I mean, I'm sitting in front of a powerful general-purpose computing machine which is connected in well-known ways to millions of other general-purpose computing machines. You come along with your patent application saying "I can do X" [not the windowing system]. Am I supposed to be surprised? If it's not obvious, it's probably stupid.
Now if youy're trying to patent an algorithm or codec, that's a different matter. But in those cases it's the algorithm that you should be patenting, not the software implementation of it, which, given the public nature of your patented algorithm, is probably obvious.
If ever sued over any of my domains make sure I have documentary evidence of refusal to sell when approached.
I wonder if there is a business model here? For $10 I will send you a letter asking if you will sell your domain name, and I will keep the reply you send me saying "No," in case you are ever sued.
What did he expect? He was providing a forum for free speech in a country where people are regularly tortured for expressing their opinions. I admire his bravery, and his principles, but I can't say I'm surprised by the reaction.
Oh, wait, it *is* the BSD color scheme. Hah bloody hah.
Yes, but what about the goats?
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I was going to rant about cruelty to goats, which is a hot button issue for half the readership of slashdot, and a hobby for the other half. But then I realized that compared with dairy cattle, who have essentially the same things done to them on an industrial scale, these goats don't have it too bad.
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and the fact that it could be supporting the IRA
This is a myth.
is a point in its favor
I don't see Tim McVeigh endorsing Bud, Coors or Miller. Perhaps they couldn't get the camera into the jail.
Ah. That must be why Americans say it all the time then.
It's a free society but you have to say "Move to AMERICA" every five minutes. Oh, and you have to forget how to spell "answer". But apart from that it's free.
Or put another way, since the entire internet runs BIND, including myself on my poxy little home network, should the self-chosen elite (or worse, a pecuniously chosen elite) be allowed to know when your DNS server is vulnerable before you do?
To rework your door analogy, suppose a particular model of lock had a problem. Perhaps it can be opened with a piece of uncooked spaghetti. Would you rather that everyone was told, or just those people "with a reason to know", such as locksmiths, process servers and baillifs? Plus of course, any incognito burglars who'd stumped up the change to get on the list. Remember that you still think your door is locked.
I'm confused. Possibly so is the author of this article. He seems to imply that UCITA is a pending piece of federal legislation, rather than state legislation. As it is, UCITA appears to be dead and buried in most states (hooray!).
He draws a line between the Reimerdes and Connectix cases by quoting that Reimerdes "didn't have a right to the DVD". Did he steal it? More confusion.
Anyway, it seems the 9th Circuit gets overturned all the time, so I wouldn't get too hopeful about this being a positive sign.
DeCSS does subvert the CSS encryption scheme in sense #3: to overthrow completely.
Personally, I feel that if you take 400 trade secrets, burn them onto little plastic discs, then sell several million of the discs at twenty bucks each, you really deserve to lose trade secret protection.
Even though I post at +1, I read at +2. Redundancy is a natural byproduct of this process. It is also self-correcting, since if I get modded down for being redundant enough times I will never acquire the 26 karma points necessary to read my own posts.
If the MPAA chooses to publish a list of sites that host DeCSS, which any ISP or user can choose to block, then you have an analogy. In fact, it would be interesting to see how many people outside the MPAA used it, or even if the MPAA used it themselves.
If MAPS were to bribe large numbers of US Congressmen to make being on the RBL a crime punishable by fines & imprisonment, you'd also have an analogy. I also think that there are some people on/. who think this would be a good idea, but not as many as approve of the RBL as an opt-in system.
I used to work in an open plan office. My table was essentially held up by the table of the guy opposite. We couldn't turn our monitors without bumping the other. I don't know what it did for his productivity, but he ended up teaching me C.
Meanwhile, all around were other pairs of tables. I can't say we had great communication, but at least you knew when someone was making a pot of tea.
I suppose with the demise of UUCP mail (cue for someone with a ! in their email address to pipe up), and the increased connectivity of the internet, no-one really needs to relay email any more. I still think it's sad that this has to be done. After all, no-one is complaining that having open mailboxes outside every post office is a security problem, yet this is the exact real-world analogy (allowing for differences in sender-pays versus recipient-pays).
I think the sympathies here on/. are clear cut. If the guy had hacked in and left the sysadmin a note how he did it, he should walk away. But because he was using the machine for spam (not to be confused with SPAM) he should be hanged, drawn & quartered. And that's only because we're feeling nice. It's the difference between finding a back of US mail & returning it to the Post Office, or filling it with postage-due credit card scams.
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I have worked at many "real" companies. Generally speaking, the successful ones have been the ones where people can make decisions without fifteen levels of approval. As for the others, well, I don't work there any more, do I?
OT: this is the second reply I've had in the last couple of weeks that has assumed I'm still in school. Apparently some people think that getting a paycheck magically removes any idealism you may previously have had. I have to reassure that majority of Slashdot readers that are still in school that this is not the case. Of course, as the system sucks you in it gets harder to fight it, and not just because you have more to lose. But you have to keep hoping you can change it, even if only in little ways.
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I mean, I'm sitting in front of a powerful general-purpose computing machine which is connected in well-known ways to millions of other general-purpose computing machines. You come along with your patent application saying "I can do X" [not the windowing system]. Am I supposed to be surprised? If it's not obvious, it's probably stupid.
Now if youy're trying to patent an algorithm or codec, that's a different matter. But in those cases it's the algorithm that you should be patenting, not the software implementation of it, which, given the public nature of your patented algorithm, is probably obvious.
Intel already has a trademark on the letter I. Seriously. I'm sure many of the other 25 are already taken, too.
... the main color of your car is Bondo.
- Jeff Foxworthy
[*] offer only applies to corporations. Individuals need not apply.
Free Software and OpenSource Software wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today were it not for the Internet
And the Internet wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today were it not for Free Software and OpenSource Software.
Just an observation.
If ever sued over any of my domains make sure I have documentary evidence of refusal to sell when approached.
I wonder if there is a business model here? For $10 I will send you a letter asking if you will sell your domain name, and I will keep the reply you send me saying "No," in case you are ever sued.
film at 11.
What did he expect? He was providing a forum for free speech in a country where people are regularly tortured for expressing their opinions. I admire his bravery, and his principles, but I can't say I'm surprised by the reaction.
This is worse than the BSD colour scheme.
Oh, wait, it *is* the BSD color scheme. Hah bloody hah.
I was going to rant about cruelty to goats, which is a hot button issue for half the readership of slashdot, and a hobby for the other half. But then I realized that compared with dairy cattle, who have essentially the same things done to them on an industrial scale, these goats don't have it too bad.
and the fact that it could be supporting the IRA
This is a myth.
is a point in its favor
I don't see Tim McVeigh endorsing Bud, Coors or Miller. Perhaps they couldn't get the camera into the jail.
Ah. That must be why Americans say it all the time then.
It's a free society but you have to say "Move to AMERICA" every five minutes. Oh, and you have to forget how to spell "answer". But apart from that it's free.
Yes, this is flamebait.
Or put another way, since the entire internet runs BIND, including myself on my poxy little home network, should the self-chosen elite (or worse, a pecuniously chosen elite) be allowed to know when your DNS server is vulnerable before you do?
To rework your door analogy, suppose a particular model of lock had a problem. Perhaps it can be opened with a piece of uncooked spaghetti. Would you rather that everyone was told, or just those people "with a reason to know", such as locksmiths, process servers and baillifs? Plus of course, any incognito burglars who'd stumped up the change to get on the list. Remember that you still think your door is locked.
I'm confused. Possibly so is the author of this article. He seems to imply that UCITA is a pending piece of federal legislation, rather than state legislation. As it is, UCITA appears to be dead and buried in most states (hooray!).
He draws a line between the Reimerdes and Connectix cases by quoting that Reimerdes "didn't have a right to the DVD". Did he steal it? More confusion.
Anyway, it seems the 9th Circuit gets overturned all the time, so I wouldn't get too hopeful about this being a positive sign.
DeCSS does subvert the CSS encryption scheme in sense #3: to overthrow completely.
Personally, I feel that if you take 400 trade secrets, burn them onto little plastic discs, then sell several million of the discs at twenty bucks each, you really deserve to lose trade secret protection.
It's called fiction.
Your local library may have some. Try it. Some of it is quite good.
Even though I post at +1, I read at +2. Redundancy is a natural byproduct of this process. It is also self-correcting, since if I get modded down for being redundant enough times I will never acquire the 26 karma points necessary to read my own posts.
Hydroelectric dams don't blow up after 50 years, either.
Assuming 123 = space
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THE GOVERNMENT SUCKS
You need better encryption, or possibly not to post the private key along with your message
If the MPAA chooses to publish a list of sites that host DeCSS, which any ISP or user can choose to block, then you have an analogy. In fact, it would be interesting to see how many people outside the MPAA used it, or even if the MPAA used it themselves.
/. who think this would be a good idea, but not as many as approve of the RBL as an opt-in system.
If MAPS were to bribe large numbers of US Congressmen to make being on the RBL a crime punishable by fines & imprisonment, you'd also have an analogy. I also think that there are some people on
I used to work in an open plan office. My table was essentially held up by the table of the guy opposite. We couldn't turn our monitors without bumping the other. I don't know what it did for his productivity, but he ended up teaching me C.
Meanwhile, all around were other pairs of tables. I can't say we had great communication, but at least you knew when someone was making a pot of tea.
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A friend at college who was a geneticist told me he worked a lot on muntjack deer. Apparently they have "nice, big chromosomes".
This was before he gave up drinking, though, so take this information under advisement.
It's the difference between finding a back of US mail & returning it to the Post Office, or filling it with postage-due credit card scams.
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I suppose with the demise of UUCP mail (cue for someone with a ! in their email address to pipe up), and the increased connectivity of the internet, no-one really needs to relay email any more. I still think it's sad that this has to be done. After all, no-one is complaining that having open mailboxes outside every post office is a security problem, yet this is the exact real-world analogy (allowing for differences in sender-pays versus recipient-pays).
/. are clear cut. If the guy had hacked in and left the sysadmin a note how he did it, he should walk away. But because he was using the machine for spam (not to be confused with SPAM) he should be hanged, drawn & quartered. And that's only because we're feeling nice. It's the difference between finding a back of US mail & returning it to the Post Office, or filling it with postage-due credit card scams.
I think the sympathies here on
I have worked at many "real" companies. Generally speaking, the successful ones have been the ones where people can make decisions without fifteen levels of approval. As for the others, well, I don't work there any more, do I?
OT: this is the second reply I've had in the last couple of weeks that has assumed I'm still in school. Apparently some people think that getting a paycheck magically removes any idealism you may previously have had. I have to reassure that majority of Slashdot readers that are still in school that this is not the case. Of course, as the system sucks you in it gets harder to fight it, and not just because you have more to lose. But you have to keep hoping you can change it, even if only in little ways.