Do maths : Paper, a whiteboard, a computer and there you go. The number of unsolved problems is staggering. The problems in maths are routinely solved by determined indivduals. Good luck.
In most of the civilized world there's no such thing as software patents
Unfortunately this becomes less and less true. In EU swpatents are illegal but accepted by the EU patents office (a big WTF, yes), in Japan they are legal, lobbyists are at work about everywhere, ACTA continues to be negociated, etc...
Those who do not know history do not understand what is happening with them in the present and cannot at all recognize the warning signs to come in the future.
That I can agree. I have however no proof that people who know history well are better at solving our problems in society.
Well, then 98% of published chemical research is voodoo. Companies aren't going to write open software to control the $750K spectrometer they just sold you, and to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd use software off of Sourceforge to control an investment of that type, anyway.
Companies can write open source software, it doesn't have to depend on other people. In fact I still don't understand why hardware companies are so reluctant to get help from the OSS community to develop the software part of their product.
Without that guarantee of return, these companies would have never bothered to invent VHS, CD, MPEG in the first place.
Maybe these companies wouldn't have. Does this mean that these technologies would not have been invented anyway ? I don't think so. MP3 was invented partially thanks to public funds (Fraunhoffer is a half-public R&D institute) and most of the patented "innovations" of private R&D labs are often base on public research publication. What my experience showed me is that usually, in "R&D" the "R" is often made by public labs and the "D" by private companies. Therefore, it should be lawful to reuse the "R" part. In the context of software, that often means the core algorithm, exactly what is concerned by these patents. The 'D' part is well covered by copyright.
Actually, IIRC, it is about 20 years after the patent has been granted. You probably mistake it with copyright that is currently 70 years after the author's death.
There goes the possibility for small innovative company to develop in a safe legal framework. Let me phrase my sentiment, on behalf of all my European colleagues, and in the immortal words of Spider Jerusalem : FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
In one millisecond, a company can issue several trade orders. That are actions that can change its stock value immediately. Apple buys 40% of Adobe stocks. From one second to the other, the value of Apple stocks changed, you can be sure that there are right now triggers that way for that to happen and issue orders.
And lawmakers and judge goals is to just make that not profitable.
IMHO they should make even very small jail time for that. That would be something a bit harder to factor in.
Slashdot does not aim at replacing usenet. It is a news website for Christ's sake ! There should be slashcode-like foras with a "show recent updates to the discussion I participate in" feature. Slashdot does marvelously well for its intended goal. The real oddity is why no one reuses the slashcode features...
In the pirate party we also are in there for the lulz also and the Swedish one is making 9%. It tells you something about how fucked up the other politicians are...
You have to take into account the fact that the Swedish party pirate came into being because of a single event : TPB being chased out of Sweden without any debate about copyright laws in the internet era. This is a way to force the door. As I understand it, the PP position could be : "What TPB is doing is clearly problematic, just as is the fact to just try to shut it down without debate. Let's talk about this now."
The Pirate Bay has even issued a statement, written in lolcats, to explain this move : http://thepiratebay.org/blog/179 :
AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL. OURS RLY NICE WEBHOST WUZ THREATEND WIF RLY HUGE FINE, SO WE DECIDD 2 MOOV TEH SIET SO DAT THEY DIDNT GOT INTO TROUBLE, LOL. TEH DECISHUN 2 MOOV WUZ TAKEN BY US, TEH PIRATE BAY, LOL.
TEH PIRATE BAY IZ AN UNSINKABLE SHIP. IT WILL SAIL TEH INTERWEBS 4 AS LONG AS WE WANTS IT 2. REMEMBR DAT, K THX.
TPB, ONLY IN IT 4 TEH LULZ SINCE 2003
The year is 2010. This is a political official statement.
I don't want to fly faster, I want to fly cheaper. I'm okay with that. If stupid TSA rules were lifted, one would gain one hour on a travelling time, work on that first.
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This is just to show the world that Poland lags 500 years behind...
Do maths : Paper, a whiteboard, a computer and there you go. The number of unsolved problems is staggering. The problems in maths are routinely solved by determined indivduals. Good luck.
In most of the civilized world there's no such thing as software patents
Unfortunately this becomes less and less true. In EU swpatents are illegal but accepted by the EU patents office (a big WTF, yes), in Japan they are legal, lobbyists are at work about everywhere, ACTA continues to be negociated, etc...
Those who do not know history do not understand what is happening with them in the present and cannot at all recognize the warning signs to come in the future.
That I can agree. I have however no proof that people who know history well are better at solving our problems in society.
The karma whore in me says that science is even more important.
and if neither terrorist-turorial.org or wetpussies.com offer SSL connections, this is quite useless.
Well, then 98% of published chemical research is voodoo. Companies aren't going to write open software to control the $750K spectrometer they just sold you, and to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd use software off of Sourceforge to control an investment of that type, anyway.
Companies can write open source software, it doesn't have to depend on other people. In fact I still don't understand why hardware companies are so reluctant to get help from the OSS community to develop the software part of their product.
Without that guarantee of return, these companies would have never bothered to invent VHS, CD, MPEG in the first place.
Maybe these companies wouldn't have. Does this mean that these technologies would not have been invented anyway ? I don't think so. MP3 was invented partially thanks to public funds (Fraunhoffer is a half-public R&D institute) and most of the patented "innovations" of private R&D labs are often base on public research publication. What my experience showed me is that usually, in "R&D" the "R" is often made by public labs and the "D" by private companies. Therefore, it should be lawful to reuse the "R" part. In the context of software, that often means the core algorithm, exactly what is concerned by these patents. The 'D' part is well covered by copyright.
Actually, IIRC, it is about 20 years after the patent has been granted. You probably mistake it with copyright that is currently 70 years after the author's death.
It means $5,000 second-hand electric cars in 5-10 years.
MArketing and PR are probably the only department handled by computers running under Windows. Which is obviously a bad move...
There goes the possibility for small innovative company to develop in a safe legal framework. Let me phrase my sentiment, on behalf of all my European colleagues, and in the immortal words of Spider Jerusalem : FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
In one millisecond, a company can issue several trade orders. That are actions that can change its stock value immediately. Apple buys 40% of Adobe stocks. From one second to the other, the value of Apple stocks changed, you can be sure that there are right now triggers that way for that to happen and issue orders.
And lawmakers and judge goals is to just make that not profitable.
IMHO they should make even very small jail time for that. That would be something a bit harder to factor in.
Slashdot does not aim at replacing usenet. It is a news website for Christ's sake ! There should be slashcode-like foras with a "show recent updates to the discussion I participate in" feature. Slashdot does marvelously well for its intended goal. The real oddity is why no one reuses the slashcode features...
This is my current pet-peeves : flat forum and phpBB are killing the art of internet discussion.
If I don't own a patent but infringe a dozen (i.e. I am a free software developer) what happens ?
In the pirate party we also are in there for the lulz also and the Swedish one is making 9%. It tells you something about how fucked up the other politicians are...
buying cultural works is so passé.
:
Financing an artist is.
It is a paradigm shift
http://flattr.com/
You have to take into account the fact that the Swedish party pirate came into being because of a single event : TPB being chased out of Sweden without any debate about copyright laws in the internet era. This is a way to force the door. As I understand it, the PP position could be : "What TPB is doing is clearly problematic, just as is the fact to just try to shut it down without debate. Let's talk about this now."
The Pirate Bay has even issued a statement, written in lolcats, to explain this move :
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/179
:
AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL. OURS RLY NICE WEBHOST WUZ THREATEND WIF RLY HUGE FINE, SO WE DECIDD 2 MOOV TEH SIET SO DAT THEY DIDNT GOT INTO TROUBLE, LOL. TEH DECISHUN 2 MOOV WUZ TAKEN BY US, TEH PIRATE BAY, LOL.
TEH PIRATE BAY IZ AN UNSINKABLE SHIP. IT WILL SAIL TEH INTERWEBS 4 AS LONG AS WE WANTS IT 2. REMEMBR DAT, K THX.
TPB, ONLY IN IT 4 TEH LULZ SINCE 2003
The year is 2010. This is a political official statement.
Think of the children !
And the judicial world we prepare for them.
And if it happens and goes quietly, it will be our fault as much as the medias.
Because, of course, magically, no doppler shift will happen when you elevate c to 110%...
I don't want to fly faster, I want to fly cheaper. I'm okay with that. If stupid TSA rules were lifted, one would gain one hour on a travelling time, work on that first.