Why would Paul write so strongly about the resurrection even in prison? Heck, why would Paul leave his life of luxury as a Jewish leader stoning Christians if he didn't experience something supernatural?
And an equally smug 5-digit UID got it somewhat wrong, too. Copyright wasn't automatic in the US until ~1989 - if you hadn't registered, you had no copyright.
I'm smug because I know my shit. You don't. You have confused ratification of the Berne Convention with automatic copyright protection. Sure, the Berne convention included automatic copyright starting in 1971 and was only ratified in the US in 1989, but that didn't prevent the lawyers from implementing parts of the convention before it was fully ratified.
Automatic copyright started in the US in 1976 with the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976. Well before the advent of the Atari 7800.
Here in Virginia, you're not supposed to smile in your DMV pictures any more because it supposedly messes up facial recognition software used by the state.
That requirement is becoming more and more common around the country. I'm planning on going the other way - making a really pissed-off scowling face and stuffing a bunch of cotton balls or something like that into the space around my gums in order to distort my facial appearance too.
MTA workers are in a union and you have to have all these rules since the union wants there to be a good reason to fire anyone. where i work there is a 30 page book where half of each page is empty.
And have social engineers disguise malware as OS updates or dancing bunnies, prompting the home user who doesn't understand risks to flip the switch to see the dancing bunnies.
You can't make something 100% foolproof, the world will just invent a better fool. But you can make the lives of the non-fools better.
However, did they ever register the copyright for the source code? If not, then any damage awards for this "publication" won't amount to a hill of beans.
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Three smug ACs, all got it wrong.
If you do not register the copyright you can only sue for actual losses, none of this $150K per copy stuff that the MAFIAA gets away with.
Since this source code is assembly language for a decades old and long extinct game platform any actual losses due to publication and distribution of this source code won't amount to a hill of beans. The cost of the lawyer will probably dwarf any award, thus making it infeasible to file suit against the people who published it.
However, did they ever register the copyright for the source code? If not, then any damage awards for this "publication" won't amount to a hill of beans. Furthermore, who really owns the copyright on that source? The original Atari has been bankrupted and merged and reverse-merged a number of times to the point where the current "Atari" is really nothing more than a company that bought the trademark 2nd or 3rd hand. Without a clear owner to file a copyright infringement case, this simple free distribution isn't likely to get anyone in trouble.
Large Hadron Collider - easily typoed as large hardon collider Strange Quarks - what's next, queer quarks for muster mark? Bottom (and top) quarks - those doesn't even need any spin.
Yeah, yeah, small minds are easily amused. Mod me down for being a big hadron.
What the hell kind of contract with the DoD is only $6K? The cost of a security clearance for one person is at least $40K. Maybe it was one stage of a multi-stage contract, but with the way the news and prosecutors like to exaggerate everything you think they would have quoted the cost of the entire thing.
Sounds like management is so risk averse they aren't willing to improve things (the dark side of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). I've seen that kind of thing before, where they are so afraid of doing anything new that they by not addressing the known risks they essentially increase their risk of system failure.
You're totally right. It should be a free for all and people should be able to do whatever they want to do to someone who is a child and a quarter of their age and excuse it by say "but your honor, she was already a fucked up mess before I came along".
Yeah, pretty much. Sticks and stones.
If you DON"T take that approach, then you start down a path the ultimately leads to massive censorship. Freedom isn't free. Part of the cost is that people get their feelings hurt. But I'm a lot happier with the occasional unbalanced and abandoned person getting pushed over the edge than I am with restricting what every single person is permitted to say.
That being said, this is one of those cases where I hope the family of the victim sues her for everything she has.
God forbid the family would take any responsibility for ignoring their own daughter to the point where she was forced to seek validation from anonymous strangers on the internet.
I agree. The potential bomber/hijacker can make as many dry runs as he wants to in order to become acclimated to the mysterious ways of the TSA. He won't be irritated or distracted by them, if anything he'll be comforted by their silly ineffectiveness. If he makes enough dry runs from his departure airport, he'll probably even get to the point where he is on a first name basis with the TSA agents there and instead of dicking around with him, they'll rush him through with a friendly smile since the other 100+ times he flew he was a model traveler, obedient and obeisant to a fault.
Don't knock the practicality. When I injured one of the muscles that connects my ass to my leg a few years ago, I could not sit down for more than few minute at a time (driving was a real bitch). So I got a "tall" desk that I could stand at. For the first week it was awkward. But once I acclimated to it, it was very natural to stand at a desk and use the computers. I imagine adding a very low-speed treadmill to the mix would not be so out of place. It isn't like you would be jogging or anything, more like a slow mosey.
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Why would Paul write so strongly about the resurrection even in prison? Heck, why would Paul leave his life of luxury as a Jewish leader stoning Christians if he didn't experience something supernatural?
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Amusing although more than half (66%) of the world's population actually does drive on the left but that is besides the point.
Population of people, or of cars?
No fair counting India where the number of people greatly exceeds the number of cars -- vehicles per capita is 12 out of 1000 versus the US where it is 765 per 1000.
Software patents are afaik not valid anywhere else in the world (luckily),
They are valid in Japan. Some other countries too, try wikipedia.
Just look at the "You wouldn't steal a car..." videos.
But if I could download a car, I would certainly torrent me up a couple of bugattis.
And an equally smug 5-digit UID got it somewhat wrong, too. Copyright wasn't automatic in the US until ~1989 - if you hadn't registered, you had no copyright.
I'm smug because I know my shit.
You don't.
You have confused ratification of the Berne Convention with automatic copyright protection. Sure, the Berne convention included automatic copyright starting in 1971 and was only ratified in the US in 1989, but that didn't prevent the lawyers from implementing parts of the convention before it was fully ratified.
Automatic copyright started in the US in 1976 with the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976. Well before the advent of the Atari 7800.
But in any civilized society the rule of law must hold. Yes, even when the law is stupid. This is why we have courts that can strike down bad laws.
Just how do you think bad laws get struck down without people breaking them?
Here in Virginia, you're not supposed to smile in your DMV pictures any more because it supposedly messes up facial recognition software used by the state.
That requirement is becoming more and more common around the country. I'm planning on going the other way - making a really pissed-off scowling face and stuffing a bunch of cotton balls or something like that into the space around my gums in order to distort my facial appearance too.
MTA workers are in a union and you have to have all these rules since the union wants there to be a good reason to fire anyone. where i work there is a 30 page book where half of each page is empty.
So they can write in a reason to fire someone?
And have social engineers disguise malware as OS updates or dancing bunnies, prompting the home user who doesn't understand risks to flip the switch to see the dancing bunnies.
You can't make something 100% foolproof, the world will just invent a better fool. But you can make the lives of the non-fools better.
There are some hybrid SAN's, but they're damn expensive. At that price they have a hard time competing with simpler pure-flash SAN's.
FWIW, Sun's ZFS has the ability to automagically use flash drives as intermediate stage in front of rotating disks.
I see this in a similar manner as land ownership.
Land: Scarce, rival and excludable.
Ideas: None of the Above
There's no accounting for taste.
Or hearing.
Duh, Batman lives in Gotham City. Spiderman lives in New York.
The longstanding nickname "Gotham" was first attached to New York by Washington Irving in his magazine Salmagundi.
Freaking illiterate ACs.
Are you the governor of New York state?
Seems only fair that if California gets the Terminator New York would get superhero - although I would have expected it to be Batman.
However, did they ever register the copyright for the source code? If not, then any damage awards for this "publication" won't amount to a hill of beans.
-1, Basic Copyright Knowledge Fail
Three smug ACs, all got it wrong.
If you do not register the copyright you can only sue for actual losses, none of this $150K per copy stuff that the MAFIAA gets away with.
Since this source code is assembly language for a decades old and long extinct game platform any actual losses due to publication and distribution of this source code won't amount to a hill of beans. The cost of the lawyer will probably dwarf any award, thus making it infeasible to file suit against the people who published it.
Capiche?
Evolution also needs variation. Mutation is one mechanism which provides that (though not the only one).
Monsanto is another one.
However, did they ever register the copyright for the source code?
If not, then any damage awards for this "publication" won't amount to a hill of beans.
Furthermore, who really owns the copyright on that source? The original Atari has been bankrupted and merged and reverse-merged a number of times to the point where the current "Atari" is really nothing more than a company that bought the trademark 2nd or 3rd hand.
Without a clear owner to file a copyright infringement case, this simple free distribution isn't likely to get anyone in trouble.
Large Hadron Collider - easily typoed as large hardon collider
Strange Quarks - what's next, queer quarks for muster mark?
Bottom (and top) quarks - those doesn't even need any spin.
Yeah, yeah, small minds are easily amused. Mod me down for being a big hadron.
What the hell kind of contract with the DoD is only $6K?
The cost of a security clearance for one person is at least $40K.
Maybe it was one stage of a multi-stage contract, but with the way the news and prosecutors like to exaggerate everything you think they would have quoted the cost of the entire thing.
Sounds like management is so risk averse they aren't willing to improve things (the dark side of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). I've seen that kind of thing before, where they are so afraid of doing anything new that they by not addressing the known risks they essentially increase their risk of system failure.
You're totally right. It should be a free for all and people should be able to do whatever they want to do to someone who is a child and a quarter of their age and excuse it by say "but your honor, she was already a fucked up mess before I came along".
Yeah, pretty much. Sticks and stones.
If you DON"T take that approach, then you start down a path the ultimately leads to massive censorship. Freedom isn't free. Part of the cost is that people get their feelings hurt. But I'm a lot happier with the occasional unbalanced and abandoned person getting pushed over the edge than I am with restricting what every single person is permitted to say.
That being said, this is one of those cases where I hope the family of the victim sues her for everything she has.
God forbid the family would take any responsibility for ignoring their own daughter to the point where she was forced to seek validation from anonymous strangers on the internet.
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I agree. The potential bomber/hijacker can make as many dry runs as he wants to in order to become acclimated to the mysterious ways of the TSA. He won't be irritated or distracted by them, if anything he'll be comforted by their silly ineffectiveness. If he makes enough dry runs from his departure airport, he'll probably even get to the point where he is on a first name basis with the TSA agents there and instead of dicking around with him, they'll rush him through with a friendly smile since the other 100+ times he flew he was a model traveler, obedient and obeisant to a fault.
Don't knock the practicality. When I injured one of the muscles that connects my ass to my leg a few years ago, I could not sit down for more than few minute at a time (driving was a real bitch). So I got a "tall" desk that I could stand at. For the first week it was awkward. But once I acclimated to it, it was very natural to stand at a desk and use the computers. I imagine adding a very low-speed treadmill to the mix would not be so out of place. It isn't like you would be jogging or anything, more like a slow mosey.
Get a treadmill for a desk.