I was under the impression that if a trade secret is revealed by reverse engineering, it loses trade secret protection. Where would we be today if IBM had claimed that the PC BIOS was a trade secret?
when they pry it from my/etc/init.d/cold/dead/fingers
Really, what can they do? ECMA rules say they have to licence is "non prejudiciously", and usually that means a percentage of revenues, not a flat fee. So if Jeremy Allison has to send them 20% of whatever he charges for SAMBA, they'll have to accept that.
Unfortunately (the brutal truth).. the people who are business minded are FEEDING on people like us.
You say this like it's a bad thing. Dung beetles feed on what I produce, too (well, not literally, but they could), but you don't hear too many people complaining.
OSS only works for commodity software. Kernels. Web servers. Mail servers. Toolkits. Stuff that people use to get other forms of business done. The software you're writing is not a commodity, so you can sell it. But you rely on a certain level of infrastructure (Apache, say), so it's in your interests to fix Apache if it's causing you a problem. You could fork Apache, and start bundling Pengo-httpd with your product, but who would want that?
If they catch the author, I think this should be grounds for leniency. He had the sense to put in a cutoff so that the worm wouldn't grow out of control. --
Biometric information is not secure unless you trust the client sending you the biometric information. The packet representing your fingerprint, or retina scan or whatever, is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Biometrics can help - think of them as a very long password that can't be forgotten. But they can be stolen. --
You are wrong. The only civilised place in the US is Minneapolis. It is well known to everyone here that people on the east coast are snobs, people on the west coast are wierdos, and everyone in between us and them is a bum hick yokel or a soccer mom.
Except for Wisconsin, of course. Those cheeseheads aspire to become bum hick yokels.
Rats. When I checked on Friday, the nearest protest to me was in Chicago. Doesn't the EFF have the ability to selectively notify people by their location? Actually, since the EFF was boycotting the protests, it wouldn't matter, but it would be nice to get an email from them about geeks being needed in St Paul rather than the endless San Francisco news they seem to think I prefer. --
Of course, this raises the issue of where Usenix should be holding its conferences. I don't think Sealand is big enough. Besides, you pretty much have to go through the UK ("please hand your crypto keys to the immigration officer") to get there. --
The Self-Made Critic over at brunching.com seems share my taste in movies, so I listen to him. He also doesn't have a big enough readership to be worth bribing.
Having said that, the day I see "3 3/4 Babylons!" on a movie poster is the day I stop reading his reviews. --
Sorry not to troll here, but everyone gets dog shit on their street. Yes its annoying, no it won't be stopped no matter what many think since laws here, won't apply elsewhere, and vice versa.
When I see dog shit in the street it takes me about 5 muscles to move my leg left or right, then put my foot down, not in the mutt doings. Not a big deal at all. One of the things I do is buttplug repetitive dogs that keep crapping on the street and its very simple to create a scooper to just pick it up as well or any other street cleaner your using.
Sorry I know it sounds trollish to post this but the fact remains, dog shit will always be around on the streets simply because you cannot regulate the entire world with a "one rule fits all" scheme.
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Trouble might be putting it too strongly. Hormel don't seem overly vicious in enforcing this policy. However, they've asked politely, and I don't think it would hurt anyone to change the icon.
Here is MS pretending they understand retail. Anyone remember ActiveStore? The unlamented POS [in both senses of the acronym] that required 192MB of RAM to run adequately on a register, 3 years ago? When enough retailers chewed their MS' balls off over that one, they turned around and said "Oh, we were targetting this at hospitals. Retail isn't important enough for us to bother with right now".
Damn MS to hell and all their "technology partners" too. --
It was a nice change to read an Iain [M] Banks book in which fewer than half of the protagonists are gruesomely slaughtered.
I felt that more could have been made of the actual Business. How the main character joined the Business seemed a little contrived. But other than that it was a great read (particularly for a transatlantic flight - why doesn't my company fly me around like that?) --
Why has no-one modded this post's parent up? Informative with a capital I (sorry - the kids have been on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang marathon this weekend). --
Nothing. Samsung et al still have to pay up. I'm sure the settlement agreement states that they can't sue again for some considerable period of time. --
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Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment
thus killing the +1 Funny one-liner.
I was under the impression that if a trade secret is revealed by reverse engineering, it loses trade secret protection. Where would we be today if IBM had claimed that the PC BIOS was a trade secret?
when they pry it from my /etc/init.d/cold/dead/fingers
Really, what can they do? ECMA rules say they have to licence is "non prejudiciously", and usually that means a percentage of revenues, not a flat fee. So if Jeremy Allison has to send them 20% of whatever he charges for SAMBA, they'll have to accept that.
Mod the parent up.
Given RMS' public persona, I imagine his managerial style would be somewhat rigid.
Unfortunately (the brutal truth).. the people who are business minded are FEEDING on people like us.
You say this like it's a bad thing. Dung beetles feed on what I produce, too (well, not literally, but they could), but you don't hear too many people complaining.
OSS only works for commodity software. Kernels. Web servers. Mail servers. Toolkits. Stuff that people use to get other forms of business done. The software you're writing is not a commodity, so you can sell it. But you rely on a certain level of infrastructure (Apache, say), so it's in your interests to fix Apache if it's causing you a problem. You could fork Apache, and start bundling Pengo-httpd with your product, but who would want that?
I get this. I think it means IIS is running on a desktop version of Windows (NT4WKS or W2KPro) rather than a server.
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If they catch the author, I think this should be grounds for leniency. He had the sense to put in a cutoff so that the worm wouldn't grow out of control.
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The Mall of America is in Bloomington.
If Slashdot didn't exist, no-one would care about anonymous cowards.
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Biometric information is not secure unless you trust the client sending you the biometric information. The packet representing your fingerprint, or retina scan or whatever, is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Biometrics can help - think of them as a very long password that can't be forgotten. But they can be stolen.
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You are wrong. The only civilised place in the US is Minneapolis. It is well known to everyone here that people on the east coast are snobs, people on the west coast are wierdos, and everyone in between us and them is a bum hick yokel or a soccer mom.
Except for Wisconsin, of course. Those cheeseheads aspire to become bum hick yokels.
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Rats. When I checked on Friday, the nearest protest to me was in Chicago. Doesn't the EFF have the ability to selectively notify people by their location? Actually, since the EFF was boycotting the protests, it wouldn't matter, but it would be nice to get an email from them about geeks being needed in St Paul rather than the endless San Francisco news they seem to think I prefer.
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The article stated that they are going to test this on a parabolic flight. Where better to test a cleaning robot than on the Vomit Comet?
It's not going to work in timothy's house unless we can get it into orbit, somehow.
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Quick - we must trademark "are.belong.to" so we get first dibs on "are.belong.to.us".
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I have dibs on "all.your.ninth.level.domains.are.belong.to.us"
Actually, due to a recent SC decision, we do have a right: the right not to be imprisoned for life without trial.
Of course, it was pretty sucky that up to this point we did not have that right.
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Article:
Alan Cox says it's not safe to come to the US.
My post:
Where should we go?
Two crack-head moderators:
Offtopic!
Some days it's harder to karma whore than others.
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Of course, this raises the issue of where Usenix should be holding its conferences. I don't think Sealand is big enough. Besides, you pretty much have to go through the UK ("please hand your crypto keys to the immigration officer") to get there.
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The Self-Made Critic over at brunching.com seems share my taste in movies, so I listen to him. He also doesn't have a big enough readership to be worth bribing.
Having said that, the day I see "3 3/4 Babylons!" on a movie poster is the day I stop reading his reviews.
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The fuel cell is Hydrogen-Catalyst. There is no combustion going on.
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"Yay! more dinosaur robots that are totally incompatible with everything else including all other MIT dinosaur robots! Yay!"
/.ed already?
The video is horribly slow to download.
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Sorry not to troll here, but everyone gets dog shit on their street. Yes its annoying, no it won't be stopped no matter what many think since laws here, won't apply elsewhere, and vice versa.
When I see dog shit in the street it takes me about 5 muscles to move my leg left or right, then put my foot down, not in the mutt doings. Not a big deal at all. One of the things I do is buttplug repetitive dogs that keep crapping on the street and its very simple to create a scooper to just pick it up as well or any other street cleaner your using.
Sorry I know it sounds trollish to post this but the fact remains, dog shit will always be around on the streets simply because you cannot regulate the entire world with a "one rule fits all" scheme.
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Trouble might be putting it too strongly. Hormel don't seem overly vicious in enforcing this policy. However, they've asked politely, and I don't think it would hurt anyone to change the icon.
Special People from Austin, Minnesota
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Here is MS pretending they understand retail. Anyone remember ActiveStore? The unlamented POS [in both senses of the acronym] that required 192MB of RAM to run adequately on a register, 3 years ago? When enough retailers chewed their MS' balls off over that one, they turned around and said "Oh, we were targetting this at hospitals. Retail isn't important enough for us to bother with right now".
Damn MS to hell and all their "technology partners" too.
--
It was a nice change to read an Iain [M] Banks book in which fewer than half of the protagonists are gruesomely slaughtered.
I felt that more could have been made of the actual Business. How the main character joined the Business seemed a little contrived. But other than that it was a great read (particularly for a transatlantic flight - why doesn't my company fly me around like that?)
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Why has no-one modded this post's parent up? Informative with a capital I (sorry - the kids have been on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang marathon this weekend).
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Nothing. Samsung et al still have to pay up. I'm sure the settlement agreement states that they can't sue again for some considerable period of time.
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