I can't think of many schools who have their own IP range. They have a single IP, the entire school is behind NAT firewall, and the IP belongs to local cable or telephone company. It is very, very unlikely that reverse DNS would have yielded anything usable at all. The whole story is highly implausible and we all got taken by it.
TD Canada Trust (one of the largest Canadian banks) had one of their servers infected by this virus for at least 48 hours before taking the server down. I tried through a few different channels to get them to notice they are infected, but it took a day of effort until they reacted. And they decided to not alert their visitors that there had been a problem. In my world, a financial regulator would be all over their ass about something like this. You can see gory details at http://blog.cognistudio.com/
Suppose all the cars were wired electronically to know that they could all accelerate at once......Everyone would just hit their gas pedal at almost the same time. I don't know anything about physics desicribed in the main article, but this is such a botched up analogy. Imagine what would happen if all these cars, presumably stopped within 2-3 feet from each other, were to hit the gas pedal at the same time. Transferring knowledge at the speed of light or not, they wouldn't want to accelerate at the same time, thus making this analogy just psychologically feel wrong, and kind of defeating the whole point of making an analogy.
... that "corporate America" takes so much bashing on/., and Linux (which is deified in these same boards) is so dependent on those same evil capitalist entities for its very survival. This brings to mind the old catch-phrase "biting the hand that feeds you", doesn't it? I heard a story once about some prisoners who were complaining about poor conditions, and some guy came and said hey you guys, stop biting the hand that feeds you.
There was also a story about a dog who bit his owner's hand while he was feeding him, and when the owner said, why do you bite the hand that feeds you, the dog said, shit man sorry, I bit the wrong hand; I meant to bite the hand you usually punch me with. It was amazing, that the dog could talk.
two-three other places were having a severe famine, so some merchant would come and buy your grain anyway And this merchant would know that you have extra grain to sell... how? Did the farmer tell the pub owner who then told the visiting merchant? That was marketing. He didn't have sophisticated methods of today's marketing at his disposal, but that is still marketing, as much as an ox cart is a vehicle.
I do not think scarcity on supply side simply explains it. People didn't have the means we have today, and there was scarcity of demand as well.
Just as machinery and science and social services, etc, are more sophisticated today, so are marketing tools and methodology. We hate it, but it will not go away: it works. Only when we become sophisticated enough as consumers to actively punish intrusive marketing will there be any change. I'm not holding my breath.
...or even just some half-baked apprentices. Google Notifier for Mac takes 100MB of RAM and constantly takes around 1/2% of CPU time, just sitting there idle.
That is like arguing that a painting looks just as good while you are squinting or wearing purple-tinted glasses. I mean, why, the emotional content is still there.
Apple-provided earbuds are simply garbage. No, it is not necessary to use "audiophile" headphones to listen to music while on the go, but inexpensive heaphones like Koss KSC75 can make a rather appreciable improvement.
I'll admit I didn't bother to RTFA, but there are plenty of pressure sensitive screens out there requiring no skin contact. Ever try using Palm Pilot? You can touch it with anything - piece of plastic, a toothpick, etc.
How is a "maker fair" or a "web site" a name? They are just words. "Microsoft Windows" is a name. "Windows" is not. "Dodge Ram" is a name. "dodge" and "ram" are words.
"maker fair" is a name. "maker" and "fair" are not. "web site" is a name. "web" and "site" are words.
Trademarks are necessity consist of one or more words. Whether it is a word or not is not the question. For a made-up word that doesn't exist in dictionary, the argument is fairly easy - there was no word for iPod or Microsoft before some marketing department invented it. But for words that are part of common language (and that would include dodge and ram and windows), it gets a lot more complicated.
Your company isn't paying you for just a single copy of your code - they are paying you to assign them the copyright, so they can make as many copies as they like.
It would certainly be possible for you to pay to media companies to assign the copyright to you, but it would cost a lot more then $15.
The fact that you got modded +5 insightful only illustrates how difficult it is to sort out intelectual property owernship issues. Almost all analogies made with cars or computers or whatever people tend to come up with don't work - this is a different beast and as a society we haven't figured out yet how to deal with the problem of something as essential as culture being a commercial product at the same time. Perhaps our culture isn't all it is drummed up to be?
I think you may be confused by meaning of "energy" and "momentum". While less momentum would be transferred to the target, it would have to do more work to bounce the bullet back instead of stopping it. It first has to do work in accellerating it to stop, and then it has to continue accelerating it away. Motion and energy are not directly related. If we were to push against each other with equal force, we certainly would be expanding energy, but with little momentum to show for it.
Would it be illegal to rip certain pages out of a book and then sell it to those who wish to buy such a book? Or perhaps painting some sections over so text cannot be read? I bet nobody would get sued if they did. So why is it illegal to do the same with DVDs? Is it because they are by necessity copying content onto a new disc, due to limitations of technology that does not allow to simply scratch out offending bits? It is obviously not the kind of copying that copyright law is intended to forbid.
Republicans are pushing for voluntary environmental controls. However, in publicly owned companies, the primary objective is to increase shareholder value. While it is an extreme example, a publicly held company could, in theory, be sued for complying with such regulations, as it would pull away capital but does not increase shareholder value in any way.
Quite the opposite.
Many companies and whole industries "voluntarily" do things to keep government regulation away. This increases value to their shareholders -- by preventing an even greater outlay of capital that would result from more stringent regulation.
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I can't think of many schools who have their own IP range. They have a single IP, the entire school is behind NAT firewall, and the IP belongs to local cable or telephone company. It is very, very unlikely that reverse DNS would have yielded anything usable at all. The whole story is highly implausible and we all got taken by it.
TD Canada Trust (one of the largest Canadian banks) had one of their servers infected by this virus for at least 48 hours before taking the server down. I tried through a few different channels to get them to notice they are infected, but it took a day of effort until they reacted. And they decided to not alert their visitors that there had been a problem. In my world, a financial regulator would be all over their ass about something like this. You can see gory details at http://blog.cognistudio.com/
... that "corporate America" takes so much bashing onThere was also a story about a dog who bit his owner's hand while he was feeding him, and when the owner said, why do you bite the hand that feeds you, the dog said, shit man sorry, I bit the wrong hand; I meant to bite the hand you usually punch me with. It was amazing, that the dog could talk.
Caching isn't what Google got sued for. Republishing of cached information is the problem.
Except that they can and will show up with police and a court order. Do a little googling, there is enough precedent for this.
...or even just some half-baked apprentices. Google Notifier for Mac takes 100MB of RAM and constantly takes around 1/2% of CPU time, just sitting there idle.
That is like arguing that a painting looks just as good while you are squinting or wearing purple-tinted glasses. I mean, why, the emotional content is still there.
Apple-provided earbuds are simply garbage. No, it is not necessary to use "audiophile" headphones to listen to music while on the go, but inexpensive heaphones like Koss KSC75 can make a rather appreciable improvement.
I'll admit I didn't bother to RTFA, but there are plenty of pressure sensitive screens out there requiring no skin contact. Ever try using Palm Pilot? You can touch it with anything - piece of plastic, a toothpick, etc.
"maker fair" is a name. "maker" and "fair" are not. "web site" is a name. "web" and "site" are words.
Trademarks are necessity consist of one or more words. Whether it is a word or not is not the question. For a made-up word that doesn't exist in dictionary, the argument is fairly easy - there was no word for iPod or Microsoft before some marketing department invented it. But for words that are part of common language (and that would include dodge and ram and windows), it gets a lot more complicated.
Discuss.Your company isn't paying you for just a single copy of your code - they are paying you to assign them the copyright, so they can make as many copies as they like.
It would certainly be possible for you to pay to media companies to assign the copyright to you, but it would cost a lot more then $15.
The fact that you got modded +5 insightful only illustrates how difficult it is to sort out intelectual property owernship issues. Almost all analogies made with cars or computers or whatever people tend to come up with don't work - this is a different beast and as a society we haven't figured out yet how to deal with the problem of something as essential as culture being a commercial product at the same time. Perhaps our culture isn't all it is drummed up to be?
Peoples expectations of Apple are so high these days that when Jobs doesn't pull a full formed iBaby out of his ass they cry fowl.
Are you saying they would have preferred if he pulled a fully formed iPidgeon out of his ass?
I think you may be confused by meaning of "energy" and "momentum". While less momentum would be transferred to the target, it would have to do more work to bounce the bullet back instead of stopping it. It first has to do work in accellerating it to stop, and then it has to continue accelerating it away. Motion and energy are not directly related. If we were to push against each other with equal force, we certainly would be expanding energy, but with little momentum to show for it.
Would it be illegal to rip certain pages out of a book and then sell it to those who wish to buy such a book? Or perhaps painting some sections over so text cannot be read? I bet nobody would get sued if they did. So why is it illegal to do the same with DVDs? Is it because they are by necessity copying content onto a new disc, due to limitations of technology that does not allow to simply scratch out offending bits? It is obviously not the kind of copying that copyright law is intended to forbid.
Quite the opposite.
Many companies and whole industries "voluntarily" do things to keep government regulation away. This increases value to their shareholders -- by preventing an even greater outlay of capital that would result from more stringent regulation.