Anybody know if getting your eyes lasered to correct poor vision would affect this? I would guess not, since AFAIK the laser only vaporizes part of the cornea, which is transparent, but I'm no opthamologist. Plus, this might be a way to spoof it if a sufficiently advanced technique for modifying the iris (dye injection, combined with various color lasers at absorption spectra of the dye, to repaint the patterns) were ever developed (I'm sure NSA/CIA/etc. are working on it now....;-).
This seems like an excellent article to read, even if you are not a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian. Interestingly, it was apparently published in Autumn 1995, long before the current media splash. I especially enjoyed the author's explanation of why the gap in the Tolkien movies exists (I always wondered before why Bakshi didn't finish the whole LoTR series).
One might extend the basic argument against copyright and patent further in the Linux/*BSD/FSF/OSS sphere. ESR's essay on OSS development as a type of bragging rights competition or "gift culture" (at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/h omesteading.html comes to mind as an example. The basic tenet is that voluntary cooperation, in both the positive (contributions of code, etc.) and negative (boycotts of those who break the rules, anti-MS sentiment, etc.) senses, is the real basis for much of this phenomenon, as opposed to formal legalisms like those contained in the GPL. Although I certainly don't intend to slight RMS and the FSF for its attempts to use copyright law against itself, in order to formalize the hacker ethic. Perhaps this perspective will allay fears that the whole FSF/OSS model of development might collapse if the GPL were overturned in court, for instance.
P.S. IAAL (I am a Lawyer) but I don't practice - I still have my Texas bar card though. (Sysadmin work has been more fun/sane, plentiful, and almost as lucrative). Thus the following disclaimers apply:
Not Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. This is not intended as creating a lawyer-client relationship or providing any form of legal advice.
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Anybody know if getting your eyes lasered to correct poor vision would affect this? I would guess not, since AFAIK the laser only vaporizes part of the cornea, which is transparent, but I'm no opthamologist. Plus, this might be a way to spoof it if a sufficiently advanced technique for modifying the iris (dye injection, combined with various color lasers at absorption spectra of the dye, to repaint the patterns) were ever developed (I'm sure NSA/CIA/etc. are working on it now.... ;-).
#include "disclaim.h"
This seems like an excellent article to read, even if you are not a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian. Interestingly, it was apparently published in Autumn 1995, long before the current media splash. I especially enjoyed the author's explanation of why the gap in the Tolkien movies exists (I always wondered before why Bakshi didn't finish the whole LoTR series).
h omesteading.html comes to mind as an example. The basic tenet is that voluntary cooperation, in both the positive (contributions of code, etc.) and negative (boycotts of those who break the rules, anti-MS sentiment, etc.) senses, is the real basis for much of this phenomenon, as opposed to formal legalisms like those contained in the GPL. Although I certainly don't intend to slight RMS and the FSF for its attempts to use copyright law against itself, in order to formalize the hacker ethic. Perhaps this perspective will allay fears that the whole FSF/OSS model of development might collapse if the GPL were overturned in court, for instance.
One might extend the basic argument against copyright and patent further in the Linux/*BSD/FSF/OSS sphere. ESR's essay on OSS development as a type of bragging rights competition or "gift culture" (at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/
P.S. IAAL (I am a Lawyer) but I don't practice - I still have my Texas bar card though. (Sysadmin work has been more fun/sane, plentiful, and almost as lucrative). Thus the following disclaimers apply:
Not Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. This is not intended as creating a lawyer-client relationship or providing any form of legal advice.
#include "disclaim.h"