I don't think the IRS fines you for overpaying. Being self-employed I pay estimated quarterly and I usually pay too much, sometimes way too much. When I file for a refund they always send me 100% of it.
One time I didn't even file for a refund but they corrected all my miscalculations and sent me one anyway. That's your tax dollars at work!
I like the buyout clause but why limit it to the government? Why not let anyone "buy" the work into the public domain?
I might also suggest a limited guaranteed monopoly period with no buyout and no tax, say 10 years, after which the owner must declare the buyout value and pay the annual tax. It's hard to figure out the value of a new, untested work.
Ah, screw it, just limit copyrights to 10 years with one renewal, then it's public domain. Isn't that what we originally had, and it worked fine?
Copyright on any work, including a letter, is automatically retained by the author regardless of how it is published (e.g. sent privately to one recipient) unless explicitly reassigned. The recipient of a letter therefore is not allowed to publish the letter without permission of the author.
Copyright, however, only covers the expression of ideas and not the ideas themselves. The recipient may publish the sense or meaning of the letter at will, and may use short excerpts from the letter ("fair use") to clarify.
I don't know anything about GreaseMonkey in particular, but if I were designing a feature/plugin to do what it does I would make it as easy as possible (preferably single-key) to toggle it on and off. Like the Ctrl+G user page styles in Opera. If any page doesn't look/work quite right, just toggle off the filter and reload. If it still doesn't work, then complain to the webmaster.
My impression is that filtering proxies are helpless when it comes to https. Since the entire connection is encrypted between the browser and the web server, the proxy never sees the complete URLs. Is this true, or do I just need a better filtering proxy? (I use Junkbuster.)
Even while NIH is getting new ethics regs, patientINFORM is being evangelized as a way for ordinary citizens to look up experimental treatment online
(in essence circumventing their doctor)
and the FDA long ago tacitly approved this.
Parentheses added for clarity; the commas in the original serve the same purpose.
It's strange that none of the anti-virus makers include a bootable CD to do the first-pass scan and disinfect of potentially compromised systems. How can a compromised system be trusted to diagnose itself correctly? I managed to hack something together with a Slackware live-CD and the Linux version of F-PROT and removable HDDs, but it's a PITA to use and doesn't support NTFS very well.... Just sticking in a pre-made antivirus CD and rebooting would be so much more convenient. Symantec already has a mini-Windows environment on CD for some of their other utilities, so they easily could make a bootable AV CD.
Now if SPEWS would BLACKHOLE AOL, I'd notice a lot fewer probes. And while they're at it, maybe, as a public service, blackhole any site containing crapfloods from Maureen O'Gara.
AOL is a crappy ISP in many ways and may very well need blacklisting, but they neither spam (via email) nor support spamming or spammers. They are very aggressively anti-spam and well-clued in that department. SPEWS would not be an appropriate blacklist for them. Maybe aol.blackholes.us or something like that? O'Gara appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with spam, so she also would more properly be in some other blacklist.
That was clearly anecdotal evidence, not some kind of universal truth. My Apache-served webpage is 1 or 2 (it varies) in both Google and MSN for the most relevant queries and I see about 20x as many referrals from Google as from MSN. A friend who runs an IIS server sees about a 3:1 Google:MSN ratio. He's very conscious of his Google ranking and pretty much ignores all other search engines.
Rather than doing the obvious thing (Spotted Owls are endangered, and people like them. Why don't we set up a Spotted Owl nature preserve, or capture them and raise them in a zoo?),
It's got nothing to do with saving spotted owls for their own sake. Nobody's in love with the spotted owl. The owl, or the frog, or the moth, or whatever endangered species is being saved this year, is an indicator of the health of the ecosystem. If the owls are dying off, it means the forest is unhealthy. If we can save the indicator species by reducing logging or pollution or whatever, we might be able to save the entire ecosystem, including all the organisms it comprises. Putting owls in a zoo would not save old growth forests.
I was that kid, 6' tall, 140lb. Whatever damage was done to my body by the junk-food diet was certainly not apparent at the time, and now, many years later and 10 or 15 pounds heavier, the damage is still not apparent.
I used to run NT 3.51 and 4.0 on an Alpha, and I can confirm that those versions of NT were definitely 32 bit, not 64 bit. I did software development using the native Alpha version of Visual C++ and pointers were 4 bytes long (32 bits). There were no 64-bit versions of the Windows or NT kernel APIs at the time so the entire operating system, shell, and native applications were all 32-bit. I'm not talking about the x86 emulator, which was obviously 32-bit, I'm talking about native AXP code, which was also 32-bit. Alpha supported native 32-bit pointers and little-endian integers (probably just for NT).
I also used RedHat on the same machine, and its pointers were 8 bytes long (64 bits).
A guy pointed a shotgun at you and threatened to kill you and you didn't get mad, didn't even care? Wow, you must be some kind of saint. No way could I keep my cool after that kind of insult.
You're better off upgrading your motherboard to something that can handle more memory on-board. The "Rocket Drive" is really that expensive! ($1600 with 2GB, $3000 with 4GB)
Similar devices have been around for decades, and they've always been insanely overpriced. How hard could it be to put a memory controller (SDR SDRAM, or even EDO or FPM) and a SCSI controller in a drive-sized box with a bunch of memory slots? I don't know, but I first asked that question on Usenet in 1995 and never got a useful answer.
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One time I didn't even file for a refund but they corrected all my miscalculations and sent me one anyway. That's your tax dollars at work!
Surely they'll be up to at least OS XI by then.
I might also suggest a limited guaranteed monopoly period with no buyout and no tax, say 10 years, after which the owner must declare the buyout value and pay the annual tax. It's hard to figure out the value of a new, untested work.
Ah, screw it, just limit copyrights to 10 years with one renewal, then it's public domain. Isn't that what we originally had, and it worked fine?
Copyright, however, only covers the expression of ideas and not the ideas themselves. The recipient may publish the sense or meaning of the letter at will, and may use short excerpts from the letter ("fair use") to clarify.
Why speculate? They seem to be going for about $7 on Ebay. (Some as low as $1, some with extras as high as $18.) Plus shipping of course.
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t Name
VS_VERSION_INFO
StringFileInfo
0000 04B0
CompanyName
Microsoft Corporation
FileDescription
Frame buffer simulator
FileVersion
5.00.2134.1
InternalName
videosim.sys
LegalCopyright
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-1999
OriginalFilename
videosim.sys
Produc
Microsoft(R) Windows (R) 2000 Operating System
ProductVersion
5.00.2134.1
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Lawsuit time! His heirs' lawyers will probably get all of that $4.5 million and more.
No, he just put the keys in a different order so you can play songs faster.
I don't know anything about GreaseMonkey in particular, but if I were designing a feature/plugin to do what it does I would make it as easy as possible (preferably single-key) to toggle it on and off. Like the Ctrl+G user page styles in Opera. If any page doesn't look/work quite right, just toggle off the filter and reload. If it still doesn't work, then complain to the webmaster.
My impression is that filtering proxies are helpless when it comes to https. Since the entire connection is encrypted between the browser and the web server, the proxy never sees the complete URLs. Is this true, or do I just need a better filtering proxy? (I use Junkbuster.)
Even while NIH is getting new ethics regs,
patientINFORM is being evangelized as a way for ordinary citizens to look up experimental treatment online
(in essence circumventing their doctor)
and the FDA long ago tacitly approved this.
Parentheses added for clarity; the commas in the original serve the same purpose.
MS Office doesn't need Windows. They ported it to (or was it from?) MacOS; they could port it to Linux too.
Black Guy: [gibberish]
Idiot: Duh... huh? Whoa...
[cool visual effect involving Hot Chick in tight shiny costume]
Audience: Whee!
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/matrix.html
It's strange that none of the anti-virus makers include a bootable CD to do the first-pass scan and disinfect of potentially compromised systems. How can a compromised system be trusted to diagnose itself correctly? I managed to hack something together with a Slackware live-CD and the Linux version of F-PROT and removable HDDs, but it's a PITA to use and doesn't support NTFS very well.... Just sticking in a pre-made antivirus CD and rebooting would be so much more convenient. Symantec already has a mini-Windows environment on CD for some of their other utilities, so they easily could make a bootable AV CD.
People get permanently fucked up in car crashes too. Maybe we should all stay home.
They could probably find room for one somewhere in the Power5 CPU.
That was clearly anecdotal evidence, not some kind of universal truth. My Apache-served webpage is 1 or 2 (it varies) in both Google and MSN for the most relevant queries and I see about 20x as many referrals from Google as from MSN. A friend who runs an IIS server sees about a 3:1 Google:MSN ratio. He's very conscious of his Google ranking and pretty much ignores all other search engines.
Google has spammed me a couple of times. They're in my private blacklist now, and probably lots of others too.
I was that kid, 6' tall, 140lb. Whatever damage was done to my body by the junk-food diet was certainly not apparent at the time, and now, many years later and 10 or 15 pounds heavier, the damage is still not apparent.
I also used RedHat on the same machine, and its pointers were 8 bytes long (64 bits).
Who do you think writes the scripts?
A guy pointed a shotgun at you and threatened to kill you and you didn't get mad, didn't even care? Wow, you must be some kind of saint. No way could I keep my cool after that kind of insult.
Similar devices have been around for decades, and they've always been insanely overpriced. How hard could it be to put a memory controller (SDR SDRAM, or even EDO or FPM) and a SCSI controller in a drive-sized box with a bunch of memory slots? I don't know, but I first asked that question on Usenet in 1995 and never got a useful answer.