me, whatever became of that ARPANET thing they were all talking about way back?
Or what about that GPS thingie? Didn't amount to much I guess. Or what about the AES?
Both static and dynamic linking are considered creating a "derivative work".
Considered by whom? I've heard this claim bandied about quite a bit, but can anyone actually point to any case law? As long as you don't distribute the libraries with your work, you aren't distributing any of the copyrighted (or should I say copylefted) materials, and so you shouldn't be subject to the license (GPL or otherwise) in the first place. I'd really like to see some solid precedents which point to executables being considered derived works to the DLLs which they load when executed. Of course, if you distribute the DLLs with your product, you are subject to redistribution limits which govern that code, such as the GPL.I know many have stated a contrary opinion, but can anyone point to some actual case law?
You follow the law of the nation you're in, not the law of the nation you're from. And the NYTimes is in the U.S.
That's generally true, but it is possible that the New York Times may have a business presence in the U.K. which changes that situation a bit. They most likely distribute newspapers there, as they are the largest U.S. newspaper, and they may have offices there, both for distribution and for their British correspondents. When a company has a business presence in a country, they do need to be a bit more careful of running afoul of the laws of that country, else they could be subject to sanctions.
One of the most brilliant of British mathematicians and physicists after Newton. Showed great intellect at an early age, learning several languages as a child. Was also a notoriously bad poet. He is best known for applying the least action principle to problems of classical mechanics and optics. Studying him might also get kids interested in quaternions which have been largely and unjustly forgotten.
If you cant spend $1k on a laptop, and $1k on a projector, my company wont be providing what you cant afford, and wont be doing business with you.
Personally, I don't consider anyone professional if they don't also show up with the conference table, carpeting, chairs, and ceiling lamps.
It may be reasonable to expect people to come with their own laptop, buy why should people be expected to lug around heavy projectors when most conference rooms already have them. Would you consider it unreasonable for a prospective visitor to phone ahead and ask if a projector would be available, for instance?
I imagine most readers here, myself included, would like to make the data stored on our computers ungovernable by any but us. That's why in most countries, strong encryption is legal with no requirement to turn over the keys.
I agree that child pornography is a serious problem, but I think we should distinguish between those who produce it and in the process abuse children, and those who simply download a picture, intentionally or otherwise. It is perfectly legal to possess footage and images of other crimes (robberies and sometimes worse are frequently broadcast on the evening news), yet we want to toss someone into jail just for possessing pictures of kids being abused. Given how easy it is to transfer files to an unsuspecting user through e-mail attachments (which even if the user deletes without opening can still leave "evidence" on their hard drive), or web pages which can leave images in their cache, I think the lesser of two evils would be to abolish laws which criminalize possession of kiddie porn.
If I understand the summary correctly, the procedure would cause the ionosphere to stop reflecting signals, which would indeed disrupt radio communications which use the ionosphere as a "mirror". But the GPS system relies on signals being sent directly from the satellites to the receivers and doesn't use the mirror effect. Indeed, "bounced" signals would destroy the accuracy of the system as the signal path length would be way, way off.
I was born, raised, and live in Canada, and I use mm/dd/yy. I have lived in the States, and most people there also use mm/dd/yy. Is dd/mm/yy a European thing? I thought they use yyyy-mm-dd. Who uses dd/mm/yy?
Is there anyone here on the Sakai team, or other Sakai users who can shed some light on this issue?
You could say the same about Christians, if you study your history. Remember the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, slave owners in America and elsewhere? Does that mean that someone who claims to be a Christian today supports all of these activities?
Am I the only one who thinks that things like media and entertainment should not be core parts of an OS, but rather should be handled by applications that run on the OS? We're not buying a television, after all.