I'd say over 5000 years old! This picture was one of the last ones taken by our ancestors before they boarded the last ships off of Mars towards Earth. After laying waste to all of Mars' natural resources and destroying the atmosphere, they needed a new place to call home. With the buildings and cars turning into fine iron dust under the heavy beating of the UV rays of the sun, they took one last snapshot and headed for Earth. Of course, there was a problem on the ride here and the computer lost all of its memory with only the hairdressers and accountants surviving the trip...
I think you know how the rest went.
It's good to see the picture's survived this long...it bodes well for Kodak and Fuji in our future.
RTFA. The use of a honeypot won't get you in trouble. The prosecution of someone hacking your honeypot won't get you in trouble. The prosecution of someone hacking your fileserver based solely on the honeypot's logs has the *potential* to get you in trouble.
Surely if the company is distributing GPL code under additional restrictive licensing agreements, the recipient can jsut ignore these and redistribute the code freely under the GPL? (Assuming he was very sure that this was the case.)
No, because then the developer/recipient would be liable for breach of the contract with OpenTV (aka "2 wrongs don't make a right")....and don't call me Shirley.
. It's like having a really long exhaust pipe, and then claiming that since the exhaust fumes are nowhere near your car, you aren't the one causing them
No it isn't. If you had a really long exhaust pipe, then it would be like having a really long exhaust pipe.
An electric vehicle generates no emissions from the vehicle. Therefore, it is a zero-emission vehicle. Does it still often get fueled by a polluting fuel source? Yes. But the vehicle itself is zero-emission. Welcome to the english language.
If I sold my car (1991 Celica ST) privately...I'd still need about $2000 to buy a Segway HT...and yet I fall right into their prime market (live 3 miles from work in Boston with easy access to everything I need in the scooter's power range).
Besides, now that there are so many SUVs anyone in a small car is much more likely to get squashed in an accident rather than dinged or jolted.
But did you know that a pedestrian is better off getting hit by an SUV than a smaller, more fuel-efficient car? The broader, taller front end distributes the impact along the entire torso of an adult rather than catching them in the leg with a much shorter profile of a coupe or sedan and causing their head to whip down onto the hood while their feet go under the bumper.
If it's actually GPS, then it needs a clear line of sight to a good number of satellite signals. Usually I can't even go under a dense canopy of leaves, let alone sticking my GPS under my skin in an office building or under a heavy coat...
How is this thing going to be useful for anyone but the nudist outdoorsman clubs??
The problem here is that "reverse-engineering" is not a valid excuse to broach copyright of written/spoken word. Take, for example, a book reading. If I go to a book reading and listen to everything the person says and then repost it on the web for others to read through...how is that any different than just getting a copy of the book and typing it into the computer?
It's not and I think it's unfair to suggest that an author should never read any part of their book aloud or else they relinquish the copyright on those words to the people present.
It's one thing to have a black box or a Hungry Hungry Hippos board and figure out just how the levers work to gobble the marbles and discuss the engineering. It's another when you only duplicate the end product.
That being said, I think this is a dumb fight for the MPA because of the fact that music (as opposed to my book analogy) is a composite product and posting lyrics or guitar tabs does not represent the whole of the published works in a detailed enough manner to bring about a copyright concern. It would be different if a website provided the musical score for the entire band for a song (lyrics, guitar tabs, drum sheet, horn section, etc). John Mayer may have a complaint if a company puts up a copy of his one-man guitar charts...I don't think anybody's going to consider a 13 year old's attempt to type up Guns and Roses' "November Rain" lyrics as an affront to the band's rights.
This is all good, but what happens when your NIS/NFS server goes down? In our lab, it means most people can't login at all anywhere in lab and all login requests take ages to error and die.
Maybe what we need is a Robot/. Moderator Competition. I'm sure even Minsky's students have enough time to put together a robot that won't dupe the front page.
I was watching Celebrity Justice just today (don't ask) and it seems that Gylennhahallla was put in because he's dating Dunst and Raimi was upset with McGuire. But before Tobey can come back to play Spiderman (which is what everyone would prefer when attitudes aren't flying) he's now going to have to pass a physical and consider a paycut.
The entire front exhibit of the MIT museum. For anyone in Boston who has been to the museum, they know that there are some amazing walking robots (check out the PBS shows where they do flips and things) and that robot that looks like a giant Furby face which mimics emotions based on audio and visual input.
Also, there's the robot that went to the psych meeting and hit that guy in the ankle and didn't even apologize, but delivered his own seminar on how he was created and took a quick Q and A afterwards.
Third, I nominate the Terminator. That's just one mad motivated machine...and it's back!
RIAAD00D: It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer....When you break the law, you risk legal penalties. There is a simple way to avoid that risk: DON'T STEAL MUSIC either by offering it to others to copy or downloading it on a 'file-sharing' system like this. When you offer music on these systems, you are not anonymous and you can easily be identified.
KazRiprock: You got the new Britney Spears??
RIAAD00D: Yeah, is your copy of Quake3Arena working...s/n?
KazRiprock: Of course! You want it?
RIAAD00D: Cool, thanks! But just take your music offline, okay?
Just so you all know, this is about as fruitful as SETI, so don't go giving up on that just because this "sounds" like it'll be more important or yield a more relevant result. It won't. I work on this type of protein modelling and drug-protein interaction research. The state of the art is that anything produced by your client is going to be at best a wild guess at what the protein looks like or what interactions the drug will make with the protein.
The "scoring" that your results are based on is just how nice the energy is of the final folded protein. This is flawed in a couple of ways, first it means that we need to know nearly everything about protein folding energetics and calculate it with a tidy formula (not yet...but we're getting there) and it means that the folds chosen by the algorithm to test for these energies are all the possible folds (last best guess is that we only know about 80% of all folds)...and then if you're going to try to use this for docking a drug molecule...you open a whole new can of drug-protein interaction knowledge necessary.
SETI actually has a better scoring method for finding a "hit" and while the result (hey, look radio from space) isn't as tangible as killing a virus...I'd say stick with the SETI or try and break the XBox number....or find some more prime numbers. At this point, distributed protein folding/docking isn't just fishing in the dark, it's fishing in the dark in Death Valley.
If your copyright (in which you make the book/software copylefted) is violated, you should have civil action available to you outside of the DMCA. If you need to sue this person specifically, I'm sure there are a number of ways you can get his information without resorting to the DMCA "must give" statute. My first guess (and this is just a wild guess) is that if you ask eBay for it and they refuse pointing you to their vero service, then you should probably find a lawyer who can bully them into it with either a lawsuit or some sort of pre-filing motion which would make them give it up or some how get them in some sort of "conspiracy" with the violator...
IAN only NAL, I'm not even a law student...but my guess is that the legal paths for you were already set well before the DMCA and it may just take some research or a good lawyer who can talk with the EFF and FSF guys.
Ack! Since one person was a criminal, everybody who has a Bushmaster hunting rifle.
Who said that? I sure didn't. I used the DC snipers as an example of someone who fit your criteria for justifying gun ownership and yet should not have had access to a gun.
I have every right to have a gun, just because I want to.
No, you don't necessarily have a "right to a gun". We take away the "right to a gun" from people for various reasons (the main one being criminal history). There is no Second Amendment right to have a gun "because I want to". Unless your firearm is to be used as a well-regulated militiaman, you do not have a literal "right" to it. But then again, it's also not criminal or necessarily "wrong" to have that firearm either. If your skewed view of the 2nd Amendment were true, then why not take away an ex-criminal's 4th amendment rights as well. If we're throwing away people's "rights", they should all be up for grabs...or isn't that the exact same reasoning that gun lobbyists used to defend why we should not infringe on the 2nd Amendment by continually outlawing more and more firearms?
Also, please don't use such specious logic as "fists and bombs...why not outlaw those". I said I don't necessarily advocate the criminalization of the tool. If you're simply trolling for a fight, there's nothing left to be said.
Now, name a particularly good reason why I shouldn't. I'm trained in handling, marksmanship, and am not a felon.
Before the DC snipers shot their first person, they were not felons and were well-trained in the handling and marksmanship of their weapons.
I am not advocating the criminalization of a tool, I'm just pointing out that your criteria above for "what should justify my ability to have a firearm just because I want to" is wrong.
If you vote from home, then there's no exit polling. How is Peter Jennings going to tell California, Alaska, and Hawaii how to vote if he doesn't have the numbers from Maine, Florida, and New York in time??
This is a release similar to America's Army: Operations ( http://www.americasarmy.com )...different means but same ends. I guess if the US Army can put out a game to try and interest boys in signing up for active service, we should also have a title that suggests some boys should also run around torturing non-Aryans and hoarding art and treasure...
Good point, that means that the friends of 25% of the women over age 30 don't send cards to their friend who would beat them to death with their own limbs if they reminded them that they were getting older and older....that's a lot of lost card sales...
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I'd say over 5000 years old! This picture was one of the last ones taken by our ancestors before they boarded the last ships off of Mars towards Earth. After laying waste to all of Mars' natural resources and destroying the atmosphere, they needed a new place to call home. With the buildings and cars turning into fine iron dust under the heavy beating of the UV rays of the sun, they took one last snapshot and headed for Earth. Of course, there was a problem on the ride here and the computer lost all of its memory with only the hairdressers and accountants surviving the trip...
I think you know how the rest went.
It's good to see the picture's survived this long...it bodes well for Kodak and Fuji in our future.
RTFA. The use of a honeypot won't get you in trouble. The prosecution of someone hacking your honeypot won't get you in trouble. The prosecution of someone hacking your fileserver based solely on the honeypot's logs has the *potential* to get you in trouble.
Surely if the company is distributing GPL code under additional restrictive licensing agreements, the recipient can jsut ignore these and redistribute the code freely under the GPL? (Assuming he was very sure that this was the case.)
...and don't call me Shirley.
No, because then the developer/recipient would be liable for breach of the contract with OpenTV (aka "2 wrongs don't make a right").
. It's like having a really long exhaust pipe, and then claiming that since the exhaust fumes are nowhere near your car, you aren't the one causing them
No it isn't. If you had a really long exhaust pipe, then it would be like having a really long exhaust pipe.
An electric vehicle generates no emissions from the vehicle. Therefore, it is a zero-emission vehicle. Does it still often get fueled by a polluting fuel source? Yes. But the vehicle itself is zero-emission. Welcome to the english language.
If I sold my car (1991 Celica ST) privately...I'd still need about $2000 to buy a Segway HT...and yet I fall right into their prime market (live 3 miles from work in Boston with easy access to everything I need in the scooter's power range).
Besides, now that there are so many SUVs anyone in a small car is much more likely to get squashed in an accident rather than dinged or jolted.
But did you know that a pedestrian is better off getting hit by an SUV than a smaller, more fuel-efficient car? The broader, taller front end distributes the impact along the entire torso of an adult rather than catching them in the leg with a much shorter profile of a coupe or sedan and causing their head to whip down onto the hood while their feet go under the bumper.
So, save the pedestrians! Buy an SUV!
If it's actually GPS, then it needs a clear line of sight to a good number of satellite signals. Usually I can't even go under a dense canopy of leaves, let alone sticking my GPS under my skin in an office building or under a heavy coat...
How is this thing going to be useful for anyone but the nudist outdoorsman clubs??
Ok, I didn't actually have anything to say, I just wanted to draw attention to my new sig.
Mmmmmmm...burning karma....alggggllllglglggg.
The problem here is that "reverse-engineering" is not a valid excuse to broach copyright of written/spoken word. Take, for example, a book reading. If I go to a book reading and listen to everything the person says and then repost it on the web for others to read through...how is that any different than just getting a copy of the book and typing it into the computer?
It's not and I think it's unfair to suggest that an author should never read any part of their book aloud or else they relinquish the copyright on those words to the people present.
It's one thing to have a black box or a Hungry Hungry Hippos board and figure out just how the levers work to gobble the marbles and discuss the engineering. It's another when you only duplicate the end product.
That being said, I think this is a dumb fight for the MPA because of the fact that music (as opposed to my book analogy) is a composite product and posting lyrics or guitar tabs does not represent the whole of the published works in a detailed enough manner to bring about a copyright concern. It would be different if a website provided the musical score for the entire band for a song (lyrics, guitar tabs, drum sheet, horn section, etc). John Mayer may have a complaint if a company puts up a copy of his one-man guitar charts...I don't think anybody's going to consider a 13 year old's attempt to type up Guns and Roses' "November Rain" lyrics as an affront to the band's rights.
This is all good, but what happens when your NIS/NFS server goes down? In our lab, it means most people can't login at all anywhere in lab and all login requests take ages to error and die.
Any idea how to help this problem?
Maybe what we need is a Robot /. Moderator Competition. I'm sure even Minsky's students have enough time to put together a robot that won't dupe the front page.
I was watching Celebrity Justice just today (don't ask) and it seems that Gylennhahallla was put in because he's dating Dunst and Raimi was upset with McGuire. But before Tobey can come back to play Spiderman (which is what everyone would prefer when attitudes aren't flying) he's now going to have to pass a physical and consider a paycut.
He is.
The entire front exhibit of the MIT museum. For anyone in Boston who has been to the museum, they know that there are some amazing walking robots (check out the PBS shows where they do flips and things) and that robot that looks like a giant Furby face which mimics emotions based on audio and visual input.
Also, there's the robot that went to the psych meeting and hit that guy in the ankle and didn't even apologize, but delivered his own seminar on how he was created and took a quick Q and A afterwards.
Third, I nominate the Terminator. That's just one mad motivated machine...and it's back!
What ever happened at the PLUG April meeting where we were told they would be interviewing SCO with our questions that were submitted?
Anybody have any idea what happened at the meeting or have a transcript from the questioning?
Their mailing list doesn't seem to have much mention of it.
RIAAD00D: It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer. ...When you break the law, you risk legal penalties. There is a simple way to avoid that risk: DON'T STEAL MUSIC either by offering it to others to copy or downloading it on a 'file-sharing' system like this. When you offer music on these systems, you are not anonymous and you can easily be identified.
KazRiprock: You got the new Britney Spears??
RIAAD00D: Yeah, is your copy of Quake3Arena working...s/n?
KazRiprock: Of course! You want it?
RIAAD00D: Cool, thanks! But just take your music offline, okay?
KazRiprock: Sure, whatever...
The comic is titled:
"Read It Before They Take Legal Action"
Maybe that should be "Read It Before They Take Slashdot Action"
Just so you all know, this is about as fruitful as SETI, so don't go giving up on that just because this "sounds" like it'll be more important or yield a more relevant result. It won't. I work on this type of protein modelling and drug-protein interaction research. The state of the art is that anything produced by your client is going to be at best a wild guess at what the protein looks like or what interactions the drug will make with the protein.
The "scoring" that your results are based on is just how nice the energy is of the final folded protein. This is flawed in a couple of ways, first it means that we need to know nearly everything about protein folding energetics and calculate it with a tidy formula (not yet...but we're getting there) and it means that the folds chosen by the algorithm to test for these energies are all the possible folds (last best guess is that we only know about 80% of all folds)...and then if you're going to try to use this for docking a drug molecule...you open a whole new can of drug-protein interaction knowledge necessary.
SETI actually has a better scoring method for finding a "hit" and while the result (hey, look radio from space) isn't as tangible as killing a virus...I'd say stick with the SETI or try and break the XBox number....or find some more prime numbers. At this point, distributed protein folding/docking isn't just fishing in the dark, it's fishing in the dark in Death Valley.
If your copyright (in which you make the book/software copylefted) is violated, you should have civil action available to you outside of the DMCA. If you need to sue this person specifically, I'm sure there are a number of ways you can get his information without resorting to the DMCA "must give" statute. My first guess (and this is just a wild guess) is that if you ask eBay for it and they refuse pointing you to their vero service, then you should probably find a lawyer who can bully them into it with either a lawsuit or some sort of pre-filing motion which would make them give it up or some how get them in some sort of "conspiracy" with the violator...
IAN only NAL, I'm not even a law student...but my guess is that the legal paths for you were already set well before the DMCA and it may just take some research or a good lawyer who can talk with the EFF and FSF guys.
Ack! Since one person was a criminal, everybody who has a Bushmaster hunting rifle.
Who said that? I sure didn't. I used the DC snipers as an example of someone who fit your criteria for justifying gun ownership and yet should not have had access to a gun.
I have every right to have a gun, just because I want to.
No, you don't necessarily have a "right to a gun". We take away the "right to a gun" from people for various reasons (the main one being criminal history). There is no Second Amendment right to have a gun "because I want to". Unless your firearm is to be used as a well-regulated militiaman, you do not have a literal "right" to it. But then again, it's also not criminal or necessarily "wrong" to have that firearm either. If your skewed view of the 2nd Amendment were true, then why not take away an ex-criminal's 4th amendment rights as well. If we're throwing away people's "rights", they should all be up for grabs...or isn't that the exact same reasoning that gun lobbyists used to defend why we should not infringe on the 2nd Amendment by continually outlawing more and more firearms?
Also, please don't use such specious logic as "fists and bombs...why not outlaw those". I said I don't necessarily advocate the criminalization of the tool. If you're simply trolling for a fight, there's nothing left to be said.
Now, name a particularly good reason why I shouldn't. I'm trained in handling, marksmanship, and am not a felon.
Before the DC snipers shot their first person, they were not felons and were well-trained in the handling and marksmanship of their weapons.
I am not advocating the criminalization of a tool, I'm just pointing out that your criteria above for "what should justify my ability to have a firearm just because I want to" is wrong.
If you vote from home, then there's no exit polling. How is Peter Jennings going to tell California, Alaska, and Hawaii how to vote if he doesn't have the numbers from Maine, Florida, and New York in time??
Eh...who cares.
This is a release similar to America's Army: Operations ( http://www.americasarmy.com )...different means but same ends. I guess if the US Army can put out a game to try and interest boys in signing up for active service, we should also have a title that suggests some boys should also run around torturing non-Aryans and hoarding art and treasure...
Good point, that means that the friends of 25% of the women over age 30 don't send cards to their friend who would beat them to death with their own limbs if they reminded them that they were getting older and older....that's a lot of lost card sales...