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  1. Re:My experience on Does Drawing on Experience Infringe on Other's IP? · · Score: 2

    I guess my point is that if the original author were to ferret out (more likely some pecksniff with little else to do) my paper and see this idea. He could say that I had gotten the idea from him and not attributed it to him. Independence of thought is not the same thing as original work.

    My point is that he needs to do some backchecking to find out where and whence the idea came. If it really is his orignal work, cool, if not then credit where credit is due.

  2. My experience on Does Drawing on Experience Infringe on Other's IP? · · Score: 2
    As a cultural geographer, I do a bunch of fieldwork and have gathered a good deal of experience in the study of vernacular architecture. About a year ago, I was doing work in Slovenia and I had a thought: "Time is nothing more to folk architecture than a way of dispelling the notion that humans live and create outside of nature." Cool. That's some profound stuff there. I put it in a paper and submitted it to my professor who liked it. "Publish, young don!"

    During the run up to a later conference, I did some reading on material culture literature by a gentleman named Henry Glassie. Then I saw this: "Dates remind us that traditional ways are not superorganic in origin but the product of work in time." I quickly fired up OpenOffice and added an endnote citing him.


    I think that is the point where experience can tread on other's IP. He had done it before and it could be reasonably expected of me to have read these seminal works on the subject matter. Therefore, I had to cite to be honest, no matter that I had come up with a similar thought previously and independent of my knowledge of his work.

  3. Re:Debian is easier to fix on Slashback: OpenSSH, Bio, Timeliness · · Score: 2

    Again. If and only if. The .deb was done quickly, then fine.

    By expert, I mean "me" as I am the expert on the machines I maintain. Not some dude in Raleigh or at MIT. Besides, I have seen /usr/ports updated within a 2 hours of a bug report, and more quickly in the case of a kernel problem -- the rare kernel problem, mind you.

    I have linux boxes that I maintain, but I use Rock and compile it all myself. That way I know what is afoot.

    Linux isn't the only free operating system.

  4. And another thing on Slashback: OpenSSH, Bio, Timeliness · · Score: 2

    There is a /usr/ports movement on debian. Try it is is better. make. make install.

  5. Re:Debian is easier to fix on Slashback: OpenSSH, Bio, Timeliness · · Score: 2

    If and only if someone has made up the deb. And then it isn't compiled from source like /usr/ports on your machine.

  6. Re:31 bucks on Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales · · Score: 2

    Before.

  7. 31 bucks on Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales · · Score: 2

    ...before taxes for his show in Atlanta before taxes. Poor baby.

  8. I wonder.... on Robocup 2002 Now Underway · · Score: 2

    I wonder if there is a Zlatko Zahobot or a Keanebot that stomps off the field calling the coach a "Gearhead now and a gearhead when he was a player." Do you give the players punchcards instead of booking them the old fashioned way? What about hooliganbots that trash serverrooms after England gets whipped by the Faroe Islands?

  9. Re:For all you non-USians out there on Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last? · · Score: 2

    I have an apartment in Zelena Jama in Ljubljana on Vzajemna cesta. Right near the Zale cemetery and BTC. Wh00t!

  10. Re:Did Bill Gates piss Sam Walton off? on Mandrake to Come Preloaded on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sam Walton is long dead. But if anyone could piss off the dead, it'd be Microsoft.

  11. Re:For all you non-USians out there on Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last? · · Score: 2

    I am a dual US-Greek citizen who has lived in Britain, Canada, Slovenia, Italy and Greece (I am currently back in the States). I have never been a member of the US armed forces. And I have heard every possible Non-US perspective on US History. They tend to be right, but not always.

  12. Right you are on Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last? · · Score: 2

    At least millions of innocents didn't die.

    http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/05/18/kiss inger/

  13. For all you non-USians out there on Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here are some links on this bit of US history. Good old Tricky Dicky made Bill Clinton look like a choir boy. At least Clinton never tried to circumvent democracy covertly or, for that matter, overtly (that we know).

  14. World Cup Korea on Visual Studio .Net: Now with more Viruses · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I was sitting at home the other day, watching Korea tie the US, and I thought, "Y'know, in that stadium there must be 65000 screaming Koreans. At least 10 of them are partially responsible for all of the Nimbda traffic I see and twice that many are responsible for the various Dick Cream spams I get each day." I should have known it had nothing to do with slack ass Korean sysadmins and had everything to do with Redmond. Everytime I fall into that trap, Gates bails me out....

  15. Other words he could have used on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 2

    Fucknob. Handjob. Cockgobbler. Ass Badger. Ass Clown. Fuckstick. Skinmunch. Buttslobber. Ass Weasel. Chickenjob. Cockbagger. JeanCream.

    Feel free to add on.

  16. Re:Tsk. Tsk. Tim.... on Slashback: Film, Solaris, Contention · · Score: 2

    So are "ain't", "you'uns" and "nabs." Irrespective of the fact that irregardless is bad usage, usage rules, and the practice of pointing them out, are for the particulary Pecksniffian. This is not unlike the odd fallacy monger who tosses out post hoc, ergo propter hoc whenever someone mentions the time.

  17. Re:Tsk. Tsk. Tim.... on Slashback: Film, Solaris, Contention · · Score: 2

    Interesting. And would probably be quite an acceptible party here in Knoxville.

  18. Tsk. Tsk. Tim.... on Slashback: Film, Solaris, Contention · · Score: 2

    potlatch-is-the-way-to-eat

    If you are still in Knoxville, then it is a "pot luck." And, by Gawd, any carbonated drink is a Coke irregardless of flavor or manufacturer.

  19. This of course is in opposition.... on Space Exploration Act of 2002 · · Score: 3, Funny

    While you're at it, figure out how to get the popular press aware of this...

    As opposed to /. of course....

  20. Our experience on Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex? · · Score: 5, Informative
    We deployed the largest campus wireless (to date) network here. Which involved a lot of the issues you bring up and then some. Was it a pain? Yup. Did we have to backtrack and reengineer (esp. security and client access)? Yup. Check out this stuff for some info:



    I hope this helps. Our wireless guys pulled this off in 130 buildings over a several square kilometer area. Good Luck!

    PS. Cracks about Redneck Rocky Top and such ilk should be modded -1! ;-p
  21. Terminology on Hacking Web Services · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why on earth does this guy call "violating security" of web services "hacking?" I read this article expecting to hear about some nuanced application hacks for XSLT or SOAP or general "Web Services" not a security "lookout!" article. This should be filed in the "no shit" department. If you leave a service open which can be connected to, be it a socket or a web form, somebody will start passing date to it to see what works and doesn't work.

  22. Clones v Spiderman -- the long run on Episode II Surpasses $116 Million at Box Office · · Score: 2

    I have had people tell me that comparing AOTC to Spiderman is like comparing apples to oranges, but I beg to differ. I think that AOTC is a more durable film, in other words, you can go see it time again and it gets better as opposed to worse or indifferent. Spiderman is pretty nifty, but I think it will flop down there with the first Batman in that it won't stand the test of time. My kids will be pining for (the non-existent) 7 through 9 episodes based on the coolness of these three episodes and the mega coolness of the first three. They will not be pining to see Spiderman 7: Spidey vs the Hulk.

  23. Re:pr0n!=bad for kids on Cingular Filtering Porn From Wireless Web? · · Score: 2
    America is a country of prudes.


    Examples:

    • Bleeping the word "ass"
    • Getting worked up when Madonna kisses a black guy who is playing Jesus
    • Getting bent out of shape over a woman athlete posing in Playboy
    • Huffiness over topless beaches
    • Nervous titters: "Phone call for Master Bates"


    You need to get a clue. Where are the Asian, African and South American tourists being slaughtered? Is this recent news? German tourists drop like flies in Miami. But wait, that's different. They should know better than to get lost in one of "those" neighborhoods. In Germany, there aren't any of "those" neighborhoods. Jackass.
  24. Re:pr0n!=bad for kids on Cingular Filtering Porn From Wireless Web? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just don't understand why Americans get into such a snit over sex and pornography; and yes, it's mostly Americans.

    It's a moot point. American culture is what God intended. God hates panders, sodomites and pornographers. Therefore America cannot have porn. America is the end of history and is what is supposed to happen, therefore the rest of the world's mores are wrong and must be subjugated to American will.

    I am being outrageous to make a point, but talking morality to Americans is like talking seal clubbing to a polar bear. They have it down, any other voice or idea is wrong. Just watch Fox News for a fair and balanced assessment of the subject. ;-p Anybody who says 'boo' to the opposite is a heathen devil sodomite who buggers little boys and votes for Al Gore.

  25. Re:Milk? Wawa? (OT) on Computers and Cars: A Maddening Experience? · · Score: 2

    It is the Seven-Eleven of the Philly area. Seedy little places on every corner (I used to buy smokes at the one in Narberth) which seem to stock every known type of human or otherwise grub at inflated prices. Aimed primarily at the Smokedot crowd and skater kids who rip off parking meters.