Here is an extreme example:
Just the same way if he was getting funding from the KKK and then publicly said that he believed in equal rights and that he disagreed with what the KKK does. No matter how admirable a statement it is, you can't be surprised about the results.
Employer, Funder, whatever, makes no difference. If you want to be politically free to say what you want, you have to be carefull about who you are accepting money from.
1) There is no evidence the reason the funding was pulled because of Theo's comments.
2) I think people are missing the point. It was the Department of Defense, not just the US Government that was funding the research. Now, why the hell would you shoot your mouth in a negative way about somebody that is giving you funding--AND then complain about it.
If you care about something strongly enough that you are willing to stand up for it and take the consequences... good for you. But why does he act surprised and start whining when the consequences actually arrive!
It would be a DMCA violation once you start using any simple encryption algorithm. Only it would be the feds that would be violating the DMCA for breaking your encryption!
Exactly. Who will use this? People in the industry have been pushing Microsoft for this for a long time, so they wanted to please their customers and put XML into their marketing language.
What took them so long was to figure a way to make things exportable to XML without being compatiable. And you have to admit, coming up with a proprietary XML format has got to take a lot of work.
So the answer is, the people that will be using this will be marketing. And they will only be using the word XML, not the actual export feature.
So, nobody is surprised, and I don't think you can blame them. A common XML language for documents will hurt microsoft--even if it is in the best interest of consumers.
oh yeah, they already stripped those out before it was ever released.
Actually I would much rather see a slower JVM and be able to have at least multiple inheritance. But alas, I am stuck with workarounds invloving interfaces.
The huge market for Java tuning books is probably more acurately attributed to coders' over emphasis on software tuning.
Tuning should be done wherever most time is spent in the software, not just willy nilly where a book tells you too.
Cell companies have such a monopoly because I can't switch carriers and keep the same cell number.
I hate those monopolies. I mean, my ISP is such a monopoly. I can't switch ISPs and keep my same e-mail address! What is the deal with that! Also, are those datacenter monopolies. I am trying to switch data centers and keep my same IP address, but those freaks won't let me.
I don't see how "prices" or "facts" immediately fit in --parent
Copyright protects the particular way an author has expressed himself; it does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in the work. --FL102
You cannot copyright facts. It would be like copyrighting the temperature today. The first one to publish it could then claim the rights to it.
Instead, the argument will be that the EULA that they automatically agreed to, and never saw forbids screenscraping.
I for one would like to see an end to contracts that don't even require me to click on an 'I Agree' button. I can't see how I am bound to a contract because I loaded a webpage. Logging in and clicking agree... maybee. But doing a GET to an HTTP Server can't be the same as Agreeing to something.
The FCC requires that notice of any recording of a telephone conversation must be given to the other parties of the conversation. (47 CFR 64.501; 2 FCC Record 502).
This notice can be as simple as emitting a 1400 cycle tone every 12-18 seconds lasting 20/100 of a second.
The reason blogs are so interesting to read for many people, is that they feel a little private. Granted they are written for a public audience, but when you read them, you feel as if you are glimpsing into somebody elses private journal. So, untill video journals are around, I doubt you will see too much interest in a video blog.
Secondly, can somebody tell me how to pronounce blog? I hate the sound of 'blog', so I always pronounce it as a b-log, but then nobody can understand me. Is it really pronouced 'blog'? What a stupid sounding word.
Just paying the money to be a registar and then not having to pay to register new domains and also not paying to re-register all the domain names they own will save them a lot of money.
At $10 a doman thats almost $40,000 a year. Now they just need some servers and a tech guy to manage it. Yup, should save them tons.
Without the patent protection that allows companies to get a return on their investment, there never would have been the investment in the first place.
Exactly.
Consider the goverment investing much more heavily in health research than it does now.
Great. We will be cranking out the new drugs as fast as new spacecraft.
Without the patent protection that allows companies to get a return on their investment, there never would have been the investment in the first place. If I eliminate drug patents, I will also eliminate all the new drugs I was trying to make afforadable, the argument will go. Well, maybe, but it's not so obvious to me.
This is not obvious, how? I'm talking about killing [pharmaceutical companies]; not the researchers
And the reasearches are just going to keep on researching without pay.
The reason? Part of it is due to spiraling drug prices.
Very smart to say that it is only part or the reason.... because the number one reason costs are increasing is hospital expenditures--in fact half of the increase is due to hospital bills
What is obvious is that the current system is both untenable and immoral...
And how is this unethical and immoral. Is there some god-given right to a good health care plan? Is this now one of our natural rights? Perhaps your argument is that is should be.. but I don't think so. If I contract a serious disease right now.. since I don't have health insurance.. I will have to die.. oh well, tough shit, life is tuff, cry for me later. What is killing our health economy is this ifinate value we place on saving a persons life. If we could spend a trillion dollars to save somebody's life.. I say let them die. Yeah sure, I am insensitive. But good grief, nobody in the developed world does anything anymore because they are too scared--too much fear. Just relax and live.
Sorry, but that is not true. Study ecenomics and you will see it IS in their interest to make them--unless EVERY Hard Disk manufacturer is conspiring together, which I doubt.
If there is a market for it, they would make it.
Search your ecenomics text for the lightbulb that never burns out, or tires that never wear out scenarios.
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Here is an extreme example:
Just the same way if he was getting funding from the KKK and then publicly said that he believed in equal rights and that he disagreed with what the KKK does.
No matter how admirable a statement it is, you can't be surprised about the results.
Employer, Funder, whatever, makes no difference. If you want to be politically free to say what you want, you have to be carefull about who you are accepting money from.
Actually, you do have a point. I probably should have just moved on the the next article.
1) There is no evidence the reason the funding was pulled because of Theo's comments.
2) I think people are missing the point. It was the Department of Defense, not just the US Government that was funding the research. Now, why the hell would you shoot your mouth in a negative way about somebody that is giving you funding--AND then complain about it.
If you care about something strongly enough that you are willing to stand up for it and take the consequences... good for you. But why does he act surprised and start whining when the consequences actually arrive!
It would be a DMCA violation once you start using any simple encryption algorithm. Only it would be the feds that would be violating the DMCA for breaking your encryption!
Exactly. Who will use this? People in the industry have been pushing Microsoft for this for a long time, so they wanted to please their customers and put XML into their marketing language.
What took them so long was to figure a way to make things exportable to XML without being compatiable. And you have to admit, coming up with a proprietary XML format has got to take a lot of work.
So the answer is, the people that will be using this will be marketing. And they will only be using the word XML, not the actual export feature.
So, nobody is surprised, and I don't think you can blame them. A common XML language for documents will hurt microsoft--even if it is in the best interest of consumers.
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Wow. thanx.. And I thought I never learned anything from /. Thanks.
Any idea of when multiple inheritence will be introduced? 2.x?
Lets just remove needless things such as:
oh yeah, they already stripped those out before it was ever released.
Actually I would much rather see a slower JVM and be able to have at least multiple inheritance. But alas, I am stuck with workarounds invloving interfaces.
The huge market for Java tuning books is probably more acurately attributed to coders' over emphasis on software tuning.
Tuning should be done wherever most time is spent in the software, not just willy nilly where a book tells you too.
I actually believed it untill I started readed the messages...
...8 hours.
Please tell me where you work.
Hrmmm... Good point. Maybe we can get an IPv6 telephone number system.
Cell companies have such a monopoly because I can't switch carriers and keep the same cell number. I hate those monopolies. I mean, my ISP is such a monopoly. I can't switch ISPs and keep my same e-mail address! What is the deal with that! Also, are those datacenter monopolies. I am trying to switch data centers and keep my same IP address, but those freaks won't let me.
Facts are not copyrightable --parent's parent
I don't see how "prices" or "facts" immediately fit in --parent
Copyright protects the particular way an author has expressed himself; it does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in the work. --FL102
You cannot copyright facts. It would be like copyrighting the temperature today. The first one to publish it could then claim the rights to it.
Instead, the argument will be that the EULA that they automatically agreed to, and never saw forbids screenscraping.
I for one would like to see an end to contracts that don't even require me to click on an 'I Agree' button. I can't see how I am bound to a contract because I loaded a webpage. Logging in and clicking agree... maybee. But doing a GET to an HTTP Server can't be the same as Agreeing to something.
That law was passed many many years ago.
The FCC requires that notice of any recording of a telephone conversation must be given to the other parties of the conversation. (47 CFR 64.501; 2 FCC Record 502).
This notice can be as simple as emitting a 1400 cycle tone every 12-18 seconds lasting 20/100 of a second.
Seamless financial data imports from TurboTax® --Tax Cut
No product activation --Tax Cut
Imports from TurboTax --Tax Cut
Karma Whore.
I think the editors purposely pick submissions with errors in them, so that we have something to talk about.
The reason blogs are so interesting to read for many people, is that they feel a little private. Granted they are written for a public audience, but when you read them, you feel as if you are glimpsing into somebody elses private journal. So, untill video journals are around, I doubt you will see too much interest in a video blog.
Secondly, can somebody tell me how to pronounce blog? I hate the sound of 'blog', so I always pronounce it as a b-log, but then nobody can understand me. Is it really pronouced 'blog'? What a stupid sounding word.
(blog definition taken from my friend's blog.)
Just paying the money to be a registar and then not having to pay to register new domains and also not paying to re-register all the domain names they own will save them a lot of money.
At $10 a doman thats almost $40,000 a year. Now they just need some servers and a tech guy to manage it. Yup, should save them tons.
You should patent that process of buying things.
:).
The process of:
1> Using Amazon to search for things you want to buy.
2> Buying from a different site.
Hrmm.. I bet this could come in handy with other things as well... I bet nobody does this with travel sites either
But you have all those spinning drives... They should act as gyros and appose any effort to fall over.
But did you notice the female panties sitting on top of the radiator?
Well, anonymous coward, I guess I am living the life of luxury visiting this Internet cafe' after being away from the city in Laos for over month!
Without the patent protection that allows companies to get a return on their investment, there never would have been the investment in the first place.
Exactly.
Consider the goverment investing much more heavily in health research than it does now.
Great. We will be cranking out the new drugs as fast as new spacecraft.
Without the patent protection that allows companies to get a return on their investment, there never would have been the investment in the first place. If I eliminate drug patents, I will also eliminate all the new drugs I was trying to make afforadable, the argument will go. Well, maybe, but it's not so obvious to me.
This is not obvious, how?
I'm talking about killing [pharmaceutical companies]; not the researchers
And the reasearches are just going to keep on researching without pay.
The reason? Part of it is due to spiraling drug prices.
Very smart to say that it is only part or the reason.... because the number one reason costs are increasing is hospital expenditures--in fact half of the increase is due to hospital bills
What is obvious is that the current system is both untenable and immoral...
And how is this unethical and immoral. Is there some god-given right to a good health care plan? Is this now one of our natural rights? Perhaps your argument is that is should be.. but I don't think so. If I contract a serious disease right now.. since I don't have health insurance.. I will have to die.. oh well, tough shit, life is tuff, cry for me later. What is killing our health economy is this ifinate value we place on saving a persons life. If we could spend a trillion dollars to save somebody's life.. I say let them die. Yeah sure, I am insensitive. But good grief, nobody in the developed world does anything anymore because they are too scared--too much fear. Just relax and live.
Sorry, but that is not true. Study ecenomics and you will see it IS in their interest to make them--unless EVERY Hard Disk manufacturer is conspiring together, which I doubt.
If there is a market for it, they would make it.
Search your ecenomics text for the lightbulb that never burns out, or tires that never wear out scenarios.