I use Vonage as my non-cell phone. However this is because I do have a Cable modem connection. So this is no help to you.
If you can live with the Cell phone for phone service, you might want to look to DirectWay, or StarBand (or others) to provide Internet service. Response times might not be as fast as dialup, but even with fair use caps, you will probably get better data rates than dialup.
Most places have a small claims limit of something like $500 or so, but $500 x (number of counties in US) is a whopping huge number. And it would cost more to hire a lawyers in every county than it would to pay the claims off.
Actually if there are multiple small businesses in a community, it would be $500 per business that chosses to file, not $500 per county. (Don't forget that Louisana has Parishes, not counties.)
At the same time I suspect that there are a few counties around the country that do not have a business selling software at any level, much less selling Linux.
One other thing that has to be done is to use the same set of supporting compiler libraries as was used in 199X. Unfortunately this makes it more difficult to prove, as you would have to start with a compiler from a system that old (hope it doesn't have any y2k issues itself) potentially you would have to compile the compiler support libraries before you compile the kernel.
If the compiler includes a datestamp indicating when the binary was compiled, you will need to set the system doing the compile to various dates and times per what you are compiling (and hope the datestamp isn't millisecond sensitive).
Finally you will need to demonstrate that the code you compiled was functional. The fact that the MD5 hash for the two blocks of code is the same does not show that what you are comparing it to was functional code to begin with. This may be aleviated by getting a copy of the executable from a third party, which the lawyers would have to prove was not an interested party in the case.
All told, it seems easy/simple, but it is quite a bit of work. Last I heard it took quite a bit of time for kernel compiles. I don't know if SCO stockholders would appreciate paying lawyers to sit around and watch if the actual compile took more than a couple of hours.
Then again, that's an opinion, and IANAL.
-Rusty
A couple of things I have not seen mentioned
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Probably the biggest discrepency between the young and the old as far as businesses are concerned is not capability, but benefits. Of these, health and retirement benefits are likely to cost a company hiring older people more than when hiring younger people.
As people age, they become more prone to health issues, meaning that the cost of providing health benefits is likely to be higher. This should not be a consideration for any company providing any sort of group benifit package to their employees, but all to often is of concern.
Retirement benifits when considered year to year, are more likely to cost a company more for someone who is aproaching the company's mandatory retirement age, than it is for someone who is just starting their career. This is because someone who is concerned about their retirement package (at say age 40) is going to be looking for more perks along the lines of matching funds, or even 40% match for anything over x dollers per month. Someone who is thinking age 65 is 40+ years away, is altogether too often more interested in taking home the extra couple of dollars rather than saving it for their retirement. (Which is where they should put it, take a look at the math.)
Of course it is my opinion, or rather in this case observation.
One thing to remember is that most of our rocket technology is based around getting ICBMs off the ground, and over the horizon. In other words they are designed around high thrust to weight ratios, and fairly high G forces.
There have been a few other concepts for rockets, including variable thrust and SCRAM jets, (for the in atmosphere portion at least) that do not have the same requirements for thrust to weight, and can be less costly to operate.
Another observation is that there are several alternative launch mechanisms that do not require nearly the volume of fuel that the current mechanism does, as they launch from higher altitudes, or from launch platforms that are already moving in the direction they desire the orbiter to go.
As far as space travel being safe, it is neither safe to stay in bed, nor to get up. And that's without leaving the planet. That's part of life.
Until they have a better platform, they will probably continue to use the shuttle.
Perhaps if the open source movement were to desing and implement a shuttle replacement, we might have a working replacement faster than if NASA were told they have to come up with a cheaper faster replacement.
For those thinking of suggesting that Soyuz would work, might I remind you that every Soyuz capsule is a one time use vehicle. Even when everything goes right, it doesn't get re-used. It has no airlock, so either everyone gets suited up, or no-one does a space walk. It has no payload capability, so no sattelite recovery. It has no manipulator arm, so you can't rely upon it for doing sattelite maintenance as the shuttle crew has.
The shuttle may not be perfect. It was designed for a set of missions that have very little to do with what it is doing now. (The military provided some of the specs to support black projects, few of which have ever been attempted.)
The Civilian side of the project was to haul people and material to and from the space station that was being desinged by NASA, which was not the international space station. It was also decided to use it to deploy sattelites as well once the capacity of the payload bay was defined.
As a jeep, the shuttle has done an ok job. If you think we need a better design, I am all for it. Start working on that better desing, and give us status reports as you find the time.
When their little warranty cards start coming back with more than 10% linux usage, then they may start to think about putting together a committee to study the profitability of providing native linux drivers.
This assumes two things: 1. that the cards will either have a slot recognizing Linux as an operating system. 2. that the marketing dweeb that recieves the registration cards keeps track of the operating systems other than Windows varients and MacOSX, and reports the numbers.
Considering that nearly every box will have a disclaimer that Linux drivers may be available from a third party, but will not be supproted by the manufacturer, I tend to suspect that the numbers won't be of interest to the company, and will be ignored even if Linux users en mass sent in registration cards for network cards they purchase knowing full well will not work on the operating system they choose to use.
Yes, but it is unlikely to work well. Problem 1 is that the private e-mail address will eventually get out, or be hit by random address guessing.
Problem 2 is that the reply to address is going to get quite full/busy.
One way around this would be to have everyone in the family use a common e-mail address, and give each person a "quote string" or custom.sig. a "quote string" could be as simple as "Hello Mikey!" that any of a large number of e-mail filtering packages could screen for, and forward to the correct e-mail box.
With a Baysian filter, you might even be able to start filtering to the correct e-mail box even when the quote string is not included. However even without Baysian filtering, the global in-box would be filtered as well for known spam, and periodically gone through to manually filter any messages that should have gone to Mikey, or Suzzy.
It would probably be a good idea to have the filters put any uncatagorized e-mail into a secured folder, requiring an adult to enter a password to go through it. However knowing some of the adults in this world, I wouldn't recomend mandating this process. Too many would have to have their kids enter the password, simply because they would not remember it.
be better for, is hand writing analysis. And I know a lot of people who consider that to be garbage as well.
I have used pens, brushes, penciles, and even quils to write with. Some can be used to create more beautiful and expressive writing than others, in the hands of someone competent. On the other hand, with a good typesetting program, or even a good collection of fonts and Word, I can create works that are nearly as beautiful. At the same time, the work I turn out will be much more consistent and therefore much more ledgible.
I have not been required to write in cursive since something like the 6th grade, when my dad (who made a living using handwriting skills) printed (not wrote) a note to my teacher explaining that he did not fee that my ability to handwrite in cursive would improve my stature in life, and that he was not going to assist them in deriding my penmenship if I was providing a ledgible answer to the problems being posed.
If pressed, I may be able to type as high as 50 wpm. I would say that it is safe to assume that I can not write, or even print at even a quarter of that speed.
I do print from time to time. Writing poetry, and rough drafts of stories are actually easier on paper. Because I can take a notebook of paper nealry anywhere, and not be bothered. When I transfer what I have written on paper to my computer, I am far more likely to catch really obvious errors than I am if I rough draft on the computer and edit there.
But that's just me, and my opinion. I reserve the right to believe you are wrong. Whether you agree with me or not.
Rural telco is not the only service subsidized in this maner. Electricity and postal service are two other examples of services where taxes or payments made within a city are used to subsidize rural customers.
To be sure, this is not purely for the benefit of the rural customer. Part of why these subsidized is to provide the rural service provider with an incentive to hire someone to actually provide that service to the rural customer. Over the long haul providing the job, with the experience gained will provide more of a boost to the ecconomy than providing the tax is a burden.
There are a couple of problems with classifying cable modem service as telecommunications. At this time nearly every telecommunications provider (phone company) is regulated at some level by state regulators. Cable service providers are regulated at the city level. If you want the attention of your cable service provider, cc your correspondence with them to your city councilmember.
The other problem is that cable TV and associated services is operated at a loss. Capital expenditures are always going to exceed revenue, even for the most prductive markets. This means that your cable company will never show a positive ballance on their financial records. Subsequently if they are subject to the Universal Service Fund taxet, they very well may end up being the primary benificiaries, rather than the mom-n-pop-phone-co in Remote, ND, who has amortized his equipment, and would like to look into providing a connection through a DSLAM for high speed internet for his 25 townsfolk.
If you wonder why cable companies operate at a loss, it is because doing so allows them to avoid state and local taxes.
My grandfather was a Tool and Die maker. If GM mechanics were having problems tightning down the distributer cap after adjusting the timing, GM would send him a car, explain the problem, he would take a look, make a couple of different wrenches along the idea of what he thought would do the job, then send back the wrench that did the job best.
The knowledge required to get the wrench to work best required understanding several mechanical principles that he was particularly good at, and I am sure that there are others these days as well, mostly working directly for the automotive companies. (Either that or they have much better engine designers who have made it simple to get to all nuts and bolts without special tools. Looked under your hood lately? Which do you think is most likely.)
In any case, the common idea is that if you are going to make something that fits a custom need, you are unlikely to be able to do it with off the shelf components and tools. Occasionally there may be a nice general tool that would suffice for the job, in software it might be a component of MSfts.NET tool set, that you have personal reasons for not using (can't stand msft, can't afford.NET, can't follow the msft licence requirements, don't like that Craftsman sold someone's pattented idea to Snap-On without paying royalties to the inventor) and so you make your own tool to do what ammounts to the same job.
Sad as I am to say it, the primary benificiaries of wellfare are not the people with less than poverty incomes. The primary benificiaries are those people who make their profit off of these people, including the phone companies, cable companies, and the rest of the crowd who point out that "this purchase is only pennies per day" when the pennies per day is more than $0.04.
499 pennies per day is still "pennies per day", even if it is also $1821.35 per year. (this is just an example, not specific to any industry)
I am not opposed to people on wellfare spending money this way. I am opposed to people saying that this is all they do. I have been on that side of the financial equation, it was hard to get out of it. I am both thankful that it was available when I needed it, and thankful that I no longer need that help.
People who have to pay for daycare out of a minimum wage income are the least likely to be able to pay for Cable or Sattelite TV. If they have to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet, they are also least likely to really care who survives in "Survivor".
Then again, that's my opinion. You could be wrong.
Only if the compiled checksums are the same with the claimed release, and archived copies of the actual release. As SCO was selling software, it is entirely likely that someone outside of SCO can pull up a backup tape, or even a production CD with the original binaries. If a re-compile of the version comes up with a different checksum, then the code was added after the version was first compiled.
Granted this does require using the same compiler, same support libraries for the compiler, etc.
Ever wonder what it is like to type at 40 words per minute and realize that you have one minute left to post? You might take the time to start typing something then reach 40 words, and decide to...
Since I don't watch TV on my way into work, this would give me the option of listening to the news that I find interesting, rhather than what the shock jocks find interesting. (need to have some way to eliminate the timestamps however.)
Re:Another news: US 'abused rights post-9/11'
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The people involved were not all "people who were living in the US illegally". It included native born as well as legal aliens and naturalized citizens. Since the agency involved was the FBI, and not the INS, the rules that govorn the judicial process should be treating all that the FBI imprisioned with the same responsiveness.
The one thing that I think is being missed here is that these people were held without charges and until the FBI was satisfied that they were inocent, rather than being presumed inocent and only held with sufficent evidence to have a judge delcare either no option of bail, or bail too high for them to pay.
Something tells me that if there were a large population of friends or family of congressmen and congresswomen that were held in this way, there would be new management at the FBI, and the people who made the decisions putting these people in custody would be looking at that side of the cell door themselves.
-Rusty
Re:Sure. As of yesterday even.
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One of the things to take into consderation with respect to this case is that it was not a copyright case.
Fox made the choice of not renewing the copyrights on their material in the 1960s, so their material lapsed into the public domain.
When they became aware of the new release of their shows, (which were edited severly and removed all traces of being published by Fox in the first place) they chose to file a trademark infringement suit.
What the justices provided as feedback is that material that is covered under copyright can not be further covered under trademark. 'All Things Considered' last night did a piece on this, and noted that what the justices are saying is that once the copyright expires on Steam Boat Willy, aka Mickey Mouse, Disney can not prevent people from using his image and original footage via Trademark law.
Personally I suspect this is a major part of why Disney is fighting continuously to extend copyrights. They are seriously afraid that they will be hurt by people who are fans of the original material re-using it to their own ends. While there are more than a few people who will make derogetory pieces, there will also be more than a few who will use the material as inspiration for new material that will reflect well upon Disney in general.
I have a suspicion however that as long as the Disney company, and the Disney family exist, they will fight to get extensions on copyright.
The primary claim behind getting extensions to copyright is that if I write the Worlds Greatest Novel, get it published tomorrow, then get hit by a bus next Monday, my kids and family should be provided for.
Ok, I buy that, however I really think that once my kids reach the age of maturity, they should make their own way in life. As a result, I think that copyrights should have a lifetime of 30 years, or the lifetime of the author plus 18 years 9 months. (Which ever comes first.)
Then again, that's just me. You probably have your own thoughts on the matter.
This would be rather easy to implement as a bluetooth feature. Every theater I have ever been in has had a single point of entry, and two or three points of exit.
The main door, and the emergency exits would all have a bluetooth device that tells phones it is ok to go audio ringing again.
The doors into the auditorium would have bluetooth devices that tell phones to go to vibrate mode.
Phones could vibrate as they are told to go to that mode, (briefly) then chirp as they are told to go to audible ring. With a 30 foot range, the phones would have to know which device was the closest, but if the emergency exit transmiters are 20 or so feet from the actual emergency door, that should cover most situations. (I don't know of anyone who willingly sits in the first five rows of a movie theater.)
Granted it does require that all phones support the feature, and manufacturers seem to loath to add a feature like this. So consider it just an idea.
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I use Vonage as my non-cell phone. However this is because I do have a Cable modem connection. So this is no help to you.
If you can live with the Cell phone for phone service, you might want to look to DirectWay, or StarBand (or others) to provide Internet service. Response times might not be as fast as dialup, but even with fair use caps, you will probably get better data rates than dialup.
Good luck.
-Rusty
Most places have a small claims limit of something like $500 or so, but $500 x (number of counties in US) is a whopping huge number. And it would cost more to hire a lawyers in every county than it would to pay the claims off.
Actually if there are multiple small businesses in a community, it would be $500 per business that chosses to file, not $500 per county. (Don't forget that Louisana has Parishes, not counties.)
At the same time I suspect that there are a few counties around the country that do not have a business selling software at any level, much less selling Linux.
Just some thoughts.
-Rusty
One other thing that has to be done is to use the same set of supporting compiler libraries as was used in 199X. Unfortunately this makes it more difficult to prove, as you would have to start with a compiler from a system that old (hope it doesn't have any y2k issues itself) potentially you would have to compile the compiler support libraries before you compile the kernel.
If the compiler includes a datestamp indicating when the binary was compiled, you will need to set the system doing the compile to various dates and times per what you are compiling (and hope the datestamp isn't millisecond sensitive).
Finally you will need to demonstrate that the code you compiled was functional. The fact that the MD5 hash for the two blocks of code is the same does not show that what you are comparing it to was functional code to begin with. This may be aleviated by getting a copy of the executable from a third party, which the lawyers would have to prove was not an interested party in the case.
All told, it seems easy/simple, but it is quite a bit of work. Last I heard it took quite a bit of time for kernel compiles. I don't know if SCO stockholders would appreciate paying lawyers to sit around and watch if the actual compile took more than a couple of hours.
Then again, that's an opinion, and IANAL.
-Rusty
Probably the biggest discrepency between the young and the old as far as businesses are concerned is not capability, but benefits. Of these, health and retirement benefits are likely to cost a company hiring older people more than when hiring younger people.
As people age, they become more prone to health issues, meaning that the cost of providing health benefits is likely to be higher. This should not be a consideration for any company providing any sort of group benifit package to their employees, but all to often is of concern.
Retirement benifits when considered year to year, are more likely to cost a company more for someone who is aproaching the company's mandatory retirement age, than it is for someone who is just starting their career. This is because someone who is concerned about their retirement package (at say age 40) is going to be looking for more perks along the lines of matching funds, or even 40% match for anything over x dollers per month. Someone who is thinking age 65 is 40+ years away, is altogether too often more interested in taking home the extra couple of dollars rather than saving it for their retirement. (Which is where they should put it, take a look at the math.)
Of course it is my opinion, or rather in this case observation.
-Rusty
One thing to remember is that most of our rocket technology is based around getting ICBMs off the ground, and over the horizon. In other words they are designed around high thrust to weight ratios, and fairly high G forces.
There have been a few other concepts for rockets, including variable thrust and SCRAM jets, (for the in atmosphere portion at least) that do not have the same requirements for thrust to weight, and can be less costly to operate.
Another observation is that there are several alternative launch mechanisms that do not require nearly the volume of fuel that the current mechanism does, as they launch from higher altitudes, or from launch platforms that are already moving in the direction they desire the orbiter to go.
As far as space travel being safe, it is neither safe to stay in bed, nor to get up. And that's without leaving the planet. That's part of life.
-Rusty
Until they have a better platform, they will probably continue to use the shuttle.
Perhaps if the open source movement were to desing and implement a shuttle replacement, we might have a working replacement faster than if NASA were told they have to come up with a cheaper faster replacement.
For those thinking of suggesting that Soyuz would work, might I remind you that every Soyuz capsule is a one time use vehicle. Even when everything goes right, it doesn't get re-used. It has no airlock, so either everyone gets suited up, or no-one does a space walk. It has no payload capability, so no sattelite recovery. It has no manipulator arm, so you can't rely upon it for doing sattelite maintenance as the shuttle crew has.
The shuttle may not be perfect. It was designed for a set of missions that have very little to do with what it is doing now. (The military provided some of the specs to support black projects, few of which have ever been attempted.)
The Civilian side of the project was to haul people and material to and from the space station that was being desinged by NASA, which was not the international space station. It was also decided to use it to deploy sattelites as well once the capacity of the payload bay was defined.
As a jeep, the shuttle has done an ok job. If you think we need a better design, I am all for it. Start working on that better desing, and give us status reports as you find the time.
-Rusty
When their little warranty cards start coming back with more than 10% linux usage, then they may start to think about putting together a committee to study the profitability of providing native linux drivers.
This assumes two things: 1. that the cards will either have a slot recognizing Linux as an operating system. 2. that the marketing dweeb that recieves the registration cards keeps track of the operating systems other than Windows varients and MacOSX, and reports the numbers.
Considering that nearly every box will have a disclaimer that Linux drivers may be available from a third party, but will not be supproted by the manufacturer, I tend to suspect that the numbers won't be of interest to the company, and will be ignored even if Linux users en mass sent in registration cards for network cards they purchase knowing full well will not work on the operating system they choose to use.
Then again, I may be a bit too optimistic here.
-Rusty
at least it's good for the diet.
-Rusty
P.S. I know people who say "I won't eat anything that has a face.", but I watch Farscape and Star Trek, that leaves out both plants and minerals.
Yes, but it is unlikely to work well. Problem 1 is that the private e-mail address will eventually get out, or be hit by random address guessing.
.sig. a "quote string" could be as simple as "Hello Mikey!" that any of a large number of e-mail filtering packages could screen for, and forward to the correct e-mail box.
Problem 2 is that the reply to address is going to get quite full/busy.
One way around this would be to have everyone in the family use a common e-mail address, and give each person a "quote string" or custom
With a Baysian filter, you might even be able to start filtering to the correct e-mail box even when the quote string is not included. However even without Baysian filtering, the global in-box would be filtered as well for known spam, and periodically gone through to manually filter any messages that should have gone to Mikey, or Suzzy.
It would probably be a good idea to have the filters put any uncatagorized e-mail into a secured folder, requiring an adult to enter a password to go through it. However knowing some of the adults in this world, I wouldn't recomend mandating this process. Too many would have to have their kids enter the password, simply because they would not remember it.
-Rusty
be better for, is hand writing analysis. And I know a lot of people who consider that to be garbage as well.
I have used pens, brushes, penciles, and even quils to write with. Some can be used to create more beautiful and expressive writing than others, in the hands of someone competent. On the other hand, with a good typesetting program, or even a good collection of fonts and Word, I can create works that are nearly as beautiful. At the same time, the work I turn out will be much more consistent and therefore much more ledgible.
I have not been required to write in cursive since something like the 6th grade, when my dad (who made a living using handwriting skills) printed (not wrote) a note to my teacher explaining that he did not fee that my ability to handwrite in cursive would improve my stature in life, and that he was not going to assist them in deriding my penmenship if I was providing a ledgible answer to the problems being posed.
If pressed, I may be able to type as high as 50 wpm. I would say that it is safe to assume that I can not write, or even print at even a quarter of that speed.
I do print from time to time. Writing poetry, and rough drafts of stories are actually easier on paper. Because I can take a notebook of paper nealry anywhere, and not be bothered. When I transfer what I have written on paper to my computer, I am far more likely to catch really obvious errors than I am if I rough draft on the computer and edit there.
But that's just me, and my opinion. I reserve the right to believe you are wrong. Whether you agree with me or not.
-Rusty
Rural telco is not the only service subsidized in this maner. Electricity and postal service are two other examples of services where taxes or payments made within a city are used to subsidize rural customers.
To be sure, this is not purely for the benefit of the rural customer. Part of why these subsidized is to provide the rural service provider with an incentive to hire someone to actually provide that service to the rural customer. Over the long haul providing the job, with the experience gained will provide more of a boost to the ecconomy than providing the tax is a burden.
-Rusty
There are a couple of problems with classifying cable modem service as telecommunications. At this time nearly every telecommunications provider (phone company) is regulated at some level by state regulators. Cable service providers are regulated at the city level. If you want the attention of your cable service provider, cc your correspondence with them to your city councilmember.
The other problem is that cable TV and associated services is operated at a loss. Capital expenditures are always going to exceed revenue, even for the most prductive markets. This means that your cable company will never show a positive ballance on their financial records. Subsequently if they are subject to the Universal Service Fund taxet, they very well may end up being the primary benificiaries, rather than the mom-n-pop-phone-co in Remote, ND, who has amortized his equipment, and would like to look into providing a connection through a DSLAM for high speed internet for his 25 townsfolk.
If you wonder why cable companies operate at a loss, it is because doing so allows them to avoid state and local taxes.
-Rusty
And I thought they ment painting a target on those processors so we finally make some use of them, even if it is only as targets at the rifle range.
-Rusty
It looks like Corel has drawn to a conclusion.
-Rusty
Nah, He just made it possible to work on them. The designers made it necessary.
My grandfather was a Tool and Die maker. If GM mechanics were having problems tightning down the distributer cap after adjusting the timing, GM would send him a car, explain the problem, he would take a look, make a couple of different wrenches along the idea of what he thought would do the job, then send back the wrench that did the job best.
.NET tool set, that you have personal reasons for not using (can't stand msft, can't afford .NET, can't follow the msft licence requirements, don't like that Craftsman sold someone's pattented idea to Snap-On without paying royalties to the inventor) and so you make your own tool to do what ammounts to the same job.
The knowledge required to get the wrench to work best required understanding several mechanical principles that he was particularly good at, and I am sure that there are others these days as well, mostly working directly for the automotive companies. (Either that or they have much better engine designers who have made it simple to get to all nuts and bolts without special tools. Looked under your hood lately? Which do you think is most likely.)
In any case, the common idea is that if you are going to make something that fits a custom need, you are unlikely to be able to do it with off the shelf components and tools. Occasionally there may be a nice general tool that would suffice for the job, in software it might be a component of MSfts
That's my thought, I could be wrong.
-Rusty
Sad as I am to say it, the primary benificiaries of wellfare are not the people with less than poverty incomes. The primary benificiaries are those people who make their profit off of these people, including the phone companies, cable companies, and the rest of the crowd who point out that "this purchase is only pennies per day" when the pennies per day is more than $0.04.
499 pennies per day is still "pennies per day", even if it is also $1821.35 per year. (this is just an example, not specific to any industry)
I am not opposed to people on wellfare spending money this way. I am opposed to people saying that this is all they do. I have been on that side of the financial equation, it was hard to get out of it. I am both thankful that it was available when I needed it, and thankful that I no longer need that help.
People who have to pay for daycare out of a minimum wage income are the least likely to be able to pay for Cable or Sattelite TV. If they have to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet, they are also least likely to really care who survives in "Survivor".
Then again, that's my opinion. You could be wrong.
-Rusty
Only if the compiled checksums are the same with the claimed release, and archived copies of the actual release. As SCO was selling software, it is entirely likely that someone outside of SCO can pull up a backup tape, or even a production CD with the original binaries. If a re-compile of the version comes up with a different checksum, then the code was added after the version was first compiled.
Granted this does require using the same compiler, same support libraries for the compiler, etc.
-Rusty
Sorry, that's a Microsoft trick. Probably pattented, and SCO isn't interested in paying Microsoft royalties for that process.
-Rusty
Back up all data to stranger's off site secure data storage center.
Buy a couple of new hard drives.
Move all non-infringing work to the new hard drives.
Buy and install a bench grinder.
Grind down the old hard drives with infringing material on them to dust.
Buy a bench forge.
Melt down dust from grinding hard drives.
Make ingots of the materil.
Ask Drive Savers to recover the infringing material from the ingots, they claim a 95% recovery rate, should be a good test.
Turn over recovered material to RIAA when they come a knocking at the door.
Spend several years in penn for resisting arrest and destruction of evidence.
-Rusty
Do you drool everytime you hear a bell too?
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No, just every time I see the Taco bell.
-Rusty
Ever wonder what it is like to type at 40 words per minute and realize that you have one minute left to post? You might take the time to start typing something then reach 40 words, and decide to
Since I don't watch TV on my way into work, this would give me the option of listening to the news that I find interesting, rhather than what the shock jocks find interesting. (need to have some way to eliminate the timestamps however.)
The people involved were not all "people who were living in the US illegally". It included native born as well as legal aliens and naturalized citizens. Since the agency involved was the FBI, and not the INS, the rules that govorn the judicial process should be treating all that the FBI imprisioned with the same responsiveness.
The one thing that I think is being missed here is that these people were held without charges and until the FBI was satisfied that they were inocent, rather than being presumed inocent and only held with sufficent evidence to have a judge delcare either no option of bail, or bail too high for them to pay.
Something tells me that if there were a large population of friends or family of congressmen and congresswomen that were held in this way, there would be new management at the FBI, and the people who made the decisions putting these people in custody would be looking at that side of the cell door themselves.
-Rusty
One of the things to take into consderation with respect to this case is that it was not a copyright case.
Fox made the choice of not renewing the copyrights on their material in the 1960s, so their material lapsed into the public domain.
When they became aware of the new release of their shows, (which were edited severly and removed all traces of being published by Fox in the first place) they chose to file a trademark infringement suit.
What the justices provided as feedback is that material that is covered under copyright can not be further covered under trademark. 'All Things Considered' last night did a piece on this, and noted that what the justices are saying is that once the copyright expires on Steam Boat Willy, aka Mickey Mouse, Disney can not prevent people from using his image and original footage via Trademark law.
Personally I suspect this is a major part of why Disney is fighting continuously to extend copyrights. They are seriously afraid that they will be hurt by people who are fans of the original material re-using it to their own ends. While there are more than a few people who will make derogetory pieces, there will also be more than a few who will use the material as inspiration for new material that will reflect well upon Disney in general.
I have a suspicion however that as long as the Disney company, and the Disney family exist, they will fight to get extensions on copyright.
The primary claim behind getting extensions to copyright is that if I write the Worlds Greatest Novel, get it published tomorrow, then get hit by a bus next Monday, my kids and family should be provided for.
Ok, I buy that, however I really think that once my kids reach the age of maturity, they should make their own way in life. As a result, I think that copyrights should have a lifetime of 30 years, or the lifetime of the author plus 18 years 9 months. (Which ever comes first.)
Then again, that's just me. You probably have your own thoughts on the matter.
This would be rather easy to implement as a bluetooth feature. Every theater I have ever been in has had a single point of entry, and two or three points of exit.
The main door, and the emergency exits would all have a bluetooth device that tells phones it is ok to go audio ringing again.
The doors into the auditorium would have bluetooth devices that tell phones to go to vibrate mode.
Phones could vibrate as they are told to go to that mode, (briefly) then chirp as they are told to go to audible ring. With a 30 foot range, the phones would have to know which device was the closest, but if the emergency exit transmiters are 20 or so feet from the actual emergency door, that should cover most situations. (I don't know of anyone who willingly sits in the first five rows of a movie theater.)
Granted it does require that all phones support the feature, and manufacturers seem to loath to add a feature like this. So consider it just an idea.
-Rusty