Timely too, for me. I've actually been futzing around today trying to get Linux to boot off a USB hard drive. Some people collect stamps, I do pointless stuff with computers. We all need a hobby.
No problem: If they want the copyright on the binary then let them register and copyright the binary. In the case you describe the binary practically is the source.
If a company claims that they did something similar and there is no source code to copyright that's fine; It simply means that they've relinquished copyright protection on the code they've created and have protection on the binaries only. That means that if someone does publicly post the source code they've not registered that it is part of the public domain.
The fact that there is no protection for anything you do not register should be sufficient motivation most of the time.
How about dipping the soap in liquid nitrogen so it isn't so mushy? Or if something like Lava (the soap) is allowed how about we make something even more extreme, with so much grit it acts like sandpaper?
If you don't like those ideas then how about a new type of match that has a bit of sandpaper in a loop around the head connected loosely enough to let it rub round in a circle, lighting the match, then being burned up in the process.
Huh? His bias wasn't obvious from what he was writing? He said quite clearly that he doesn't trust the feds and that he thinks that any power they get will be abused. How the hell is is sig more extreme than that?!
Seriously, I'm confused how you could think it's worth bringing up considering the actual body of his post. Where did he say something that could be construed as hiding his bias?
He did specifically say that the upper age had more play to it than the lower limit.
Even so somehow I have trouble believing that anyone over 38 who feels they have the stamina, drive, and ability to handle the risk will be put off of doing a start up based on his proposed upper limit.
I'm only 30, but if I look back 10 years I think the biggest change in my personality between then and now is that I am far more confident in my own abilities and willing to trust my own judgement about myself and my abilities than I was 10 years ago. If that trend continues I fully expect to be able to let such comments slide off me like water off a duck's back by the time I'm 40 and go entirely by my own estimate of my abilities. Maybe I'm unusual in this, but I suspect it's the norm. As we gain more experience we have more data from which to form opinions about what we can and can not accomplish.
Basically right or wrong I don't think that his presumed upper limit matters.
So if the cyborgs beat the unaltered humans wouldn't that count as evolution?
Seriously though evolution can't have intention, it just is a description for a biological process which has been shown to exist. Your objection is meaningless nonsense.
I still say go for it. Those of us who, while in Bangalore, have the unit rewired to run something a little more secure than some MS OS will be fine with the worm hits;) Anyway, what kind of an idiot would let Microsoft put some device that probably has some sort of neural DRM built in into his brain?
Can you imagine what a nightmare "Trusted Thinking" would be?
Those that do get hit with the worm are an example of evolution in action. They should have used the OpenBSD "patch". (Hey, Linux is good and all, but I'm not sure I want to trust my brain to anything less than OpenBSD).
I'm happy with command line tools too, but with the proliferation of Perl and Python I'm surprised at how long it takes people to write and publish GUI interfaces for the command line tools. I guess if I ever get down to working 40 hours a week at work, so I have time, I should quit whining and kick off a few myself.
I know it's not that tough because while my group's job is supposed to be mostly troubleshooting stuff for our sister group (They're Production Control, we're Production Support) I've found that the ONLY effective way to fix human error problems is to simplify the interface.
I'm not in a position to do that directly (One of those large companies where work is cookie-cuttered up) so I've ended up writing a several front ends of one sort or another. The first few are a bitch, then you get the hang of it. Then again I have the advantage of sitting next to the intended users so they can tell me how they want stuff laid out.
We're a Perl shop, so I'm using Perl/Tk, but I've heard that it's even easier to set up GUIs in Python than in Perl.
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Timely too, for me. I've actually been futzing around today trying to get Linux to boot off a USB hard drive. Some people collect stamps, I do pointless stuff with computers. We all need a hobby.
No problem: If they want the copyright on the binary then let them register and copyright the binary. In the case you describe the binary practically is the source.
If a company claims that they did something similar and there is no source code to copyright that's fine; It simply means that they've relinquished copyright protection on the code they've created and have protection on the binaries only. That means that if someone does publicly post the source code they've not registered that it is part of the public domain.
The fact that there is no protection for anything you do not register should be sufficient motivation most of the time.
How about dipping the soap in liquid nitrogen so it isn't so mushy? Or if something like Lava (the soap) is allowed how about we make something even more extreme, with so much grit it acts like sandpaper?
:)
If you don't like those ideas then how about a new type of match that has a bit of sandpaper in a loop around the head connected loosely enough to let it rub round in a circle, lighting the match, then being burned up in the process.
Come on, man, give me a hard one
I hope this becomes a reality soon. Nothing says power to the people like the people being able to build anything we want ourselves.
Seriously, I'm confused how you could think it's worth bringing up considering the actual body of his post. Where did he say something that could be construed as hiding his bias?
Even so somehow I have trouble believing that anyone over 38 who feels they have the stamina, drive, and ability to handle the risk will be put off of doing a start up based on his proposed upper limit.
I'm only 30, but if I look back 10 years I think the biggest change in my personality between then and now is that I am far more confident in my own abilities and willing to trust my own judgement about myself and my abilities than I was 10 years ago. If that trend continues I fully expect to be able to let such comments slide off me like water off a duck's back by the time I'm 40 and go entirely by my own estimate of my abilities. Maybe I'm unusual in this, but I suspect it's the norm. As we gain more experience we have more data from which to form opinions about what we can and can not accomplish.
Basically right or wrong I don't think that his presumed upper limit matters.
Seriously though evolution can't have intention, it just is a description for a biological process which has been shown to exist. Your objection is meaningless nonsense.
Can you imagine what a nightmare "Trusted Thinking" would be?
Those that do get hit with the worm are an example of evolution in action. They should have used the OpenBSD "patch". (Hey, Linux is good and all, but I'm not sure I want to trust my brain to anything less than OpenBSD).
I know it's not that tough because while my group's job is supposed to be mostly troubleshooting stuff for our sister group (They're Production Control, we're Production Support) I've found that the ONLY effective way to fix human error problems is to simplify the interface.
I'm not in a position to do that directly (One of those large companies where work is cookie-cuttered up) so I've ended up writing a several front ends of one sort or another. The first few are a bitch, then you get the hang of it. Then again I have the advantage of sitting next to the intended users so they can tell me how they want stuff laid out.
We're a Perl shop, so I'm using Perl/Tk, but I've heard that it's even easier to set up GUIs in Python than in Perl.