Privacy doesnt "WORK" against us. I suppose in some ways it can be "USED" against us, in the same way that someone could use the sailboat that gives me months of pleasure every year to run down a dolphin or something. Rules against privacy are *active* attempts to take something important away from us, in that way, it WORKS against us. Privacy-> Works FOR us, can be USED against us. Anti-Privacy-> WORKS AGAINST us, USED AGAINST US.
"At 0300 the printing presses at The People's Daily are in full flow. The newspaper is the mouthpiece of the Communist Party. Its stock in trade is industrial output figures and the latest Communist Party dogma.
It is not a good read. "
Sounds a lot like The New York Times. Or NBC. Or CNN. Or ABC. Or CBS. Actually you could just flip the words "Communism" and "Democracy" throughout the whole article, and you have a story about the US!
To those of you telling us complainers that Slashdot cant be free, its too good, and we should all go live in a communist country, heres our, or at least my, retort: Slashdot is US. You and me. We contribe the stories, we discuss them. Some guys do some of the boring work associated with making a nice web interface. We do everything else. Slashdot/is/ us. It is, or was, about as communist as you could get, in that respect. Now, unfortuantely, they are saying those fateful words "We have to, its what the advertisers want." And I'm sure Tom Brokaw and Ed Bradley and everyone else involved in the US media has said that at one point in there life, right before turning into just another paid mercenary for corporate america. Slashdot said the magic words. They are doing what the advertisers want, despite the objections from themselves and from the slashdot community. Its gone. Bye, slashdot, nice knowing you.
This is an exerpt from the United States Code (title 5, Patents, Sec 103),
made available by the House of Representatives. I got it off of
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/103.html
It reads:
* A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically
disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the
differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior
art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at
the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art
to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived
by the manner in which the invention was made.
OK, maybe it seems like this could be hazy. To sum it up, even if a similar
design has not yet been patented, the idea can _still_ not be patented if
the design is obvious to those skilled in the relevant fields. I am an
electrical engineering major, and I can tell you, digital video recording
was "obvious" to designers as soon as digital signal processors became
popular. It is unnerving that SONICblue was awarded these patents.
Something as big as the boy-scouts deciding to ban homosexuals gets submitted and ignored, while some hokey looking window manager feature gets its story put up?
Why is any change in foriegn policy in favor of Palestinians or Islamic Fundamentalists the "wrong" response? Because they are used to having their babies killed and/or starved? So we might as well just keep money out of their countries, since although it is unfair and basically eliminating any chance for their economy to grow and their population to live comfortably, it keeps the world trade center from getting blown up? Oh, wait a minute... Apparantly even when you starve out entire countries, somehow they manage to afford that gigantic expense of a few plane tickets and some flight instructions. But you are right, the reason we were attacked is irrelevant. As long as we still have enough men left standing to shoot the bad guys, there is no loss. We'll just keep up the retroactive policy until all of us are dead, and then it wont matter anymore.
Interesting how all the news is concerned with is "catching the bad guys" and war war war. How about stopping the problem at its source, and stop pissing off nations in the middle east. Trade embargoes, puppet governments to protect oil interests, and an overall careless attitude for the last 30 years is what got the WTC blown up. I'm certain the US's embargoes have killed more innocent people than this one-time attack. Of course CNN wont discuss this, because they trying to brainwash you into hating arabs, so when the time comes to go to war and kill innocent people you'll be cheering in the streets just like those Palestians were yesterday. But remember, WE are the GOOD guys.
If you are talking to an external device with something like a serial port and that device draws too much current, then you are going to burn out whatever chip is associated with that serial port. Its not *that* unlikely that palms draw too much and hose some serial chips, what *is* unlikely is that palm created something and didnt make its interface conform to the voltage+current standard specifications for that protocol... Its probably some motherboards that have cheapo controllers that dont conform to the spec..
just a thought.
"so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0. "
So what if it did, whats the legality of a project with an open source beginning, GPL'ed begining, that then goes closed-source and commercial? Obviously any future GPL versions would be quite similar to the closed source one; could the closed-source project do anything to stop|affect the open-source project?
Personally I feel taking the steps to police the schools is a bit absurd. I mean, I'm not wearing Bill's shoes so I cant possibly know what he's thinking, but I am pretty sure in his position I would continue to be more interested in not being a schmuck than in policing a frigging school system to get some more loot for my money bin.
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Privacy doesnt "WORK" against us. I suppose in some ways it can be "USED" against us, in the same way that someone could use the sailboat that gives me months of pleasure every year to run down a dolphin or something. Rules against privacy are *active* attempts to take something important away from us, in that way, it WORKS against us. Privacy-> Works FOR us, can be USED against us. Anti-Privacy-> WORKS AGAINST us, USED AGAINST US.
"At 0300 the printing presses at The People's Daily are in full flow. The newspaper is the mouthpiece of the Communist Party. Its stock in trade is industrial output figures and the latest Communist Party dogma.
It is not a good read. "
Sounds a lot like The New York Times. Or NBC. Or CNN. Or ABC. Or CBS. Actually you could just flip the words "Communism" and "Democracy" throughout the whole article, and you have a story about the US!
hehe
s/contribe/contributee ly
:)
s/unfortuantely/unfortunat
Maybe "Slashdot II: Free again" will have a spell checker.
To those of you telling us complainers that Slashdot cant be free, its too good, and we should all go live in a communist country, heres our, or at least my, retort: Slashdot is US. You and me. We contribe the stories, we discuss them. Some guys do some of the boring work associated with making a nice web interface. We do everything else. Slashdot /is/ us. It is, or was, about as communist as you could get, in that respect. Now, unfortuantely, they are saying those fateful words "We have to, its what the advertisers want." And I'm sure Tom Brokaw and Ed Bradley and everyone else involved in the US media has said that at one point in there life, right before turning into just another paid mercenary for corporate america. Slashdot said the magic words. They are doing what the advertisers want, despite the objections from themselves and from the slashdot community. Its gone. Bye, slashdot, nice knowing you.
thats great until it snows, or rains, or a bird does its business on the device.
What do you feel is the most important problem with Microsoft's business practice and what are the implications of this?
This is an exerpt from the United States Code (title 5, Patents, Sec 103),
made available by the House of Representatives. I got it off of
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/103.html
It reads:
* A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically
disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the
differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior
art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at
the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art
to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived
by the manner in which the invention was made.
OK, maybe it seems like this could be hazy. To sum it up, even if a similar
design has not yet been patented, the idea can _still_ not be patented if
the design is obvious to those skilled in the relevant fields. I am an
electrical engineering major, and I can tell you, digital video recording
was "obvious" to designers as soon as digital signal processors became
popular. It is unnerving that SONICblue was awarded these patents.
Something as big as the boy-scouts deciding to ban homosexuals gets submitted and ignored, while some hokey looking window manager feature gets its story put up?
Thats pretty pathetic.
Why is any change in foriegn policy in favor of Palestinians or Islamic Fundamentalists the "wrong" response? Because they are used to having their babies killed and/or starved? So we might as well just keep money out of their countries, since although it is unfair and basically eliminating any chance for their economy to grow and their population to live comfortably, it keeps the world trade center from getting blown up? Oh, wait a minute... Apparantly even when you starve out entire countries, somehow they manage to afford that gigantic expense of a few plane tickets and some flight instructions. But you are right, the reason we were attacked is irrelevant. As long as we still have enough men left standing to shoot the bad guys, there is no loss. We'll just keep up the retroactive policy until all of us are dead, and then it wont matter anymore.
Interesting how all the news is concerned with is "catching the bad guys" and war war war. How about stopping the problem at its source, and stop pissing off nations in the middle east. Trade embargoes, puppet governments to protect oil interests, and an overall careless attitude for the last 30 years is what got the WTC blown up. I'm certain the US's embargoes have killed more innocent people than this one-time attack. Of course CNN wont discuss this, because they trying to brainwash you into hating arabs, so when the time comes to go to war and kill innocent people you'll be cheering in the streets just like those Palestians were yesterday. But remember, WE are the GOOD guys.
If you are talking to an external device with something like a serial port and that device draws too much current, then you are going to burn out whatever chip is associated with that serial port. Its not *that* unlikely that palms draw too much and hose some serial chips, what *is* unlikely is that palm created something and didnt make its interface conform to the voltage+current standard specifications for that protocol... Its probably some motherboards that have cheapo controllers that dont conform to the spec.. just a thought.
"so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0. " So what if it did, whats the legality of a project with an open source beginning, GPL'ed begining, that then goes closed-source and commercial? Obviously any future GPL versions would be quite similar to the closed source one; could the closed-source project do anything to stop|affect the open-source project?
I'm sure with a little signal processing its not difficult to compare actual-person-talk to their AT&T Text-to-Speech counterpart.......
ummm, all that article said was they throw in bizarre values that the cd player throws out..
Personally I feel taking the steps to police the schools is a bit absurd. I mean, I'm not wearing Bill's shoes so I cant possibly know what he's thinking, but I am pretty sure in his position I would continue to be more interested in not being a schmuck than in policing a frigging school system to get some more loot for my money bin.