Control of food. Check. Control of money or trade goods (whatever it may be). Check. Control of a small mercenary force. Check. Control of weapons. Check.
Instead, release your work (if you're willing) under an open license that does not allow for commercial exploitation, like a CC with non-commercial. When it shows up on the exorbitant charge-sites, sue their asses. And make sure to hit them with the clauses in copyright that allow for up to 35K per infringing copy.
Your company sounds big enough.. And you mention about a purchasing department.
Have you ever forwarded a Microsoft EULA to the company lawyers to check it for sanity? I would assume that legal would want to know liabilities not stated in monetary fund.
Isn't it nice to see what was done years ago now bandied as a new and novel solution?
When we look to see exactly what a MMO and such games are, they are a IRC server with a RPG attached to it on the hip. The old dialup guys saw it for what it is, and now it's something cool and new. And even in those days, it was harder due to no real shared protocol, unlike now.
There's something beautiful about a language that can open a TCP/IP connection in 3-5 lines of easy to understand code. Then you can push that code to other Erlang processes on your network.. And the graphs showing thread utilization of YAWS vs Apache... wow. All I can say is wow.
It's too bad that the Transputer idea never really caught on. The idea of each CPU combining for one massive resource pool is amazing, and that your terminal (a full computer) is just connecting to the others. Even your programs never exit, as they're moved to other CPUs,
It is absolutely relevant. Your claim is that Vista Home Basic is for countries with lots of piracy. I stated that My laptop came with Home Basic because it was the cheapest.
And Im in the USA. So it's contrary to what you claim.
Im using a Wiimote+nunchuck as a security system. It's kinda cool, really.
I pair the wiimote to the computer. Then, I pair some bluetooth headset to the computer. Then I make a script that watches the acceleration on the wiimote (easy to do), and if the acceleration changes by more than 3 on a scale from 00-ff, send sound to BT headset. I can also make it scream via local speakers, or fire emails or whatever.
The cool thing, is when I set it up, I just wrap the cord around the machine and plate the wiimote+nunchuck on the keyboard and over the trackpad.
Good luck touching that laptop without making it scream.
Since I assume that you are an adept geek, I'd figure you're already using Linux. Perhaps as a client, or even a drop-in AD server.
Aside from that, cant you go register in school for 1 semester, drop it, and go buy student licenses of Vista Ultimate? I mean, if you actually wanted to try them, that's how you do it. Or go peruse ThePirateBay and see what Vista options exist for you there.
That is one thing that Microsoft has stopped: Hobby-ist tinkering with their systems. I remember the good ol days where we all switched MSDOS and early windows versions around in a sneakernet learning how each operate (and dont). Now, its pay our extortionate pricing, or go play with Linux. I know what Im doing right now.
The answers below are how standard patent rulings would take place, not my decision or want.
1. What if you 'invented' it by looking at a creature with really great night vision, and then copy and pasted it over?
Regardless. If you made it, its an invention. If you found it, a discovery. Both are patentable.
2. What if someone was born with really great night vision, and you just copy and pasted it from them?
Yep. Look at the Ashkenazi Jew lady who had expressions of breast cancer.. Now every Ashkenazi Jew who takes a BRCA-1 test pays a royalty. Non-Jews dont.
3. What if someone was born with really great night vision AFTER you patented it -- are they in violation of your patent?
Most likely. And the worst case: Patent companies have unproportionately large legal bases to enact lawsuits towards. If you are a peon, you will lose, either by 20+ year trial, or directly. Note that 17 years is length of patent.
4. What if the children of the people you modified with night vision inherit the gene? Do they owe royalties?
There was probably a contract that included offspring in the original document. They will likely owe royalties. If they do not pay, the company will probably try a copyright suit along with a patent suit, because you knowingly infringed on copyright. Since it's knowingly, fees are upwards 35000$-250000$. Thank the copyright system.
But most patents on "creation" of genetic material are really derived from southern hemisphere based plants and animals. Knowing that, I sure wouldnt grant a patent on plundered genetic knowledge.
I specifically wrote a paper on this very topic. I refused to publish it due to, lets say, chilling effects. It's been downhill since Chakrabarty winning that supreme court judgment, and I expect "ownership" to go even lower. I could also cite cases of a Canadian Rapeseed farmewr who lost his farm due to Roundup Ready seed contamination, or the Ashkenazi Jew who had genetic expression of a specific breast cancer gene that lead to royalties to any test done that is of Ashkenazi descent.
Companies that routinely sit in this genetic circle are close knit with each other, because of the shared knowledge via horrendous patents on life. Even Mexico, and Central and South America have kicked the likes of ADM and Monsanto out of their country, as have China and other South Hemisphere countries, as they harbor 70+% of the worlds genetic knowledge.
Ill end with a poem by one of my favorite authors, Greg Egan.
______ It is not true that the map of freedom will be complete with the erasure of the last invidious border when it remains for us to chart the attractors of thunder and delineate the arrhythmias of drought to reveal the molecular dialects of forest and savanna as rich as a thousand human tongues and to comprehend the deepest history of our passions ancient beyond mythology's reach
So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers no patent can encompass zero and one no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine no empire rules the quantum waves
And there must be room for all at the celebration of understanding for there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
I dont agree that upper management doesnt "get" the information age. Instead, they understand it plenty, knowing that they can bilk extra money out of unsuspecting fools who dont use sites like ThePirateBay.
Yes, there are strong copyright laws, but they are a restriction to free trade, which exists in the numerous pirate hubs and sneakernets and darknets. Because of that, digital media will always approach 0 in cost, regardless how much cost was incurred in making that media. That's just capitalism in action, folks.
Immigration is always a hot topic, rating up there with abortion, war, and taxes.
1) Colonization is mostly an "illegal" immigration, so please remember that USA was always made that way from the beginning. I'm not promoting that people should broke the law, but for a more consequent law.
Well, you cannot argue with that with exception to a anthro-historic viewpoint towards the American Native Nations. The crux is they lost, we won. It sucks that they were screwed out of money, land and culture, but our relatives wanted it that way.
2) Immigrants mostly do works that native citizens don't like to do, but are needed anyway. Just a relative minority got hi-tech jobs.
Wrong. Immigrants do jobs we citizens would not do at the prices Business owners are willing to pay. If a Business owner would pay more, they would have legal help. Because of this difference, criminal law should come in and solve it, by providing a disincentive to hire illegals.
Punishing illegals could possibly work, but prison is about $ 30K per person, so we go more in the hole. Deportation might work, but close foreign governments (like Mexico) teach their citizens how to illegally enter and gain employment. So deportation would work for the time they are sent out and the time they come back.
---So instead of the typical reaction of searching for the culprit in the foreign, why don't try to get those migrants into the legal system, so they can be taxed (I assure most of them would like to do it for a legal status), then GDP grows and the deficit lowers proportionally?
There's also an argument that we should allow citizenship (not H1B) to people with masters or better in the sciences or math fields. Encouraging mixtures of highly intelligent people would be better for our country to stay on top of technology.
And about making those now-illegal immigrants citizens, you then you end up with the same problem. The citizens require full tax documentation, withholding, social security, Medicare/Medicaid withholding, state taxes, and others. The company then has to pay for a legal employee 2*"base rate", therefore encourages more illegals to enter at a price of "Base Pay" * 3/4. Same problem, and now encouraged more illegals to come in hoping for citizenship.
Then I assume that you have the source for the plugin, no?
If you dont have the source, how can you be sure what exactly it's attaching to? I know if I was Microsoft, I'd attach to parts of the rendering engine and screw around with things. It'd be an easy way to make Firefox seem slower and buggier. And, why disable the "Uninstall" button? Looks rather fishy to me.
I mean, if Firefox is prone to crashing at random times on random websites, wouldnt you think users would go back to IE?
Right now, the Mexican government and their financial system is/has collapsed. The Mexican government hands out pamphlets on how to defraud the USA government and tax system. Knowing that, if we deported Mexicans, either the government will help them get back here, or they will not let their immigrants back in their country.
I can see people-hauling trucks aimed at the border, with the Mexican army on the other side, just asking for a standoff. There's no pretty solutions, but we need ones that protect citizens and non-citizens who are willing to come in the front door.
Side story: I live in south central Indiana. About 2.5 years ago, there were those immigration riots all around the US. During that time, many of our factories literally shut down. Toyota, Enkei, Cosco, and other factories... Turns out nobody showed up on the lines. Come to find out in the paper is that all the illegals worked in the factories taking our jobs. When they scattered due to fears of immigration police, the factories literally shut down. How many of these jobs are being displaced by illegals that would instead go to build our middle class? The illegals obviously are working under the table, or at cut rates due to legality.
And you know what our politicians did after hearing of that: Nothing. So yeah, I advocate a strong arm solution, cause nothing else works in deterrence of lowest common denominator capitalism.
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Lemee see...
Control of food. Check.
Control of money or trade goods (whatever it may be). Check.
Control of a small mercenary force. Check.
Control of weapons. Check.
Government? We dont need no steenkin government!
That's your fault.
Instead, release your work (if you're willing) under an open license that does not allow for commercial exploitation, like a CC with non-commercial. When it shows up on the exorbitant charge-sites, sue their asses. And make sure to hit them with the clauses in copyright that allow for up to 35K per infringing copy.
When I say "wriggle out of a contract", I mean to sign it then find a technicality in which to find the contract null and void.
I dont mean to violate the contract, and then trigger the "breach of contract" section.
Yes, it does.
If it doesnt, then how can they possess source code (or binaries) that they do not have the copyright to without being illegal?
Since you're a lawyer, Ill float something on you...
Isnt it true that pretty much any good lawyer can "wiggle" out of nearly any contract?
L1, L2, and L3 are all semi-unstable points. You'd be better off in L4 or L5.
And solar wind at L1 is a bitch. At least the magnetosphere would protect some at L2.
Damn straight.
I drive a 98 Windstar.. and it gets ~22 MPG, considering I do mainly highway driving. And Im 6'5". Yeah, good luck finding a subcompact that fits me.
Your company sounds big enough.. And you mention about a purchasing department.
Have you ever forwarded a Microsoft EULA to the company lawyers to check it for sanity? I would assume that legal would want to know liabilities not stated in monetary fund.
I thought they all lip-synced.
Next up: Fake Symphonies with synthesized "Real Life" performers. (with the symphony ticket cost)
Isn't it nice to see what was done years ago now bandied as a new and novel solution?
When we look to see exactly what a MMO and such games are, they are a IRC server with a RPG attached to it on the hip. The old dialup guys saw it for what it is, and now it's something cool and new. And even in those days, it was harder due to no real shared protocol, unlike now.
Lemee see.. Im on ICQ and I want to talk to someone on CS:Source.
ICQ:AIM
AIM:XMPP
XMPP:CS-Source
Ok.. what would that look like again?
Creepy_Crawler!ICQ!AIM!XMPP!CS-Source
Yay. uucp bang path crap again. Or not as bad: non-1-to-1 namespace mapping over multiple protocols.
In the spirit of Occam, is Erlang.
There's something beautiful about a language that can open a TCP/IP connection in 3-5 lines of easy to understand code. Then you can push that code to other Erlang processes on your network.. And the graphs showing thread utilization of YAWS vs Apache... wow. All I can say is wow.
It's too bad that the Transputer idea never really caught on. The idea of each CPU combining for one massive resource pool is amazing, and that your terminal (a full computer) is just connecting to the others. Even your programs never exit, as they're moved to other CPUs,
It is absolutely relevant. Your claim is that Vista Home Basic is for countries with lots of piracy. I stated that My laptop came with Home Basic because it was the cheapest.
And Im in the USA. So it's contrary to what you claim.
Im using a Wiimote+nunchuck as a security system. It's kinda cool, really.
I pair the wiimote to the computer. Then, I pair some bluetooth headset to the computer. Then I make a script that watches the acceleration on the wiimote (easy to do), and if the acceleration changes by more than 3 on a scale from 00-ff, send sound to BT headset. I can also make it scream via local speakers, or fire emails or whatever.
The cool thing, is when I set it up, I just wrap the cord around the machine and plate the wiimote+nunchuck on the keyboard and over the trackpad.
Good luck touching that laptop without making it scream.
When I bought my T61 Thinkpad, I was forced to buy a worthless MS license. I opted to buy the cheapest MS license, Vista Basic.
I then proceeded to fdisk and install Ubuntu. So yeah, I was forced to bundle a Windows license, for which I care nothing about.
Since I assume that you are an adept geek, I'd figure you're already using Linux. Perhaps as a client, or even a drop-in AD server.
Aside from that, cant you go register in school for 1 semester, drop it, and go buy student licenses of Vista Ultimate? I mean, if you actually wanted to try them, that's how you do it. Or go peruse ThePirateBay and see what Vista options exist for you there.
That is one thing that Microsoft has stopped: Hobby-ist tinkering with their systems. I remember the good ol days where we all switched MSDOS and early windows versions around in a sneakernet learning how each operate (and dont). Now, its pay our extortionate pricing, or go play with Linux. I know what Im doing right now.
The answers below are how standard patent rulings would take place, not my decision or want.
1. What if you 'invented' it by looking at a creature with really great night vision, and then copy and pasted it over?
Regardless. If you made it, its an invention. If you found it, a discovery. Both are patentable.
2. What if someone was born with really great night vision, and you just copy and pasted it from them?
Yep. Look at the Ashkenazi Jew lady who had expressions of breast cancer.. Now every Ashkenazi Jew who takes a BRCA-1 test pays a royalty. Non-Jews dont.
3. What if someone was born with really great night vision AFTER you patented it -- are they in violation of your patent?
Most likely. And the worst case: Patent companies have unproportionately large legal bases to enact lawsuits towards. If you are a peon, you will lose, either by 20+ year trial, or directly. Note that 17 years is length of patent.
4. What if the children of the people you modified with night vision inherit the gene? Do they owe royalties?
There was probably a contract that included offspring in the original document. They will likely owe royalties. If they do not pay, the company will probably try a copyright suit along with a patent suit, because you knowingly infringed on copyright. Since it's knowingly, fees are upwards 35000$-250000$. Thank the copyright system.
But most patents on "creation" of genetic material are really derived from southern hemisphere based plants and animals. Knowing that, I sure wouldnt grant a patent on plundered genetic knowledge.
I specifically wrote a paper on this very topic. I refused to publish it due to, lets say, chilling effects. It's been downhill since Chakrabarty winning that supreme court judgment, and I expect "ownership" to go even lower. I could also cite cases of a Canadian Rapeseed farmewr who lost his farm due to Roundup Ready seed contamination, or the Ashkenazi Jew who had genetic expression of a specific breast cancer gene that lead to royalties to any test done that is of Ashkenazi descent.
Companies that routinely sit in this genetic circle are close knit with each other, because of the shared knowledge via horrendous patents on life. Even Mexico, and Central and South America have kicked the likes of ADM and Monsanto out of their country, as have China and other South Hemisphere countries, as they harbor 70+% of the worlds genetic knowledge.
Ill end with a poem by one of my favorite authors, Greg Egan.
______
It is not true that the map of freedom will be complete
with the erasure of the last invidious border
when it remains for us to chart the attractors of thunder
and delineate the arrhythmias of drought
to reveal the molecular dialects of forest and savanna
as rich as a thousand human tongues
and to comprehend the deepest history of our passions
ancient beyond mythology's reach
So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers
no patent can encompass zero and one
no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine
no empire rules the quantum waves
And there must be room for all at the celebration of understanding
for there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold
imposed by force, resisted
or escaped.
I dont agree that upper management doesnt "get" the information age. Instead, they understand it plenty, knowing that they can bilk extra money out of unsuspecting fools who dont use sites like ThePirateBay.
Yes, there are strong copyright laws, but they are a restriction to free trade, which exists in the numerous pirate hubs and sneakernets and darknets. Because of that, digital media will always approach 0 in cost, regardless how much cost was incurred in making that media. That's just capitalism in action, folks.
Yeah. Look at Pirate bay.
XD
Did you ever bang any check with that kind of name?
Trust me.. You dont want to.
---Ok... at risk of being taken as troll...
Immigration is always a hot topic, rating up there with abortion, war, and taxes.
1) Colonization is mostly an "illegal" immigration, so please remember that USA was always made that way from the beginning. I'm not promoting that people should broke the law, but for a more consequent law.
Well, you cannot argue with that with exception to a anthro-historic viewpoint towards the American Native Nations. The crux is they lost, we won. It sucks that they were screwed out of money, land and culture, but our relatives wanted it that way.
2) Immigrants mostly do works that native citizens don't like to do, but are needed anyway. Just a relative minority got hi-tech jobs.
Wrong. Immigrants do jobs we citizens would not do at the prices Business owners are willing to pay. If a Business owner would pay more, they would have legal help. Because of this difference, criminal law should come in and solve it, by providing a disincentive to hire illegals.
Punishing illegals could possibly work, but prison is about $ 30K per person, so we go more in the hole. Deportation might work, but close foreign governments (like Mexico) teach their citizens how to illegally enter and gain employment. So deportation would work for the time they are sent out and the time they come back.
---So instead of the typical reaction of searching for the culprit in the foreign, why don't try to get those migrants into the legal system, so they can be taxed (I assure most of them would like to do it for a legal status), then GDP grows and the deficit lowers proportionally?
There's also an argument that we should allow citizenship (not H1B) to people with masters or better in the sciences or math fields. Encouraging mixtures of highly intelligent people would be better for our country to stay on top of technology.
And about making those now-illegal immigrants citizens, you then you end up with the same problem. The citizens require full tax documentation, withholding, social security, Medicare/Medicaid withholding, state taxes, and others. The company then has to pay for a legal employee 2*"base rate", therefore encourages more illegals to enter at a price of "Base Pay" * 3/4. Same problem, and now encouraged more illegals to come in hoping for citizenship.
Then I assume that you have the source for the plugin, no?
If you dont have the source, how can you be sure what exactly it's attaching to? I know if I was Microsoft, I'd attach to parts of the rendering engine and screw around with things. It'd be an easy way to make Firefox seem slower and buggier. And, why disable the "Uninstall" button? Looks rather fishy to me.
I mean, if Firefox is prone to crashing at random times on random websites, wouldnt you think users would go back to IE?
So deportation is a better idea?
Right now, the Mexican government and their financial system is/has collapsed. The Mexican government hands out pamphlets on how to defraud the USA government and tax system. Knowing that, if we deported Mexicans, either the government will help them get back here, or they will not let their immigrants back in their country.
I can see people-hauling trucks aimed at the border, with the Mexican army on the other side, just asking for a standoff. There's no pretty solutions, but we need ones that protect citizens and non-citizens who are willing to come in the front door.
Side story: I live in south central Indiana. About 2.5 years ago, there were those immigration riots all around the US. During that time, many of our factories literally shut down. Toyota, Enkei, Cosco, and other factories... Turns out nobody showed up on the lines. Come to find out in the paper is that all the illegals worked in the factories taking our jobs. When they scattered due to fears of immigration police, the factories literally shut down. How many of these jobs are being displaced by illegals that would instead go to build our middle class? The illegals obviously are working under the table, or at cut rates due to legality.
And you know what our politicians did after hearing of that: Nothing. So yeah, I advocate a strong arm solution, cause nothing else works in deterrence of lowest common denominator capitalism.
Since this is a rather nasty "Payload" for firefox, what is its performance vs ACID and other rendering tests before and after the plugin?
I mean, hasnt anybody profiled it to see its raison d'etre?