Re: [silk] greetings and salutations

2008-02-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-04 04:04:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been using evolution, which has great IMAP support *cough* Yes, great. I tried to open a relatively small (45k messages) mailbox. It connected, issued a command to fetch a large subset of the headers of all of those messages, and then

Re: [silk] greetings and salutations

2008-02-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-04 07:28:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm i guess i've been using it for a while with on-going mboxes so it hasn't had such problems. Well, to be honest, I didn't expect it to segfault. I tried KMail, Thunderbird, Evolution, and mutt on the same mailbox. All of them issue

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-01 11:28:23 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can afford to wait for a few months the situation may change. I can. Although I am planning to visit Bangalore in the near future, I didn't mean to drive this time. I was just curious, because I've never done a really long drive, and

[silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-30 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Has anyone done it? Or does anyone have an idea of how long it will take, and what the roads are like? -- ams

Re: [silk] Will India Become the New Vanguard of the Open Source Movement?

2008-01-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-01-25 20:52:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... it's been a long day, so a question to the list, should I re-read this to see if it makes sense, or should I apply the kook label and move on? I think the first part means lots of people share a gmail account. I couldn't figure out

Re: [silk] The US of A is officially paranoid.

2008-01-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-01-23 03:02:42 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In India, we treat foreigners visiting our country with respect and this comes from humble, traditional customs. i've heard too many horror stories from white women travelling alone in india to believe that... Oh, they're all

Re: [silk] double delivery

2008-01-08 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-01-09 08:33:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this is better? Yes. Thanks! -- ams

Re: [silk] Fwd: FREE RICE ... an amazing concept to harness the power of Internet advertising ...for a great cause ...

2007-12-18 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-18 16:17:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'd have to spend quite some time there to provide a snack to a small kid, let alone a full grown man. By the time I put together enough for a small kid (I discovered the site several days ago), I noticed that words had begun to repeat

Re: [silk] pic of the year

2007-12-17 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-18 09:47:04 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasn't able to get anything but a thin sliver of photograph! Click on the VIEW IN LARGEST SIZE thing. -- ams

Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures

2007-12-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-16 13:05:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neat. Thanks. Whenever I share photos (which is rare) I dump them into a web-visible directory, and process them with a script a la http://leitl.org/ice/ That reminds me of two changes I want to make to my own program. First, a

Re: [silk] sundarban photographs

2007-12-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-16 17:52:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The photos are at www.flickr.com/photos/venky7 Nice. I especially like the Makaibari (non-flash) photograph, and also the fact that you've written comments for them all. Your photographs of the Darjeeling zoo reminded me of some travel

Re: [silk] sundarban photographs

2007-12-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-16 18:43:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the main attractions mentioned was the Parmesan Nadia zoo. (For those who haven't been to Darjeeling: it's really Padmaja Naidu.) -- ams

[silk] sundarban photographs

2007-12-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Another long-ago trip, but just a few photographs this time: http://toroid.org/ams/img/sundarban-2005 -- ams

Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures

2007-12-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-15 19:05:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it is trivial to build photo slide shows e.g. using Apple's iWeb I've always just dumped .jpeg files into an auto-indexed directory on my web server, but I recently gathered the motivation to do it better:

Re: [silk] Failure of Sociology in India?

2007-12-12 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-12 13:32:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I buy it in India? Permanent Black is an Indian publisher. See https://www.orientlongman.com/permanentblack.asp -- ams

Re: [silk] You farted - was Wikipedia

2007-12-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-11 14:40:20 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying that you're too cheap to get a real survey done, but expect to be taken seriously on facts you admit to making up yourself. If that is not an ad homimen I don't know what is. It's not ad hominem. If he'd said you're

Re: [silk] You farted - was Wikipedia

2007-12-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-12-11 19:21:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cut the boring rhetoric boss. OK. -- ams

Re: [silk] confluence hunting in uttaranchal

2007-12-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-30 09:56:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://toroid.org/ams/uttaranchal-2005 And as a gentle inducement to read the travelogue, here's a photograph (which I might have posted to the list ages ago): http://toroid.org/ams/img/binsar.jpeg -- ams

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-11-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-16 09:52:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (regarding polichathu vs. pollichathu) There isn't any Three-l lllama. There isn't a three-l polllichathu either, but there's a 1-U (non-rackmountable) version of the 1-l word (i.e. pulichathu) that also means something different

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-11-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-07 10:47:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And is this really the same word as split, or did the Englishification screw it up? This morning, several days later, it suddenly occurred to me that it is in fact a different word, and that I know both words, and that the one-l word means

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-11-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-06 10:44:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (FWIW Jew Town would probably be offensive to most Jews [...] IMO, Jew Town, despite the name, is not offensive. I thought he meant the name was offensive. -- ams

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-11-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-07 10:02:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the place with the 'netti pollichathu kozhi? Roughly, it translates to 'chicken fried standing-up'. Actually, it would translate to chicken /split/, not fried, standing up. I think the word you're looking for is porichathu (r not

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-11-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-07 10:24:12 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollichathu - coated with spices, wrapped in a banana leaf and baked. Really? Wow. And is this really the same word as split, or did the Englishification screw it up? -- ams

Re: [silk] the_new_nostradamus

2007-11-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-02 22:17:59 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at this analytically, it seems that after a person is old enough you should be able to look at their lives and back compute when their moment of birth must have been, given the events in their lives. Why? It could be a one-way

Re: [silk] LLEA (Lurked Long Enough Already)!

2007-10-12 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-10-12 13:49:53 +0430, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that I I read up to Abhi and didn't complete the rest...am suitably humbled and chagrined and cringing...! Oh, there's no need to apologise. *All my life* I've had people (both on the phone and in person) ask me my name, and

Re: [silk] The Future of Food

2007-10-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-10-11 12:25:07 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not? Because that's not the intended application? What might it have been used on earlier? -- ams

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-10-05 09:04:40 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the tyranny of the masses is still a tyranny. Where did tyranny come into the picture? [...] Not allow was used in the sense of using public outcry to make a person stop. Oh, you mean those genteel demonstrations of

Re: [silk] The Christian, the Muslim and the Hindu. Statutory?warning:this one rambles.

2007-09-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-09-25 15:05:31 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's mondegreen? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen «A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase as a homophone or near-homophone in such a way that it acquires a new meaning. [...] The word

Re: [silk] clit mouse

2007-09-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-09-05 15:21:59 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude. NSFW warning. Please! How much more of a warning can you get than a link which says Clitoris.jpg in it? -- ams

Re: [silk] Illustrated Coffee Guide

2007-09-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-09-03 11:37:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're getting the best of both gene pools. That doesn't make sense. They get whatever is in both gene pools, good or bad. Besides, there isn't a look good gene. It does seem to me, then, that the old war cry of racists verywhere --

Re: [silk] Mongrels

2007-09-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-09-03 12:21:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One study I've read says that people find average faces more attractive - that if you take a sample set and produce an image that is the average of the faces, that it will be considered more attractive than a specific face. That sounds

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-08-23 09:24:03 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should check out the Belenix[1] LiveCD Surely that's a typo for SchilliX. -- ams

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-08-23 14:50:05 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schillix has not been updated for a long time and Joerg seems to have lost interest in maintaining it. (Psst. I was kidding.) -- ams

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-08-03 19:39:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lack of UTF-8 support? Divya's posts have newlines encoded as =0A. =0A is the quoted-printable encoding of an ASCII line feed, and it has nothing to do with UTF-8 (beyond all ASCII codepoints being valid under UTF-8). Divya's message header

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-15 19:23:50 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you have been a decent person who does not post like a troll I will try and give you a decent reply. That's very nice of you. But as an indecent troll, I can barge into your nice people's club (reducing the doorman to tears en route

Re: [silk] A new car for £30

2007-07-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-16 12:57:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Zimbabweans were a lot friendlier and pleasant than the Batswana I was living among at the time. Say, have you read Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books? If so, did you enjoy them? -- ams

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-14 23:11:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me get this straight... Your conjecture is [...] Bzzt. Just because I made a somewhat-related conjecture in the same thread does not make what I said about pilgrims a conjecture. Quoted from Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History,

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-14 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-14 10:59:57 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please elaborate on this part of your sentence: probably a much more modern concept than you're giving it credit for. I'll rephrase. The concept exists today and has existed for some time. It seemed to me that you think it is ancient, and

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-14 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-14 16:36:32 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of the clearest statements you have made. Oh, is that why your replies gloss over most of what I've written? I disagree with you. That's one of the most well-reasoned statements you've made. Anyway, I take it that means you

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-13 09:37:29 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All were just people who had (as far as I know) free access to travel to areas that they felt they needed to travel to on pilgrimage no matter which ruler was in charge of a given area. What does free access mean? Pilgrims were, at that

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-13 12:01:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering how tolerant the religion is, not to be confused with the people who purportedly practise it, there is no attack. Ah yes, the good religion, bad practitioners argument again. -- ams

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-13 15:27:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't have to accept a possibly concocted story as historical fact just because a character in a story is named after a town. I thought you were saying that the town was named after the character in the story: Modern day Kandahar in

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-13 16:12:54 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the point is that you cannot call a people hostile based on this. OK, I'll try to remember that the next time I want to call a people hostile. But what relevance does it have to what I actually wrote in *this* discussion? The very

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-13 18:51:14 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many people in a country called the USA used to visit a town called Las Vegas for a pilgrimage. And although the nation was deemed to be free they were at risk of road accidents along the way so it was not really as free and safe as it

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
I don't think that this was something specific to this part of the world. Er, yes. I didn't say it was. But so what if it wasn't? The fact remains that pilgrimages could not be depended upon to be free, either in the monetary sense or in terms of security and easy passage. I don't think the

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-13 19:00:34 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** Whether a given ruler treated them well seems to have been a toss up, and often did depend on the religion of both parties (e.g. Shaivite kings might not give two hoots about Vaishnavite pilgrims, etc.). *** It has relevance to the

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-13 22:13:23 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also said that this was because the pilgrims did not believe the same God the ruler did, which is what we are discussing here. I said it was a toss up, and that religion was one of the factors that might influence the protection

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-14 06:54:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outsiders typically had no wish (at least none that have been recorded to my knowledge) to visit Badrinath or Kashi. I think it was in no way unusual for Buddhist pilgrims to visit places held sacred by Hindus. You could quibble and say

Re: [silk] A query....

2007-07-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-06 09:38:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why is Gmail so much better on the spam scenario? On a related note, here's a paper titled Sender Reputation in a Large Webmail Service by someone at Google. http://www.ceas.cc/2006/19.pdf My opinion is that Yahoo engineers have the

Re: [silk] Audiophile advice

2007-06-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
I need some anti-audiophile advice. I subscribed to Outlook and got a free Worldspace receiver and a 6-month subscription. The receiver (which arrived today, after much delay) is a little box with RCA outputs. The only Worldspace receiver I've seen had a little built-in speaker, and that's what I

Re: [silk] Evil Attack Squirrel Of Death, redux

2007-06-18 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-06-18 15:38:27 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man's garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh, ^^ Superpredators, anyone? -- ams

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-06-01 11:03:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, though. The English in which almost all the 'me too' replies are written on that board is terrible. I'm surprised that this surprises you, really. There are quite a few Indians who write pretty good English. My vague

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-06-02 11:32:47 +0430, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two really interesting, intriguing pieces of software..could I hear more about them (or at least, ams's code) please? http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php is a web site where you can paste text, and it guesses the gender of the author by

Re: [silk] The Ignorance of Crowds

2007-06-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-06-02 20:15:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews053107?pg=0 Somebody send the guy some clue. He could use some. I think I'm going to puke if I read another long rambling speculation based on/around The Cathedral and The Bazaar.

Re: [silk] Fwd: Did you happen to catch the UFO?

2007-06-01 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-06-01 07:08:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These UFOs must, apparently, somehow affect our language centers. Almost every one of these eyewitness reports is written in crappy English. Then it's true, they must have started acting on ancient India, because this is pretty much how

Re: [silk] Bug Request

2007-05-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-05-23 15:29:31 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I ask is because I'm trying to identify this bug: How very interesting. Was it alive? -- ams

Re: [silk] Bug Request

2007-05-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-05-23 17:18:49 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. Dead. Dead-er. Dead-est. Are you sure it's an insect? -- ams

Re: [silk] Bug Request

2007-05-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-05-23 17:46:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty sure of that. Even though it didn't have any visible antennae, legs or wings. Got any pictures of its (doubtless seedy) underbelly? -- ams

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-05-19 18:21:56 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading Nussbaum's book, one gets the impression that most Hindus in India are fanatical. Frankly, it's sometimes hard to escape that impression -- even though I know it's not true -- without ever having heard of Nussbaum's book. The vocal

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-05-16 08:58:21 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite the anger of Jain and his compatriots, there was no major violence I love this sentence. -- ams

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-05-16 21:23:08 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if I painted a picture of a woman with a baby emerging from her vagina and labelled it Arundhati Roy would it perhaps have been taken in better spirit that labelling it Durga mata? I hope you realise that it's

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-05-17 00:44:34 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would just very briefly want to point out :-) Otherwise, at the end of the day, a musical composition is just a lot of notes and my dear Dylan Thomas is just a series of words stringed together. Isn't that

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-04-25 16:26:37 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to repeat an often repeated anecdote: when the Lumiere brothers showed their film of a train pulling into a platform I wonder if the Lumière shorts are available somewhere (online?). I've looked for them, but not found anything. Any ideas?

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-04-25 19:53:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything that's not up on youtube? Wow. I didn't even *think* of looking on Youtube. Thank you! -- ams

Re: [silk] laptop repair in bangalore / chennai

2007-04-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-04-03 22:56:04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Human Computer Interaction candidate Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ -- ams

Re: [silk] indian budget airlines

2007-04-01 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-04-02 06:09:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still get mail from makemytrip for one booking I made 6 months ago. Oh great. They haven't yet finished processing one booking for me, and I already hate them. Their web site is dismal. Their feedback form doesn't work. Their people are

Re: [silk] One hand clapping (was: contracts vs. copyright)

2007-03-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-03-02 16:01:37 +0430, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I generally tend to run foul of the name-for-it Nazi when I post the name of a bird (as it might be, the red-billed blue magpie) and get strident corrections (NO! it is the ORANGE-billed blue magpie). There's a little bird that everyone

[silk] map of science

2007-03-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
http://didi.com/brad/mapOfScience/ -- ams

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-23 16:26:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some forms of interaction are probably not derivative, others (such as static linking) certainly are BTW, I don't see why static linking certainly makes a derivative work. Surely that must be, again, a question of fact, to be decided based

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-24 19:05:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because in static linking, the binary code is directly included in the executable unlike in dynamic linking in which there are references and the code is used at runtime. Thanks, I know what static linking is. As I understand it,

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-24 19:44:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, however, directly including the binary code into the executable doesn't necessarily constitute a derived work under copyright law. BTW: Remember LZEXE? -- ams

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-24 16:15:34 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it is rather likely that a court would rule that the work is derivative. Has that specific question ever been tested in court? your printpi program is clearly derivative of printf Because it significantly transforms, adapts, or

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-24 16:28:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since it places no restrictions on derived works, there's no problem with distributing programs compressed with LZEXE (which therefore include LZEXE components in themselves) under any licence you please. Oh, that wasn't my point at all.

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-24 16:46:39 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm pretty sure a court would rule that dynamic linking, or static linking, is a greater indicator of derivation than pure aggregation. If you really meant (and I think you did) I'm pretty sure a court would consider dynamic or static

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-24 16:27:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, have you read Lexmark vs. Static Control? the copyright-infringement part of that suit related to a really tiny program that had to operate in constrained circumstances (i believe 50 bytes long or so). Yes, a program on the toner

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-22 18:59:32 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need new protocols, just less distance between nodes. How do you propose that this situation comes about? Just wait for the Big Crunch. -- ams

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-22 13:14:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is obvious that the changes you made to the GPL-ed POP3 Er, just a moment. For the record: *I* didn't modify any GPLed POP3 server (or whatever). I constructed a simplified scenario (loosely based both on discussions elsewhere and a

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-22 15:57:37 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as copyright is concerned, you're right -- its most likely _Not_ a derivative work, but would still likely infringe the GPL'ed code. How could it? I mean, if it isn't a derived work, by what mechanism could it possibly infringe on

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-22 21:44:06 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is not really a question of law, it's a question of fact depending on the circumstances of each case. Great, thanks. The modified POP3 server will however, almost certainly be a derivative work of the original POP3 server OK. As I

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-23 08:55:15 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I constructed a simplified scenario (loosely based both on discussions elsewhere In particular, on the linux-kernel list, where there's an ongoing thread about EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and non-GPLed device drivers, and so on. -- ams

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-21 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-22 17:00:59 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the company's obligations under the GPL? To open-source their modifications. [...] But one popular perception is that the product (i.e. their program plus the GPLed server) is a work derived from the both their

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-21 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-22 12:49:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't they write their own anyway ? Unless it is not POP3 at all and POP3 is a placeholder (Yes, it's a placeholder for an entirely non-trivial program.) -- ams

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-02-18 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-01 09:34:29 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yes, when I see eight year girls vomiting their dinner out because they don't want to get fat - it makes me want to weep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisel_Ramos Summary: 22-year-old Uruguayan model dies of a heart attack caused by

Re: [silk] Anecdotal precipitation shifts from the Gulf

2007-02-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-15 13:12:25 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I presume that's a general question, not just targeted to ams. Even if it was, ams was going to mention the unexpectedly heavy rainfall in Delhi (and elsewhere in North India, I read) in the recent weeks. A coupe of years ago, it snowed

Re: [silk] WSF time again

2007-02-14 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-11-24 12:39:55 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not recall Ms. Roy doing anything that might be construed as either, hijacking the event, or being a publicity hog. For that matter, I don't understand what specious, toxic rhetoric she's supposed to specialise in, or why it's

Re: [silk] WSF time again

2007-02-14 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-14 22:38:34 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She isn't evil, just annoying. I just find it interesting that she annoys people like you and Suresh so much that you tend to compare her unfavourably with amoebae, or dismiss her as a publicity-seeking spewer of toxic rhetoric; but not

Re: [silk] WSF time again

2007-02-14 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-15 09:07:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://toroid.org/misc/shiny-little-bird.jpeg Vewy pwetty. What is it? It's an adult male Purple Sunbird, feeding in the Tacoma bush (tree?) just outside my study window. -- ams

Re: [silk] getting bilked

2007-02-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-09 07:45:35 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel Sounds like a quaint little English village. -- ams

Re: [silk] Hydrogen energy hoax?

2007-02-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-09 14:24:54 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This claims that hydrogen energy is a hoax. No, it talks about Ants and neurons. -- ams

Re: [silk] Jimmy Wales in Madras

2007-02-07 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-07 11:17:36 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (not even Xanadu tackled much of that problem space). Then again, which problem space can Xanadu claim to have tackled? -- ams

Re: [silk] Youth and Violence

2007-02-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-05 17:31:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been busy and might have missed the news, but who exactly burned a trainload (or many trainloads) of people at any time? That's a good question, but since the investigation into what happened at Godhra was nicely botched, we're never

Re: [silk] Charles Haynes introduction

2007-02-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-02 16:03:12 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Green coloured paper cut in the shape of a banana leaf, with grooves. Plastic coated. Meant to replace a real banana leaf. They'll come in handy when the banana virus has eaten all the bananas in the whole world. -- ams

Re: [silk] Interesting new spam trick

2007-01-12 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-12 18:24:41 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maps.google.com/local_url?q=http://.0x2c.0x10.0x27/ [...] * using hex numerals for the IP address. Hadn't seen that before. That's because it's quite invalid, and I'd expect it to not work in most cases. I guess it's targeting some

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-10 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-10 12:51:21 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless we are able to find another alternative Wait, I know! Hypnosis! -- ams

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-10 06:56:19 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lactose intolerance to varying degrees is rampant in India - certainly in Bangalore - where i work, but it tends to vary greatly in severity and is rarely crippling. I've sometimes wondered if my Bengali genes protect me from the lactose

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-10 10:59:38 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, in narco tests, you pump the body with sedatives/barbituates/ truth serums, so the suspect cannot lie. Hooray for not-quite-modern forensic not-quite-science. -- ams

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-10 11:52:52 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hooray for not-quite-modern forensic not-quite-science. Can you suggest some alternatives? I suggest not wasting (my!) money on voodoo forensic mumbo jumbo. I suspect India is a few years away from CSI style forensics. I read that

Re: [silk] What is all this ??

2007-01-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-04 12:57:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bayesian spam filter poison. The payload is in the image. Interestingly, I get a fair amount of this sort of spam where there is *no* attached image, no embedded URLs, etc. I wonder about that. -- ams

Re: [silk] Save the hippos

2007-01-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-03 07:28:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They should shoot the hippos. I hear hippos are tasty. -- ams

Re: [silk] Save the hippos

2007-01-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-04 06:39:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly where would one have to shoot a Hippo to kill it dead? I don't know, but: I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones, His hide is sure to flatten 'em. --

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