Because the department of justice has "soverign immunity" (in short: those who govern do not have to comply to all of the rules they govern with) but John Ashcroft in his official capacity does not have such immunity.
In short, you can't sue the DoJ to not press charges against USENIX, but you can force Ashcroft to make the DoJ not press charges.
Most of the swearing (and for that matter, occurances of things like brand names) is done in comments, not string literals. A recursive grep on the source tree would be better.
I would like a copy of this list, do you know where I can find one? I'm a user (bugg@users.sourceforge.net) at SF and have SSH'd places from their shell before; but I don't know if that was before or after the comprimise.
The process used in nuclear reactors is nuclear fission which produces much lighter atoms such as Xenon and Strontium.
Actually, I believe the largest percentage of waste products would be radioactive isotopes of rubidum and cesium- although there have been something like 70 different elements that have been found in the waste products.
Um, that really doesn't answer the question- how does the watch determine WHICH station you are listening to at any given moment? This is certainly either a feat of technology, or something incredibly obvious;)
Is it catching an inaudible identifier in the radio signal and making a little electro-note of it?
You really can't rely on this, as many/most commercial radios won't play back inaudible sounds, due to either attenuation in the filter or lack of speaker response.
I'm curious to know the answer to this question; someone on this thread proposed having a DSP-based radio compare the microphone's output with the participating radio stations- but that would be an incredibly small AND fast DSP- and those aren't exactly common.
Lawsuits are typically written as plantiff v. defendant. I read the title, and came to the impression that 2600 was suing Ford Motors- something I found out was false upon reading the article.
Slashdot editors, try making your headlines accurate; don't put "2600" at the front to just attract all of the 2600-roadies.
The Beta (Betamax was specific to the home models) format is still used professionally, yes.
I wouldn't blame the failure of Beta to Sony's lack of marketing. I'd blame it on VHS decks being very significantly cheaper, the fact that Beta tapes only held an hour's worth of video, and that the quality was good enough for taping broadcast television.
Laserdisc never had mass-market appeal because the disks were much more expensive than VHS, because most people didn't care enough about the quality to drop the money, and that therefore most movies didn't see the light of day on LD and LD rentals are basically unheard of. DVDs are catching on because they're cheaper and you don't have to flip the disc [as often].
Most likely, the contract is that they'll pay per unit of product that uses technology covered by the patent. All they have to do now is claim that the RAM isn't covered by the patent, and if they want to go to court on that, attempt to use this as precedent.
Because of the mitochodria's relatively autonomous existence and reproduction, many scientists believe they are actually a seperate life form (something similar to a bacteria, for example) which "moved in" to our cells, creating a symbiotic relationship and resulting in the basis for cellular life on earth.
That's really a stretch - prokaryotes, which don't have mitochondria, are the basis of life on earth- they were here before us eukaryotes, they're still here and we're terribly in debt to them, and they're basically the most powerful lifeform on the planet. We'd be screwed without them, they wouldn't blink if we weren't here. (Yes, I do realize that prokaryotes don't have eyes and can't literally blink..)
The new dirpref algorithm is in FreeBSD-CURRENT for testing. It was there only a couple days after it was committed to OpenBSD.
As for SMP, the original poster was referring to efforts to get good SMP support (OpenBSD SMP is basically nonexistant today) - but I do believe that's false, as TDR has said that it's a very low priority to him. And I haven't heard of anyone else attempting to implement it.
I would fathom a guess that in the majority of developers who were attracted to GCC, they were done so by the presence of GCC itself- not the license.
Not every developer who is attracted to a project is done so specifically by the license. I would fathom a guess that if GCC had started out with a BSD-style license, it wouldn't be that far off from what it is today.
Linux counts are pretty much a joke because someone who installs it on a spare computer to try it out one day is not a Linux user. You don't _use_ an OS unless you do a significant portion of your work on it.
I've talked to many people who have tried Linux, but far fewer of them actually get stuff done on it. Go to a Linux trade convention, look at the laptops- a fairly large portion of them are running Windows (and they've always got a great excuse about incompatiblities or whatnot)
I also wonder why people don't realize that they have indeed contributed back: Darwin.
I've found the contrary to be true- the BSD license attracts developers because they aren't restricted for how they use it- they can release it however they damn well please.
The GPL may attract developers who don't make significant improvements, and would therefore rather see that others are forced to give back to improve the software.. but there's a large population of good developers (and I'm one of them) who won't spend major amounts of effort going into GPL programs- because it frankly leaves the developer fewer liberties.
(But I do contribute to some GPL'd projects, such as GGZ- I doubt they'll be changing their license anytime soon.. *sigh*)
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and you may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same 'ol place..
And sometimes we (authors of BSD licensed code) don't even get that much:
http://www.benews.com/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?id =14628
John has told me that he would fix it, and even today that he has fixed it, but beats me where the new binary is!:)
The moral of the story is, regardless of what license you choose, some people will try to rip you off anyway. So there's no point in further discouraging legitimate developers, who could possibly give back in the future, with a license that binds their soul to the project.
But that's pretty different from luring in someone from another country; with the "free prize" sting operations, at least these are people who fall under police jursiction by their residency in the state in question (or residency in the United States if it's a federal operation)
What would have been less, well, wrong would have been to have the FBI work with Russian authorities to arrest them (perhaps by luring them to a job in Russia) and then continue the extradition procedures.
The source code would be absolutely useless, because even the best heurestics for evaluating positions does not compare to what a human of any serious level can do.
Computer programs have to analyze millions of trees that people don't, because computers lack a 'chessic instinct' - computers tend to make up for their weak ability to evaluate a position by just evaluating much more of them.
FYI, in FreeBSD -CURRENT, background fscks are now a reality (with softupdates). That means that there's really no fsck on boot, but rather a background process that maintains consistency using idle cycles.
And if it gets interrupted, that doesn't matter either, because it'll just pick up where it left off as its changes are bound by softupdates as well. Isn't that neat?
First of all, anyone can use FreeBSD in commerical applications with the current license. They didnt' need to buy BSDi's software division to do that.
Secondly, the work hasn't been gobbled up. As one of the many people who have actually put time and work into FreeBSD, I can tell you that it won't bother me in the slightest to have Wind River use my work. And FreeBSD was not sold, it will still be available, and it really isn't major news to the FreeBSD world- a few FreeBSD developers (including some major developers) have new employers, but that's about it.
Perhaps if the people who developed software that pissed companies off spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying efforts, they would write the laws to idemnify themselves.
My rule (which isn't too far from the law) is that if the intent in creating the product was to enable people to commit a crime, then it shouldn't be allowed. Obviously there's plenty of shades of grey in cases like this- but this specific case, it seems very clear to me that this is fair use.
First of all, I like being able to watch a show without interruption. My PBS affilate does that for me.
As for PBS affiliates showing commericals, my dad works for a PBS affiliate- and I confronted him on the issue. He explained that while they will sell spots that say "This show brought to you in part by Pheonix Insurance" they won't tell you to "buy Insurance." Apparently none of the sponsors on PBS stations will try to _sell_ you anything, but rather just get their name out. Guess that's good for those who are easily brainwashed..
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In short, you can't sue the DoJ to not press charges against USENIX, but you can force Ashcroft to make the DoJ not press charges.
Most of the swearing (and for that matter, occurances of things like brand names) is done in comments, not string literals. A recursive grep on the source tree would be better.
I would like a copy of this list, do you know where I can find one? I'm a user (bugg@users.sourceforge.net) at SF and have SSH'd places from their shell before; but I don't know if that was before or after the comprimise.
Actually, I believe the largest percentage of waste products would be radioactive isotopes of rubidum and cesium- although there have been something like 70 different elements that have been found in the waste products.
Um, that really doesn't answer the question- how does the watch determine WHICH station you are listening to at any given moment? This is certainly either a feat of technology, or something incredibly obvious ;)
You really can't rely on this, as many/most commercial radios won't play back inaudible sounds, due to either attenuation in the filter or lack of speaker response.
I'm curious to know the answer to this question; someone on this thread proposed having a DSP-based radio compare the microphone's output with the participating radio stations- but that would be an incredibly small AND fast DSP- and those aren't exactly common.
Slashdot editors, try making your headlines accurate; don't put "2600" at the front to just attract all of the 2600-roadies.
I wouldn't blame the failure of Beta to Sony's lack of marketing. I'd blame it on VHS decks being very significantly cheaper, the fact that Beta tapes only held an hour's worth of video, and that the quality was good enough for taping broadcast television.
Laserdisc never had mass-market appeal because the disks were much more expensive than VHS, because most people didn't care enough about the quality to drop the money, and that therefore most movies didn't see the light of day on LD and LD rentals are basically unheard of. DVDs are catching on because they're cheaper and you don't have to flip the disc [as often].
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You actually don't have to register the copyright immediately, in fact, you can register after the violation and sue them then.
Most likely, the contract is that they'll pay per unit of product that uses technology covered by the patent. All they have to do now is claim that the RAM isn't covered by the patent, and if they want to go to court on that, attempt to use this as precedent.
That's really a stretch - prokaryotes, which don't have mitochondria, are the basis of life on earth- they were here before us eukaryotes, they're still here and we're terribly in debt to them, and they're basically the most powerful lifeform on the planet. We'd be screwed without them, they wouldn't blink if we weren't here. (Yes, I do realize that prokaryotes don't have eyes and can't literally blink..)
As for SMP, the original poster was referring to efforts to get good SMP support (OpenBSD SMP is basically nonexistant today) - but I do believe that's false, as TDR has said that it's a very low priority to him. And I haven't heard of anyone else attempting to implement it.
Not every developer who is attracted to a project is done so specifically by the license. I would fathom a guess that if GCC had started out with a BSD-style license, it wouldn't be that far off from what it is today.
I've talked to many people who have tried Linux, but far fewer of them actually get stuff done on it. Go to a Linux trade convention, look at the laptops- a fairly large portion of them are running Windows (and they've always got a great excuse about incompatiblities or whatnot)
I also wonder why people don't realize that they have indeed contributed back: Darwin.
The GPL may attract developers who don't make significant improvements, and would therefore rather see that others are forced to give back to improve the software.. but there's a large population of good developers (and I'm one of them) who won't spend major amounts of effort going into GPL programs- because it frankly leaves the developer fewer liberties.
(But I do contribute to some GPL'd projects, such as GGZ- I doubt they'll be changing their license anytime soon.. *sigh*)
and you may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same 'ol place..
http://www.benews.com/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?i
John has told me that he would fix it, and even today that he has fixed it, but beats me where the new binary is! :)
The moral of the story is, regardless of what license you choose, some people will try to rip you off anyway. So there's no point in further discouraging legitimate developers, who could possibly give back in the future, with a license that binds their soul to the project.
What would have been less, well, wrong would have been to have the FBI work with Russian authorities to arrest them (perhaps by luring them to a job in Russia) and then continue the extradition procedures.
Computer programs have to analyze millions of trees that people don't, because computers lack a 'chessic instinct' - computers tend to make up for their weak ability to evaluate a position by just evaluating much more of them.
And if it gets interrupted, that doesn't matter either, because it'll just pick up where it left off as its changes are bound by softupdates as well. Isn't that neat?
Secondly, the work hasn't been gobbled up. As one of the many people who have actually put time and work into FreeBSD, I can tell you that it won't bother me in the slightest to have Wind River use my work. And FreeBSD was not sold, it will still be available, and it really isn't major news to the FreeBSD world- a few FreeBSD developers (including some major developers) have new employers, but that's about it.
We're pretty far off on a tangent here- no need for +1 Bonus (I can't stand when people use the bonus for stupid comments)
My rule (which isn't too far from the law) is that if the intent in creating the product was to enable people to commit a crime, then it shouldn't be allowed. Obviously there's plenty of shades of grey in cases like this- but this specific case, it seems very clear to me that this is fair use.
As for PBS affiliates showing commericals, my dad works for a PBS affiliate- and I confronted him on the issue. He explained that while they will sell spots that say "This show brought to you in part by Pheonix Insurance" they won't tell you to "buy Insurance." Apparently none of the sponsors on PBS stations will try to _sell_ you anything, but rather just get their name out. Guess that's good for those who are easily brainwashed..