Do what you're supposed to do with a contract.
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Countering IP Agreements?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Cross out the offending portions. They will 1) not notice and sign it, 2) not care and sign it, 3) insist on owning everything you've ever thought of, in which case walk.
Many universities have free albeit somewhat limited legal services available for their students. Most likely more than enough to get a quick consultation on something like this.
Hack together something that LOOKS different (don't worry about what this will do to the code's stability, you can always release a patch later) and pretend it's innovation.
Nonsense. "We made a bunch of cool CGI clips, and then that made us think of more things we wanted to do, and it eventually ended up turning into a full length movie."
Re:I'm sticking with 5 1/4 inch floppies
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Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD
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Therefore this whole Blue vs. HD thing might turn out being useful if they both live - HD-DVD for movies, which are apt to take more abuse, and Blu-Ray for computer use, where the people handling it should damn well know better.
They hyped these three major revolutionary changes, and then it turned out that the revolution was going to take longer than their (already delayed) product launch cycle would allow for. They know they can't get them done in time, so instead of having to eat crow entirely for what they'd been bragging about, they make the gesture of offering it (eventually) with backward compatability.
Longhorn will necessarily have some kind of substantial difference from XP, they need it even more so after the delayed launch and legal entanglements. However having already been burned on all three of the things they'd put alot of effort into hyping, they don't want to risk having further such problems.
There most likely WILL be some point to upgrading to Longhorn, but we won't hear about it until it's a sure thing this time. Microsoft is big, Microsoft is slow, Microsoft is NOT stupid.
Entire damn thread is Redundant.
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IE7 Details Emerge
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· Score: 2, Interesting
If they want me to care about IE7, they're going to need to give me something that Firefox doesn't already give me more of. They could start with Adblock...that much at least is required before they're even under consideration.
Microsoft seems to be having trouble lately with new products actually doing something new. Longhorn for example - what exactly is supposed to be new in that again? They had three things they were hyping, none of which was terribly revolutionary to start with, and all of which have since been dropped or will be available (eventually) as an upgrade to existing OSes.
And yet, I got rid of the Sponsored Links panel by adding "*google_ads*" to my Adblock filters (and reloading the page, since it was loaded by script).
Funny that it looks like Google's ads, is blocked by a string citing Google's ads, but is somehow not Google's ads. Anyone have a non-"editor is an idiot" explaination? Then again since the article is a dupe, it tends that direction already.
Seeing as the government has abused census data before (probably the biggest example being its exploitation to help round up citizens of Japanese ancestry to put them in concentration camps during WW2...) I would say that the census constitutes a government sponsored attempt to steal everyone's identities.
Parent is correct, to whatever person thought they could stick their fingers in their ears by modding it down.
Censorship does not apply to this situation in the slightest. All I want to know is where's the line to get a CEO's salary with the rampant incompenance we keep hearing about.
Actually they'd most likely just go "Aww crap someone did something stupid with their passport again" and be forced to READ it with their EYES (dear god how low-tech, the horror). Also this is mostly pointless anyway since they already have to visually check the RFID-transmitted picture against the person holding the passport, and it introduces the likelyhood of all this newfangled technology having dead batteries or some user-induced malfunction.
Can't think of much good reason to stick RFID in passports, and the objections I have against it have less to do with privacy and more to do with tin-foil hats...
Maybe they just have a weak random number algorithm? Or as the blurb says, maybe they have a strong one and it's just all in people's heads.
Dare any of ya to come up with a way Apple could do the whole "kickbacks" thing and actually make the implementation work. It's just journalists wording things special to slant the facts and try to get a rise out of people.
Like being able to self-issue a certif is new? Used some random tool that came with MS Office to do it last time I had a use for one, of course that was Office 2K or thereabouts but it's probably still there, and there are probably alot of other ways to self-issue one. The entire point of the big expensive ones is that you have a "trusted" authority validating the transaction.
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Cross out the offending portions. They will 1) not notice and sign it, 2) not care and sign it, 3) insist on owning everything you've ever thought of, in which case walk.
Many universities have free albeit somewhat limited legal services available for their students. Most likely more than enough to get a quick consultation on something like this.
Nonsense. "We made a bunch of cool CGI clips, and then that made us think of more things we wanted to do, and it eventually ended up turning into a full length movie."
Because this is Slashdot.
Actually I was thinking South Park, Volcano.
"That's right Jane, duck and cover!"
Therefore this whole Blue vs. HD thing might turn out being useful if they both live - HD-DVD for movies, which are apt to take more abuse, and Blu-Ray for computer use, where the people handling it should damn well know better.
My theory:
They hyped these three major revolutionary changes, and then it turned out that the revolution was going to take longer than their (already delayed) product launch cycle would allow for. They know they can't get them done in time, so instead of having to eat crow entirely for what they'd been bragging about, they make the gesture of offering it (eventually) with backward compatability.
Longhorn will necessarily have some kind of substantial difference from XP, they need it even more so after the delayed launch and legal entanglements. However having already been burned on all three of the things they'd put alot of effort into hyping, they don't want to risk having further such problems.
There most likely WILL be some point to upgrading to Longhorn, but we won't hear about it until it's a sure thing this time. Microsoft is big, Microsoft is slow, Microsoft is NOT stupid.
There's a well known trick involving gummi bears that gets around biometrics with a very high success rate.
r s_defeat_fingerprint_sensors/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bea
If they want me to care about IE7, they're going to need to give me something that Firefox doesn't already give me more of. They could start with Adblock...that much at least is required before they're even under consideration.
Microsoft seems to be having trouble lately with new products actually doing something new. Longhorn for example - what exactly is supposed to be new in that again? They had three things they were hyping, none of which was terribly revolutionary to start with, and all of which have since been dropped or will be available (eventually) as an upgrade to existing OSes.
And yet, I got rid of the Sponsored Links panel by adding "*google_ads*" to my Adblock filters (and reloading the page, since it was loaded by script).
Funny that it looks like Google's ads, is blocked by a string citing Google's ads, but is somehow not Google's ads. Anyone have a non-"editor is an idiot" explaination? Then again since the article is a dupe, it tends that direction already.
Seeing as the government has abused census data before (probably the biggest example being its exploitation to help round up citizens of Japanese ancestry to put them in concentration camps during WW2...) I would say that the census constitutes a government sponsored attempt to steal everyone's identities.
Suggested new moderation category: -1 over-used cultural reference
How does it compare percentage-wise vs. the 3.2GHz P4 2.4C I've been using since mid-2003?
Parent is correct, to whatever person thought they could stick their fingers in their ears by modding it down.
Censorship does not apply to this situation in the slightest. All I want to know is where's the line to get a CEO's salary with the rampant incompenance we keep hearing about.
Also Not A Lawyer. Think first and then talk, you'll look like an idiot less often.
Overkill aside, it comes under the "interesting idea, bad implementation" category. Until they make it work right, screw it.
Actually they'd most likely just go "Aww crap someone did something stupid with their passport again" and be forced to READ it with their EYES (dear god how low-tech, the horror). Also this is mostly pointless anyway since they already have to visually check the RFID-transmitted picture against the person holding the passport, and it introduces the likelyhood of all this newfangled technology having dead batteries or some user-induced malfunction.
Can't think of much good reason to stick RFID in passports, and the objections I have against it have less to do with privacy and more to do with tin-foil hats...
This kind of idea pops up every so often, usually doesn't pan out since it's too hard to get everyone to change.
Maybe they just have a weak random number algorithm? Or as the blurb says, maybe they have a strong one and it's just all in people's heads.
Dare any of ya to come up with a way Apple could do the whole "kickbacks" thing and actually make the implementation work. It's just journalists wording things special to slant the facts and try to get a rise out of people.
Addendum: Card + PIN to get into the room, if you're worried about ID theft leading to equipment theft.
RFID the equipment, sensor at the door to log in/out, card reader to get into the room.
An AI that actually UNDERSTANDS language? Riiight. Now pull the other one.
Like being able to self-issue a certif is new? Used some random tool that came with MS Office to do it last time I had a use for one, of course that was Office 2K or thereabouts but it's probably still there, and there are probably alot of other ways to self-issue one. The entire point of the big expensive ones is that you have a "trusted" authority validating the transaction.
Method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body