True. But by measuring what portion of it decays in 100 years, we can extrapolate the half life.
75% decayed => half life is 50 years
50% decayed => half life is 100 years
25% decayed => half life is 241 years
10% decayed => half life is 658 years
1% decayed => half life is 6897 years
.1% decayed => half life is 69280 years
Last December my neighbor demanded that I take down the icicle lights I had just (after much hard work) put up. He said that he had gone to a lot of effort to find and put up his icicle lights, and since my house now looked just like his I was infringing on his look and feel intellectual property.
Good: I used PayPal to pay the good folks at dyndns.org for my hostname.
Bad: cancelling the Palm service (the only other time I used it).
Bad: no international customers. I am owed money by a guy in England. I will let you know when I cave in and have him send me a cheque, because that will be the day before PayPal start their overseas service.
The EQ box is an incomplete product. It requires a service to function. The tying of two products or services together is called bundling, and is generally illegal.
Because they are separate products, I can use the IP in the client (which I've paid for) to create my own IP in a server. If the creators patented the idea of an EQ server, I owe them a licence fee, but I don't believe they have.
and I believe that the computer didn't evolve the construction method either, but just handled the design given a fixed set of parts
The computer could have designed any three dimensional structure it wanted. The only constraints were the shape of the mount points for the motor, which is reasonable.
I think moving this into a real world example would be interesting, and not as slow as you think. We can introduce random mutations every generation, rather than waiting for cosmic rays, and there is no danger of a useful mutation being lost because the only individual that had it failed to mate.
The guy's name is Mike Ciresi, and from what I can tell he is a grade A scumbag, even for a lawyer. The tobacco settlement was big, but would have been bigger if he hadn't pocketed enough to fund a US Senate campaign.
Mark Dayton may be in some obscure way my boss (I think he's the largest individual shareholder in Target Corp., which his ancestors founded), but I'm still glad he's ahead of Ciresi.
Needless to say, my preferred candidate, Jerry Janezich, is way back in 4th place. He's from a mining town and owns a bar. He even has the DFL endorsement. How could he fail?
The other DFL candidate is Rebecca Yanisch. Her website is in the.com TLD. I think that says it all.
Of course, all of them are vastly preferable to Rod Grams.
SS is really for older children. I don't think any TV is designed for 8 month olds. Teletubbies is designed for 1 - 2 year olds.
Another problem with SS is that it is a whole hour. This is probably too much TV in one go for an infant.
My two year old will play while her older brother watches Sesame Street, then she comes over and watches Elmo's World, which is about 10 minutes at the end, and definitely more appropriate for toddlers.
Reknowned physicist siokaos made the shocking announcement today that radio waves are not, as had been previously thought, part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
"Radio waves pushed the real electromagnetic spectrum out of the way years ago," he said, "they fooled Einstein and Maxwell, but not me!".
siokaos is not sure what happened to the "real" electromagnetic spectrum, but he is currently working on the theory that they evolved into fish.
Thank you for your proposal to review Carnivore for us. We feel that Rupert's Independent Software Reviews Inc., while possessing all the technical requirements of the RFP, is insufficiently independent to perform the review. We base this conclusion on the fact that you have been known to use email (we can prove this!) and thus have a vested interest in the outcome.
Yours faithfully,
Janet Reno.
P.S. You did, however, get First Post. Congratulations.
You have 10 or 20 years to realize that you've missed the point here.
There's an exchange near the end of "Pirates of Silicon Valley" where Jobs says to Gates "we're better" and Gates replies "it doesn't matter". The shoe is on the other foot, now. Gates says to J. Random Hacker "I'm richer" and JRH replies "it doesn't matter".
The Gates and their descendants will continue to be amongst the worlds richest people long after the last box of Microsoft software is shipped. Red Hat may never turn a profit. It doesn't matter. Free Software is not only morally superior, it is in almost all cases technically superior.
People used to look at the Gnu tools and say "nice, but hobbyists can't write a whole OS". Now they say the same things about RDBMSs, and they will be proved just as wrong.
There will be professional programmers, just as today there are professional musicians and professional athletes. We will find a away to pay them because we value what they do. Closed source will be as absurd a concept as a copyrighted touchdown.
If your lawyers say you can firewall Napster on my PC, go ahead and do it. Don't listen to the Slashdot geeks who say you can't do it.
Flagrant violation of Ketzer's IP follows:
Sony, and RIAA in general, has hordes of engineers out there who actually design software for a living, instead of just posting it on Slashdot because they decide to take an hour out of their day to care about the laws.
Before they make decisions like this, they ask their engineers if they'll be able to do it.
Then their engineers tell them things like "yes, you can firewall Napster" and all the geeks at Slashdot laugh and say "Silly RIAA, you can't get away with that! We have a constitutional right to free speech, and Napster has a legal right to write and distribute software without a monopoly trying to sue them out of the market!"
It's a valid concern. After all, they're giving away all their products free, gratis and for nothing. You have to, really. Unless you've got a kick-ass game, it's tough to sell Linux software.
It sounds like they want to be a combination of portal and information pusher (remember Pointcast?). I think if they can get almost all free information, plus some exclusive information, assembled in one point they can succeed. If I want to know when Courtney Love is coming to town (per the article) I can check hole.com. However, if they want to tell me that Courtney Love is coming to town on the 17th, I have no plans that evening (according to Evolution), I have enough in my bank account (according to Gnucash) to buy a ticket from TicketMaster, and it was all done on my box so their server didn't have to know any of that stuff, that might be useful.
Pictures of naked people, or even people having sex is not wrong per se. My problem with pornography is that it is sex with no context and no consequences.
Disregarding the consequences of sex is how I got to be a parent in the first place. Until my children are old enough to understand that there are consequences and context the pictures don't show, I won't be letting them see pornography.
1: the world is a complicated place, the internet even more so. If there is a tool that will help me do my job of parenting, I will consider using it. My children are too young yet to surf the web. When they get older, I lean more towards the "show them the squid logs" method than the censorware, but censorware is more appropriate for some parents.
2. Communities have a responsibilty to their collective children, too. By all means, have a porn store, I'd just rather it wasn't next to the ice cream stand. Rather more strongly, I don't have a problem with people selling crack, but I definitely don't want them doing it outside the school gates (or in the classroom).
I don't want to childproof the world, or TV, or the internet. My children are only allowed to watch TV channels that we have approved (this means PBS, in practice). Not that we don''t get other channels, the children are just told what they can watch. I want tools to do the same with the internet, and so do many other parents.
If the music industry violated the GPL by shipping binaries derived from covered code without publishing source code, the Slashdot readership would likely call for the
banning of all software distribution, shutting down the entire internet if necessary.
Your comments on using IP "in ways other than how the licensor intends" are also incorrect, but other posters have corrected you on that.
To win a copyright lawsuit you have to show harm, or the expectation of harm (IANAL). I don't see how Gnutella is harming mp3board.com except through competition. Last I heard, competition was still legal.
But almost all DVD movies are Hollywood movies. Remember that you need to pay 10kUSD to the DVD CCA for a licence to CSS before you can burn movie DVDs. Unless you're going to sell a lot of DVDs, which most independent filmmakers aren't, this is cost-prohibitive.
Also, I suspect that the N-Cubes sold in the US (region 1) will not play French movies (region 2).
There is arrogance involved here, but it's not on the part of the journalists.
Slashdot Mirror
True. But by measuring what portion of it decays in 100 years, we can extrapolate the half life.
75% decayed => half life is 50 years
50% decayed => half life is 100 years
25% decayed => half life is 241 years
10% decayed => half life is 658 years
1% decayed => half life is 6897 years
.1% decayed => half life is 69280 years
and so on.
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... you might realize you are right.
Last December my neighbor demanded that I take down the icicle lights I had just (after much hard work) put up. He said that he had gone to a lot of effort to find and put up his icicle lights, and since my house now looked just like his I was infringing on his look and feel intellectual property.
Something to think about, isn't it?
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I can buy my phone from whoever I like. It's only the service provider (USWest/Qwest) who has a monopoly.
Back in the day you had to buy your phone from AT&T. That's one of the reasons they got broken up.
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Good: I used PayPal to pay the good folks at dyndns.org for my hostname.
Bad: cancelling the Palm service (the only other time I used it).
Bad: no international customers. I am owed money by a guy in England. I will let you know when I cave in and have him send me a cheque, because that will be the day before PayPal start their overseas service.
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The EQ box is an incomplete product. It requires a service to function. The tying of two products or services together is called bundling, and is generally illegal.
Because they are separate products, I can use the IP in the client (which I've paid for) to create my own IP in a server. If the creators patented the idea of an EQ server, I owe them a licence fee, but I don't believe they have.
None of this is theft.
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If you want to drive up your salary, perhaps you should spend more time working and less time posting on /. ;-P
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and I believe that the computer didn't evolve the construction method either, but just handled the design given a fixed set of parts
The computer could have designed any three dimensional structure it wanted. The only constraints were the shape of the mount points for the motor, which is reasonable.
I think moving this into a real world example would be interesting, and not as slow as you think. We can introduce random mutations every generation, rather than waiting for cosmic rays, and there is no danger of a useful mutation being lost because the only individual that had it failed to mate.
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Democrat-Farm-Labor
Don't ask me why.
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The guy's name is Mike Ciresi, and from what I can tell he is a grade A scumbag, even for a lawyer. The tobacco settlement was big, but would have been bigger if he hadn't pocketed enough to fund a US Senate campaign.
.com TLD. I think that says it all.
Mark Dayton may be in some obscure way my boss (I think he's the largest individual shareholder in Target Corp., which his ancestors founded), but I'm still glad he's ahead of Ciresi.
Needless to say, my preferred candidate, Jerry Janezich, is way back in 4th place. He's from a mining town and owns a bar. He even has the DFL endorsement. How could he fail?
The other DFL candidate is Rebecca Yanisch. Her website is in the
Of course, all of them are vastly preferable to Rod Grams.
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SS is really for older children. I don't think any TV is designed for 8 month olds. Teletubbies is designed for 1 - 2 year olds.
Another problem with SS is that it is a whole hour. This is probably too much TV in one go for an infant.
My two year old will play while her older brother watches Sesame Street, then she comes over and watches Elmo's World, which is about 10 minutes at the end, and definitely more appropriate for toddlers.
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I used up all my moderation points this morning. Plus, if I had moderated you, it would have gone away when I posted.
;-)
When you've got as much karma as me, the occasional -1 hurts less
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Reknowned physicist siokaos made the shocking announcement today that radio waves are not, as had been previously thought, part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
"Radio waves pushed the real electromagnetic spectrum out of the way years ago," he said, "they fooled Einstein and Maxwell, but not me!".
siokaos is not sure what happened to the "real" electromagnetic spectrum, but he is currently working on the theory that they evolved into fish.
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Thank you for your proposal to review Carnivore for us. We feel that Rupert's Independent Software Reviews Inc., while possessing all the technical requirements of the RFP, is insufficiently independent to perform the review. We base this conclusion on the fact that you have been known to use email (we can prove this!) and thus have a vested interest in the outcome.
Yours faithfully,
Janet Reno.
P.S. You did, however, get First Post. Congratulations.
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You have 10 or 20 years to realize that you've missed the point here.
There's an exchange near the end of "Pirates of Silicon Valley" where Jobs says to Gates "we're better" and Gates replies "it doesn't matter". The shoe is on the other foot, now. Gates says to J. Random Hacker "I'm richer" and JRH replies "it doesn't matter".
The Gates and their descendants will continue to be amongst the worlds richest people long after the last box of Microsoft software is shipped. Red Hat may never turn a profit. It doesn't matter. Free Software is not only morally superior, it is in almost all cases technically superior.
People used to look at the Gnu tools and say "nice, but hobbyists can't write a whole OS". Now they say the same things about RDBMSs, and they will be proved just as wrong.
There will be professional programmers, just as today there are professional musicians and professional athletes. We will find a away to pay them because we value what they do. Closed source will be as absurd a concept as a copyrighted touchdown.
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The great troll Ketzer has spoken.
If your lawyers say you can firewall Napster on my PC, go ahead and do it. Don't listen to the Slashdot geeks who say you can't do it.
Flagrant violation of Ketzer's IP follows:
Sony, and RIAA in general, has hordes of engineers out there who actually design software for a living, instead of just posting it on Slashdot because they decide to take an hour out of their day to care about the laws.
Before they make decisions like this, they ask their engineers if they'll be able to do it.
Then their engineers tell them things like "yes, you can firewall Napster" and all the geeks at Slashdot laugh and say "Silly RIAA, you can't get away with that! We have a constitutional right to free speech, and Napster has a legal right to write and distribute software without a monopoly trying to sue them out of the market!"
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It's a valid concern. After all, they're giving away all their products free, gratis and for nothing. You have to, really. Unless you've got a kick-ass game, it's tough to sell Linux software.
It sounds like they want to be a combination of portal and information pusher (remember Pointcast?). I think if they can get almost all free information, plus some exclusive information, assembled in one point they can succeed. If I want to know when Courtney Love is coming to town (per the article) I can check hole.com. However, if they want to tell me that Courtney Love is coming to town on the 17th, I have no plans that evening (according to Evolution), I have enough in my bank account (according to Gnucash) to buy a ticket from TicketMaster, and it was all done on my box so their server didn't have to know any of that stuff, that might be useful.
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Pictures of naked people, or even people having sex is not wrong per se. My problem with pornography is that it is sex with no context and no consequences.
Disregarding the consequences of sex is how I got to be a parent in the first place. Until my children are old enough to understand that there are consequences and context the pictures don't show, I won't be letting them see pornography.
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Two points.
1: the world is a complicated place, the internet even more so. If there is a tool that will help me do my job of parenting, I will consider using it. My children are too young yet to surf the web. When they get older, I lean more towards the "show them the squid logs" method than the censorware, but censorware is more appropriate for some parents.
2. Communities have a responsibilty to their collective children, too. By all means, have a porn store, I'd just rather it wasn't next to the ice cream stand. Rather more strongly, I don't have a problem with people selling crack, but I definitely don't want them doing it outside the school gates (or in the classroom).
I don't want to childproof the world, or TV, or the internet. My children are only allowed to watch TV channels that we have approved (this means PBS, in practice). Not that we don''t get other channels, the children are just told what they can watch. I want tools to do the same with the internet, and so do many other parents.
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Your comments on using IP "in ways other than how the licensor intends" are also incorrect, but other posters have corrected you on that.
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[shudder]
I greatly admire Theo's work. I just don't think you'd want two of him on the same project, maybe even the same planet.
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Why else would they vote Republican?
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You mean queef?
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Does anyone still use Watcom? Why?
However, if you do (for whatever bizarre reason) at least you can now be assured of support.
OSing dead products is better than burying them, but not as good as OSing live products.
At the time of writing, this is a first post.
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To win a copyright lawsuit you have to show harm, or the expectation of harm (IANAL). I don't see how Gnutella is harming mp3board.com except through competition. Last I heard, competition was still legal.
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But almost all DVD movies are Hollywood movies. Remember that you need to pay 10kUSD to the DVD CCA for a licence to CSS before you can burn movie DVDs. Unless you're going to sell a lot of DVDs, which most independent filmmakers aren't, this is cost-prohibitive.
Also, I suspect that the N-Cubes sold in the US (region 1) will not play French movies (region 2).
There is arrogance involved here, but it's not on the part of the journalists.
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