I'm thinking the problem is, there are no viable 3rd Party alternatives. All we see are the different sides of the same coin, and no matter what we choose, we have to compromise something and 'accept the lesser evil'. The problem is, the lesser evil is still evil no matter how you slice it. And of course, no current Party fits all my wants.
Reducing the award in a case like this makes sense. Part of the problem with software patents (actually patents in general whenever you have complex devices) is that it's easy to step into the territory of several of them.
IANAL, but that's why they call them 'punitive damages'. Punative as in punishing. Punishing as in 'Don't do that again, dummy!" They're designed to make the loser think about what they're doing and change their ways.
I'm pretty sure MS recognizes the validity and power of open source, but like many companies, they don't see potential profitability from it. They probably aim to acquire code and such from collaboration as well as employed programming.
Keep in mind that they took the TCP/IP stack from BSD to use in Win9x up through XP, IIRC. They love opensource, especially if they can fold it into their own code and use it with impunity.
Somewhat better oxidizer than oxygen, in that it's easy to deal with. The article made no mention of any other fuel leading anyone to believe that H2O2 was the sole explosive, which I find borderline ludicrous. They sending terrorists to high schools in the US or something?
Try this for a scenario. A CIA spook breaks into your house looking for something other than drugs and notices the weed on the table. When he leaves, he calls a cop friend of his and tips him off. Cop goes and gets a warrant based on the tip. Cops come, get in, search the house, find the dope, make the arrest. Case holds up because the cop didn't illegally search your house, a CIA spook does.
There are but you stated that you could not make a bomb using H2O2.
Not one that worked well, no. How much oxygen would a couple liters of H2O2 release into the cabin of your average 747? And how many percentage points would this raise the O2 content of the air? I'm just not seeing it. It's sounding to me like the hoopla surrounding 'dirty bombs' from a few years back that everybody was freaking out about til some scientist types got out their calculators & figured out you'd have to be about 20 feet away from the bomb when it went off, then get your feet imbedded in concrete for a couple years to get any significant radiation exposure.
H2O2 decomposes into steam (water) and oxygen. It gonna steamclean the airline cabin?
This is nothing. I once created the Ultimate Pleasure Device from 2 bottles of cheap wine, 10 ounces of ground beef (lean) and and a 12" piece of PVC tubing.
The article I read says they were planning on using hydrogen peroxide as the explosive. I didn't trust my memory of chemistry so I looked it up. Seems to me that H2O2 is an oxidizer, not a rocket fuel (unless you spray a catalyst with it to get steam & O2). Also seems to me that this wouldn't work so well.
... you still need that warrant. And to get a warrant, you still need legitimate probable cause. So much for all those warrantless wiretaps.
Only if investigating US citizens. The guys NSA fingered were in the UK and weren't US citizens. According to NSA's mandate, that made it a case of 'just doin their job'.
What gets me is, TFA is a bit thin on details. According to it, the three had already been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. No mention of any appeal, which is odd, for they were hauled back into court to face more charges about using soda bottles to carry liquid explosives, which the intercepted emails helped convict them of. I'm not up on the ins & outs of UK law, but here in the US, that'd be double jeopardy, wouldn't it?
The reports i saw gave the impression that the US simply refused to let the prostitution use the evidence the first time (but the evidence had already been collected).
Wow, I'd think they'd want the prostitution more involved!
What, that the UK was pimping out their internal datamining operation to the US?
Maybe we could re-arm the Soviet Union while we're at it.
Ignoring the fact that the Soviet Union went out of business almost 20 years ago, keep in mind that they were one of the largest weapons manufacturers around, and when they fell, just about anything not nailed, tied, & welded down got sold.
Except for their cars. Nobody wanted their cars except for some weird collectors.
Surely the point of such trusts is to prevent the original works from being abused^H^H^H^H^H^H interpreted by media companies set on profit and little else. Without this trust Disney (or somebody else, they are not the only cuplrits) would have done the same thing to LotR as they did with the Jungle Book & Peter Pan.
What's really weird is, Disney's behind a lot of the perpetual copyright laws. Seems they wanna be free to loot and pervert what they will with impunity, but I'm a 'pirate' if I wanna draw a Mickey Mouse cartoon...
Because there are only so many ideas out there, and if you lock them up in intellectual property copyrights forever, you're draining the pool. When the pool runs dry, only thing left is reality tv and 99 zillion lawsuits over who owns what bit of folklore that a distant ancestor copyrighted then signed over to some media company. They can't inspire anybody else to create something else, even if it's a mashup of 5 different things with the serial numbers filed off. The way it sits today, come up with a 'new idea', somebody will sue you for copyright infringement.
If we build a modern generation of feeder-breeder reactors that are something close the 97-99 times more efficient than the old breed and can consume previously generated nuclear waste as fuel.
A better choice is a thorium reactor. See links in my previous post for why.
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Not really. Chupacabra are Mexican goat suckers. All you need to do is hire some Mexican goat ranchers to keep an eye out, and you get chupacabra.
Course, you'll have problems if you're a Mexican goat, but if you were, you wouldn't be reading this anyways...
Anybody find any links to the specific impulse of those fuels?
I'm thinking the problem is, there are no viable 3rd Party alternatives. All we see are the different sides of the same coin, and no matter what we choose, we have to compromise something and 'accept the lesser evil'. The problem is, the lesser evil is still evil no matter how you slice it. And of course, no current Party fits all my wants.
IANAL, but that's why they call them 'punitive damages'. Punative as in punishing. Punishing as in 'Don't do that again, dummy!" They're designed to make the loser think about what they're doing and change their ways.
Hookers and blow, of course. And blackjack.
On second thought, let's forget about the blackjack...
Likely. Some antique Win98 machines might have some problems with it though, unless you get the software to deal with it.
Keep in mind that they took the TCP/IP stack from BSD to use in Win9x up through XP, IIRC. They love opensource, especially if they can fold it into their own code and use it with impunity.
Anybody got a decent translating page for that link? Babelfish barfs on it bigtime...
Somewhat better oxidizer than oxygen, in that it's easy to deal with. The article made no mention of any other fuel leading anyone to believe that H2O2 was the sole explosive, which I find borderline ludicrous. They sending terrorists to high schools in the US or something?
Try this for a scenario. A CIA spook breaks into your house looking for something other than drugs and notices the weed on the table. When he leaves, he calls a cop friend of his and tips him off. Cop goes and gets a warrant based on the tip. Cops come, get in, search the house, find the dope, make the arrest. Case holds up because the cop didn't illegally search your house, a CIA spook does.
Not one that worked well, no. How much oxygen would a couple liters of H2O2 release into the cabin of your average 747? And how many percentage points would this raise the O2 content of the air? I'm just not seeing it. It's sounding to me like the hoopla surrounding 'dirty bombs' from a few years back that everybody was freaking out about til some scientist types got out their calculators & figured out you'd have to be about 20 feet away from the bomb when it went off, then get your feet imbedded in concrete for a couple years to get any significant radiation exposure.
H2O2 decomposes into steam (water) and oxygen. It gonna steamclean the airline cabin?
Hmmmmmmm. Mebbe. But I'm thinkin there's easier substances to deal with that make bigger booms than peroxide & a hydrocarbom.
Well, this could explain why Neo was bald while in the tanks...
Interesting.
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Pick up the fone and call MI-6. Or whoever took over for the KGB. Good luck getting any info out of them, for obvious reasons, of course...
The article I read says they were planning on using hydrogen peroxide as the explosive. I didn't trust my memory of chemistry so I looked it up. Seems to me that H2O2 is an oxidizer, not a rocket fuel (unless you spray a catalyst with it to get steam & O2). Also seems to me that this wouldn't work so well.
Only if investigating US citizens. The guys NSA fingered were in the UK and weren't US citizens. According to NSA's mandate, that made it a case of 'just doin their job'.
What gets me is, TFA is a bit thin on details. According to it, the three had already been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. No mention of any appeal, which is odd, for they were hauled back into court to face more charges about using soda bottles to carry liquid explosives, which the intercepted emails helped convict them of. I'm not up on the ins & outs of UK law, but here in the US, that'd be double jeopardy, wouldn't it?
What, that the UK was pimping out their internal datamining operation to the US?
Ignoring the fact that the Soviet Union went out of business almost 20 years ago, keep in mind that they were one of the largest weapons manufacturers around, and when they fell, just about anything not nailed, tied, & welded down got sold.
Except for their cars. Nobody wanted their cars except for some weird collectors.
What's really weird is, Disney's behind a lot of the perpetual copyright laws. Seems they wanna be free to loot and pervert what they will with impunity, but I'm a 'pirate' if I wanna draw a Mickey Mouse cartoon...
Because there are only so many ideas out there, and if you lock them up in intellectual property copyrights forever, you're draining the pool. When the pool runs dry, only thing left is reality tv and 99 zillion lawsuits over who owns what bit of folklore that a distant ancestor copyrighted then signed over to some media company. They can't inspire anybody else to create something else, even if it's a mashup of 5 different things with the serial numbers filed off. The way it sits today, come up with a 'new idea', somebody will sue you for copyright infringement.
Fixed that for you...
And you'll keep them where?
A better choice is a thorium reactor. See links in my previous post for why.