I'm a Conservative also.
Unfortunately, Mr. Bush is not. He stands for expanded government regulation, fiscal irresponsibility, nation building, and special interests. All non-conservative positions.
The trailer actually gives very few hints. It's mostly reviewing the background story again (shot through a wormhole, etc.) plus a bunch of shooting scenes.
The issue with patents is that certain basic ways of accomplishing tasks can be restricted.
The more pressing issue is that this can be easily done for things that have been around for ages by people/corporations who didn't even invent the tasks.
If I was on a life support machine that I knew was being run by Windows, my state of mind would be such that I would no longer need a life support machine.
why he can't license Microsoft IP to distributors of open source software
Maybe because he doesn't need to, or no one else feels they need it to legitimize themselves. A great deal of Microsoft's so-called IP has numerous examples of prior art in both open and closed source products.
Today the US Senate announced pending legislation designed to curb the growing problem of Tivo hacking. The House is expected to take up a similar bill next week.
Senator Orrin Hatch, chief sponsor of the bill, was quoted as saying "This issue is of extreme importance to the future of America. What kind of message would we be sending to our children if we allowed this kind of wanton hacking activity to go on unchecked? I ask all politicians who value protecting our intellectual property laws to join me in support of this legislation."
MIcrosoft's fulfillment department announced that a serious effort will be made to ship the Longhorn operating system before the emerging HD DVD standard becomes obsolete.
If you believe that human experience qualifies as evidence
Of course it does. How else would it be admissible in a court of law? Human experience is one of the primary forms of evidence upon which our society is based.
then you cannot compare the comparitively meager amount of UFO "evidence" with the vast amount of "evidence" for God
It appears you are rather uninformed. I personally have thousands of pages of evidence on the UFO phenomenon. The amount of evidence is by no means meager. Secondly, God has nothing to do with this, so that is an incorrect analogy. God is in the metaphysical realm, therefore not directly observable. UFOs are the opposite. They are material objects observed in flight by various witnesses. As such, analyzing their behavior or origin bears no similarity to religion or God. What confuses the issue and probably what you were referring to are the various UFO cult movements. These are a small minority of people and most definitely do not represent serious people doing real scientific research into this phenomenon.
Evidence must be provable and repeatable.
UFO sightings are neither.
What utter nonsense. Plenty of occurrences are not easily repeatable yet were acknowledged as fact once the evidence of their existence was carefully examined. Meteors falling from the sky, ball lightning, supernovae, etc. Just because it cannot be analyzed in a lab does not mean it doesn't exist.
Like others unfamiliar with the vast body of evidence that does exist, you are content to write it off as nonsense without examining any of it yourself or exercising some original thought.
The thing that weakened Mr. Shostack's position the most was his use of Kal Korff as a reference on Roswell.
He also seemed to think that if Mr. Friedman couldn't distill the totality of the UFO evidence into an easily communicable 10 minute presentation that it meant there was nothing to the whole matter.
This story reminds me of those inane AOL commercials about computers getting sick. Lets get sensible here. Computers do not "get sick." They do not become "poisoned."
A virus sometimes infects the Windows OS. At best, run a virus checker and stop it before you are infected. At worse, do a reformat and be done with it. You have a backup anyway. Right?
If you don't want to deal with virii in any form then run OS X or Linux. Problem solved.
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I'm a Conservative
I'm a Conservative also. Unfortunately, Mr. Bush is not. He stands for expanded government regulation, fiscal irresponsibility, nation building, and special interests. All non-conservative positions.
The trailer actually gives very few hints. It's mostly reviewing the background story again (shot through a wormhole, etc.) plus a bunch of shooting scenes.
Is a fucking idiot!
Nuff said.
How long will it be before you have to have a signed agreement with Microsoft to send an email?
Did I miss any out ;)
You forgot Bonzi Buddy.
Encryption is useless if you can't trust the phone company.
They could conceivably develop an insertion point before the traffic is encrypted.
The issue with patents is that certain basic ways of accomplishing tasks can be restricted.
The more pressing issue is that this can be easily done for things that have been around for ages by people/corporations who didn't even invent the tasks.
This time it's not supposed to burst into flames, just overheat.
Let's hope Episode III is good..
Buh, Buh, Missa no wan to die!
If I was on a life support machine that I knew was being run by Windows, my state of mind would be such that I would no longer need a life support machine.
The place geeks go to get laid.
I guess the next patent to expect will be for activating a program on a desktop device by pushing a button twice in a short time period.
Nope, that's already taken.
why he can't license Microsoft IP to distributors of open source software
Maybe because he doesn't need to, or no one else feels they need it to legitimize themselves. A great deal of Microsoft's so-called IP has numerous examples of prior art in both open and closed source products.
Today the US Senate announced pending legislation designed to curb the growing problem of Tivo hacking. The House is expected to take up a similar bill next week.
Senator Orrin Hatch, chief sponsor of the bill, was quoted as saying "This issue is of extreme importance to the future of America. What kind of message would we be sending to our children if we allowed this kind of wanton hacking activity to go on unchecked? I ask all politicians who value protecting our intellectual property laws to join me in support of this legislation."
Get an answer wrong, and we revoke your geek license on the spot.
But if you actually manage to establish a reliable connection to the test during the Slashdotting, you can get it back.
How would a paper copy be any more safe than a server if there was a nuclear war?
He had refused to file his federal income taxes for several years.
That's because apparently no law specifically requires him to. See USA v. Kuglin.
MIcrosoft's fulfillment department announced that a serious effort will be made to ship the Longhorn operating system before the emerging HD DVD standard becomes obsolete.
What would you do with this much bandwidth?"
Check out more unusual positions.
When I first glanced at the title I thought it said the can was X-rated.
If you believe that human experience qualifies as evidence
Of course it does. How else would it be admissible in a court of law? Human experience is one of the primary forms of evidence upon which our society is based.
then you cannot compare the comparitively meager amount of UFO "evidence" with the vast amount of "evidence" for God
It appears you are rather uninformed. I personally have thousands of pages of evidence on the UFO phenomenon. The amount of evidence is by no means meager. Secondly, God has nothing to do with this, so that is an incorrect analogy. God is in the metaphysical realm, therefore not directly observable. UFOs are the opposite. They are material objects observed in flight by various witnesses. As such, analyzing their behavior or origin bears no similarity to religion or God. What confuses the issue and probably what you were referring to are the various UFO cult movements. These are a small minority of people and most definitely do not represent serious people doing real scientific research into this phenomenon.
Evidence must be provable and repeatable. UFO sightings are neither.
What utter nonsense. Plenty of occurrences are not easily repeatable yet were acknowledged as fact once the evidence of their existence was carefully examined. Meteors falling from the sky, ball lightning, supernovae, etc. Just because it cannot be analyzed in a lab does not mean it doesn't exist.
Like others unfamiliar with the vast body of evidence that does exist, you are content to write it off as nonsense without examining any of it yourself or exercising some original thought.
The thing that weakened Mr. Shostack's position the most was his use of Kal Korff as a reference on Roswell.
He also seemed to think that if Mr. Friedman couldn't distill the totality of the UFO evidence into an easily communicable 10 minute presentation that it meant there was nothing to the whole matter.
This story reminds me of those inane AOL commercials about computers getting sick. Lets get sensible here. Computers do not "get sick." They do not become "poisoned."
A virus sometimes infects the Windows OS. At best, run a virus checker and stop it before you are infected. At worse, do a reformat and be done with it. You have a backup anyway. Right?
If you don't want to deal with virii in any form then run OS X or Linux. Problem solved.
What the hell happened to this country's can-do spirit?
On 9/11 the terrorists succeeded in replacing it with "what can we do to best cover our ass."
Secret tests conducted there in violation of environmental laws continue to be sequestered by Presidential order.