"If you buy something in another state and bring it back home youre expected to pay the sales tax."
This is usually true only if the state in which you purchased the item has no sales tax, or a lesser sales tax than the state in which you are a resident, in which case you are only liable for the difference in sales tax between what you paid in the lower-tax state and the state in which you reside.
For example, I live in Philadelphia, which is very close to Delaware, where there is no sales tax. If I go to Delaware to shop, and buy everything tax free, I am technically liable for the 6% PA sales tax when I bring that merchandise home - with the exception fo clothing, which is not sales taxable in PA.
So basically what you're describing in that short novel that you wrote is a PocketPC running Mathematica. Now, did you really need to use up that much of slashdot's disk space?:)))
FFS, I can't use something without a visible stack and RPN. What the hell am I to do? I'm glad my school days are long gone...
I still use my 48GX every day at work.. They're not going to fire me for having an IRTE calculator.. even if I do use it to control the overhead projector in the conference room during meetings:)
Holy shit I can't believe what I'm hearing! I didn't buy the 49 because the keys felt like CRAP in comparison to the 48 series. TIs feel even worse, IMHO.
That tactile, deliberate feel is better than sex... well, not really, but you get the idea...
You are correct, but what we're talking about here is not SPEECH criticizing anyone. What we're talking about is the THEFT of confidential and proprietary internal company memos and then the illegal disemination of those memos to the public at large.
Law provides each and every person and corporation with reasable protections of privacy to prevent undue harm by those who would seek to inflict it.
This is no different than me breaking into your house, stealing your computer, and posting all of your bank records, medical records, your kiddie porn collection, and everything else for all the world to see.
Sure, what Diebold is doing is despicable and I'm really glad this made it into the open, but you can't by any stretch of the imagination call this "protected speech."
What's really nice is that stolen company documents are admissible in a court of law if the attorneys involved played no part in the theft, so when DieBold gets indicted over this, the memos will be admissible:)
It should also be noted that these security problems could help democrats just as much as they could help republicans. This is not a political issue and the hyaenas that are slobbering over this as the next "vast right-wing conspiracy" need to just calm down and see this as the TECHNICAL problem that it is.
I read through some of the memos and it's pretty clear that these problems are caused by poor management, rushed schedules, and lack of attention to detail in the design - not political motives. Granted, the Chief over there is obviously right-biased, but I have a hard time believing that he could pry ANY entire group of developers into purposefully inserting code that would give any one class of candidate an unfair advantage. If he ever attempted, I'm sure someone would blow the whistle... oh wait a minute... nevermind...
I read the article, and he certainly seemed like a contrarian idiot to me...
I found it to be more of a humour column describing various computer-nerd stereotypes than anything else...
Also interesting, he seemed to think that Linux Zeal had something to do with whether or not SCO had a case against IBM. If he thinks that public opinion is what matters in a trial of law, he's obviously about "two beers short of a six-pack," to use his tired cliche.
He also apparently doesn't know the difference between Zeal and Fanaticism. In fact, anyone who takes public office more or less promises to be Zealous. "I will uphold the constitution to the best of my abilities yadda yadda" - and as far as I am concerned, anyone holding public office better damn well be zealous toward that end.
Fanaticism introduces the element of irrationality to zeal. Terrorists are Fanatics and by subdefinition, Zealots. Fanatics are not necessarily Terrorists, but they ARE necessarily Zealots. Zealots are neither Fanatics nor Terrorists. Starting to sound like a GRE question, so I'll shut up now:)
I agree... there's a MicroCenter down the street from me (thank god) and every time I go in there there's some frustrated old lady that couldn't get her widget to work. I've even had several experiences of my own, espeically with RAM, where the product may say "100% Compatible" and then caused untold nightmarish problems.
This is speculation, but I am going to postulate that in most Asian and Indian design rooms, standards compliance takes a back seat to cost. The company I work for outsourced nearly half of all engineering to India this year, with the remaining personnel in the states only playing a support role (and half of those remaining personnel in The States are imported L-1 and H1-B "Value" workers). We are CONSTANTLY bugged by them wanting to do this and that to save money, risking non-compliance with standards... (in reality, they simply don't know how to engineer things to meet standards... they can only "connect the dots" on the datasheets)
I guess they had to limit their list to stupid human mistakes to keep the list from looking like this:
10) New MicroSoft virus deletes files
9) Outlook crashed, taking your open Word document with it
8) You click on OK, not realizing that it was asking you if you didn't want to not delete your files instead of asking you if you DID want to NOT delete your files
7) Some message popped up out of nowhere telling you that your computer was slow and that you could "click here" to make it faster. You did, and now everything is gone
6) Some message popped up out of nowhere telling you that a new update was available for Windows. You clicked to install it, and now everything is gone
5) You tried to right click on that damn paperclip to get rid of it, and Windows registered a click on the Erase Clipboard button hiding behind it
4) Your hard drive crashes after a year, and when you try to restore your Windows backups, you learn the hard way that the file format of the backup file is not the same as the format the restore side of the Windows App is looking for
3) "Thank you for purchasing your new Dell computer. Your Norton Symantec trial period is expired. Enter your credit card number to purchase a license or click 'Cancel' to erase your hard drive"
2) You get a windows "error box" telling you that your computer is broadcasting an IP address, whatever that is. This is apparently a bad thing so you click on the button to fix it. Suddenly, everything is gone.
1) "Explorer has performed an illegal operation and needs to be shut down. Click 'OK' to shut down your computer" (with everything you were working on still open and unsaved)
I allow my people to surf and goof off all they want. I don't care as long as they make their schedules - and they know that. I have some people who spend 12 hours a day in the office, 4 or 5 of them just goofing around. That's fine with me - they make their schedules and are happy employees. A bunch of them regularly go out to movies or whatever during lunch - again, I could care less as long as they do what they're supposed to do.
I make it clear to everyone that I don't pay for their time, I pay for their results. I have some full time employees that work 6 or 7 hours a day because they're extremely effective workers. Others are the goofballs. It makes no difference to me.
If someone starts getting a lot of slippage in their schedule, we sit down and have a chat about how to get them back on track. Nobody gets "in trouble" on my watch unless they're egregious. We're all on the same team so it's useless to make people feel like crap.
Happy employees are productive employees. Employees that feel like you're their enemy are not.
How people piss and whine when they can't break the rules all they want to.
The GPL is very clear and very specific. If you do not agree to the GPL, DO NOT USE GPLed code. It's that simple.
Authors of software have the right to give their code away for free, or with a license, or however they want to. Users of that code must respect the license under which it is distributed.
Linksys thought they'd save some development costs by using GPLed code - and they thought nobody would catch them... They've never heard of encrypting their FLASH, apparently..
I did speculate to that effect, but I just think it would have been a stronger letter having been left at the copyright issue and not going into justifying your actions. I agree with being cautious, but there's no reason to say "hey, we're being cautious because we think you might be right," ya know?:)
I sincerely hope you guys will dispatch Roland quickly. I certainly seems like you've done your homework.
Judge: Be seated. This is case number 8675309, ACME Widget Corporation v. Medesky, Martin, and Wood, Copyright Infringement of Intellectual and Atristic Works. Prosecuting Counsel, opening arguments?
Def. Counsel: I OBJECT! This is BULLSHIT!
Judge: There will be order! Counsel, one more outburst like that and I'll find you in contempt! Counselor, you may continue.
Pros. Counsel: Your honor, Plaintiffs assert that Defendants...
Def Counsel Interrupts: Your HONOR! I renew my objection!
Judge: Counselor, be quiet! Where did you go to law school, anyway?
Counsel: I went to SCL, your honor
Judge: SCL?
Counsel: Yes, your honor
Judge: I've never heard of SCL. What is it?
Counsel: I'm surprised, your honor. Hasn't everyone heard of the Slashdot School of Law?
However, Canadacow shot himself in the foot legally. He makes a very strong, well-researched case that Roland in fact does not own the copyrights to the MT-32 sample set. However, in a later paragraph, he acknowledges that it is not legal to offer the ROMs for download - citing that they are doing due diligence to protect Roland by verifying downloaders own their own MT-32. If Roland does not have a copyright, why nother? Put it up on Kazaa and let it rip.
Granted, some judge might agree that they do own some kind of copyright, so maybe they're just protecting themselves, but it completely destroys the letter's credibility to contradict itself. They should have mentioned nothing other than Roland's failure to legally protect the sample set.
Not at all. For example, if you stare into the aperture of a high-power microwave transmitter, you can suffer permanent eye trauma. Likewise, if you cram yourself into your microwave and turn it on, you're likely to suffer injury.
The FCC has established exposure guidelines for non-ionizing radiation. These exposure limits are established for certain frequency ranges and power levels and are based on the ANSI C95.1 RF Exposure Standards document published first in 1982.
You're clearly misinformed about the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. I suggest you visit your local library and read up on the subject.
Radiation from nuclear materials is particulate in nature and is therefore capable of ionizing atoms - either stripping electrons or fissioning a nucleus. At the genetic level, the latter can be harmful. Furthermore, the most damage is done by the more-rare higher energy particles such as Beta and Gamma particles. Alpha particles, which are substantively a simple Helium nucleus, are large, slow, low-energy, and are unable to penetrate a piece of tissue paper.
Radiation from radio sources is electromagnetic in nature and is only capable of inducing surface and volume currents in the object on which they are incident. Merely moving electrons around between atoms is widely known to be non-harmful to human tissue.
"Maybe we need a Slashdot forum where we are able to post daily thoughts that cross our minds that others may be able to use to spark ideas for new and better applications/OS's, etc... "
Slashdot Mirror
"If you buy something in another state and bring it back home youre expected to pay the sales tax."
This is usually true only if the state in which you purchased the item has no sales tax, or a lesser sales tax than the state in which you are a resident, in which case you are only liable for the difference in sales tax between what you paid in the lower-tax state and the state in which you reside.
For example, I live in Philadelphia, which is very close to Delaware, where there is no sales tax. If I go to Delaware to shop, and buy everything tax free, I am technically liable for the 6% PA sales tax when I bring that merchandise home - with the exception fo clothing, which is not sales taxable in PA.
So basically what you're describing in that short novel that you wrote is a PocketPC running Mathematica. Now, did you really need to use up that much of slashdot's disk space? :)))
BTW, I prefer MathCAD.. flame away!
(big grin)
FFS, I can't use something without a visible stack and RPN. What the hell am I to do? I'm glad my school days are long gone...
:)
I still use my 48GX every day at work.. They're not going to fire me for having an IRTE calculator.. even if I do use it to control the overhead projector in the conference room during meetings
Holy shit I can't believe what I'm hearing! I didn't buy the 49 because the keys felt like CRAP in comparison to the 48 series. TIs feel even worse, IMHO.
That tactile, deliberate feel is better than sex... well, not really, but you get the idea...
I guess it's just a matter of opinion...
You are correct, but what we're talking about here is not SPEECH criticizing anyone. What we're talking about is the THEFT of confidential and proprietary internal company memos and then the illegal disemination of those memos to the public at large.
:)
Law provides each and every person and corporation with reasable protections of privacy to prevent undue harm by those who would seek to inflict it.
This is no different than me breaking into your house, stealing your computer, and posting all of your bank records, medical records, your kiddie porn collection, and everything else for all the world to see.
Sure, what Diebold is doing is despicable and I'm really glad this made it into the open, but you can't by any stretch of the imagination call this "protected speech."
What's really nice is that stolen company documents are admissible in a court of law if the attorneys involved played no part in the theft, so when DieBold gets indicted over this, the memos will be admissible
It should also be noted that these security problems could help democrats just as much as they could help republicans. This is not a political issue and the hyaenas that are slobbering over this as the next "vast right-wing conspiracy" need to just calm down and see this as the TECHNICAL problem that it is.
I read through some of the memos and it's pretty clear that these problems are caused by poor management, rushed schedules, and lack of attention to detail in the design - not political motives. Granted, the Chief over there is obviously right-biased, but I have a hard time believing that he could pry ANY entire group of developers into purposefully inserting code that would give any one class of candidate an unfair advantage. If he ever attempted, I'm sure someone would blow the whistle... oh wait a minute... nevermind...
I read the article, and he certainly seemed like a contrarian idiot to me...
:)
I found it to be more of a humour column describing various computer-nerd stereotypes than anything else...
Also interesting, he seemed to think that Linux Zeal had something to do with whether or not SCO had a case against IBM. If he thinks that public opinion is what matters in a trial of law, he's obviously about "two beers short of a six-pack," to use his tired cliche.
He also apparently doesn't know the difference between Zeal and Fanaticism. In fact, anyone who takes public office more or less promises to be Zealous. "I will uphold the constitution to the best of my abilities yadda yadda" - and as far as I am concerned, anyone holding public office better damn well be zealous toward that end.
Fanaticism introduces the element of irrationality to zeal. Terrorists are Fanatics and by subdefinition, Zealots. Fanatics are not necessarily Terrorists, but they ARE necessarily Zealots. Zealots are neither Fanatics nor Terrorists. Starting to sound like a GRE question, so I'll shut up now
I agree... there's a MicroCenter down the street from me (thank god) and every time I go in there there's some frustrated old lady that couldn't get her widget to work. I've even had several experiences of my own, espeically with RAM, where the product may say "100% Compatible" and then caused untold nightmarish problems.
This is speculation, but I am going to postulate that in most Asian and Indian design rooms, standards compliance takes a back seat to cost. The company I work for outsourced nearly half of all engineering to India this year, with the remaining personnel in the states only playing a support role (and half of those remaining personnel in The States are imported L-1 and H1-B "Value" workers). We are CONSTANTLY bugged by them wanting to do this and that to save money, risking non-compliance with standards... (in reality, they simply don't know how to engineer things to meet standards... they can only "connect the dots" on the datasheets)
It's scary...
... is the RIAA gasping its last breath as its antiquated business model is finally proven completely and utterly obsolete.
You can bet that Apple will be sued over iTunes, if they have not already...
I guess they had to limit their list to stupid human mistakes to keep the list from looking like this:
10) New MicroSoft virus deletes files
9) Outlook crashed, taking your open Word document with it
8) You click on OK, not realizing that it was asking you if you didn't want to not delete your files instead of asking you if you DID want to NOT delete your files
7) Some message popped up out of nowhere telling you that your computer was slow and that you could "click here" to make it faster. You did, and now everything is gone
6) Some message popped up out of nowhere telling you that a new update was available for Windows. You clicked to install it, and now everything is gone
5) You tried to right click on that damn paperclip to get rid of it, and Windows registered a click on the Erase Clipboard button hiding behind it
4) Your hard drive crashes after a year, and when you try to restore your Windows backups, you learn the hard way that the file format of the backup file is not the same as the format the restore side of the Windows App is looking for
3) "Thank you for purchasing your new Dell computer. Your Norton Symantec trial period is expired. Enter your credit card number to purchase a license or click 'Cancel' to erase your hard drive"
2) You get a windows "error box" telling you that your computer is broadcasting an IP address, whatever that is. This is apparently a bad thing so you click on the button to fix it. Suddenly, everything is gone.
1) "Explorer has performed an illegal operation and needs to be shut down. Click 'OK' to shut down your computer" (with everything you were working on still open and unsaved)
I allow my people to surf and goof off all they want. I don't care as long as they make their schedules - and they know that. I have some people who spend 12 hours a day in the office, 4 or 5 of them just goofing around. That's fine with me - they make their schedules and are happy employees. A bunch of them regularly go out to movies or whatever during lunch - again, I could care less as long as they do what they're supposed to do.
I make it clear to everyone that I don't pay for their time, I pay for their results. I have some full time employees that work 6 or 7 hours a day because they're extremely effective workers. Others are the goofballs. It makes no difference to me.
If someone starts getting a lot of slippage in their schedule, we sit down and have a chat about how to get them back on track. Nobody gets "in trouble" on my watch unless they're egregious. We're all on the same team so it's useless to make people feel like crap.
Happy employees are productive employees. Employees that feel like you're their enemy are not.
How people piss and whine when they can't break the rules all they want to.
The GPL is very clear and very specific. If you do not agree to the GPL, DO NOT USE GPLed code. It's that simple.
Authors of software have the right to give their code away for free, or with a license, or however they want to. Users of that code must respect the license under which it is distributed.
Linksys thought they'd save some development costs by using GPLed code - and they thought nobody would catch them... They've never heard of encrypting their FLASH, apparently..
486 DX/4-100 with 40MB Ram
2x540MB Hard Disks
S3 Virge/DX 4MB PCI Video
33.6k Hardware Modem
10Base-T Combo PCI NIC
4x CD-ROM
15" Monitor
Linux/Win95 Dual Boot
I use this machine to play a bunch of old games that I used to like - like Descent.
Can you provide data to substantiate this claim?
I did speculate to that effect, but I just think it would have been a stronger letter having been left at the copyright issue and not going into justifying your actions. I agree with being cautious, but there's no reason to say "hey, we're being cautious because we think you might be right," ya know? :)
I sincerely hope you guys will dispatch Roland quickly. I certainly seems like you've done your homework.
Judge: Be seated. This is case number 8675309, ACME Widget Corporation v. Medesky, Martin, and Wood, Copyright Infringement of Intellectual and Atristic Works. Prosecuting Counsel, opening arguments?
:))
Def. Counsel: I OBJECT! This is BULLSHIT!
Judge: There will be order! Counsel, one more outburst like that and I'll find you in contempt! Counselor, you may continue.
Pros. Counsel: Your honor, Plaintiffs assert that Defendants...
Def Counsel Interrupts: Your HONOR! I renew my objection!
Judge: Counselor, be quiet! Where did you go to law school, anyway?
Counsel: I went to SCL, your honor
Judge: SCL?
Counsel: Yes, your honor
Judge: I've never heard of SCL. What is it?
Counsel: I'm surprised, your honor. Hasn't everyone heard of the Slashdot School of Law?
Judge: Oh christ, here we go again....
However, Canadacow shot himself in the foot legally. He makes a very strong, well-researched case that Roland in fact does not own the copyrights to the MT-32 sample set. However, in a later paragraph, he acknowledges that it is not legal to offer the ROMs for download - citing that they are doing due diligence to protect Roland by verifying downloaders own their own MT-32. If Roland does not have a copyright, why nother? Put it up on Kazaa and let it rip.
Granted, some judge might agree that they do own some kind of copyright, so maybe they're just protecting themselves, but it completely destroys the letter's credibility to contradict itself. They should have mentioned nothing other than Roland's failure to legally protect the sample set.
OOPS!
BTW: IANAL, YMMV, DEMATP
Not at all. For example, if you stare into the aperture of a high-power microwave transmitter, you can suffer permanent eye trauma. Likewise, if you cram yourself into your microwave and turn it on, you're likely to suffer injury.
g y/ Documents/bulletins/oet65/oet65b.pdf
The FCC has established exposure guidelines for non-ionizing radiation. These exposure limits are established for certain frequency ranges and power levels and are based on the ANSI C95.1 RF Exposure Standards document published first in 1982.
http://ftp.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technolo
This is a good document that explains a lot about why the limits were imposed.
Happy learning...
You're clearly misinformed about the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. I suggest you visit your local library and read up on the subject.
Radiation from nuclear materials is particulate in nature and is therefore capable of ionizing atoms - either stripping electrons or fissioning a nucleus. At the genetic level, the latter can be harmful. Furthermore, the most damage is done by the more-rare higher energy particles such as Beta and Gamma particles. Alpha particles, which are substantively a simple Helium nucleus, are large, slow, low-energy, and are unable to penetrate a piece of tissue paper.
Radiation from radio sources is electromagnetic in nature and is only capable of inducing surface and volume currents in the object on which they are incident. Merely moving electrons around between atoms is widely known to be non-harmful to human tissue.
The parents who initially filed the lawsuit were found to have never graduated elementary school...
This has got to be the most uninformed, ignorant jibberish that I've seen in a long time. I bet these idiots have WiFi at home even...
The legal system is not meant to be an attention-getting device, nor a platform on which to build a political career...
What's even more amazing is that MS can get a patent from filing to grant in only 10 months...
It takes the rest of us 4 years...
The error progresses like this
E(2^10) = 2.4% = 1.024
E(2^20) = E(2^10) ** (2/1) = 1.0486
E(2^30) = E(2^20) ** (3/2) = 1.0737
E(2^40) = E(2^30) ** (4/3) = 1.0995
E(2^50) = E(2.40) ** (5/4) = 1.1259
or in general
E(2**(10*n)) = E(2^10) ** (n / (n-1))
Your argument is lucidly explained away with emperical evidence in the article. Did you read it?
Can't live without my Philips Milk of Magnesia for all those Hardened POSes... Off to Walgreens!
:)
Funny or Troll, it's a tossup
"become associated with the five 9's of reliability?"
The five 9's relate to availability, not reliability.
"Maybe we need a Slashdot forum where we are able to post daily thoughts that cross our minds that others may be able to use to spark ideas for new and better applications/OS's, etc... "
They do. It's called a Journal.