Your self-righteousness is the true mark of self-important bureaucrats.
That remark reflects the arrogance of "genious." Did it ever occur to you [...]
Doh! My 2am spelling is par for the course.
Many things occur to me all the time, but I can't stand "think-little" bureaucrat who can't see both sides of the equation. Here we have the usual/. case of self-righteousness being blindsided by facts. Many have told us the true story of that grad student which paints a different picture.
That one-sided drivel permeates/. and many moderators encourage it. A true 5 should be interesting, informative AND insightful. And if you can't see how your POV could be wrong, you ain't insightful at all.
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Bullshit!
Genious is about using the spark when you have it. If you come in at 9 and take off just past 5 you're nothing but a corporate drone. I've worked both side and let myself be bogged down by administrativia to know that this is the best way to kill inventiveness.
If you don't have the guts to risk a sleepless night and spend a week restoring the damage you have done to the lab, you don't deserve to find answers.
Your self-righteousness is the true mark of self-important bureaucrats.
Patents are government-granted monopolies. It is not an absolute right and has to be balanced against the need of the People.
Reading this news as a fight between corporate greed and governmental greed is the wrong way to look at that. Right or wrong, you try to choose the lesser evil. Everyday the little citizen get crushed for reason of State, for once it is a big pharma that pays the price.
BTW, the pharma spammer are quick on the button today. Disgraceful.
When the University owns the wires or pays for the connection, they do as they see fit as long as their policies foster academic research. But I think nobody can come and state that p2p have a real academic use without being called hypocrits. I hope the IT Service Desk (or the deans) will be open to creative use of p2p. If all else fails, a few quids should convince the BOFH of your needs.
All the bullshit about supporting theft or caving in to corporate terrorism is nothing but demagoguery. I so wish those inflamatory comments would return to the cellpool they came from. And frankly, speaking as a near-addict, being unable to update WoW is a boon to students.
Judge Nault: I just think this is the stupidest law in the world. But I didn't write the law and I'm bound to follow it. So I'm gonna go ahead and give you your money. But I'm just saying, it just takes up court time and it's absolutely stupid.
Erm, is the judge telling you that you are spamming the court with useless suits? Is he saying that the law forces him to lose time handling spam?
To take this analogy a little bit further, imagine the big bully on the block comming and taking all of your cookies. He then refuses to share any of them unless you pay him. That is what the GPL prevents.
Except he didn't steal your cookies but duplicated them. And it costs you nothing to make more. Now if you could find the secret ingredient that bully added to make them taste better with milk, that would be something.
This leaves the question of whether you are OK with some people who refuse to share.
Your development of this question wasn't quite fair. This version is closer to the truth, and has the added bonus of a nice tongue-in-cheek tingle.
BSD: We share with everyone, including those who refuse to share. GPL: We refuse to share with those who refuse to share, except we'll still share with some who refuse to share, if they refuse to share only with those who refuse to share. Clear?
BSD on GPL: We share with everyone, including those who refuse to share with those who refuse to share, except as stated above. GPL on BSD: We refuse to share with those who share with everyone, including those who refuse to share.
Which is why I think the "refuse to share" is not the cleanest argument for GPL. In fact, it is completely wrong in the sense that both BSD and GPL will share with anyone who doesn't share at all, neither code nor binary. But this hair has been split often enough already.
Prison terms for its employees has no direct effect on a company bottom line. Cash has. Moreover, the current method requires actions from the governement. If the DA won't file charges, it all falls down. If the perjurer is an alien, it all falls down.
Were I a corporation, I'd keep a block of Mexicans to sign those DMCA notices. Considering how fast the law moves, I could prolly use the same pawn for a year before having to discard it.
As for lawyers, you don't need a lawyer. It's just that your chances of winning are slim if you don't use one.
Right now, a DMCA takedown notice has no cost other than making it. All these fakery would go if the self-declared IP holder had to put some cash on the table. Let's say 1% of the "value" of the infringement.
-If the "infringer" doesnt reply to cancel the takedown notice, the IP holder gets his money back.
-The "infringer" can accept the IP holder declaration of ownership, pay the "value" of the infringement and keep the video up. The ISP keeps the escrow.
-The "infringer" can demand proof of ownership. If his demand cannot be met, he gets the escrow but the self-declared IP holder can sue him for 10 times the "value" of the infringement.
If you put the value too low, you end up licensing your IP. If you put it too high, you lose that amount. Crappy 1st draft, but it is 4 am here and I should be asleep.
'"Do you find it reasonable that a CD will only play in a CD player, but an iTunes song will play on all iPods?"
I'd love to be able to trade in my tapes for CDs. Or play Wii games on a PS3, or 360 games on a Windows box or even under Mac/Linux. Can I have a pony now?
It doesn't qualify as invention, but that's not what patent means.
The original use of patent, that I'm aware of, is either "patently obvious" or "patent of nobility". In both cases it represents the making of knowledge public. (For this reason I don't believe that software "patents" qualify as patents. That would require publication of all source code & tools required for making the software [compilers, etc.]. This isn't even approached.)
Not in the way you imply.
Actually, patent comes from patere. Patent letters were open documents as opposed to private letters. They were used by diplomats and ambassadors as a proof of their plenipotentiary powers. With the developement of the lesser nobility and middle-class, it became widely used to grant exploitation rights for mining, printing, shipping, etc.
The fact that a government openly grants a right doesn't mean that that enterprise has to be done openly.
Just to be silly: there were no death by atomic bombs in the last 20 years, therefore atomic bombs are safe.
What is important is the rate of accident, not the absolute numbers.
How many car-related accidents is there for each car on the road?
How many car-related accidents is there for each driver's license?
How many car-related accidents is there for each hour of use?
Now your entire house of cards is crumbling down like it deserved. I don't care which side you're on, you're not on the side of truth right now.
Wow, nice editorial! But please, wipe yourselves. You are frothing at the mouth.
Even if your job description is "being a soulless bastard bent on world domination", it doesn't mean you have to bring your job home. If you believe lawyers, carpenters, programmers and loafers should behave differently toward their children, you aren't fit to be a parent yet.
Reading most of the early comments, I am under the impression all/.ers still live in their parent basement. Get a life, go out and walk a few mile in your own shoes, pay a visit to Mr. Sun. When there's enough oxygen up there to keep your little hamster running, maybe you'll see thing differently.
Those Greeks did not live in the 1400's. But thanks for pointing out examples of discoveries that were forgotten well before the XIII century.
Nevertheless, the problem with ancient Greeks is that there was no scientific method at the time. Emphasis was put on philosophy and discourse, little value was given to actual physical experiment. Also, they did not have the tools: no positional numbers, no algebra. It wasn't long ago that a^2 + b^2 = c^2 was finally written in that form. In fact, way after the 1400's.
You could try to point out muslim or chinese science as counter examples, but to quote again:
one is that there is a belief that scientific consensus is the same as scientific proof
There was no science, therefore there was neither "scientific consensus" nor "scientific proof". Those 2 concepts also being recent inventions.
There are two main problems I see with climate change science, one is that there is a belief that scientific consensus is the same as scientific proof (if this were true the world would have been flat in the 1400's) and the other problem is that the conclusions are not supported by the evidence.
There were no science in the 1400's. Mere knowledge and acceptance of ancient greek "truth" were what passed as science then. War were fought throughout the XVI-XVIII centuries to bring experimentation, reproductibility and margin of error into existence. If you read on the history of science, you'll find out that many facts were repeatedly discovered during those centuries and rejected outright.
When I see fake scientists cherry-picking only the numbers that match their conclusion, when I see them stepping over facts and methodology to get the result they want, I refuse to follow their distorted POV. And there are so much crookery against global warming that I don't want to hear anymore.
I sure hope the BBC will manage to find a few nuggets in that sea of demagogery. The same I wish QA could find bugs in software. How can you make something bullet-proof if the opposition is nothing than a bunch of clowns?
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Doh! My 2am spelling is par for the course.
Many things occur to me all the time, but I can't stand "think-little" bureaucrat who can't see both sides of the equation. Here we have the usual
That one-sided drivel permeates
Bullshit!
Genious is about using the spark when you have it. If you come in at 9 and take off just past 5 you're nothing but a corporate drone. I've worked both side and let myself be bogged down by administrativia to know that this is the best way to kill inventiveness.
If you don't have the guts to risk a sleepless night and spend a week restoring the damage you have done to the lab, you don't deserve to find answers.
Your self-righteousness is the true mark of self-important bureaucrats.
Yeah, and there's no way I'm stripping for this guy.
I can't bear homonymic typos, prolly because I learned English reading it, not talking it.
Yep, rot-26 is an encryption device. But the encrypted stream itself is readable. (Gee, what a surprise! Talk about 1000's monkeys and typewriters.)
While it is illegal to decrypt it by applying rot-26 to the stream, it is perfectly legal to read the encrypted text as is.
tuB fi uoy dnatsrednu siht, uoy era gnikaerb ACMD.
Patents are government-granted monopolies. It is not an absolute right and has to be balanced against the need of the People.
Reading this news as a fight between corporate greed and governmental greed is the wrong way to look at that. Right or wrong, you try to choose the lesser evil. Everyday the little citizen get crushed for reason of State, for once it is a big pharma that pays the price.
BTW, the pharma spammer are quick on the button today. Disgraceful.
When the University owns the wires or pays for the connection, they do as they see fit as long as their policies foster academic research. But I think nobody can come and state that p2p have a real academic use without being called hypocrits. I hope the IT Service Desk (or the deans) will be open to creative use of p2p. If all else fails, a few quids should convince the BOFH of your needs.
All the bullshit about supporting theft or caving in to corporate terrorism is nothing but demagoguery. I so wish those inflamatory comments would return to the cellpool they came from. And frankly, speaking as a near-addict, being unable to update WoW is a boon to students.
Erm, is the judge telling you that you are spamming the court with useless suits?
Is he saying that the law forces him to lose time handling spam?
Well, is he for or against spam? I am confused...
Except he didn't steal your cookies but duplicated them. And it costs you nothing to make more. Now if you could find the secret ingredient that bully added to make them taste better with milk, that would be something.
Your development of this question wasn't quite fair. This version is closer to the truth, and has the added bonus of a nice tongue-in-cheek tingle.
BSD: We share with everyone, including those who refuse to share.
GPL: We refuse to share with those who refuse to share, except we'll still share with some who refuse to share, if they refuse to share only with those who refuse to share. Clear?
BSD on GPL: We share with everyone, including those who refuse to share with those who refuse to share, except as stated above.
GPL on BSD: We refuse to share with those who share with everyone, including those who refuse to share.
Which is why I think the "refuse to share" is not the cleanest argument for GPL. In fact, it is completely wrong in the sense that both BSD and GPL will share with anyone who doesn't share at all, neither code nor binary. But this hair has been split often enough already.
Erm, wasn't that resolved whereby they kept 20% of "theft"*?
* Remember, illegal tariff aren't quite theft. Us Canucks shouldn't abuse that word, no matter what the Mafiaa does.
Well, is it working? No.
Prison terms for its employees has no direct effect on a company bottom line. Cash has. Moreover, the current method requires actions from the governement. If the DA won't file charges, it all falls down. If the perjurer is an alien, it all falls down.
Were I a corporation, I'd keep a block of Mexicans to sign those DMCA notices. Considering how fast the law moves, I could prolly use the same pawn for a year before having to discard it.
As for lawyers, you don't need a lawyer. It's just that your chances of winning are slim if you don't use one.
Right now, a DMCA takedown notice has no cost other than making it. All these fakery would go if the self-declared IP holder had to put some cash on the table. Let's say 1% of the "value" of the infringement.
-If the "infringer" doesnt reply to cancel the takedown notice, the IP holder gets his money back.
-The "infringer" can accept the IP holder declaration of ownership, pay the "value" of the infringement and keep the video up. The ISP keeps the escrow.
-The "infringer" can demand proof of ownership. If his demand cannot be met, he gets the escrow but the self-declared IP holder can sue him for 10 times the "value" of the infringement.
If you put the value too low, you end up licensing your IP. If you put it too high, you lose that amount. Crappy 1st draft, but it is 4 am here and I should be asleep.
You call them people living in the past, 670 years in the past.
"Thirteen thirty seven called, and they want their idioms back."
Rutan came back. When SpaceX does that, it will be the 3rd coming. Until then, it's just a nice try.
'"Do you find it reasonable that a CD will only play in a CD player, but an iTunes song will play on all iPods?"
I'd love to be able to trade in my tapes for CDs. Or play Wii games on a PS3, or 360 games on a Windows box or even under Mac/Linux. Can I have a pony now?
WTF! You slashdotted YouTube!
The bcraids.jpg seems wrong to me. I think you need to do Shadow Lab, Arcatraz and Steamvault to obtain Karazhan key.
I'd say more, but I have to level my alts.
First time I hear about eletron. Are those like electron but can support envoronment?
That's not how I read this. It simply means that islamists are computer literate while christianists aren't.
Actually, patent comes from patere. Patent letters were open documents as opposed to private letters. They were used by diplomats and ambassadors as a proof of their plenipotentiary powers. With the developement of the lesser nobility and middle-class, it became widely used to grant exploitation rights for mining, printing, shipping, etc.
The fact that a government openly grants a right doesn't mean that that enterprise has to be done openly.
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So should death penalty.
</deadpan>
Just to be silly: there were no death by atomic bombs in the last 20 years, therefore atomic bombs are safe.
What is important is the rate of accident, not the absolute numbers.
How many car-related accidents is there for each car on the road?
How many car-related accidents is there for each driver's license?
How many car-related accidents is there for each hour of use?
Now your entire house of cards is crumbling down like it deserved. I don't care which side you're on, you're not on the side of truth right now.
Wow, nice editorial! But please, wipe yourselves. You are frothing at the mouth.
Even if your job description is "being a soulless bastard bent on world domination", it doesn't mean you have to bring your job home. If you believe lawyers, carpenters, programmers and loafers should behave differently toward their children, you aren't fit to be a parent yet.
Reading most of the early comments, I am under the impression all
Those Greeks did not live in the 1400's. But thanks for pointing out examples of discoveries that were forgotten well before the XIII century.
Nevertheless, the problem with ancient Greeks is that there was no scientific method at the time. Emphasis was put on philosophy and discourse, little value was given to actual physical experiment. Also, they did not have the tools: no positional numbers, no algebra. It wasn't long ago that a^2 + b^2 = c^2 was finally written in that form. In fact, way after the 1400's.
You could try to point out muslim or chinese science as counter examples, but to quote again:
There was no science, therefore there was neither "scientific consensus" nor "scientific proof". Those 2 concepts also being recent inventions.
There were no science in the 1400's. Mere knowledge and acceptance of ancient greek "truth" were what passed as science then. War were fought throughout the XVI-XVIII centuries to bring experimentation, reproductibility and margin of error into existence. If you read on the history of science, you'll find out that many facts were repeatedly discovered during those centuries and rejected outright.
When I see fake scientists cherry-picking only the numbers that match their conclusion, when I see them stepping over facts and methodology to get the result they want, I refuse to follow their distorted POV. And there are so much crookery against global warming that I don't want to hear anymore.
I sure hope the BBC will manage to find a few nuggets in that sea of demagogery. The same I wish QA could find bugs in software. How can you make something bullet-proof if the opposition is nothing than a bunch of clowns?