I wonder if BSD would benefit from changing to a similar development model as Linux.
The short answer is NO!
The fact is, the BSD development model is what leads to the quality of BSD systems. If you want the Linux mode, well, thats what Linux is for. We WANT the BSD model.
1) It is actually a tax - they intend to charge every man, woman and child in the country $100 for a compulsory card, and presumably another $100 if you lose it (My friend had to pay $50 for a new driving licence when hers was stolen)
2) Every criminal in the country will have any number of fake ones, but legit people will be harassed because they left the only one they have in their other handbag/wallet/why.
The biggest benefit is that the unemployment problem will be solved by everyone jumping on the forgery bandwaagon.
You surely do NOT have the highest cost of living. Not even close. Check the price of a Big Mac, a night in a Hotel, or a gallon of gas anywhere in Europe.
London: Big Mac $6, Night in Hotel $100, Gallon of gas $8. (internet Cafe $1.8/hr)
I would not worry too much. Not too long ago, they said high level languages would make programmers redundant. Then they said 4G languages would make programmers redundant.
Can you imagine a "natural language" based system replacing that SQL app you spent two years writing? No? Well I be a journalist can.
This announcement is just one more dollup of horse-manure in a long line of horse manure.
makes this easy is that most of these transactions need credit cards or other things which will leave a paper trail Then the solution is easy - FINE THE DAMN CREDIT CARD COMPANIES FOR THE SPAM.
Make it the credit card company's responsibility to verify that all vendors they perform transactions for do not use spam to advertise.
Since _all_ the credit card companies (CCC) are American, American law can be enforced. The CCCs can be expected to investigate their clients - after all, they presumably do that to ensure that they are credit worthy. A fine of $xxx,000 per day that a CCC supports the client after a CCC has been notified that the client uses Spam will stop them.
Surely no new laws are needed - the present law against "aiding and abetting" would be adequate would it not.
Bear in mind, the CCCs probably make more money out of spam than any one of their clients, and maybe even more than Cisco make for shipping the spam round the world. Remember ALL the spam and virii in the world goes through CiscoKit.
Drug dealers have had a solution to this for years. Its called a drive-by shooting which, just by coincidence, is the ideal way of handling spammers too.
There you have it - what we learn is the biggest beneficiary of virii is Cisco. All virii travel through Cisco kit as well as MS. If Cisco had anti-virus software, there would be NO VIRII AT ALL
Virii sell more and bigger Cisco kit. Blame Cisco, not MS^h^h^h^h^h^h.
In most countries, an idea has to be "not obvious to anyone appropriately skilled in the relevant art or technology" to be patentable - Does America not have such a clause, or do they not have anyone skilled in any art or technology?
Most of the patents that upset/.ers so much are obvious - can you say "one click?" - I knew you could!
I cannot see how RFID should be patentable in the first place. It didn't require any invention - just waiting for components to shrink in size and reading a few datasheets.
And when has the Blair government produced a form that is not crammed will complex and irrelevant questions, which then requires us to pay an army of civil servants to read.
Target the people who are using this form of advertising>. A cruise missile through the bedroom window would work!
Or maybe the Mafia might be persuaded to act in the public interest. A horse's head in the bed can be very persuasive.
Alternatively, a visit from "men in black" to apply "cruel and inhuman torture" would be justified. There are "freelancers" who are quite skilled at this sort of thing available for relatively small sums of money and the government could fall back on "plausible deniability" as they normally do.
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and spend the enire week trying to find out how to get your printer to work
I think you will find that GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time.
The short answer is NO!
The fact is, the BSD development model is what leads to the quality of BSD systems. If you want the Linux mode, well, thats what Linux is for. We WANT the BSD model.
Laws? Cruise missiles are the only answer.
If you have been hit by an uninsured driver, you will gladly put up with it.
1) It is actually a tax - they intend to charge every man, woman and child in the country $100 for a compulsory card, and presumably another $100 if you lose it (My friend had to pay $50 for a new driving licence when hers was stolen)
2) Every criminal in the country will have any number of fake ones, but legit people will be harassed because they left the only one they have in their other handbag/wallet/why.
The biggest benefit is that the unemployment problem will be solved by everyone jumping on the forgery bandwaagon.
The bible mentions something about getting the plank out of your own eye before trying to remove a splinter from someone else's. It is sound advice.
Actually, the terms were "Old world" (Europe, Asia), "New World" (The Americas, Australia) and "third world".
London: Big Mac $6, Night in Hotel $100, Gallon of gas $8. (internet Cafe $1.8/hr)
Absolutely not: Didnt you here about the terrorists who said "Take this plane to Cuba, or I'll stuff a Pentium up your arse?"
Thats got to be worse than plucking out your eyebrows, and its illegal to take eyebrow tweezers on a plane.
You have my full support and congratulations, but I thnk a cruise missile though the bedroom window would also work.
Can you imagine a "natural language" based system replacing that SQL app you spent two years writing? No? Well I be a journalist can.
This announcement is just one more dollup of horse-manure in a long line of horse manure.
Make it the credit card company's responsibility to verify that all vendors they perform transactions for do not use spam to advertise.
Since _all_ the credit card companies (CCC) are American, American law can be enforced. The CCCs can be expected to investigate their clients - after all, they presumably do that to ensure that they are credit worthy. A fine of $xxx,000 per day that a CCC supports the client after a CCC has been notified that the client uses Spam will stop them.
Surely no new laws are needed - the present law against "aiding and abetting" would be adequate would it not.
Bear in mind, the CCCs probably make more money out of spam than any one of their clients, and maybe even more than Cisco make for shipping the spam round the world. Remember ALL the spam and virii in the world goes through CiscoKit.
Is it not a requirement for US patents to be non-obvious as well?
Drug dealers have had a solution to this for years. Its called a drive-by shooting which, just by coincidence, is the ideal way of handling spammers too.
Virii sell more and bigger Cisco kit. Blame Cisco, not MS^h^h^h^h^h^h.
Megabytes??? Some of us remember when it was 16 WORDS of memory, and $40,000! and characters had only 6 bits!
And we had to walk to work in the snow, and it was up hill both ways
Most of the patents that upset /.ers so much are obvious - can you say "one click?" - I knew you could!
I cannot see how RFID should be patentable in the first place. It didn't require any invention - just waiting for components to shrink in size and reading a few datasheets.
And when has the Blair government produced a form that is not crammed will complex and irrelevant questions, which then requires us to pay an army of civil servants to read.
If it was East London, it would be 140%
At last we will have easy access to prior art for all those stupid US patents!
I thought ICT changed its name to ICL in the late 1960's
The state now has a record of everywhere you went on any given day. No big deal. They can already do that with your mobile phone.
Or maybe the Mafia might be persuaded to act in the public interest. A horse's head in the bed can be very persuasive.
Alternatively, a visit from "men in black" to apply "cruel and inhuman torture" would be justified. There are "freelancers" who are quite skilled at this sort of thing available for relatively small sums of money and the government could fall back on "plausible deniability" as they normally do.
A PII in a modded case is fine. Joe wouldn't know a processor from a corn plaster if he trod on it. Just be sure to change the date on the Bios.