What about people on islands? What about long dead civilizations? What about other planets? How can you know you were the first to ever think of it? I'm saying that no idea, ever, is new. Nobody can ever create an idea because they exist outside of time.
In the real world, copying bits is hard to stop. Only in the "intellecutal property" fantasyland are bits hard to copy. And that is crumbling. Every pirated CD is a good thing. Reality...deal with it.
No, that's just another form of copyright. Legally you can't copyright it because there is prior art. Plaigarism is not a law anywhere, it's just a policy of schools.
But what is a "new idea"? You really mean new to a particular society or culture. No idea is ever totally new. Besides, how is the situation any different if something is totally copied and cited? Society still isn't getting a "new" idea.
So what happens if you take a paper, and delete all citations. The information is the same ("new" or not), there's just less references to check. But is referencing important enough to be always required? At some point can you get beyond the point of having to prove yourself original and be able to integrate other's findings without obscessing over every citation?
Hmm, true. But an amendment would enshrine it as a basic value of the nation. Slavery wasn't guaranteed in the constitution either, but it needed to be specifically disallowed for it to go away.
Isn't academia obsessed with credit for ideas? When is the last time a paper was published anonymously? Ideas exist outside of time. This should work against both copyright/patent and academia's obsession with "plaigarism" and keeping track of credit.
Remember, copyright law is given in the constitution. So much like slavery (a similarly bad system), a constitutional amendment will have to occur to rid of us this scourge.
Stupid stewardesses who assume a wristwatch can doom an aircraft at takeoff and landing. Can't bring a dang fingernail clipper onboard. How about geek airlines? Robot attendents, Internet access on every seat, and no problem with bringing any weapon on board (bring a working laser blaster and get a free flight!).
Especially since I've been spouting the same stuff out it's become a semi-troll. Anyway, I'm thinking along the lines of the NASA flights to Mars that failed due to unit conversion. Radix conversion is simple but still more complicated than unit conversion. If not on floating point, then maybe even integer, especially with the display interfaces. Anyway, I've come up with a very useful set of sixteen new glyph's I'm going to advertise on/. soon. The hexadecimal revolution is coming.
Why couldn't it just be released for free? Then donations could be solicited. It worked for xiph. So now if you happen to work with DNA evidence you have one more patent mine in the minefield. Yuck.
Decimal is well known for screwing up binary floating point. I'm wondering if much of the problem is using decimal where binary or hexadecimal should be used. Do you really want to have complicated decimalbinary floating point routines slowing down your aircraft?
When you hear bad laws coming out, why not learn about guns? Buy a few more guns and ammunition (assuming that bad law didn't just ban them). Guns are real, laws are a human construct.
Male goes to aerobics class. Most women shun him and think he's gay. Women walks into LAN party. Every guy in the room (most of whom are single) wants her and caters to her every whim. Luckily prison populations are increasing so the sex ratio can go back the other way. Right now there's far too many men.
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What about hexadecimal and dvorak (or other more efficient layouts)? Let's transition there first.
What about people on islands? What about long dead civilizations? What about other planets? How can you know you were the first to ever think of it? I'm saying that no idea, ever, is new. Nobody can ever create an idea because they exist outside of time.
In the real world, copying bits is hard to stop. Only in the "intellecutal property" fantasyland are bits hard to copy. And that is crumbling. Every pirated CD is a good thing. Reality...deal with it.
Are you and I the only /.ers who are against "intellectual property"? This place stinks of corporate conservatism.
No, that's just another form of copyright. Legally you can't copyright it because there is prior art. Plaigarism is not a law anywhere, it's just a policy of schools.
You already may be liable for illicit activity, and now others can even slow you down?
But what is a "new idea"? You really mean new to a particular society or culture. No idea is ever totally new. Besides, how is the situation any different if something is totally copied and cited? Society still isn't getting a "new" idea. So what happens if you take a paper, and delete all citations. The information is the same ("new" or not), there's just less references to check. But is referencing important enough to be always required? At some point can you get beyond the point of having to prove yourself original and be able to integrate other's findings without obscessing over every citation?
Well I'd give you that mod but I dont have mod points!
Hmm, true. But an amendment would enshrine it as a basic value of the nation. Slavery wasn't guaranteed in the constitution either, but it needed to be specifically disallowed for it to go away.
Isn't academia obsessed with credit for ideas? When is the last time a paper was published anonymously? Ideas exist outside of time. This should work against both copyright/patent and academia's obsession with "plaigarism" and keeping track of credit.
Remember, copyright law is given in the constitution. So much like slavery (a similarly bad system), a constitutional amendment will have to occur to rid of us this scourge.
Singing "it's a small world" outside the ride will cost you $0.99 per minute.
The future is free information given out for donations. Copy locking is illogical.
Thought so.
Stupid stewardesses who assume a wristwatch can doom an aircraft at takeoff and landing. Can't bring a dang fingernail clipper onboard. How about geek airlines? Robot attendents, Internet access on every seat, and no problem with bringing any weapon on board (bring a working laser blaster and get a free flight!).
Especially since I've been spouting the same stuff out it's become a semi-troll. Anyway, I'm thinking along the lines of the NASA flights to Mars that failed due to unit conversion. Radix conversion is simple but still more complicated than unit conversion. If not on floating point, then maybe even integer, especially with the display interfaces. Anyway, I've come up with a very useful set of sixteen new glyph's I'm going to advertise on /. soon. The hexadecimal revolution is coming.
Why couldn't it just be released for free? Then donations could be solicited. It worked for xiph. So now if you happen to work with DNA evidence you have one more patent mine in the minefield. Yuck.
Decimal is well known for screwing up binary floating point. I'm wondering if much of the problem is using decimal where binary or hexadecimal should be used. Do you really want to have complicated decimalbinary floating point routines slowing down your aircraft?
When you hear bad laws coming out, why not learn about guns? Buy a few more guns and ammunition (assuming that bad law didn't just ban them). Guns are real, laws are a human construct.
Too many religious morons to mod down, so we just ignore them.
Male goes to aerobics class. Most women shun him and think he's gay. Women walks into LAN party. Every guy in the room (most of whom are single) wants her and caters to her every whim. Luckily prison populations are increasing so the sex ratio can go back the other way. Right now there's far too many men.
It's not libertarian. Information wants to be free!
Pretty good board. Finally one without serial and parallel ports! That's what I got it for! Reliable and fast for all I can see.
What would you rather have? What's more real? But I guess some of that legalese is thick enough to stop a tank gun!
And that is illogical! How strange and unfortunate.