If you have any kind of marketing and sale infrastructure at all, you have nothing to worry about. No company in its right mind will allow software piracy on its premises, especially not for the benefit of the company. Don't bother with anything fancy; just give your prospective users an easy hoop to jump through. The more red tape and annoyance you add, the less likely you are to gain customers.
Has anything else ever driven anyone to FreeBSD? For every dozen people I know who use some form of Linux, I know zero people who use FreeBSD. If Linux were completely vaporized overnight, more people would switch to MacOS or Windows than to FreeBSD.
it's admirable that, regardless of how you feel about the iPhone, Apple, Steve Jobs, the city of Cupertino, or anything else that could color your judgement, you've been able to put all that aside and objectively state that, in this case, the user was an idiot and deserved to get hit with the giant phone bill. Sadly, your voices of reason were drowned out by repetitive/redundant crazy talk.
You got this attitude from your mom while she was a clerk at the DMV, right?
The group Fuck Islam can't be racist. Islam isn't a race, it's a religion.
Well, maybe renaming it to Fuck Sand Niggers would put a finer point on it.
Oh, that wasn't what they really meant?
I'd think you were just trolling but my "earnest misguided n00b idiot" filter is giving your comment a higher rating than my "clever jaded social commentator" filter.
If that is true, then were are all of the other anti-groups protesting these hate groups, which I found on FaceBook in about three minutes of searching:
ALL CHILD MOLESTERS SHOULD HAVE THERE DICKS GET CUT OFF
Fuck The Fucking KKK
FUCK THE KKK FUCK THOSE RACIST BITCHES!!!!
All unite against the group(fuck uslimsand palestine)
FUCK ISRAEL!!! EVERONE HATES IT SO WHY IS IT STILL AROUND?!
Fuck Nazis
Fuck The Enemies of Israel
What was that, Quest for Fuck? That's some clever fucking research there sport.
Once again, I value practicality over ideals here. I fully support my fellow Americans' right to free, idiotic speech, but I also support the right of someone who has been gratuitously insulted to open up a can of whoopass on whatever idiot did the speaking. I'll let the future Salman Rushdies do the mocking and blaspheming. Never mind that it's just plain rude to insult someone's choice of religion (okay, I'm making an exception for Scientology), but if you really want to fuck a religion, it would be better to avoid selecting one numbering 1.5 billion souls with fundamentalist and occasionally violent tendencies. It might be wiser to pick a small non-proselytizing pacifist one. The Quakers perhaps.
I am a "privacy nut", but I have long stopped refusing to show identification (or in one case, provide a social security number for a bicycling-on-the-sidewalk ticket) to police officers. It is not worth the hassle. You will get caught up in a massive legal system. The only effective means to prevent this kind of completely illigitmate search/detention is to get involved at the political level. The bare facts of the Constitution in this case will not help you.
I think many people underestimate the real costs of "standing up for your rights." The ACLU and EFF do not come to the rescue of someone who refuses to show ID to a cop outside a big box store after calling the cop in the first place. But even though the ACLU didn't show up, the cop will still take the guy to jail, and he will still be arraigned, and he will still have to make bail. Then he still has to go back to court. If he plans to win his case, he still has to hire a decent trial lawyer, which will cost $250 an hour, plus or minus. If he plans to appeal, he can plan on spending $10,000 or more just for basics. Meanwhile he will miss work, miss time with his family, acquire a criminal record (many employers are now considering misdemeanor offenses when hiring), and be inconvenienced for months at times not of his choosing. It isn't a pastime like keeping a blog. It affects your life.
Frankly, I'd just let the guy check my bag. And if I didn't, I'd show the cop my ID. Let John Gilmore make a hobby out of refusing to show identification. He has old skool Silicon Valley money to play with, and meanwhile he has lost almost every case he has brought. I think he's in the right, for the most part, but that doesn't mean I'm going to put my life on hold to join in his cause.
But this does bring up another more frightening issue. Those of you who seem to believe this man was in the wrong would probably also, by way of implication, also agree with pat-down searches by store employees. Maybe you'd agree with emptying your pockets out (oh dear, imagine the embarrassment if you had something slip out of your wallet during such a search), taking off your shoes, or allowing them to confiscate something they feel you shouldn't have for your own "safety."
I don't think anyone is saying that. I'm certainly not saying that. But when I go into my favorite arts store, which is loaded with expensive items that are easily pocketed, I don't mind surrendering my shoulder bag at the door or consenting to have it inspected when I leave. People do steal stuff from stores. People steal a lot of it. Store owners who ask to inspect shopping bags or other briefcases, purses, and so on, are behaving reasonably in many cases. When I go into a big box store, I don't expect to be treated like someone who is visiting a tiny boutique shop whose prices reflect a much higher level of attention and service. I expect to be treated like someone who is going to shop in a large commercial enterprise that sells mainstream merchandise as cheaply as possible.
I have, in the past, done annoying things when exiting the store and have been asked to proved that I have bought what I had, but if the employees get this crazy, why would anyone want to cause such grief to those making $6 an hour, not to mention wasting the police time.
Making life easier for people making $6 an hour is a good thing. Someone who has the energy to get up in the morning every day and go do a crap job for a big box store deserves a little respect. Courtesy, even. The bag checker has no control over the store's policies, and if he fails to do his job, he may have to get another one. He's hanging out by the exit thinking "Hey, man, my job sucks, please let me get through another day of it with as little humiliation as possible." So why go making life miserable for everyone when there is a foolproof remedy: not going into the store in the first place.
Just show them what's in the bag. Some battles are not worth fighting. I'm sure the various family members he has inconvenienced and embarrassed would agree. If this big box store's policies offend him, he can avoid shopping there. That was his first mistake.
The big mistake he made was giving the cop a hard time. When you call the police, you should be prepared to cooperate with them. Did he really think a police officer was going to take instructions from him? If you want a cop to help you, make it easy for him to be helpful.
I live there (here) and there are a lot of great things about the city, but one of them is not the city's ability to deal with infrastructure in any way that makes even the least bit of sense. Progress, such as it is, occurs as if the time dimension in space-time had no earthly relevance. Don't get me started on Muni. But anyway, if people had started putting up antennas, there'd be years of environmental studies about electromagnetic radiation poisoning (and people wondering, is WiFi organic?). That would get the ball rolling and activists would start roving the streets looking for home-base wireless nets and shutting them down because they "leak" dangerous electromagnetic energy. If you think I'm kidding, you should visit my home which is in a cellular dead spot, because for years a handful of crusty old neighbors have blocked plans to install a small camouflaged antenna on the roof of a church. Don't confuse "progressive" with "progress.":-)
That's what I thought this article was about at first. Oh well, I'll keep hoping.
I want to write desktop apps with JS/GWT/whatever
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Some day, I'll be able to use a browser to write desktop apps without resorting to plugins or XUL or whatever. No, Google Gears doesn't do that.
JS is a great language and GWT is a great tool, especially the hosted development environment. But it will never reach its potential until it is a general purpose application programming language.
Only behemoths like Microsoft and Google should be allowed to dedicate massive resources to _succesfully?_ develop products based on other peoples insight? God forbid someone actually make money by THINKING./dives into flame resistant suit/
Normally, conventional practices and ethics dictate that when you make money by thinking, you use some kind of original thought.
... but I did skim the first half or so of the claims, and this is one of the most-thoroughly-and-obviously-covered-by-prior-art patents I have ever seen.
I'm sure that *well* before procmail there were products and academic papers covering exactly this subject matter in detail. How a patent like this ever passes the laugh test, I don't know.
This seems to presume that there's some compelling reason to leave Xen and go to VMWare. If that's the case, why didn't they just go to VMWare in the first place? They've been hiring...
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There are a few cases where the payware is worth it!
Dead Tree Edition is nice too.
If you have any kind of marketing and sale infrastructure at all, you have nothing to worry about. No company in its right mind will allow software piracy on its premises, especially not for the benefit of the company. Don't bother with anything fancy; just give your prospective users an easy hoop to jump through. The more red tape and annoyance you add, the less likely you are to gain customers.
I agree, if it's heavy metals we're talking about, we don't need any "leaching." But I think asking people to "wizen" up is a little drastic.
Has anything else ever driven anyone to FreeBSD? For every dozen people I know who use some form of Linux, I know zero people who use FreeBSD. If Linux were completely vaporized overnight, more people would switch to MacOS or Windows than to FreeBSD.
Kudzu grows so fast that a cow can graze all day on it while standing still. What kind of marvels will this new wonder weed bring us?
it's admirable that, regardless of how you feel about the iPhone, Apple, Steve Jobs, the city of Cupertino, or anything else that could color your judgement, you've been able to put all that aside and objectively state that, in this case, the user was an idiot and deserved to get hit with the giant phone bill. Sadly, your voices of reason were drowned out by repetitive/redundant crazy talk.
You got this attitude from your mom while she was a clerk at the DMV, right?
Service *unf* the customer *unf* service *unf* the customer *unf*
(George Carlin)
What is it with Firefox anyway?
Opera is pretty spiffy, but I rely on my Firefox plugins. I wish it didn't insist on leaking memory though.
If anything, iTunes is stripped down. I don't get it. It's not like it has three rows of MS Office toolbars.
And why is Ask Slashdot always such goofball stuff?
The group Fuck Islam can't be racist. Islam isn't a race, it's a religion.
Well, maybe renaming it to Fuck Sand Niggers would put a finer point on it.
Oh, that wasn't what they really meant?
I'd think you were just trolling but my "earnest misguided n00b idiot" filter is giving your comment a higher rating than my "clever jaded social commentator" filter.
What was that, Quest for Fuck? That's some clever fucking research there sport.
Once again, I value practicality over ideals here. I fully support my fellow Americans' right to free, idiotic speech, but I also support the right of someone who has been gratuitously insulted to open up a can of whoopass on whatever idiot did the speaking. I'll let the future Salman Rushdies do the mocking and blaspheming. Never mind that it's just plain rude to insult someone's choice of religion (okay, I'm making an exception for Scientology), but if you really want to fuck a religion, it would be better to avoid selecting one numbering 1.5 billion souls with fundamentalist and occasionally violent tendencies. It might be wiser to pick a small non-proselytizing pacifist one. The Quakers perhaps.
I'm just sayin'.
I am a "privacy nut", but I have long stopped refusing to show identification (or in one case, provide a social security number for a bicycling-on-the-sidewalk ticket) to police officers. It is not worth the hassle. You will get caught up in a massive legal system. The only effective means to prevent this kind of completely illigitmate search/detention is to get involved at the political level. The bare facts of the Constitution in this case will not help you.
I think many people underestimate the real costs of "standing up for your rights." The ACLU and EFF do not come to the rescue of someone who refuses to show ID to a cop outside a big box store after calling the cop in the first place. But even though the ACLU didn't show up, the cop will still take the guy to jail, and he will still be arraigned, and he will still have to make bail. Then he still has to go back to court. If he plans to win his case, he still has to hire a decent trial lawyer, which will cost $250 an hour, plus or minus. If he plans to appeal, he can plan on spending $10,000 or more just for basics. Meanwhile he will miss work, miss time with his family, acquire a criminal record (many employers are now considering misdemeanor offenses when hiring), and be inconvenienced for months at times not of his choosing. It isn't a pastime like keeping a blog. It affects your life.
Frankly, I'd just let the guy check my bag. And if I didn't, I'd show the cop my ID. Let John Gilmore make a hobby out of refusing to show identification. He has old skool Silicon Valley money to play with, and meanwhile he has lost almost every case he has brought. I think he's in the right, for the most part, but that doesn't mean I'm going to put my life on hold to join in his cause.
But this does bring up another more frightening issue. Those of you who seem to believe this man was in the wrong would probably also, by way of implication, also agree with pat-down searches by store employees. Maybe you'd agree with emptying your pockets out (oh dear, imagine the embarrassment if you had something slip out of your wallet during such a search), taking off your shoes, or allowing them to confiscate something they feel you shouldn't have for your own "safety."
I don't think anyone is saying that. I'm certainly not saying that. But when I go into my favorite arts store, which is loaded with expensive items that are easily pocketed, I don't mind surrendering my shoulder bag at the door or consenting to have it inspected when I leave. People do steal stuff from stores. People steal a lot of it. Store owners who ask to inspect shopping bags or other briefcases, purses, and so on, are behaving reasonably in many cases. When I go into a big box store, I don't expect to be treated like someone who is visiting a tiny boutique shop whose prices reflect a much higher level of attention and service. I expect to be treated like someone who is going to shop in a large commercial enterprise that sells mainstream merchandise as cheaply as possible.
And any number of other things.
I have, in the past, done annoying things when exiting the store and have been asked to proved that I have bought what I had, but if the employees get this crazy, why would anyone want to cause such grief to those making $6 an hour, not to mention wasting the police time.
Making life easier for people making $6 an hour is a good thing. Someone who has the energy to get up in the morning every day and go do a crap job for a big box store deserves a little respect. Courtesy, even. The bag checker has no control over the store's policies, and if he fails to do his job, he may have to get another one. He's hanging out by the exit thinking "Hey, man, my job sucks, please let me get through another day of it with as little humiliation as possible." So why go making life miserable for everyone when there is a foolproof remedy: not going into the store in the first place.
Just show them what's in the bag. Some battles are not worth fighting. I'm sure the various family members he has inconvenienced and embarrassed would agree. If this big box store's policies offend him, he can avoid shopping there. That was his first mistake.
The big mistake he made was giving the cop a hard time. When you call the police, you should be prepared to cooperate with them. Did he really think a police officer was going to take instructions from him? If you want a cop to help you, make it easy for him to be helpful.
I live there (here) and there are a lot of great things about the city, but one of them is not the city's ability to deal with infrastructure in any way that makes even the least bit of sense. Progress, such as it is, occurs as if the time dimension in space-time had no earthly relevance. Don't get me started on Muni. But anyway, if people had started putting up antennas, there'd be years of environmental studies about electromagnetic radiation poisoning (and people wondering, is WiFi organic?). That would get the ball rolling and activists would start roving the streets looking for home-base wireless nets and shutting them down because they "leak" dangerous electromagnetic energy. If you think I'm kidding, you should visit my home which is in a cellular dead spot, because for years a handful of crusty old neighbors have blocked plans to install a small camouflaged antenna on the roof of a church. Don't confuse "progressive" with "progress." :-)
(Actually, my current coworkers are pretty cool. Just in case one of them reads this.)
That's what I thought this article was about at first. Oh well, I'll keep hoping.
Some day, I'll be able to use a browser to write desktop apps without resorting to plugins or XUL or whatever. No, Google Gears doesn't do that.
JS is a great language and GWT is a great tool, especially the hosted development environment. But it will never reach its potential until it is a general purpose application programming language.
Normally, conventional practices and ethics dictate that when you make money by thinking, you use some kind of original thought.
... but I did skim the first half or so of the claims, and this is one of the most-thoroughly-and-obviously-covered-by-prior-art patents I have ever seen.
I'm sure that *well* before procmail there were products and academic papers covering exactly this subject matter in detail. How a patent like this ever passes the laugh test, I don't know.
This seems to presume that there's some compelling reason to leave Xen and go to VMWare. If that's the case, why didn't they just go to VMWare in the first place? They've been hiring...
And they've been hiring people from Xen.
Actually, the brain drain from Xen to VMware will kick into high gear now that Xen employees have had the big payday they've been waiting for.