There's a difference between software and other industries, difference is in the way of infringement. In other industries most patent conflicts are about rip off of inventions, in the software industry, most patent cases are against people coming up with the same ideas and that's the problem.
In most other industries, the patent system means that if I invent a nice mouse trap I can get royalties from the guy with the mouse trap factory a.k.a. the producer.
In the software industry there is nothing to produce, there are no producers, only inventors a.k.a. programmers, and there are lots of them, which should mean lots of inventions. However the patent system used to the idea of lots of producers and few inventors, decides that whoever comes up with an idea and patents it first is "the" inventor, disregarding the fact that the same ideas are being produced concurrently elsewhere.
The patent system was not conceived to handle such a massive amount of inventors and inventions, to put it bluntly, the more you cherish the idea of an "IP" driven economy the more you should adapt to lots and lots of coincidental development. Software patents are just wrong.
Media isn't going to highlight academic success unless its profitable, some companies do try it (think Discovery Channel) but they immediately become less profitable and lose rating (ESPN owns Discovery Channel).
Of course you can't rely on the sheeple to influence themselves or we wouldn't be discussing this.
Government could do something but as long as the corporate sector is allowed to bribe government officers the media will still call the shots.
So in the end the only real solution is good old natural selection, we will start highlighting academics when we depend on them for our survival.
Since these kinds of inspections disgust me in principle I refuse to go to the US with any data at all, is not worth it, SSH serves me well and gives me peace of mind.
Now the problem is that carrying a freshly formatted laptop could still become a liability. What is the probability of getting detained for not carrying personal data on a laptop? Would they even notice if there are no personally identifiable data, just generic stuff? If so how much decoy data would be enough? Do you have any recommendations for what kind of stuff to take with me? Do you think an empty windows installation safe after all?
I'm not concerned about having my laptop searched, I just ASSUME they will. What I'd really like is to not be permanently tagged in a government database as Shipable-to-Guantanamo er... I mean dissident.
Can't wait to get it, as its got a lot of power and will make a superlative machine for developing music/synthesis/effects application.. plus the odd game or two, of course, lol..
Doctors: Keep your patients sick but convincing that they are improving if they just keep coming to them. Taxi-Drivers: Take the longest route possible, always. Software Developers: Lock in your customers in every conceivable way.
I beg to differ, parodying does not implicate lack of originality, just parody. Might not be the best kind of advertisement they can do (actually I think it is the best thing MS can do because geeks like delicious irony) but a parody cannot be considered unoriginal unless it is ripping another already existing parody.
Could be a disgruntled employee from Sarah's campain, could be some one from Obama's party, could be the Church of Scientology, it could have been anyone, it's time people realize that Anonymous is a costume that anyone can wear like Santa Claus or Elvis, is not a real person or organization.
It's painfully obvious when you think about it, that we don't feel respect for the privacy of a government that doesn't respect ours. Try using your brain next time.
Again, if not agreeing with the EULA does not allow you to abuse the trademark anyway, agreeing with it achieves exactly nothing.
Trademark dilution will happen when people call any random browser firefox, just like people say kleenex even when they don't really mean kleenex.
Mozilla can't blame Ubuntu of trademark abuse until Ubuntu start talking about "open some firefox like epiphany or any other firefox".
No, instead Mozilla Corp is threatening with copyright infringement unless Ubuntu complies with the license (which they did immediately) which consist on showing an EULA that accomplishes nothing except annoying users and making sure Ubuntu knows who's daddy. Again, say uncle.
Truth is however much more complicated, and dare I said sinister. Whether we like it or not we occidentals, come from a christian background and starting our scientific models from a christian perspective of the world is not only acceptable but unavoidable.
What I mean is that argumentation between creationist and naturalist modelings for the beginning of life and the universe DID have a SERIOUSLY ACCEPTABLE place in the history of occidental science.
Ditto for Alchemy, Astrology and Geocentrism etc. Science didn't reject supernaturalism because it wanted to start from a clean slate. It did so because supernaturalism failed and naturalism won in the battle for explaining and modeling reality.
The insult in the ID debate is that creationists want to have this debate over and over and over at perpetuity. Fuckers...
What's really bad is that if he had requested permission (sure to be denied by lame ass sys admins) not only is there a big chance he would become the target of harassment and scapegoating from the sys admins but that the problem will go unaddressed in the end which probably affects him directly.
Put it this way, his personal information, including grades as well as everybody else's is hanging out there like fruit waiting to be taken by the next back hat. Complaining will get you ignored. he had to take a more aggressive approach, I'd said it was not aggressive enough. He shouldn't have sent this 16p paper to the administration, he should have made it public in the school newspaper, the local newspaper, the school bulletin board and if possible in every website where people concerned may be paying attention.
QNX is a popular microkernel real time OS, an excellent option for a mission critical embedded device OS.
Of course people have been writing web browsers and other such desktop apps just because. You can try it free, runs from a floppy if you are so inclined. It makes sense VLC supports QNX, it's probably used as part of some A/V device.
Syllable, like Haiku is one of those OS necromancy projects.
Even better, while we know that there has NEVER been found evidence for live ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE other than Earth. We also know that NEVER equals a little over a century of radio listening and ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE equals just this solar system and the insignificant fraction of stars we have pointed our puny radio telescopes at for astronomically negligible times.
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There's a difference between software and other industries, difference is in the way of infringement. In other industries most patent conflicts are about rip off of inventions, in the software industry, most patent cases are against people coming up with the same ideas and that's the problem.
In most other industries, the patent system means that if I invent a nice mouse trap I can get royalties from the guy with the mouse trap factory a.k.a. the producer.
In the software industry there is nothing to produce, there are no producers, only inventors a.k.a. programmers, and there are lots of them, which should mean lots of inventions. However the patent system used to the idea of lots of producers and few inventors, decides that whoever comes up with an idea and patents it first is "the" inventor, disregarding the fact that the same ideas are being produced concurrently elsewhere.
The patent system was not conceived to handle such a massive amount of inventors and inventions, to put it bluntly, the more you cherish the idea of an "IP" driven economy the more you should adapt to lots and lots of coincidental development. Software patents are just wrong.
Media isn't going to highlight academic success unless its profitable, some companies do try it (think Discovery Channel) but they immediately become less profitable and lose rating (ESPN owns Discovery Channel).
Of course you can't rely on the sheeple to influence themselves or we wouldn't be discussing this.
Government could do something but as long as the corporate sector is allowed to bribe government officers the media will still call the shots.
So in the end the only real solution is good old natural selection, we will start highlighting academics when we depend on them for our survival.
How's that for a negative Karma hit?
An so far we have been dodging the topic, their claims are outlandish like yours.
Since these kinds of inspections disgust me in principle I refuse to go to the US with any data at all, is not worth it, SSH serves me well and gives me peace of mind.
Now the problem is that carrying a freshly formatted laptop could still become a liability. What is the probability of getting detained for not carrying personal data on a laptop? Would they even notice if there are no personally identifiable data, just generic stuff? If so how much decoy data would be enough? Do you have any recommendations for what kind of stuff to take with me? Do you think an empty windows installation safe after all?
I'm not concerned about having my laptop searched, I just ASSUME they will. What I'd really like is to not be permanently tagged in a government database as Shipable-to-Guantanamo er... I mean dissident.
I bet your disregard for privacy has chilling effects on you that you may not realize, would you dare to get in a fight with a Scientologist?
Scientologists completely agree with you.
Nor in Mexican schools but hey at least we are not teaching creationism in class.
I'm sorry but I don't buy the crap that BSD is "just some OSS license just like the GPL".
I hate when BSD-L advocates say that "GPL fanboys just insist on their \"pet license\"".
When you boil it down to the terms of the license, like you should, GPL is just open source, BSD is "proprietary is fine too".
BSD advocates *should* celebrate proprietary forks, thats the main reason for its existence.
Do you mean, the machinest?
They do it foy egg laying chickens so it wouldn't supriseme if they did it for meat chickens.
Enjoy u insensitive clod: http://www.hsus.org/farm/multimedia/gallery/layers/debeaking.html
You are of course wrong in the business sense:
Doctors: Keep your patients sick but convincing that they are improving if they just keep coming to them.
Taxi-Drivers: Take the longest route possible, always.
Software Developers: Lock in your customers in every conceivable way.
Rule #1 Fuckers Rule #1!!
I beg to differ, parodying does not implicate lack of originality, just parody. Might not be the best kind of advertisement they can do (actually I think it is the best thing MS can do because geeks like delicious irony) but a parody cannot be considered unoriginal unless it is ripping another already existing parody.
Care to translate? Or at least x-plain plz?
I'm fluent in Python, Javascript, PHP, SQL, C/C++/C#/Java. Could accept a sample of scheme, lisp or ruby if necessary. Thanks.
Could be a disgruntled employee from Sarah's campain, could be some one from Obama's party, could be the Church of Scientology, it could have been anyone, it's time people realize that Anonymous is a costume that anyone can wear like Santa Claus or Elvis, is not a real person or organization.
It's painfully obvious when you think about it, that we don't feel respect for the privacy of a government that doesn't respect ours. Try using your brain next time.
What about shooting people who wants to made sure Google anonymizes searches after 18 months?
Seriously, this means Google can do away with all presumptions of privacy protection.
Again, if not agreeing with the EULA does not allow you to abuse the trademark anyway, agreeing with it achieves exactly nothing.
Trademark dilution will happen when people call any random browser firefox, just like people say kleenex even when they don't really mean kleenex.
Mozilla can't blame Ubuntu of trademark abuse until Ubuntu start talking about "open some firefox like epiphany or any other firefox".
No, instead Mozilla Corp is threatening with copyright infringement unless Ubuntu complies with the license (which they did immediately) which consist on showing an EULA that accomplishes nothing except annoying users and making sure Ubuntu knows who's daddy. Again, say uncle.
Truth is however much more complicated, and dare I said sinister. Whether we like it or not we occidentals, come from a christian background and starting our scientific models from a christian perspective of the world is not only acceptable but unavoidable.
What I mean is that argumentation between creationist and naturalist modelings for the beginning of life and the universe DID have a SERIOUSLY ACCEPTABLE place in the history of occidental science.
Ditto for Alchemy, Astrology and Geocentrism etc. Science didn't reject supernaturalism because it wanted to start from a clean slate. It did so because supernaturalism failed and naturalism won in the battle for explaining and modeling reality.
The insult in the ID debate is that creationists want to have this debate over and over and over at perpetuity. Fuckers...
Mod parent insightful please. Thanks.
Wait. If accepting the EULA means agreeing not to abuse the Mozilla Firefox brand, does that mean I can abuse it if I don't agree? Of course not.
This EULA serves no purpose, Mozilla is basically asking Ubuntu to "say uncle".
What's really bad is that if he had requested permission (sure to be denied by lame ass sys admins) not only is there a big chance he would become the target of harassment and scapegoating from the sys admins but that the problem will go unaddressed in the end which probably affects him directly.
Put it this way, his personal information, including grades as well as everybody else's is hanging out there like fruit waiting to be taken by the next back hat. Complaining will get you ignored. he had to take a more aggressive approach, I'd said it was not aggressive enough. He shouldn't have sent this 16p paper to the administration, he should have made it public in the school newspaper, the local newspaper, the school bulletin board and if possible in every website where people concerned may be paying attention.
QNX is a popular microkernel real time OS, an excellent option for a mission critical embedded device OS.
Of course people have been writing web browsers and other such desktop apps just because. You can try it free, runs from a floppy if you are so inclined. It makes sense VLC supports QNX, it's probably used as part of some A/V device.
Syllable, like Haiku is one of those OS necromancy projects.
LOL Sure slashdot is stoopid. Why else would they use a obviously browser license in their content publishing site?
Even better, while we know that there has NEVER been found evidence for live ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE other than Earth.
We also know that NEVER equals a little over a century of radio listening and
ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE equals just this solar system and the insignificant fraction of stars we have pointed our puny radio telescopes at for astronomically negligible times.