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secretary | 13 Mar 2012 07:50

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 March 2012 NYLUG Workshop and Hacking Society

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 To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce <at> nylug.org>
 Date: Fri,  9 Mar 2012 09:25:02 -0500 (EST)
 Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Workshop / Hacking Society (Smalltalk, C++, Python) Tuesday March 13 6:00PM-8:00PM
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 This is a reminder for the event detailed below.

 WORKSHOP / HACKFEST
 Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
 Time: 6:00pm
 Duration: 2 hours
 Location: NY Public Library Hudson Park Branch, 66 Leroy St., NY NY 10014

 Topics:
   Our coordinators will be showing off basic hardware hacks and electronics
 projects, and there will be lessons in Python by David Bristow.

   Bring something to discuss! There's a blackboard, chalk, and Internet
   access.  Notebook computers are helpful but not required. Bring books!
   Bring hardware! Bring software! Bring friends! Bring tales and stories!
   All levels of experience from totally new to experienced welcome!

   After workshops, the coordinators go out for dinner at Out of the
   Kitchen, located at 420 Hudson Street, just down the block from the
   library. Feel free to join us for some lively dinner conversations!
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secretary | 26 Mar 2012 08:08

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 27 March 2012 Richard Stallman will speak on A Free Digital Society

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 Subject: For a Free Digital Society -- Free Software Foundation -- working together for free software
 X-URL: http://www.fsf.org/events/20120327-newyork

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 For a Free Digital Society

    by Jeanne Rasata Contributions -- Published on Feb 20, 2012 12:47 PM

    Richard Stallman will speak, starting at 1:30 pm,
    on Tuesday 27 March 2012 in
    room 630 of Haaren Hall, at
    John Jay College, which is at
    899 Tenth Avenue between 58th and 59th Street,
    on the Island of the Manahattoes.

    This is a speech by FSF president and founder, Richard M. Stallman.

    See a list of all upcoming talks by Richard M. Stallman or help promote
    the event by downloading posters for Stallman events
    When Mar 27, 2012
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secretary | 12 Mar 2012 10:22

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 March 2012 Lisp NYC: Jay Sulzberger on John Bell's Two Theorems and the Second Half of George Boole's Laws of Thought

Lisp NYC will meet at 7:00 pm on Tuesday 13 March 2012 at Google
NYC, in the Port of Authority Weapons Building on the Island of
the Manahattoes, which building, for this meeting only, may be
entered at 76 Ninth Avenue, between 15th and 16th Street.

Please RSVP by going to

  http://www.lispnyc.org

Suppose we have a classical circuit of classical probabilistic
gates, with underlying graph like so:

  http://www.panix.com/~jays/EPR-Diagram1.png

We wish to know the possible input output behaviors of such a
circuit.  We will answer this question by using:

1. John S. Bell's First Theorem, which is less well known than
   his Second Theorem

2. George Boole's General Method in Probabilities

3. Results on acyclic database schemata by
   David Maier and others

ad 1: John Bell's Two Theorems are presented in the book "Speakable and
      Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics", in the chapter "On the
      Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox".  The First Theorem is implicit
      in the discussion on page 15 of the book.  A few pages later, the
      Second Theorem is explicitly laid out.  Here is a BibTeX entry
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Alexander Terekhov | 2 Mar 2012 21:28
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Re: [upcoming] The European Court of Justice on 'Software' First Sale

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3262942/european-court-of-justice-to-rule-on-software-licence-trading/

European Court of Justice to rule on software licence trading

Judgment in Oracle vs usedSoft case to determine legality

By Jennifer Baker | IDG News Service | Published 15:17, 28 February 11

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been asked to decide whether the
trading of "used" software licences is legal.

The German Federal Court of Justice referred the question to the ECJ
following a legal battle between Oracle and usedSoft, a company that
buys and sells used software. Oracle launched the case after usedSoft
offered "pre-used" Oracle software licences online in October 2005.

Oracle says that its licence agreements with its customers contain
provisions to the effect that the software can't be used by a third
party.

However usedSoft argues that it acquired a notarized statement from the
original licensee that he was the lawful holder of the licences, that he
no longer used the licensed programs and that he had paid the purchase
price in full. usedSoft’s customers who acquired a "used" licence
downloaded the software from Oracle’s website.

The German Regional Court originally ruled in favour of Oracle, but
following usedSoft’s appeal, the federal court decided to refer the
matter to the ECJ. The European court will consider how directive
2009/24/EC on the legal protection of computer programs should be
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Alfred M. Szmidt | 28 Mar 2012 22:08
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Re: Hi!

   > Hi gnudists!
   > Just subscribed :D

   Hi to you, too!  I'm afraid there's not much going on here at the moment,
   but you're welcome nevertheless.

FYI, the news to mail gateway was down for some considerable time.
The admins just got it back up today; hence the unslaught of mail.
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