I wouldn't go as far as "poison", but the GPL mission is clearly is more important than the efforts of the people who write the GPLed code, ie its aims must win out over the aims and IP of the creative contributors.
The purpose of the GPL is to promote freedom. If you don't support freedom, why are you writing GPL'd code? (Someone who wants to use GPL'd code and not grant others the same rights that they enjoyed is a parasite and no one cares what they think -- I'm sure that doesn't describe you.)
"IP", assuming you mean "intellectual property", is a null term. Copyright, not some vague notion of "intellectual property" that lumps copyright, patent, and trademark together, is what is relevant. The GPL uses copyright in a judo-like fashion to protect, rather than take away, people's freedom to use and share software. If you don't want to use copyright to that end, don't use the GPL. Of course, if you don't want to promote and protect people's freedom to use and share software, I think that's pretty sad, but, so it goes.
Re:Kidney shortage
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Do you own your own body? Or do you think the "state" is somehow "entitled" to own your own body.
Your question is based on a false premise. Living bodies are not ownable.
"Your" body is the thing that does the verb that is you. Flight does not own an arrow, shining does not own the sun, a Em7 chord does not own a guitar. The action and the subject are inseparable.
Property, on the other hand, is a relationship that is separable. You do not own your body. So long as your body is being a living human being, no one does or can.
Once you are dead -- once your body is no longer being you -- by natural default the inanimate remains of your body are finders-keepers. It takes an act of the state to transform the unowned corpse that was formerly you into legally recognized property.
It's entirely appropriate for the state to say, "By default, we're going to transform part of this corpse into property in a way that helps save lives, by giving it to this doctor so that he can make those bit help do the verb that is someone else (at which point it will cease being property); and the remainder into property in a way that helps the decedent's family and friends deal with their grief by using it in some sort of funeral rites."
Because, (and I'm not being nostradamus-esque here), there will be a point when it will be profitable to send people into space
I'm not so sure. At the same time that the improvements in launch systems are going on to make it profitable to put people into space, we also have improvements in robotics. It's far cheaper to put a robot up there than a human, and once robots hit a certain point of intelligence and capability, there's no economic reason to send people.
We might, in a post-scarcity future, send humans into space anyway -- manned spaceflight as the biggest performance art project of all time. But economically speaking, manned spaceflight beyond Earth orbit, or maybe Luna, will probably never turn a profit.
D) Semi-reliable, always connected hardware to run it on.*
E) Semi-reliable, fairly-fast, connection to run it through.**
F) Sufficient, reliable income to afford a commercial DSL or better internet connection because hosting such a site over most residential plans is a violation of TOS.***
My VPS costs me less than $20 a month at Linode. I run my blog and several other sites off of it. Less full-featured hosting is available even more cheaply. Why would I buy my own hardware to run a web server?
I have FaceBook pick up my RSS feed. My FB "friends" can read my posts there, but if FB collapses I still have my content.
M Brochet carried out two studies. In the first, he invited 54 of Bordeaux's eminent wine experts to sample different bottles, including a white wine to which he had added a flavourless substance giving it a red colour. Not a single expert noticed. âoeIt is a well known psychological phenomonen â" you taste what you are expecting to taste,â M Brochet said. âoeThey were expecting to taste a red wine, and so they did.â Similar experiments elsewhere had come up with similar results.
âoeAbout 2 or 3 per cent of people detect the white wine flavour, but invariably they have little experience of wine culture. Connoisseurs tend to fail to do so. The more training they have, the more mistakes they make because they are influenced by the colour of the wine.â
Why would I have my home computer connected to the Internet while I'm away from home?
So that you can access the data stored on it.
It's not as if I can be assured of having any internet connection when I'm away
Perhaps you live in a developing nation, then. My apologies, I assumed you were in the U.S., where any Real Geek has a full-time internet connection (at least a DSL line) and a smartphone with an ssh client,and frequent access to wireless hotspots while on the road.
This isn't bleeding edge. I often use my three-year-old Centro to log in to my home PC and review old e-mail with Alpine. Up to last year I was doing that over a 394k DSL line.
People who live around natural gas wells are well compensated through royalties and lease agreements.
Well, it certainly is polite of the pollution and other damages to limit themselves to the property of people who have signed lease agreements. The physics of an earthquake affecting only land owned by folks receiving royalty payments much be very interesting.
a bunch of pissed off and confused Objectivists milling about.
Objectivists are, by definition, confused; and a great number of them are already pissed off that the world does not bow before their sophomoric philosophy. Just sayin'.
Intellectual property gave you this internet upon which you call for its demise.
Que? In what way did "intellectual property" give us the internet? Trademark law certainly didn't. Patents have been a obstruction to the net, something that people have had to work around. The TCP/IP protocols are not restricted by copyright.
it's protecting its trademarks, which it is required to do by law.
There is no legitimate trademark issue here, any more than there is in someone mentioning Tolkien in a book.
Instead he set up a store on Zazzle and tried to sell them. Zazzle has a clear policy that it will not sell items that violate copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property. These buttons do that.
No, they don't. They are not derivative works of any Tolkein novels or stories, so there's no legitimate copyright issue. There is no attempt to misrepresent goods, or possibility of consumer confusion, so there is no legitimate trademark issue here.
They usually require 1/3 of the in-house training than a college graduate does before they start contributing to the company.
Of course, those folks are usually assigned simpler tasks with more supervision. And they usually flatten out in their skills and abilities in the first few years. Whereas the college graduate has been trained in broader thinking and learning skills that will allow them to develop much further as a professional.
Object Oriented Design was being taught over 20 years ago. They didn't call it that then, but that's what it was. It's been good practice since the beginning of computing and has always been the preferred way of coding.
That's simply not the case. While encapsulation and abstraction have been valued since the early days of software, inheritance and polymorphism -- the other two elements of OO -- were just coming into vogue about 20 years ago, and the question of how much they clarify rather than obfuscate software design remains open.
Even 10 years later Desktop Linux still hasn't got _basic_ desktop stuff like sound right.
Is "Desktop Linux" some distribution I've never heard of before? Because I've been exclusively using Linux (mostly Red Hat/Fedora) on my computers since the late 90s, including for "desktop" stuff like e-mail, web browsing, and word processing. And my Linux laptop has got sound right enough to use in live performance. Maybe you should try some other distribution.
The point is that, as stupid as it may be, the owner of the machine SHOULD have omnipotent power over what happens, and is or is not allowed.
Nonsense. A computer provided to an employee is a tool for that employee's use. To get the best results, that employee ought to be able to configure and customize that tool in any way that helps them work more efficiently.
I work with Real Computers, and don't use a "Trash Can" or "Recycle Bin", but if some pissant sysadmin told me I wasn't allowed to alias rm to '/bin/rm -i' or ls to 'ls -F', I'd laugh in their face; and if I were sanctioned by management for doing so, they'd find themselves without my services, since it would be pointless to continue working for a company so clearly doomed.
No, says McNealy. 'If we had bought Apple, there wouldn't have been iPods or iPads... I'd have screwed that up.'"
And nothing of value would have been lost. Perhaps, even, actual useful computing devices would have been developed, instead of shiny geegaws. Perhaps the Apple of Woz would have won out over the Apple of Jobs.
Re:Solution: Use a proper protocol (aka ISO)
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Once upon a time it was an issue of cost of h/w logic
No, it was an issue of the ISO specs being bloated and incomprehensible. The human cost had much more to do with their failure than the hardware cost.
You'd be surprised how fast acid paper decays. Yellows, cracks, falls apart
I have paperback books that are over fifty years old, and at least one hardback that's over 100. Yellowing doesn't make them unreadable. They could certainly all be scanned and OCRed.
We are dealing with a case of someone who has pretty much confessed. At any rate is caught dead to rights...
Evidence?
The word we are looking for here is TRAITOR.
Based on the number of crimes revealed by the leaks, the word for whomever is responsible for the leaks is "whistleblower".
So now we have a skeevy group of anarchists and progressive/marxist activists raising money in this traitor's name.
No, that's not what we have at all. What we have is a group of people of a variety of ideologies concerned with due process, the use of torture, and the specter of cruel and unusual punishment, raising money for a legal defense fund for an accused person.
Is it too much of a stretch to imagine that this group of misfits might be suspected of, and Paypal might have evidence of, some dubious activity going on with that money?
About as much as a stretch of the imagination as to imagine that someone as ignorant and misguided as yourself is planning some dubious activity.
Aren't you glad that you're entitled to be considered innocent until proven guilty, rather than condemned by some innuendo based around your political beliefs?
but for legitimate businesses, it makes processing fees all but a non-issue.
That doesn't follow at all. If my business pays, say, a 25% income tax rate, all that writing them off on my taxes means is that I get 25% of the processing fees back. If I'm looking at $100 in fees a month for an Authorize.net account versus $50 for PayPal fees, tax implications take that to $75 versus $37.50, which is less of a difference but still not a "non-issue".
The 1st amendment protects you from the government, not from private entities.
This raid was conducted by police, not by Sony's private security forces. If Sony's private security forces tried to raid your house, that would be a home invasion.
Once we start distributing methods for circumventing DRM measures then we are violating laws.
The First Amendment makes any such law null and void. Illiterate courts may not recognize it, but we have every right to discuss methods for circumventing DRM measures.
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The purpose of the GPL is to promote freedom. If you don't support freedom, why are you writing GPL'd code? (Someone who wants to use GPL'd code and not grant others the same rights that they enjoyed is a parasite and no one cares what they think -- I'm sure that doesn't describe you.)
"IP", assuming you mean "intellectual property", is a null term. Copyright, not some vague notion of "intellectual property" that lumps copyright, patent, and trademark together, is what is relevant. The GPL uses copyright in a judo-like fashion to protect, rather than take away, people's freedom to use and share software. If you don't want to use copyright to that end, don't use the GPL. Of course, if you don't want to promote and protect people's freedom to use and share software, I think that's pretty sad, but, so it goes.
Your question is based on a false premise. Living bodies are not ownable.
"Your" body is the thing that does the verb that is you. Flight does not own an arrow, shining does not own the sun, a Em7 chord does not own a guitar. The action and the subject are inseparable.
Property, on the other hand, is a relationship that is separable. You do not own your body. So long as your body is being a living human being, no one does or can.
Once you are dead -- once your body is no longer being you -- by natural default the inanimate remains of your body are finders-keepers. It takes an act of the state to transform the unowned corpse that was formerly you into legally recognized property.
It's entirely appropriate for the state to say, "By default, we're going to transform part of this corpse into property in a way that helps save lives, by giving it to this doctor so that he can make those bit help do the verb that is someone else (at which point it will cease being property); and the remainder into property in a way that helps the decedent's family and friends deal with their grief by using it in some sort of funeral rites."
I'm not so sure. At the same time that the improvements in launch systems are going on to make it profitable to put people into space, we also have improvements in robotics. It's far cheaper to put a robot up there than a human, and once robots hit a certain point of intelligence and capability, there's no economic reason to send people.
We might, in a post-scarcity future, send humans into space anyway -- manned spaceflight as the biggest performance art project of all time. But economically speaking, manned spaceflight beyond Earth orbit, or maybe Luna, will probably never turn a profit.
My VPS costs me less than $20 a month at Linode. I run my blog and several other sites off of it. Less full-featured hosting is available even more cheaply. Why would I buy my own hardware to run a web server?
I have FaceBook pick up my RSS feed. My FB "friends" can read my posts there, but if FB collapses I still have my content.
Right. Because in point of fact, wine snobs can't do so:
You're better off with the trained mice.
That is the coolest thing I've seen this week. Kudos to young Mr. Andersson.
So that you can access the data stored on it.
Perhaps you live in a developing nation, then. My apologies, I assumed you were in the U.S., where any Real Geek has a full-time internet connection (at least a DSL line) and a smartphone with an ssh client,and frequent access to wireless hotspots while on the road.
This isn't bleeding edge. I often use my three-year-old Centro to log in to my home PC and review old e-mail with Alpine. Up to last year I was doing that over a 394k DSL line.
Well, it certainly is polite of the pollution and other damages to limit themselves to the property of people who have signed lease agreements. The physics of an earthquake affecting only land owned by folks receiving royalty payments much be very interesting.
If you can't ssh into your home computer, please turn in your geek card. Thank you.
Objectivists are, by definition, confused; and a great number of them are already pissed off that the world does not bow before their sophomoric philosophy. Just sayin'.
Que? In what way did "intellectual property" give us the internet? Trademark law certainly didn't. Patents have been a obstruction to the net, something that people have had to work around. The TCP/IP protocols are not restricted by copyright.
There is no legitimate trademark issue here, any more than there is in someone mentioning Tolkien in a book.
No, they don't. They are not derivative works of any Tolkein novels or stories, so there's no legitimate copyright issue. There is no attempt to misrepresent goods, or possibility of consumer confusion, so there is no legitimate trademark issue here.
Of course, those folks are usually assigned simpler tasks with more supervision. And they usually flatten out in their skills and abilities in the first few years. Whereas the college graduate has been trained in broader thinking and learning skills that will allow them to develop much further as a professional.
That's simply not the case. While encapsulation and abstraction have been valued since the early days of software, inheritance and polymorphism -- the other two elements of OO -- were just coming into vogue about 20 years ago, and the question of how much they clarify rather than obfuscate software design remains open.
To IE 4? Surely you jest.
Is "Desktop Linux" some distribution I've never heard of before? Because I've been exclusively using Linux (mostly Red Hat/Fedora) on my computers since the late 90s, including for "desktop" stuff like e-mail, web browsing, and word processing. And my Linux laptop has got sound right enough to use in live performance. Maybe you should try some other distribution.
Nonsense. A computer provided to an employee is a tool for that employee's use. To get the best results, that employee ought to be able to configure and customize that tool in any way that helps them work more efficiently.
I work with Real Computers, and don't use a "Trash Can" or "Recycle Bin", but if some pissant sysadmin told me I wasn't allowed to alias rm to '/bin/rm -i' or ls to 'ls -F', I'd laugh in their face; and if I were sanctioned by management for doing so, they'd find themselves without my services, since it would be pointless to continue working for a company so clearly doomed.
"Sovereignty?" It is to laugh.
For what?
And nothing of value would have been lost. Perhaps, even, actual useful computing devices would have been developed, instead of shiny geegaws. Perhaps the Apple of Woz would have won out over the Apple of Jobs.
No, it was an issue of the ISO specs being bloated and incomprehensible. The human cost had much more to do with their failure than the hardware cost.
So why not just have tax money go directly to authors and editors, rather than introduce artificial monopolies and scarcities into the equation?
I have paperback books that are over fifty years old, and at least one hardback that's over 100. Yellowing doesn't make them unreadable. They could certainly all be scanned and OCRed.
Evidence?
Based on the number of crimes revealed by the leaks, the word for whomever is responsible for the leaks is "whistleblower".
No, that's not what we have at all. What we have is a group of people of a variety of ideologies concerned with due process, the use of torture, and the specter of cruel and unusual punishment, raising money for a legal defense fund for an accused person.
About as much as a stretch of the imagination as to imagine that someone as ignorant and misguided as yourself is planning some dubious activity.
Aren't you glad that you're entitled to be considered innocent until proven guilty, rather than condemned by some innuendo based around your political beliefs?
That doesn't follow at all. If my business pays, say, a 25% income tax rate, all that writing them off on my taxes means is that I get 25% of the processing fees back. If I'm looking at $100 in fees a month for an Authorize.net account versus $50 for PayPal fees, tax implications take that to $75 versus $37.50, which is less of a difference but still not a "non-issue".
This raid was conducted by police, not by Sony's private security forces. If Sony's private security forces tried to raid your house, that would be a home invasion.
The First Amendment makes any such law null and void. Illiterate courts may not recognize it, but we have every right to discuss methods for circumventing DRM measures.