There are those with vernier or electronic measurement so you can get resolution smaller than a degree. For measuring real-world things and for setting up machining and woodworking.
>A DMCA takedown notice sent by someone who is not the copyriofght holder is a criminal offense. CRIMINAL
Yeah? So? We're going on the assumption that the OP is the copyright holder - he owns the copyright by virtue of writing the code in the first place.
Registering the copyright is a more formal process but not having registered does not mean that copyright was not granted. In the US, copyright is granted merely upon putting pen to paper (or hands to keyboard). The benefit of registering (you can do this later) is when the issue of damages comes up. There are fewer damages awarded before registration date, and more after.
Which is why I said he should register the copyright.
>so it's not surprising to see them using an operating system that is built from stolen Microsoft technology.
Funny how the NYSE and the LSE both tried Microsoft solutions and moved off of it.
Microsoft is an example of how not to do something. Darl McBride, Microsoft's attack chihuahua, called this "negative know-how" and thought that since Linux devs learned how not to do something, somehow SCO was owed money.
Whenever this is brought up, people like you hop up and down and behave as if removing patents from software would leave software completely unprotected. Software got along fine for decades without patents. It even got along fine without copyright protection until the 80s.
Now it's the only thing on the planet that is protected by patent and copyright. This is unique and contradictory.
You patent mechanisms. You copyright art and literary works.
Pick one, and one only, please.
Copyright seems to protect software much more than patents. Indeed, current practice is that software is written and published without patents in mind at all. Software designers are told to deliberately not look for existing patents because if one does, it is "proof you knew or should have known" of a patent and any damages from a lawsuit are tripled because it's now "willful infringement" instead of incidental.
It's a bet. It's a bet that litigation will hit "the other guy" before you, and it's a bet that a patent, if it's brought up in a lawsuit, is trivial and obvious and it's also a bet that if it's not trivial and obvious, that a patent swap can be made. It's the little guy that gets stomped on in the last bit because the little guy has one or two patents and not the amount needed for MAD when a big company comes knocking.
This means that patents do nothing but harm the little guy when it comes to software. If you are a little guy, your best bet with a patent is to sell it for chump change (a few tens of thousands of dollars) to Intellectual Ventures, because you sure as hell aren't going to be able to do anything with it yourself if the IVs of the world get their way. You got 5 million to fight a lawsuit? No? Tough shit, then.
I thought according to the Tea Party and the Republicans that NASA was a waste of money and that whatever sats we launch are because it's part of the Government's evil plan to take away of all our rights...... except when it's not.
I'm going to take the Heartland Institute, TeaTards, Right Wing Pundits of all stripes, together in the name of fairness with Greenpeace (because they haven't been relevant since France stopped nuke testing), and the "Living on Earth" staff from PRI (because they really make me cringe with their unscientific bunk, bad interviews, and fad hopping), tie them together to an old anchor, and push them off the Verrazano bridge. I'll make sure to do an Environmental Impact Statement, first, just to keep things on the up-and-up.
ISPs that are also cable companies (comcast, cox, twc, etc) will guarantee that streaming is "shit tier" third-class/steerage class video and the only way you can get actual HDTV (why else did you buy a flat panel tv?) is to buy into one of the cable "bundles." HDTV streaming will simply run into a cap by the end of the week and you'll be SOL for the rest of the month.
Because of this, the cable companies will retain their monopoly over HD content. This is by design. It is bullshit and anti-competitive. They are deliberately having you over a barrel as a customer.
This is why Netflix is fighting caps in the US and Canada.
>We have never come even close to hitting the Comcast limit of 250 GB / mo.
That's because what you're streaming isn't HDTV.
HDTV streaming will wipe that out by the 15'th of the month.
1080i HDTV (30 full frames/sec) is 25Mb/second, roughly. BluRay (60 frames/second 1080p) is 40, roughly.
So let's just use 1080i for now and ignore BluRay.
25Mb/sec is roughly 2.5MB/sec. This is roughly 9GB/hr. 9 guzinta 250 27.7 times, or 27hours 40 minutes of video.
You can wipe that out in a week normal viewing. As it stands now, the only way you can watch streamed video and not hit your cap is if it's upscaled DVD quality.
>I think many people see horrible comments on websites or blogs, hear something like the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory", and just assume that's the problem,
They are wrong, and the Penny Arcade strip illustrating it, is wrong.
Witness the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory being violated every day as people act like fuckwads on Facebook under their real names.
You don't need anonymity for people to be assholes, and that's what's wrong with this study and all justification for removing anonymity based upon the assumption that anonymity is the problem. Go to youropenbook.org and type in "fuck" in the search.
And just scroll...scroll....scroll...
Proof, right there.
And let's not even mention the coarsening of "debate" in the public sphere.
I have never assumed that either. If you look hard enough, you can probably tie this alias to my meatspace address. I've had it that long.
But I do not wish to remove all barriers to that by being required to use my real name everywhere. My parents have an unlisted phone number, and mine is too by way of cellphone.
Locks keep honest people out and are not really a deterrent to actual hardened criminals. This does not mean I should remove my door from its hinges.
This is a carefully orchestrated war on anonymity. It started with facebook, now Google, and now we have a "paper" saying that "anonymity is killing the internet" and "making your hair curl."
Make no mistake about it. I'm waiting for my g+ account to be nuked.
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IT SHOULD NOT EVER BE NEWS.
YES, I AM SHOUTING. DEAL WITH IT.
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>In a world where software patents exist, you will have patent trolls. In a world where the idea of "intellectual property" is taken seriously, you will have lawyers defending said property.
[Don La Fontaine voice]
In a world, where CEOs run their versions of the Mafia...In a world where Gordon Gecko is seen as a naive do-gooder...
In a world, where the true gangsters wear shiny suits and red power ties...there's... Malone.
"You wanna know how to get Intellectual Ventures? They pull a patent, you pull a lawyer. They send a brief to the court, you send one of them to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Nathan Myhrvold. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal? "
*dramatic music*
Sean Connery as Malone, coming to theaters this Christmas in "The Unpatentables"
It's about as easy as falling off a log. Really. I don't know how anyone can make it any easier. You turn it on, create a name for yourself, and point it at your music directory, and boom, you're done. It even penetrates firewalls like Skype. You don't even have to open ports or anything.
It is the best, by far, ad-hoc "server" software going.
You should try it.
Uploading gigabytes of music to a cloud server is orders of magnitude more difficult and time consuming simply because you have to decide what music you can do without (google doesn't give you unlimited free space).
One of the easiest things to do is fling music across the net. You can do it with Apache and DynDNS and roll your own or you can do something else.
Rolling my own with Apache is not difficult (I've done it) but is not likely what Joe User is going to do. Opera Unite is drool proof - it even makes a domain service like DynDNS superfluous. Plus it's been running on Linux since forever ago, it seems.
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>I'd like to see a professional protractor.
It's steel and it goes in my toolbox.
There are those with vernier or electronic measurement so you can get resolution smaller than a degree. For measuring real-world things and for setting up machining and woodworking.
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>A DMCA takedown notice sent by someone who is not the copyriofght holder is a criminal offense. CRIMINAL
Yeah? So? We're going on the assumption that the OP is the copyright holder - he owns the copyright by virtue of writing the code in the first place.
Registering the copyright is a more formal process but not having registered does not mean that copyright was not granted. In the US, copyright is granted merely upon putting pen to paper (or hands to keyboard). The benefit of registering (you can do this later) is when the issue of damages comes up. There are fewer damages awarded before registration date, and more after.
Which is why I said he should register the copyright.
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BMO
File a formal Copyright registration with the Library of Congress
Do that first.
Then file a DMCA takedown.
Then sue.
Use the resources of the EFF to back up your case. Even if they won't take it on, at least they can point you in the right direction.
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> Using a specification
> "stealing"
No. Just no. You may as well claim the same thing about Windows, because Windows idiots hop up and down about how POSIX compliant Windows is.
>It's also no secret linus learned OS design a large part from hands on operation with minix
You have no idea what Tanenbaum had to say about this, do you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate
>Implying that a file system specification has any bearing on how a kernel is designed.
Don't know if you're trolling or just stupid. I suspect both.
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>Linux stole from minix and unix
Boy oh boy, this story is bringing out the softies tonight.
Do you get paid to do this clown act or do you just do it to attract the children?
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>so it's not surprising to see them using an operating system that is built from stolen Microsoft technology.
Funny how the NYSE and the LSE both tried Microsoft solutions and moved off of it.
Microsoft is an example of how not to do something. Darl McBride, Microsoft's attack chihuahua, called this "negative know-how" and thought that since Linux devs learned how not to do something, somehow SCO was owed money.
Softies: confirmed for total retards.
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BMO
Whenever this is brought up, people like you hop up and down and behave as if removing patents from software would leave software completely unprotected. Software got along fine for decades without patents. It even got along fine without copyright protection until the 80s.
Now it's the only thing on the planet that is protected by patent and copyright. This is unique and contradictory.
You patent mechanisms. You copyright art and literary works.
Pick one, and one only, please.
Copyright seems to protect software much more than patents. Indeed, current practice is that software is written and published without patents in mind at all. Software designers are told to deliberately not look for existing patents because if one does, it is "proof you knew or should have known" of a patent and any damages from a lawsuit are tripled because it's now "willful infringement" instead of incidental.
It's a bet. It's a bet that litigation will hit "the other guy" before you, and it's a bet that a patent, if it's brought up in a lawsuit, is trivial and obvious and it's also a bet that if it's not trivial and obvious, that a patent swap can be made. It's the little guy that gets stomped on in the last bit because the little guy has one or two patents and not the amount needed for MAD when a big company comes knocking.
This means that patents do nothing but harm the little guy when it comes to software. If you are a little guy, your best bet with a patent is to sell it for chump change (a few tens of thousands of dollars) to Intellectual Ventures, because you sure as hell aren't going to be able to do anything with it yourself if the IVs of the world get their way. You got 5 million to fight a lawsuit? No? Tough shit, then.
--
BMO
A better introduction is This American Life episode 441.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
The best show on radio, ever.
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BMO
>Forbes
>Heartland institute
I thought according to the Tea Party and the Republicans that NASA was a waste of money and that whatever sats we launch are because it's part of the Government's evil plan to take away of all our rights... ... except when it's not.
I'm going to take the Heartland Institute, TeaTards, Right Wing Pundits of all stripes, together in the name of fairness with Greenpeace (because they haven't been relevant since France stopped nuke testing), and the "Living on Earth" staff from PRI (because they really make me cringe with their unscientific bunk, bad interviews, and fad hopping), tie them together to an old anchor, and push them off the Verrazano bridge. I'll make sure to do an Environmental Impact Statement, first, just to keep things on the up-and-up.
A pox on many houses.
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BMO
Seriously.
Create twitter and facebook accounts
Use these as "rss feed" of people/agencies you follow that post to them.
???????
Profit.
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BMO
Some people can't run wires through walls.
Grow up.
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Exactly who the fuck has 50GB in one source code tree?
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You don't seem to understand...
ISPs that are also cable companies (comcast, cox, twc, etc) will guarantee that streaming is "shit tier" third-class/steerage class video and the only way you can get actual HDTV (why else did you buy a flat panel tv?) is to buy into one of the cable "bundles." HDTV streaming will simply run into a cap by the end of the week and you'll be SOL for the rest of the month.
Because of this, the cable companies will retain their monopoly over HD content. This is by design. It is bullshit and anti-competitive. They are deliberately having you over a barrel as a customer.
This is why Netflix is fighting caps in the US and Canada.
--
BMO
>We have never come even close to hitting the Comcast limit of 250 GB / mo.
That's because what you're streaming isn't HDTV.
HDTV streaming will wipe that out by the 15'th of the month.
1080i HDTV (30 full frames/sec) is 25Mb/second, roughly.
BluRay (60 frames/second 1080p) is 40, roughly.
So let's just use 1080i for now and ignore BluRay.
25Mb/sec is roughly 2.5MB/sec. This is roughly 9GB/hr. 9 guzinta 250 27.7 times, or 27hours 40 minutes of video.
You can wipe that out in a week normal viewing. As it stands now, the only way you can watch streamed video and not hit your cap is if it's upscaled DVD quality.
--
BMO
Streaming is useless when ISPs keep adding more caps.
Many ISPs are also cable-television providers and they're doing their best to smother this baby while it's still in the crib.
--
BMO
>I think many people see horrible comments on websites or blogs, hear something like the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory", and just assume that's the problem,
They are wrong, and the Penny Arcade strip illustrating it, is wrong.
Witness the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory being violated every day as people act like fuckwads on Facebook under their real names.
You don't need anonymity for people to be assholes, and that's what's wrong with this study and all justification for removing anonymity based upon the assumption that anonymity is the problem. Go to youropenbook.org and type in "fuck" in the search.
And just scroll...scroll....scroll...
Proof, right there.
And let's not even mention the coarsening of "debate" in the public sphere.
--
BMO
I have never assumed that either. If you look hard enough, you can probably tie this alias to my meatspace address. I've had it that long.
But I do not wish to remove all barriers to that by being required to use my real name everywhere. My parents have an unlisted phone number, and mine is too by way of cellphone.
Locks keep honest people out and are not really a deterrent to actual hardened criminals. This does not mean I should remove my door from its hinges.
--
BMO
This is a carefully orchestrated war on anonymity. It started with facebook, now Google, and now we have a "paper" saying that "anonymity is killing the internet" and "making your hair curl."
Make no mistake about it. I'm waiting for my g+ account to be nuked.
--
BMO
>But it has to be on the news, because such hysteria has been whipped up about 'them morons in flyover.'
Anyone buying into ID/Creationism/Whatever the fuck they're calling it these days, is a bloody moron. Full stop.
It is not hysteria when these people try to insert their religious views into the science classroom. It should not even be up for debate.
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IN CASE YOU HAD NOT NOTICED, IT SHOULD NOT BE NEWS THAT TEXAS SAID THAT EVOLUTION WAS OKAY.
IT SHOULD NOT EVER BE NEWS.
YES, I AM SHOUTING. DEAL WITH IT.
--
BMO
Please try to keep posts on topic.
Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads.
Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about.
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>In a world where software patents exist, you will have patent trolls. In a world where the idea of "intellectual property" is taken seriously, you will have lawyers defending said property.
[Don La Fontaine voice]
In a world, where CEOs run their versions of the Mafia...In a world where Gordon Gecko is seen as a naive do-gooder...
In a world, where the true gangsters wear shiny suits and red power ties...there's... Malone.
"You wanna know how to get Intellectual Ventures? They pull a patent, you pull a lawyer. They send a brief to the court, you send one of them to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Nathan Myhrvold. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal? "
*dramatic music*
Sean Connery as Malone, coming to theaters this Christmas in "The Unpatentables"
--
BMO
Then you're just stupid.
Thank you for playing the Twit Olympics. Here's your pistol.
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BMO
>setup and hassle.
Have you ever set up Opera Unite?
It's about as easy as falling off a log. Really. I don't know how anyone can make it any easier. You turn it on, create a name for yourself, and point it at your music directory, and boom, you're done. It even penetrates firewalls like Skype. You don't even have to open ports or anything.
It is the best, by far, ad-hoc "server" software going.
You should try it.
Uploading gigabytes of music to a cloud server is orders of magnitude more difficult and time consuming simply because you have to decide what music you can do without (google doesn't give you unlimited free space).
--
BMO
One of the easiest things to do is fling music across the net. You can do it with Apache and DynDNS and roll your own or you can do something else.
Rolling my own with Apache is not difficult (I've done it) but is not likely what Joe User is going to do. Opera Unite is drool proof - it even makes a domain service like DynDNS superfluous. Plus it's been running on Linux since forever ago, it seems.
And my music stays put on my own machine at home.
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