You need to carefully read the words in my post and think about what they mean before you make such absurdly false assumptions.
I said I PREFER it, and that implies that I actually do play PC games, occasionally covered in the crumbs of cheetos and screaming at some douchebag across the Internet who just fragged someone just to be difficult.
Nothing I said implies that I don't play PC games.
... I have never and will never own a game console, or a PC game for that matter. It's not worth the hassle.
I still have a monopoly set my grandmother gave me for my birthday 30 years ago, and nobody has come and told me that I can't sell it, nor that I can't play it, nor that I have to agree to a new terms of service in order to keep it.
Same goes for the 40 or 50 other board games I own, that are incidentally a lot more fun and a lot more social than stupid internet video games. I much prefer having guests to the house with BBQ and drinks and a couple of good board games to sitting on my couch covered in the crumbs of Cheetos and empty cans of Redbull screaming over the internet at some douchebag that just fragged his own teammate just to be difficult.
You know, Slashdot, I know you guys have a dislike for Microsoft and everything, but just because they went off and designed the absolute fucking worst user interface in the history of mankind, didn't mean you had to go and one-up them.
An, in general, what the fuck is going on with people designing user interfaces these days? It seems everywhere you go there's yet another abortion of a user interface.
If you would get Ron Paul's cock out of your mouth long enough to look at reality.. you'd see that we are not engaged in a war against any country, and have not been since the second Iraq conflict ended.
Since China has a penchant for surfacing their apparently undetectable submarines right in the middle of our naval battle groups, we have no reason to believe that we can detect the presence of their missile subs, nor do we have any reason to believe they don't have one or more parked off the mid-Atlantic coast.
Why our Nation's capital is still in such a vulnerable position is beyond me. A place like Omaha would be much better suited, since it's deep inland, and about the farthest you can get from the border of the continental US. It makes a sub-launched cruise missile or ICBM an untenable option for attacking the Nation's Capital.
Almost every single taxpayer-funded public university in the entire country claims IP ownership of everything the students do that is accomplished using any campus resources, including dorms, computers, networks, telephone systems, libraries, professors, and other students.
In fact, at my alma mater, a waiver of rights and assignment of intellectual property contract is included IN THE APPLICATION for admission. By simply applying, you are agreeing to assign to them all creative works and inventions you might dream up from the date you matriculate until the date you graduate.
It does not matter whether the user actually transmits. It is being marketed as a device capable of transmitting, and therefore it must be type accepted by the FCC (and before it is marketed for sale).
If it is incapable of transmitting, then it is incumbent upon the seller to at least include a statement of compliance saying that the device has been tested to comply with Part 15 rules for incidental radiators.
That is correct. US Law requires anyone marketing an intentional radiator obtain FCC equipment authorization under Part 15, Subpart J of "the Rules," _before_ the device is marketed for sale.
There is an exception in 15.23 for home-built devices, but this project does not quality, as the exception in 15.23 only applies to home-built devices, and not those that are purchased in kit form.
"The exclusive right to control distribution of a copy is exhausted on it's first sale."
The software is not being sold. It is being licensed. The doctrine of first sale only applies when something is sold.
I believe the court erred in this case, and grievously, since it made clear the fact that it does not understand the difference between licensing and selling.
I live on a man-made lake system with a nuclear reactor, where the upper two lakes are used basically as giant batteries. During the night when the nuclear station is producing excess power, that power is used to pump water from the lower lakes into the upper lakes. During the day when demand is high, water is allowed to flow back downhill through the hydro plants, producing the excess power needed to meet demand.
I see no reason we can't deploy similar technology today, using renewables to pump water uphill during the feast, and then using that stored energy when there is famine.
It's not called being lazy. It's called SURVIVING on LIMITED RESOURCES, which is what Humans had to do for hundreds of thousands of years before developing the technology to increase food availability.
Expending the least amount of energy was called SURVIVAL.
We really have completely lost touch with reality, haven't we? We are living in the idiocracy.
When I lived in Pennsylvania, I heated my home and my hot water with a furnace that used renewable biofuel. Those furnaces were recently banned in the state because they reduced revenue for gas and oil companies.
Now I live in a State that still allows residential use of renewable biofuel, and it is readily available and quickly replenished. Our energy bills are near zero, and we grow our own fuel on our estate. Fortunately there is not a big natural gas or coal industry here like there is in Pennsylvania, so hopefully we have nothing to fear from political influence from the big-fossil companies.
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http://xkcd.com/936/
You need to carefully read the words in my post and think about what they mean before you make such absurdly false assumptions.
I said I PREFER it, and that implies that I actually do play PC games, occasionally covered in the crumbs of cheetos and screaming at some douchebag across the Internet who just fragged someone just to be difficult.
Nothing I said implies that I don't play PC games.
... I have never and will never own a game console, or a PC game for that matter. It's not worth the hassle.
I still have a monopoly set my grandmother gave me for my birthday 30 years ago, and nobody has come and told me that I can't sell it, nor that I can't play it, nor that I have to agree to a new terms of service in order to keep it.
Same goes for the 40 or 50 other board games I own, that are incidentally a lot more fun and a lot more social than stupid internet video games. I much prefer having guests to the house with BBQ and drinks and a couple of good board games to sitting on my couch covered in the crumbs of Cheetos and empty cans of Redbull screaming over the internet at some douchebag that just fragged his own teammate just to be difficult.
You know, Slashdot, I know you guys have a dislike for Microsoft and everything, but just because they went off and designed the absolute fucking worst user interface in the history of mankind, didn't mean you had to go and one-up them.
What the fuck were you guys thinking?
An, in general, what the fuck is going on with people designing user interfaces these days? It seems everywhere you go there's yet another abortion of a user interface.
Seriously...
If you would get Ron Paul's cock out of your mouth long enough to look at reality.. you'd see that we are not engaged in a war against any country, and have not been since the second Iraq conflict ended.
Since China has a penchant for surfacing their apparently undetectable submarines right in the middle of our naval battle groups, we have no reason to believe that we can detect the presence of their missile subs, nor do we have any reason to believe they don't have one or more parked off the mid-Atlantic coast.
Why our Nation's capital is still in such a vulnerable position is beyond me. A place like Omaha would be much better suited, since it's deep inland, and about the farthest you can get from the border of the continental US. It makes a sub-launched cruise missile or ICBM an untenable option for attacking the Nation's Capital.
Almost every single taxpayer-funded public university in the entire country claims IP ownership of everything the students do that is accomplished using any campus resources, including dorms, computers, networks, telephone systems, libraries, professors, and other students.
In fact, at my alma mater, a waiver of rights and assignment of intellectual property contract is included IN THE APPLICATION for admission. By simply applying, you are agreeing to assign to them all creative works and inventions you might dream up from the date you matriculate until the date you graduate.
Copyright it yourself before you turn it in, then sue them for copyright infringement.
Typing too fast late at night...
Yes, 15.201(b) requires all intentional radiators not exempted by 15.23(a) to be certified pursuant to 2.901 and forward.
It does not matter whether the user actually transmits. It is being marketed as a device capable of transmitting, and therefore it must be type accepted by the FCC (and before it is marketed for sale).
If it is incapable of transmitting, then it is incumbent upon the seller to at least include a statement of compliance saying that the device has been tested to comply with Part 15 rules for incidental radiators.
Mod parent up, please.
Have you obtained FCC type acceptance pursuant to Part 15, Subpart J of the Rules?
That is correct. US Law requires anyone marketing an intentional radiator obtain FCC equipment authorization under Part 15, Subpart J of "the Rules," _before_ the device is marketed for sale.
There is an exception in 15.23 for home-built devices, but this project does not quality, as the exception in 15.23 only applies to home-built devices, and not those that are purchased in kit form.
Seems to me that cheating would be a requirement to pass that course.
Here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkTHyfr0pM
(seriously, watch the series. It's pretty amazing)
No, he only licensed it.
"The exclusive right to control distribution of a copy is exhausted on it's first sale."
The software is not being sold. It is being licensed. The doctrine of first sale only applies when something is sold.
I believe the court erred in this case, and grievously, since it made clear the fact that it does not understand the difference between licensing and selling.
... on a Computer. ... on a Phone.
Gee, it must be some new mystical technology to deploy a sliding door lock on a computer or phone.
The White House doesn't make law, and does not control the Library of Congress.
Petition Congress, not the White House.
Perhaps it's not as big a problem as you think.
I live on a man-made lake system with a nuclear reactor, where the upper two lakes are used basically as giant batteries. During the night when the nuclear station is producing excess power, that power is used to pump water from the lower lakes into the upper lakes. During the day when demand is high, water is allowed to flow back downhill through the hydro plants, producing the excess power needed to meet demand.
I see no reason we can't deploy similar technology today, using renewables to pump water uphill during the feast, and then using that stored energy when there is famine.
It's not called being lazy. It's called SURVIVING on LIMITED RESOURCES, which is what Humans had to do for hundreds of thousands of years before developing the technology to increase food availability.
Expending the least amount of energy was called SURVIVAL.
We really have completely lost touch with reality, haven't we? We are living in the idiocracy.
http://grupthinkpro.s3.amazonaws.com/grupthinklive80240347b2eab6b15fd4935656ba50e8
Nobody will ever top Florida "A55 RGY" with the big orange in the middle serving as the letter "O."
A55 O RGY
When I lived in Pennsylvania, I heated my home and my hot water with a furnace that used renewable biofuel. Those furnaces were recently banned in the state because they reduced revenue for gas and oil companies.
Now I live in a State that still allows residential use of renewable biofuel, and it is readily available and quickly replenished. Our energy bills are near zero, and we grow our own fuel on our estate. Fortunately there is not a big natural gas or coal industry here like there is in Pennsylvania, so hopefully we have nothing to fear from political influence from the big-fossil companies.
Why is Canonical recommending booting into Linux AT ALL, with ANY image, when "just one boot from UEFI into Linux" can brick the laptop?
It seems to me that it is not safe to attempt to boot into Linux under ANY circumstances.