I know that was probably not seriously intended, but it strikes me that:
waiting to scoop a few million morse code email addresses
Even at 20 WPM, that could take a while. Maybe not a bad idea to have the spammers picking up addresses that way, they'd take way too much time doing it and have less time to send junk out.
Idaho governor Leavitt succeeds Governor Kempthorne, just named the previous Idaho governor, to head the EPA, as it abandons the penalty financing of SuperFund.
Leavitt was governor of Utah, not Idaho. His successor in Utah is Gov. Walker. Gov Kempthorne has been governor of Idaho since 1998, and is still in office.
However, the point is still valid. As a protector of the environment, Leavitt has a pretty poor track record.
I have to say that I am absolutely outraged at what Gov. Leavitt has apparently done. I wasn't particularly happy with him over his stand on allowing the storage of nuclear waste in our state (something that apparently was a qualification for head of the Environmental Protection Agency).
IANAL, so I wonder - would something like this be grounds for some sort of class action lawsuit?
If it is, count me in.
It amazes me the things we in the US allow our government to do to us in the name of security:
The USA PATRIOT Act
MATRIX
And the proposed Patriot II Act
If we the government keeps getting away with passing legislation like this, the terrorists win, and the government *becomes* the terrorists.
Don't know about your situation - in mine, we were looking for a publisher to fund the creation of the work, so we submitted outlines to a number of publishers, got advances to purchase equipment, and went from there.
That probably made a big difference - we didn't have anything to copyright before we talked to the publishers.
The only thing that's been an issue for me with the arrangement in the contracts I've had in the past was that the publishers waited too long for a new edition, and then the sales didn't support writing a new edition (this is for technical books, so the information does become dated after a couple years). The last time it was due to an acquisition of the publisher that basically put the brakes on the new edition, then when the new publisher got things squared away, the window had passed.
Makes me kinda glad now that I'm writing outside of the publishing world - I write the books I use for my training classes, and I can update them any time I want. It's so much easier that I'm seriously considering investing in my own copy of FrameMaker and Acrobat to self-publish.
Nope, my first contract explicitly reads that once the book is declared out of print by the publisher, the rights revert to the authors. That was actually quite significant to us, because the contract specifically stated that the publisher had to have first right of refusal on other books on the same material, and when it became apparent they didn't want to do a second edition, we wanted to go with a different publisher.
Long story short, the rights reverted to us about 3 days before the new book was published. Fortunately, there was never any possibility of litigation over it, because the publisher messed the contract up (they put the wrong topic in the non-compete clause, we had a lawyer look at it, and he said we were fine because of that mistake).
I seem to recall that part of the reason for this had to do with translations of the published work, as I do know one edition of the first book was translated to German, and an edition of the second book was translated to Chinese.
The rights on the second book (different publisher) seem a little strange, because the original publisher renamed themselves, then was acquired, and then the imprint was transferred to yet another publishing house. The end result is that with the new edition in the works, I have rights to the material I wrote, and I'm actually legally not in a position to contribute new material to the new edition, so the publisher had to seek permission from me to use the material I had previously written.
It's definitely a maze, no doubt about that. The first contract was so much simpler.
I'm no lawyer, but I am an author and my publishers have to pay me royalties BECAUSE I OWN THE COPYRIGHTS TO MY WORKS.
Actually, based on my own experience (having co-authored a couple of books and contributed to a few others, and having worked as a technical reviewer), the publisher holds the copyright until the work is declared out of print, then the rights revert to the author. The author receives royalties because they wrote the content, and that's how they get paid.
Payment frequently comes in the form of royalties, or as a flat fee, but if an advance is given, that advance is issued against the royalties (it's more of an interest-free loan than anything, because it has to be paid back).
The reason most publishers do this is so the author can't use the material somewhere else, allowing the publisher to make money off the work as well without having to worry about the author republishing the work with another publisher or through a different medium.
I realize this is a couple of days late, have been on the road.
I find it somewhat amusing that you seem to think that I have a bad relationship with my stepson - matter of fact, he's one of the most responsible 16-year-olds I know, we allow him to have his computer in his room, and as a result of the incident (which actually happened years ago), he knows where the limits are and why they're there.
You are correct, however, that software supervision is not the only thing necessary - and certainly, that isn't the only piece of the puzzle - there does have to be good communication as well, explaining why it's important and outlining what the consequences are for actions - and that he needs to take responsibility for his actions.
But parents need to take some time to learn how the technology works as well - and I think that's one difference in our household than in others; I work with technology on a daily basis, and consequently, know more about how this all works than the average parent. My stepson knows this, and respects my knowledge, frequently seeking my advice.
It also prepares him for the real world, so when he gets out there and gets a job, he knows what's acceptable in the workplace and what is not, and also what means are out there to catch him if he does something wrong. He knows the importance of keeping a password secure, and will never write it down on a post-it note where someone can frame him for inappropriate use of a company's computing resources.
If you think that's bad, you should see the response a kid has when he discovers that technology means you can be watching even when you're not standing right there.
Enter one copy of Ethereal and one copy of a remote desktop viewing software package, installed in stealth mode.
You never saw a teenager clean up their act faster than when they saw a replay of an IM conversation through a sniffer after they complained about slow network access.
When a kid's friends - like his parent's friends - are scattered throughout the planet and aren't local, IM is a great way to keep in touch. It sure saves on phone bills.
In my job, I carry two Dell Latitude laptops rather than one. I've got a shoulder bag that I picked up at a trade show years ago that actually can handle two (one in the laptop pouch and a second in a zippered rear compartment that's not really padded but is the right size).
Unfortunately, though, with all the travelling I do these days, the bag is getting used a lot, and it's starting to wear out.
I need to take both systems with me on trips, so I need the bag to be able to:
1. Hold two laptops 2. Fit under the seat in front of me on an airplane when flying coach (sitting on the aisle no less) 3. Preferably have wheels, as the shoulder strap is killing me having to run through, say, Atlanta's airport at full tilt to make a connection 4. Be able to hold all the necessary cables and such
Giant eagles? Anything that large won't be able to support itself in flight (specially not in flight), bone density would have to be very low in order for it to be light enough... Hint: Smaller Eagles!!
Weight is only one of four factors involved in flight - you also have lift, thrust, and drag. Airplanes aren't exactly featherweight, especially not something like a 747 or 777...
Its pretty simple for an apache server to feed IIS headers you know...
Why would anybody do that? That's like painting a target on yourself, going down to the local shooting range, and yelling "Here I am! Shoot me! Please!"
Microsoft outsources CD duplication, like most major software companies. I understand that they outsource to a number of different vendors because of the volume of duplication they need.
It's entirely possible that the CD pressing work used in the outsourced companies' systems is Unix/Linux driven, but the analogy is kinda lost when you consider that they also outsource caching services to Akamai, who use Linux - so if you look on Netcraft's website, you'll see that microsoft.com uses IIS/Linux.
[...] compressed, DRM'ed music files in the second session [...]
"All copy-protections can be hacked, but if (we) give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."
This is obviously some strange usage of the word trust I was previously unaware of.
The distinction between the two products is very important, however; I've no reason to doubt you know the difference between the two - but in the interests of informing the uninformed, let me jump in and provide some background.
I'll preface my comments by saying that I do work for Novell as a member of the Training Services organization; specifically, I develop and present public courses on eDirectory and the underlying technology. Prior to training on the technology, I worked in the trenches with both NDS and eDirectory, starting with the initial release of the technology in 1993.
NDS was based on a database engine that was specific to NetWare (called "Record Manager", or RECMAN). The RECMAN engine had difficulty scaling to millions of objects per partition, something needed for identity management for external-facing directories. Additionally, RECMAN was tied to the Transaction Tracking System in NetWare, making it very difficult to port to other platforms.
The database engine used in eDirectory is much, much more scalable and portable; improvements were added to the replication engine as well to ensure large replica rings could converge in a reasonable time without running into communications scalability issues. Also, in the most recent releases (8.7 and 8.7.1) of eDirectory, the handling of referential integrity in the database has been modified to be more scalable, much in the same way as the replication engine was enhanced in NDS8 and eDirectory 8.5.
From an end-user perspective, there's not a lot of difference between NDS and eDirectory - they both represent X.500 directories; rights are applied almost exactly the same in the two (the "Inheritable" capabilities in eDirectory were actually introduced in NDS8, the last "true" release under the "NDS" branding, though it used the more scalable FLAIM database engine).
But from a back-end architecture, the differences between NDS and eDirectory are as dramatic as the differences between the NetWare 2.x/3.x bindery and NDS.
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As I recall, Linus owns the Linux trademark...
Idaho governor Leavitt succeeds Governor Kempthorne, just named the previous Idaho governor, to head the EPA, as it abandons the penalty financing of SuperFund.
Leavitt was governor of Utah, not Idaho. His successor in Utah is Gov. Walker. Gov Kempthorne has been governor of Idaho since 1998, and is still in office.
However, the point is still valid. As a protector of the environment, Leavitt has a pretty poor track record.
I have to say that I am absolutely outraged at what Gov. Leavitt has apparently done. I wasn't particularly happy with him over his stand on allowing the storage of nuclear waste in our state (something that apparently was a qualification for head of the Environmental Protection Agency).
IANAL, so I wonder - would something like this be grounds for some sort of class action lawsuit?
If it is, count me in.
It amazes me the things we in the US allow our government to do to us in the name of security:
If we the government keeps getting away with passing legislation like this, the terrorists win, and the government *becomes* the terrorists.
No, because it's HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or HHGG, which "reduces" to H2G2.
See The BBC Website for a reference.
Don't know about your situation - in mine, we were looking for a publisher to fund the creation of the work, so we submitted outlines to a number of publishers, got advances to purchase equipment, and went from there.
That probably made a big difference - we didn't have anything to copyright before we talked to the publishers.
The only thing that's been an issue for me with the arrangement in the contracts I've had in the past was that the publishers waited too long for a new edition, and then the sales didn't support writing a new edition (this is for technical books, so the information does become dated after a couple years). The last time it was due to an acquisition of the publisher that basically put the brakes on the new edition, then when the new publisher got things squared away, the window had passed.
Makes me kinda glad now that I'm writing outside of the publishing world - I write the books I use for my training classes, and I can update them any time I want. It's so much easier that I'm seriously considering investing in my own copy of FrameMaker and Acrobat to self-publish.
Nope, my first contract explicitly reads that once the book is declared out of print by the publisher, the rights revert to the authors. That was actually quite significant to us, because the contract specifically stated that the publisher had to have first right of refusal on other books on the same material, and when it became apparent they didn't want to do a second edition, we wanted to go with a different publisher.
Long story short, the rights reverted to us about 3 days before the new book was published. Fortunately, there was never any possibility of litigation over it, because the publisher messed the contract up (they put the wrong topic in the non-compete clause, we had a lawyer look at it, and he said we were fine because of that mistake).
I seem to recall that part of the reason for this had to do with translations of the published work, as I do know one edition of the first book was translated to German, and an edition of the second book was translated to Chinese.
The rights on the second book (different publisher) seem a little strange, because the original publisher renamed themselves, then was acquired, and then the imprint was transferred to yet another publishing house. The end result is that with the new edition in the works, I have rights to the material I wrote, and I'm actually legally not in a position to contribute new material to the new edition, so the publisher had to seek permission from me to use the material I had previously written.
It's definitely a maze, no doubt about that. The first contract was so much simpler.
Actually, based on my own experience (having co-authored a couple of books and contributed to a few others, and having worked as a technical reviewer), the publisher holds the copyright until the work is declared out of print, then the rights revert to the author. The author receives royalties because they wrote the content, and that's how they get paid.
Payment frequently comes in the form of royalties, or as a flat fee, but if an advance is given, that advance is issued against the royalties (it's more of an interest-free loan than anything, because it has to be paid back).
The reason most publishers do this is so the author can't use the material somewhere else, allowing the publisher to make money off the work as well without having to worry about the author republishing the work with another publisher or through a different medium.
I realize this is a couple of days late, have been on the road.
I find it somewhat amusing that you seem to think that I have a bad relationship with my stepson - matter of fact, he's one of the most responsible 16-year-olds I know, we allow him to have his computer in his room, and as a result of the incident (which actually happened years ago), he knows where the limits are and why they're there.
You are correct, however, that software supervision is not the only thing necessary - and certainly, that isn't the only piece of the puzzle - there does have to be good communication as well, explaining why it's important and outlining what the consequences are for actions - and that he needs to take responsibility for his actions.
But parents need to take some time to learn how the technology works as well - and I think that's one difference in our household than in others; I work with technology on a daily basis, and consequently, know more about how this all works than the average parent. My stepson knows this, and respects my knowledge, frequently seeking my advice.
It also prepares him for the real world, so when he gets out there and gets a job, he knows what's acceptable in the workplace and what is not, and also what means are out there to catch him if he does something wrong. He knows the importance of keeping a password secure, and will never write it down on a post-it note where someone can frame him for inappropriate use of a company's computing resources.
I don't know for a fact, but I wonder if this is a reference to the Japanese flag.
If you think that's bad, you should see the response a kid has when he discovers that technology means you can be watching even when you're not standing right there.
Enter one copy of Ethereal and one copy of a remote desktop viewing software package, installed in stealth mode.
You never saw a teenager clean up their act faster than when they saw a replay of an IM conversation through a sniffer after they complained about slow network access.
When a kid's friends - like his parent's friends - are scattered throughout the planet and aren't local, IM is a great way to keep in touch. It sure saves on phone bills.
In my job, I carry two Dell Latitude laptops rather than one. I've got a shoulder bag that I picked up at a trade show years ago that actually can handle two (one in the laptop pouch and a second in a zippered rear compartment that's not really padded but is the right size).
Unfortunately, though, with all the travelling I do these days, the bag is getting used a lot, and it's starting to wear out.
I need to take both systems with me on trips, so I need the bag to be able to:
1. Hold two laptops
2. Fit under the seat in front of me on an airplane when flying coach (sitting on the aisle no less)
3. Preferably have wheels, as the shoulder strap is killing me having to run through, say, Atlanta's airport at full tilt to make a connection
4. Be able to hold all the necessary cables and such
Any suggestions?
Giant eagles? Anything that large won't be able to support itself in flight (specially not in flight), bone density would have to be very low in order for it to be light enough... Hint: Smaller Eagles!!
Weight is only one of four factors involved in flight - you also have lift, thrust, and drag. Airplanes aren't exactly featherweight, especially not something like a 747 or 777...
True, can't argue with that. The analogy just popped into my head as something funny that had to be shared more than anything.
Its pretty simple for an apache server to feed IIS headers you know...
Why would anybody do that? That's like painting a target on yourself, going down to the local shooting range, and yelling "Here I am! Shoot me! Please!"
I guess we know how well their products work under load, don't we?
Come again? Violaters get an award but spend time in prison?
Make it international, and you could buy your way out of prison. Sounds like a heckofadeal to me!
Microsoft outsources CD duplication, like most major software companies. I understand that they outsource to a number of different vendors because of the volume of duplication they need.
It's entirely possible that the CD pressing work used in the outsourced companies' systems is Unix/Linux driven, but the analogy is kinda lost when you consider that they also outsource caching services to Akamai, who use Linux - so if you look on Netcraft's website, you'll see that microsoft.com uses IIS/Linux.
No, there are a number of schools out here, University of Utah, Utah State University, Weber State....
This is obviously some strange usage of the word trust I was previously unaware of.
The distinction between the two products is very important, however; I've no reason to doubt you know the difference between the two - but in the interests of informing the uninformed, let me jump in and provide some background.
I'll preface my comments by saying that I do work for Novell as a member of the Training Services organization; specifically, I develop and present public courses on eDirectory and the underlying technology. Prior to training on the technology, I worked in the trenches with both NDS and eDirectory, starting with the initial release of the technology in 1993.
NDS was based on a database engine that was specific to NetWare (called "Record Manager", or RECMAN). The RECMAN engine had difficulty scaling to millions of objects per partition, something needed for identity management for external-facing directories. Additionally, RECMAN was tied to the Transaction Tracking System in NetWare, making it very difficult to port to other platforms.
The database engine used in eDirectory is much, much more scalable and portable; improvements were added to the replication engine as well to ensure large replica rings could converge in a reasonable time without running into communications scalability issues. Also, in the most recent releases (8.7 and 8.7.1) of eDirectory, the handling of referential integrity in the database has been modified to be more scalable, much in the same way as the replication engine was enhanced in NDS8 and eDirectory 8.5.
From an end-user perspective, there's not a lot of difference between NDS and eDirectory - they both represent X.500 directories; rights are applied almost exactly the same in the two (the "Inheritable" capabilities in eDirectory were actually introduced in NDS8, the last "true" release under the "NDS" branding, though it used the more scalable FLAIM database engine).
But from a back-end architecture, the differences between NDS and eDirectory are as dramatic as the differences between the NetWare 2.x/3.x bindery and NDS.