BTW, I don't necessarily agree with either of those points. I personally have a much more positive view of the situation in Iraq than most here. It is always crappy when people are dying. Just remember that fewer are dying now than under Saddam, and those that live may actually end up with a decent country. The amazing thing is the sacrifice the all-volunteer US military is making for what it believes in.
example: many activists I talked to have said they would be excited to go on a mission to free animals from a testing facility, even without knowing what they were being tested for. This kind of action without thought could easilly lead to the spread of a horrid disease.
I don't think we're "Y2K"ing this. This will be a huge headache.
As someone who had to learn COBOL specifically to rewrite a payroll system for the Y2K bug, I'd like to extend to you the middle finger of friendship. A lot of people busted their asses for this, and it pisses me off to no end to hear the general public go on and on about how it wasn't any big deal.
I knew I should have bolded the 'a' in that sentence. Easy to miss.
I posed the question, what has she actually done for us. I haven't recieved one response other than she battles anti-fud.
And my response was "what the hell do you want from her". Battling the FUD is a full-time job (she quit her day job in the early stages of the SCO trial if I remember correctly). Groklaw is the go-to site for legal analysis regarding OSS, and you're going to throw that away because the editor of the site wrote an opinion piece you don't like? That doesn't make sense. That site is invaluable for these articles regarding the GPL alone, and that's a fraction of the information available. How do you justify dismissing all of this?
She seems to have Eric Raymond syndrome. She thinks she's much more important to open source than she actually is.
One is a father of the Open Source movement, the other is instrumental in disseminating anti-FUD regarding legal threats to OSS. I'm sort of wondering what it'd take to impress you.
I'd also like to think there are a few people out there willing to ask their web developers why they should lose 5% of their customers over a bell and/or whistle. And then ask themselves if they might not be able to find a better developer, since it's not like we're exactly running low.
What if we created a system like Wikipedia, but instead of holding the sum of all human knowledge it held the sum of all human ignorance? I.e., people could post questions on topics that science could answer but hasn't yet.
I'd like to suggest a sister site that would contain questions that science has already answered but isn't aware of yet. Data mining is going to be a huge and beneficial industry once a few CEOs and politicians are done away with (and I mean that in a strictly nonviolent way, officer).
You didn't design it. You didn't do the research and development, yet you feel that the $20,000 dollar you plot down on a car gives you the right to make as many copies as you like to sell or give away?
Yes. Cry more, capitalists. Your tears are like milk.
Why is piracy the probable cause of CDs having already hitting their peak in sales? Why isn't it crappy music?
Same reason "terror" and "9/11" are the answer to every question regarding mismanagement in our government. It's a nebulous, faceless scapegoat that will always be available.
This will go away when we're all conditioned to start chanting "bullshit! bullshit!" every time a buzz word is trotted out. Make for some interesting press conferences too.
So... clearing your browser cache should be penalized? Dumping notes you don't need? Every scratch excel spreadsheet must be saved?
What you're basically asking for is a law stating that every piece of info on any machine owned by a corporation must be archived indefinitely. We're approaching a time where this will be technically feasible, but would you really want to place that burden on every mom&pop shop operating in the US?
The alternative would be to ban any non-business use of company machines... and that's just not an option for businesses that require any amount of travel or would like their employees to work more than 8 hours a day.
It's still a bullshit patent, but of a different source.
And as usual the idea isn't to come up with a bulletproof patent, but rather to raise the cost of entry for smaller players. Vivendi would have no problem taking this down if they wanted to. Popcap (or similar) wouldn't even try.
For that natural language approach, try COBOL. With skills in COBOL, I guarantee you won't be looking for a job in the IT industry very long.
Who the hell modded this Troll? A decent COBOL programmer can still write his own ticket. There are more COBOL jobs out there than people who want to spend their time working with the language.
Of course, it's not exactly a skill I'd rely on to see me into retirement =p
Are you ok with our nation (forgive the assumption, restoftheworldistan) having a negative rate of savings? Are you ok with increased crime, illiteracy and general public health? Poverty is no joke, and it affects you directly.
Yes, it would be great to live in a society based on the principles of personal responsibility. We don't, and engaging in schadenfreude while hoping that things will work themselves out is just sticking your head in the sand.
Nobody forced him to borrow his past money, and nobody is forcing him now either. You cannot blame a hardware store for selling a rope a man uses to hang himself, nor (I hope) would you want to.
It's a little different if your records show that he tried to commit suicide w/ the rope and now wants a packet of razors. Look, if a bartender can be held responsible for serving too many drinks to a customer (and he can), credit card companies should be held responsible for encouraging frivolous debt. It isn't their god-given right to perpetually suck money out of every stupid person in the nation.
What you fail to understand is that there are people who find the very notion of government surveillance repugnant. Even, and let me be perfectly clear, if it means innocent people may die. For some it's the antithesis of what it means to be an American, and your opinion would translate into "In order to save the country we had to destroy it."
You might not agree with this position, but you should at least understand it.
((Interesting that you put Waco in that list, btw...))
The reasoning behind this is because, generally, if you have that much debt, you do *not* have the means to pay it off. The reasoning continues that people deep in debt can get desperate--and indeed, they do. Many financial crimes have been born out of pure desperation.
And yet it's not a crime to send these people credit card applications. Hello debt slavery!
If you accept that download figures are meaningless (and I don't se you arguing that point), then what on earth is the point of making a big fuss over them, if not to mislead people?
Whatever gave you the impression that they're meaningless? This is something that neither you nor the author (same person?) discuss beyond "a download isn't a person". It's an accepted metric referenced time and again by company after company, and NOW suddenly it's a problem?
I note that wikipedia has a busted entry for idee fixe. This article would be a good reference.
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It's more of a mutualistic relationship than parasitic, although I'm sure MS views it as a commensal one.
BTW, I don't necessarily agree with either of those points. I personally have a much more positive view of the situation in Iraq than most here. It is always crappy when people are dying. Just remember that fewer are dying now than under Saddam, and those that live may actually end up with a decent country. The amazing thing is the sacrifice the all-volunteer US military is making for what it believes in.
Uh, dead wrong.
War has never solved anything...except fascism, tyranny, oppression, slavery, and genocide. Think about it.
So you're saying war is the cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems?
That cranial menu deal sounds sweet. Very terminator-esque.
example: many activists I talked to have said they would be excited to go on a mission to free animals from a testing facility, even without knowing what they were being tested for. This kind of action without thought could easilly lead to the spread of a horrid disease.
Zombies are everyone's problem.
I think you mean Franco. The current administration is definitely more fascist than communist.
Side note: Republicans, since when do you support fascism? What the fuck, guys?
modded sideways one, Naive.
I don't think we're "Y2K"ing this. This will be a huge headache.
As someone who had to learn COBOL specifically to rewrite a payroll system for the Y2K bug, I'd like to extend to you the middle finger of friendship. A lot of people busted their asses for this, and it pisses me off to no end to hear the general public go on and on about how it wasn't any big deal.
lmao. ESR the father of the open source movement?
I knew I should have bolded the 'a' in that sentence. Easy to miss.
I posed the question, what has she actually done for us. I haven't recieved one response other than she battles anti-fud.
And my response was "what the hell do you want from her". Battling the FUD is a full-time job (she quit her day job in the early stages of the SCO trial if I remember correctly). Groklaw is the go-to site for legal analysis regarding OSS, and you're going to throw that away because the editor of the site wrote an opinion piece you don't like? That doesn't make sense. That site is invaluable for these articles regarding the GPL alone, and that's a fraction of the information available. How do you justify dismissing all of this?
She seems to have Eric Raymond syndrome. She thinks she's much more important to open source than she actually is.
One is a father of the Open Source movement, the other is instrumental in disseminating anti-FUD regarding legal threats to OSS. I'm sort of wondering what it'd take to impress you.
"Life" is a label for a concept that does not exist, we made up the concept itself and not merely the label.
Wow. You should set that as your sig so people know what kind of an intellect they're dealing with.
I'd also like to think there are a few people out there willing to ask their web developers why they should lose 5% of their customers over a bell and/or whistle. And then ask themselves if they might not be able to find a better developer, since it's not like we're exactly running low.
What if we created a system like Wikipedia, but instead of holding the sum of all human knowledge it held the sum of all human ignorance? I.e., people could post questions on topics that science could answer but hasn't yet.
I'd like to suggest a sister site that would contain questions that science has already answered but isn't aware of yet. Data mining is going to be a huge and beneficial industry once a few CEOs and politicians are done away with (and I mean that in a strictly nonviolent way, officer).
Yet another person who needs to spend less time posting on Slashdot and more time re-reading his Philosophy 101 textbooks.
Unless you're an archaeologist stationed in Iraq who happens to be a member of the SCA.
You didn't design it. You didn't do the research and development, yet you feel that the $20,000 dollar you plot down on a car gives you the right to make as many copies as you like to sell or give away?
Yes. Cry more, capitalists. Your tears are like milk.
Why is piracy the probable cause of CDs having already hitting their peak in sales? Why isn't it crappy music?
Same reason "terror" and "9/11" are the answer to every question regarding mismanagement in our government. It's a nebulous, faceless scapegoat that will always be available.
This will go away when we're all conditioned to start chanting "bullshit! bullshit!" every time a buzz word is trotted out. Make for some interesting press conferences too.
So... clearing your browser cache should be penalized? Dumping notes you don't need? Every scratch excel spreadsheet must be saved?
What you're basically asking for is a law stating that every piece of info on any machine owned by a corporation must be archived indefinitely. We're approaching a time where this will be technically feasible, but would you really want to place that burden on every mom&pop shop operating in the US?
The alternative would be to ban any non-business use of company machines... and that's just not an option for businesses that require any amount of travel or would like their employees to work more than 8 hours a day.
It's still a bullshit patent, but of a different source.
And as usual the idea isn't to come up with a bulletproof patent, but rather to raise the cost of entry for smaller players. Vivendi would have no problem taking this down if they wanted to. Popcap (or similar) wouldn't even try.
For that natural language approach, try COBOL. With skills in COBOL, I guarantee you won't be looking for a job in the IT industry very long.
Who the hell modded this Troll? A decent COBOL programmer can still write his own ticket. There are more COBOL jobs out there than people who want to spend their time working with the language.
Of course, it's not exactly a skill I'd rely on to see me into retirement =p
Are you ok with our nation (forgive the assumption, restoftheworldistan) having a negative rate of savings? Are you ok with increased crime, illiteracy and general public health? Poverty is no joke, and it affects you directly.
Yes, it would be great to live in a society based on the principles of personal responsibility. We don't, and engaging in schadenfreude while hoping that things will work themselves out is just sticking your head in the sand.
Nobody forced him to borrow his past money, and nobody is forcing him now either. You cannot blame a hardware store for selling a rope a man uses to hang himself, nor (I hope) would you want to.
It's a little different if your records show that he tried to commit suicide w/ the rope and now wants a packet of razors. Look, if a bartender can be held responsible for serving too many drinks to a customer (and he can), credit card companies should be held responsible for encouraging frivolous debt. It isn't their god-given right to perpetually suck money out of every stupid person in the nation.
What the hell is it? I get a different answer every time I ask.
What you fail to understand is that there are people who find the very notion of government surveillance repugnant. Even, and let me be perfectly clear, if it means innocent people may die. For some it's the antithesis of what it means to be an American, and your opinion would translate into "In order to save the country we had to destroy it."
You might not agree with this position, but you should at least understand it.
((Interesting that you put Waco in that list, btw...))
The reasoning behind this is because, generally, if you have that much debt, you do *not* have the means to pay it off. The reasoning continues that people deep in debt can get desperate--and indeed, they do. Many financial crimes have been born out of pure desperation.
And yet it's not a crime to send these people credit card applications. Hello debt slavery!
If you accept that download figures are meaningless (and I don't se you arguing that point), then what on earth is the point of making a big fuss over them, if not to mislead people?
Whatever gave you the impression that they're meaningless? This is something that neither you nor the author (same person?) discuss beyond "a download isn't a person". It's an accepted metric referenced time and again by company after company, and NOW suddenly it's a problem?
I note that wikipedia has a busted entry for idee fixe. This article would be a good reference.