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  1. Re:By Definition, should not be Patentable. on Patent Invention Machines · · Score: 1

    This is actually correct, but beware of what governing bodies might do upon hearing cha-ching and seeing $$$. Here's a link to some excerpts of patent information. What is and not patentable. Patent Clips and notice the red text under "Inventions" near the bottom.

  2. A few days old, for more up to date... on Matrix Sequel Delayed to 2003 · · Score: 1

    ....Matrix Community, where even some of us participated in a official documentary on the movie.

    and for clearer understanding of the metaphor of the Movie:
    matrix metaphors

    And a U.S. Patent Office RFC responce

    And of course my response to the EU consulation on Software patents -- rue.pdf

    Good thing, it'll give me more time to build this GPL project
    Know Python and wanna help?

  3. More old news!! watching the overflow from .... on No Shortage Of Programmers? · · Score: 1

    This information is somewhat old, in that it's been available for quite some time and I think I first heard about it on slashdot quite some time ago. In fact I used it, reference to it, in a communication to the EU regarding research on whether or not software should be patentable.

    I'm seeing more and more things, articles, computers, etc.. become recycled and this suggest or provides evidence that the industry has reached the rim of it's holder and is now overflowing, becomming wasteful.

    Even the subject matter of the article has become somewhat outdated, given the number of layoffs and tech market stock fall.

    If there is anything to be seen in that article, it's an example of recognizing deception in the computer industry, only it touches some surface level possibilities, it doesn't go deeper.

    The point is, maybe there is a public awarness growing that doesn't need to be spoken. Awareness that the computer industry is filled with far more hype and misinformation than otherwise. And this awareness is a turnoff. Such a turnoff that the consumer know it's a pointless exercize in futility to try and tell the industry this.


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  4. Pay per play and GNU/GPL on Jepson Rebuts Petreley On The Dangers Of Mono · · Score: 1

    Now isn't there some fundamental contridiction in the idea of developing some sort of pay per play system in the land of GNU/GPL??? Perhaps something better designed to be in accord with the spirit of GNU/GPL is in order. But going to a fat doctor in order to learn how to lose weight is not the right and sensible direction to go. And any attempt to even suggest that one company that makes some GPL software but going in this foolish direction can somehow take down the whole GPL effort is at best a troll to try and get people upset, where the worst it can do is simple take out that company and hang it up for all to see as an example of what not to do. At best it could result in the spirit that created the GPL to then create a counter balance to .mono.net. Besides isn't mono something that if you catch it you should pretty much not spread it, for it makes you really sickly.
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  5. Re:I wonder about the amiga discussion site on An Amiga Round-up · · Score: 1

    that would be www.amiga.org and you should note that they had about 3-4 days of having the system off line complaining that it was to difficult to maintain (Hmmmm, hows /. manage??? :) ) and then they came back on with the same software and added a wall for Anonymous posters, to keep them out...... Go figure...


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  6. Re:700 urls on "sucks".com Sites Win Legal Victory · · Score: 1

    In Atlanta Georgia, there is Interstate I285, and it has a web site http://www.285sucks.com and is a place to vent instead of road rage acts. And yes 285 sucks!
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  7. GREAT, then have a cookie or three... on AOL, Microsoft Squabble Over Control of Online Music · · Score: 1

    So who owns the matrix? Or just watch the cookies!!!

    My name is NEO!
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  8. I think this is a step in the right direction on Python Now GPL compatible · · Score: 1

    It's becomming clearer and clearer that things like the GPL are the check point in the system that is correcting and will keep inline the rest of the software industry. Up untill such things as the GPL became popular enough as it now is, the profit seeking part of the software industry had pretty much all the freedom to become lazy and overpriced thru marketing BS. But the GPL provides the counter balance that will help make and keep the rest of the industry honest and hard working. Simply because it is the way people can say, and without being easily ignored, NO to the BS. The GPL and other varieties of licenses are more intune with the true spectrum of the possible. A spectrum that Bill Gates damaged rather badly when he yelled "PIRACY" and made the TIME magizine cover story in doing this name calling. The cover story was "The Great Software Flap" IIRC, and back in the mid 1970's. But it is where the natural evolution of software development direction was rudely interrupted.

    This growing counter balance now, is really only the beginning of getting the software industry back on proper track. This GPL compatability of python is a good step in that direction.

    I'm sure any program anyone writes in the python language is up to the programmer/author of the work (or their employer) to determine what license the program will have. So long as it doesn't contridict the Python License by altering python.

    It'll be a brighter day when such things as auto-coding come about that enables the typical user to create application on their own and as they see fit. But that's not something easy to happen without first establishing the tool set to do auto-coding. All things considered, such a thing as auto-coding for the general public is not going to come from the profit targeting section of the software industry, but rather from the GPL side of the spectrum. So with this in mind, python and other GPL side of the sprectrum programming languages are certainly good. For me python is proving to have what I need and commercial langages don't. A step in the direction of Auto-coding - Python-IQ


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  9. What was that anti-bacteria coating? on Computers Breeding Harmful Fungus · · Score: 1

    I recall seeing something, some polymer coating I believe, that prevents bacteria from growing on anything that has the coating. Anyone have a link?
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  10. The smaller device the bigger market on Agenda, Not Hidden · · Score: 1

    Japan seems to be the place to look for what's hot (though it may only be hot in japan) and the PDA market is behind cell phone devices by a factor of 10 or better. That is cell phones with internet connectivity. Tao Group is into the PDA market as well, thru such companies as Amiga and Embedix.

    About reference to the linux desktop tombstone... guess that means linux has the home server market all wrapped up. You know, something for all them smaller devices to communicate thru.


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  11. what else do you need but this... on Digital Copyright · · Score: 1

    She goes into excruciating, fascinating, absorbing detail about the process that produced current copyright law and is highly likely to produce future copyright law - the bribes to Congress, the back-room deals, the slimy public relations tactics, the elected officials who don't want to spend the time to learn about a tangential, unimportant issue like copyright.

    Today there seems to be a growing anti-linux theme happening on slashdot. Did MS buy /. out?
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  12. What's the range? on AT&T's Internet Pay Phone · · Score: 1

    Does it cost the same for a local call as it does for a long distance call?

    I recall a few years ago the idea of using the internet for free long distance calling (free being no extra charge above your ISP charge). How does that apply here? Or were the phone companies lying when they said they were all for the reduced cost for long distance calls?
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  13. Does MS ever NOT crash on Public Introduction? on XBox Goes Down in Public · · Score: 1

    Years ago at a Comdex keynote, I seem to recall something crashing as it was being introduced to the public. Bill Gates was there, Ted Turner to and I seem to recall Oracle. It was something about some Online Service partnership between them. It crashed! Anyone else there that can verify what happened?
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  14. Am I the only one? on Shared Source? · · Score: 1

    All this is getting really tired, like the psuedo
    homeless person following you around begging for
    money, or holding up a sign that says "Will work for food", knowing full well what they really want is for you to just give them money. I once saw some guy do this with such a sign. Some lady gave him an apple. He waited for her to get out of sight and then threw the apple away. I've heard of other ending their day by walking across the street and getting in their mercedes and driving home.

    MS wants to open it's source code up, the way they have said, and they want you to fix their bugs by telling them what to do (not doing it yourself) so they can then claim IP rights to it.

    How else could MS improve their "Piracy" practice. I mean it was coining "piracy" that give billy his start.

    Hell, just send them some money If you really feel sorry for them, and then tell them to go away or you'll call the cops.
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  15. Where's the Email Addreses? on Congress@Work · · Score: 1

    Come on people, lets post the email addresses of where to send supporting or unsupporting, but polite responses to? Yeah, Yeah, I didn't read thu it all. But I have this headache and can see plenty enough to see how insane it is. Enough to know that if a kid wants to post anon., then they should do it from home, not school where they are there to learn. But the rest.....So are we turning into the new Hitler or something with this anti-speech crapola. Has some the congressmen forgotten the first admendment?

    Where's them Email addresses???


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  16. The Action Constants of Humans on The Humane Interface · · Score: 1



    What's not Patentable!


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  17. Re:MS (Mundie) wrong according to this NYT article on Mundie Responds · · Score: 1

    Given the NYT article: There is a need to explain some of the growth the article mentions and this NOVA show transcript "Trillion Dollar bet" can certainly help to explain alot. Here is the three major US Stocks these past two years. And it shows the impact of the Trillion Dollar Bet result.

    Money was dumped into the tech IT industry in order to put it somewhere while the market seemed unstable, so it went into Dot Com and such. But we all know MS tries and makes things to be something they are not.

    So the NYT article is in error about the growth it talks about, but not about the failure the tech industry has in rippling thru other industries. That's where the GPL comes in and corrects this problem.


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  18. MS (Mundie) wrong according to this NYT article on Mundie Responds · · Score: 1

    Ok so you all know by now you have to register (free) to access NYT but according to this Oct. 2000 NYT article there is a flaw in Mundies comments about growth. If anything it'll be the GPL that FINALLY allows the technology to be properly integrated into other industries. Not Some company that wants to own and control EVERYTHING.


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  19. This is easy to beat, very easy. on Mundie Responds · · Score: 1

    But the lower the post is the less likley it is to be read. So this is just a place holder for those who read in thread format. A response is comming.
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  20. Re:weak...really weak...ammo for M$ weak on The Open Source Evangelists Respond · · Score: 1

    Funny, but I seemed to have developed some immunity from spin doctors. I suppose it comes as a result of having falling for it's unending failure to produce expected results.

    On the other hand there is an inherent logic that needs no spin doctor to screw up. I believe it's called Honesty!

    And in the scope of honesty and age of the commercial computer industry, I think it's safe to now dismiss the spin doctors, but reminders of things past, things to avoid. And I KNOW I'm not alone. That's the best part, Except for the next step, to be built upon the spirit of GPL.


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  21. I envoke the law of eight... on Is Law Copyrighted? · · Score: 1

    From the movie "the postman" .... That any man of the clan can challenge for leadership of the clan.
    But those not of the clan can and will unfairly suffer the laws of the clan.

    Did anyone spell tyranny wrong?

    All this fighting for freedom lately has made me really wonder WTF happened to the freedom that we are reminded of our ancestors fighting and dying for?

    Is this all supposed to be some big statement that all the past was nothing more than a bunch of pointless babel?

    I recall many years ago asking a non-profit organization to let me see the stated public accessible documents of that organization. It wasn't like I was some out of town stranger, but was, in fact, an active member of the community for which this organization was representitive of.

    I was asked why I wanted to see these public records and then, obviously regardless of anything I'd say, was denied.

    I believe the Constitution of the United States contains something like "..for the people, by the people..." Hmmmm, guess that was just in some fiction movie....

    Anyone of membership in the clan of law makers, willing to challange the clan leader for leadership?


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  22. Who's running the show? on Quadruple Interview With Amiga 4.0 Developers · · Score: 1

    If you had a scale with Bill Gate mindset on one side and Richard Stallman's
    on the other, Where would Amiga fall?

    That's the real question!

    Going to extreams:

    Who cares if you have the best product, if you are going to use it as bait to
    trap and abuse the consumer?

    Who'll pitch in to help improve something that is GPL, in order to excape
    the trap and even avoid such a trap all together?

    Where does Steve job fall on this scale (Why has he moved towards the GPL side?)

    And the Amiga Trio (three owners) who most don't know enough about their mindsets
    to have a better idea of where they fall on that scale.

    Those who do, might very well tell you they are much closer to the Bill Gates
    mindset then the Richard Stallamn mindset.

    IN FACT Amiga has said that they intend on following the Bill Gates mindset but
    that they are not going to make the same mistakes. They have even hired a former
    MS employee, I believe for the marketing division.

    IS this flame bait?

    NO IT'S FACT! And Some Amiga followers like this direction. Not Me!

    What people need to pay attention to is the mindset of those in control, or they
    may set themselves up for a big dissapointment.


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  23. But Bill G. Coined "Piracy" on Gracenote Sues Roxio Over Switch to Free Song Database · · Score: 1

    Follow the leader?

    Back in 1975 Bill Gates yelled "Piracy" and look where that got him.
    TIME Magizine even had a cover story on it "The Great Software Flap".

    Those who had paid for Bill's BASIC became distrustfull and those who
    hadn't, rationalized what they had done as they got their employers to
    buy it.

    I always thought in doing so, Bill smashed a natural evolution of software
    development directions. But as Mother Nature and Father Physics are, for
    every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

    And that's what this is all about. Like someone above said of 2001 being
    the suing year.

    Problem is, things are not what they were back then, yelling foul doesn't
    work very well anymore. Even Bill Knows this, otherwise he would be suing
    many for using his business method.

    How many other cases even outside of CD databases, are going on in this
    spirit? Anyone got an actual count?

    Consumer Choice!!!!!!!
    .


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  24. Where did all the Investors come from? on The Worst Of Times · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the humor, there is the fact that there had to be investors before there could be a dot com fall.

    Does anyone here really know what happened that caused such massive funds to become available?

    Well here is a bit I saw on PBS a few nights ago. The 1990's was a decade where some investors thought they had
    figured out the stock market math. They found enough big investors to help create a 1.5 trillion dollar gamble.

    Cept in the mid second half of the 90s, all the math turned sour and it was serious enough that it put the 1.5
    Trillion in US dollar equivelance at risk. The US government stepped in with some 3 billion (or better) of
    taxpayer money to bail the investment firm out.

    But before the math turned bad, alot of money was made.

    So you might say it was a miscalculation, bad math that seeded the bad investments in dot coms.

    .

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  25. Re:Oh no, here it comes - ignorance on The Worst Of Times · · Score: 1

    Well geee, I don't know, considering the intelligence of an industry that makes a computer motherboard that can crash so bad that the on/off power button doesn't work. You know, an industry losing sight of the most basic concept of computers, being an on/off switch, that works.


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