The voice overs did no good for people who tuned in in between, heard what appeared to be news, and panicked, which is exactly what quite a few people did. My mother heard that broadcast.
No, the "brand" is the Unix trademark, which is owned by The Open Group, not by Novel or SCO. What Novel owns are the copyrights to the original Unix code.
Indeed. There have been scares of this type before and virtually all cases have turned out to involve driver error or fraud. Confirmed cases of runaway acceleration are virtually non-existent. Before speculating on possible causes, we should find out if there is a real problem.
That posting was two years ago, and he says he's a student. The fact that a student was making elementary errors in C++ two years ago hardly means that's incompetent for an entry-level position now.
In spite of the loud posturing of the Dubai authorities, no evidence whatever has been produced that al-Mabhouh was assassinated by Israel. Israel is certainly a likely candidate, but other Arab factions might equally well be responsible. In any case, if Israel did assassinate him, it was morally perfectly justifiable. He was a leader of a criminal organization, one that by its own admission engages in daily war crimes, whose stated purpose is genocide. He was known to have participated in acts of war against Israel including war crimes. He was a criminal and a combatant whose assassination was morally no less justifiable than Allied attempts to assassinate senior Nazis.
There was no chance that Dubai would arrest him and extradite him. Whoever assassinated him deserves our thanks.
If his assassination outrages Europeans, what that reflects is the lack of respect that Europeans have for fundamental human rights and international law when it comes to Jews.
There is no apartheid in Israel. In Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the Muslim Arabs are indeed trying to enforce apartheid, but that is hardly the fault of Israel.
Actually, Israel is not right wing. Even under the "right wing" governments, Israel retains many socialist features, including a universal health care system. In spite of some censorship for military reasons, civil liberties in Israel are better protected than in most countries in the world. Indeed, even Arabs have greater political rights, including freedom of expression, than in any Arab country. (Israel was, not coincidentally, the first country in the Middle East to give Arab women the vote.)
Agreed. The problem is, the Muslims don't want to. They're opposed to all Jewish presence in Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem, and have been driving Christian Arabs out too, especially from Gaza.
The dating of old rocks cited as an example in the post is not an example of carbon-dating. Carbon dating only goes back about 50K years, nowhere near 4 billion. Those old rocks were dated on the basis of their content of isotopes of certain rare earths which decay much more slowly than Carbon-14.
No one is suggesting anything of the kind. Every American history textbook that I have ever seen discusses the religious motivation of the Puritans and some other groups of colonists as well as the role of religion in other areas. Good histories, though, do not confuse the foundation of the US in the 1770s and 1780s with the Massachusetts of 1620. Even Massachusetts had acquired a different, less religious, more liberal, character by 1770.
It's only recent material for which this is true. Google appears to be interested in older material, for which the publishers generally do not have split out versions, or, for that matter, in many cases, any electronic version at all.
I see a problem with this. Suppose that the inventor is an individual or small company that doesn't have the ability to develop the invention by itself. It takes it to companies that can. These companies decline to license it, wait until a year has passed, then begin to make it without needing a license. They're gambling, of course, because a company that does license it within the first year will not only get a jump on them but may get an exclusive license, but if nobody licenses the patent in the first year (and the established companies might well collude in this), they will successfully have screwed the inventor out of the patent.
The school district certainly is the government. The story is about a public school district, which is part of the state government. It is funded by the state and its employees are government employees. It is legally a government entity for purposes such as constitutional litigation. If what you meant was that the school district is not a law enforcement agency, that's true, but concerns about invasion of privacy and improper search by the government are not limited to law enforcement agencies.
Actually, I was just explaining what the article meant, not making an independent claim about copyright, so a citation was hardly required. And no, this is not a borderline case like the example that you cite. The circumstances under which methods may be patented are a matter of contention. That pure ideas like protocols are not subject to copyright is not a matter of contention.
It follows immediately from the definition of copyright. Contrary to the views of many people, including/.-ers, copyright is not some vague and general form of ownership of intellectual property but applies specifically to the expression of ideas, not ideas. A document describing a protocol is subject to copyright, but not the protocol since it is merely an idea, not the expression thereof. Virtually any competent treatment of copyright, including the Wikipedia article, will explain this.
You misunderstand the case. The Court did not rule that Blizzard could copyright protocols. Rather, it ruled that BnetD violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions as well as provisions of Blizzard's EULA forbidding reverse engineering.
I think that the point of the article is that MYSQL overreached in claiming that the MYSQL protocol was subject to the GPL. Protocols cannot be copyrighted and therefore cannot fall under the GPL.
Japanese prisons are far from ideal, but it is quite true that they do not have the problems that American prisons do. There is next to no prisoner-on-prisoner violence or rape.
At many schools there is not much relationship between the CS department and IT, or more accurately, the relationship is often hostile. Years ago when I was at Stanford in spite of the presence of an excellent CS department IT was antedeluvian.
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The voice overs did no good for people who tuned in in between, heard what appeared to be news, and panicked, which is exactly what quite a few people did. My mother heard that broadcast.
No, the "brand" is the Unix trademark, which is owned by The Open Group, not by Novel or SCO. What Novel owns are the copyrights to the original Unix code.
Indeed. There have been scares of this type before and virtually all cases have turned out to involve driver error or fraud. Confirmed cases of runaway acceleration are virtually non-existent. Before speculating on possible causes, we should find out if there is a real problem.
That posting was two years ago, and he says he's a student. The fact that a student was making elementary errors in C++ two years ago hardly means that's incompetent for an entry-level position now.
In spite of the loud posturing of the Dubai authorities, no evidence whatever has been produced that al-Mabhouh was assassinated by Israel. Israel is certainly a likely candidate, but other Arab factions might equally well be responsible. In any case, if Israel did assassinate him, it was morally perfectly justifiable. He was a leader of a criminal organization, one that by its own admission engages in daily war crimes, whose stated purpose is genocide. He was known to have participated in acts of war against Israel including war crimes. He was a criminal and a combatant whose assassination was morally no less justifiable than Allied attempts to assassinate senior Nazis. There was no chance that Dubai would arrest him and extradite him. Whoever assassinated him deserves our thanks. If his assassination outrages Europeans, what that reflects is the lack of respect that Europeans have for fundamental human rights and international law when it comes to Jews.
There is no apartheid in Israel. In Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the Muslim Arabs are indeed trying to enforce apartheid, but that is hardly the fault of Israel.
Actually, Israel is not right wing. Even under the "right wing" governments, Israel retains many socialist features, including a universal health care system. In spite of some censorship for military reasons, civil liberties in Israel are better protected than in most countries in the world. Indeed, even Arabs have greater political rights, including freedom of expression, than in any Arab country. (Israel was, not coincidentally, the first country in the Middle East to give Arab women the vote.)
Arab members of the Knesset have hardly been "token". Elias Nakleh, an Arab, was Deputy Speaker of the 7th Knesset.
Agreed. The problem is, the Muslims don't want to. They're opposed to all Jewish presence in Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem, and have been driving Christian Arabs out too, especially from Gaza.
The dating of old rocks cited as an example in the post is not an example of carbon-dating. Carbon dating only goes back about 50K years, nowhere near 4 billion. Those old rocks were dated on the basis of their content of isotopes of certain rare earths which decay much more slowly than Carbon-14.
I've posted so I can't moderate, but if I could, I would moderate "insightful".
No one is suggesting anything of the kind. Every American history textbook that I have ever seen discusses the religious motivation of the Puritans and some other groups of colonists as well as the role of religion in other areas. Good histories, though, do not confuse the foundation of the US in the 1770s and 1780s with the Massachusetts of 1620. Even Massachusetts had acquired a different, less religious, more liberal, character by 1770.
Really? Where? On what grounds?
It's only recent material for which this is true. Google appears to be interested in older material, for which the publishers generally do not have split out versions, or, for that matter, in many cases, any electronic version at all.
As the article says, the problem is not so much with the publishers as with the copyrights of the authors.
I see a problem with this. Suppose that the inventor is an individual or small company that doesn't have the ability to develop the invention by itself. It takes it to companies that can. These companies decline to license it, wait until a year has passed, then begin to make it without needing a license. They're gambling, of course, because a company that does license it within the first year will not only get a jump on them but may get an exclusive license, but if nobody licenses the patent in the first year (and the established companies might well collude in this), they will successfully have screwed the inventor out of the patent.
The school district certainly is the government. The story is about a public school district, which is part of the state government. It is funded by the state and its employees are government employees. It is legally a government entity for purposes such as constitutional litigation. If what you meant was that the school district is not a law enforcement agency, that's true, but concerns about invasion of privacy and improper search by the government are not limited to law enforcement agencies.
Actually, I was just explaining what the article meant, not making an independent claim about copyright, so a citation was hardly required. And no, this is not a borderline case like the example that you cite. The circumstances under which methods may be patented are a matter of contention. That pure ideas like protocols are not subject to copyright is not a matter of contention.
It follows immediately from the definition of copyright. Contrary to the views of many people, including /.-ers, copyright is not some vague and general form of ownership of intellectual property but applies specifically to the expression of ideas, not ideas. A document describing a protocol is subject to copyright, but not the protocol since it is merely an idea, not the expression thereof. Virtually any competent treatment of copyright, including the Wikipedia article, will explain this.
You misunderstand the case. The Court did not rule that Blizzard could copyright protocols. Rather, it ruled that BnetD violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions as well as provisions of Blizzard's EULA forbidding reverse engineering.
I think that the point of the article is that MYSQL overreached in claiming that the MYSQL protocol was subject to the GPL. Protocols cannot be copyrighted and therefore cannot fall under the GPL.
Japanese prisons are far from ideal, but it is quite true that they do not have the problems that American prisons do. There is next to no prisoner-on-prisoner violence or rape.
At many schools there is not much relationship between the CS department and IT, or more accurately, the relationship is often hostile. Years ago when I was at Stanford in spite of the presence of an excellent CS department IT was antedeluvian.
Bush did not graduate from Harvard. He received an MBA from the Harvard Business School, which is quite a different matter.