Depends. How often do they have to [partially] rebuild as a part of basic maintance vs how often earthquakes occure.
Earthquakes in most cases happen a bunch at a time [several months], and then nothing for a long time [years], while pressure builds up.
The pipelines needs maintance. Each pipe can be replaced, and they inspect it regularly to make sure all the pipes are holding up. When a pipe fails inspection (which if done right means it is still fine, but failure is expected after a time, they have to repair/replace.
So if the total movement from an earthquake cycle is less than 20 feet, and they will have to replace that section anywhere between cycles, there is no hurry to do it now, and no need to redesign for more margin because they won't go through a second cycle before normal maintance already fixes the problem.
OTOH, seeing 18 feet of movement when you planed for 20 seems too close for comfort. My gut feeling is they should redesign for at least 30 feet of movement when they repair that section, just for margin of safety. However I'm not a geologists, nor a pipeline engineer, so I don't know what is a reasonable margin.
The point of SPEWS is that a tiny ISP alone isn't worth worrying about for the Spam hosters. However a few thousand tiny ISPs ad up to a very large amount, and it suddenly worth paying attention to.
Look up the history of Unions sometime. A company can fire one worker who demands a higher wage, but cannot fire all the skilled workers at once. Same principal, just a different application. (Note, Unions have recieved a lot of criticism over the years, that is irrelavent to the example)
There is one other issue: the high rated chips sell for a lot more than the lower rated chips because a few people are willing to pay for them. From time to time it happens that a chip that can run at say 2.2Ghz will be marked as 1.6Ghz just because all the orders for 2.2Ghz chips are filled already, and they have some orders for 1.6Ghz chips. So you can get lucky bying cheap, and get a chip that can run at a much faster speed.
Unfortunatly you do not have access to all the tests the manufacture has. Your chip might seem perfectly stable overclocked, but in reality something goes wrong once in a while that you either don't notice, or don't blame on the overclocked chip.
You might suggest to them that next time you will be more careful - if you knew it was government snooping in your private network you would have called the newspaper. The CIA can't legally do this to any US citican, and no police force can do this type of invesitgation without a warrent. The so called patriot act doesn't give everything away.
Of course this doesn't apply if you are in any other country, though you may have a different set of rights that would applly.
Discover, (for sure, I think the others do or did) offers a one time card, aimed at online purchases. You go to Discover, login to your account, and ask for a one time card, and they give you a number, linked to your account, but only good for one use (I've never done it, but you might be able to specify a credit limit too). If anyone at the company you order from steals your number it does them no good because the card number is cancled first.
Wouldn't be hard to go a step further and modify this so that you can get a random number which is linked directly to the fraud department, whoever uses it suddenly finds all the numbers used (including numbers from suckers who fell for the scam) are invalid. Needs some strong proof that it is fraud though. Otherwise someone will eventially try to discredit legitimate venders this way, wasting time... (Amazon is likely honest enough that you couldn't discredit them, but things of a tiny startup just trying to make a go of it)
Well yes, but they have to release all the code, including theirs under the GPL to everyone they distribute the binaries to. Further they cannot prevent anyone who has recieved the source code from further distributing it.
Better yet, google has added features without adding clutter. I use google groups once in a while. They have a bunch of other things you can search too. All without losing focus adding things like email that have nothing to do with their buisness.
I'm not google locked. I switched to Google long after most people when I could no longer take the lack of results from Alta-vista. I would have swtiched soon, but all my bookmarks were there, and I'm lazy. If google starts doing baddly I'll switch to someone who does a good job. However to switch means I'd have to find some reason to bother to update my bookmarks.
I have done that. Problem is it doesn't solve the problem I really want: searches relavent to the topic I want. Sure you can search for bass -music, but you lose all the pages that are about bass fishing, but have even a mention of music (ie the best music for bass fishing is...) which may not be what you want. Combine that with a phase that can be stated several ways, and advance searches don't help as much as you would like.
But in this case it is a linux specific issue. SCO is not claiming action against GNU software, only the linux kernel. Thus saying GNU/Linux in the context of this artical is likely wrong!
No, only the parts derived from Unix are theirs. The parts that a developer with no license for Unix code, and no access to Unix code, is copyright that developer. That developer gives rights to his code only under the GPL, if the GPL is invalid you have no right to it.
Note that many GPL products require code ownership to be donated to the orginization (normally FSF) as a condition of being placed in the main distribution. This does not apply to Linux, each developer owns copyright on his personal work and agrees to license their share under the GPL.
They can claim the GPL is unenforable, but that just strenthens anyones claim against SCO. GPL is just an agreement that allows you to make copys of otherwise copyrighted work. If you don't agree to the GPL and copy work covered under the GPL, then you are violating international law.
EULAs like Microsoft's are unenforceable only where they take away rights allowed under other laws. Microsoft claims that you cannot sell a copy of windows under their EULA, even if you first remove it from your computer. Under most copyright laws there is a concept of "first sale" which doesn't allow this restriction, so Microsoft's EULA might be invalid under that law. (Note though that copyright law doesn't technially allow you to copy windows from the instalation CD to your harddrive and then into memory, the EULA does allow that, and so the claim is the EULA is a contract which can in some cases place extra restricions like that) GPL has no such restriction, and was carefullly written to avoid such issues.
IBM for one has the money to back it, and it might be in their interests to help someone sending on.
If you have contributed code to the kernel, and can easially prove it is your own personal creation, a lawyer who knows copyright law may be willing to take this case for a share of the winnings.
Of course you have to go through some steps. A C&D letter for the first part shouldn't cost more than about $75 (If I remember lawyer fees correctly), if that is ignored you then have to register the copyright (easy to do) before you can sue. You can in most cases get them to stop infringing, and lawyer fees. (But ask a lawyer)
If anyone is concerned about this happening to code they are developing for some other project consider registering the copyright formally once in a while, by registering before a violation occures you get tripple damages when you sue.
I'm not sure that a C&D letter is required prior to suing someone, if you have an airtight case (pre-registered copyright) you can bring them to court, but since this is expensive you normally don't want to explore cheaper options. Remember too that in court you can lose for no obvious reason (jurys are not a good way to decide cases, but everything else is too easially corruptable). Thus most people suing prefer to settle out of court if they can.
I am not a lawyer, if you are considering taking any action you should consult a lawyer trained in copyright law.
The Ionosphere isn't perfect, Some signal leaks out. Admitadly a lot (most?) does not, but that isn't a valid reason to claim none of it does. Remember, if you accept the existance of a radio sensitive enough to recieve the signal at 65 light years it isn't a stretch to assume it can detect the signal despite the additional loss from the ionosphere too.
All this is theroetical though. Physics as we understand it today doesn't allow us to get out to 65 light years to check the signal. Not to mention a bunch of strange effects on time.
The ecconomy is imporiving, save most of the money in a seperate account. Next recession (and there will be one, everything runs in cycles - quit blaming it on any politition) use it to either to lay off one less person (if you see your buisness big enough latter - be honest), or give a surprize bonus to those left, a surprize that can help the ecconomy.
I belive that Dom Perinon is alcahol (But I admit ignorance), and I don't drink. Buying me a bottle of alcahol shows ignorance of me.
Remember, the thought counts. Throw a party and I understand that a lot of people enjoy the free drinks, and you can't please everyone. Give me a drink and it is personal suggestion that my standards are wrong, and therefore an insult.
Interestingly enough though, firestone still managed to ai market share on rival Goodyear. Talk about bad manageent, goodyear managed to turn vry public bad news about a compititor into a loss for them. I'm not much a manager, but I think I could do better.
First: notice the first part of the name: home. A lot of neat/useful things for someone with a home to work on. Not a whole lot useful for a rocket designer. The wrong tools for the job, and the wrong metals. Not a big deal though, most areas have a metal store nearby that sells plenty of useful things, and can help you find the tools. (In rulal areas these stores are common too, farmers do a lot of repairs themselves)
Money. I'm not gonna spend my money on your stupid idea so naanny-nannay-boo-boo. Maybe not quite that bad, but you get the idea.
Lastly: that is more or less what this guy is doing: taking his smarts and abilities and making a rocket. If you want to, then do it. I have other things I'd prefer to do. I wish him the best of luck, but I don't intend to do that. (The feeling is mutual I'm sure, he likely isn't interested in the things I'm trying to do)
How many hackers have done this: while sitting on the john comteplating what the next generation of the floor would look like? I spend a lot of time doing just that at work. Fortunatly I just have carpet in my office, so I get work done - it is only while nature calls that I can see a floor with those little tiles...
You need to determin what you want to accomplish first. I've taken the stance of creating paper copies of everything on my computer that I care about (until my printer broke...), which works because it is only a small amount of financial information. Everything else can be re-constructed, or just forgotten about. OTOH, I want my grandpa to have a better backup system because his computer holds family tree information. (He also has a lot of historical information that isn't in the county archives but should be)
So first you need to take inventory of what you have. All those illegal mp3s can be downloaded from the net again. Your OS can be re-installed from CDs or the net, as can all your applications. All those jokes that you are saving can be found on the net. All those short stories that you have created can be published on your website at your ISP, and re-downloaded from there. (Make sure you keep this up to date two way, ISPs don't always backup websites) Usenet is a good palce to publish that, and google will archive. Family pictures belong on your website for the family to see.
That leaves a small amount of private data. Is it still an unreasonable amount to burn this to a CD/DVD? If so invest in tape backup (which is expensive, but holds more data).
Do not forget off-site storage for all this, a fire will destroy your home including the computer and backup. This is the biggest problem I have with RAID.
AFAIK we only have bones (and fossilized ones at that, which don't really contain the origional bone), and not the rest of the dinosaur to examine. So are they willing to say no type of cancer in all those others, or just no bone cancer?
I don't think OfficeMax cares about Lexmark. If Lexmark tried to pull that on OfficeMax expect OfficeMax to call their bluff and just stop selling LexMark printers, while still selling ink. HP, Epson, Brother, Panasonic, and Cannon all come to mind (and I know I missed a few) as companys that make printers they could go to. Last time I was at one of those big office stores they didn't have all brands of printers, but had ink/toner for all types. Most of both house brand and the OEM.
They can try that scheme. However automobile manufactures tried that stunt years ago, and it has been countered. When denying warentee covereage because of something the customer did they need to prove the modification caused the problem. Thus a non-OEM radio is not reason to refuse coverage for a blown engine, but would be reason to refuse coverage on a blown speaker.
Wouldn't surprize me to see them try to pull that stunt, and it would cause problems for a few years. Expect that it will eventially be knocked down in law/courts.
Most large firms have a few lawyers on staff that are paid a flat amount in exactly the same way as a staff programmer or assembly line worker is paid. When legal matters get too complex for staff lawyers, the amount of work is greater than they can handle, or additional expertise is needed outside lawyers will be obtained.
Each company is different. In general [large enough] a company can expect at any given time to have several lawsuits underway, as such it is to their advantage to have a few laywers on staff to handle those cases, in addition to those providing legal advice for other matters (contract review, policy, tax issues, copyrights, patent filing, and so on). However since each lawsuit is different, and the company will often pick up extra lawyers who know one particular area of law that is unneeded for most cases, to handle specific cases.
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Depends. How often do they have to [partially] rebuild as a part of basic maintance vs how often earthquakes occure.
Earthquakes in most cases happen a bunch at a time [several months], and then nothing for a long time [years], while pressure builds up.
The pipelines needs maintance. Each pipe can be replaced, and they inspect it regularly to make sure all the pipes are holding up. When a pipe fails inspection (which if done right means it is still fine, but failure is expected after a time, they have to repair/replace.
So if the total movement from an earthquake cycle is less than 20 feet, and they will have to replace that section anywhere between cycles, there is no hurry to do it now, and no need to redesign for more margin because they won't go through a second cycle before normal maintance already fixes the problem.
OTOH, seeing 18 feet of movement when you planed for 20 seems too close for comfort. My gut feeling is they should redesign for at least 30 feet of movement when they repair that section, just for margin of safety. However I'm not a geologists, nor a pipeline engineer, so I don't know what is a reasonable margin.
The point of SPEWS is that a tiny ISP alone isn't worth worrying about for the Spam hosters. However a few thousand tiny ISPs ad up to a very large amount, and it suddenly worth paying attention to.
Look up the history of Unions sometime. A company can fire one worker who demands a higher wage, but cannot fire all the skilled workers at once. Same principal, just a different application. (Note, Unions have recieved a lot of criticism over the years, that is irrelavent to the example)
There is one other issue: the high rated chips sell for a lot more than the lower rated chips because a few people are willing to pay for them. From time to time it happens that a chip that can run at say 2.2Ghz will be marked as 1.6Ghz just because all the orders for 2.2Ghz chips are filled already, and they have some orders for 1.6Ghz chips. So you can get lucky bying cheap, and get a chip that can run at a much faster speed.
Unfortunatly you do not have access to all the tests the manufacture has. Your chip might seem perfectly stable overclocked, but in reality something goes wrong once in a while that you either don't notice, or don't blame on the overclocked chip.
You might suggest to them that next time you will be more careful - if you knew it was government snooping in your private network you would have called the newspaper. The CIA can't legally do this to any US citican, and no police force can do this type of invesitgation without a warrent. The so called patriot act doesn't give everything away.
Of course this doesn't apply if you are in any other country, though you may have a different set of rights that would applly.
Discover, (for sure, I think the others do or did) offers a one time card, aimed at online purchases. You go to Discover, login to your account, and ask for a one time card, and they give you a number, linked to your account, but only good for one use (I've never done it, but you might be able to specify a credit limit too). If anyone at the company you order from steals your number it does them no good because the card number is cancled first.
Wouldn't be hard to go a step further and modify this so that you can get a random number which is linked directly to the fraud department, whoever uses it suddenly finds all the numbers used (including numbers from suckers who fell for the scam) are invalid. Needs some strong proof that it is fraud though. Otherwise someone will eventially try to discredit legitimate venders this way, wasting time... (Amazon is likely honest enough that you couldn't discredit them, but things of a tiny startup just trying to make a go of it)
Well yes, but they have to release all the code, including theirs under the GPL to everyone they distribute the binaries to. Further they cannot prevent anyone who has recieved the source code from further distributing it.
Better yet, google has added features without adding clutter. I use google groups once in a while. They have a bunch of other things you can search too. All without losing focus adding things like email that have nothing to do with their buisness.
I'm not google locked. I switched to Google long after most people when I could no longer take the lack of results from Alta-vista. I would have swtiched soon, but all my bookmarks were there, and I'm lazy. If google starts doing baddly I'll switch to someone who does a good job. However to switch means I'd have to find some reason to bother to update my bookmarks.
I have done that. Problem is it doesn't solve the problem I really want: searches relavent to the topic I want. Sure you can search for bass -music, but you lose all the pages that are about bass fishing, but have even a mention of music (ie the best music for bass fishing is ...) which may not be what you want. Combine that with a phase that can be stated several ways, and advance searches don't help as much as you would like.
But in this case it is a linux specific issue. SCO is not claiming action against GNU software, only the linux kernel. Thus saying GNU/Linux in the context of this artical is likely wrong!
No, only the parts derived from Unix are theirs. The parts that a developer with no license for Unix code, and no access to Unix code, is copyright that developer. That developer gives rights to his code only under the GPL, if the GPL is invalid you have no right to it.
Note that many GPL products require code ownership to be donated to the orginization (normally FSF) as a condition of being placed in the main distribution. This does not apply to Linux, each developer owns copyright on his personal work and agrees to license their share under the GPL.
They can claim the GPL is unenforable, but that just strenthens anyones claim against SCO. GPL is just an agreement that allows you to make copys of otherwise copyrighted work. If you don't agree to the GPL and copy work covered under the GPL, then you are violating international law.
EULAs like Microsoft's are unenforceable only where they take away rights allowed under other laws. Microsoft claims that you cannot sell a copy of windows under their EULA, even if you first remove it from your computer. Under most copyright laws there is a concept of "first sale" which doesn't allow this restriction, so Microsoft's EULA might be invalid under that law. (Note though that copyright law doesn't technially allow you to copy windows from the instalation CD to your harddrive and then into memory, the EULA does allow that, and so the claim is the EULA is a contract which can in some cases place extra restricions like that) GPL has no such restriction, and was carefullly written to avoid such issues.
IBM for one has the money to back it, and it might be in their interests to help someone sending on.
If you have contributed code to the kernel, and can easially prove it is your own personal creation, a lawyer who knows copyright law may be willing to take this case for a share of the winnings.
Of course you have to go through some steps. A C&D letter for the first part shouldn't cost more than about $75 (If I remember lawyer fees correctly), if that is ignored you then have to register the copyright (easy to do) before you can sue. You can in most cases get them to stop infringing, and lawyer fees. (But ask a lawyer)
If anyone is concerned about this happening to code they are developing for some other project consider registering the copyright formally once in a while, by registering before a violation occures you get tripple damages when you sue.
I'm not sure that a C&D letter is required prior to suing someone, if you have an airtight case (pre-registered copyright) you can bring them to court, but since this is expensive you normally don't want to explore cheaper options. Remember too that in court you can lose for no obvious reason (jurys are not a good way to decide cases, but everything else is too easially corruptable). Thus most people suing prefer to settle out of court if they can.
I am not a lawyer, if you are considering taking any action you should consult a lawyer trained in copyright law.
The Ionosphere isn't perfect, Some signal leaks out. Admitadly a lot (most?) does not, but that isn't a valid reason to claim none of it does. Remember, if you accept the existance of a radio sensitive enough to recieve the signal at 65 light years it isn't a stretch to assume it can detect the signal despite the additional loss from the ionosphere too.
All this is theroetical though. Physics as we understand it today doesn't allow us to get out to 65 light years to check the signal. Not to mention a bunch of strange effects on time.
The ecconomy is imporiving, save most of the money in a seperate account. Next recession (and there will be one, everything runs in cycles - quit blaming it on any politition) use it to either to lay off one less person (if you see your buisness big enough latter - be honest), or give a surprize bonus to those left, a surprize that can help the ecconomy.
I belive that Dom Perinon is alcahol (But I admit ignorance), and I don't drink. Buying me a bottle of alcahol shows ignorance of me.
Remember, the thought counts. Throw a party and I understand that a lot of people enjoy the free drinks, and you can't please everyone. Give me a drink and it is personal suggestion that my standards are wrong, and therefore an insult.
Atari 2600, ColicoVision, Intellivision, and at least one other forgetable game system from my youth.
Interestingly enough though, firestone still managed to ai market share on rival Goodyear. Talk about bad manageent, goodyear managed to turn vry public bad news about a compititor into a loss for them. I'm not much a manager, but I think I could do better.
First: notice the first part of the name: home. A lot of neat/useful things for someone with a home to work on. Not a whole lot useful for a rocket designer. The wrong tools for the job, and the wrong metals. Not a big deal though, most areas have a metal store nearby that sells plenty of useful things, and can help you find the tools. (In rulal areas these stores are common too, farmers do a lot of repairs themselves)
Money. I'm not gonna spend my money on your stupid idea so naanny-nannay-boo-boo. Maybe not quite that bad, but you get the idea.
Lastly: that is more or less what this guy is doing: taking his smarts and abilities and making a rocket. If you want to, then do it. I have other things I'd prefer to do. I wish him the best of luck, but I don't intend to do that. (The feeling is mutual I'm sure, he likely isn't interested in the things I'm trying to do)
How many hackers have done this: while sitting on the john comteplating what the next generation of the floor would look like? I spend a lot of time doing just that at work. Fortunatly I just have carpet in my office, so I get work done - it is only while nature calls that I can see a floor with those little tiles...
They don't. It all goes in cycles. Cars were in a large cycle in the '50s and '60s, went into a downsize in the '70s, and are slowing coming back up.
SUVs are more popular now, but if you look closely you will discover they have existed for a long time.
You need to determin what you want to accomplish first. I've taken the stance of creating paper copies of everything on my computer that I care about (until my printer broke...), which works because it is only a small amount of financial information. Everything else can be re-constructed, or just forgotten about. OTOH, I want my grandpa to have a better backup system because his computer holds family tree information. (He also has a lot of historical information that isn't in the county archives but should be)
So first you need to take inventory of what you have. All those illegal mp3s can be downloaded from the net again. Your OS can be re-installed from CDs or the net, as can all your applications. All those jokes that you are saving can be found on the net. All those short stories that you have created can be published on your website at your ISP, and re-downloaded from there. (Make sure you keep this up to date two way, ISPs don't always backup websites) Usenet is a good palce to publish that, and google will archive. Family pictures belong on your website for the family to see.
That leaves a small amount of private data. Is it still an unreasonable amount to burn this to a CD/DVD? If so invest in tape backup (which is expensive, but holds more data).
Do not forget off-site storage for all this, a fire will destroy your home including the computer and backup. This is the biggest problem I have with RAID.
AFAIK we only have bones (and fossilized ones at that, which don't really contain the origional bone), and not the rest of the dinosaur to examine. So are they willing to say no type of cancer in all those others, or just no bone cancer?
I don't think OfficeMax cares about Lexmark. If Lexmark tried to pull that on OfficeMax expect OfficeMax to call their bluff and just stop selling LexMark printers, while still selling ink. HP, Epson, Brother, Panasonic, and Cannon all come to mind (and I know I missed a few) as companys that make printers they could go to. Last time I was at one of those big office stores they didn't have all brands of printers, but had ink/toner for all types. Most of both house brand and the OEM.
They can try that scheme. However automobile manufactures tried that stunt years ago, and it has been countered. When denying warentee covereage because of something the customer did they need to prove the modification caused the problem. Thus a non-OEM radio is not reason to refuse coverage for a blown engine, but would be reason to refuse coverage on a blown speaker.
Wouldn't surprize me to see them try to pull that stunt, and it would cause problems for a few years. Expect that it will eventially be knocked down in law/courts.
Most large firms have a few lawyers on staff that are paid a flat amount in exactly the same way as a staff programmer or assembly line worker is paid. When legal matters get too complex for staff lawyers, the amount of work is greater than they can handle, or additional expertise is needed outside lawyers will be obtained.
Each company is different. In general [large enough] a company can expect at any given time to have several lawsuits underway, as such it is to their advantage to have a few laywers on staff to handle those cases, in addition to those providing legal advice for other matters (contract review, policy, tax issues, copyrights, patent filing, and so on). However since each lawsuit is different, and the company will often pick up extra lawyers who know one particular area of law that is unneeded for most cases, to handle specific cases.