If you read the PDF on Harvard's website instead of just the linked techshit (er, sorry, techdirt) article you will be well rewarded.
One of the things I found unpersuasive in Professor Shavell's article was the following:
Furthermore, universities should not face great difficulties in
financing publication fees, for they would no longer have to purchase journal
subscriptions or books.
I am wholly unpersuaded that the savings of having to purchase a small number journal subscriptions would in any meaningful way offset the costs of having to pay for printing (for physical distribution) and bandwidth (for digital distribution).
I don't disagree with the article in general, but he does a lot of hand-waving about the costs of this proposed transformation. Just something to keep in mind.
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What class has 1984 as required reading and where can I sign up?
You know how we all get really mad at meteorologists and economists because they routinely get wrong the thing they predict with high certainty?
I have the same feelings about astronomers.
No kidding.
And what about all those phat beats I made in FruityLoops[1]? Are those copyrighted by FL Studios?
[1] I have never made phat beats
His computer just got hacked too.
You can read the hacklog here along with the one for Kevin Mitnick's hack.
Are you logged in to your Google account?
Don't you need a "break" statement in there, or will the fall-through not happen when you call exit()?
Did you ever see that South Park episode where everything Butters suggests is rebutted with "Simpsons did it!"
I feel like Randall Munroe my Simpsons; the thorn in my back; the down-mod for offtopic.
Man.. James Bond villains are getting a lot nerdier.
39 and 40 are the first two messages from the summary.
True, but don't refrain from reading a few posts prior to that. It's interesting to watch how the anger builds between Linus and Alan.
Dude, if you know of a way to get Internet access in a cave let me know, because that would be totally sweet.
I'd totally register the domain stalac-site.
Notice how my comment above beat yours and also did the quote tag correctly ;-)
Cryptonomicon is a decent example, but I'm not sure it is a "thriller" in the sense meant by the author.
which might be the world's first cryptographic thriller
Toast by Charles Stross would be a counterexample to this ludicrous claim.
especially on the Belt Parkway where people seem to slow down to 30mph to go over a bridge
The rule only applies if SOME people break the rules, not every one of you hot-dog-eating-bastards.
then only outlaws will own cracked iPhones!
Seriously - if you're going to do an illegal activity (hacking) anyway, then making another activity (jailbreaking) illegal isn't going to deter you.
is like RealNetworks was years ago.
The only difference is that when Real started raping people's computers it was replaced.
I can't believe people have actually claimed that the quality of Slashdot comments has gone down in recent years.
How could you possibly claim that with gems like these?
This was discussed earlier, and in other news, I am smarter than Ray Beckerman.
I don't know that Nesson screwed his client, exactly, but he sure did waste a lot of time on this pedantic academic exercise with his students.
Just outsource all the work to Google and sneak out for a round of golf!
One of the things I found unpersuasive in Professor Shavell's article was the following:
Furthermore, universities should not face great difficulties in financing publication fees, for they would no longer have to purchase journal subscriptions or books.
I am wholly unpersuaded that the savings of having to purchase a small number journal subscriptions would in any meaningful way offset the costs of having to pay for printing (for physical distribution) and bandwidth (for digital distribution).
I don't disagree with the article in general, but he does a lot of hand-waving about the costs of this proposed transformation. Just something to keep in mind.
that other websites should do this as well.
Slashdot, for instance, could have a contest to unbreak their fucking code by 10%.
I can't believe I just spent a minute in Python decoding your signature just to be insulted!
We played Stallman Says at computer camp last summer. It's like Simon Says except the winner gets a fake beard to wear for the rest of the afternoon.
I... don't kiss many girls.
When they came for the IT professionals, I remained silent.
When they came for the call support professionals, I remained silent.
When they came for the programmers there was no one left to speak out for me.
require WoW players to stop playing WoW?
Can they even do that?
I would recommend to use Subversion
I agree. But don't forget to do the thing the students will care most about: shave your beard.
You look like Richard Stallman.