You can learn this watching Judge Judy or any other TV small claims court.
A person can be held responsible for the damage they cause, if you don't take reasonable means to protect yourself, or reduce it, it isn't their fault, it is yours.
Good question I had wondered, so I looked. From their site.
http://www.turnitin.com/static/legal_document.ht ml #archiving
Commercial use of a work may still be "fair use" under U.S. Copyright Law... the use does not "materially impair the marketability of the work which is copied."
That superficially solid, however by using it to detect plagurism decreases the marketability of the work. One of the stated purposeses of turnitin.com is to destroy the business of "paper mills" or "digital paper mills". As such these actions likely do decrease the marketability of the work either directly or indirectly.
Plagarism at school is NOT a crime AFAIK. Copyright infringement IS a crime. Copying works to impair the marketability of the work by the copyright holder is most certainly illegal, and morally wrong.
They really are. One option is to ask someone who knows better, in HS my math teacher was always looking for books that explained it better.
Find a topic, and pursue it, the local public/college/university library should have some decent books available for details. Also check the used bookstores, read the book a bit, many professors try to find the best book to explain the concepts. Used outdated books a revision behind tend to have the same quality, and the same information, just new page numbers and diagrams.
I do believe that unauthorized credit checks are illegal.
Well the dealership doesn't need to see squat, and they shouldn't unless they are lending you money or doing the loan shopping for you. When I got my car loan only the bank providing the loan requested my report.
I believe they see a "full blown credit report". I would check at fool.com to get more information. equifax.ca has a mail/fax in form to get a free report in Canada.
Yes, it's not like how good you are at paying debts should factor into how much money someone lends you.
Credit scores are a good thing. There are people I would lend money to and those I wouldn't. Similar to a bank, I tend to lend money to those who always pay on time as opposed to those who pay late, if at all. I also tend to lend more money to someone who isn't already borrowing lots of money. I also feel more comfortable lending money to someone who has a job, and a clear way to pay it back.
I like knowing that when I lend money, I get it back. People lend me money knowing they will get it back. This is how credit works.
If you're not worried about credit ratings, why do you have an insured savings account? why don't you lend your money to Enron?
Until there is a benefit, why expend the resources.
If I have enough IP's why should I bother changing. Actually the other people can take the risk, do the upgrade, solve the problems, then the cost to change is cheaper. Once the benefit outweighs the cost, people will do it. It just doesn't make sense yet.
Emacs can do pretty much anything. Which is why it gets all the bashing for bloat. I find Emacs tools to be generally bug free, documented, customizable and easy to use. Keyboard shortcuts for many things, tab completion and a decent help system.
I happily use Emacs for many editing tasks, and vim for the others.
If someone adds to the GPL version they could request a license to add to the closed version.
The worst case is that the GPL version will be better then the closed version. The only losers are those who insist on using the closed version. Or the origional author if they can't offer competive service outside their closed product.
Just release 2 versions. GPL & Alladin Ghostscript.
As long as you don't have an exclusive agreement with them it isn't really an issue. License one to the customer however they want, license the other however you want to others.
In Canada we have passport offices, which are very busy and have long waits to hand in the paperwork. It is an okay situation, seems to work, and I got mine in less then 2 weeks too.
This is getting a bit old, they claim all sorts of things, but they haven't released ANY proof.
Personally I'm more interested in the suit brought against SCO demanding a retraction. Where did that go?
They have GPL'd their code in the linux kernel that they are apparently STILL distributing, this whole thing is just dragging out, tell us when there is news.
Puzzle solving pattern matching software, what a suprise.
This is a non issue anyway, shredded paper isn't the weakest link. Phoneing in your credit card number on a cordless phone, insecure merchant computers, the waiter walking away with your CC, unscrupulous employees at any office that handles your information. All these methods are much easier and much less trouble then dumpster diving.
Myself I shred because then _I_ know the paper is garbage, and not accidentally fallen in. I shred all scrap paper, to hide it a bit. They're better off stealing my mail before I shred it.
In the wonderful world of DOS they have keywords like CON and NUL Which have caused no end of trouble. If you allow a file/directory to have arbitrary tags, and access them like directories you will have problems.
And if you look at the data you see. The top 40+ have no failed requests, and it is just minor differences in response times, and it isn't overly clear if they are even sorted by that.
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This is the case in the US too.
You can learn this watching Judge Judy or any other TV small claims court.
A person can be held responsible for the damage they cause, if you don't take reasonable means to protect yourself, or reduce it, it isn't their fault, it is yours.
Okay, even if we assume that SCO has some great IP, once it is thrown into a GPL product you lose the competative advantage of it.
A few million in development work would probaly give a better return.
Don't buy out SCO, it is a bad investment.
To buy SCO you would need a reason why this is a good use of money, to make them go away is probaly not a good use of corporate funds.
Those millions could do a lot of legal fighting, or development, or even advertising. All with a better ROI then removing SCO.
The RedHat folk aren't stupid: they wouldn't enter this fray unless they were reasonably sure of success.
Likely, but I don't think the SCO folks would have started this if they weren't reasonably sure of success.
Yes I think I do deserve a cookie.
It isn't a twisted analysis.
Group A provides a service, Group B wishes to provide another service. Group B must violate the copyright of Group A to do so.
Either Group B should not be permitted to do this, or they should do so in a way that does not infringe on the IP of Group A.
Good question I had wondered, so I looked.
t ml #archiving
... the use does not "materially impair the marketability of the work which is copied."
From their site.
http://www.turnitin.com/static/legal_document.h
Commercial use of a work may still be "fair use" under U.S. Copyright Law
That superficially solid, however by using it to detect plagurism decreases the marketability of the work.
One of the stated purposeses of turnitin.com is to destroy the business of "paper mills" or "digital paper mills". As such these actions likely do decrease the marketability of the work either directly or indirectly.
Plagarism at school is NOT a crime AFAIK.
Copyright infringement IS a crime. Copying works to impair the marketability of the work by the copyright holder is most certainly illegal, and morally wrong.
They really are.
One option is to ask someone who knows better, in HS my math teacher was always looking for books that explained it better.
Find a topic, and pursue it, the local public/college/university library should have some decent books available for details.
Also check the used bookstores, read the book a bit, many professors try to find the best book to explain the concepts. Used outdated books a revision behind tend to have the same quality, and the same information, just new page numbers and diagrams.
I do believe that unauthorized credit checks are illegal.
Well the dealership doesn't need to see squat, and they shouldn't unless they are lending you money or doing the loan shopping for you. When I got my car loan only the bank providing the loan requested my report.
I believe they see a "full blown credit report". I would check at fool.com to get more information.
equifax.ca has a mail/fax in form to get a free report in Canada.
The credit score is already bad enough as it is.
Yes, it's not like how good you are at paying debts should factor into how much money someone lends you.
Credit scores are a good thing.
There are people I would lend money to and those I wouldn't. Similar to a bank, I tend to lend money to those who always pay on time as opposed to those who pay late, if at all.
I also tend to lend more money to someone who isn't already borrowing lots of money.
I also feel more comfortable lending money to someone who has a job, and a clear way to pay it back.
I like knowing that when I lend money, I get it back. People lend me money knowing they will get it back. This is how credit works.
If you're not worried about credit ratings, why do you have an insured savings account? why don't you lend your money to Enron?
But Broadcom would only have to distribute the source to those they distributed the binaries to.
Until there is a benefit, why expend the resources.
If I have enough IP's why should I bother changing.
Actually the other people can take the risk, do the upgrade, solve the problems, then the cost to change is cheaper.
Once the benefit outweighs the cost, people will do it. It just doesn't make sense yet.
Seriously, there are better tools.
apt-get is fast and easy.
There are many nice front ends for it, makes installation a snap.
Emacs can do pretty much anything. Which is why it gets all the bashing for bloat.
I find Emacs tools to be generally bug free, documented, customizable and easy to use.
Keyboard shortcuts for many things, tab completion and a decent help system.
I happily use Emacs for many editing tasks, and vim for the others.
If someone adds to the GPL version they could request a license to add to the closed version.
The worst case is that the GPL version will be better then the closed version. The only losers are those who insist on using the closed version. Or the origional author if they can't offer competive service outside their closed product.
Just release 2 versions. GPL & Alladin Ghostscript.
As long as you don't have an exclusive agreement with them it isn't really an issue. License one to the customer however they want, license the other however you want to others.
Sorry, you did this yourself.
You want to use old tools, but a new distribution, why did you upgrade half your stuff?
You could still run apache 1.x if you wanted.
You can continue to use your old version of Redhat, or you could use another distribution.
Nobody is forcing you to do this, you are chosing to.
In Canada we have passport offices, which are very busy and have long waits to hand in the paperwork.
It is an okay situation, seems to work, and I got mine in less then 2 weeks too.
This is getting a bit old, they claim all sorts of things, but they haven't released ANY proof.
Personally I'm more interested in the suit brought against SCO demanding a retraction. Where did that go?
They have GPL'd their code in the linux kernel that they are apparently STILL distributing, this whole thing is just dragging out, tell us when there is news.
Puzzle solving pattern matching software, what a suprise.
This is a non issue anyway, shredded paper isn't the weakest link. Phoneing in your credit card number on a cordless phone, insecure merchant computers, the waiter walking away with your CC, unscrupulous employees at any office that handles your information.
All these methods are much easier and much less trouble then dumpster diving.
Myself I shred because then _I_ know the paper is garbage, and not accidentally fallen in. I shred all scrap paper, to hide it a bit. They're better off stealing my mail before I shred it.
I think keywords are a bad idea.
In the wonderful world of DOS they have keywords like CON and NUL
Which have caused no end of trouble.
If you allow a file/directory to have arbitrary tags, and access them like directories you will have problems.
Why take a step backwards?
And if you look at the data you see.
The top 40+ have no failed requests, and it is just minor differences in response times, and it isn't overly clear if they are even sorted by that.
Although FreeBSD made the front page, it looks like the others are also represented.
To me this suggests that they are all capable, and the differences come from somewhere else, the setup and administration.
You could always ignore them.
Or register, which you're obviously not entirely opposed to.
Perhaps there's a need to see to the real problem instead and fix that.
Which is why people are mad at his hack, he didn't solve the real problem.
I agree.
Quick and dirty hacks may not solve your problem, if they don't solve the problem ie long term maintainability, they are not a solution.
If it doesn't do what it should, it is not a solution.