Except that when it comes to superior but 'reasonable and non-discriminatory' patents - you're stuffed right from the start if you're making open source. Because RAND isn't GPL compliant and can't be. So it's illegal to ship that code at all, end of game, thank you for not even getting to play.
So inferior it has to be if you don't want to be arrested. Don't like that? Lobby for patent law reform.
"do you want an inferior standard or do you want an open standard that you need to pay royalties to implement?
Is this a trick question or something?
Inferior and open (or owned by your company) beats superior and closed every time.
Inferior can always be improved by throwing technical manpower at it.
Closed (and not owned by you) can't be. You might make out fine to start with, but you're completely at the mercy of the IP owner, and if they one day decide they just don't like you... wham, you're stuffed.
O rly? You produce all the oxygen you inhale, all the water you drink, all the protein you ingest, and all the thermal input your body needs to maintain its optimum temperature? You travelled back in time, conceived yourself in a test tube from a loop of pure DNA, and built singlehandedly a robot butler to train your younger self in the ways of Bat-Fu while you build a secret underwater city? In business, you are a heroic self-creator, never requiring so much as a single customer, supplier, manager, assistant, trainer, mentor, regulator, or partner, while you design perpetual electrostatic motors powered by raw condensed inspiration? If the entire world around you were to vanish, you'd exist in a bubble of anti-temporal stasis through the sheer energy of your indomitable will?
It's possible!
Or, it's also possible that you exist as one person among many in a healthy social ecosystem who share resources, do things for the good of all, and support each other with compassionate aid when times get hard, but haven't yet realised this.
"SPF, SenderID, and DKIM are not spam-fighting techniques. They are forgery-fighting techniques. "
Yes, of course. But I don't think you're understanding the point of SPF.
It's not just the URLS advertised in spam. If we have global SPF to the point where sending from a server not named in the SPF record is a useful indicator, wham, that will cut spam instantly as a side-effect.
First, because every spam sent from a botnet will be dropped because they're not SPF servers.
Second, because in a world where you can't forge the From address, suddenly every spam you send can be traced back to a domain. And a domain can be traced back to a legal entity, and followed quickly by a lawsuit or ICBM.
Third, we finally get proof of sender identity, and that's no small thing in itself.
And yet for some reason, this technology just hasn't taken off. Does everyone really WANT anonymised fake From addresses?
"And I want to run an application that executes in its data area why?"
If it's using any kind of virtual machine with a dynamic languge and a just-in-time compiler (like Forth or Lisp or maybe an efficient implementation of Javascript), it might need to compile bytecode to x86 code and then execute it. How else are we going to implement these languages? "Nobody needs a dynamic language with incremental compilation, everyone should have separate run and compile phases" isn't really a long-term answer.
Yes, since when did 'conservative' start to mean 'dedicated to spending as much as possible on massive military buildup and wars of world domination', anyway?
And when did 'spreading the wealth' become un-democratic?
"and the insight to define exactly what it is you don't know."
Which is the hard part. How do you know what you don't know, if you don't even know that you don't know what you don't know? Do you even know that you know what you know? What if what you don't know isn't what you think you don't know, but something which you think you know, but don't?
A dictatorial war-leader with absolute power, and a persistent opponent of the middle and lower class citizens, who invades and conquers a neighbouring state, and later puts down a citizens revolt? And for those acts is rewarded with near-worship, not from the citizens or the world generally, but from the aristocracy, who see him as a good ol' boy? Oh, I think we'll see plenty of those. If we're unlucky.
Slashdot Mirror
Spindizzies!
"perhaps a backup of tearable membranes"
That's a tearable idea.
""canard": groundless rumour or belief. "
Or a duck. Or a forward-swept wing.
and elfage and dwarfage... and hackage and pillage and luggage...
but is there winnage?
"RIAA/MPAA sleezeballs capitalizing on it in ways I don't even want to contemplate."
When you install photoelectric panels, you're BURNING our fossil fuel industry!
Passive home heating is like passive smoking: IT KILLS! Insist on genuine 2000 Megawatt active air conditioning from a certified generation station.
You wouldn't steal a car... so why build a windmill? Just because all your friends are doing it doesn't make it right!
Firewood is BOLSHEVISM!
"to harden our grid against EMP and geomagnetic disturbances"
We could do that, yes. Wait and let the terrorists bring their nuclear weapons and once-in-a-century solar flares to us.
Or we could take bold preemptive action by blowing up the sun.
Except that when it comes to superior but 'reasonable and non-discriminatory' patents - you're stuffed right from the start if you're making open source. Because RAND isn't GPL compliant and can't be. So it's illegal to ship that code at all, end of game, thank you for not even getting to play.
So inferior it has to be if you don't want to be arrested. Don't like that? Lobby for patent law reform.
"do you want an inferior standard or do you want an open standard that you need to pay royalties to implement?
Is this a trick question or something?
Inferior and open (or owned by your company) beats superior and closed every time.
Inferior can always be improved by throwing technical manpower at it.
Closed (and not owned by you) can't be. You might make out fine to start with, but you're completely at the mercy of the IP owner, and if they one day decide they just don't like you... wham, you're stuffed.
"Can anyone show me where in the U.S. Constitution it says the government can force you to buy health insurance?"
I dunno. Aren't car owners in a very similar position with regard to third-party insurance?
We all have a pre-existing terminal condition called 'life'. In the long run, no rational medical insurer would want to give coverage for that.
Oh, you only want to deny coverage for some other guy's pre-existing conditions? Not for yours. Okay then.
"I rely on me to provide for me."
O rly? You produce all the oxygen you inhale, all the water you drink, all the protein you ingest, and all the thermal input your body needs to maintain its optimum temperature? You travelled back in time, conceived yourself in a test tube from a loop of pure DNA, and built singlehandedly a robot butler to train your younger self in the ways of Bat-Fu while you build a secret underwater city? In business, you are a heroic self-creator, never requiring so much as a single customer, supplier, manager, assistant, trainer, mentor, regulator, or partner, while you design perpetual electrostatic motors powered by raw condensed inspiration? If the entire world around you were to vanish, you'd exist in a bubble of anti-temporal stasis through the sheer energy of your indomitable will?
It's possible!
Or, it's also possible that you exist as one person among many in a healthy social ecosystem who share resources, do things for the good of all, and support each other with compassionate aid when times get hard, but haven't yet realised this.
"You can't live high on the hog without slavery... And that doesn't bother me."
THAT bothers me.
Measuretwiceus cutonceus!
"SPF, SenderID, and DKIM are not spam-fighting techniques. They are forgery-fighting techniques. "
Yes, of course. But I don't think you're understanding the point of SPF.
It's not just the URLS advertised in spam. If we have global SPF to the point where sending from a server not named in the SPF record is a useful indicator, wham, that will cut spam instantly as a side-effect.
First, because every spam sent from a botnet will be dropped because they're not SPF servers.
Second, because in a world where you can't forge the From address, suddenly every spam you send can be traced back to a domain. And a domain can be traced back to a legal entity, and followed quickly by a lawsuit or ICBM.
Third, we finally get proof of sender identity, and that's no small thing in itself.
And yet for some reason, this technology just hasn't taken off. Does everyone really WANT anonymised fake From addresses?
"And I want to run an application that executes in its data area why?"
If it's using any kind of virtual machine with a dynamic languge and a just-in-time compiler (like Forth or Lisp or maybe an efficient implementation of Javascript), it might need to compile bytecode to x86 code and then execute it. How else are we going to implement these languages? "Nobody needs a dynamic language with incremental compilation, everyone should have separate run and compile phases" isn't really a long-term answer.
Yes, since when did 'conservative' start to mean 'dedicated to spending as much as possible on massive military buildup and wars of world domination', anyway?
And when did 'spreading the wealth' become un-democratic?
"The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race."
I thought it was "Press 'Launch'".
"and the insight to define exactly what it is you don't know."
Which is the hard part. How do you know what you don't know, if you don't even know that you don't know what you don't know? Do you even know that you know what you know? What if what you don't know isn't what you think you don't know, but something which you think you know, but don't?
especially the "stores data in the cloud" bit - hasn't the Danger fiasco told us that's a bad idea jeans? But gjs looks cool.
And cat macros are punishable by death.
By KITTENS.
"I doubt we'll ever see another Cincinnatus."
This guy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnatus
A dictatorial war-leader with absolute power, and a persistent opponent of the middle and lower class citizens, who invades and conquers a neighbouring state, and later puts down a citizens revolt? And for those acts is rewarded with near-worship, not from the citizens or the world generally, but from the aristocracy, who see him as a good ol' boy? Oh, I think we'll see plenty of those. If we're unlucky.
"when they are selling a $5 cup of of coffee, it sure seems to be the way to bet."
So if it's crud, why are you buying?
"The asteroid belt alone has enough resources to sustain humanity at current rates of consumption for 150 million years or more."
Citation required?
Boskone has infiltrated to the core of our organisation! Where's Erisia's Lens we need it?
Which we'll answer with our mandibles.