Paraphrasing (?) an spanish poet called Joaquin Sabina:
Bill Gates is so poor that the only thing he has is money....
Linus may not be a rich man, but what he has (the respect, love and admiration of the computer world) is of much more importance than the billions that Gates has and the trillions he may have in the future....
Newton had patented gravity? Or the law of Optics? Would Pink Floyd have to pay royalties for the cover of "Dark Side of the Moon"?
Maxwell had patented electromagnetism?
What if Einstein had pattented the mass-energy equation?
There is science, where patents don't apply (because scientists discover something about the physical world that had existed for ever). There is technology, where inventors pattent a device to perform something new (like Edison pattented his light bulb, he pattented a way to produce light using electricity. But he didn't (and didn't intend to) pattent electricity.
Are software pattents science or technology? Is an algortitm a device to do something or a scientific principle?
Personaly I believe that non-trivial software should be granted some kind of intelectual protection. If someone spends years to develop a new cryptographic algoritm, he deserves a reward for his job. If a jerk pattents a one-click procedure to buy online, he doesn't.
I'm not trying to give an answer to a complex problem, just trying to put things on perspective.
Some things that today are obvious, may not have been so in the past. When Von Neuman introduced his machine, it was a revolutonary new idea. Today is mainstream knowledge. (In Von Neuman's time, Computers were considered science, now they are technology).
It's an open discussion, I don't have the answers and after several beers, I don't feel like giving one.
if they became mainstream, electric cars will bankrupt the oil companies. And now that the oil companies have a puppet at the WhiteHouse, it's unlikely that they will let electric`cars succeed.
What happens if the package I want to install is not recognized by th package manager? Like typing:
apt-cache search E-Keyboard an getting no results?
Or if the package I want to install only cames in source code form, no rpms?
For this P.M to work, the package needs to be known to the P.M. and some (obscure, I admit) packages are not.
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Specifically, it details how he was renovating the Temple and discovered a Book of the Law tucked away. It is clear from the text that the Law was not known among the people, was rediscovered, and then copied and distributed.
And how do we know that this book, miracoulsy found, was not forged to give autority to the King.
On the other hand, I just see this as the progression of a religion. Chrisianity went through the same thing where they killed off millions because they would not convert. Now most of the countries who are predominantly chrisian are more civilized and educated and the religion (chrisianity) has become more civilized and toned down as well. I hope Islam will do the same one day.
Christians have not changed at all. Since the separation of Church and State in most western countries, Christians have lost their political power. If the said separation of Church and state vanishes (as it seems is going to happen in the US), the church (or churchs) will again gain power and go back to the middle ages.
You can modify the kbd, adding some key logging capacity. If then other person uses this kbd (like a sysadmin doing a su ) you can get passwords, so a kbd can be a security risk.
I can't see how a headphone presents a security risk.
They used the word "HEMBRA", which us used for female animals, not for women. In every spanish speaking country, the word is considered offensive if applied to a woman, although in some countries is much more insulting than in others.
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The only reason I have to use Windows at work is that all our mail/contacts/schedule is in Lotus Notes and I could not find a client for Linux (weird if you think on IBM's commitment to Linux).
Using wine is so painfully slow that is not a solution.
I can only ask what would Americans have said if this Florida election have happened in South America, Africa or Asia? Every body would have been claiming that there was Electoral Fraud.
Why are Americans different from the rest of the world?
In Brazil, where electronic vote was used in the last presidential election, the guy who was running for the ruling party,Jose Serra, lost. And the guy who was running for the opposition, won by a 70-30 margin.
Maybe it's time that you challenge your concepts.....
The last presidential elections were completly done in Electonic Machines and the results were damm right. Jose Serra, the candidate of the ruling party (the one that the ones in power woudl have favored )lost by a 70 to 30 margin and Lula Da Silva, the opposition candidate (whose people had no way to turn the results in favor of him) won.
The code is open to everybody to audit, everyone one can open up the machines to verify that the code they are using is the same that was audited. And a printed ballot is generated for every vote, just in case someons complains, so the results from the electronic machine can be verified against the printed ballots.
In the last US Presidential Elections, in Florida (a state whose governor is the BROTHER of one of the candiates, and the one who won in that state), the voting was manual. And the results were contested.
Being from a South American country, I was completly pissed off. If what happened in Florida, had happened in an underdeveloped country, everyboby would have cried "FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS". What does make you, FUCKING AMERICANS, better than the rest of the world? Why do you believe that your country is an example of democracy, what makes you believe that you are a superior people?
Americans are the same as everyone else in the world, simple humans beings, without any superiority due to the fact that you were born whitin certain boundaries and I was born outside that boundaries. http://yro.slashdot.org/users.pl Wit h what reason do you invade other countries, support dictatorships and dictators like Pinochet and SADDAM? If you are not aware of the facts, SADDAM HUSSEIN was a creature of the US, and the WMA that he used against Iran and the Iraqui Kurds were provided by the U.S. in the REAGAN era.
Why do everybody hates THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (not AMERICA, which is a continent)? I'm Brazilian, I have traveled all over the world and I never, EVER, meet someone who hated Brazil. But I meet hundreds of people that hated U.S. of AMERICA. Can anyone of you, yankies, explain it?
If the source code is in Linux, is no longer a secret. What's the problem in revealing that "protected" code? Why not give a list of the infringing files?
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Paraphrasing (?) an spanish poet called Joaquin Sabina:
Bill Gates is so poor that the only thing he has is money....
Linus may not be a rich man, but what he has (the respect, love and admiration of the computer world) is of much more importance than the billions that Gates has and the trillions he may have in the future....
Newton had patented gravity? Or the law of Optics? Would Pink Floyd have to pay royalties for the cover of "Dark Side of the Moon"?
Maxwell had patented electromagnetism?
What if Einstein had pattented the mass-energy equation?
There is science, where patents don't apply (because scientists discover something about the physical world that had existed for ever). There is technology, where inventors pattent a device to perform something new (like Edison pattented his light bulb, he pattented a way to produce light using electricity. But he didn't (and didn't intend to) pattent electricity.
Are software pattents science or technology? Is an algortitm a device to do something or a scientific principle?
Personaly I believe that non-trivial software should be granted some kind of intelectual protection. If someone spends years to develop a new cryptographic algoritm, he deserves a reward for his job. If a jerk pattents a one-click procedure to buy online, he doesn't.
I'm not trying to give an answer to a complex problem, just trying to put things on perspective.
Some things that today are obvious, may not have been so in the past. When Von Neuman introduced his machine, it was a revolutonary new idea. Today is mainstream knowledge. (In Von Neuman's time, Computers were considered science, now they are technology).
It's an open discussion, I don't have the answers and after several beers, I don't feel like giving one.
if they became mainstream, electric cars will bankrupt the oil companies. And now that the oil companies have a puppet at the WhiteHouse, it's unlikely that they will let electric`cars succeed.
What happens if the package I want to install is not recognized by th package manager?
Like typing:
apt-cache search E-Keyboard
an getting no results?
Or if the package I want to install only cames in source code form, no rpms?
For this P.M to work, the package needs to be known to the P.M. and some (obscure, I admit) packages are not.
Specifically, it details how he was renovating the Temple and discovered a Book of the Law tucked away. It is clear from the text that the Law was not known among the people, was rediscovered, and then copied and distributed.
And how do we know that this book, miracoulsy found, was not forged to give autority to the King.
So in what way is RDesk different/innovative from a X server?
On the other hand, I just see this as the progression of a religion. Chrisianity went through the same thing where they killed off millions because they would not convert. Now most of the countries who are predominantly chrisian are more civilized and educated and the religion (chrisianity) has become more civilized and toned down as well. I hope Islam will do the same one day.
Christians have not changed at all. Since the separation of Church and State in most western countries, Christians have lost their political power. If the said separation of Church and state vanishes (as it seems is going to happen in the US), the church (or churchs) will again gain power and go back to the middle ages.
You can modify the kbd, adding some key logging capacity. If then other person uses this kbd (like a sysadmin doing a su ) you can get passwords, so a kbd can be a security risk.
I can't see how a headphone presents a security risk.
The FA says that they lost the bomb during a training exercise.
What kind of idiot takes to carry a real nuke in a training exercise????
Sun bought an special license from SCO, that lets them do whatever they want.
If you hire a former SCO employee, you risk Darl later sueing you claiming that this employee put SCO code into yours.....
Damm Wrong!!!
They used the word "HEMBRA", which us used for female animals, not for women. In every spanish speaking country, the word is considered offensive if applied to a woman, although in some countries is much more insulting than in others.
The only reason I have to use Windows at work is that all our mail/contacts/schedule is in Lotus Notes and I could not find a client for Linux (weird if you think on IBM's commitment to Linux).
Using wine is so painfully slow that is not a solution.
The man was/is a boss. If an ordinary employee is found to spent all his time playing solitaire, what would happen?
the black hats will do is disguise their worms as white knights.
Beowulf was a legendary warrior and king in the old saxonic tradition, much like Gengis Khan was in for the moguls (not the chinese mandarins)
They are going to open the source of their network protocols. The first thing they are opening is the TCP/IP protocols. ;-)
Is a browser that filters /. dupes.....
Do you know of a good Lotus Notes client for Linux ?
And In Brazil, the last presidential elections were also all electronically and nobody complained.
As a mater of fact, the opposition candidate (whose supporters had no chance of twisting the results) won by almost 70 % of the vote.
Problem is not wether the vote is electronic or not, problem is the political system that's behind.
I can only ask what would Americans have said if this Florida election have happened in South America, Africa or Asia? Every body would have been claiming that there was Electoral Fraud.
Why are Americans different from the rest of the world?
What would have happened if Newton had patented the laws of gravity....
In Brazil, where electronic vote was used in the last presidential election, the guy who was running for the ruling party,Jose Serra, lost. And the guy who was running for the opposition, won by a 70-30 margin.
Maybe it's time that you challenge your concepts.....
The last presidential elections were completly done in Electonic Machines and the results were damm right. Jose Serra, the candidate of the ruling party (the one that the ones in power woudl have favored )lost by a 70 to 30 margin and Lula Da Silva, the opposition candidate (whose people had no way to turn the results in favor of him) won.
t h what reason do you invade other countries, support dictatorships and dictators like Pinochet and SADDAM? If you are not aware of the facts, SADDAM HUSSEIN was a creature of the US, and the WMA that he used against Iran and the Iraqui Kurds were provided by the U.S. in the REAGAN era.
The code is open to everybody to audit, everyone one can open up the machines to verify that the code they are using is the same that was audited. And a printed ballot is generated for every vote, just in case someons complains, so the results from the electronic machine can be verified against the printed ballots.
In the last US Presidential Elections, in Florida (a state whose governor is the BROTHER of one of the candiates, and the one who won in that state), the voting was manual. And the results were contested.
Being from a South American country, I was completly pissed off. If what happened in Florida, had happened in an underdeveloped country, everyboby would have cried "FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS".
What does make you, FUCKING AMERICANS, better than the rest of the world? Why do you believe that your country is an example of democracy, what makes you believe that you are a superior people?
Americans are the same as everyone else in the world, simple humans beings, without any superiority due to the fact that you were born whitin certain boundaries and I was born outside that boundaries.
http://yro.slashdot.org/users.pl
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Why do everybody hates THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (not AMERICA, which is a continent)? I'm Brazilian, I have traveled all over the world and I never, EVER, meet someone who hated Brazil. But I meet hundreds of people that hated U.S. of AMERICA. Can anyone of you, yankies, explain it?
If the source code is in Linux, is no longer a secret. What's the problem in revealing that "protected" code? Why not give a list of the infringing files?