Please, if you don't have a grasp of the history, don't post stuff that just confuses the issue. Novell bought the entirety of UNIX from AT&T. Caldera did a deal to acquire the UNIX licensing business from Novell. Caldera changed its name to SCO. The courts have decided that the UNIX copyrights still belong to Novell.
You only missed a verdict if you haven't looked up for seven years! Recently a jury in Utah confirmed what a judge found in a bench trial: Caldera (later SCO Group) did not get, and was not entitled to get, the UNIX copyrights in the 1995 deal they did with Novell. Unless you think that the jury was unreasonable in that finding (and guess what, SCOG and its lawyers do), SCOG does not 'own' UNIX in any useful sense.
Because in mathematics, i, j and k are traditional notation for, e.g. summations. I can't do formula embedding here but think of the big Sigma: sum for all i, integer i ranges from 0 to infinity, that sort of thing. Fortran is FORmula TRANslation language.
NoYob quoted text from www.videoprofessor.com and wrote "this is on the front page of his site".
Apparently one of the tricks of the trade is to vary the nature and composition of the landing page, depending on how you got there (referrer) and/or by geolocation of your IP address. If this is the case, we can't reliably tell somebody what they'll see on the front page of the site, can we?
The manual was translated into English and was introduced earlier this year at the embassy bombing trial in New York. The Department is only providing the following selected text from the manual because it does not want to aid in educating terrorists or encourage further acts of terrorism.
So it seems the US Department of Justice is fairly clear that this is suitable for the public domain, and if it's been introduced as evidence, it's squarely IN the public domain.
Then from the TFA:
On Tuesday they read me a statement confirming it was an illegal document which shouldn't be used for research purposes.
It seems that the Plod haven't even followed up on their sources.
Now, I haven't got the bottle to actually download any of those PDFs (to here in the UK). However, some clueless folk are going to get some real interesting tinyurls real soon now.
PS also from the link:
The attached manual was located by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police
WTF? There's no such organization as the Manchester Metropolitan Police. The force is called the Greater Manchester Police.
AC wrote: Survival of the fittest [and nothing else...]
When we look at the possible range of environmental effects from sustained climate change, and your adaptability to them, then 90% of evolutionary scientists agree that you're unlikely to be anywhere *close* to being a member of the set of fit organisms, pal.
No, I'm pretty sure I mean vasodilator. Ampoules of nitroglycerine in very small quantities are prescribed for patients with angina, as the vasodilation relieves the pain associated with restricted blood flow to the heart - the nitroglycerine goes under the tongue, where it is rapidly absorbed.
You really don't want to rub nitroglycerine on your skin - it's a vasodilator, and will cause you to have a worse headache than you got from that tequila concoction. The tequila... remember? Oh, I guess not.
From beyond the borders of the USA, of which I know little, can I just say that the rest of the world would like the USA to keep right on "thinking through all of the fringe theories", and we wish them luck with the lottery approach to scientific progress. Can I recommend looking for the hole in the North pole that gives entry to the inside of the planet, checking out some of the early patented perpetual motion machines, and examining the psyche of the Intelligent Designer to get insights into cures for cancer?
Meanwhile, the rest of us will proceed with Real Science (TM), which involves building the best testable hypothesis for what we can see, and testing it. The more tests it withstands, the stronger it becomes. Guess which one has produced the best results in the years since the Enlightenment?
I didn't say it was a reason not to do it, I just said that the "Woohoo! Here's an insanely cheap way into orbit" argument wasn't a reason *to* do it. Are your bridge tolls "insanely cheap" from the day of their opening? As a potential investor, I want those tolls to be as high as the market will bear.
once it's there, getting things into space will be insanely cheap
No it won't. The owners of the Space Elevator will have an insanely large debt to service, which they will do by charging just a leetle bit less than the ESA for the privilege of putting your payload into orbit. This is just market economics. Also, they probably won't accept payloads consisting of large lengths of carbon nanotube ribbon...
Kerrist! If the real Ashley Heyer isn't the person who presented the ID, then Ashley Heyer must have had her *face* stolen as well as her identity. See if you can keep up: The REAL Ashley Heyer says that her REAL photograph (in which she asserts copyright) was posted on a blog. It wasn't the face::photograph mismatch that gave the game away, but the quality of the forgery and the backstory. Whoever uttered the forged ID was the owner of the face. Ashley Heyer says that it was Ashley Heyer. QED.
I suppose her defense will be that someone stole her photo and created a fake ID without her permission
Yeah, and then the evil someone gave it back to her without her permission, and she involuntarily used it to try to blag beer in a NY bar. Good luck with empanneling a jury to buy that one.
There are many scientists who strongly appose the current evolutionary model.
This may be true, but on reading the link you posted Harun Yahya is not one of them. The tone of the site is name-calling, unsupported assertion and wilful ignorance.
Yes. The parent has it right. Lots of people who don't think about this deeply have real trouble realizing that no individual ever evolves. The emergence of antibiotic resistance in a population is a reflection of more widespread expression of a gene for metabolizing the antibiotic. The population evolves, not the individuals. What's more, it's only the germ line that evolves. In animals like you and me, that means that the only mutations that can be passed on are those that occur in the ovaries or testes before the end of breeding fitness.
Back on topic, the Rest of the World observes the US hamstringing its science and education, and gets a nice warm feeling about the competitiveness of home pharmaceutical and bioengineering industries.
The British Army is the Army. Nobody calls it HM Army. There's the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Royal Air Force. It would be seriously inappropriate for anyone to reveal an MI6 affiliation for anything as trivial as a traffic offence. I'm sceptical. Can you tell?
This will certainly have put the authors' gizzajob plea in front of many eyeballs, and that may be its primary value.
A more interesting approach to the harnessing of our pattern recognition abilities to spotting significant sequences in the chromosomes would be to display the genetic code in colours relating to, e.g. the hydrophilic/hydrophobic nature of the encoded amino acids. I agree with earlier posters; anything you spot in an arbitrarily-wrapped 4-colour mapping of bases is so far separated from a meaningful biological message that the site as it stands is just a bit less interesting than zooming in on bits of the Mandelbrot set. FRACTINT, anyone?
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Please, if you don't have a grasp of the history, don't post stuff that just confuses the issue. Novell bought the entirety of UNIX from AT&T. Caldera did a deal to acquire the UNIX licensing business from Novell. Caldera changed its name to SCO. The courts have decided that the UNIX copyrights still belong to Novell.
You only missed a verdict if you haven't looked up for seven years! Recently a jury in Utah confirmed what a judge found in a bench trial: Caldera (later SCO Group) did not get, and was not entitled to get, the UNIX copyrights in the 1995 deal they did with Novell. Unless you think that the jury was unreasonable in that finding (and guess what, SCOG and its lawyers do), SCOG does not 'own' UNIX in any useful sense.
Because in mathematics, i, j and k are traditional notation for, e.g. summations. I can't do formula embedding here but think of the big Sigma: sum for all i, integer i ranges from 0 to infinity, that sort of thing. Fortran is FORmula TRANslation language.
King George III is dead. Some time ago. Sorry to break it to you so harshly.
NoYob quoted text from www.videoprofessor.com and wrote "this is on the front page of his site". Apparently one of the tricks of the trade is to vary the nature and composition of the landing page, depending on how you got there (referrer) and/or by geolocation of your IP address. If this is the case, we can't reliably tell somebody what they'll see on the front page of the site, can we?
From the link:
So it seems the US Department of Justice is fairly clear that this is suitable for the public domain, and if it's been introduced as evidence, it's squarely IN the public domain.
Then from the TFA:
It seems that the Plod haven't even followed up on their sources.
Now, I haven't got the bottle to actually download any of those PDFs (to here in the UK). However, some clueless folk are going to get some real interesting tinyurls real soon now.
PS also from the link:
WTF? There's no such organization as the Manchester Metropolitan Police. The force is called the Greater Manchester Police.AC wrote: Survival of the fittest [and nothing else...] When we look at the possible range of environmental effects from sustained climate change, and your adaptability to them, then 90% of evolutionary scientists agree that you're unlikely to be anywhere *close* to being a member of the set of fit organisms, pal.
No, I'm pretty sure I mean vasodilator. Ampoules of nitroglycerine in very small quantities are prescribed for patients with angina, as the vasodilation relieves the pain associated with restricted blood flow to the heart - the nitroglycerine goes under the tongue, where it is rapidly absorbed.
You really don't want to rub nitroglycerine on your skin - it's a vasodilator, and will cause you to have a worse headache than you got from that tequila concoction. The tequila... remember? Oh, I guess not.
Anthromorphic would mean that it's man-shaped. Anthrogenic (caused by man) is the word you seek. Geeks should know more Greek.
From beyond the borders of the USA, of which I know little, can I just say that the rest of the world would like the USA to keep right on "thinking through all of the fringe theories", and we wish them luck with the lottery approach to scientific progress. Can I recommend looking for the hole in the North pole that gives entry to the inside of the planet, checking out some of the early patented perpetual motion machines, and examining the psyche of the Intelligent Designer to get insights into cures for cancer? Meanwhile, the rest of us will proceed with Real Science (TM), which involves building the best testable hypothesis for what we can see, and testing it. The more tests it withstands, the stronger it becomes. Guess which one has produced the best results in the years since the Enlightenment?
Where do you get the idea that you need to "sign the Official Secrets Act" in order to be covered by its provisions? Nobody has to "sign the Official Secrets Act" but as a Crown servant (or contractor) one is required to sign a piece of paper which acknowledges that one understands the Act's provisions. All persons in UK jurisdiction are covered by the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989. The 1989 Act was "An Act to replace section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 by provisions protecting more limited classes of official information" The 1989 Act does not affect the operation of section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, which protects information useful to an enemy. The maximum penalty for offences under section 1 of the 1911 Act is fourteen years' imprisonment.
Whassat? The figure of speech (verging on cliche) is "to all intents and purposes". Perhaps your speech recognition device needs tuning.
I didn't say it was a reason not to do it, I just said that the "Woohoo! Here's an insanely cheap way into orbit" argument wasn't a reason *to* do it. Are your bridge tolls "insanely cheap" from the day of their opening? As a potential investor, I want those tolls to be as high as the market will bear.
That's truly insightful, you know. If you read to the bottom of the page, it says "I work for Microsoft".
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
Kerrist! If the real Ashley Heyer isn't the person who presented the ID, then Ashley Heyer must have had her *face* stolen as well as her identity. See if you can keep up: The REAL Ashley Heyer says that her REAL photograph (in which she asserts copyright) was posted on a blog. It wasn't the face::photograph mismatch that gave the game away, but the quality of the forgery and the backstory. Whoever uttered the forged ID was the owner of the face. Ashley Heyer says that it was Ashley Heyer. QED.
Yeah, and then the evil someone gave it back to her without her permission, and she involuntarily used it to try to blag beer in a NY bar. Good luck with empanneling a jury to buy that one.
Back on topic, the Rest of the World observes the US hamstringing its science and education, and gets a nice warm feeling about the competitiveness of home pharmaceutical and bioengineering industries.
The British Army is the Army. Nobody calls it HM Army. There's the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Royal Air Force. It would be seriously inappropriate for anyone to reveal an MI6 affiliation for anything as trivial as a traffic offence. I'm sceptical. Can you tell?
This will certainly have put the authors' gizzajob plea in front of many eyeballs, and that may be its primary value. A more interesting approach to the harnessing of our pattern recognition abilities to spotting significant sequences in the chromosomes would be to display the genetic code in colours relating to, e.g. the hydrophilic/hydrophobic nature of the encoded amino acids. I agree with earlier posters; anything you spot in an arbitrarily-wrapped 4-colour mapping of bases is so far separated from a meaningful biological message that the site as it stands is just a bit less interesting than zooming in on bits of the Mandelbrot set. FRACTINT, anyone?
ITYM getting AltaVista users to switch.
If your chemistry teacher had thought about it, removing the power cable from the wall would have been a more effective block!
I know, I'm a spoilsport.