Yes, but that would only let you find the device - not necessarily the criminal. What if someone builds an EAS transmitter that also receives a start signal on a different frequency or has a few-hour delay built in, and drops in the median of a major highway; is there any real way to determine who put it there? Or places it in a back corner/restroom of a public library or bank building, or....
Besides, it'd be a royal waste of time to use such a system if a script-kiddie sent the signal "local origination" - "required weekly test" - "this county only" - "valid for 00:00" followed by the Badgers flash clip as the emergency broadcast.
A spectator in Athens will give many times more than $500 to Athenian businesses; thus, the event is very profitable for Athens, who is sponsoring the games and paying for a considerable part of it. The tickets per se don't have to make money.
"the United States Supreme Court declared that African Americans were only three-fifths human"
Huh?? The way I learned history, the founding fathers when writing the Constitution (this was before the Supreme Court existed) were debating whether or not to count slaves -- not all African-Americans; free men of any race counted the same -- towards House representation. This has nothing to do with humanness, just population counts. The free states, of course, wanted the slaves not to be counted so they would get more representation compared to the slave states; the slave states wanted the slaves counted, since the majority of their population was enslaved. The 3/5 fraction was a compromise, known as the "three-fifths compromise" (I wonder why).
Anyone who opposes the partially-"human" count should thank the slave states, who were the ones who wanted the slaves fully counted. The "free" states, which fallwell.com implicitly supports, wanted the slaves to be what the website would call "not human".
Did the Supreme Court ever make a ruling on the 3/5 count, other than to possibly affirm it (which is in no sense "declaring" it)?
At least with a password (in a dire, kidnapped-by-the-KGB-style situation), you can refuse to give the password. With biometrics, they just have to drug you or kill you and bring your body to the biometric scanner.
Fantasia...if Disney owned the music played in Fantasia, would it be much different from them using public domain music?
The Sword in the Stone...if Disney had the movie rights to T. H. White's book (which they probably did have), would it be significantly different from a movie based on the Arthurian legend?
And so forth. It's not ironic. Disney doesn't want public domain, because they can afford the rights to works and then chase down people who can't. It doesn't matter to their work if the source is their property or public domain; it just matters to others' work.
At a Hilton I stayed at last week with both wired and wireless support, the first HTTP connection (per computer or something) is redirected to a hilton.com intro page, although by a simpler, completely different method at the router itself. The general idea has been there, and when used by the network owner, is acceptable.
Just use the RXX feeds: http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf or http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss. Both are statically generated, and thus don't Perl out. Moreover, you can copy/paste the comments.pl URL without getting 503s. I'd noticed my hourly curl|grep|sed feed was working without problem, so I suspected the RXX feeds were working though index.pl wasn't.
I'm pretty sure that apart from the ability of the insurance to protect Linux, its simple existence will allow the intuitive argument that if an insurance company is willing to protect against patents that it claims can be used against Linux, the possible claims must be weak.
Because evolution exists in the realm of scientific proof, and creationism does not, they naturally obey different standards. An argument that creationism isn't scientific is no argument.
If it were that easy, you could send them good food instead of dehydrated packs like this and MREs.
A supply convoy is worse off than a group of soldiers; both can be attacked as easily, but the supply convoy has much less defense because it's carrying mostly food and water instead of soldiers.
If he has full rights to the game, what does "All rights reserved" mean?
And isn't copying a right (hence copy-right)? So if you don't have the copy right, you don't have all rights to it.
There's a semantic confusion over the word "game", and what "buying" one means. Analogy: that song that MS used in the Win98 splash screen could be bought for a few bucks before. That is one type of "buying the song". Microsoft paid millions of dollars for it, and "bought the song" in a completely different way.
Hm? Why am I not a Christian? I do believe in Jesus and the Bible. I never said I hated God. I just see that there are instances where other people would like to discuss things without invoking God, and I respect that and discuss the topics in their interpretation. I also see that in many situations, people want to discuss thinks invoking God, and I respect that too and discuss the topic in terms of God.
Are you the Christ? If not, how do you know if he knows me or not?
It's possible to describe nature somewhat without God; that is science. I can agree with science as far as it goes, but of course it has limits. Science is a closed system that starts by makes assumptions about the world, and it is as valid as those assumptions.
Well, why don't you talk to your representatives and pass something like that as the 28th? The Constitution can still be changed.
Or talk to your representatives in the state legislature. You'll have a better chance of convincing them, and either they can pass a statewide law preventing attacks on these rights, or if 34 state legislatures agree, they can hold a convention to create Constitutional amendments without the interference of Congress.
People have been mentioning the Xbox, whose BIOS requires signed code both for the dashboard (roughly the OS) and the game discs. So of course the Xbox-Linux Project developed their own Free BIOS, Cromwell (see the bottom of the page), which is more or less just a Linux loader with no Microsoft BIOS code in it. (Other BIOSes like EvolutionX are derivative works of the MS BIOS and thus technically illegal.)
So yeah, there are Free BIOSes, there is a MS BIOS that enforces a signed code restriction, and there has been a need to bypass that restriction.
There's the legal principle of confusion - there has to be a separation of the parties. The plaintiff and defendant employers would be the same - so no grounds for a suit.
SCO has claimed that its own distribution of Caldera Linux was illegal, but it didn't know it at the time. Assuming Windows source were this dangerous, Microsoft could technically sue the employee who incorporated Windows source into a product that, e.g., it gives away for free.
So, forget the "joy!":-)
'Twas sarcasm. I don't think Microsoft would appreciate the influx of developers begging for the only job left.
If this were instead about someone having trouble with access to some sources of an operating system made by a certain large proprietary-software company, we would cry that the license is unfair and your eyes burn when you look at the source and you don't want to see it because you can't redistribute it. Is that irrelevant, now that it's the GPL?
At least with a proprietary license you can get sued and at most you'll have to stop distributing your product. With a GPL license you have to show the sources. From the modifier's point of view, that might be worse.
You always can charge for the product. It's how the FSF sells $5000 CDs of most of its software. $5000 is not a reasonable price for a couple of CDs (since it's money-free for download, I can make the same CDs for about 50), but the FSF can charge any price it wants for it distributing. The catch is that once it's distributed, people are allowed to copy those CDs without paying the FSF.
Oh, and $5000 (or whatever) is technically not the price of the CD. It's a PBS-style "gift" for a $5000 "donation".
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Yes, but that would only let you find the device - not necessarily the criminal. What if someone builds an EAS transmitter that also receives a start signal on a different frequency or has a few-hour delay built in, and drops in the median of a major highway; is there any real way to determine who put it there? Or places it in a back corner/restroom of a public library or bank building, or....
Besides, it'd be a royal waste of time to use such a system if a script-kiddie sent the signal "local origination" - "required weekly test" - "this county only" - "valid for 00:00" followed by the Badgers flash clip as the emergency broadcast.
At least it will be the end of L33t.
I'll probably be modded down for this, but I don't think that's true.
One word: Tourism.
A spectator in Athens will give many times more than $500 to Athenian businesses; thus, the event is very profitable for Athens, who is sponsoring the games and paying for a considerable part of it. The tickets per se don't have to make money.
Slashdot: News for libertarians, stuff they'll agree with.
"the United States Supreme Court declared that African Americans were only three-fifths human"
Huh?? The way I learned history, the founding fathers when writing the Constitution (this was before the Supreme Court existed) were debating whether or not to count slaves -- not all African-Americans; free men of any race counted the same -- towards House representation. This has nothing to do with humanness, just population counts. The free states, of course, wanted the slaves not to be counted so they would get more representation compared to the slave states; the slave states wanted the slaves counted, since the majority of their population was enslaved. The 3/5 fraction was a compromise, known as the "three-fifths compromise" (I wonder why).
Anyone who opposes the partially-"human" count should thank the slave states, who were the ones who wanted the slaves fully counted. The "free" states, which fallwell.com implicitly supports, wanted the slaves to be what the website would call "not human".
Did the Supreme Court ever make a ruling on the 3/5 count, other than to possibly affirm it (which is in no sense "declaring" it)?
You're going to counter that there will be none? Open your own insurance company, then. From what I hear it can be highly profitable.
(And then, set it up as a non-profit and forward the proceeds to the EFF, just because.)
Yes.
To make this as easy as you did for enterprising insurance companies:
What do I care if you know how fast I drive? I'd've given you that information if you had just asked; no need to offer discounts.
At least with a password (in a dire, kidnapped-by-the-KGB-style situation), you can refuse to give the password. With biometrics, they just have to drug you or kill you and bring your body to the biometric scanner.
take their DRM and shove it
Let's get Mrs. Kerry as our spokeswoman!
Fantasia...if Disney owned the music played in Fantasia, would it be much different from them using public domain music?
The Sword in the Stone...if Disney had the movie rights to T. H. White's book (which they probably did have), would it be significantly different from a movie based on the Arthurian legend?
And so forth. It's not ironic. Disney doesn't want public domain, because they can afford the rights to works and then chase down people who can't. It doesn't matter to their work if the source is their property or public domain; it just matters to others' work.
At a Hilton I stayed at last week with both wired and wireless support, the first HTTP connection (per computer or something) is redirected to a hilton.com intro page, although by a simpler, completely different method at the router itself. The general idea has been there, and when used by the network owner, is acceptable.
Just use the RXX feeds: http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf or http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss. Both are statically generated, and thus don't Perl out. Moreover, you can copy/paste the comments.pl URL without getting 503s. I'd noticed my hourly curl|grep|sed feed was working without problem, so I suspected the RXX feeds were working though index.pl wasn't.
I'm pretty sure that apart from the ability of the insurance to protect Linux, its simple existence will allow the intuitive argument that if an insurance company is willing to protect against patents that it claims can be used against Linux, the possible claims must be weak.
Because evolution exists in the realm of scientific proof, and creationism does not, they naturally obey different standards. An argument that creationism isn't scientific is no argument.
If it were that easy, you could send them good food instead of dehydrated packs like this and MREs.
A supply convoy is worse off than a group of soldiers; both can be attacked as easily, but the supply convoy has much less defense because it's carrying mostly food and water instead of soldiers.
If he has full rights to the game, what does "All rights reserved" mean?
And isn't copying a right (hence copy-right)? So if you don't have the copy right, you don't have all rights to it.
There's a semantic confusion over the word "game", and what "buying" one means. Analogy: that song that MS used in the Win98 splash screen could be bought for a few bucks before. That is one type of "buying the song". Microsoft paid millions of dollars for it, and "bought the song" in a completely different way.
Hm? Why am I not a Christian? I do believe in Jesus and the Bible. I never said I hated God. I just see that there are instances where other people would like to discuss things without invoking God, and I respect that and discuss the topics in their interpretation. I also see that in many situations, people want to discuss thinks invoking God, and I respect that too and discuss the topic in terms of God.
Are you the Christ? If not, how do you know if he knows me or not?
It's possible to describe nature somewhat without God; that is science. I can agree with science as far as it goes, but of course it has limits. Science is a closed system that starts by makes assumptions about the world, and it is as valid as those assumptions.
I am a Christian. I am not Jack Chick.
I'm not sure if this is a GPL is legally valid president
Well, a court decided in favor of it, just like a court decided in favor of Bush.
Well, why don't you talk to your representatives and pass something like that as the 28th? The Constitution can still be changed.
Or talk to your representatives in the state legislature. You'll have a better chance of convincing them, and either they can pass a statewide law preventing attacks on these rights, or if 34 state legislatures agree, they can hold a convention to create Constitutional amendments without the interference of Congress.
People have been mentioning the Xbox, whose BIOS requires signed code both for the dashboard (roughly the OS) and the game discs. So of course the Xbox-Linux Project developed their own Free BIOS, Cromwell (see the bottom of the page), which is more or less just a Linux loader with no Microsoft BIOS code in it. (Other BIOSes like EvolutionX are derivative works of the MS BIOS and thus technically illegal.)
So yeah, there are Free BIOSes, there is a MS BIOS that enforces a signed code restriction, and there has been a need to bypass that restriction.
There's the legal principle of confusion - there has to be a separation of the parties. The plaintiff and defendant employers would be the same - so no grounds for a suit.
:-)
SCO has claimed that its own distribution of Caldera Linux was illegal, but it didn't know it at the time. Assuming Windows source were this dangerous, Microsoft could technically sue the employee who incorporated Windows source into a product that, e.g., it gives away for free.
So, forget the "joy!"
'Twas sarcasm. I don't think Microsoft would appreciate the influx of developers begging for the only job left.
If this were instead about someone having trouble with access to some sources of an operating system made by a certain large proprietary-software company, we would cry that the license is unfair and your eyes burn when you look at the source and you don't want to see it because you can't redistribute it. Is that irrelevant, now that it's the GPL?
At least with a proprietary license you can get sued and at most you'll have to stop distributing your product. With a GPL license you have to show the sources. From the modifier's point of view, that might be worse.
You always can charge for the product. It's how the FSF sells $5000 CDs of most of its software. $5000 is not a reasonable price for a couple of CDs (since it's money-free for download, I can make the same CDs for about 50), but the FSF can charge any price it wants for it distributing. The catch is that once it's distributed, people are allowed to copy those CDs without paying the FSF.
Oh, and $5000 (or whatever) is technically not the price of the CD. It's a PBS-style "gift" for a $5000 "donation".
Unfortunately, he's on Apple's Board of Directors, and the DNC is using MS products.