Hatch could very well be proposing new laws that make GPL-style use of copyright illegal
That wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility, with the Supreme court essentially saying in Eldridge vs. Ashcroft (CTEA) that congress could do anything with copyright, no matter how bad the idea/law.
It's not as simple as that. Hatch never has done anything to benefit the enduser.
If there was a way he could snuff out the GPL (like if it a company asked him to) he would do so in a heartbeat.
We are talking patents/copyright. But don't forget he was Ashcroft's spirit brother with the patriot act I,II/carnivore/FBI wiretapping anything else you can think of.
I don't understand how apple is harmed by, let's say, the reveiling of a sub 500.00 low powered apple?
I think there is more to it than that. I honestly don't think that in this instance any thunder was stolen and any harm was done.
What I think Apple is trying to do is weed out their "mole" before next time when it may really matter. if a secret is let loose far enough in advance it could give competitors a chance to piece together a competing product for release at the same time. This could have serious implications for a company.
Besides that, by taking care of the insider now, it puts all of the other company employees/contractors on notice that they need to decide where their loyalties are while working for Apple.
Apple certainly thinks that taking all this negative publicity now is an investment that will pay off in the future. Probably akin to lancing a boil.
It certainly could be risky for Apple though, as they do employ people arguably from a 'free thinking' part of the country, and the next mac rumor might show up in a plain brown envelope that is completely untraceable, just to 'prove' Apple wrong on this lawsuit.
From the article: To increase patent quality while helping examiners deal with the quantity, Smith called for a permanent end to Congress's practice of diverting USPTO fees to other budget areas.
That would imply a degree of fiscal responsibility. If fiscal responsibility existed the dollar wouldn't be going through the floor.
The definition fro me relates to an immoral, rather than illegal, charge of interest on money, as many religions prohibit usury, for the reasons that are becoming increasingly evident in the credit card business.
I wouldn't classify bank loans and mortages as usury, but I certainly would the the credit card, as the practices by the companies, esp. concerning the contracts, as deceptive.
Health insurance is another area that flat out reeks, and is beyond the scope of this thread. Just don't get sick. Because even if you do have health insurance, as you pointed out, it still could be a crushing blow.
It's stunning really, that with a report released that listed 50% of bankruptcies due to people not able to pay their health care bills, congress then passes a bankruptcy bill that ignores completely this statistic. You would think that they would work on reforming health care instead.
Unfortunately, I am not optimistic about changes. You can only hope that the "values voter" realizes the shortcomings in their choices at the polls. Also, there has to be meaningful third party candidates besides republican/democrat for there to be changes.
I also think that if you call yourself a republican, you need to take a hard look at the twin deficits and ask yourself if that is "fiscal conservatism."
So much as music is concerned, I suggest you buy all your music used. The RIAA hates this as they don't see a dime. I'm sure that they would want to do away with this if they could. Buying the music used is a way to enjoy music guilt free.
Public records are free if you go down to the local courthouse and look up the information yourself.
It's the digitizing of the information that costs money. LexisNexis (and many others) pay somebody $8-$10 and hour looking up public casefiles, writing the information down (or typing it into a laptop) and sending it back to headquarters.
People are willing to pay (handsomely) to have this information at their fingertips when they need it, especially when it comes from a courthouse in another state.
I suspect that as time goes on, there will be more shakeout in this industry as the people with the records try to compete with the big players by digitizing the info themselves and selling it around.
Unfortunately issues such as privacy and security are going to be so much roadkill (as is other online rights are) as we no longer have a government that works on the behalf of the people.
People are going to argue with me about this, but we are ruled by whores. And I consider myself an optimist.
Don't ask them to hobble the software to keep it compatible when most of the rest of are working on equipment that is less than two years old.
I think this is giving an "out" to software developers. People are already wondering why they have to buy new equipment every couple of years as they are on the "upgrade mill."
Rather than seeing old equipment as a hinderance, it should be embraced by open source advocates as this is where a significant chunk of new users have or are going to come from.
In this vein, software writers (open source or not really) need to justify why their application is a resource hog in the first place - is it because it is shoddily written or is it implementing "feature creep" that is not really necessary?
Also, as others have wondered, why do we have CPUs doubling in speed/capability but yet software seems four times as bloated and buggy?
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At $10 a year, you have point. At $10 a month, it's too expensive.
As it is, napster is DOA.
Hatch could very well be proposing new laws that make GPL-style use of copyright illegal
That wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility, with the Supreme court essentially saying in Eldridge vs. Ashcroft (CTEA) that congress could do anything with copyright, no matter how bad the idea/law.
Unfortunately, we have only a two party system.
One local politician in the last election cycle told everybody that they could not be a good mormon and vote for a Democrat.
That leaves just lil' ol' Orrin the republican.
This was before the gay marriage bruhaha. Needless to say now, it's bleak if you are a Democrat running for major office in Utah.
It's not as simple as that. Hatch never has done anything to benefit the enduser.
If there was a way he could snuff out the GPL (like if it a company asked him to) he would do so in a heartbeat.
We are talking patents/copyright. But don't forget he was Ashcroft's spirit brother with the patriot act I,II/carnivore/FBI wiretapping anything else you can think of.
Really, he should quit congress so he can pursue his music career for full time. Do everyone a favor.
Not to mention his office made up a bill to extend some drug patents because he was using their jet during his run for president.
Make fun of their religion.
You mean Windows isn't supposed to creak when it's new?
No, it's suppose to croak.
There is no need to update those computers...unless a larger load of work is needed to be done
Like send a trojan and download all the customer's/patient's/student's social security or credit card information??
Wonder Woman will be played by Charisma Carpenter [google.com]
Here is a picture of her on the set.
Should be as successful as firefly.
And do we get to sacrifice a virgin when the time comes?
You have to catch the virgin first. Sadly, this should prove very difficult for those reading this article.
No thanks. I will stick with bicks and concete.
I don't understand how apple is harmed by, let's say, the reveiling of a sub 500.00 low powered apple?
I think there is more to it than that. I honestly don't think that in this instance any thunder was stolen and any harm was done.
What I think Apple is trying to do is weed out their "mole" before next time when it may really matter. if a secret is let loose far enough in advance it could give competitors a chance to piece together a competing product for release at the same time. This could have serious implications for a company.
Besides that, by taking care of the insider now, it puts all of the other company employees/contractors on notice that they need to decide where their loyalties are while working for Apple.
Apple certainly thinks that taking all this negative publicity now is an investment that will pay off in the future. Probably akin to lancing a boil.
It certainly could be risky for Apple though, as they do employ people arguably from a 'free thinking' part of the country, and the next mac rumor might show up in a plain brown envelope that is completely untraceable, just to 'prove' Apple wrong on this lawsuit.
From the article: To increase patent quality while helping examiners deal with the quantity, Smith called for a permanent end to Congress's practice of diverting USPTO fees to other budget areas.
That would imply a degree of fiscal responsibility. If fiscal responsibility existed the dollar wouldn't be going through the floor.
At a time when the prime interest rate is less than 3% and banks pay less than 1% interest, charging 19-24% interest IS EXTORTION
Actually the term for it is usury.
The definition fro me relates to an immoral, rather than illegal, charge of interest on money, as many religions prohibit usury, for the reasons that are becoming increasingly evident in the credit card business.
I wouldn't classify bank loans and mortages as usury, but I certainly would the the credit card, as the practices by the companies, esp. concerning the contracts, as deceptive.
Health insurance is another area that flat out reeks, and is beyond the scope of this thread. Just don't get sick. Because even if you do have health insurance, as you pointed out, it still could be a crushing blow.
It's stunning really, that with a report released that listed 50% of bankruptcies due to people not able to pay their health care bills, congress then passes a bankruptcy bill that ignores completely this statistic. You would think that they would work on reforming health care instead.
Unfortunately, I am not optimistic about changes. You can only hope that the "values voter" realizes the shortcomings in their choices at the polls. Also, there has to be meaningful third party candidates besides republican/democrat for there to be changes.
I also think that if you call yourself a republican, you need to take a hard look at the twin deficits and ask yourself if that is "fiscal conservatism."
So much as music is concerned, I suggest you buy all your music used. The RIAA hates this as they don't see a dime. I'm sure that they would want to do away with this if they could. Buying the music used is a way to enjoy music guilt free.
They can't do that no more. They've been cancelled.
Remember, you should always bury a lawyer at least six feet, because they are good down deep.
Public records are free if you go down to the local courthouse and look up the information yourself.
It's the digitizing of the information that costs money. LexisNexis (and many others) pay somebody $8-$10 and hour looking up public casefiles, writing the information down (or typing it into a laptop) and sending it back to headquarters.
People are willing to pay (handsomely) to have this information at their fingertips when they need it, especially when it comes from a courthouse in another state.
I suspect that as time goes on, there will be more shakeout in this industry as the people with the records try to compete with the big players by digitizing the info themselves and selling it around.
Unfortunately issues such as privacy and security are going to be so much roadkill (as is other online rights are) as we no longer have a government that works on the behalf of the people.
People are going to argue with me about this, but we are ruled by whores. And I consider myself an optimist.
A long time ago (I know I'm dating myself here!) Dr. Dobbs had a book called...
Many of us on slashdot date by ourselves. It's ok.
One of the bug posts ... was handled in an angry way....This is an extremely common phenomenon among Open Source authors.
Three words: Not enough sleep.
Where's that 20 somthing-year-old whiz kid whipper snapper that Google recently hired because he was part of Firefox development?
At work, earning money??
The second link is great! The first link doesn't tell me anything about the rendering engine though.
I sense a consensus here. The first thing I did before I read the slashdot thread is go see if there is some sort sourcecode overview.
I did not find anything, and it appears you have to dig it up for yourself. But this is the norm for the majority of projects anyway.
Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but is definitely more time consuming.
I plan to move on to using a dihydrogen monoxide based system in the future, though.
The Dept. of Homeland Security is going to crack down on this stuff because if you breath it, it will kill you.
Don't ask them to hobble the software to keep it compatible when most of the rest of are working on equipment that is less than two years old.
I think this is giving an "out" to software developers. People are already wondering why they have to buy new equipment every couple of years as they are on the "upgrade mill."
Rather than seeing old equipment as a hinderance, it should be embraced by open source advocates as this is where a significant chunk of new users have or are going to come from.
In this vein, software writers (open source or not really) need to justify why their application is a resource hog in the first place - is it because it is shoddily written or is it implementing "feature creep" that is not really necessary?
Also, as others have wondered, why do we have CPUs doubling in speed/capability but yet software seems four times as bloated and buggy?