In Columbus, OH, we have an artist who has been posting guerrilla signs and adverts around town. My favorite is a takeoff on the city signs that read "No Parking During Snow Emergency." The artist's version looks the same but reads "No Thinking During National Emergency."
The same artist replaced some adverts in a local Hilton Hotel with ads that featured a half-topless, not-so-classy Paris Hilton and read, "Pampered and Privileged: For over 80 years the Hilton name has been synonymous with elegance and class. A tradition that continues today."
The supply of gold has never grown at a fairly constant rate through time. It has grown in bursts (e.g. the Spanish New World discoveries, the CA gold rush, the Yukon strikes, S. African strikes, etc.).
So how long until the TSA is collecting so much data at airports that other law-enforcement agencies start looking through their database?
They probably already are.
When TSA screeners rifle through your luggage, is any of that admissible in court? If they're secretly watching what you're reading, even outside of checkpoints, is that admissible too?
They probably won't allow you to know because it would reveal national security methods and sources.
I don't see where the Constitution says that Habeas Corpus does not apply to U.S non-residents (whatever they are).
The Constitution actually says:
Section 8 - Powers of Congress -- The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Next time go RTFM before you spout off about what is in TFM.
Seconded. I'm currently trying to write Java code to manipulate OOXML and I'm convinced that OOXML is an incredibly poorly thought through "standard." Real standards need to be specified completely enough that any competent programmer could duplicate all of the behaviors dictated by that standard. I doubt that MS could duplicate all of the behaviors described by OOXML if they were to start from scratch. Lord knows, they can't even duplicate the required behaviors in the current version of Office.
automatically disqualify a candidate in my mind. If the candidate has committed a felony, I don't really care what he thinks of other issues.
Racism is one of those issues that needs to be completely stamped out. There are so many candidates, both liberal and conservative, who have shown that they are willing to do what it takes to end racism that there is simply no point in even bothering to learn what someone thinks of any other issue once they have made it clear that they are a clueless racist.
It was a program manager hired by the previous administration (Republican Governor Taft) who began the policy that led to the data breach. Governor Strickland had at least convened a panel to look into state computer security immediately after he took office and before this incident occurred. The panel had reported back with a number of recommendations which would have covered this problem, but it takes time for such recommendations to become actual policy and work their way into the day-to-day practices of a large bureaucracy (anyone who has worked for a Fortune 500 company will understand this problem).
This effort is not just a "let's be contemporary" move. Ohio has a serious rural poverty problem in the South East. The steel mills are gone and modern employers require modern infrastructure.
As the company raises the core count with each generation of new products, it will get harder and harder for programmers to manage the complexity associated with all of that available parallelism.
As a programmer, I already have abstractions such as Active Objects. While this may make it easier for compiler writers or kernel hackers, what benefits does it bring to us ordinary mortals?
Forget the cast iron hand roast nonsense. Just use a hot air popcorn popper. The hot air keeps the beans stirred and the only thing you have to do is turn it off when they hit the style roast you want. And you can make popcorn with your new coffee roaster so the device can't be considered an Alton Brown uni-tasker.
I didn't really have an opinion one way or the other, so I followed the link. After reading his Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto, I came away impressed and in near 100% agreement with his ideas. Then I read his Armed and Dangerous weblog which is full of some of the stupidest rants I've ever read. End result is that I am sure that ESR knows he is a brilliant writer who should be taken out back and shot twice just to make sure he doesn't ever have to listen to himself again.
Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. 17 U.S.C. sec 101
This seems to be the problem faced by the questioner: They hired a company to do the work for them, not an individual so 1) does not apply. Software is not one of the 9 categories listed under 2) for which such a contract may even be written so 2) does not apply. Therefore the development company owns the copyright.
The point of patents is to provide protection for unique ideas - but the intent was to provide that protection to the innovators who were trying to build a business around that unique idea.
No, the intent was
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
I see nothing in there about building a business...
That equates to x object locks required - which is a relatively expensive operation.
Not really. Even by 1.3 for many cases synchronization costs were often quite small. There is no compeeling reason these days to afraid of the performance penalty of method/object synchronization.
I am willing to make an exception for national security reasons. This kind of exception is common in FOI requests and (sometimes too common) in court cases. But the details can be covered by trade secret types of exclusions. The grantee or contractor should not be allowed to receive patents for such publicly funded work.
Those are the conditions under which I am willing to give you some of my hard earned money. If you don't like the conditions, you are free to decline government funding. I don't know what the current law is, but IIRC, it used to be that patents granted to scientists at US Nat'l Labs had to be put into the public domain for anyone to use.
I'm not too interested in the ethics or legality of obtaining patents from research funded by grants from non-governmental funding sources. That should be a contract item between the granter and grantee. But research results funded by government sources should be open and non-patentable. I've paid for the research once through my taxes. I should not have to pay for it again. Software developed using government funds should be open sourced using a BSD style license so that anyone can include it in either closed source or open source apps.
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In Columbus, OH, we have an artist who has been posting guerrilla signs and adverts around town. My favorite is a takeoff on the city signs that read "No Parking During Snow Emergency." The artist's version looks the same but reads "No Thinking During National Emergency."
The same artist replaced some adverts in a local Hilton Hotel with ads that featured a half-topless, not-so-classy Paris Hilton and read, "Pampered and Privileged: For over 80 years the Hilton name has been synonymous with elegance and class. A tradition that continues today."
Most In-Laws won't accept returns even with a receipt.
The supply of gold has never grown at a fairly constant rate through time. It has grown in bursts (e.g. the Spanish New World discoveries, the CA gold rush, the Yukon strikes, S. African strikes, etc.).
So how long until the TSA is collecting so much data at airports that other law-enforcement agencies start looking through their database?
They probably already are.
When TSA screeners rifle through your luggage, is any of that admissible in court? If they're secretly watching what you're reading, even outside of checkpoints, is that admissible too?
They probably won't allow you to know because it would reveal national security methods and sources.
I don't see where the Constitution says that Habeas Corpus does not apply to U.S non-residents (whatever they are).
The Constitution actually says:
Section 8 - Powers of Congress -- The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Next time go RTFM before you spout off about what is in TFM.
Seconded. I'm currently trying to write Java code to manipulate OOXML and I'm convinced that OOXML is an incredibly poorly thought through "standard." Real standards need to be specified completely enough that any competent programmer could duplicate all of the behaviors dictated by that standard. I doubt that MS could duplicate all of the behaviors described by OOXML if they were to start from scratch. Lord knows, they can't even duplicate the required behaviors in the current version of Office.
automatically disqualify a candidate in my mind. If the candidate has committed a felony, I don't really care what he thinks of other issues.
Racism is one of those issues that needs to be completely stamped out. There are so many candidates, both liberal and conservative, who have shown that they are willing to do what it takes to end racism that there is simply no point in even bothering to learn what someone thinks of any other issue once they have made it clear that they are a clueless racist.
Canada, Norway, and Sweden are ranked above us, but all are less dense than the US.
I agree that their aren't many folks as dense as us at the moment, but which are more dense? Norwegians or Swedes?
It was a program manager hired by the previous administration (Republican Governor Taft) who began the policy that led to the data breach. Governor Strickland had at least convened a panel to look into state computer security immediately after he took office and before this incident occurred. The panel had reported back with a number of recommendations which would have covered this problem, but it takes time for such recommendations to become actual policy and work their way into the day-to-day practices of a large bureaucracy (anyone who has worked for a Fortune 500 company will understand this problem).
This effort is not just a "let's be contemporary" move. Ohio has a serious rural poverty problem in the South East. The steel mills are gone and modern employers require modern infrastructure.
No. Libby lied to the grand jury. This was not a "perception of impropriety". It was a finding of fact by a Jury of His Peers.
If the ISP is selling your clickstream data to other businesses, then the ISP is spying on you.
As the company raises the core count with each generation of new products, it will get harder and harder for programmers to manage the complexity associated with all of that available parallelism.
As a programmer, I already have abstractions such as Active Objects. While this may make it easier for compiler writers or kernel hackers, what benefits does it bring to us ordinary mortals?
Forget the cast iron hand roast nonsense. Just use a hot air popcorn popper. The hot air keeps the beans stirred and the only thing you have to do is turn it off when they hit the style roast you want. And you can make popcorn with your new coffee roaster so the device can't be considered an Alton Brown uni-tasker.
case of voter fraud.
Too bad it is just about the only thing they are competent at.
I didn't really have an opinion one way or the other, so I followed the link. After reading his Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto, I came away impressed and in near 100% agreement with his ideas. Then I read his Armed and Dangerous weblog which is full of some of the stupidest rants I've ever read. End result is that I am sure that ESR knows he is a brilliant writer who should be taken out back and shot twice just to make sure he doesn't ever have to listen to himself again.
Your local land fill agency doesn't have a web page like this?
IANAL but...
That's obvious. The relevant law:
Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. 17 U.S.C. sec 101
This seems to be the problem faced by the questioner: They hired a company to do the work for them, not an individual so 1) does not apply. Software is not one of the 9 categories listed under 2) for which such a contract may even be written so 2) does not apply. Therefore the development company owns the copyright.
The point of patents is to provide protection for unique ideas - but the intent was to provide that protection to the innovators who were trying to build a business around that unique idea.
No, the intent was
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
I see nothing in there about building a business...
That equates to x object locks required - which is a relatively expensive operation.
Not really. Even by 1.3 for many cases synchronization costs were often quite small. There is no compeeling reason these days to afraid of the performance penalty of method/object synchronization.
If you take away their [the universities] rights...
I'm not taking away their rights. By accepting my taxes and not letting me use the IP I paid for, they have taken away my rights!
Licenses are paid to *use* the IP, they are not a purchase of the IP per se.
Whatever. I paid for the research to develop the idea. I want a free license to use the IP in any way I see fit, including commercial development.
I am willing to make an exception for national security reasons. This kind of exception is common in FOI requests and (sometimes too common) in court cases. But the details can be covered by trade secret types of exclusions. The grantee or contractor should not be allowed to receive patents for such publicly funded work.
Those are the conditions under which I am willing to give you some of my hard earned money. If you don't like the conditions, you are free to decline government funding. I don't know what the current law is, but IIRC, it used to be that patents granted to scientists at US Nat'l Labs had to be put into the public domain for anyone to use.
I'm not too interested in the ethics or legality of obtaining patents from research funded by grants from non-governmental funding sources. That should be a contract item between the granter and grantee. But research results funded by government sources should be open and non-patentable. I've paid for the research once through my taxes. I should not have to pay for it again. Software developed using government funds should be open sourced using a BSD style license so that anyone can include it in either closed source or open source apps.