How does that constitute infringement? Where in copyright law is this spelled out?
Nowhere. It's like the "fuckgeneralmotors.com" court case.
Re:I went and was minority report a few days ago
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So, turn it around. If you can know the future and can change it, then pre-cog is invalid under many circumstances. If you can know the future and not change it, then trying to act on it will inevitably create self-fulfilling prophecies, predicated on knowing the outcome!
After years of losses and more recent struggles with sagging revenues that have forced Salon to reduce its staff and cut salaries for remaining workers, the company said its auditors had "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern.
But what about all the money for nothing, and the chicks for free?
I've already been operating a 12VDC powered cellular jamming system in my truck for over a year. It is simple to make (just a PA driver and some circuitry to generate a null signal). With a 10W amp, it saturates the entire 800 MHz and 1.9 GHz cellular bands with an active carrier, making it impossible for other phones to reach the cell towers. It's about the size of a phone handset. My coworker and I found the range to vary from 80 yards to 110 yards. I am presently dumping the signal out of my own cellular phone antenna, though I have considered using a rotatable omnidirectional antenna to target particular vehicles, but this would be quite conspicuous;Yes, it's illegal, but how many cops are searching cars for cell phone jammers?
I wish I could rip off Carmack's words and present them as my own, that would make me uber-leet like you.
Calm down, cowboy. I hit "submit" instead of preview so I could do link checking, before I had finished the post/citation. You've covered the citation, so I'll get to the point.. My point in quoting Carmack was that Doom 3 is going to be a much different benchmark, simply because as a primarily single-player game, it's going to be far more complex, graphically, so it wouldn't really be like comparing apples to apples.
You know, the hole that allows a specially crafted, chunk-encoded HTTP request to execute arbitrary code on the server, and as Microsoft would say, "a malicious user" could exploit this to damage systems, take over a box, or worse.
Whoops.. hit submit instead of preview...
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I wish I could rip off Carmack's words and present them as my own, that would make me uber-leet like you.
Whoops. I hit "submit" instead of preview so I could do link checking, before I had finished the post/citation. You've covered the citation, so I'll get to the point.. My point in quoting Carmack was that Doom 3 is going to be a much different benchmark, simply because as a primarily single-player game, it's going to be far more complex, graphically, so it wouldn't really be like comparing apples to apples.
Framerates differ based on application.
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The core renderer is fairly agnostic to single player versus multiplayer, but many other areas of the game have to make tradeoff decisions. A latency tolerant multiplayer game needs to have all time dependent effects predictable, which forces a style of programming that isn't always the most direct. A single player game can also have more expressive and precise effects, like multiply blended skeletal animations with pivot feet, that wouldn't work out well over a network channel.
When Thomas Jefferson put the idea of intellectual property into the Constitution of the United States, he did so because he realized that information leaks; once people learn something, they can reuse that knowledge. If there was no protection to intellectual property, people would not be encouraged to share knowledge with others. Writers would not write, inventors would not invent, artists would not . So in the US Constitution, it says:
Congress shall have the power [...] 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;
The reason why this is important is spelled out in Jefferson's own writings:
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it...He who receives an idea from me, receives instructions himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should be spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature... Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
His assumptions are based on the fact that you can not control what people do with information that you give to them. If you hand someone a book, they can transcribe it. If you give someone a physical invention, they can disassemble it. But if you give them a new form of media, say, a song on a copy-protected CD, and they can no longer listen to it except on approved devices that they cannot copy from, why should the government provide the same protection to you? The record companies and movie studios want to have their cake and eat it too. They want traditional copyright protection, technological copyright protection, and a government guarantee of technological copyright protection. They want to deprive all those bearded Linux hippies their DeCSS, so they can't watch bootleg Buffy the Vanpire Slayer DVDs in their parents' basement. But if they have technological protection, then why should the government give them traditional protection? It was only there because information was hard to protect as property.
How far are we going to let the copyrighters go? We need to remind people that copyright, like most laws in the US, is a balance between two forces, and the scale should not be tipped too far to one side.
The AdTI report qualifies as well written, but the rebuttals to the AdTI report do not. They BOTH make the mistake that continues to negatively impact the arguments of Open Source/ Free Software advocates: childish personal attacks. Continually repeating phrases like (paraphrasing here) "Microsoft, err, AdTI, says" and "worried about losing the Trophy Wife and the vacation home in the Bahamas" are NOT logical arguments for the superiority of open source software, and they make the open source community look bad. Logic alone will not win the day....
So, while the AdTI piece is certainly poorly researched, corporate pandering tripe, it is likely to have a much MUCH larger impact on policy makers than any rebuttal, not BECAUSE of its accuracy, but because of its tone. Open Source gets bitten by this all the time, and the advocates don't seem to be learning.
I'm wondering about the transconductance. What is the maximum switching speed? The gain/bandwidth product? In short, where are all the specs on this transistor that a real engineer would need to evaluate it?
I don't care if you can make a transistor with a gate length of.1 Planck length, if the thing only has gain below 1 Hz it won't be very useful.
Until they releasee some more data on how this device can perform, don't get too excited....
While the work done at Bell labs does indeed look unique, this experiment and breakthrough has technically already been done by Prof. James Tour (at Rice University) and Prof. Mark Reid of Yale who, in a very high-tech experiment, showed that a single molecule can conduct. It was similar to the structure shown in the Bell labs work, except it was one benzene rather than two. Tour and Reid also used self-assembly to get the molecules to line up to check conductance. The work was published in Science in late 1999.
Further, Tour and his group have synthesized molecular transistors (he calls them "Moleisters") about a year and a half ago. Unfortunately, I can't bring up his web pages to find the reference to the papers.
I agree. the real victory will be when we can overcome Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG)accumulation on axon surfaces. The MAG interaction causes gangliosides to cluster together, generating a signal that inhibits axon regrowth. A number of antibodies and enzymes that reverse the MAG-ganglioside interaction (permitting nerve regeneration) have been found to be effective in Rats, but human trials are still a ways off.
Under the RIP act, if intercepted communications are encrypted, it will force the individual to surrender the keys, on penalty of jail sentences of up to two years. The government "says" keys will only be required in "special circumstances" and promises that the security services will destroy the keys as soon as they are finished with them.
Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, this reverses the burden of proof in UK law. In addition, there are stiff prison sentences if an individual who has been required to hand over keys tells a third party. Even worse is the defense for individuals who have "lost or forgotten" a key: innocent people could be jailed for innocently forgetting keys, while drug smugglers and bearded linux hippie pedophiles would happily settle for a two-year prison sentence rather than face far harsher penalties for being found guilty of the crime of which they are suspected.
For the government's take on this, check out the Home Office RIP site. Prove me wrong. I hope to holy strangled Christ that I am.
And the trial is in Harare...so what do UK laws have to do with it? The whole point is that he ISN'T being tried in the UK, he's being targetted and tried in Zimbabwe for something he did in the UK.
Your point is as relevant as saying "Dmitri Skylarov can't be convicted in the US, because Russia doesn't have laws against the code he wrote"*. We only wish it stays that easy (and reasonable, and logical).
You're missing the point. He's a US citizen abroad, in the UK. He's only in danger if the UK decides to extradite him (which requires, obviously, that both countries agree on the charges), or if he visits Zimbabwe itself.
As it stands, and given US and UK case law, that doesn't seem probable.
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Didn't scotty provide the plans for that in Star Trek IV?
How does that constitute infringement? Where in copyright law is this spelled out?
Nowhere. It's like the "fuckgeneralmotors.com" court case.
So, turn it around. If you can know the future and can change it, then pre-cog is invalid under many circumstances. If you can know the future and not change it, then trying to act on it will inevitably create self-fulfilling prophecies, predicated on knowing the outcome!
Unless you can know all possible outcomes.
Why pull a raid instead of just pulling the plug?
After years of losses and more recent struggles with sagging revenues that have forced Salon to reduce its staff and cut salaries for remaining workers, the company said its auditors had "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern.
But what about all the money for nothing, and the chicks for free?
AOL's so easy to use, no wonder it's #1!
Most people who carry laptops carry a cell phone anyway. This is one cellphone innovation that seems worthwhile.
I think he's talking about controlling the cursor on a phone, not a laptop.
I've already been operating a 12VDC powered cellular jamming system in my truck for over a year. It is simple to make (just a PA driver and some circuitry to generate a null signal). With a 10W amp, it saturates the entire 800 MHz and 1.9 GHz cellular bands with an active carrier, making it impossible for other phones to reach the cell towers. It's about the size of a phone handset. My coworker and I found the range to vary from 80 yards to 110 yards. I am presently dumping the signal out of my own cellular phone antenna, though I have considered using a rotatable omnidirectional antenna to target particular vehicles, but this would be quite conspicuous;Yes, it's illegal, but how many cops are searching cars for cell phone jammers?
There is no "proper" way to reduce the precision of a number under all circumstances.
You could use an original pentium chip. With the divide errors, it'd be perfect.
Myself and may others out there have TNT2 cards - what exactly doesn't work?
The rendering doesn't sync properly on TNT2s.
Supposedly gnome 2.0 is like MacOS (top menu bar, etc).
My roommate got hold of my account and was screwing around.
I wish I could rip off Carmack's words and present them as my own, that would make me uber-leet like you.
Calm down, cowboy. I hit "submit" instead of preview so I could do link checking, before I had finished the post/citation. You've covered the citation, so I'll get to the point.. My point in quoting Carmack was that Doom 3 is going to be a much different benchmark, simply because as a primarily single-player game, it's going to be far more complex, graphically, so it wouldn't really be like comparing apples to apples.
You know, the hole that allows a specially crafted, chunk-encoded HTTP request to execute arbitrary code on the server, and as Microsoft would say, "a malicious user" could exploit this to damage systems, take over a box, or worse.
I wish I could rip off Carmack's words and present them as my own, that would make me uber-leet like you.
Whoops. I hit "submit" instead of preview so I could do link checking, before I had finished the post/citation. You've covered the citation, so I'll get to the point.. My point in quoting Carmack was that Doom 3 is going to be a much different benchmark, simply because as a primarily single-player game, it's going to be far more complex, graphically, so it wouldn't really be like comparing apples to apples.
The core renderer is fairly agnostic to single player versus multiplayer, but many other areas of the game have to make tradeoff decisions. A latency tolerant multiplayer game needs to have all time dependent effects predictable, which forces a style of programming that isn't always the most direct. A single player game can also have more expressive and precise effects, like multiply blended skeletal animations with pivot feet, that wouldn't work out well over a network channel.
How far are we going to let the copyrighters go? We need to remind people that copyright, like most laws in the US, is a balance between two forces, and the scale should not be tipped too far to one side.
It's a post ripped from the last thread where there were rebuttals to the AdTI report.
You're quite an effective troll, my friend.
The AdTI report qualifies as well written, but the rebuttals to the AdTI report do not. They BOTH make the mistake that continues to negatively impact the arguments of Open Source/ Free Software advocates: childish personal attacks. Continually repeating phrases like (paraphrasing here) "Microsoft, err, AdTI, says" and "worried about losing the Trophy Wife and the vacation home in the Bahamas" are NOT logical arguments for the superiority of open source software, and they make the open source community look bad. Logic alone will not win the day....
So, while the AdTI piece is certainly poorly researched, corporate pandering tripe, it is likely to have a much MUCH larger impact on policy makers than any rebuttal, not BECAUSE of its accuracy, but because of its tone. Open Source gets bitten by this all the time, and the advocates don't seem to be learning.
I'm wondering about the transconductance. What is the maximum switching speed? The gain/bandwidth product? In short, where are all the specs on this transistor that a real engineer would need to evaluate it?
.1 Planck length, if the thing only has gain below 1 Hz it won't be very useful.
I don't care if you can make a transistor with a gate length of
Until they releasee some more data on how this device can perform, don't get too excited....
While the work done at Bell labs does indeed look unique, this experiment and breakthrough has technically already been done by Prof. James Tour (at Rice University) and Prof. Mark Reid of Yale who, in a very high-tech experiment, showed that a single molecule can conduct. It was similar to the structure shown in the Bell labs work, except it was one benzene rather than two. Tour and Reid also used self-assembly to get the molecules to line up to check conductance. The work was published in Science in late 1999.
Further, Tour and his group have synthesized molecular transistors (he calls them "Moleisters") about a year and a half ago. Unfortunately, I can't bring up his web pages to find the reference to the papers.
I agree. the real victory will be when we can overcome Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG)accumulation on axon surfaces. The MAG interaction causes gangliosides to cluster together, generating a signal that inhibits axon regrowth. A number of antibodies and enzymes that reverse the MAG-ganglioside interaction (permitting nerve regeneration) have been found to be effective in Rats, but human trials are still a ways off.
Under the RIP act, if intercepted communications are encrypted, it will force the individual to surrender the keys, on penalty of jail sentences of up to two years. The government "says" keys will only be required in "special circumstances" and promises that the security services will destroy the keys as soon as they are finished with them.
Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, this reverses the burden of proof in UK law. In addition, there are stiff prison sentences if an individual who has been required to hand over keys tells a third party. Even worse is the defense for individuals who have "lost or forgotten" a key: innocent people could be jailed for innocently forgetting keys, while drug smugglers and bearded linux hippie pedophiles would happily settle for a two-year prison sentence rather than face far harsher penalties for being found guilty of the crime of which they are suspected.
For the government's take on this, check out the Home Office RIP site. Prove me wrong. I hope to holy strangled Christ that I am.
True; however in this case, licensing exclusivity has not been established, and as such, while the work may be in use, the ownership is retained.
And the trial is in Harare...so what do UK laws have to do with it? The whole point is that he ISN'T being tried in the UK, he's being targetted and tried in Zimbabwe for something he did in the UK.
Your point is as relevant as saying "Dmitri Skylarov can't be convicted in the US, because Russia doesn't have laws against the code he wrote"*. We only wish it stays that easy (and reasonable, and logical).
You're missing the point. He's a US citizen abroad, in the UK. He's only in danger if the UK decides to extradite him (which requires, obviously, that both countries agree on the charges), or if he visits Zimbabwe itself.
As it stands, and given US and UK case law, that doesn't seem probable.