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First of all, I don't think innovation will go to "zero", that's just ridiculous. Innovation will go down, and that may not be a bad thing, here's why:

The software world is jam-packed with features no one really needs and a ton of it doesn't work properly or securely.

The whole reason for that is that companies create 'features' that they can tout over their competition, even if it they're not properly implemented, or needed. So we end up with tons and tons of pointless code.

There is innovation in the OSS world; one example (off the top of my head) would be Gnutella. Gnutella wasn't that great, but everyone was able to alter it, and fix it, and make it suck less. That doesn't happen in the closed source world. OSS innovation is just less frequent and more esoteric. Less "customer focused" and more "what's interesting" focused.

The sensible thing to do, for humanity as a whole, is to focus our energy on making things perfect before we go on to the next whatever.

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If the two teams have no contact except through the specifications documents, and neither team is contaminated by knowledge of the original engineering, then the new product is considered just that: a new product and not an illegal copy. It's possible, therefore, to recast SCO's basic claim as saying that IBM was contractually obligated to ensure that this type of "chinese wall" existed between those of its people who had some contact with the protected Unix knowledge or code and those of its people who contributed to the Linux development effort in the run-up to the 2.4 kernel release, but failed to do it. What a stupid argument. You don't need to do a "Chinese Wall" to be legal, you do it in order to prove that what you did was legal. The IBM ROM-BIOS was likely going to have a lot of code in common with the Phoenix bios that Compaq purchased. In other words, if the data is physically identically, then you're going to need some pretty strong proof that what you did didn't involve copying. On the other hand, Linux and SCO didn't contain any identical duplicate code. There were some pieces that were similar, IIRC, but those were lists of variables out of a book and had to do with meeting standards. And secondly, the "Chinese Wall" is all about preventing copyright infringement. This was a contract dispute, not a copyright case, because Linux wasn't a copy of SCO. offensive tshirts

Douglass Adams wrote the script to the movie. He had moved to america, though. Is that what you meant?

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I can't believe I've seen this review linked on like every website I've been to today (well, not everyone, but fark, metafilter, and now slashdot).

The review is idiotc. He's basicaly complaning that everything in the book isn't also in the move, and that the movie isn't exactly the same as the book. Well, what the hell did he expect?

He claims that the script is horrible, and a travisty compared to what Adams would write, yet Adams wrote the screenplay himself before he died!

What a stupid review, and it's not done by a professional film reviewer, but a fanboy dissapointed that it's not letter-perfict with the book. Well, who would want to see a movie that was exactly the same as something they'd already read. I would have enjoyed Sin City a lot less if I'd read the stories word-for-word already.

Oh well, whatever.

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MONEY

Or people with money you can convice will make more off your idea

Or a bussness plan that dosn't cost much to start, for example a friend of mine started the site sinfulshirts with just the money for a t-shirt press, and hours and hours of coding.

In this case, this tool lets you spy on other people using the same machine, rather then fuck up your computer and send data back to the master computer.

And anyway, this is nothing like the drill. It's more like a drill that explodes when you try to use it. Clearly, you should have realized that it would explode, right? Wrong. Even if it's 'obvious' that such a drill would explode at a certan RPM, the maker is still responsible to make sure that their products won't explode.

Anyway, this is software. Pretty much all software contains errors, they'll fix it. There's a huge diffrence between this (some software with privacy exploit) and what we normaly call "spyware".

bla bla, click here, etc

Microsoft knew how people used they should have planed a better, more secure system. Microsoft blasé approach to system, for years (since when I was in high school, I just got my CS degree!) is directly responsible for the shit we are in today.

Yes, things are getting better, but they are not nearly where they need to be.

Microsoft needed to build a system that would protect the user from hurting themselves with the help of the criminals who write this Spyware crap (the fact that something may not be illegal does not make it not a crime (and vise versa)).

You know it honestly shocks me how bad the Spyware problem is now. Spam never shocked me this way, probably because I grew up with it. But the idea that, probably 90% of the people out there running windows have malicious software running on, and fucking up their machines is just amazing. And no one seems to care!!. The only people I know who don't have infected machines are hard-core computer nerds.

Hell, I remember a year or two ago the CEO of red hat said that if people wanted a desktop machine, they should just use windows, and this was when Spyware was just starting to pick up! What a horrible suggestion!.

Sorry to rant, but the whole situation irritates the hell out of me. I think the newer versions of windows are pretty nice, as long as you never run an EXE from an untrustworthy source... and make sure your system is patched up.

And I did, in fact, get infected by Spyware once, I didn't run a program at all, I simply visited a page and crap installed on my system. I had to clear it out by looking at newly created files on my system, if the Spyware makers had thought to change the file-creation date I'd probably had been hosed.

The situation bites ass.

sinfulshirts.com t-shirts that make baby ash croft cry.

There's no way that Sony of all people would release a device that ignores macro vision, or even the broadcast flag.

That said, If it connects to a VCR, then it probably uses RCA/RF/SVIDEO inputs, which you could clearly use to record from any source .

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Nice try, but I saw it on a t-shirt sold by sinful shirts. Oops, it's not there anymore...oh well.

As for Little Green Foozballs...no I don't visit white supremacist sites, thankyouverymuch.

And BTW it's more like Bush '00, draft RIGHT NOW

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Haven't you ever heard of comparative advantage? If someone is willing to do these little utilities for free, then people who want to get paid should do something else to make money. A friend of mine graduated with a CS degree and started a tshirt site, getting tens of thousands of dollars worth of web design for free (by doing it himself).

Anyway, that 1-3 person shareware shop wasn't really the main source of employment in the IT field, it was corps that had lots of data-processing needs. Now those jobs are being outsourced. Along with a shrinking economy (only 32k new jobs this month. Bush claimed we'd be getting 300k on average until the election, but I guess those got lost along with the WMD) are causing this bout of lowered employment.