"In all these cases contributors to the projects defer to a project figurehead who makes the final decisions as to what goes into the official version of the project, and where that project goes."
right, but Linus didn't say "i won't merge a patch that fixes this." that's what people are referring to, not the fact that they don't understand the dictator comment
We don't try to make it difficult, because we know we can't. Police do *nothing* to try to stop a man from stabbing his wife in anger in the kitchen. There's nothing to be done.
well, i would consider the fact that they are required by law to arrest the husband when they're called out on a domestic violence call "doing something to try to stop a man from stabbing his wife in anger." this isn't minority report, we can't detect that people are going to go off and do things, but if they learn that someone is hiring a hitman they intervene. that's what we expect out of our terrorist intervention :
1. try to learn what they're planning
2. if you learn about a plan, try to stop it
it's not a lot, but there's not much more that you can do and it's definitely not "doing nothing"
hiring OSS developers is harmful in the short run, but helpful in the long run in that it makes OSS development more attractive to others who might use it to get a job or get a better job. it essentially adds another reward for all that time spent, and that's motivational
You can't "protect us from terrorists." It isn't possible. Ever.
only if you define that phrase to mean "absolute prevention". you can certainly offer protection by making terrorism more difficult, and by uncovering plans at future attempts
Terrorism is like murder. It's so easy, there's no point trying to catch murderers and terrorists before their first offense. All you can do is try to reduce the factors that motivate the crime and punish the perpetrators after, should they survive.
no, what you should be saying is "terrorism is like murder, you can do your best to make it difficult and stop some people that would commit it, but you can't stop them all." not trying to catch murderers and terrorists before their first offense is insanity, because even if it were known that you only got one chance at terrorism there would still be plenty of people that would queue up for their turn (suicide bombers only ever get one chance, we still have plenty of those right?). prevention and protection are valuable even if they're not 100%
the alternative is that they'd just issue a weekly announcement that a buffer overflow was found, and then within hours they'd be proven correct. disclosures don't come faster than that
well, that may be the case, but haven't we seen lots of stories trotting through here claiming that the DCMA covers just about anything that has at least a minimal amount of encryption? if you're the content owner then you probably feel better off with more coverage, and laws like the DCMA provide another alternative to just copyright laws (that have inconvenient personal use clauses)
actually $12,000 a year is almost exactly $6 an hour (easy shorthand is to take your salary and divide by 2000 due to ~50 weeks of 40 hours). most graduate students can testify that it's possible to live on this, but it's not glamorous and you're not going to be building any sort of savings for future retirement or future misfortune.
you'd think that some of the fastfood chains would pick up on this. there's almost as many fastfood joints as there are people in most cities, and they've got to be forcefeeding people to make any profit, but this sounds like a lot of dollars going unserviced.
"Agents of actors NEVER let them do anything for free, because it reduces their value in the next film's negotiations."
actually i think the Screen Actors Guild prevents them from getting paid nothing. actors get paid 50 bucks or so for even a Leno appearance. i'm not saying that they make the same amount for a DVD interview, but if they do than that amount of money is so little that you could consider it free if it is divided over the volume of sales.
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"In all these cases contributors to the projects defer to a project figurehead who makes the final decisions as to what goes into the official version of the project, and where that project goes."
right, but Linus didn't say "i won't merge a patch that fixes this." that's what people are referring to, not the fact that they don't understand the dictator comment
no one is saying that your sister doesn't do it, they're just saying that shouldn't be the first thing that pops into your head
The bird's are not actively sitting down and "optimizing a complex multiplanar lifting system".
who knows what's going on behind those beady, little eyes
that part of the event is apparently called the Eatathon, it's followed closely by the Stand-In-Line -for-the-Restroomathon
i'm more concerned about these $6.25 tickets, was this article written in 1980?
hiring OSS developers is harmful in the short run, but helpful in the long run in that it makes OSS development more attractive to others who might use it to get a job or get a better job. it essentially adds another reward for all that time spent, and that's motivational
they've heard of it, they've just never been there
Picard pays full price, Kirk names his own price and saves!
the alternative is that they'd just issue a weekly announcement that a buffer overflow was found, and then within hours they'd be proven correct. disclosures don't come faster than that
hopefully he was doing research into the dangers of not backing up a computer, or at least he can change to that topic after the fact
to some people "does it say it in the bible?" is a valid test of truth
well, that may be the case, but haven't we seen lots of stories trotting through here claiming that the DCMA covers just about anything that has at least a minimal amount of encryption? if you're the content owner then you probably feel better off with more coverage, and laws like the DCMA provide another alternative to just copyright laws (that have inconvenient personal use clauses)
because if they don't take any measures to protect it, than they have no legs to stand on if they try to sue people that steal their content
not that i use it very much myself either, but they've built entire buildings that house books that you can borrow for free
actually $12,000 a year is almost exactly $6 an hour (easy shorthand is to take your salary and divide by 2000 due to ~50 weeks of 40 hours). most graduate students can testify that it's possible to live on this, but it's not glamorous and you're not going to be building any sort of savings for future retirement or future misfortune.
not a particularly sparkling one. as a matter of fact, i wouldn't be shocked if the Tiger animals sued them over defamation
fine then, you can have my bittorrent client when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
you'd think that some of the fastfood chains would pick up on this. there's almost as many fastfood joints as there are people in most cities, and they've got to be forcefeeding people to make any profit, but this sounds like a lot of dollars going unserviced.
thankfully TFA has one, and it doesn't look like iChat
The question I got is when it is found to be invalid does Forgent have to pay the extortion money back to those pigeons?
that would depend on the terms of the settlement, and i doubt they have that sort of a clause
i would think that anyone sued by MS after buying this patent could just say to the judge "but MS themselves said that this was unenforceable"
"Agents of actors NEVER let them do anything for free, because it reduces their value in the next film's negotiations." actually i think the Screen Actors Guild prevents them from getting paid nothing. actors get paid 50 bucks or so for even a Leno appearance. i'm not saying that they make the same amount for a DVD interview, but if they do than that amount of money is so little that you could consider it free if it is divided over the volume of sales.
more people would know what it's describing :)