Boo freakin' hoo. Everyone's in favor of "free trade" and "free markets" when they're benefiting, and in favor of slapping on huge tariffs any time they can't compete. Expect China to dump their protectionism about the same time the US stops farm subsidies.
Well, it's hyperbole anyway. However, being accused of being a terrorist, not just a criminal, is enough to have due process suspended, which is scary enough.
I can sort of understand the "illegal combatant" argument in active war zones (although I doubt any country that's ever been attacked by another one would consider it "legal" for foreign soldiers to be there shooting at them), but when they can arrest someone in the US, accuse them of plotting to detonate a dirty bomb when they didn't have any explosives or radioactive material, and decide they don't have a right to a lawyer or a court hearing because of the nature of the accusation, that's just beyond wrong. Once the right to due process is eroded, you can pretty much forget about any other protections for anyone accused of anything. Especially when even people whose right to a "fair trial" wasn't taken away are shown to be demonstrably innocent by DNA evidence after their convicted. If you can't trust a system with several layers of appeals and built-in failsafes to be accurate, how the hell can you trust a system where all you need is an accusation to make someone disappear?
Well, classical Greek (primarily Attic, the language of all of the Athenian works of literature and philosophy) was still used by the educated people for scholarly works. The common people used the Koine dialect of Greek, which is what the New Testament was written in.
Jesus almost certainly would not have known either Latin or the scholarly dialects of Greek.
If they're losing signal that often, their dish is probably poorly aimed or mounted. I'd guess they're getting a lower signal strength all the time and having it completely drop out every so often, or the dish is mounted so the wind can move it around enough to make a difference.
The only time I've ever had the signal go out completely was for about 30 seconds during a really strong thunderstorm with heavy winds. Last week I lost ESPN-2 (and, presumably, anything else on the same transponder, but flipping through the channels everything else seemed to be working ok) when the bottom 4 inches of my dish was completely covered with ice and snow.
I think that in order to get copyright protection for software you should submit the code to some system that automatically checks for infringement... and compares the licenses to make sure the use is OK.
Well, since the original license was a BSD license, no. Anyone can take their code and redistribute it under any license they want to, including one that specifically forbids the original developers from using the new distribution. The BSD license isn't designed to protect the "rights" of the developers, it's designed to let anyone use the source in any way they want to.
I don't see the sort of problem in the new license that the page from GNU mentions. The old BSD license required a statement in advertising, which would cause problems if a project was composed of modules from a bunch of different BSD-style licensed projects and an ad for the new project was required to include a huge number of diclosures.
The new XFree86 license requires a statement in end user documentation, which is completely different. You can't really argue that adding a bunch of disclosures about where the modules you're using to your documentation is a huge burden. It doesn't add a substantial cost to your documentation, even if it's distributed in a printed form, unlike the cost of adding a page of disclosures to an ad.
I didn't see any mention at all in the article of illiterate twits who think they understand Latin spelling rules and thus make up plurals for English words that aren't correct in English, and wouldn't even be correct in Latin.
Actually, it sends complaints to the upstream provider of the IP address the spam came from, instead of "bouncing" it. I'm not sure if it's a badly named program or if the author just changed the functionality when it became clear that almost all spam has forged From: headers.
I've been using it daily (but only charging it when it dropped to 10%, back up to full) for 2 years.
That's about the worst thing you can do to a LiIon battery. They don't have a memory effect, and it's better to keep them plugged in as much as possible.
.gov is a domain, and if you'd actually read the patent's claims, you'd see the explanation that the URL and the email address are the same except that '@' is changed to '.'.
Of course, the fact that foo.bar.baz is not, in fact, a URL, may make the entire patent completely worthless. Someone should file an identical patent but stick http:// in at the front and then sue these people.
estta.uspto.gov is a live server, and
estta@uspto.gov is a valid email address at USPTO.
Except that the patent this post is about would be concerned with the following addresses:
estta.uspto.gov
something@estatta.uspto.gov
I realize no one ever bothers to RTFA, but if you're going to correct someone who did read it with incorrect information, you're just making yourself look stupid.
It says, right up there in the quoted part in the summary, a URL of the form name.subdomain.domain, email address of the form name@subdomian.domain.
Sure. They make lots of guys Supreme Allied Commander who don't know anything about defense. Clearly the only candidates who are serious about defense conveniently managed to avoid going to Vietnam.
They're well known for complaining when trial lawyers help individuals sue large corporations. When corporations sue over lost revenue from people giving away "their" IP, even if they're only imagining that it's theirs, that's another story altogether.
If you make a list of people you suspect of shoplifting and make it available for free to stores that want it, and they decide not to let those people into their store, you can't get arrested. Your metaphor is moronic. Break your contratc, and countersue your ISP for activity that got you blocked if they try to sue you for breach of contract.
The first generation of iPods had a wheel that turned. The decided to eliminate the moving parts in the later versions. It probably had something to do with how annoying it is when pocket lint gets stuck in the wheel when you stick you 1000 songs in your pocket and can't scroll smoothly anymore.
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Boo freakin' hoo. Everyone's in favor of "free trade" and "free markets" when they're benefiting, and in favor of slapping on huge tariffs any time they can't compete. Expect China to dump their protectionism about the same time the US stops farm subsidies.
That would be easier if the reviewer wasn't reviewing a book that was published 3 years ago.
I can sort of understand the "illegal combatant" argument in active war zones (although I doubt any country that's ever been attacked by another one would consider it "legal" for foreign soldiers to be there shooting at them), but when they can arrest someone in the US, accuse them of plotting to detonate a dirty bomb when they didn't have any explosives or radioactive material, and decide they don't have a right to a lawyer or a court hearing because of the nature of the accusation, that's just beyond wrong. Once the right to due process is eroded, you can pretty much forget about any other protections for anyone accused of anything. Especially when even people whose right to a "fair trial" wasn't taken away are shown to be demonstrably innocent by DNA evidence after their convicted. If you can't trust a system with several layers of appeals and built-in failsafes to be accurate, how the hell can you trust a system where all you need is an accusation to make someone disappear?
Wow, how much did it cost your department to buy Richard Stallman?
Jesus almost certainly would not have known either Latin or the scholarly dialects of Greek.
The only time I've ever had the signal go out completely was for about 30 seconds during a really strong thunderstorm with heavy winds. Last week I lost ESPN-2 (and, presumably, anything else on the same transponder, but flipping through the channels everything else seemed to be working ok) when the bottom 4 inches of my dish was completely covered with ice and snow.
No, the poster said it was the biggest explosion ever seen from space. It's unlikely an explosion during WWI was seen from space.
I propose that this system be run by SCO.
Well, since the original license was a BSD license, no. Anyone can take their code and redistribute it under any license they want to, including one that specifically forbids the original developers from using the new distribution. The BSD license isn't designed to protect the "rights" of the developers, it's designed to let anyone use the source in any way they want to.
The new XFree86 license requires a statement in end user documentation, which is completely different. You can't really argue that adding a bunch of disclosures about where the modules you're using to your documentation is a huge burden. It doesn't add a substantial cost to your documentation, even if it's distributed in a printed form, unlike the cost of adding a page of disclosures to an ad.
I didn't see any mention at all in the article of illiterate twits who think they understand Latin spelling rules and thus make up plurals for English words that aren't correct in English, and wouldn't even be correct in Latin.
That's why you want your cooling system to be loud enough to drown out any hard drive noises.
Actually, it sends complaints to the upstream provider of the IP address the spam came from, instead of "bouncing" it. I'm not sure if it's a badly named program or if the author just changed the functionality when it became clear that almost all spam has forged From: headers.
No, but he definitely had some sort of virus-related program activities going on.
IIRC, Vanilla Ice claimed that he didn't sample "Under Pressure", and that his riff had one different note in it.
That's about the worst thing you can do to a LiIon battery. They don't have a memory effect, and it's better to keep them plugged in as much as possible.
Of course, the fact that foo.bar.baz is not, in fact, a URL, may make the entire patent completely worthless. Someone should file an identical patent but stick http:// in at the front and then sue these people.
Except that the patent this post is about would be concerned with the following addresses:
estta.uspto.gov
something@estatta.uspto.gov
I realize no one ever bothers to RTFA, but if you're going to correct someone who did read it with incorrect information, you're just making yourself look stupid.
It says, right up there in the quoted part in the summary, a URL of the form name.subdomain.domain, email address of the form name@subdomian.domain.
Have you seen most slashdot constituents? They sit in front of computers all day and don't get any exercise. They are that large.
Trade names are not "jargon".
Sure. They make lots of guys Supreme Allied Commander who don't know anything about defense. Clearly the only candidates who are serious about defense conveniently managed to avoid going to Vietnam.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of trees...
They're well known for complaining when trial lawyers help individuals sue large corporations. When corporations sue over lost revenue from people giving away "their" IP, even if they're only imagining that it's theirs, that's another story altogether.
If you make a list of people you suspect of shoplifting and make it available for free to stores that want it, and they decide not to let those people into their store, you can't get arrested. Your metaphor is moronic. Break your contratc, and countersue your ISP for activity that got you blocked if they try to sue you for breach of contract.
The first generation of iPods had a wheel that turned. The decided to eliminate the moving parts in the later versions. It probably had something to do with how annoying it is when pocket lint gets stuck in the wheel when you stick you 1000 songs in your pocket and can't scroll smoothly anymore.