Good information isn't much better for hypercondria than bad. For a start, its very difficult for someone who isn't used to looking at the information format to be sure how to interpret it. I've dealt with people who are afraid they have $condition, because they show most of the symptoms, but simply neglect to look at the symptoms that don't fit, or aren't aware that 9 of the ten symptoms (which they have) don't mean a thing because the tenth is critical. Subjective ones, like major pain, or stiff neck (without qualifiers like unable to touch you chin to your chest), cause problems as well since its easy to get mild symptoms interpreted as worse than they really are in a panic (judgment is not terribly good when fatigue and fever are taking their toll).
The limit on compiling has always been the processor for me, which spends most of its time at 90% or higher (one core only, really wish they'd muti thread gcc) so I doubt the drive would help.
It's an ad about a $200+ phone, demonstrating how fast the phone is,
I see it more as an ad demonstrating the variety of things it can do. As much as I hate apple, the misleading part appears to be a side effect in this case.
The people who don't use rail for cross country shipments do so for a reason, the same reason people stopped using it for transport in a serious manner, its too damned unreliable. Not inherently so, but the companies can't get their act together, and shipping something over rail is a good way to get it there somewhere between tomorrow and next month, with no idea which until the package arrives.
How does Bilski not apply here? The sandwich making process they list in their claims is not tied to a particular device, but is implemented by human hands. I have not admittedly, read the whole decision, but the 'must be tied to a particular device' part seems pretty straightforward.
Firefox is quite literally netscape, you have to consider all of netscape 4 and lower's innovations as part of it.
KDE is a lot more than a window manager, as is gnome. Also consider the things they had first, such widgets.
If you don't see a difference in the features and way they work, compared to windows and OSX, I'd argue that you've never used them in a serious manner either. the sheer number of custom options ensures that even KDE doesn't act like KDE. Or perhaps innovation does not apply to things being better than one another? Does Word 2003 have no innovations above word 3.0?
WINE - you're right on that one
Battle for Wesnoth - Care to mention names? Unless you want to argue its like warcraft because it has orcs the game is unique in my experience.
Drivers: In the case of drivers where documentation is known, not terribly innovative no, in reverse engineered drivers, they have no idea what those ideas they're copying are supposed to be.
The parts I want blocked are theoretically inaccessible without a password. Phorm is only an issue because it allows them to spy on me and mine via a authorized user. Unless I understand how it works wrong.
You aren't exactly allowed to sell your work if you use educational/demo software under their EULAs, and things were a lot more expensive in the recent past (100 dollars for the educational version, a lot of money to a high school student).
The problem is that OSS doesn't innovate anything; they just re-implement other people's ideas.
The developers for Firefox, Python, bash, JBOSS, Apache, Perl, KDE (and qt in general), Gnome, WINE, Linux (the kernel, not the OS), gcc, emacs, kate, Battle for Wesnoth, Sun Microsystems, bittorrent, gnutella, the TCP/IP stack your windows box is using, SDL, speakup, ReiserFS, Second Life, Creative Labs, Intel, countless reverse engineered drivers and blender would all likely have something to say about that.
The complete lack of due process probably had something to do with it.
Depending on how technically inclined they are, the realization that things would swiftly move to encryption only (if only because nobody not using encryption would be left online), and that even with due process the courts would be relying on the assumption that all P2P is piracy may have played a part as well.
Technically you have to agree to the GPL in order to modify it (according to the GPL, I don't know if that's legally permissable in the EULA). Though since if you don't distribute it the GPL has no significant terms this is fairly pointless, except maybe as a stick to shake at a GPL violator if a case ever actually goes to court.
Not only did they go after her again, but they refused to go after the cop who lied in court about the forensic evidence, and the prosecutors who suppressed a state forensic report that concluded the popups were from spyware.
that 120 terabytes costs 12,000 dollars in hard drives
Where the hell do you live that you can buy a terabye of storage at a retail store? (unless maybe you're talking about backup tape?) I can't even get that online. Overall, your cost assessment isn't significantly off though, since I can't push it higher than half a million (including all the equipment to access the data, and redundant storage), even assuming the worst possible purchasing decisions (its the government after all).
Can a site admin request that nothing form a given site be looked at, or will I have to put up with the private forum I visit (not to mention every IRC network and MUD, which can't be opted out of at all) being spied on because a single person forgot to opt out?
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"Human history is about 300,000 generations."
erm.. thats 4-6 million years, depending on what you want to call a generation.
The above post and its ilk are why I browse with flamebait at +2, just so the mods are aware.
"Linux has pretty good 64-bit support. The last remaining broken piece was browser plugins -- Java has been ported, and Flash will be soon."
64 bit flash ten for Linux came out earlier this month, the long wait is over.
Good information isn't much better for hypercondria than bad. For a start, its very difficult for someone who isn't used to looking at the information format to be sure how to interpret it. I've dealt with people who are afraid they have $condition, because they show most of the symptoms, but simply neglect to look at the symptoms that don't fit, or aren't aware that 9 of the ten symptoms (which they have) don't mean a thing because the tenth is critical. Subjective ones, like major pain, or stiff neck (without qualifiers like unable to touch you chin to your chest), cause problems as well since its easy to get mild symptoms interpreted as worse than they really are in a panic (judgment is not terribly good when fatigue and fever are taking their toll).
Erm, never mind then
Since when are giant squid mythical? Haven't the bodies been washing up on shores pretty much forever?
Ugh, I knew it had copyright on it, but not how convoluted it is.
At any rate, it was either that or Mickey Mouse, and we all know that one will never expire.
The limit on compiling has always been the processor for me, which spends most of its time at 90% or higher (one core only, really wish they'd muti thread gcc) so I doubt the drive would help.
It's an ad about a $200+ phone, demonstrating how fast the phone is,
I see it more as an ad demonstrating the variety of things it can do. As much as I hate apple, the misleading part appears to be a side effect in this case.
The people who don't use rail for cross country shipments do so for a reason, the same reason people stopped using it for transport in a serious manner, its too damned unreliable. Not inherently so, but the companies can't get their act together, and shipping something over rail is a good way to get it there somewhere between tomorrow and next month, with no idea which until the package arrives.
So it would be allowable for a corporation to trademark peter pan and prevent works containing him long after the copyright expires?
"If you have 1 maniacal individual order a platoon of soldiers to slaughter a village, the individual human soldiers may refuse to follow the order."
Yes, that saved all the people at My Lai in fact.
Hrm, isn't transformation a different ruling than bilski?
The patent appears to be for filling an order, making the sandwich is part of that, not the whole thing.
I have no idea if that would prevent transformation from being invoked though.
How does Bilski not apply here? The sandwich making process they list in their claims is not tied to a particular device, but is implemented by human hands. I have not admittedly, read the whole decision, but the 'must be tied to a particular device' part seems pretty straightforward.
Firefox is quite literally netscape, you have to consider all of netscape 4 and lower's innovations as part of it.
KDE is a lot more than a window manager, as is gnome. Also consider the things they had first, such widgets.
If you don't see a difference in the features and way they work, compared to windows and OSX, I'd argue that you've never used them in a serious manner either. the sheer number of custom options ensures that even KDE doesn't act like KDE. Or perhaps innovation does not apply to things being better than one another? Does Word 2003 have no innovations above word 3.0?
WINE - you're right on that one
Battle for Wesnoth - Care to mention names? Unless you want to argue its like warcraft because it has orcs the game is unique in my experience.
Drivers: In the case of drivers where documentation is known, not terribly innovative no, in reverse engineered drivers, they have no idea what those ideas they're copying are supposed to be.
The parts I want blocked are theoretically inaccessible without a password. Phorm is only an issue because it allows them to spy on me and mine via a authorized user. Unless I understand how it works wrong.
Why would you need a license to drive a car you *stole*?
You aren't exactly allowed to sell your work if you use educational/demo software under their EULAs, and things were a lot more expensive in the recent past (100 dollars for the educational version, a lot of money to a high school student).
The problem is that OSS doesn't innovate anything; they just re-implement other people's ideas.
The developers for Firefox, Python, bash, JBOSS, Apache, Perl, KDE (and qt in general), Gnome, WINE, Linux (the kernel, not the OS), gcc, emacs, kate, Battle for Wesnoth, Sun Microsystems, bittorrent, gnutella, the TCP/IP stack your windows box is using, SDL, speakup, ReiserFS, Second Life, Creative Labs, Intel, countless reverse engineered drivers and blender would all likely have something to say about that.
The complete lack of due process probably had something to do with it.
Depending on how technically inclined they are, the realization that things would swiftly move to encryption only (if only because nobody not using encryption would be left online), and that even with due process the courts would be relying on the assumption that all P2P is piracy may have played a part as well.
No, i can buy them, I've just never seen them at a price bvelow 200 before now.
Technically you have to agree to the GPL in order to modify it (according to the GPL, I don't know if that's legally permissable in the EULA). Though since if you don't distribute it the GPL has no significant terms this is fairly pointless, except maybe as a stick to shake at a GPL violator if a case ever actually goes to court.
Not only did they go after her again, but they refused to go after the cop who lied in court about the forensic evidence, and the prosecutors who suppressed a state forensic report that concluded the popups were from spyware.
that 120 terabytes costs 12,000 dollars in hard drives
Where the hell do you live that you can buy a terabye of storage at a retail store? (unless maybe you're talking about backup tape?) I can't even get that online. Overall, your cost assessment isn't significantly off though, since I can't push it higher than half a million (including all the equipment to access the data, and redundant storage), even assuming the worst possible purchasing decisions (its the government after all).
Can a site admin request that nothing form a given site be looked at, or will I have to put up with the private forum I visit (not to mention every IRC network and MUD, which can't be opted out of at all) being spied on because a single person forgot to opt out?