My mug says it wants personhood rights. Here, read it, it is marked on it.
Maybe I could learn a chimp to write a demand for such rights or to a dolphin to even say it audibly. What would it prove ? Parrots would like that too...
Actually an incredible amount of homeless people have some kind of internet access. You can find a 0$ laptop with wifi these days, you can find a free hotspot. In order to come back in life it makes more sense to pay some bucks for a cell phone than for a rent. Many homeless people own a cellphone.
Julian tried for 4 years to do the maximum transparency thing. 4 years. For free, without making a buck. Interest of the people in the medias ? null. A bunch of geeks knew it existed but that was not enough to attract the leaks of the world. Then he got interested in how journalists manage to make money and get people interested. He played their game and isntead of going 100% transparent, he chose the "10% more transparent than anyone else" and it worked wonders.
Yes, he lost the geeks by doing that but he got mainstream, he got published in 5 major newspaper almost daily with that scheme while he never managed to get any press before that. I think it is pretty clear the the ideal approach just doesn't work. Ultimately we need to go in that direction, but by taking smaller steps, Assange manages to have a political weight. kudos for him. The fact that people calling themselves journalists are afraid of a lawsuit about publishing a leak is just hilarous. The fact that the threat comes from wikileaks adds irony to hilarity. It just shows how low journalism has fallen these days.
I am part of a group that does exactly that. Our understanding so far is that skeptics emits skeptical beams (which you can cross) which make ghosts disappear. All you need is to go there, to talk to people and to keep your eyes open. You don't need instruments, you need to talk to people. A digital camera is all you need. People who absolutely want to find something strange use bad instruments that measure temperature and random electromagnetic events. They don't realize that any normal place has huge variations of that already because they put it on only in "haunted" places. You don't need those.
I am writing applications for a living. Unfortunately that involves being bugged occasionally by people who want to write patents abouyt them. I can tell you that vagueness in a software patent is very frequent. The apparency of precision is mandatory, therefore a use of technical words when not necessary, a three-pages schema describing a trivial operation, but the key of the patent, the point that is really innovative, is vague in order for the patent to be as broad as possible and the pedantry of the language used is inversely correlated with the usefulness of the explanation.
I also work in Europe. Vagueness will bit you in the arse in court ? That's possible, but to my knowledge no software patent has ever been used in a court of law in the European Union. Never. So this claim is a bit arbitrary. In Europe, no one has ever been bitten in the ass for a vague software patent. By the way, software patents are illegal in Europe. "computer-implemented invention" is the name the EPO uses to pretend they are not software patents and IMHO it is a whole racket that is about to be busted.
The only use for software patents in EU is to help clueless shareholders put a "value" on your "intellectual property". It is a piece of paper on which you can write about anything, its value is to give you a false sentiment of security and to maintain the self-sustaining industry of IP-lawyers.
Actually, the incentive to maximise shareholders' value is maybe the biggest bug in the capitalistic society...
Investors should have incentive to invest in profitable companies, but companies should have no incentive in maximizing shareholder value. It should just happen.
Since people wowed a lot more a remote-controlled car landing on Mars than an orbiter mapping its underground compositions and finding the areas of dense water-ice, NASA decided that entertainment was where the future was. /rant
I wonder... It has been 4 years since the PS3 was realeased. I remember Nintendo's reaction to the first gamecube hacks "well, it was inevitable, but the countermeasures lasted several years. Now we are launching a new game console, have fun !"
I have no problem considering a part of "main street" has some responsibility. But people who can't pay their debts is a problem known since millenniums (yes it is). Banker is a profession that is as old as this problem (yes it is). Having bankers unable to evaluate at least approximately the risk of a debt is like a farmer who forgot to plant seeds one whole year. Unforgettable. They showed grave incompetence, we now have to look behind their shoulders for their every move because no politician has the guts to make them pay.
Actually, I don't know in US, but in France when you found a company, you have to declare its intended goal. Develop software, create leather jewelry, build a railroad across the country...
Making money is the mean a company uses toward that goal. We live in a capitalistic society, so that means that we only consider useful endeavor the ones that will enrich some people/the society. That is an acceptable metric, but let's not confuse this imperfect metric for what it tries to measure.
And, well, I think we should show a little more love...
Lots of congratulations and thanks PJ. You have been quoted, your advices were shared, the technical details of the law you dug for all of us helped us all fight the FUD that SCO was building with this case.
Don't be down, the battle you helped fight was won, but the struggle is ongoing.
You can continue it or leave this to others.
Whatever your decision may be, I, for one, salute you.
Yves, FOSS enthusiast from France, where a lawyer nicknamed Maitre Eolas took a position similar to yours. I don't know how we would do without him.
Yes, we get it, a telescope was needed. But this kind of news is good and heart-warming because it shows that science isn't a private club, that it isn't the treasure that a few monks keep in their ivory towers after decades of arcane education. It is something that anyone can and is encouraged to participate it. These big tools exists, but they are everyone's property. The only thing I would change in the title would be to add "and without a PhD". Come on, science is the biggest game, anyone can join.
Indeed. Actually, making the market trade with a period of one day, and randomizing the priority of orders arriving would sanitize a lot of things.
I have yet to see a good argument against that. I mean one that doesn't say things like "pschhh, you know nothing about economy, let us manage this thing". Sorry guys. We paid for your dumb errors in the subprime crisis, so now that you are creating speculation on yet another imaginary value (physical closeness to the servers of the stock exchange ? Really ? Changes in the value of a company on the millisecond scale ? Are you serious ? ) you better show your whole scheme.
First, the very bad name they have chosen is due to the fact that this whole thing started as a joke. They did not expect it to become that popular.
Then, their position is that new economical models have to be found quickly because it is impossible to prevent file-sharing on a free Internet. This is not so much to get free mp3/moviez/softwares but to protest that no debate on copyright has been opened when TPB has been condemned. Their idea is that websites like TPB forces politician to consider alternatives.
And also, as they say, they do not condone piracy, because, you know, attacking ships is kinda bad.
Funny, when I want military details, or just details, on some events, I go to http://en.rian.ru/ (Russian news agency) knowing very well what their bias is, but nonetheless, I find their articles more detailed than what you can find in "the free world"
The Pirate Party needs all the lawyers it can get. National pirate parties have varied quality but at least join the PP-int mailing list (http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general) legal advices can certainly be appreciated there.
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Are there some animals in captivity that show signs of collective rebellions ?
My mug says it wants personhood rights. Here, read it, it is marked on it.
Maybe I could learn a chimp to write a demand for such rights or to a dolphin to even say it audibly. What would it prove ? Parrots would like that too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
'nuff said.
Actually an incredible amount of homeless people have some kind of internet access. You can find a 0$ laptop with wifi these days, you can find a free hotspot. In order to come back in life it makes more sense to pay some bucks for a cell phone than for a rent. Many homeless people own a cellphone.
actually, buffer bloat is a good enough definition of bufferbloat. Demands for definition are a bit pompous...
Julian tried for 4 years to do the maximum transparency thing. 4 years. For free, without making a buck. Interest of the people in the medias ? null. A bunch of geeks knew it existed but that was not enough to attract the leaks of the world. Then he got interested in how journalists manage to make money and get people interested. He played their game and isntead of going 100% transparent, he chose the "10% more transparent than anyone else" and it worked wonders.
Yes, he lost the geeks by doing that but he got mainstream, he got published in 5 major newspaper almost daily with that scheme while he never managed to get any press before that. I think it is pretty clear the the ideal approach just doesn't work. Ultimately we need to go in that direction, but by taking smaller steps, Assange manages to have a political weight. kudos for him. The fact that people calling themselves journalists are afraid of a lawsuit about publishing a leak is just hilarous. The fact that the threat comes from wikileaks adds irony to hilarity. It just shows how low journalism has fallen these days.
I am part of a group that does exactly that. Our understanding so far is that skeptics emits skeptical beams (which you can cross) which make ghosts disappear. All you need is to go there, to talk to people and to keep your eyes open. You don't need instruments, you need to talk to people. A digital camera is all you need. People who absolutely want to find something strange use bad instruments that measure temperature and random electromagnetic events. They don't realize that any normal place has huge variations of that already because they put it on only in "haunted" places. You don't need those.
This journalism is dying, by the way.
I am writing applications for a living. Unfortunately that involves being bugged occasionally by people who want to write patents abouyt them. I can tell you that vagueness in a software patent is very frequent. The apparency of precision is mandatory, therefore a use of technical words when not necessary, a three-pages schema describing a trivial operation, but the key of the patent, the point that is really innovative, is vague in order for the patent to be as broad as possible and the pedantry of the language used is inversely correlated with the usefulness of the explanation.
I also work in Europe. Vagueness will bit you in the arse in court ? That's possible, but to my knowledge no software patent has ever been used in a court of law in the European Union. Never. So this claim is a bit arbitrary. In Europe, no one has ever been bitten in the ass for a vague software patent. By the way, software patents are illegal in Europe. "computer-implemented invention" is the name the EPO uses to pretend they are not software patents and IMHO it is a whole racket that is about to be busted.
The only use for software patents in EU is to help clueless shareholders put a "value" on your "intellectual property". It is a piece of paper on which you can write about anything, its value is to give you a false sentiment of security and to maintain the self-sustaining industry of IP-lawyers.
I buy most of my stuff with noScript activated.
All these commercial websites are web 1.0 compliant
Actually, the incentive to maximise shareholders' value is maybe the biggest bug in the capitalistic society...
Investors should have incentive to invest in profitable companies, but companies should have no incentive in maximizing shareholder value. It should just happen.
Since people wowed a lot more a remote-controlled car landing on Mars than an orbiter mapping its underground compositions and finding the areas of dense water-ice, NASA decided that entertainment was where the future was.
/rant
Yeah, Microsoft will better help you protext your rights, sure.
Sony hasn't learned anything but apparently someone else hasn't as well...
I wonder... It has been 4 years since the PS3 was realeased. I remember Nintendo's reaction to the first gamecube hacks "well, it was inevitable, but the countermeasures lasted several years. Now we are launching a new game console, have fun !"
I have no problem considering a part of "main street" has some responsibility. But people who can't pay their debts is a problem known since millenniums (yes it is). Banker is a profession that is as old as this problem (yes it is). Having bankers unable to evaluate at least approximately the risk of a debt is like a farmer who forgot to plant seeds one whole year. Unforgettable. They showed grave incompetence, we now have to look behind their shoulders for their every move because no politician has the guts to make them pay.
Actually, I don't know in US, but in France when you found a company, you have to declare its intended goal. Develop software, create leather jewelry, build a railroad across the country...
Making money is the mean a company uses toward that goal. We live in a capitalistic society, so that means that we only consider useful endeavor the ones that will enrich some people/the society. That is an acceptable metric, but let's not confuse this imperfect metric for what it tries to measure.
And, well, I think we should show a little more love...
Lots of congratulations and thanks PJ. You have been quoted, your advices were shared, the technical details of the law you dug for all of us helped us all fight the FUD that SCO was building with this case.
Don't be down, the battle you helped fight was won, but the struggle is ongoing.
You can continue it or leave this to others.
Whatever your decision may be, I, for one, salute you.
Yves, FOSS enthusiast from France, where a lawyer nicknamed Maitre Eolas took a position similar to yours. I don't know how we would do without him.
I doubt they would lie on it, but just to know, if Apple wanted to pretend one thing on the sales of a newspaper, how could one prove otherwise ?
Yes, we get it, a telescope was needed. But this kind of news is good and heart-warming because it shows that science isn't a private club, that it isn't the treasure that a few monks keep in their ivory towers after decades of arcane education. It is something that anyone can and is encouraged to participate it. These big tools exists, but they are everyone's property. The only thing I would change in the title would be to add "and without a PhD". Come on, science is the biggest game, anyone can join.
Indeed. Actually, making the market trade with a period of one day, and randomizing the priority of orders arriving would sanitize a lot of things.
I have yet to see a good argument against that. I mean one that doesn't say things like "pschhh, you know nothing about economy, let us manage this thing". Sorry guys. We paid for your dumb errors in the subprime crisis, so now that you are creating speculation on yet another imaginary value (physical closeness to the servers of the stock exchange ? Really ? Changes in the value of a company on the millisecond scale ? Are you serious ? ) you better show your whole scheme.
And us, geek communist elitist, navigate throught this thanks to AdBlock and NoScript, thinking no one will ever think about doing the same...
First, the very bad name they have chosen is due to the fact that this whole thing started as a joke. They did not expect it to become that popular.
Then, their position is that new economical models have to be found quickly because it is impossible to prevent file-sharing on a free Internet. This is not so much to get free mp3/moviez/softwares but to protest that no debate on copyright has been opened when TPB has been condemned. Their idea is that websites like TPB forces politician to consider alternatives.
And also, as they say, they do not condone piracy, because, you know, attacking ships is kinda bad.
Funny, when I want military details, or just details, on some events, I go to http://en.rian.ru/ (Russian news agency) knowing very well what their bias is, but nonetheless, I find their articles more detailed than what you can find in "the free world"
The Pirate Party needs all the lawyers it can get. National pirate parties have varied quality but at least join the PP-int mailing list (http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general) legal advices can certainly be appreciated there.
The most anticipated product of tech for 2011, IMHO, is this "open democracy" and "open society" thingie.