A very interesting question could be posed by a contributor to the kernel, asking when SCO is going to stop violating his copyright by distributing in violation of the GPL...
Given _proper storage_, microfilm is supposed to last a few hundred years.
True for properly processed silver halide original film. The diazo (blue) copies are much more fragile, and are particularly sensitive to both ultraviolet and ammonia fumes (same underlying technology as blueprints, but on polyester film). But even those keep well in a cool, dark place for at least a dozen years.
Hubble was an orbital instrument, not "Earth-based"
"It's a testament to how much our Earth-based instruments have improved in 20 plus years that we can now see such faint objects 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion km) away," says Mark Showalter, a senior research associate at Stanford University.
Or did it re-enter the atmosphere and I missed it?
All indications are that users, important members of the internet community we all serve, are benefiting from the improved web navigation offered by Site Finder.
I hope Darl isn't too mad about Russ bogarting the crack pipe...
On the other hand, perhaps we can hope they kill each other fighting over it.
I suspect this only works because spelling is usually consistent and our brains process the scrambled letters into visual patterns (not linguistic ones) that are more familiar. In that sense, perhaps, it's like an optical illusion in which we perceive the expected rather than what's actually before us.
That said, if such scrambling became commonplace - or spelling became a free-for-all (in general (in scientific journals, say...) - I think the ability to read through the "noise" of the scrambling would be vastly diminished.
Mosaics? Damn, I make mobiles out of them -- a few dowels, some monofilament and good to go! Pretty spectra on the walls on sunny days (I glue pairs of them label-to-label to maximize this)
It's been a while since I read Friday, but as I recall her sexuality was rather important. It gradually changed throughout the book, as she moved from accepting herself as a chattel (Artificial Person) to a human being. Effective slavery for APs was commonplace; she overcame that -- and in the process came to see her sexuality as her own.
The versioning is actually correct; 4.0 introduced the iTMS, and 4.0.1 restricted streaming to the local subnet. I didn't see a need to upgrade -- even though I don't have any desire to stream other than locally -- so I still run iTunes 4.0
1) Unless it clearly states in the agreement made with apple, there is nothing preventing him from making this sale. He purchased the right to listen to that song in the specific format, it's his to dispose of as he chooses.
A case might be made the original purchaser has an implicit contract with Apple to maintain their authorization server, and that there's no provision in that to require Apple to expend resources doing such transfers. Of course Apple could turn around and say, "Fine; the transfer fee is $5 ($50 for albums)"
If nothing else, it all raises very interesting questions.
Perhaps you don't see it as an investment... but there are many people now buying and selling rare vinyl at high prices. Some of your CDs might well some day become collectors' items.
In the present case, though, it seems that the license to the AAC file would become the collector's item. That would make for interesting changes in the collecting market; the actual "collectable" item would be an abstract "right", not a physical piece of vinyl or polycarbonate.
I didn't notice in the article (which read, yes) any reference to what OS the nodes of this cluster might run... I think the hardware is really sexy, and I use OS X 10.2 (client) on a daily basis, but i can't imagine that vt.edu is going to build such a cluster and use off-the-shelf software.
This includes security updates and point-revisions of the OS (which one might presume to have less-critical security updates rolled into them), and excludes application specific updates for the i-App suite, Safari, etc. that were not labelled as "Security" related (one might assert that they were in fact security related, but they included point-upgrades to the applications as well. Those toatlled perhaps 8-10 updates over the span covered). Note that two (Stuffit! and IE) are for 3rd-party bundled apps with labelled "Security" updates.
yes, I'm aware that I haven't installed the latest one to patch the off-by-one bug that impacts the FTP server. I'm waiting until I need to reboot for some other reason.
TOTAL UPDATES OVER THE PAST 10 MONTHS: 5. 7 if you count patches to 3rd party apps, one of which was IE. 10 if you're really liberal and include the point-revisions of the OS too.
Please tell me where these "lot of security updates in the past 6 months" are... I'm not seeing them.
You're absolutely right. That's an absurd burden. This is why the Federal Governent should take all of SCO's alleged IP by eminent domain then GPL it. Case(s) dismissed at that point.
He was awarded filing and court costs, which go to the court to compensate the taxpayers to the tune of $135. Not a bad deal for the taxpayers; the whole thing probably consumed about 8 minutes of clerical time, 4 minutes for the judge & baliff (if there was one), and a few cents in paper and toner.
I suspect that you could cancel the card outright and simply not tell Apple. Not an issue if you don't attempt to make any further purchases - and AAC re-authorization is free.
Of course if you attempt to buy anything after the card is cancelled, it'll fail authorization with the issuing card company and then I suspect you've blown yourself out of the water as far as DRM re-authorization goes.
This sounds an awful lot like an oversight, wherein it simply wasn't anticipated that songs purchased in the US would move overseas in the course of the buyer simply emigrating... and thereafter being unable to demonstrate (via a US billing address) that they met the original purchase requirements (being able to at least plausibly pretend to be US residents).
Very true... but in this case it's just information being transmitted (not the people teleporting in) -- the crowd gathers from the local population.
Haven't we see this previously, though, with crowds turning out on the streets to see police chases that have been televised (particularly in LA, but I believe that within the past year or so there was a case in Texas involving a flatbed truck run amok).
Niven did seem to underestimate the power of information alone to generate this sort of effect. Or perhaps he underestimated the amount of free time people have. *sighs*
Oddly, I just started re-reading Ringworld yesterday -- first Niven I've read in ages. I needed to wash the bad taste of the Rama sequels away, and re-reading Rendezvous with Rama would have simply pissed me off too much, realizing how badly Gentry Lee had butchered A.C. Clarkes' universe.
...the src rpm they have there no longer contains any actual source...
If true, it would seem then that now is the time for every other contributor to kernel development to send DMCA cease and desist orders to both SCO and their upstream bandwidth provider, since SCO no longer has any right to distribute anything else in the kernel?
I don't know if they would win, but there's enough of a case that the C/D order could not be considered frivolous or an abuse of process...?
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A very interesting question could be posed by a contributor to the kernel, asking when SCO is going to stop violating his copyright by distributing in violation of the GPL...
On the other hand, perhaps we can hope they kill each other fighting over it.
That said, if such scrambling became commonplace - or spelling became a free-for-all (in general (in scientific journals, say...) - I think the ability to read through the "noise" of the scrambling would be vastly diminished.
Mosaics? Damn, I make mobiles out of them -- a few dowels, some monofilament and good to go! Pretty spectra on the walls on sunny days (I glue pairs of them label-to-label to maximize this)
It's been a while since I read Friday, but as I recall her sexuality was rather important. It gradually changed throughout the book, as she moved from accepting herself as a chattel (Artificial Person) to a human being. Effective slavery for APs was commonplace; she overcame that -- and in the process came to see her sexuality as her own.
The versioning is actually correct; 4.0 introduced the iTMS, and 4.0.1 restricted streaming to the local subnet. I didn't see a need to upgrade -- even though I don't have any desire to stream other than locally -- so I still run iTunes 4.0
If nothing else, it all raises very interesting questions.
In the present case, though, it seems that the license to the AAC file would become the collector's item. That would make for interesting changes in the collecting market; the actual "collectable" item would be an abstract "right", not a physical piece of vinyl or polycarbonate.
I didn't notice in the article (which read, yes) any reference to what OS the nodes of this cluster might run... I think the hardware is really sexy, and I use OS X 10.2 (client) on a daily basis, but i can't imagine that vt.edu is going to build such a cluster and use off-the-shelf software.
Molten lead, maybe...
This includes security updates and point-revisions of the OS (which one might presume to have less-critical security updates rolled into them), and excludes application specific updates for the i-App suite, Safari, etc. that were not labelled as "Security" related (one might assert that they were in fact security related, but they included point-upgrades to the applications as well. Those toatlled perhaps 8-10 updates over the span covered). Note that two (Stuffit! and IE) are for 3rd-party bundled apps with labelled "Security" updates.
yes, I'm aware that I haven't installed the latest one to patch the off-by-one bug that impacts the FTP server. I'm waiting until I need to reboot for some other reason.
TOTAL UPDATES OVER THE PAST 10 MONTHS: 5. 7 if you count patches to 3rd party apps, one of which was IE. 10 if you're really liberal and include the point-revisions of the OS too.
Please tell me where these "lot of security updates in the past 6 months" are... I'm not seeing them.
Entering ">console" as "username" lands you at a full screen plaintext login prompt.
You're absolutely right. That's an absurd burden. This is why the Federal Governent should take all of SCO's alleged IP by eminent domain then GPL it. Case(s) dismissed at that point.
No, wait, that might infringe someone's IP... Yeah, sco.slashdot.org...
Indoctrination in grades 5 thru 9. Eeeps.
(2) From Terminal, "defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1"
(3) Launch Safari
Replace "1" with "0" in (2) to turn it back off later if you want to.
Class-A 10.0.0.0/8
Class-B 172.16.0.0/12
Class-C 192.168.0.0/16
Other blocks of interest:
Multicast 224.0.0.0/4
IPV4<->IPV6 Anycast 192.88.0.0/15
Loopback 127.0.0.1/8
"This Net" 0.0.0.0/8
Of course if you attempt to buy anything after the card is cancelled, it'll fail authorization with the issuing card company and then I suspect you've blown yourself out of the water as far as DRM re-authorization goes.
This sounds an awful lot like an oversight, wherein it simply wasn't anticipated that songs purchased in the US would move overseas in the course of the buyer simply emigrating... and thereafter being unable to demonstrate (via a US billing address) that they met the original purchase requirements (being able to at least plausibly pretend to be US residents).
Haven't we see this previously, though, with crowds turning out on the streets to see police chases that have been televised (particularly in LA, but I believe that within the past year or so there was a case in Texas involving a flatbed truck run amok).
Niven did seem to underestimate the power of information alone to generate this sort of effect. Or perhaps he underestimated the amount of free time people have. *sighs*
Oddly, I just started re-reading Ringworld yesterday -- first Niven I've read in ages. I needed to wash the bad taste of the Rama sequels away, and re-reading Rendezvous with Rama would have simply pissed me off too much, realizing how badly Gentry Lee had butchered A.C. Clarkes' universe.
I don't know if they would win, but there's enough of a case that the C/D order could not be considered frivolous or an abuse of process...?