I know! I know! Have this article reposted as a Wiki entry on computer screws. That way the Wikipedia's servers could handle the excess bandwidth. Oh, wait, nevermind.
In all serriousness, it might not be a bad thing to have on a wikipedia page, just make sure you DON'T TELL SLASHDOT!
Yes, I'm going to spend time and money to publish a study that directly undermines my clients' faith in my product. I realize that this is neither leagaly required, nor generaly accepted buisness practice. However, in order to ? I will sabotage my own company and loose myself at least a job and possibly be sued by shareholders.
Uh-huh, yeah, right, I can see someone with an IQ over 80 doing just that. In Oz.
Come on man, nobody who lives in the real world (this one, not the ideal one we wish we were living in) can fault a company for only publishing the studies that help their cause.
Umm, He means don't apply for more than four jobs from the same company. Otherwise how the heck would he know that you were looking desperate? Do you think he calls up all his competitors and buisness partners and asks, "Hey this is Joel, has J. Random Hacker sent you a resume?" He MIGHT call one or two, but that is doubtfull unless there was a reason, and frankly I can't think of one, unless the applicant is really what a buisness partner was looking for, but would not be suitable for Joel's needs.
I'm still trying to figure out what the H stands for.
Although I am far from the first person to make the IP != property argument, and this is far from the first time I've made it, this IS the first time I've seen a good counterpoint. (I'm not saying none have been made, just that I hadn't seen them.) I have made a note in my.todo file (yes this is a literal file on my computer) to read up on the case you mentioned, although with school and work, I really don't have time to do much reading anytime soon. (alas)
I will, however, continue to correct people who refer to copywritten or patented ideas as property. I don't do this to be annoying, to show off my "superior knowledge" or because I can't think of anything else to say (although the last case is sometimes also the case). I do this because the less attention details like this get, the easier it is for the misinformation to become the de facto truth, and legal often follows de facto. This is the same reason we must constantly defend our constitutional rights, whatever they may be, lest they leave the realm of public discourse and thus become more prone to tampering by legislatitive or judicial powers. It is our job to remind ourselves of the Truth. The ministry of information (Orwellian) does not need to take action to change history, we simply need to fail to take action.
Sorry, you're mistaken. Under US law, creators of art and technology do not own their work. They are granted, through authority of the US government a temporary monopoly on the work they produced as an incentive to continue making similiar works. Nowhere in US law is are copyright or patent rights refered to as property. IANAL, but I do know what I'm talking about, or at least so far as the inception of copyright/patent laws go. If I'm wrong, its a recent change in the law and might not even pass constitutional muster.
So I'm sorry, you can't use property rights to fight this, you CAN however use copyright law and patent law.
The day we all accept that IP is, indeed "Property" is the day we have lost to the corperations.
I agree. However, the best way to make sure these draconian measures are never put in place, is to make sure there is no push for them in the first place. The most effective way to do this would be for everyone to cease illegal distribution of copyrighted materials.
Ask yourself sometimes, does downloading your MP3 for free justify giving ammunition to the constitution-destroying Big Brother wannabes that write our laws.
NO! I don't think they should abridge our rights because of illegal uses of those rights. But I realize they probably will, or at least try to, and frankly, I think the pay-per-download systems are fairly priced. If I want to listen on my Linux Box, I burn the songs to CD-audio (I might or might not later rip the CD to mp3). If everyone does this with copyrighted material (or at least the big names the record companies actualy care about) there will be no "ligitimate" reason to censor P2P and it will be easier to fight their attempts to do so.
Um, they could keep adding on non-GPL stuff to their distro (fully legal under GPL) so long as they didn't edit the kernel, or other GPL'd stuff and remove the GPL from it. They could even put a non-free GUI to replace X and they would have the stability we've all been working on(kernel-level), in a product that we couldn't get the rewards from because only things written for their non-free GUI would run (or command line apps, presumably). Yes, you could still get their software to run X, but you couldn't make a system for your box to run their software nearly as easily. Heck, Microsoft could churn out their next windows system based on a Linux kernel and it would make almost no difference.
The first time I attempted sucide I was in the fourth grade. My well-meaning teachers were constantly telling me things like "You can do it if you put your mind to it." "If you were more motivated you could complete your work." "You just have to want it more." But I wanted to be able to complete a simple assignment more than anything. I wanted to be able to pass. I knew the course material, but couldn't show it. I was answering all the questions in class (except the ones I didn't notice being asked). I could correct the teacher (and sometimes did without thinking) in almost any subject(except spelling where I am still terrible). But I was failing the fourth grade. I cannot recall what exactly led me to my attempt. I had had an unusual bad day at school I'm sure, but what exactly happened I have forgotten. I do remember the feelings of worthlessness despair and futility. I went to the medicine chest and took several pills from every bottle (and we had many bottles) swallowed them all and went to sleep. I hoped never to wake up. To my double disappointment not only did I wake up, but I awoke sick as a dog, vomiting worse than I could remember ever having done before. It wasn't fun. I wasn't a happy little camper. My parents still don't know about this, so far as they knew I just had an upset stomouch.
My sixth grade year I finaly made it to a psychologist who immediataly diagnosed me as having ADD and depression. I was put on ritilin and prozac. The prozac numbed my emotions down to the point I could have pased as a vulcan. The ritilan allowed me, for the first time in my life, to concentrate on the things I wanted to be able to concentrate on. It allowed me to pass sixth and seventh grade with flying colours. I skipped eighth grade, moving on to high school right after seventh grade. The second semester of my freshman year at high school my science teacher said at an M-Team (gifted program individualized education program meeting) that I knew enough that I could teach the class as well as he could. So halfway through the year I was enrolled in a single class at MTSU. Four years after almost failing fourth grade, I was taking college classes, and I could thank ritilan and prozac.
It was a mixed blessing, however, the ritilan caused motor tics, and extreme dry mouth. When I came home I would be "comming down" off the stimulant and would be cranky, irritable and would feel physicaly awfull. It was worth it to graduate high school, but once I did I tried to go off my meds. I couldn't stand them anymore, and I had proved to myself I wasn't worthless. The 3.8 college GPA I had accumulated while in high school fell almost instantly. I ended up on academic probation with a 1.89 GPA before I decided to go back onto the meds.
To my surprise, the meds had gotten much more sophisticated since high school. In addition to basic stimulants there were the time-release stimulants, and there was a new drug stratera. (Spelling?) which I am now on. It is NOT a stimulant and works almost as well as ritilin, with NO SIDE EFFECTS. It is not habit forming and seems to be safe. I am no longer an honors student but I am taking difficult classes (Japaneese, uper division psych and phil) classes and passing. That is enough for me.
Is ADD a disease? The question is semantic. ADD is a collection of traits, including reduced activity in certain parts of the brain that will show up on some scans now, inability to focus, and other smaller side-chararicteristics that tend to go together. The negitive social and behaveriol traits thus associated can be reduced by taking certain medication. That is plain and simple truth, if you don't want to call it a disease, don't. But don't jeprodise your daughter's mental health, and even her life because somebody thinks their definition of disease is better than that of the APA.
So far as neurofeedback goes, so far as any research I've read goes, its effects are primarly placebo. One friend of mine was doing it for a while and showed no effects whatsoever.
LittleBrother
PS Disclaimer, above narritive is simplified, but it's long enough already without being nit-picky.
As I type this the parent is modded 0, Flamebait(might be 1 Flamebait before my short post -1 filter). I truly don't see what the problem with this. Anyone know what's up?
Why not? Because they were part of an organization that did wrong? Look a little deeper, man. If they had no role whatsoever in the "evil" acts, what's the problem? I would only discriminate against ex-SCO employees if they had some involvement in the leagaleeze or the production of illegal software (GPL ripped w/o keeping GPL). Their janitors: I'd hire, receptionists: I'd hire, programmers who were working on clean projects, I'd hare: Ex-Nazi who didn't commit any war-crimes or cover anything up or otherwise commit the atrocities of the regeme: I'd hire.
If we hold members of a larger entity responsible for the crimes of its head, we are all guilty of war crimes (US citizens that is) for there are several (not on the level of genocide, but legaly war-crimes nonetheless) committed by the USA during the Iraq "war". Should people who were against the invasion be held to account (if they didn't leave the country, as they COULD have done) the same as the people who committed the crimes? Oh, and if you deny the US's involvement in any war crimes, consider this a hypothetical situation.
Nothing is 100% safe. But I'd use paypal before I'd give my credit card information on a web-order form for a small company (I'm sure IBM Sears etc. have good systems in place). I'd definantly use paypal before giving out my credit card information over the phone. So basicly, unless you're extra paranoid, paypal is safe.
Only uncool nerds like JPop and Video Games. (Video games coolness is changing VERY rapidly though.) It is, however, very cool to like Anime, it just isn't cool to know what the word Anime means. Especialy among the younger generation (highschool and younger) the Animes that hit Cartoon Network are extremly cool shows.
Slashdot Mirror
In all serriousness, it might not be a bad thing to have on a wikipedia page, just make sure you DON'T TELL SLASHDOT!
Ya know, if you write up an account of your experiences and post it to a website, the website will probably make it to the front page of slashdot...
Yes, it is a real legal brief. Fucking wonderfull isn't it?
But the site sure seems screwed. I guess I'll look at it at 3:00am or so, unless they pulled it completly.
Uh-huh, yeah, right, I can see someone with an IQ over 80 doing just that. In Oz.
Come on man, nobody who lives in the real world (this one, not the ideal one we wish we were living in) can fault a company for only publishing the studies that help their cause.
What's more, he'll probably end up knighted by the Queen of England.
Umm, He means don't apply for more than four jobs from the same company. Otherwise how the heck would he know that you were looking desperate? Do you think he calls up all his competitors and buisness partners and asks, "Hey this is Joel, has J. Random Hacker sent you a resume?" He MIGHT call one or two, but that is doubtfull unless there was a reason, and frankly I can't think of one, unless the applicant is really what a buisness partner was looking for, but would not be suitable for Joel's needs.
Although I am far from the first person to make the IP != property argument, and this is far from the first time I've made it, this IS the first time I've seen a good counterpoint. (I'm not saying none have been made, just that I hadn't seen them.) I have made a note in my .todo file (yes this is a literal file on my computer) to read up on the case you mentioned, although with school and work, I really don't have time to do much reading anytime soon. (alas)
I will, however, continue to correct people who refer to copywritten or patented ideas as property. I don't do this to be annoying, to show off my "superior knowledge" or because I can't think of anything else to say (although the last case is sometimes also the case). I do this because the less attention details like this get, the easier it is for the misinformation to become the de facto truth, and legal often follows de facto. This is the same reason we must constantly defend our constitutional rights, whatever they may be, lest they leave the realm of public discourse and thus become more prone to tampering by legislatitive or judicial powers. It is our job to remind ourselves of the Truth. The ministry of information (Orwellian) does not need to take action to change history, we simply need to fail to take action.
Have I been rambling enough? Good.
So I'm sorry, you can't use property rights to fight this, you CAN however use copyright law and patent law.
The day we all accept that IP is, indeed "Property" is the day we have lost to the corperations.
Ask yourself sometimes, does downloading your MP3 for free justify giving ammunition to the constitution-destroying Big Brother wannabes that write our laws.
NO! I don't think they should abridge our rights because of illegal uses of those rights. But I realize they probably will, or at least try to, and frankly, I think the pay-per-download systems are fairly priced. If I want to listen on my Linux Box, I burn the songs to CD-audio (I might or might not later rip the CD to mp3). If everyone does this with copyrighted material (or at least the big names the record companies actualy care about) there will be no "ligitimate" reason to censor P2P and it will be easier to fight their attempts to do so.
Just a little food for thought,
Um, they could keep adding on non-GPL stuff to their distro (fully legal under GPL) so long as they didn't edit the kernel, or other GPL'd stuff and remove the GPL from it. They could even put a non-free GUI to replace X and they would have the stability we've all been working on(kernel-level), in a product that we couldn't get the rewards from because only things written for their non-free GUI would run (or command line apps, presumably). Yes, you could still get their software to run X, but you couldn't make a system for your box to run their software nearly as easily. Heck, Microsoft could churn out their next windows system based on a Linux kernel and it would make almost no difference.
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to name a few.
My sixth grade year I finaly made it to a psychologist who immediataly diagnosed me as having ADD and depression. I was put on ritilin and prozac. The prozac numbed my emotions down to the point I could have pased as a vulcan. The ritilan allowed me, for the first time in my life, to concentrate on the things I wanted to be able to concentrate on. It allowed me to pass sixth and seventh grade with flying colours. I skipped eighth grade, moving on to high school right after seventh grade. The second semester of my freshman year at high school my science teacher said at an M-Team (gifted program individualized education program meeting) that I knew enough that I could teach the class as well as he could. So halfway through the year I was enrolled in a single class at MTSU. Four years after almost failing fourth grade, I was taking college classes, and I could thank ritilan and prozac.
It was a mixed blessing, however, the ritilan caused motor tics, and extreme dry mouth. When I came home I would be "comming down" off the stimulant and would be cranky, irritable and would feel physicaly awfull. It was worth it to graduate high school, but once I did I tried to go off my meds. I couldn't stand them anymore, and I had proved to myself I wasn't worthless. The 3.8 college GPA I had accumulated while in high school fell almost instantly. I ended up on academic probation with a 1.89 GPA before I decided to go back onto the meds.
To my surprise, the meds had gotten much more sophisticated since high school. In addition to basic stimulants there were the time-release stimulants, and there was a new drug stratera. (Spelling?) which I am now on. It is NOT a stimulant and works almost as well as ritilin, with NO SIDE EFFECTS. It is not habit forming and seems to be safe. I am no longer an honors student but I am taking difficult classes (Japaneese, uper division psych and phil) classes and passing. That is enough for me.
Is ADD a disease? The question is semantic. ADD is a collection of traits, including reduced activity in certain parts of the brain that will show up on some scans now, inability to focus, and other smaller side-chararicteristics that tend to go together. The negitive social and behaveriol traits thus associated can be reduced by taking certain medication. That is plain and simple truth, if you don't want to call it a disease, don't. But don't jeprodise your daughter's mental health, and even her life because somebody thinks their definition of disease is better than that of the APA.
So far as neurofeedback goes, so far as any research I've read goes, its effects are primarly placebo. One friend of mine was doing it for a while and showed no effects whatsoever.
LittleBrother
PS Disclaimer, above narritive is simplified, but it's long enough already without being nit-picky.
I thought /. was a DDOS attack.
The final blow will be when we dig Bill Gates out of a rat hole and allow him to be tried by the very people he has oppressed.
I remember when it Wasn't, at all.
Anyone know why I care?
I'm not saying I don't beleive you, but do you have documentation for this, or are you just pulling numbers out of your ass?
If we hold members of a larger entity responsible for the crimes of its head, we are all guilty of war crimes (US citizens that is) for there are several (not on the level of genocide, but legaly war-crimes nonetheless) committed by the USA during the Iraq "war". Should people who were against the invasion be held to account (if they didn't leave the country, as they COULD have done) the same as the people who committed the crimes? Oh, and if you deny the US's involvement in any war crimes, consider this a hypothetical situation.
Um would this really be a bad thing? Or is that a bit to cynical?
Nothing is 100% safe. But I'd use paypal before I'd give my credit card information on a web-order form for a small company (I'm sure IBM Sears etc. have good systems in place). I'd definantly use paypal before giving out my credit card information over the phone. So basicly, unless you're extra paranoid, paypal is safe.
Only uncool nerds like JPop and Video Games. (Video games coolness is changing VERY rapidly though.) It is, however, very cool to like Anime, it just isn't cool to know what the word Anime means. Especialy among the younger generation (highschool and younger) the Animes that hit Cartoon Network are extremly cool shows.
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