If SCO has announced that it has registered its copyright to System V source code, does that mean it has deposited the code in the Library of Congress? And now somebody can compare it with other source code?
Reply 9 is interesting.
The only part of a notification which can be penalized for deliberate inaccuracy seems to be the part on who the notifier is representing. Do general defamation laws apply to the rest of the notification? Or can I claim to represent myself (true) and that every internet publication infringes my exclusive right (false - in most cases), without fear of punishment?
Monopolies are not inherently evil. It is not evil to have a monopoly.
Monopolies created by the state are highly dubious in competitive markets. They tend to reduce efficiency and the general prosperity of the nation. Queen Elizabeth I (one of England's most popular monarchs) almost faced a rebellion in the later years of her reign because of the monopolies she issued by "letters patent".
So the issue is whether the public benefit from creating artifical monopolies outweighs the public loss from reducing competition. How much of the technology and development encouraged by monopolies would have occured anyway in a competitive market? The answer seems to depend on the industry: fewer medicines would be taken through expensive trials if there was no prospect of a short-term monopoly; most broad software ideas (with little underlying cost) would probably be developed by others in a short period of time.
The evidence seems to be that young people are more susceptible to alcohol impairment than middle aged people, and that occasional drinkers are more susceptible than regular drinkers. This is offset by the fact that middle aged regular drinkers are more likely to be on the road with a given level of blood alcohol and so cause more accidents. The Institute of Alcohol Studies (sounds like a wine or beer appreciation club) has a factsheet.
The Robosnail page suggests they will next be looking at undulating movements. But galloping on one foot would be more interesting - it's how snails leave footprints.
Perhaps he meant fragile or expensive: the Dalloz site says it is closed for maintenance, though the subscription database is open to those who are prepared to pay.
Hijack the ship coming from Malaysia with all the linux cd's. Equipment you'll need: eyepatch, parrot, pegleg, makeshift plank for the crew to walk, silly accent. Say "Yarrrrrr!" a lot and complain about scurvy.
In fact, the Weekly Piracy Report suggests that a ship from Malaysia to New Zealand could have to travel through the most pirate infested part of the world.
When did a page reproducing the original article get rated "Informative" when it is full of deliberate errors? Try "Funny" instead - at least for the cress.
Yesterday evening (10 hours ago) I was already getting messages from postmasters saying I had been sending Sobig.e. Since this worm spoofs return addresses, it was a fairly pointless warning.
For many people, these virus warnings will be a bigger burden than the virus itself. As useless as a hoax, even if it is real.
As long as for EVERY edited video there was one unedited i'm cool with it.
"You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work, provided that you accompany it with a verbatim copy of the orignal Program."
Could this require you to provide every version in the history? Similarly films with a succession of different edits (including those before original release)?
Isn't the point that this is aimed at French Canadian education: the Open Office spell checker is in French, it uses Frenchmozilla, and assumes a Quebec keyboard. So it avoids the anglophone configuration of most other North American distributions, and the Eurocentric assumptions of most other francophone distributions. Then it has kdeedu as an education package. I am sure that reducing configuration choices is the right answer for some potential users, but clearly not for others.
Even if this first move by the UK government comes to not very much...
The problem is that the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has nothing to do with the UK Government. It is not even an official UK parliamentary select committee, which would at least get it listened to. It is rather more ad-hoc, and its only noticable fact is that it has members from more than one political party. Don't expect it to have any real influence.
I think you may be confusing the Council of Europe with the European Council. The Council of Europe is similar to the Organization of American States, and promotes human, civil and democratic rights. The European Council (a.k.a. Council of the European Union) takes the major decisions for the EU, and is much more of a Government (when combined with the Commission and the Parliament).
The fact that both use the same flag, that their courts have similar names (CoE: European Court of Human Rights; EU: Europen Court of Justice), and that the EU Parliament uses the CoE Parliament Building in Strasbourg for most of its plenary meetings, all helps add to the confusion. The CoE has 45 members while the EU has 15.
Misreading the intro made me think this was something to do with ultra-liberal Bishop John Shelby Spong who provoked Christian conservatives with his views on lesbian, gay, and non-marital straight relationships.
If you're based in the US, you have to manage 15 different tax rates, and do 15 times as much paperwork.
From July, you have the same issue with the tax rates whether you are in the US or the EU (it is the change inside the EU which has forced the change outside). You don't have 15 times as much paperwork as you can register in just one place under the Special Scheme for non-EU businesses.
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If SCO has announced that it has registered its copyright to System V source code, does that mean it has deposited the code in the Library of Congress? And now somebody can compare it with other source code?
Reply 9 is interesting. The only part of a notification which can be penalized for deliberate inaccuracy seems to be the part on who the notifier is representing. Do general defamation laws apply to the rest of the notification? Or can I claim to represent myself (true) and that every internet publication infringes my exclusive right (false - in most cases), without fear of punishment?
"Stop" might be a useful upgrade.
Monopolies created by the state are highly dubious in competitive markets. They tend to reduce efficiency and the general prosperity of the nation. Queen Elizabeth I (one of England's most popular monarchs) almost faced a rebellion in the later years of her reign because of the monopolies she issued by "letters patent".
So the issue is whether the public benefit from creating artifical monopolies outweighs the public loss from reducing competition. How much of the technology and development encouraged by monopolies would have occured anyway in a competitive market? The answer seems to depend on the industry: fewer medicines would be taken through expensive trials if there was no prospect of a short-term monopoly; most broad software ideas (with little underlying cost) would probably be developed by others in a short period of time.
The evidence seems to be that young people are more susceptible to alcohol impairment than middle aged people, and that occasional drinkers are more susceptible than regular drinkers. This is offset by the fact that middle aged regular drinkers are more likely to be on the road with a given level of blood alcohol and so cause more accidents. The Institute of Alcohol Studies (sounds like a wine or beer appreciation club) has a factsheet.
It is rather closer to the equator than Florida or Kazakhstan, so makes launches cheaper.
So would this be the next private-sector version of Guantanamo Bay?
The Robosnail page suggests they will next be looking at undulating movements. But galloping on one foot would be more interesting - it's how snails leave footprints.
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... ice (as a water source) or life, in Svalbard. Worse, the life - seal, polar bear, fox, and walrus - is potentially hazardous to equipment.
Perhaps he meant fragile or expensive: the Dalloz site says it is closed for maintenance, though the subscription database is open to those who are prepared to pay.
This already happens on escalators when idiots with large bags forget to move away from the exit.
The Austrians seem to have been talking to ZDNet Australia. Perhaps they were also confused.
In fact, the Weekly Piracy Report suggests that a ship from Malaysia to New Zealand could have to travel through the most pirate infested part of the world.
When did a page reproducing the original article get rated "Informative" when it is full of deliberate errors? Try "Funny" instead - at least for the cress.
They announced it in a press release in January 2001, and have several pages giving a description of the offered service.
For many people, these virus warnings will be a bigger burden than the virus itself. As useless as a hoax, even if it is real.
"You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work, provided that you accompany it with a verbatim copy of the orignal Program."
Could this require you to provide every version in the history? Similarly films with a succession of different edits (including those before original release)?
Isn't the point that this is aimed at French Canadian education: the Open Office spell checker is in French, it uses Frenchmozilla, and assumes a Quebec keyboard. So it avoids the anglophone configuration of most other North American distributions, and the Eurocentric assumptions of most other francophone distributions. Then it has kdeedu as an education package. I am sure that reducing configuration choices is the right answer for some potential users, but clearly not for others.
The problem is that the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has nothing to do with the UK Government. It is not even an official UK parliamentary select committee, which would at least get it listened to. It is rather more ad-hoc, and its only noticable fact is that it has members from more than one political party. Don't expect it to have any real influence.
The fact that both use the same flag, that their courts have similar names (CoE: European Court of Human Rights; EU: Europen Court of Justice), and that the EU Parliament uses the CoE Parliament Building in Strasbourg for most of its plenary meetings, all helps add to the confusion. The CoE has 45 members while the EU has 15.
Many al Jazeera staff came out of the BBC Arabic service, and the two broadcasters now have an exchange deal.
Just wait until England (en), Wales (cw?), Scotland (??), and Northern Ireland (ul?) get their own.
Every World Cup (soccer) nation should have its own TLD
Misreading the intro made me think this was something to do with ultra-liberal Bishop John Shelby Spong who provoked Christian conservatives with his views on lesbian, gay, and non-marital straight relationships.
From July, you have the same issue with the tax rates whether you are in the US or the EU (it is the change inside the EU which has forced the change outside). You don't have 15 times as much paperwork as you can register in just one place under the Special Scheme for non-EU businesses.