Yes. The international community also saw to it that were destroyed.
They did not. Part of the international community took Saddam Hussein's word that they were destroyed. The rest went in there and bombed the shit out of them.
Syria and Iraq had not been friends in recent years, don't forget that Syria was part of the coalition against Iraq back in the first US Iraq conflict. I don't know how far back this antipathy goes, but at least back to the 70's.
So just because they're not friends means that weapons can't be hidden there? You don't have to be friends with the whole country. Just one border guard.
Best case scenario, it becomes the next Yahoo. Worse case scenario, it becomes the next VA Software. Either way, they have too many captured eyeballs to die, too much pride to sell out, and too few paying customers to be an Amazon or an EBay.
Umm, they just diappeared? You do agree that there were WMD at one time, right? Or was that just part of a global conspiracy against poor innocent muslims?
Folks, if you're going to be sneaky, at least do enough research to make sure you're really being sneaky.
Reminds me of my first and only attempt at forgery. Got a detention in 4th grade, notice of which had to be signed by my parents. I made a copy of the detention notice, pasted my dad's signature on the bottom, and made a copy of that. All went well and the teacher bought it, but I left the original in the copying machine which my parents naturally found later that day.
The whole fucking point of this thread, as the parent pointed out, was that how would the ambulance know the difference between a red light and a four-way stop until its practically in the intersection?
Oh. That's simple. There's a flashing/rotating red light on top of the traffic light which is activated when the lights go all red.
furthermore, if the light up ahead is red, there's not going to be any oncoming traffic, now is there?
Here in New Jersey we allow people to make right hand turns on red lights. So it's quite possible that there's oncoming traffic. When driving an ambulance, you certainly should assume there is.
It's taken city planners decades to install and tweak centrally controled lights so that traffic flows.
Yeah, whoever made that comment apparently lives in the country, where we regularly sit at a traffic light for minutes with no other traffic in sight.
Properly placed sensors solve that problem, but not all intersections have them. Of course, I don't know of any intersections which have these devices yet don't have car sensors.
But if it's 4-way red then they could treat it like a green light. The problem would be the traffic in front of you. If there's a jam-up, and the ambulance has to go into the oncoming traffic lane, that's not going to be done at full speed.
Isn't the code itself a watermark? Sure, you can change things here and there, but ultimately the similarities are going to be far to much to be pure coincidence.
The purpose of digital watermarking seems to be to identify unique instances of the thing being watermarked. So if I have a copy of Britney Spears' album, it's obviously copyrighted by her record company. With watermarking I can get more specific, and see that it was burned from a CD which was sold to Bob Jones. With the GPL this isn't useful. Sure, the code might have been derived from a copy sold to Bob Jones, but he may have legally made a million copies and distributed them around the globe before the GPL was violated, by someone else. You can't control the watermarks, because you can't control the distribution.
A student could easily grab the relevant chapter or two out of a book without paying for it. Students certainly have the time and most likely the inclination to do so, and, with the help of some willing colleagues, could print out the entire texts of books in the program.
And that student would be abusing the system. This is the same argument that was used against Napster. The tool could potentially be used by some people to avoid paying for a copyrighted work, therefore it is bad.
But hey, it's the Author's Guild. It's the little guy fighting the man. So we'll overlook that, right?
Let's take that example to the extreme and pretend that these kids are tracked _all_ public places they go to ('cause, ya know, bad things can happen _anywhere_). Sounds like privacy invasion yet?
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We know that they had them at one point. We sold them to them. Perhaps they resold them?
Perhaps so, but then the statment that "there are no WMD" is quite false.
The US accusing some other country of having WMD is really quite absurd.
No it's not. Other countries do have WMD. So it's not absurd to accuse them of it.
That it turns out that they were telling the truth when they said that they didn't have them is the cream of the jest.
We don't know if they had them or not when they said they didn't. We only know that currently they can't be found.
See, unlike Cyno, who claims that the WMD spontaneously combusted into nothingness, I admit that my theory is merely a guess.
Yes. The international community also saw to it that were destroyed.
They did not. Part of the international community took Saddam Hussein's word that they were destroyed. The rest went in there and bombed the shit out of them.
Syria and Iraq had not been friends in recent years, don't forget that Syria was part of the coalition against Iraq back in the first US Iraq conflict. I don't know how far back this antipathy goes, but at least back to the 70's.
So just because they're not friends means that weapons can't be hidden there? You don't have to be friends with the whole country. Just one border guard.
We weren't talking about the weapons program. We were talking about the WMD.
They were destroyed between 1991 and 2003, as required by the UN resolutions after the end of the Kuwait war.
Where are they? How do you know they were destroyed? Assuming you admit you don't, why do you believe they were? Where are the remains of them?
So in effect yes, they did actually simply cease to be.
They disintegrated into nothing without so much as a trace of their existence or evidence of their destruction. Interesting theory.
So where are they?
My guess is Syria.
Best case scenario, it becomes the next Yahoo. Worse case scenario, it becomes the next VA Software. Either way, they have too many captured eyeballs to die, too much pride to sell out, and too few paying customers to be an Amazon or an EBay.
Disclaimer: I own tons of ebay.
That's because there are no WMD.
Umm, they just diappeared? You do agree that there were WMD at one time, right? Or was that just part of a global conspiracy against poor innocent muslims?
Folks, if you're going to be sneaky, at least do enough research to make sure you're really being sneaky.
Reminds me of my first and only attempt at forgery. Got a detention in 4th grade, notice of which had to be signed by my parents. I made a copy of the detention notice, pasted my dad's signature on the bottom, and made a copy of that. All went well and the teacher bought it, but I left the original in the copying machine which my parents naturally found later that day.
Give me $250 million a year and a broadcast license and I'll gladly make the remaining 86% myself.
It's a waste of taxpayer money, and anything developed by the company should be 100% copyright free.
Awesome. Thanks a lot for the link.
We're talking about PBS here. It's really easy to skip the commercials already, since they're not embedded in the program.
Of course, if they offered it for download on the internet, they wouldn't sell as many DVDs for $20.
Whatever, my tax money is already paying for the program. Please, someone record this and put it on Kazaa for me.
Some record it and put it on Kazaa for me.
Environmentalist: We've got to stop using oil now, or there won't be any left!
Apathetic response: Huh?
Not that "really big numbers" is necessarily the best argument, but human survival is the point.
Humans don't need oil to survive. We'll survive just fine when we run out of oil. In the mean time, let's enjoy ourselves while we've still got it.
How then do you tell if the code was copied?
Why do you care? If it's generic code, it's probably not copyrightable in the first place.
The whole fucking point of this thread, as the parent pointed out, was that how would the ambulance know the difference between a red light and a four-way stop until its practically in the intersection?
Oh. That's simple. There's a flashing/rotating red light on top of the traffic light which is activated when the lights go all red.
furthermore, if the light up ahead is red, there's not going to be any oncoming traffic, now is there?
Here in New Jersey we allow people to make right hand turns on red lights. So it's quite possible that there's oncoming traffic. When driving an ambulance, you certainly should assume there is.
It's taken city planners decades to install and tweak centrally controled lights so that traffic flows.
Yeah, whoever made that comment apparently lives in the country, where we regularly sit at a traffic light for minutes with no other traffic in sight.
Properly placed sensors solve that problem, but not all intersections have them. Of course, I don't know of any intersections which have these devices yet don't have car sensors.
But if it's 4-way red then they could treat it like a green light. The problem would be the traffic in front of you. If there's a jam-up, and the ambulance has to go into the oncoming traffic lane, that's not going to be done at full speed.
Isn't the code itself a watermark? Sure, you can change things here and there, but ultimately the similarities are going to be far to much to be pure coincidence.
The purpose of digital watermarking seems to be to identify unique instances of the thing being watermarked. So if I have a copy of Britney Spears' album, it's obviously copyrighted by her record company. With watermarking I can get more specific, and see that it was burned from a CD which was sold to Bob Jones. With the GPL this isn't useful. Sure, the code might have been derived from a copy sold to Bob Jones, but he may have legally made a million copies and distributed them around the globe before the GPL was violated, by someone else. You can't control the watermarks, because you can't control the distribution.
I set up a Citibank Virtual Account number with a $1 limit. It worked fine.
And that student would be abusing the system. This is the same argument that was used against Napster. The tool could potentially be used by some people to avoid paying for a copyrighted work, therefore it is bad.
But hey, it's the Author's Guild. It's the little guy fighting the man. So we'll overlook that, right?
It is what it is. You want a neat and simple term? How about publicity invasion? Actually, publicity, that's what it is.
Let's take that example to the extreme and pretend that these kids are tracked _all_ public places they go to ('cause, ya know, bad things can happen _anywhere_). Sounds like privacy invasion yet?
Nope.
Apply the same example to yourself.
It's still not privacy invasion.
The problem is that we have compulsory education in the first place. Other than that, there's no problem.