I don't understand why we need so many useless regulators who are usually wolves being put in charge of the hen house when the courts could easily handle this.
Exactly. I've been following now for about four years and they occasionally throw out a few interesting videos and such, but ultimately I haven't seen anything new from their team in quite some time. It was an interesting choice selling out to Intel of all places... I only hope they don't turn it into another Duke Nukem: Forever.
If they can mathematically calculate how random something is, can't they just mathematically determine what would be the most random series of numbers, and just use that?
Then all that's needed is legislation that requires everyone desiring a random series of numbers to use the one that was pre-calculated for them. Problem solved!
The analogy breaks down as the functionality of the beverage does not depend on the container it's held in. With software, the container is relevant because the container executes the software instructions. Without the container, it's like a photograph of Coke -- nice in theory, but of no value as a beverage.
You mean like how Verizon phone customers can't call AT&T phone customers? Good thing for open source phone systems, otherwise you wouldn't be able to call anybody. Oh, wait...
Where there are royalties there can be no freedom. I don't pay for air and I don't buy bottled water, I'm not going to pay for codecs.
Yet you pay for royalties because of the hardware you run your royalty-free software on. Why stop at just software when the hardware is equally encumbered? It's like saying you fill your bottles with tap water, yet you paid the bottle manufacturer an amount for use of their patented liquid-holding receptacle.
what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name?
International boundaries, for one. Likely the author of the software for the botnet does not reside in the US (if that person's location is even known). Chuck Norris can take all the legal action he wants within the US against the botnet author or botnet master, it generally won't mean squat if they are in a different country.
Perens, an expert witness in the case, details the blow by blow, including how developers need to make sure they're using the correct one for legal protection.
Make sure you're using the correct expert witness.
Funny, that. My microwave also does not have a "boot other OS" menu option. Those fuckers think they own my microwave. I think it's mine. A bit of dissonance that needs some attention.
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That's a terrible analogy. Verizon has no menu saying "here are the sites you can order from us". Unless Verizon advertises up-front that they selectively filter out specific things (malware, scam/phishing sites, etc.) and/or arbitrary things (whatever they feel like blocking), Verizon is advertising "get the Internet from us" when what is actually delivered is "get a subset of the Internet from us".
SUpposed you got a mail from bill gates asking for a phone from your company because your phone factory has made a phone running windows mobile on it. What would you do?
The point is that famous people generally don't ask... they get sent stuff unsolicited a fair bit. At the Oscars, when you hear of someone's $100,000 necklace from Saks Fifth Avenue, do you really think the celebrity went out and spent their own money on that necklace? Hell no... that's Saks renting it (perhaps gifting it for smaller items) and getting free promotion. Saks is hoping all the non-famous rich people who watch the Oscars go out and buy the necklace.
In Linus' case, however, perhaps he's critical enough about phones that it's actually a risk to send him one. If he writes a bad review, the company who manufactures it and sent it to him has just shot itself in the foot.
you don't have to buy their $5 notebooks to use their pen. You can print your own smart paper.
$5 buys you 100 pages, which is 5 cents a sheet. That's actually not too bad on a cost per page basis. Even if you consider the ink and printer as free, when you factor in your time to print 100 pages, let alone bind them somehow, I'd much rather pay $5. Plus, there are regular 100 page pads that are more expensive: http://www.staples.com/Mead-Five-Star-8-1-2-x-11-1-Subject-Notebook-Each/product_503123?cmArea=sku_pd_box1
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I don't understand why we need so many useless regulators who are usually wolves being put in charge of the hen house when the courts could easily handle this.
Would you rather have foxes in charge of sheep?
What is an A level executive?
No.
Exactly. I've been following now for about four years and they occasionally throw out a few interesting videos and such, but ultimately I haven't seen anything new from their team in quite some time. It was an interesting choice selling out to Intel of all places... I only hope they don't turn it into another Duke Nukem: Forever.
Grammar works like nesting things, right?
Don't anthropomorphize grammar works... they hate it when you do that.
If they can mathematically calculate how random something is, can't they just mathematically determine what would be the most random series of numbers, and just use that?
Then all that's needed is legislation that requires everyone desiring a random series of numbers to use the one that was pre-calculated for them. Problem solved!
The analogy breaks down as the functionality of the beverage does not depend on the container it's held in. With software, the container is relevant because the container executes the software instructions. Without the container, it's like a photograph of Coke -- nice in theory, but of no value as a beverage.
You mean like how Verizon phone customers can't call AT&T phone customers? Good thing for open source phone systems, otherwise you wouldn't be able to call anybody. Oh, wait...
Where there are royalties there can be no freedom. I don't pay for air and I don't buy bottled water, I'm not going to pay for codecs.
Yet you pay for royalties because of the hardware you run your royalty-free software on. Why stop at just software when the hardware is equally encumbered? It's like saying you fill your bottles with tap water, yet you paid the bottle manufacturer an amount for use of their patented liquid-holding receptacle.
what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name?
International boundaries, for one. Likely the author of the software for the botnet does not reside in the US (if that person's location is even known). Chuck Norris can take all the legal action he wants within the US against the botnet author or botnet master, it generally won't mean squat if they are in a different country.
Error: answer does not match the question.
Yes... from the summary:
Perens, an expert witness in the case, details the blow by blow, including how developers need to make sure they're using the correct one for legal protection.
Make sure you're using the correct expert witness.
Funny, that. My microwave also does not have a "boot other OS" menu option. Those fuckers think they own my microwave. I think it's mine. A bit of dissonance that needs some attention.
I obviously need to get out more, but that low-angle front view looks like a woman reclining with her knees spread apart.
I recommend UK people carry rubber bungs to put in their ears...
Doesn't the bung go in the bunghole?
to actually make the video, or can you use Win/Mac?
Just create a makefile listing all the video segments you want to glue together, that's very easy to do on Linux under 500 lines of code.
... or 1 line of Perl.
23 comments about a 1 gigabit home connection, and not one of them has even mentioned the word "porn"?!? Man, you guys are slipping...
It's the Astroglide.
For the love of mod points, someone mod this one up. Brilliant!
Regular readers will recognize Slashdot frequent contributor Bennett Haselton as the
contributor who writes essays on the most banal of topics. Today, he wrote us to
announce a name change. From now on he'll be known as Banal Tldr, or "Tilder" for short.
Click below to read his explanation of the name change.
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Go look at the Kindle DX. It's been flying off the "shelves" at Amazon.
No need for the quotes. I'm fairly certain Amazon's warehouses have actual shelves.
Or would that be circletimessquare's corollary to Godwin's law. You could always just call it Goatwin's law.
That's a terrible analogy. Verizon has no menu saying "here are the sites you can order from us". Unless Verizon advertises up-front that they selectively filter out specific things (malware, scam/phishing sites, etc.) and/or arbitrary things (whatever they feel like blocking), Verizon is advertising "get the Internet from us" when what is actually delivered is "get a subset of the Internet from us".
Car batteries want to be 200 to 300 volts.
Car batteries don't like being anthropomorphized.
SUpposed you got a mail from bill gates asking for a phone from your company because your phone factory has made a phone running windows mobile on it. What would you do?
The point is that famous people generally don't ask... they get sent stuff unsolicited a fair bit. At the Oscars, when you hear of someone's $100,000 necklace from Saks Fifth Avenue, do you really think the celebrity went out and spent their own money on that necklace? Hell no... that's Saks renting it (perhaps gifting it for smaller items) and getting free promotion. Saks is hoping all the non-famous rich people who watch the Oscars go out and buy the necklace.
In Linus' case, however, perhaps he's critical enough about phones that it's actually a risk to send him one. If he writes a bad review, the company who manufactures it and sent it to him has just shot itself in the foot.
you don't have to buy their $5 notebooks to use their pen. You can print your own smart paper.
$5 buys you 100 pages, which is 5 cents a sheet. That's actually not too bad on a cost per page basis. Even if you consider the ink and printer as free, when you factor in your time to print 100 pages, let alone bind them somehow, I'd much rather pay $5. Plus, there are regular 100 page pads that are more expensive: http://www.staples.com/Mead-Five-Star-8-1-2-x-11-1-Subject-Notebook-Each/product_503123?cmArea=sku_pd_box1
Damn, that's cool... I didn't know that. If Microsoft keeps up that pace of development, it'll soon start approaching the functionality of Emacs.
I'm working on integrating my handwriting with T9 for notetaking purposes.
How does that work? You write "tgd ppmgpam" on a piece of paper when you're making a note on "the program"?