Actually, even from reading the summary I assumed it was a coding error. Isn't that exactly the point, though? If this kind of trivial error gets through testing so easily, how can we have any confidence that more significant and impactful errors aren't slipping through?
So IP law using a car analogy works something like this...
You come up with a brilliant idea--let's call it a "Porsche" just for the sake of argument. Unfortunately, IP law is like driving your Porsche on a one-lane dirt road behind a tractor with a top speed of 5 mph.
Multiplication is an unnecessary abstraction anyway. This should really be represented by summing the value of 77.1 entered independently into 850 cells: =sum(a1:a850).
So if Vonage just gets rid of their call tracking and billing but keeps the rest in tact, that might just be the icing on the cake for my Vonage line...
Actually, that is not true. I had a conversation with my brother (who is a lawyer specialized in international law) a while back when I first heard about this. The jist of it is, the transaction is considered legal or illegal based on where the transaction was initiated. If you go to Russia, download from there, then come back to the U.S., it would be "importing" as you indicated. However, even though the servers are in Russia, if you initiate the transaction from here, it would be considered the same as if the server were in the U.S. for legality purposes. And although you may still have to go to court to really determine whether it is legal, that's likely just a technicality. They are not licensed to sell that music in the U.S., so it's illegal to purchase it while in the U.S..
In the United States, I don't think you can even send your kid to school until after they have had their shots.
Actually, you can. However, I believe you have to do some extra paperwork of some sort to excuse your child from the requirement. In our case, we adopted three children who weren't current on their shots, and got a legal waiver for the first year of school giving us time to get things current (which they now are). However, a family that lives two doors down from us is very opposed to immunizations, and their children have not had the standard rounds of shots, but still go to school. I don't know what was required to enroll them, but they managed somehow.
The doctor, Philip Mach, had a license to practice medicine in New Jersey but he 1: provided prescriptions to people throughout the United States 2: without ever evaluating them, both of which are big no-no's.
So, if I type that (approximate) expression into vim while a "document" is loaded with the:s/ command, it will hilight all found occurances. A simple:noh will then turn the hilighting off. So would that ability not serve as prior art? You could even setup a macro do to it with a single keypress. Granted, you still have to create the macro, but the software is already capable of doing the job.
Based on this article, I predict there will be an article posted on Slashdot within the next 24 hours that will talk about using cell phones to predict the future!
Wouldn't it be nice if it all averaged out that nicely? I could live with 8 minutes a day. The problem comes when I lose 2 hours every other week, or something along those lines. The outages never spread themselves out to minimize the impact.
I wouldn't say useless. 911 operators can either assist, or put you in touch with someone who can assist you by providing instructions on how to deal with a lot of situations. If you aren't trained, chances are 911 can help. Onsite skill is always better, but that doesn't mean 911 is useless.
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Even so, the content was included on the shipping media. And since hacks appeared so quickly, it must not have been too well hidden, or too difficult to access. My "computer learning" as a kid included tweaking files, twiddling bits, etc., and I would hope that my kids can feel free to do the same without too many unexpected surprises. If this content was never intended to be part of the "overall gameplay of the game" it should never have been included in the first place. The rating should reflect everything that is in the box.
I have to wonder why we waste so much time in the discussion threads telling the editors how poorly they do their jobs. It's obvious that they don't even pay much attention to the actual submitted articles. Do you think they actually read the discussions?
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Actually, even from reading the summary I assumed it was a coding error. Isn't that exactly the point, though? If this kind of trivial error gets through testing so easily, how can we have any confidence that more significant and impactful errors aren't slipping through?
You come up with a brilliant idea--let's call it a "Porsche" just for the sake of argument. Unfortunately, IP law is like driving your Porsche on a one-lane dirt road behind a tractor with a top speed of 5 mph.
Does that help?
My 18-month old has been depositing random items in random places lately. I'll look around and see if I'm missing anything again today.
How is MS supposed to read my mail if I send it through Google's service anyway?
Multiplication is an unnecessary abstraction anyway. This should really be represented by summing the value of 77.1 entered independently into 850 cells: =sum(a1:a850).
Not usually true. Most babies do it out of impulse (sucking reflex) without being taught anything -- but there are some who require assistance.
So if Vonage just gets rid of their call tracking and billing but keeps the rest in tact, that might just be the icing on the cake for my Vonage line...
Do we want to ruin the web again with untested and proprietary extensions like plugins?
When did we stop?
of what we have now: Windows-supported ads.
Well, that clears up one point: the cure isn't spread the same way as the disease...
Way to look at the positive side! Sheesh... I had to turn on my special boolean processor just to read that last sentence.
Actually, that is not true. I had a conversation with my brother (who is a lawyer specialized in international law) a while back when I first heard about this. The jist of it is, the transaction is considered legal or illegal based on where the transaction was initiated. If you go to Russia, download from there, then come back to the U.S., it would be "importing" as you indicated. However, even though the servers are in Russia, if you initiate the transaction from here, it would be considered the same as if the server were in the U.S. for legality purposes. And although you may still have to go to court to really determine whether it is legal, that's likely just a technicality. They are not licensed to sell that music in the U.S., so it's illegal to purchase it while in the U.S..
Oh, never mind.
Actually, you can. However, I believe you have to do some extra paperwork of some sort to excuse your child from the requirement. In our case, we adopted three children who weren't current on their shots, and got a legal waiver for the first year of school giving us time to get things current (which they now are). However, a family that lives two doors down from us is very opposed to immunizations, and their children have not had the standard rounds of shots, but still go to school. I don't know what was required to enroll them, but they managed somehow.
The doctor, Philip Mach, had a license to practice medicine in New Jersey but he 1: provided prescriptions to people throughout the United States 2: without ever evaluating them, both of which are big no-no's.
Better?
So, if I type that (approximate) expression into vim while a "document" is loaded with the :s/ command, it will hilight all found occurances. A simple :noh will then turn the hilighting off. So would that ability not serve as prior art? You could even setup a macro do to it with a single keypress. Granted, you still have to create the macro, but the software is already capable of doing the job.
Based on this article, I predict there will be an article posted on Slashdot within the next 24 hours that will talk about using cell phones to predict the future!
Wouldn't it be nice if it all averaged out that nicely? I could live with 8 minutes a day. The problem comes when I lose 2 hours every other week, or something along those lines. The outages never spread themselves out to minimize the impact.
I wouldn't say useless. 911 operators can either assist, or put you in touch with someone who can assist you by providing instructions on how to deal with a lot of situations. If you aren't trained, chances are 911 can help. Onsite skill is always better, but that doesn't mean 911 is useless.
Don't for get the Llamas!
Even so, the content was included on the shipping media. And since hacks appeared so quickly, it must not have been too well hidden, or too difficult to access. My "computer learning" as a kid included tweaking files, twiddling bits, etc., and I would hope that my kids can feel free to do the same without too many unexpected surprises. If this content was never intended to be part of the "overall gameplay of the game" it should never have been included in the first place. The rating should reflect everything that is in the box.
I have to wonder why we waste so much time in the discussion threads telling the editors how poorly they do their jobs. It's obvious that they don't even pay much attention to the actual submitted articles. Do you think they actually read the discussions?
It's a new "dupe" filter they are testing. I guess it still has a few bugs...
So are government employees...
I believe you are referring to this article