No, I'm afraid you are incorrect. I think you'll find the Diebold Accuvote-TSx is completely decertified throughout the State of California, with immediate effect.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ks_dre_papers/dec er t.pdf
This only affects 4 counties, as the others use earlier models or other companies machines. but then the slashdot article didn't say "eVoting banned in CA" did it?
and that's why the "Tentacles in the Classroom 2004" bill was passed yesterday, revoking all previous kiddy-porn and bestiality laws on a federal level.
I re-edited an all-in-one custom BBS package so that messages stored in a non-standard database could be expired, and deleted so the disk didn't run out of space.
It had been quickly hacked together in BASIC and the guy who wrote it never bothered to store the message number internally. In fact all messages wer 1K and the software just paged through the file 1k at a time, so after 544k message no. 544 began...
read that again: (c) use a context based triggering mechanism to display an advertisement that partially or wholly covers or obscures paid avertising or other content on an Internet website in a way that interferes with a user's ability to view the Internet website.
you specifically have to paste an advertisement over someone elses' website for this clause to refer to you.
posting "plain nothingness" only counts as advertising if you're selling nothing! ^_^
EV1, however, should just sue SCO for breach of contract
Hmm. If i recall correctly, EV1's CEO posted that there was a clause in the sale for non-disclosure of the price, and he was dissappointed that SCO had been talking about it. That alone might be enough but I'd want some corporate lawyers and a copy of the contract to check...
Erm, this has got to be a joke? OK, maybe you've been spending a lot of "quality time" with yourself under your bridge and have only just noticed that something's going on outside. When you get a moment, click over to Groklaw and bone up on some facts, if you like.
You might want to study some of the more Common logical errors yourself, if you're going to accuse me of using vacuous logic... you've attacked everything but the argument itself there.
groklaw is an interesting and informative site, but you can't have read groklaw much, or you'd have spotted the disclaimer. it's right on the frontpage, at the top, and after you do read it maybe you'll realise groklaw is not a recognised court and the opinions of a paralegal and the IANAL participants who post comments - much like Darl McBrides' opinion - doesn't count for squat. There's actually not a lot of pertinent facts there, beyond the relevant statutes and rulings so far. That is a side effect of the fact the case hasn't come even as far as the disclosure part yet! That will change in time, of course, but until the goalposts are fixed nobody can make an informed guess of the final score.
But really, don't try to convince anyone that a CEO would be in his right mind to make a decision with as much potential downside, and no discernible upside, using reasoning so vacuous.
Perhaps you're not aware of it, but huge, complex, lumbering courtcases don't always return the verdict the cognoscenti are rooting for. Sometimes hard facts gets in the way, or sometimes those same facts get deliberately obfuscated by one side to the point where it goes into endless appeals.
Don't get me wrong - I'm rooting for IBM and linux, but if SCO eventually WIN this case, then they'll probably spend the next ten years trying to sue every company that didn't pay up on time or cease and desist right into the ground.
Even in the event of a win for SCO, they might not have a case for those who don't pay at this stage, but i don't know, as IANAL, but EV1's lawyers must have seen some threat.
Yo're right. There is no potential upside. Only two vicious downsides - either risk being dragged through the courts by a company with "extortion" as a business model or dragged through the mud by know-nothing knowitalls. EV1s really big mistake was letting any of this become public knowledge. I find it unlikely that they are the only company to pay a license fee, but they seem to be the only ones being lambasted for it.
EV1Servers underestimated the reaction to giving in to SCO demands
So they bought a licence, big deal. He's just covering his ass, and the ass of everyone who chooses EV1. The courts will not rule in IBM's favour just because linux geeks don't like it. Hell, it's not like it even matters! We havent even SEEN the "evidence" yet. what if SCO really does have a case, and they suddenly start suing every colo firm that runs linux?
You mean like Vi?:^) Google Keyboard Shortcuts has a UI similar to Vi's. None of that control and meta Emacs nonsense.
wow. that is so cool! I'd certainly choose a vi-like system for preference (although I have a fondness for the old standard IBM shortcuts that made their way into windows)
pretty redundant keeping those old i/j/k/l bindings though...
the key word there is "broadcast" - i.e. TV or radio public transmission (or in some cases webcasts)
individual sales are not "broadcasts" so the excemption doesn't apply.
From the section about circumventing copy protected CDs (or any other non-software format)
"296ZA Circumvention of technological measures
(1) This section applies where -
(a) effective technological measures have been applied to a copyright work other than a computer program"
"effective"?
IANAL,but I can speak english. that reads to me as "This section applies where insurmountable copy protection has been applied" i.e. if it's effective it is non-circumventable...
Slashdot Mirror
That's crazy. a first post that is relevant to the article AND more than five words long!
Quite frankly I agree. laptops are just not ideal for gaming, unless it's some slow moving turn based strategy thing or somesuch.
No, I'm afraid you are incorrect. I think you'll find the Diebold Accuvote-TSx is completely decertified throughout the State of California, with immediate effect.
c er t.pdf
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ks_dre_papers/de
This only affects 4 counties, as the others use earlier models or other companies machines. but then the slashdot article didn't say "eVoting banned in CA" did it?
and that's why the "Tentacles in the Classroom 2004" bill was passed yesterday, revoking all previous kiddy-porn and bestiality laws on a federal level.
that was entirely in english! I understood every word, fool! Your post should be: "Watashi wa baka desu" or somesuch!
Thing is, smegma is an international term for manliest cheese of all. It's medical latin.
so I think those crazy smeg folks are just a bunch of weirdos.
when it said 'appropriately-sized for the 4" action figures' I took that to mean it was to scale.
I was bitterly disappointed to see the ISDjr on sale!
I re-edited an all-in-one custom BBS package so that messages stored in a non-standard database could be expired, and deleted so the disk didn't run out of space.
It had been quickly hacked together in BASIC and the guy who wrote it never bothered to store the message number internally. In fact all messages wer 1K and the software just paged through the file 1k at a time, so after 544k message no. 544 began...
Umm. that's it. . If you don't get it, think about what jesus did for a living....
read that again:
(c) use a context based triggering mechanism to display an advertisement that partially or wholly covers or obscures paid avertising or other content on an Internet website in a way that interferes with a user's ability to view the Internet website.
you specifically have to paste an advertisement over someone elses' website for this clause to refer to you.
posting "plain nothingness" only counts as advertising if you're selling nothing! ^_^
Is this the third, or the fourth time they've found a Tenth planet?
All hail our new tennis-ball-in-eliptical-orbit overlords!
EV1, however, should just sue SCO for breach of contract
Hmm. If i recall correctly, EV1's CEO posted that there was a clause in the sale for non-disclosure of the price, and he was dissappointed that SCO had been talking about it. That alone might be enough but I'd want some corporate lawyers and a copy of the contract to check...
Erm, this has got to be a joke? OK, maybe you've been spending a lot of "quality time" with yourself under your bridge and have only just noticed that something's going on outside. When you get a moment, click over to Groklaw and bone up on some facts, if you like.
You might want to study some of the more
Common logical errors yourself, if you're going to accuse me of using vacuous logic... you've attacked everything but the argument itself there.
groklaw is an interesting and informative site, but you can't have read groklaw much, or you'd have spotted the disclaimer. it's right on the frontpage, at the top, and after you do read it maybe you'll realise groklaw is not a recognised court and the opinions of a paralegal and the IANAL participants who post comments - much like Darl McBrides' opinion - doesn't count for squat. There's actually not a lot of pertinent facts there, beyond the relevant statutes and rulings so far. That is a side effect of the fact the case hasn't come even as far as the disclosure part yet! That will change in time, of course, but until the goalposts are fixed nobody can make an informed guess of the final score.
But really, don't try to convince anyone that a CEO would be in his right mind to make a decision with as much potential downside, and no discernible upside, using reasoning so vacuous.
Perhaps you're not aware of it, but huge, complex, lumbering courtcases don't always return the verdict the cognoscenti are rooting for. Sometimes hard facts gets in the way, or sometimes those same facts get deliberately obfuscated by one side to the point where it goes into endless appeals.
Don't get me wrong - I'm rooting for IBM and linux, but if SCO eventually WIN this case, then they'll probably spend the next ten years trying to sue every company that didn't pay up on time or cease and desist right into the ground.
Even in the event of a win for SCO, they might not have a case for those who don't pay at this stage, but i don't know, as IANAL, but EV1's lawyers must have seen some threat.
Yo're right. There is no potential upside. Only two vicious downsides - either risk being dragged through the courts by a company with "extortion" as a business model or dragged through the mud by know-nothing knowitalls. EV1s really big mistake was letting any of this become public knowledge. I find it unlikely that they are the only company to pay a license fee, but they seem to be the only ones being lambasted for it.
EV1Servers underestimated the reaction to giving in to SCO demands
So they bought a licence, big deal. He's just covering his ass, and the ass of everyone who chooses EV1. The courts will not rule in IBM's favour just because linux geeks don't like it. Hell, it's not like it even matters! We havent even SEEN the "evidence" yet. what if SCO really does have a case, and they suddenly start suing every colo firm that runs linux?
This isn't a time to be smug about not running Solaris...
You're right, it's time to feel smug about running windows. There are no surprising vulnerablities there...
what am I saying? the cursor keys will just scroll the page in bost browsers. D'oh!
You mean like Vi? :^) Google Keyboard Shortcuts has a UI similar to Vi's. None of that control and meta Emacs nonsense.
wow. that is so cool! I'd certainly choose a vi-like system for preference (although I have a fondness for the old standard IBM shortcuts that made their way into windows)
pretty redundant keeping those old i/j/k/l bindings though...
... or should it be GNU/Google Emacs?
nah. Google would want a UI that humans can understand.
Of course they will need to invest a lot of effort into spam filtering for the service to be of any value.
that'd be nice, but no spam-filtration system is one hundred percent effective, unless you block everyone outside of your address book.
I've had total success with that method, but I'm a miserable curmudgeon who doesn't want any new friends!
"Eisbrecher's record label ZYX Music supports this action"
Their label may be supporting them in this, but ZYX Music have hardly abandoned the IFPI in disgust.(http://www.ifpi.org/)
"IFPI particularly encourages new laws that protect against Internet piracy, and prevent hacking of technological protections."
Really? You don't say!
that's o.k. AIUI avian carriers are software upgradable.
Just because it's going to be a standard, that doesn't mean it'll become THE standard. IM, etc. would need to adopt it.
Anyway, I'm still wainting for Linksys to make a home router/hub for RFC1149 (IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers)
a dual monitor LCD setup in a darkened windowless room, back when they where pretty rare.
Don't be fooled. Darkened, windowless rooms have been about for longer than you think.
the key word there is "broadcast" - i.e. TV or radio public transmission (or in some cases webcasts) individual sales are not "broadcasts" so the excemption doesn't apply.
From the section about circumventing copy protected CDs (or any other non-software format)
"296ZA Circumvention of technological measures
(1) This section applies where -
(a) effective technological measures have been applied to a copyright work other than a computer program"
"effective"?
IANAL,but I can speak english. that reads to me as "This section applies where insurmountable copy protection has been applied" i.e. if it's effective it is non-circumventable...