True. It's not Apple that insists on the Digital Restrictions Management, it's the labels. Until they realize that they're just masturbating (screwing themselves), they'll keep on requiring it. -russ
When one dataset determines your conclusion, you have to wonder about the validity of the conclusion. According to MM (if I understand them), the bristlecone pine temperature proxy is the only one that produces the hockey stick graph that all the human-induced climate change advocates love. It's not actual temperature data, it's just a proxy for it. -russ
Nobody who has donated money to OSI has gotten anything like a quid-pro-quo.
and/or get themselves elected to the OSI board like other companies that want restrictive licenses approved?
I'm sure that you're thinking of the CDDL, but Danese has been on the OSI board for nearly four years. That's long before Sun ever thought about wanting the CDDL. In any case, Danese is now working for Intel. And in any case, the CDDL is 95% Mozilla. If the CDDL is a restrictive license, then so is the MPL. And yet the MPL is one of the more popular of the non-GPL / non-BSD licenses. So if it's restrictive, then people who write software like its restrictions. -russ
Well, you say that to be funny, but if you wanted to train yourself for many years, it's very likely that you could think yourself into producing the effects of morphine. That would be too much like work, though. Easier to just take some actual morphine. -russ
The Constitution is a document of political compromise. The Founders--educated men all--realized that the Constitution would have to be approved by idiots like you. -russ
Instead, we have the worst drug prohibition in history, for no particular good reason, and to no particular useful effect.
Worse than that, people who need pain medication aren't getting it. If doctors prescribe them enough opiates to block their pain, they will be threatened with the loss of their license to practice medicine. The War on Drugs is incredibly harmful to American society. -russ
I doubt his statement to lkml is legally binding in any way.
Don't be so sure. Judges have all sorts of discretion when you make statements about permission that go outside legal documents. That's exactly WHY legal documents exist, and why some of them will say "This is the entire extent of the legal agreement; no other statements are binding."
Keeping your mouth shut about a license (when you're the licensor) is the best policy. Larry has obviously chosen a policy less than best. -russ
This license would never be approved for the "Open Source" logo by OSI. If necessary, I would suggest that we change the OSD to make sure that a license does not impose restrictions on freedom of speech. Sheesh. -russ
Um, no, you don't comprehend the experiment. The body, upon receiving the placebo saline, acts as if it's getting the morphine unless the placebo contains a morphine inhibitor. One conclusion: the body is generating actual morphine on its own.
Hey, my roommate in college claims that I have a THC gland. -russ
ISPs are reporting major drops in bandwidth usage.
Wait until ISPs start getting accounts cancelled. It's simply not possible for people to receive less value from a service and be willing to pay the same price. The interests of ISPs and copyright holders are NOT aligned, and the ISPs that don't realize that they must oppose the copyright crackdown will go out of business. -russ
What do you think is the purpose of IEEE 802.15.4? I'm just curious, because from what I can see, the target market for IEEE 802.15.4 devices and personal computers has absolutely no overlap. -russ
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True. It's not Apple that insists on the Digital Restrictions Management, it's the labels. Until they realize that they're just masturbating (screwing themselves), they'll keep on requiring it.
-russ
Remember, DRM means Digital Restrictions Management, not Digital Rights Management.
-russ
When one dataset determines your conclusion, you have to wonder about the validity of the conclusion. According to MM (if I understand them), the bristlecone pine temperature proxy is the only one that produces the hockey stick graph that all the human-induced climate change advocates love. It's not actual temperature data, it's just a proxy for it.
-russ
Yep, when I'm Emperor Nelson, that's one of the laws that's going to be repealed.
-russ
http://freeaudio.org/
-russ
Hehe. Nice try.
Unless they "donate" enough
Nobody who has donated money to OSI has gotten anything like a quid-pro-quo.
and/or get themselves elected to the OSI board like other companies that want restrictive licenses approved?
I'm sure that you're thinking of the CDDL, but Danese has been on the OSI board for nearly four years. That's long before Sun ever thought about wanting the CDDL. In any case, Danese is now working for Intel. And in any case, the CDDL is 95% Mozilla. If the CDDL is a restrictive license, then so is the MPL. And yet the MPL is one of the more popular of the non-GPL / non-BSD licenses. So if it's restrictive, then people who write software like its restrictions.
-russ
Her fiance sure thinks so.
-russ
My daughter is a college "chick".
-russ
the bodies ability
Actually, that should be "the body's ability".
-russ
Well, you say that to be funny, but if you wanted to train yourself for many years, it's very likely that you could think yourself into producing the effects of morphine. That would be too much like work, though. Easier to just take some actual morphine.
-russ
Pot just makes you want to eat more and makes you paranoid ( and more careful ).
Pot by itself doesn't make you paranoid. It's the chemicals that THEY spray on the pot that make you paranoid.
-russ
The Constitution is a document of political compromise. The Founders--educated men all--realized that the Constitution would have to be approved by idiots like you.
-russ
Instead, we have the worst drug prohibition in history, for no particular good reason, and to no particular useful effect.
Worse than that, people who need pain medication aren't getting it. If doctors prescribe them enough opiates to block their pain, they will be threatened with the loss of their license to practice medicine. The War on Drugs is incredibly harmful to American society.
-russ
I doubt his statement to lkml is legally binding in any way.
Don't be so sure. Judges have all sorts of discretion when you make statements about permission that go outside legal documents. That's exactly WHY legal documents exist, and why some of them will say "This is the entire extent of the legal agreement; no other statements are binding."
Keeping your mouth shut about a license (when you're the licensor) is the best policy. Larry has obviously chosen a policy less than best.
-russ
This license would never be approved for the "Open Source" logo by OSI. If necessary, I would suggest that we change the OSD to make sure that a license does not impose restrictions on freedom of speech. Sheesh.
-russ
Um, no, you don't comprehend the experiment. The body, upon receiving the placebo saline, acts as if it's getting the morphine unless the placebo contains a morphine inhibitor. One conclusion: the body is generating actual morphine on its own.
Hey, my roommate in college claims that I have a THC gland.
-russ
Well done, Chris! You know that I voted for you.
-russ
ISPs are reporting major drops in bandwidth usage.
Wait until ISPs start getting accounts cancelled. It's simply not possible for people to receive less value from a service and be willing to pay the same price. The interests of ISPs and copyright holders are NOT aligned, and the ISPs that don't realize that they must oppose the copyright crackdown will go out of business.
-russ
Unfortunately /. doesn't seem to have this as an option.
That's too bad. I can use more enemies like you. Nothing to make a guy look better than having only idiots for enemies.
-russ
You moron, the CC2500 isn't a 802.15.4 radio, and it's only a radio, not a radio and processor. Sheesh. FWOMPT.
-russ
Product cost =~ chip cost * 4.
Thus, if the latest chips cost less than two dollars, a whole node can be designed for less than 8 dollars, NOT "much less than $10".
Anyway, whose chips are you talking about, and for that price surely you're talking about a leaf node, not a router node.
-russ
What do you think is the purpose of IEEE 802.15.4? I'm just curious, because from what I can see, the target market for IEEE 802.15.4 devices and personal computers has absolutely no overlap.
-russ
I'd like too here more two...
Zigbee are proprietary layers added to IEEE 802.15.4. They aren't the same thing. Zigbee is NOT an open protocol.
-russ
Can you put me on your double secret foes list? That would be so much more satisfying.
-russ