That's why they will buy LP's and CD's instead of these newfangled MP3's and other media from the upstart new media stores like iTunes. eBooks have no real future.
Do you really want to push airlines into flying aircraft with broken parts? Having to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a plane load of passengers might just make an airline decide that a particular break isn't bad enough to down the aircraft.
Math is important to scientists, but math is not a science. You can tell this easily enough from the observation that math does not use the scientific method to pursue its goals.
I think the best approach is to just go along with University's rules and run the software you really want to run inside a VM installed under Windows. That VM should isolate you from most of the problems you're worried about.
It's actually illegal to remove Section 508 compliance from a government website
The trouble with that argument is that the Library of Congress is in the Legislative Branch, not the Executive Branch, and the way that such laws are written almost always don't apply to the Legislative Branch. GPO (Government Printing Office) and GAO (Government Accountability Office) fall into the same category.
An airspeed indicator is almost critical on a airplane depending on its stall profile. Meaning, a Cessna 150/2 with a blocked airspeed indicator is a death trap on landing and takeoff.
Nah -- an angle of attack indicator is more reliable and a better predictor of stall than an airspeed indicator. Also, an experienced pilot can pretty much tell whether or not he's close to a stall.
Right. I was just pulling your chain! I can't resist commenting on "spelling/grammar Nazi" posts that contain spelling or grammatical errors themselves. Sorry!:)
I must say that you do have a point. It's pretty amazing that a news organization is engaged in that kind of behavior, especially when you consider some of the egregious stuff they put on the air.
My guess is that the corporations who filtered your email's just didn't want political stuff floating around their networks because of the potential for complaints of harassment from their employees and/or for productivity reasons (too many people wasting company time discussing politics and not getting their work done). I doubt they were filtering you specifically. I try to use personal email accounts for such correspondence.
The problem with Microsoft is that they don't release the details of the underlying operating system. They therefore have a significant advantage over the other anti-malware developers. Were they not a monopoly, this would present no problem. However, because they are a monopoly, your analysis is flawed.
That's my interpretation of things at any rate. IANAL and all that.
Even the USPTO doesn't go out on their own initiative enforcing trademarks.
No duh. That's not their job. However, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, does have the job of preventing the importation and sale of goods that do infringe trademarks.
Protecting the public from the dangers of trademark infringement at the local retail level has nothing to do with Homeland Security.
Maybe not. Maybe you should write your congressman and senator and ask them why they structured our federal police forces that way. However, that's what they did, and the folks who work at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection still have to perform their duties, whether or not they're part of the Department of Homeland Security.
But it's definitely not a case of "professionals who are competently performing their jobs."
I'm sure they KNOW the law far better than you. And I'm sure they DID check to see that an actual law was being broken. You might want to read my other responses for my rationale. I don't want to waste my time typing everything in here as well.
No. I'm advocating that they do their job, which they did. It turns out that Seven Towns Limited has a trademark on the terms "Rubik" and "Rubik's Cube" as well as on the appearance of the Rubik's cube. So the "Magic Cube" mentioned in the story was probably infringing on the appearance trademark. A little research reveals that Seven Towns had already won a lawsuit over this very issue. It's highly likely that the Customs agents had all the relevant information they needed to take their course of action.
I think you are the one who needs to do some cursory research before jumping to inaccurate conclusions and flaming professionals who are competently performing their jobs.
The trademark infringement complaint, according to the article,....
Sigh. I guess dealing with the caliber of typical posters on slashdot is a waste of time. The author of the article didn't even grasp the difference between patents and trademarks. On top of that, the source that denied the existence of trademark infringement was the distributo of the infringing goods. Hello????
Of course, what else would you expect from the likes of an Associated Press reporter?
A little research turns up the fact that not only has Seven Towns Limited trademarked Rubik and Rubik's Cube, they have trademarked its appearance. You might want to check out this, this, and this before continuing your sophistry. Realizing that one might actually have to search a bit on the last referenced page to find the relevant commentary, I'll post it here:
March 2004
Section: 7th Circuit.
Gary Ropski was quoted in the March, 2004 publication of Corporate Legal Times in an article discussing the Seven Towns v. Hazco lawsuit concerning the Rubik's Cube. Mr. Ropski, counsel for Seven Towns, commented on Hazco saying that, "they know how valuable the Rubik's Cube trademark and trade dress are because they tried to get a license from Seven Towns to use it. . . After being refused permission, they used it anyway." He continued by saying, "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Association granted Seven Towns a trademark for the appearance of the Rubik's Cube. It's a violation of federal law to infringe that trademark by making a product that's confusingly similar."
So it turns out that the Customs agents knew their job and were doing their job, just as I stated. I'm sorry if you don't like the facts.
Wrong -- they were doing their job precisely the way they're supposed to do it. And maybe you should learn something about the law. Retailers are just as at fault when they sell infringing goods as are the folks who manufacture and import them.
If you do a little research on the web, you can find this page, which explains that such work is the responsibility of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a part of the Department of Homeland Security. They received a trademark infringement complaint, and they followed up on the complaint. That's their job. Why are you getting your knickers in a bunch because some federal agents are doing their job? Nowhere does the inflammatory and poorly written article suggest that they accused the store owner of being a terrorist. Get a grip.
I don't think that anybody is suggesting that IE is the best browser on the market. This guy has performed a useful service by devising a test script that highlights the flaws in other browsers and demonstrates that IE's HTML rendering engine doesn't have these same flaws. Nothing could be simpler. There is no need for all the open source advocates to run around flaming everything in sight, just because we now have an example that highlights a place where IE is better than our browsers of choice.
Let's see, the guy's user ID is Adoph_Hitler and you're surprised he's a troll??? And you make disparaging implications about AOL and Linux users because of this guy? Just how reasonable is your flamebait?
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I mostly do Python, and for that I've moved almost exclusively to JetBrains' PyCharm IDE.
I now start at Amazon for pretty much all my shopping. And I buy a LOT of stuff from them. I think they have a totally correct focus.
That's why they will buy LP's and CD's instead of these newfangled MP3's and other media from the upstart new media stores like iTunes. eBooks have no real future.
Oh, wait....
Do you really want to push airlines into flying aircraft with broken parts? Having to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a plane load of passengers might just make an airline decide that a particular break isn't bad enough to down the aircraft.
Math is important to scientists, but math is not a science. You can tell this easily enough from the observation that math does not use the scientific method to pursue its goals.
I think the best approach is to just go along with University's rules and run the software you really want to run inside a VM installed under Windows. That VM should isolate you from most of the problems you're worried about.
Right. I was just pulling your chain! I can't resist commenting on "spelling/grammar Nazi" posts that contain spelling or grammatical errors themselves. Sorry! :)
If you truly care about this stuff, you might want to learn how to spell "existence."
I must say that you do have a point. It's pretty amazing that a news organization is engaged in that kind of behavior, especially when you consider some of the egregious stuff they put on the air.
My guess is that the corporations who filtered your email's just didn't want political stuff floating around their networks because of the potential for complaints of harassment from their employees and/or for productivity reasons (too many people wasting company time discussing politics and not getting their work done). I doubt they were filtering you specifically. I try to use personal email accounts for such correspondence.
The problem is that the linked article was written in English.
The problem with Microsoft is that they don't release the details of the underlying operating system. They therefore have a significant advantage over the other anti-malware developers. Were they not a monopoly, this would present no problem. However, because they are a monopoly, your analysis is flawed.
That's my interpretation of things at any rate. IANAL and all that.
And they succeeded in getting rid of my business a long time ago. They're now my "tech" store of last resort. :)
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Unfortunately, I suspect they're on the leading edge of the new wave.
Maybe not. Maybe you should write your congressman and senator and ask them why they structured our federal police forces that way. However, that's what they did, and the folks who work at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection still have to perform their duties, whether or not they're part of the Department of Homeland Security.
Wrong.
I'm sure they KNOW the law far better than you. And I'm sure they DID check to see that an actual law was being broken. You might want to read my other responses for my rationale. I don't want to waste my time typing everything in here as well.
I think you are the one who needs to do some cursory research before jumping to inaccurate conclusions and flaming professionals who are competently performing their jobs.
Of course, what else would you expect from the likes of an Associated Press reporter?
A little research turns up the fact that not only has Seven Towns Limited trademarked Rubik and Rubik's Cube, they have trademarked its appearance. You might want to check out this, this, and this before continuing your sophistry. Realizing that one might actually have to search a bit on the last referenced page to find the relevant commentary, I'll post it here:
So it turns out that the Customs agents knew their job and were doing their job, just as I stated. I'm sorry if you don't like the facts.Wrong -- they were doing their job precisely the way they're supposed to do it. And maybe you should learn something about the law. Retailers are just as at fault when they sell infringing goods as are the folks who manufacture and import them.
If you do a little research on the web, you can find this page, which explains that such work is the
responsibility of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a part of the Department of Homeland Security. They received a trademark infringement complaint, and they followed up on the complaint. That's their job. Why are you getting your knickers in a bunch because some federal agents are doing their job? Nowhere does the inflammatory and poorly written article suggest that they accused the store owner of being a terrorist. Get a grip.
I don't think that anybody is suggesting that IE is the best browser on the market. This guy has performed a useful service by devising a test script that highlights the flaws in other browsers and demonstrates that IE's HTML rendering engine doesn't have these same flaws. Nothing could be simpler. There is no need for all the open source advocates to run around flaming everything in sight, just because we now have an example that highlights a place where IE is better than our browsers of choice.
Pretty simple stuff, really.
Let's see, the guy's user ID is Adoph_Hitler and you're surprised he's a troll??? And you make disparaging implications about AOL and Linux users because of this guy? Just how reasonable is your flamebait?