They were taking BSD, Artistic, and MPL-clone licensed software projects as well as GPL and LGPL stuff. One of my freinds got a.cx domain early on for a BSD licensed project for which he had yet to actually release source. He initially tried for portman.cx and natalieportman.cx, to be funny (he was actually going to change the name of his ICQ clone to make the domain 'fit'. NPICQ isn't that bad, is it??)
Oh, and it's Network Solutions you have to worry about. They've shown complete disregard for anything other than how much money they can rape out of the lesser registrars. On my personal list of worries, the FSF comes in somewhere after dying in a vat of preprocessed grits at Quaker..
Or you could look at the GPL as a tool forcing said 'perfect world' a little bit. If you want to use the code, but the license is idealistic, then it follows that you must want to be idealistic to use the code.
After spending two weeks playing with a limited-depth trust model for Gnutella, you come along with an idea that kicks my ass?!?! Why is this fair?!?!?
This is probably the best answer, snagging a large chunk of spammers and easy to implement, although I'd use comparitive lists of stuff, and not random words. Search once for Pink_Floyd-Have_a_cigar.mp3, then 'CIT coffee mug', then for 'The Phantom Menace', and finally 'K3w7 W4r3z d00d'. Blacklist anyone that responds to more than two.
The other parties are liable if, and only if, they had certain knowledge that the individual forwarding the pictures had broken NDA, or had conspired with or coerced the individual to do so. Not even Mac Rumors would go so far as any of those.
I am constantly amazed with the uninformed posts regarding intellectual property!
In short: That's not how it works, bucko.
In this case, they have no right to sue the people with the 'stolen' photos of the Cube, nor ask for them to be handed over, nor interfere with their publishing. They have a beef with the fellow that handed the pictures out, that's it.
Wrong.. Intellectual property comes in flavours, like the iMac. One flavour is copyright, another is trade secret. (A third flavour, patent, is not concerned)
SW is a copyrighted work, and copyright is what gives Lucas the right to go after everyone connected with its unauthorized distribution.
The Cube is protected by a non-disclosure agreement, and that alone. The NDA only gives Apple the right to go after the one leaking the information, and only if that individual has agreed to the NDA.
They're lawsuit fishing, using the court to force people to disclose information Apple has no right to. They don't know who leaked it.
Anonymity may breed distrust, but if you're not anonymous, they sue you into the ground. Piss off someone with money, or a powerful lobby, or a big corporation, and you might as well be dead. They'll make sure no one hears you. This is the age of the frivilous lawsuit, where anyone wishing to silence someone else may do so simply by making it horribly expensive to exist.
Say I write an article, saying in effect that DB2 bites in comparison to Oracle. IBM doesn't like this, and sues me for slander, libel, and false claims harming their business. None of those claims are true, and are in fact laughable, but I still have to hire a laywer and spend huge amounts of money just to get the judge to not rule by default against me for a huge sum. In the mean time, no other publisher is going to hire me or take my works for fee because of the lawsuit. And what if the judge dismisses? Well, that doesn't happen. IBM drops the suit, and refiles next week.
Pretty soon I'm 20K in the hole, the article was pulled so no one ever saw it, and IBM offers to drop the suit if I retract my statements and only write 'the truth', as their marketing dept sees fit to spin it..
Actually, I use the the spare slipcase from my old Compas.(Network debugging tool) I have exactly that Handspring monster, and it kept slipping off my belt. I saw some heavy duty slip through key clips at the hardware store and thought about gluing one on, but never got around to it..
Uh, I had a Compas+, a Netronics II, a Visor, a Gerber Gatorback and a Leatherman on my belt, plus a laptop in a carrying case for quite a while. Cellphones and pagers are in the pocket under the watch, so the vibrate feature isn't ignorable.
One good thing about the Batman Factor; If you walk in to a place armed to the teeth, they assume you know what you're doing. Try it. Walk into some random office in jeans and a plain Tee with a BF over three (devices), and ask to see the telco equipment.;)
Legend of Zelda and Contra just look wrong on a crisp $700 21. However, they look perfectly in line with the original when I use the composite line out on my cheap ($25) Trident or my slightly less cheap ($90) ATI, and connect it to my nice $200 27 TV.
Might actually improve my programming. There has been many a moment I stuck a printf in a Java program, tried to use system.out in a C++ program, or found myself wondering why bash didn't like the cout I fed it..
You do have a right to emergency hospital treatment to save your life. If you are unable to pay, it comes out of the state and federal budget slices set aside for this very purpose. If I shoot you, they will cart you off to the hospital and patch you up.
Many other facets of basic health care are available as well, but only to those without the means to pay for it themselves. In my opinion, if you can pay you'd damn well better.
Matrox G200/G400 will do that mode nicely. Your monitor may not like it, however. I had to tweak my Sony 21/XF86Config for an hour to get it to sync up correctly. I had some luck with it on an ATI Rage Pro, but the card has so many non-redeeming qualities I'd shy away from it, even if it is cheap.
OT, but I ran some benches of my new V3 3000 (replacing a burned out ATI) against my old SLI V2s.. The V2's kicked its ass, by up to 40%. I sincerely hope the 'Bigger, Badder' V3 models really are.. (Scariest part? I have 64M of video subsystem memory in there now)
And my crosswinds.net address forced you to believe I am an employee there? They do host on Linux boxes! In the last few years, I've had addresses at a.gov, newcourt.com, citgroup.com, att.com, ibm.com, yahoo.com, dynip.com, and excite.com. You can't tell shit about where I have worked or do work from them, however.
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They were taking BSD, Artistic, and MPL-clone licensed software projects as well as GPL and LGPL stuff. One of my freinds got a .cx domain early on for a BSD licensed project for which he had yet to actually release source. He initially tried for portman.cx and natalieportman.cx, to be funny (he was actually going to change the name of his ICQ clone to make the domain 'fit'. NPICQ isn't that bad, is it??)
Oh, and it's Network Solutions you have to worry about. They've shown complete disregard for anything other than how much money they can rape out of the lesser registrars. On my personal list of worries, the FSF comes in somewhere after dying in a vat of preprocessed grits at Quaker..
Or you could look at the GPL as a tool forcing said 'perfect world' a little bit. If you want to use the code, but the license is idealistic, then it follows that you must want to be idealistic to use the code.
Or you have another option. Download a statically linked binary, tar -zxf, make install.
End of story.
After spending two weeks playing with a limited-depth trust model for Gnutella, you come along with an idea that kicks my ass?!?! Why is this fair?!?!?
This is probably the best answer, snagging a large chunk of spammers and easy to implement, although I'd use comparitive lists of stuff, and not random words. Search once for Pink_Floyd-Have_a_cigar.mp3, then 'CIT coffee mug', then for 'The Phantom Menace', and finally 'K3w7 W4r3z d00d'. Blacklist anyone that responds to more than two.
Wood veneer is easy to apply, and can usually be accomplished with a hair dryer.. (Real wood veneer, that is.. The fake stuff suxors)
Problem is, it tends to be rather pricey..
Sure, but the box is massive and has a high specific heat. As long as it isn't up 24/7, the heat from a PC will never appreciably heat the granite..
The other parties are liable if, and only if, they had certain knowledge that the individual forwarding the pictures had broken NDA, or had conspired with or coerced the individual to do so. Not even Mac Rumors would go so far as any of those.
Apple is not pursuing 'copyright infringment'. They're pursuing 'unlawful disclosure of trade secrets'
I am constantly amazed with the uninformed posts regarding intellectual property! In short: That's not how it works, bucko. In this case, they have no right to sue the people with the 'stolen' photos of the Cube, nor ask for them to be handed over, nor interfere with their publishing. They have a beef with the fellow that handed the pictures out, that's it.
Wrong.. Intellectual property comes in flavours, like the iMac. One flavour is copyright, another is trade secret. (A third flavour, patent, is not concerned)
SW is a copyrighted work, and copyright is what gives Lucas the right to go after everyone connected with its unauthorized distribution.
The Cube is protected by a non-disclosure agreement, and that alone. The NDA only gives Apple the right to go after the one leaking the information, and only if that individual has agreed to the NDA.
They're lawsuit fishing, using the court to force people to disclose information Apple has no right to. They don't know who leaked it.
Oooh, oooh!! He called us 'Mac freaks'!
Hey! Thin-skinned politically correct guy! Get over it. We're all freaks, of one flavour or another. Knowing you are is the first step to recovery.
Repeat after me.
Anyone can sue anyone else for anything, at any time.
Continue repeating until it has sunk in.
Anonymity may breed distrust, but if you're not anonymous, they sue you into the ground. Piss off someone with money, or a powerful lobby, or a big corporation, and you might as well be dead. They'll make sure no one hears you. This is the age of the frivilous lawsuit, where anyone wishing to silence someone else may do so simply by making it horribly expensive to exist.
Say I write an article, saying in effect that DB2 bites in comparison to Oracle. IBM doesn't like this, and sues me for slander, libel, and false claims harming their business. None of those claims are true, and are in fact laughable, but I still have to hire a laywer and spend huge amounts of money just to get the judge to not rule by default against me for a huge sum. In the mean time, no other publisher is going to hire me or take my works for fee because of the lawsuit. And what if the judge dismisses? Well, that doesn't happen. IBM drops the suit, and refiles next week.
Pretty soon I'm 20K in the hole, the article was pulled so no one ever saw it, and IBM offers to drop the suit if I retract my statements and only write 'the truth', as their marketing dept sees fit to spin it..
You know what? I'd do it too.
It was funny the first time, and ordinarily I'd
;)
'flame on' on this pass, but it has finally gotten
the recognition it deserved in the first place.
Okay, so it needs at least another +1, Funny to
get that, but it's on it's way, right?
Let's be a bit more complete, eh? Case, ram, etc?
8G HD, Quantum (discontinued), new: $41
Monitor, Komodo, 15", bought new with rebate: $99
M571 mobo, Alladin, SS7, new: $27
32M PC66 SDRAM, used but tested: $34
AMD K6-II 475, used but tested: $25
Cheap mid-tower: $40
Sales Tax (Michigan): $15.96
_______________________
Total: $281.96
You can do a bit better if you pick and choose.
Slim Jims.
They were created so car theives could pop your door lock. Theives invented them, and their primary purpose was to break and enter/grand theft.
Legal. Why? Because there was a legal use; So police, emergency personel and the average schmo could unlock his car without keys.
That's the way it has worked in meatspace, and the way it should stay on the 'net.
Actually, I use the the spare slipcase from my old Compas.(Network debugging tool) I have exactly that Handspring monster, and it kept slipping off my belt. I saw some heavy duty slip through key clips at the hardware store and thought about gluing one on, but never got around to it..
Uh, I had a Compas+, a Netronics II, a Visor, a Gerber Gatorback and a Leatherman on my belt, plus a laptop in a carrying case for quite a while. Cellphones and pagers are in the pocket under the watch, so the vibrate feature isn't ignorable.
;)
One good thing about the Batman Factor; If you walk in to a place armed to the teeth, they assume you know what you're doing. Try it. Walk into some random office in jeans and a plain Tee with a BF over three (devices), and ask to see the telco equipment.
Legend of Zelda and Contra just look wrong on a crisp $700 21. However, they look perfectly in line with the original when I use the composite line out on my cheap ($25) Trident or my slightly less cheap ($90) ATI, and connect it to my nice $200 27 TV.
Might actually improve my programming. There has been many a moment I stuck a printf in a Java program, tried to use system.out in a C++ program, or found myself wondering why bash didn't like the cout I fed it..
You should see my Perl. [shudder]
You do have a right to emergency hospital treatment to save your life. If you are unable to pay, it comes out of the state and federal budget slices set aside for this very purpose. If I shoot you, they will cart you off to the hospital and patch you up.
Many other facets of basic health care are available as well, but only to those without the means to pay for it themselves. In my opinion, if you can pay you'd damn well better.
Matrox G200/G400 will do that mode nicely. Your monitor may not like it, however. I had to tweak my Sony 21/XF86Config for an hour to get it to sync up correctly. I had some luck with it on an ATI Rage Pro, but the card has so many non-redeeming qualities I'd shy away from it, even if it is cheap.
OT, but I ran some benches of my new V3 3000 (replacing a burned out ATI) against my old SLI V2s.. The V2's kicked its ass, by up to 40%. I sincerely hope the 'Bigger, Badder' V3 models really are.. (Scariest part? I have 64M of video subsystem memory in there now)
All we need to do is collect a copy of each /. users pr0n bookmarks, and blackhole them. 100,000 horny geeks can't have missed too many pr0n sites!
Obviously you've never tried to read the translations it produces.
And my crosswinds.net address forced you to believe I am an employee there? They do host on Linux boxes! In the last few years, I've had addresses at a .gov, newcourt.com, citgroup.com, att.com, ibm.com, yahoo.com, dynip.com, and excite.com. You can't tell shit about where I have worked or do work from them, however.
Email addresses are given out like candy.