Whoever patents the five or six storylines that are the basis for virtually all books will become richer then Bill Gates.
No, I think he'll have to sue every publisher for every book that's about to be printed. He'll have to start off richer than the BillG... It'll be like the RIAA/MPAA all over again, with one man issuing hundreds of lawsuits instead of the **AA governing bodies.
My son has a credit card with his photo on it. It's not a photo-id that would be accepted by, say, an airline or a police officer, but if the physical card is lost or stolen and gets used, the store had better have a damn good reason for not matching the face to the card... That's no protection against someone shopping online with the card, but then neither is a signature (or lack of) - hopefully a mismatch in the shipping and billing addresses would take care of that.
CDs and DVDs can say they can't be resold all they want, but first sale law trumps any licensing agreement you might find on the packaging anyway.
That works right up to the time when the RIAA/MPAA manages to get effective DRM technology enabled. If they can make it illegal to digitize without approved hardware, they're one step closer to making "first sale" irrelevant.
IIRC, screen resolution issues are handled in Xen by only letting the host OS set it on the display. The various guest OS's are accessed via VNC within that. Check out the Xen demo CD at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/dow nloads.html. You get a Debian system with some friends:
The Xen demo CD is a live ISO CD running Debian Linux that enables you to try Xen on your system without installing it to the hard disk. It enables you to start other guests running Linux 2.4 and 2.6, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Xvnc is used to enable the graphical console of the domains to be viewed.
Obviously it's not particularly speedy when loading binaries off the CD, but it gives you an idea of the potential.
Is this the type of thing we would see if these other parties gained control of the root servers? Pay up or no DNS for you??
It's not very difficult to set up a DNS. I predict we'd see lots of independant DNS servers springing up, similar to P2P, sharing IP addresses instead of music or videos.
I think I agree with you on that. Personally, I think it's incredibly arrogant of the Creationists to claim that Intelligent Design rules out evolution. They say, "no man can understand the mind of God", and then deny the possibility that their God might choose to allow His creation to update itself over time...
For a Christian, the imperfections in the world are the result of the curse that is on the whole creation as a result of sin. So again, problems in nature are not evidence of bad design but of the curse.
Yep. God is perfect, so He couldn't possibly create a system that has flaws. He did allow us poor, limited humans to fuck up His perfect creation, though, and I've always wondered why He thought that was such a good plan...
Ya know, I never did understand why Arnie didn't just jump really hard into the puddle of liquid metal and scatter it again. Or simply pick up some of the larger frozen chunks and toss them into the smelter...
I said I was out of time... Otherwise I'd have mentioned the 18181 vote miracle, which might actually be coincidence, or the fact that one official in Florida refused to process the voter blacklist because her own name was on it... And I remember reading about one guy who voted for one of the less well supported parties, and when the count came in that party polled zero votes in his district.
I'm sure at least *some* of the items on this page have basis in fact, and some are fantasy, but which ones??
I'm not particularly disillusioned, just being realistic about the shady practices going on in politics. I'm out of time right now, but here's one example: Florida excluding people from the polls because a *similar* name shows up in a list of convicts from some *other* state... And the supposedly validated list cost Florida $millions from some private company.
Nope, not allowed to. In my case, I can't apply for citizenship until after the next round of rigged elections. If the stories from the 2000 Election in Florida are true, a number of actual citizens were illegally excluded from voting. I'm still paying taxes, though, which would be the same "taxation without representation" that got this country started...
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Agreed. Nobody had to do anything to repeal the limit after the bubble burst, because the repeal was builtin when the limits were raised.
there is no active enforcement of H-1B program regulations.
That's not completely true. At least, it wasn't a couple of years ago when my Green Card app went in. The DoL told the company that I wasn't being paid enough, so they gave me a raise. That's not to say that the regulations are properly enforced all over the country, but it worked out OK for me the one time I *know* the system worked.
From Wikipedia, another great building destroyed by stupidity:
In 1687 the Parthenon suffered its greatest blow when the Venetians attacked Athens, and the Ottomans fortified the Acropolis and used the Parthenon as a powder magazine. On September 26 a Venetian shell exploded the magazine and the building was partly destroyed.
Freedom Wireless, a four-person company, has never set up an actual business serving customers; it seeks royalties from companies like BCGI, Verizon Wireless, and Nextel Communications Inc.
You'd have to be careful with that - some things might take longer than a year to produce a working prototype, for example - due to low funding. Maybe: "show significant progress towards a working model" or something like that.
Unfortunately, one reason I can think of for not chasing the offending companies would be "Joe Job" spamming. Suppose company X has a successful product, and company Y has a similar but not so successful product. Company Y engages spammers to "advertize" company X's product. Company X gets hit by the anti-spam police and wastes resources trying to prove a negative - that they *didn't* use spam.
I'd like to think that wouldn't stop the anti-spam police, but who knows...
And some fanatics of a different religion believe that if they die while killing Americans, they go to a paradise where 75 virgins are waiting for them. When they live up to *their* ideals, we call them terrorists. Their own people call them freedom fighters, martyrs, and such.
Are you proposing a crusade, where the Christian peoples of the world hand eneryone else two alternatives - convert, or die?? Which particular brand of Christianity would we be pushing?? Roman Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Anglican, Lutheran, or what??
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No, I think he'll have to sue every publisher for every book that's about to be printed. He'll have to start off richer than the BillG... It'll be like the RIAA/MPAA all over again, with one man issuing hundreds of lawsuits instead of the **AA governing bodies.
My son has a credit card with his photo on it. It's not a photo-id that would be accepted by, say, an airline or a police officer, but if the physical card is lost or stolen and gets used, the store had better have a damn good reason for not matching the face to the card... That's no protection against someone shopping online with the card, but then neither is a signature (or lack of) - hopefully a mismatch in the shipping and billing addresses would take care of that.
That works right up to the time when the RIAA/MPAA manages to get effective DRM technology enabled. If they can make it illegal to digitize without approved hardware, they're one step closer to making "first sale" irrelevant.
Obviously it's not particularly speedy when loading binaries off the CD, but it gives you an idea of the potential.
It's not very difficult to set up a DNS. I predict we'd see lots of independant DNS servers springing up, similar to P2P, sharing IP addresses instead of music or videos.
I think I agree with you on that. Personally, I think it's incredibly arrogant of the Creationists to claim that Intelligent Design rules out evolution. They say, "no man can understand the mind of God", and then deny the possibility that their God might choose to allow His creation to update itself over time...
Yep. God is perfect, so He couldn't possibly create a system that has flaws. He did allow us poor, limited humans to fuck up His perfect creation, though, and I've always wondered why He thought that was such a good plan...
Ya know, I never did understand why Arnie didn't just jump really hard into the puddle of liquid metal and scatter it again. Or simply pick up some of the larger frozen chunks and toss them into the smelter...
Ah, sorry! Well, there are squeeze-grip powered radios and flashlights. Maybe one day someone will adapt that for a camera...
You mean, like the old fashioned manual-wind, shutter-and-film variety that have no electronics at all?? I think they first came out in the 1800s...
I'm sure at least *some* of the items on this page have basis in fact, and some are fantasy, but which ones??
I'm not particularly disillusioned, just being realistic about the shady practices going on in politics. I'm out of time right now, but here's one example: Florida excluding people from the polls because a *similar* name shows up in a list of convicts from some *other* state... And the supposedly validated list cost Florida $millions from some private company.
Nope, not allowed to. In my case, I can't apply for citizenship until after the next round of rigged elections. If the stories from the 2000 Election in Florida are true, a number of actual citizens were illegally excluded from voting. I'm still paying taxes, though, which would be the same "taxation without representation" that got this country started...
Agreed. Nobody had to do anything to repeal the limit after the bubble burst, because the repeal was builtin when the limits were raised.
That's not completely true. At least, it wasn't a couple of years ago when my Green Card app went in. The DoL told the company that I wasn't being paid enough, so they gave me a raise. That's not to say that the regulations are properly enforced all over the country, but it worked out OK for me the one time I *know* the system worked.
It's certainly convenient for the corporations involved if the locals continue as tribal primitives. Maybe it's as simple as that??
Personally, I think if that statement is true, it would still be true if the word "free" is struck out:
Of course, that would be Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot, but that'll *never* happen, will it??
Geeze, I gotta get my eyes checked. I could have sworn that said "disposable nipples"...
I'm sure they won't. The patent-holding company doesn't even run a phone service:
You'd have to be careful with that - some things might take longer than a year to produce a working prototype, for example - due to low funding. Maybe: "show significant progress towards a working model" or something like that.
Didn't work so well for SCO, did it...
Excellent!! With luck the USPTO will be flooded with applications, so everything will slow down...
I'd like to think that wouldn't stop the anti-spam police, but who knows...
Are you proposing a crusade, where the Christian peoples of the world hand eneryone else two alternatives - convert, or die?? Which particular brand of Christianity would we be pushing?? Roman Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Anglican, Lutheran, or what??