A more restrictive license is better *if* you actually own the code. TiVo can always buy the right for a tivoisation from Sun.
Linus is dead wrong about GPLv3. A more restrictive license make real open source software providers into more profitable companies. Programmers who are less famous than Linus will use GPLv3 becaue it'll mean TiVo-like companies must pay them.
iPhone offers nothing Nokia, Samsung, etc. don't sell already, not one single feature. Infact all other similarly priced phones obliterate the iPhone in features (and 3rd party software).
iPhone's success depends entirely upon people making real feature sacrifices for Apple's user interface. Apple knows UI but don't ever gamble on UI beating features.
I might love the iPhone, I might not, but a replacable sim card is essential in Europe, cuz you need sims for multiple countries, so I'll never even try an iPhone. I don't mind, N95s are infinite superior in every way. And N95s will cost the same as an iPhone soon enough.
Amen! But TiVo doesn't need to worry really. Here is the solution:
1) create your DRM solution using Linux under GPLv3 2) add firmware restrictions preventing modification 3) release your firmware source under a pseudo-open source licence 4) explain how to reburn the firmware by soldering on a new rom 5) tell the labels "Suck it, almost no one will solder on a new rom".
If you want to mod your TiVo, fine, make TiVo's physical mod. TiVo's doesn't need to make everything software controlled. They just can't close it up completely.
We all need glasses doing 5 min round robin video, allowing us to record any & every event of police brutality.
I mean, lets be honest here, the police keep us safe in two ways: 1) catching the intrinsically violent anti-social types and 2) occupying the other intrinsically violent types who can *often* respect social norms doing it A true open survalience society is worse for police than average people because cops are intrinsically far more violent than ordinary people.
You may also be worried about your kinks being exposed in a survalience society, but this will pass as every kink, even furry fedishism, becomes as mainstream in everyday life as on the internet.
No, wikipedia serves that "jumping off point" function extremely well now. Wikipedia's physics & math articles are amazingly good for those non-specialists who might have a real reason to learn about something!!!
Sorry but wikipedia is currently actually useful to graduate students and any other researchers who need information about some subject they know very little about. Their ain't no reason to write another pulp physics book. And we're not going to let those nimrods who want one destroy a great resource for interdisciplinary work.
Yes, but he's not an insider. He's a guy who only once used a nice canned exploit to play a prank on a friend. All we outsiders see is news about some stupid/evil company who prosecutes some nice kid for "responcible disclosure". Kids are well liked by most. Adults who beat up kids are liked by none. So a vigorous assult on those adults ability to beat people up seems best.
Your also wrong about security issues not having an impact on platform choice. No one sane runs their web server on windows. User's Windows machines are behind a visious firewall. etc. Moreover full disclosure has a long term impact on a vender's reputation. It may not override other concerns, but people know about it.
Life is simple for hacker with a consience: If you find a hole in an open source program, just submit a patch or privately tell the developer, and forget about it. If you find a hole in a closed source product, sell that bitch for all the money you can get. Yes, some innocent people will lose some cpu cycles on a botnet, and others will get spam. But no one will be hurt physically. And you've done your small part to discourage use of some proprietary protuct. It's not just about "protecting the users", it should be about following your conscience.
I imagine the store credit provision is baught by the RIAA. It's also the $10,000 bond the store must buy.
If it's that obvious to the store, the law should have said "stores must take id information, make a photograph of the person (say via surveillance cameras), and report suspecious behavior."
..I generally assume some intelegence on the part of comment readers. There are no shortage of obvious variation based upon whatever taxation system you happen to prefer using. A national sales tax has been discussed. It could be part of income tax instead. etc. But the basica idea of taxing closed source transactions is still valid.
If you sell any product without making your source code available upon request, say by submitting it to the library of congress, then you must pay three times as much sales tax.
Ain't complex, just increase the taxes on closed source transactions.
Nope, those are not problems, those are good things!
Yes companies will occasionally break patents by bringing products to market quickly. But bringing products to market is the whole point of the patent system! And you've still got your paptent to keep the latecomers out.
Yes you may take the inventers idea but he still owns the patent! If you don't pay him, you'll never get any patent monopoly yourself. So your competitors will kill your profit margines once you make the product popular.
I did not mention one detail, you'll likely want some extra patent protentsion when facing a monopoly. For example, you may ask the court for "activation without product vs. monopoly" if you can argue that your industry is dominated by a specific monopoly. It'd be bad for you too, as you start burnning your 7 years without a product, and presumably you can't enforce the patent against anyone but that monopoly. Yet it sems like a wise idea when an industry is dominated by a monopoly.
1) eliminate it entirely --- This will solve the worst problems, but it'll make new much smaller problems that people will bitch about, and it'll create havoc on wallstreet.
2) reduce duration to 7ish years from "going to market" which no infringment by older products --- This means your patent is not yet "active" even once filed and anyone may infringe freely, but you may later "activate" your patent by declaring it used in a specific product. No truely new products may directly infringe upon your patent once activated, but old products may still be produced, and even "updated". In addition judges may look at the product(s) you claim activate your patent. If your products do not preform the same function as some new infringing product, he may force you to negotiate a lissence of the patent to the new product, or even invalidate the patent if he feels its not relevant to the function.
So my point is "first to file" is stupid, we need "first to market" to shut these patent scammers down.
And bussing bees around the country likely contributes by stressing them out. You imagine that this just keeps the CCD rate higher but still constant; however, it might also spready diseases faster.
So what if al the above factors are stacking up to keep the CCD rate dangerously high. And then a particularly bad seasonal "bee cold" goes around?
Europe amy be seeing "delayed onset" because (a) they treat their bees better and/or (b) the cold took longer ot get there.
No it's not possible just now, but here are some corrections:
x86? dead god why?
1gb ram? phone's need 3 types of ram, why not use removable cards?
Use USB only for high bandwidth stuff. Otherwise just use Bluetooth.
I'm not sure full phone touchscrens are as far close as you imagine.
Yes, Samba, VNC, etc. are wonderful ideas. Why don't you port one to a Linux or Simbian phone with wifi? I'll just take gimp, gcc, etc. as a joke.
MSN, AIM, etc. are run by companies who make your life harder. I'd stick to Skype, Jabber, and one of MSN/AIM/Yahoo.
Yes, one might imagine making a phone like this for $100.
Most people just want phone, sms, addressbook, schedule, todo, email, and obviously bluetooth. Younger people also want a web browser, music, games, etc. Very serious people want Skype/IM and wifi. But phones are basically just lacking two things: GPS and document viewers.
Halliburton is getting out before a democrat Attorney General takes power. Thay have already taken the profits from millitary operations.
I just hope the next president re-highers all the good CIA people Bish fired, lets them deal effectively with Islamic terrorism, and sends people to kill the owners of this company.
You pull the spinach off the shelves to punish the companies, both the manufacturer and the store. France makes cheese from unpasteurized mike because they can trust the traditional producers. But you just can't trust America's major producers.
I suggest you try Spain or France, often more modern than the US, but food actually has a taste.
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$600 iPhone + cingular rip off >> $800 N95 + your choice
Noikia always has and always will be king, everyone knows this. The N95 has **vastly** more features:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n95-1716.php
The iPhone won't even have 3rd party software to make up for it's poor feature set.
Yes, it sounds like the judge is over reaching. TorrentSpy needs to appeal.
Or you can use 10minutemail to create an account yourself, and then post it on bugmenot.
A more restrictive license is better *if* you actually own the code. TiVo can always buy the right for a tivoisation from Sun.
Linus is dead wrong about GPLv3. A more restrictive license make real open source software providers into more profitable companies. Programmers who are less famous than Linus will use GPLv3 becaue it'll mean TiVo-like companies must pay them.
iPhone offers nothing Nokia, Samsung, etc. don't sell already, not one single feature. Infact all other similarly priced phones obliterate the iPhone in features (and 3rd party software).
iPhone's success depends entirely upon people making real feature sacrifices for Apple's user interface. Apple knows UI but don't ever gamble on UI beating features.
I might love the iPhone, I might not, but a replacable sim card is essential in Europe, cuz you need sims for multiple countries, so I'll never even try an iPhone. I don't mind, N95s are infinite superior in every way. And N95s will cost the same as an iPhone soon enough.
Amen! But TiVo doesn't need to worry really. Here is the solution:
1) create your DRM solution using Linux under GPLv3
2) add firmware restrictions preventing modification
3) release your firmware source under a pseudo-open source licence
4) explain how to reburn the firmware by soldering on a new rom
5) tell the labels "Suck it, almost no one will solder on a new rom".
If you want to mod your TiVo, fine, make TiVo's physical mod. TiVo's doesn't need to make everything software controlled. They just can't close it up completely.
Credit card companies don't want people changing credit cards, period.
Not really. The Dail Mail is quite a bit above Fox News.
The codling of extreamist beliefs is ridiculous in Britian. People only deny the Holocaust for one reason: They support killing Jews.
We all need glasses doing 5 min round robin video, allowing us to record any & every event of police brutality.
I mean, lets be honest here, the police keep us safe in two ways:
1) catching the intrinsically violent anti-social types and
2) occupying the other intrinsically violent types who can *often* respect social norms doing it
A true open survalience society is worse for police than average people because cops are intrinsically far more violent than ordinary people.
You may also be worried about your kinks being exposed in a survalience society, but this will pass as every kink, even furry fedishism, becomes as mainstream in everyday life as on the internet.
No, wikipedia serves that "jumping off point" function extremely well now. Wikipedia's physics & math articles are amazingly good for those non-specialists who might have a real reason to learn about something!!!
Sorry but wikipedia is currently actually useful to graduate students and any other researchers who need information about some subject they know very little about. Their ain't no reason to write another pulp physics book. And we're not going to let those nimrods who want one destroy a great resource for interdisciplinary work.
Yes, but he's not an insider. He's a guy who only once used a nice canned exploit to play a prank on a friend. All we outsiders see is news about some stupid/evil company who prosecutes some nice kid for "responcible disclosure". Kids are well liked by most. Adults who beat up kids are liked by none. So a vigorous assult on those adults ability to beat people up seems best.
Your also wrong about security issues not having an impact on platform choice. No one sane runs their web server on windows. User's Windows machines are behind a visious firewall. etc. Moreover full disclosure has a long term impact on a vender's reputation. It may not override other concerns, but people know about it.
Life is simple for hacker with a consience: If you find a hole in an open source program, just submit a patch or privately tell the developer, and forget about it. If you find a hole in a closed source product, sell that bitch for all the money you can get. Yes, some innocent people will lose some cpu cycles on a botnet, and others will get spam. But no one will be hurt physically. And you've done your small part to discourage use of some proprietary protuct. It's not just about "protecting the users", it should be about following your conscience.
IANASE(H)
I imagine the store credit provision is baught by the RIAA. It's also the $10,000 bond the store must buy.
If it's that obvious to the store, the law should have said "stores must take id information, make a photograph of the person (say via surveillance cameras), and report suspecious behavior."
Those independent retailers help keep the music business cool. It'll hurt the industry's streat cred when they go down.
..I generally assume some intelegence on the part of comment readers. There are no shortage of obvious variation based upon whatever taxation system you happen to prefer using. A national sales tax has been discussed. It could be part of income tax instead. etc. But the basica idea of taxing closed source transactions is still valid.
If you sell any product without making your source code available upon request, say by submitting it to the library of congress, then you must pay three times as much sales tax.
Ain't complex, just increase the taxes on closed source transactions.
It will be interesting to see how much more bloated apps become when access time isn't an issue.
Yes, but massively increasing the price of storage, and reducing the maximum capasity, will help fight other bloat too.
Nope, those are not problems, those are good things!
Yes companies will occasionally break patents by bringing products to market quickly. But bringing products to market is the whole point of the patent system! And you've still got your paptent to keep the latecomers out.
Yes you may take the inventers idea but he still owns the patent! If you don't pay him, you'll never get any patent monopoly yourself. So your competitors will kill your profit margines once you make the product popular.
I did not mention one detail, you'll likely want some extra patent protentsion when facing a monopoly. For example, you may ask the court for "activation without product vs. monopoly" if you can argue that your industry is dominated by a specific monopoly. It'd be bad for you too, as you start burnning your 7 years without a product, and presumably you can't enforce the patent against anyone but that monopoly. Yet it sems like a wise idea when an industry is dominated by a monopoly.
1) eliminate it entirely --- This will solve the worst problems, but it'll make new much smaller problems that people will bitch about, and it'll create havoc on wallstreet.
2) reduce duration to 7ish years from "going to market" which no infringment by older products --- This means your patent is not yet "active" even once filed and anyone may infringe freely, but you may later "activate" your patent by declaring it used in a specific product. No truely new products may directly infringe upon your patent once activated, but old products may still be produced, and even "updated". In addition judges may look at the product(s) you claim activate your patent. If your products do not preform the same function as some new infringing product, he may force you to negotiate a lissence of the patent to the new product, or even invalidate the patent if he feels its not relevant to the function.
So my point is "first to file" is stupid, we need "first to market" to shut these patent scammers down.
And bussing bees around the country likely contributes by stressing them out. You imagine that this just keeps the CCD rate higher but still constant; however, it might also spready diseases faster.
So what if al the above factors are stacking up to keep the CCD rate dangerously high. And then a particularly bad seasonal "bee cold" goes around?
Europe amy be seeing "delayed onset" because (a) they treat their bees better and/or (b) the cold took longer ot get there.
No it's not possible just now, but here are some corrections:
x86? dead god why?
1gb ram? phone's need 3 types of ram, why not use removable cards?
Use USB only for high bandwidth stuff. Otherwise just use Bluetooth.
I'm not sure full phone touchscrens are as far close as you imagine.
Yes, Samba, VNC, etc. are wonderful ideas. Why don't you port one to a Linux or Simbian phone with wifi? I'll just take gimp, gcc, etc. as a joke.
MSN, AIM, etc. are run by companies who make your life harder. I'd stick to Skype, Jabber, and one of MSN/AIM/Yahoo.
Yes, one might imagine making a phone like this for $100.
Most people just want phone, sms, addressbook, schedule, todo, email, and obviously bluetooth. Younger people also want a web browser, music, games, etc. Very serious people want Skype/IM and wifi. But phones are basically just lacking two things: GPS and document viewers.
Halliburton is getting out before a democrat Attorney General takes power. Thay have already taken the profits from millitary operations.
I just hope the next president re-highers all the good CIA people Bish fired, lets them deal effectively with Islamic terrorism, and sends people to kill the owners of this company.
I've always felt companies moving abroad was pretty much a form of treason.
You are a genious! But why editable? Why can't porn.google.com just turn all search results into porn?
k iporn
Infact, wikiporn could make finding esoteric porn much easier.
See also: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wi
I find it funny that people are soo fond of all this crippleware. Infact, the is unique *most* useful package is obviously: Fink
Oh, thanks for all those services! You might check out Equation Services.
Does anybody have a good free gui text editor for the mac? The GUI ports of Emacs and Vim act a little funny.
You pull the spinach off the shelves to punish the companies, both the manufacturer and the store. France makes cheese from unpasteurized mike because they can trust the traditional producers. But you just can't trust America's major producers.
I suggest you try Spain or France, often more modern than the US, but food actually has a taste.