That's a good reason to have contributers assign the copyright to you when they contribute the patches. Note that's not assigning the credit, just the copyright. It makes a bunch of things simpler. If one person owns the copyright, then one person can litigate in case someone steals the code and violates the license.
And, it makes it simple to change the licence too.
Then they should treat it like any other expression. If I say something like "John went to the store" that's inoffensive, and causes no harm. If I say something like "John went to the whorehose" then that might be harmful if it wasn't true.
Photos should be the same way. Photos of John going to the store should be just fine. Photos of John going to a whorehouse would be fine if they are genuine (truth is a defense against libel and slander) and not so find if they are photoshopped.
But then, if it's political speech, satire, or parody, such as Falwell talking about the first time he slept with his mother/drank a certain brand of gin, then that should be protected as well, as long as a reasonable person would recognise the parody.
The friend of my friend is my friend. Welcome to my list. You should see my OTHER list. I am trying to build the canonical list of Slashdot trolls in my enemies list.
I'll go the other way. This 10-gigabit network is going to painfully slim when I have my biological nervous system replaced with an artificial one. Sure would hate to have a saturated bus when I'm walking down the street chewing gum at the same time.
Remember when that woman was awarded a hundred million dollars for scalding herself with McDonald's coffee? It was reduced somewhat on appeal. Was that ridiculous? Yes.
NO, most definitely. The woman had third degree burns on her crotch and needed very extensive skin grafting and long hospitalization to recover. It was not a minor injury at all. And, there's no good reason for keeping the coffee that hot anyway. 180 degrees is far too hot to drink.
That's odd. When I consume aspertame, it improves my mental function and alertness, and my digestion is much improved. I think it's great stuff, and I even prefer the taste of it.
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Strictly for multitasking purposes, the nipples could have been mounted a little higher on the torso. Or mouths mounted a little lower.
His use of the term corporate shell was quite interesting, making corporations seem to be fictional entities surrounding a service.
I took that as a little peek into his perspective. A corporation is an entity that would not exist except that the charter is granted by the government. Without a corporation, all businesses would be privately owned sole proprietarships or partnerships, with the stockholders (owners and partners) taking share in the liabilities of the company.
So, from a government buereaucrat's perspective, a corporation *is* a little piece of government sanction, recognition, and protection around a business.
Can you configure it to automatically abort any message that you've accidentally CC'd to your wife AND your girlfriend? I don't need the feature personally, but I know a few people who do.
They should have calculated what a robotic mission would cost instead. A rover with a camera can be used to find a rock that looks like the one they were loaned.
If you like names from Star Trek that don't sound weird, why not pick "Jackson Roykirk" for first and middle names. If you recall, that was NOMAD's creator, confused with Captain Kirk.
I have a dog (A Boston Terrier, photos on my website) named Darwin Charles Loukas, after Charles Darwin. My other dog is named Pepper Two Draper. I had a dog named Pepper when I was a kid. If the Atreides can always have a Duncan Idaho, then I will always have a Pepper.
Future dogs not named Pepper will be named after other scientists. I have Maxwell Clerk Loukas (after James Clerk Maxwell) and Bruno Giordano Loukas (after Giordano Bruno) already reserved. When I need more names, I'll just draw from the large number of scientists with neat names.
Bing. Everyone used to look at me crazy when I told them that I was on a modem and would not EVER sign up for the cable modem that was available. DSL became available to me a couple months ago and I signed up right away.
The only need that I had was the right to run my own servers. I could have done something like that on the cable modem, but it would do me no good. I wanted my own domain to host my own web page and host my own e-mail. I someone would have sold me a 56K full-time modem with static IP account for a reasonable price I would have jumped all over it.
Seriously, for me it wasn't about the bandwidth at all, it was about the right to be a real node on the internet.
DirectTV DSL gave me 1 static IP and the explicit statement that they don't care what servers I run on my own line. The only time the connection went down it was because of SWBell's incompetence. DirectTV has been really great so far.
If we can't get rid of the noise, then we should at least change the nature of it. I'd rather not have SPAM noise which requires my active use of the delete function. Much better is line noise which can be automatically corrected by analysis of redundant information.
So, don't be so fatalistic about spam. You should be actively working to convert the noise that is hard to deal with into noise that can be automatically dealt with.
The number 24 in the first executable line of code above was determined experimentally. I found no mention of it anywhere in the Platform SDK. If it is not present, the program doesn't work. Apparently, the pipe facility requires a 24-byte header on each write to the pipe.
If this were Linux, we'd be able to know what that 24 bytes was.
That regexp needs some work. Jews spell it with the 'o' replaced with an underscore. Also, atheists need to have an appropriate match in there somewhere.
Obviously he doesn't have long hair himself, but he thinks that long hair looks good on everyone else.
AMI BIOS and beeping console
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I once worked on a DOS app (about 10 years ago) that had a very strange bug. The system would lock up for no reason we could figure out. The offending statement was a printf that printed one single character (a control-G) to the screen to make it beep.
After some testing on different computers, we discovered that it only crashed on machines with an AMI bios. Phoenix BIOS machines worked just fine, and so did real IBM machines. We never digged into the BIOS code to figure out what the problem was, but we mentioned it to the Phar Lap support people (those people were the smartest support people I ever ran across). They told us that they knew about the bug, and even explained what was happening inside the bios to make it crash the machine, but it's been 10 years so I don't remember the details anymore.
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That's a good reason to have contributers assign the copyright to you when they contribute the patches. Note that's not assigning the credit, just the copyright. It makes a bunch of things simpler. If one person owns the copyright, then one person can litigate in case someone steals the code and violates the license.
And, it makes it simple to change the licence too.
Usually I don't respond to these sorts of posts, but who wrote that? It's DAMN funny, and just about as clever of a song parody as I've ever seen.
That's probably just because you are user number 300000, and I have to kill you. Sorry, nothing against you, it's the number, you see.
Seriously, I can't remember why you ended up in the list.
Then they should treat it like any other expression. If I say something like "John went to the store" that's inoffensive, and causes no harm. If I say something like "John went to the whorehose" then that might be harmful if it wasn't true.
Photos should be the same way. Photos of John going to the store should be just fine. Photos of John going to a whorehouse would be fine if they are genuine (truth is a defense against libel and slander) and not so find if they are photoshopped.
But then, if it's political speech, satire, or parody, such as Falwell talking about the first time he slept with his mother/drank a certain brand of gin, then that should be protected as well, as long as a reasonable person would recognise the parody.
The friend of my friend is my friend. Welcome to my list. You should see my OTHER list. I am trying to build the canonical list of Slashdot trolls in my enemies list.
That's why I can never own a mac. The community should be able to write what they want to write without fear that it will hurt their standing.
I'll go the other way. This 10-gigabit network is going to painfully slim when I have my biological nervous system replaced with an artificial one. Sure would hate to have a saturated bus when I'm walking down the street chewing gum at the same time.
Remember when that woman was awarded a hundred million dollars for scalding herself with McDonald's coffee? It was reduced somewhat on appeal. Was that ridiculous? Yes.
NO, most definitely. The woman had third degree burns on her crotch and needed very extensive skin grafting and long hospitalization to recover. It was not a minor injury at all. And, there's no good reason for keeping the coffee that hot anyway. 180 degrees is far too hot to drink.
That's odd. When I consume aspertame, it improves my mental function and alertness, and my digestion is much improved. I think it's great stuff, and I even prefer the taste of it.
Strictly for multitasking purposes, the nipples could have been mounted a little higher on the torso. Or mouths mounted a little lower.
Look at my sig. I'm trying to get google to return dallasnews.com as the top result for any search of "rag".
His use of the term corporate shell was quite interesting, making corporations seem to be fictional entities surrounding a service.
I took that as a little peek into his perspective. A corporation is an entity that would not exist except that the charter is granted by the government. Without a corporation, all businesses would be privately owned sole proprietarships or partnerships, with the stockholders (owners and partners) taking share in the liabilities of the company.
So, from a government buereaucrat's perspective, a corporation *is* a little piece of government sanction, recognition, and protection around a business.
It's actually quite easy to explain. Everyone knows the camera adds 10 pounds.
I would like to know what it is in lightyears per hogs head. Thank you.
Can you configure it to automatically abort any message that you've accidentally CC'd to your wife AND your girlfriend? I don't need the feature personally, but I know a few people who do.
They should have calculated what a robotic mission would cost instead. A rover with a camera can be used to find a rock that looks like the one they were loaned.
If you like names from Star Trek that don't sound weird, why not pick "Jackson Roykirk" for first and middle names. If you recall, that was NOMAD's creator, confused with Captain Kirk.
I have a dog (A Boston Terrier, photos on my website) named Darwin Charles Loukas, after Charles Darwin. My other dog is named Pepper Two Draper. I had a dog named Pepper when I was a kid. If the Atreides can always have a Duncan Idaho, then I will always have a Pepper.
Future dogs not named Pepper will be named after other scientists. I have Maxwell Clerk Loukas (after James Clerk Maxwell) and Bruno Giordano Loukas (after Giordano Bruno) already reserved. When I need more names, I'll just draw from the large number of scientists with neat names.
Bing. Everyone used to look at me crazy when I told them that I was on a modem and would not EVER sign up for the cable modem that was available. DSL became available to me a couple months ago and I signed up right away.
The only need that I had was the right to run my own servers. I could have done something like that on the cable modem, but it would do me no good. I wanted my own domain to host my own web page and host my own e-mail. I someone would have sold me a 56K full-time modem with static IP account for a reasonable price I would have jumped all over it.
Seriously, for me it wasn't about the bandwidth at all, it was about the right to be a real node on the internet.
DirectTV DSL gave me 1 static IP and the explicit statement that they don't care what servers I run on my own line. The only time the connection went down it was because of SWBell's incompetence. DirectTV has been really great so far.
If we can't get rid of the noise, then we should at least change the nature of it. I'd rather not have SPAM noise which requires my active use of the delete function. Much better is line noise which can be automatically corrected by analysis of redundant information.
So, don't be so fatalistic about spam. You should be actively working to convert the noise that is hard to deal with into noise that can be automatically dealt with.
In Texas the drivers license is shredded when the buckshot fired by the station owner rips through it.
From the article about pipes:
The number 24 in the first executable line of code above was determined experimentally. I found no mention of it anywhere in the Platform SDK. If it is not present, the program doesn't work. Apparently, the pipe facility requires a 24-byte header on each write to the pipe.
If this were Linux, we'd be able to know what that 24 bytes was.
That regexp needs some work. Jews spell it with the 'o' replaced with an underscore. Also, atheists need to have an appropriate match in there somewhere.
Obviously he doesn't have long hair himself, but he thinks that long hair looks good on everyone else.
I once worked on a DOS app (about 10 years ago) that had a very strange bug. The system would lock up for no reason we could figure out. The offending statement was a printf that printed one single character (a control-G) to the screen to make it beep.
After some testing on different computers, we discovered that it only crashed on machines with an AMI bios. Phoenix BIOS machines worked just fine, and so did real IBM machines. We never digged into the BIOS code to figure out what the problem was, but we mentioned it to the Phar Lap support people (those people were the smartest support people I ever ran across). They told us that they knew about the bug, and even explained what was happening inside the bios to make it crash the machine, but it's been 10 years so I don't remember the details anymore.