I have to say that I'm getting tired of this discussion, but I still am very surprised that so few Slashdotters seem to be familiar with the ideas of Henry David Thoreau. In his essay Civil Disobedience he premiers a very strong idea, the idea that you can change the world if you stick to your ideas, and your ideals.
In order to get as many people with you as possible, you need to publicize it. That's why they named it The Pirate Bay. That's why they publicized the letters from the industries, along with the mocking responses. That's why they told people to pirate, to start their own trackers - to spread the idea of sharing knowledge, and the idea that copyright needs to be reformed.
You should aim to get sent to court, and you should get as much attention as possible when you're in court. If you get convicted, that's good, because that will make people more sympathetic with you.
And look what they accomplished. The Pirate Party in Sweden was founded January 1st, 2006. They got a mandate in the European Parliament June 7th, 2009. The Pirate Party's youth organization is the biggest political youth organization in Sweden.
Their foremost aim is not to keep The Pirate Bay running, or make money off it, or even staying out of jail. Their aim is to educate more and more people on the intellectual property system, the Internet, and what the Internet means to copyright.
Mahatma Gandhi was very inspired by Thoreau's writings, and he said:
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.
If you put this in the context of the whole warez scene, and the information wants to be free movement. Well, we're at the "then they fight you" step right now.
Extending the use of it is what it was designed to do in the fist place.
Yes. But this doesn't stop any _particular_ extension from being innovative and therefore patentable. As much as I disagree with software patents, I don't actually see an awful lot wrong with this one.
You disagree with software patents, but this one's a-ok? That doesn't sound right.
The format described in the patent has some interesting and non-obvious features, and a format would have to combine all of them to be infringing.
Or maybe, just maybe it's about control of the applications that manipulates said documents, rather than MS wanting to protect their amazingly genius document format?
The 'hints' element particularly is something I don't suspect other applications have used before.
Apparently, the patent examiner didn't think the hints element was anything new. She higlighted instead the bookmark element, the text element, the text run element and, perhaps the most surprising, the document properties element. The information about the reasons for approval is available at the Patent Application Information Retrieval System (unfortunately, it seems to be a hack system delivered by IBM, so YMMV).
Also unusual and unlikely to have been used in other applications are bookmarking sections using a start bookmark marker and an end bookmark marker that are not the same tag (i.e. <startbookmark/>text<endbookmark/>) [...]
Oh...! You mean kind of like <a name="chapter-1">text</a>? Yeah, that's definitely novel and non-obvious... To anyone who has never seen HTML.
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It's free with 2 GB of data and 30 days of undo, and they've got 50 GB for $9.99 per month, 100 GB for $19.95, both with unlimited undo (I think).
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I don't think what the parent was asking about was whether you think it's ok to detain people who has, or very certainly will, "kill thousands of [your] contrymen". Or at least that's only part of it.
The bigger issue is that your soldiers, and their allies (which are either mercenaries or Afghan war lords), have been running around arresting and torturing people, against whom there is zero evidence that they have done or even wished, as you put it, anything wrong.
And the Uighur Adel Abdulhehim, who might have been fleeing his occupied, far-away country or might have taken part in "military training" (which may have consisted of firing a couple rounds with an AK-47, and that's it). The point is, there's no evidence, he won't be convicted, and yet he was locked up and tortured by American soldiers in Guantanamo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Abdulhehim
It's hard not to find it absurd that American soldiers are traveling to the other side of the globe to arrest people who may or not may have done or "wished" anything, and take them back to yet another country, Cuba (because they don't want to do their dirty business on American soil) and arrest and torture them.
Trying to understand some concept of "universal" rights given nationalistic differences is difficult for me.
Yeah, you know what? Let's agree that it's a universal right not to be tortured, no matter what. We decided on that in 1949 because we didn't want to keep on with the same shit that had kept us in wars since the collapse of the Roman empire. I guess we'll just have to enjoy that brief period of dignity, since you are the largest military empire in the history and you seem to have a knack for electing war lords as leaders.
They do this without realizing the potential impact to national security or potential diplomatic damage that, while the leaker may think is justified and deserved, is more damaging to the U.S. (or other country subject to a wikileak) than the leaker realizes. They can't know the potential impact because they do not have access to the entire picture.
Correction: They don't have access to the entire picture yet. A problem, which WikiLeaks is there to solve.
As a Swede, I am very proud that Sweden once again leads the way and is the first country to take an important issue seriously - wait until the next election and see Pirate Parties from countries all over Europe!
He gives a few billion dollars each year to a foundation that he has control over. Essentially, he gives a few billion dollars each year to himself, and a few million out of that to very urgent causes.
No, his foundation is worth about $35 billion dollars. Of that, he gives at least 5% yearly. A few million each year? What interest do you have in spreading disinformation? Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to completely eradicate polio. No other charity in the world is giving so much to combat polio, malaria and HIV. And you scorn them for that? Loser.
Wow the Gates hate is really running rampant among the mods. My original comment (GP) is a troll now? Wow.
Some may argue the only reason he gives to charity is as a tax dodge, but if that's really true why does he do things like this? If it were a mere tax dodge, then there's no reason he'd need to waste his time.
To say that somebody who gives away a couple of billions of dollars each year to various very urgent causes, only does that to dodge tax, is deeply cynical and I can't see how any sane person would actually argue that.
It's great and all that he's so smart, but how will his experience translate into change in our nation's energy policy? We get most of our power from coal, oil, natural gas, and hydro, so how does his research have any bearing on those sources?
Erm...i think JavaScript is based in ECMA's standard aswell as AS, *not* the other way round.
GP is right, ECMAScript was standardised based on JavaScript and JScript. JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich at Netscape, who later submitted it to ECMA for standardization. Brendan is still a driving force behind the language and the specification as he is now CTO at Mozilla and the maintainer of Mozilla's JavaScript engine.
There are loads of systems that take care of this. This, however, is one of the most interesting to me: It makes you into a live reporter. You can use it on your phone, or hook up a HD camera to the laptop and broadcast live to the world. You can also chat with the viewers.
IBM should buy Canonical and put Shuttleworth in charge of IBM Desktop & Server Linux Distributions.
Seriously, they could sell a distribution as nice as Ubuntu on good hardware. Focus on laptops, do what Apple is doing with a small range of well-known products.
Also, when you do a job interview, please, for everything that's sacred to you, do NOT - repeat, DO NOT - put in your resume your "superninja@hotmail.com" e-mail address !
(A friend of a friend learned the hard way)
A friend of a friend, you say? Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't you, "spydermann@gmail.com"...
Safari for Windows must have it's own anti-aliasing (or use some non-standard settings, I'm not familiar with the deep intricacies of ClearType). It doesn't look like anything else on my system, all text is both bolder in general and blurrier.
Chrome, however, looks exactly like Firefox for Windows and Internet Explorer 7.
This both from a cursory glance and from zooming in and comparing side-by-side. I would post screenshots, but I don't have the time so you will just have to take my word for it.
That's disgusting. And I'm not speaking of his very private sexual fantasies, but using packet sniffing intending to "catch" your partner in adult chatrooms. I'm glad that your friend seems more sensible than you.
You can read quite a bit about the Swedish (Scandinavian, really) trash incineration here.
As I gather, they first separate hazardous and recyclable materials. Then they burn it using high-temperature combustion which deals with a lot of (organic) toxic waste.
Then they separate dioxins, heavy metals and other toxins using flue gas cleaning.
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Great site. Thanks for the tip.
And that text about patrons, merchants and marketing was very eye-opening too, even to a guy who has spent some time thinking these thoughts.
Thanks again!
I have to say that I'm getting tired of this discussion, but I still am very surprised that so few Slashdotters seem to be familiar with the ideas of Henry David Thoreau. In his essay Civil Disobedience he premiers a very strong idea, the idea that you can change the world if you stick to your ideas, and your ideals.
In order to get as many people with you as possible, you need to publicize it. That's why they named it The Pirate Bay. That's why they publicized the letters from the industries, along with the mocking responses. That's why they told people to pirate, to start their own trackers - to spread the idea of sharing knowledge, and the idea that copyright needs to be reformed.
You should aim to get sent to court, and you should get as much attention as possible when you're in court. If you get convicted, that's good, because that will make people more sympathetic with you.
And look what they accomplished. The Pirate Party in Sweden was founded January 1st, 2006. They got a mandate in the European Parliament June 7th, 2009. The Pirate Party's youth organization is the biggest political youth organization in Sweden.
Their foremost aim is not to keep The Pirate Bay running, or make money off it, or even staying out of jail. Their aim is to educate more and more people on the intellectual property system, the Internet, and what the Internet means to copyright.
Mahatma Gandhi was very inspired by Thoreau's writings, and he said:
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.
If you put this in the context of the whole warez scene, and the information wants to be free movement. Well, we're at the "then they fight you" step right now.
Extending the use of it is what it was designed to do in the fist place.
Yes. But this doesn't stop any _particular_ extension from being innovative and therefore patentable. As much as I disagree with software patents, I don't actually see an awful lot wrong with this one.
You disagree with software patents, but this one's a-ok? That doesn't sound right.
The format described in the patent has some interesting and non-obvious features, and a format would have to combine all of them to be infringing.
Or maybe, just maybe it's about control of the applications that manipulates said documents, rather than MS wanting to protect their amazingly genius document format?
The 'hints' element particularly is something I don't suspect other applications have used before.
Apparently, the patent examiner didn't think the hints element was anything new. She higlighted instead the bookmark element, the text element, the text run element and, perhaps the most surprising, the document properties element. The information about the reasons for approval is available at the Patent Application Information Retrieval System (unfortunately, it seems to be a hack system delivered by IBM, so YMMV).
Also unusual and unlikely to have been used in other applications are bookmarking sections using a start bookmark marker and an end bookmark marker that are not the same tag (i.e. <startbookmark />text<endbookmark />) [...]
Oh...! You mean kind of like <a name="chapter-1">text</a>? Yeah, that's definitely novel and non-obvious... To anyone who has never seen HTML.
Hello? pi has been around for quite a while now, you know.
There, fixed that for you.
You might wanna take a look at Dropbox. It lets you sync files with an account at their servers, and also lets you share folders between groups of people. There are clients for Windows, Mac and Linux, and it's nicely integrated in the file system (I've only tried it on a Mac, though). It also comes with built-in undo.
It's free with 2 GB of data and 30 days of undo, and they've got 50 GB for $9.99 per month, 100 GB for $19.95, both with unlimited undo (I think).
I have no affiliation with Dropbox other than being a happy user, however, if you decide to check it out I would be happy if you used this link to sign up, since that would give me a little extra space!
https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExODQ0NDg5
Best regards,
Linus
Nice nickname!
Please tell us a bit more about the code, I'd like to look at some hairy neural net code right now, actually.
All the best,
I don't think what the parent was asking about was whether you think it's ok to detain people who has, or very certainly will, "kill thousands of [your] contrymen". Or at least that's only part of it.
The bigger issue is that your soldiers, and their allies (which are either mercenaries or Afghan war lords), have been running around arresting and torturing people, against whom there is zero evidence that they have done or even wished, as you put it, anything wrong.
For instance, Mehdi Ghezali from Sweden who has not been charged with any crime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Ghezali
And the Uighur Adel Abdulhehim, who might have been fleeing his occupied, far-away country or might have taken part in "military training" (which may have consisted of firing a couple rounds with an AK-47, and that's it). The point is, there's no evidence, he won't be convicted, and yet he was locked up and tortured by American soldiers in Guantanamo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Abdulhehim
It's hard not to find it absurd that American soldiers are traveling to the other side of the globe to arrest people who may or not may have done or "wished" anything, and take them back to yet another country, Cuba (because they don't want to do their dirty business on American soil) and arrest and torture them.
Trying to understand some concept of "universal" rights given nationalistic differences is difficult for me.
Yeah, you know what? Let's agree that it's a universal right not to be tortured, no matter what. We decided on that in 1949 because we didn't want to keep on with the same shit that had kept us in wars since the collapse of the Roman empire. I guess we'll just have to enjoy that brief period of dignity, since you are the largest military empire in the history and you seem to have a knack for electing war lords as leaders.
They do this without realizing the potential impact to national security or potential diplomatic damage that, while the leaker may think is justified and deserved, is more damaging to the U.S. (or other country subject to a wikileak) than the leaker realizes. They can't know the potential impact because they do not have access to the entire picture.
Correction: They don't have access to the entire picture yet. A problem, which WikiLeaks is there to solve.
As a Swede, I am very proud that Sweden once again leads the way and is the first country to take an important issue seriously - wait until the next election and see Pirate Parties from countries all over Europe!
He gives a few billion dollars each year to a foundation that he has control over. Essentially, he gives a few billion dollars each year to himself, and a few million out of that to very urgent causes.
No, his foundation is worth about $35 billion dollars. Of that, he gives at least 5% yearly. A few million each year? What interest do you have in spreading disinformation? Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to completely eradicate polio. No other charity in the world is giving so much to combat polio, malaria and HIV. And you scorn them for that? Loser.
Wow the Gates hate is really running rampant among the mods. My original comment (GP) is a troll now? Wow.
Some may argue the only reason he gives to charity is as a tax dodge, but if that's really true why does he do things like this? If it were a mere tax dodge, then there's no reason he'd need to waste his time.
To say that somebody who gives away a couple of billions of dollars each year to various very urgent causes, only does that to dodge tax, is deeply cynical and I can't see how any sane person would actually argue that.
Even suggesting it is cynical, IMO.
It's great and all that he's so smart, but how will his experience translate into change in our nation's energy policy? We get most of our power from coal, oil, natural gas, and hydro, so how does his research have any bearing on those sources?
Since he was appointed director of LBL in 2004, he has focused the organization on research into alternative energy. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu#Energy_and_global_warming.
Parent is not flamebait, the author actually wrote that in the article. It disturbed me, too.
And "megamerican" can please take his conspiracy theories elsewhere.
Erm...i think JavaScript is based in ECMA's standard aswell as AS, *not* the other way round.
GP is right, ECMAScript was standardised based on JavaScript and JScript. JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich at Netscape, who later submitted it to ECMA for standardization. Brendan is still a driving force behind the language and the specification as he is now CTO at Mozilla and the maintainer of Mozilla's JavaScript engine.
There are loads of systems that take care of this. This, however, is one of the most interesting to me: It makes you into a live reporter. You can use it on your phone, or hook up a HD camera to the laptop and broadcast live to the world. You can also chat with the viewers.
Very cool.
IBM should buy Canonical and put Shuttleworth in charge of IBM Desktop & Server Linux Distributions.
Seriously, they could sell a distribution as nice as Ubuntu on good hardware. Focus on laptops, do what Apple is doing with a small range of well-known products.
And steal back the PC market from Microsoft.
You should be asking, "Should I make architectural decisions before or after I collect all the requirements." But you know the answer to that one.
Yes. "Not at all".
Steve Yegge: Business Requirements are Bullshit.
Worth a read.
Smalltalk would have been much more suited to the job.
Whooooosh
Also, when you do a job interview, please, for everything that's sacred to you, do NOT - repeat, DO NOT - put in your resume your "superninja@hotmail.com" e-mail address !
(A friend of a friend learned the hard way)
A friend of a friend, you say? Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't you, "spydermann@gmail.com"...
I wonder if it has more to do with bored students writing malicious code, or bored students downloading "suspicious" content.
I'm pretty sure it isn't the latter, these botnets are not the work of "bored students", they are controlled by organized crime and their ilk.
Safari for Windows must have it's own anti-aliasing (or use some non-standard settings, I'm not familiar with the deep intricacies of ClearType). It doesn't look like anything else on my system, all text is both bolder in general and blurrier.
Chrome, however, looks exactly like Firefox for Windows and Internet Explorer 7.
This both from a cursory glance and from zooming in and comparing side-by-side. I would post screenshots, but I don't have the time so you will just have to take my word for it.
Which EULA would that be? The one linked in the article? Oh wait, the article doesn't actually link to any EULA.
Chrome's "EULA" may be found here. It consists principally of this sentence:
The Chromium software and sample code developed by Google is licensed under the BSD license.
No, that's the terms for Chromium. You seem to have it confused between Chrome, the product, and Chromium, the open-source browser project.
The EULA for Chrome, however, is available here.
And it's also in the EULA in question, the one for Chrome, available here.
See Section 11.
That's disgusting. And I'm not speaking of his very private sexual fantasies, but using packet sniffing intending to "catch" your partner in adult chatrooms. I'm glad that your friend seems more sensible than you.
You can read quite a bit about the Swedish (Scandinavian, really) trash incineration here.
As I gather, they first separate hazardous and recyclable materials. Then they burn it using high-temperature combustion which deals with a lot of (organic) toxic waste.
Then they separate dioxins, heavy metals and other toxins using flue gas cleaning.