I remember some years ago, a hacker group forged an e-mail that seemed to come from the minister who had proposed that very same law. It was ncrypted in RSA-512 or something that level, and then they reported the minister to the police, saying he was in touch with criminals (that word had not been replaced by "terrorists" yet). He evidently could NOT prouce the key, and the law was scrapped.
With politicians having no memory whatsoever, I think someone has to do the very same thing every time... Let's try the judge who ruled this.
Overheating processors under a couple of other names will still suck, though. (I'm looking at you, Athlon64. Yes, you. You who burnt an otherwise perfectly good laptop, just because you needed a driver to run UNDER your nominal freq most of the time. Guess what? Only Windows has them working, and after installing them. AFTER windows. Don't tell me ANYTHING about software underclockers on Linux, they Just Don't Work.)
Oh, yes, they'll have resolved that...
I wanted to post that, they'd better split into one CPU-making firm and a GPU-making one. Want to know why? Well, look at what Intel tries to call GPUs.
Story : Big Corp., Inc steals code from one thousand half-asses who can't wrap up their ton of malfunctioning utilities into an usable interface. This code is used to do something that's illegal in at least three ways and serve no other purpose whatsoever. The Big Corp is located in the US, so they can be sued under laws that OTHER Big Corps have BOUGHT so as to be able to sue anyone doing anything with their Precious Content. Then Big Corp 1 gets sued? So what, anyone with two connecting neurons looks to doom9 for their ripping needs.
(Then download the warez on BitTorrent, because all ripping freeware for Windows is unusable. Either it's overcomplicated or it Just Works NOT. But "123 rip" from "Mom'n'Pop Shareware" Just Does - like in, pop a DVD and a CDR, press "RIP" and you got a DivX. Even Mom'n'Pop didn't pay for their codecs, of course - it's all warez all the way, but information wants to be free, right? Right?)
Who wants to install software from Real anyway? I'm seriously wondering what they were thinking. "Oooh a company that we've heard of enough that suing them will make us BAGAZILLLIONNS!!11!"... and not sue Mom'n'Pop'Shareware who made "123 rip", of course. No, a real corp like Real Networks, publicly traded and all. Otherwise why sue them? They won't even pay your lawyers.
Just enter false information. NO site on the Web has anything remotely rigth on ME, save my IP address. And that's not much, since I'm only using open WiFi networks.
So what? You think the USPTO does read the applications? They're paid to accept them, then "let the court decide who has the best lawyer".
I just don't get how comes ANYone with half a connecting brain cell still opens software business in the US, where these apply. Just open in Europe and fuck the patents. "Yeah but I won't import in the US, wehre 80% of all tech is consumed" yeah right. Like they CAN monitor ALL teh intartubez. Well, yes, they can - but to enforce anything costs more than a DPI on a couple of cables.
Yeah, it will be so easy to track 192.168.1.xxx, right. Use a server to geolocate it like all those annyoing sigs in PHPBB "your ip is blah and you're using firefox on a hackintosh so I know where you live!!!11"
Of course you could argue that neither company is obliged to do anything. But alternatively you could argue that both companies have behaved in an explicitly anti-competitive way. This is itself is of course no surprise to anyone other than the US justice department.
Yeah, I wish I could have said "told you so", but it would have been mass-modded to "redundant" at that time.
Use postgres. Never heard of it? That's the first reason to choose it then.
MySQL has sucked big dirty monkey balls for YEARS before it was anything near remotely usable (how that"no subrequests"? - or whatever you call it in the RDBMS world - yeah they have those now, only took ages to implement) while Postgres was busy kicking Oracle's ass in every possible way.
MySQL has sucked for aeons from clueless devs, now they don't even have any dev left? Good riddance.
No it doesn't. I know, I tried. I edited a PDF in Adobe Reader, and now when I open it in Preview, the fonts (in form fields) are illegible. Complete gibberish : some characters are mirrored (i.e. read an 'e' in a mirror, some'e' chars appear just like that), others are replaced by international characters (a capital 'c' with an accent on it? In what language? I filled it in English btw)
So, yes, you can do without Reader, but not if you have to read PDF forms that have been filled using it.
Yeah, but the standard practice for the tests are a bureaucrat's wet dream and anybody else's nightmare.
Anyway... if India really wanted to help their poor, instead of trying to develop their own Big Pharma... They'd just say "We just don't recognize patent protection on drugs and we WILL produce them cheap and sell them for peanuts to our starving masses, so PLEASE go on disclosing how to make them in PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE patents, and FUCK your racketeering bottom line"
Now THAT would send a message. And Big Western Pharma would do what, wage war on a nation that has nukes? Yeah right.
Because you can't license the one object? Whereas you can make money suing into oblivion everyone who uses your business method (which is patentabl by law).
If that is right, then US patent law is recursively broken.
Usually, this happens in corporations and academia because they're the only ones that have been working in the field long enough to know the limits of current technology, but it can definitely happen with small time innovators as well if they read alot technical literature on a particular subject.
Not always. In my chocolate factory, we had patented an idea; it must have been good, because as soon as the patent expired, everyone and their dog (in the chocolate world) began doing Just That. It was small-time innovation at the time... now a few years back (but much later), we met a guy who was using the same idea in his products and he thanked us for the idea that had made him rich. Way richer than us, I can tell you...
But the idea was had without reading lots of technical stuff. All you need for having ideas is a working brain. There was even no machine for doing what we had invented at that time...
In fact, wouldn't the high-performance javascript of Chrome make more complex web-based games possible?
Not really. Seen many games in Java these days? It has 3D and sound, though... but its perf still suck too much. So I'm not betting on Chrome's JS interpreter having better perfs than Sun's Java VM.
I've played the same game, same settings, on both XP and via WINE, with higher FPS on the latter (though the other way around is more usual). Surely this should tell you something?...
I'd like to know which game, because as soon as I see "more FPS in WINE than XP" I automatically think "LIAR".
Now if you have an example, I'd be happy to believe it without further evidence, so I can rant later about the morons who can't even program games that run at least as well on WINE as on XP.
Yeah, but they won't. If they bought a company that inserts ads in games, it's to push their ads, not to make games, and that is so fucking obvious that the person who even thought Google would make games based on that must have their brains wired backwards.
I'm not sure that kind of legalese is supposed to make sense. It's supposed to give all rights on the most possible content to the company who commissioned the writing of the ToS, whether that's enforceable or no.
My attitude is "fuck that, I'll do what the hell I want with any content that interests me and I'm too poor to be sued out of billions."
I know the standard answers to that, yes. I'm irresponsible, stupid, yadda yadda, living in a dream world where companies won't try to force me out of billions I'll never ever have a snowflake's chance in Hell to own - look at it this way : If I ever write some music or draw some piece that $EVIL_CORP steals and make billions off of, well, I couldn't have dreamt of marketing it that well.
My point is, innovation is easy. I, for one, have ideas all the time. What about a matrix of, say, chocolate truffles made from various chocolate origins flavoured with various coffee origins? I found that one six months ago, can't wait to see someone implement it. (_We_ would do it better anyway, because we're only ever buying the best quality available in the world - that's our most basic design principle.)
Ideas are cheap. Better : they're free. And they want to be free. They're information. But if you want to make money, you have to implement them, which is an investment, and, most importantly, market them. How much money you make is directly proportional to how good your marketing is.
Now back on topic. If I ever produce digitizable content, that is, content that can be produced for an up-front cost and then be copied and distributed for a cost of zero, I still have to market it, no matter how good it is, or how much market penetration it can have (if I write, say, "psychedelic jazz/doom-metal for oboe and electric harp plus a violin", its penetration in the music market will be very near zero no matter how good it is). And if $EVIL_CORP steals my content, decides it will be the Next Big Thing and puts it up on heavy rotation on MTV, then they're marketing it much better than I can dream to ever do.
Now, who deserves the money? Me, or $EVIL_CORP? I'd say it's them, not me. It may be that without me there wouldn't be content, but without them, there would be no awareness of its existence. And THAT is why the companies in the RIAA don't pay their artists : they're very aware that THEY are making the MONEY. They know thhey are not making the content. And yes, no matter how much it hurts the artists' feelings, the "content of the content" does not matter - it really is work for hire. Morally ass-backwards? Yes. But that's how it works. I'm not saying that history justifies them, it's a totally different argument. I'm saying that the content itself -basically information- is worthless in dol
Thank you for the information. I've been using Gentoo during two years and liked it.
As of now, I'm not going to spend several days watching packages compile to make sure they do so cleanly and fix them when they don't, just to get the one patch that would make my WLAN card work.
Especially since Canonical HIRES people who are supposed to make sure that such features DO Just Work.
But my real gripe actually is with the OSX86 people (I'm looking at you, iwidarwin devs) who can't seem to fucking read the Linux driver and rewrite it so that the hardware card just interfaces with Airport. Srsly, Apple code is supposed to be so clean and neat and warm and fuzzy, and they haven't been able to do it for two fucking years?!?11 I can't code anything non-trivial, otherwise I'd have done Just That myself. I've read Linux driver code (for a scsi card that was only ever supported for one kernel version) and it's a fucking form where you fill in the blanks : "forward this command in such form to that memory address through hmmm path" and little to no in-driver logic. How much harder is it to code -under OSX- an interface between the AirPort lib/daemon/whatever and the hardware? Can't be that much.
If you're too dense to understand that "rootkit" is a subset of "malware", but not all "malware" is "rootkit", then, well, you are stupid. More than I am.
I could have just written OMG YFI!!TW1CE!!! GO ME BRAINZ0R FTW!!!!!LOLOLOL11 and THAT would have made me look really stupid.
I must be stupid to answer to this anyway... Trollfood as answer to flamebait, that's what intarwebz forums seem to be made for as of now
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Oh. Yeah. Right. Forgot how it works. *slaps self*
I haven't written C for a long, long time. But I would have formatted it in a way I would have parsed right.
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Viruses in debian? You're not living on the same planet as us.
Back on topic... (where I Will Be Read)
I remember some years ago, a hacker group forged an e-mail that seemed to come from the minister who had proposed that very same law. It was ncrypted in RSA-512 or something that level, and then they reported the minister to the police, saying he was in touch with criminals (that word had not been replaced by "terrorists" yet). He evidently could NOT prouce the key, and the law was scrapped.
With politicians having no memory whatsoever, I think someone has to do the very same thing every time... Let's try the judge who ruled this.
I/O that actually complies to POSIX?
Cygwin, yeah, just like Perl on windows.
Oh I LOVE that comparison.
Overheating processors under a couple of other names will still suck, though. (I'm looking at you, Athlon64. Yes, you. You who burnt an otherwise perfectly good laptop, just because you needed a driver to run UNDER your nominal freq most of the time. Guess what? Only Windows has them working, and after installing them. AFTER windows. Don't tell me ANYTHING about software underclockers on Linux, they Just Don't Work.)
Oh, yes, they'll have resolved that...
I wanted to post that, they'd better split into one CPU-making firm and a GPU-making one. Want to know why? Well, look at what Intel tries to call GPUs.
Story : Big Corp., Inc steals code from one thousand half-asses who can't wrap up their ton of malfunctioning utilities into an usable interface. This code is used to do something that's illegal in at least three ways and serve no other purpose whatsoever. The Big Corp is located in the US, so they can be sued under laws that OTHER Big Corps have BOUGHT so as to be able to sue anyone doing anything with their Precious Content.
Then Big Corp 1 gets sued? So what, anyone with two connecting neurons looks to doom9 for their ripping needs.
(Then download the warez on BitTorrent, because all ripping freeware for Windows is unusable. Either it's overcomplicated or it Just Works NOT. But "123 rip" from "Mom'n'Pop Shareware" Just Does - like in, pop a DVD and a CDR, press "RIP" and you got a DivX. Even Mom'n'Pop didn't pay for their codecs, of course - it's all warez all the way, but information wants to be free, right? Right?)
Who wants to install software from Real anyway? I'm seriously wondering what they were thinking. "Oooh a company that we've heard of enough that suing them will make us BAGAZILLLIONNS!!11!" ... and not sue Mom'n'Pop'Shareware who made "123 rip", of course. No, a real corp like Real Networks, publicly traded and all. Otherwise why sue them? They won't even pay your lawyers.
Blah blah blah.
Just enter false information.
NO site on the Web has anything remotely rigth on ME, save my IP address. And that's not much, since I'm only using open WiFi networks.
They only can know what you tell.
So what? You think the USPTO does read the applications? They're paid to accept them, then "let the court decide who has the best lawyer".
I just don't get how comes ANYone with half a connecting brain cell still opens software business in the US, where these apply. Just open in Europe and fuck the patents. "Yeah but I won't import in the US, wehre 80% of all tech is consumed" yeah right. Like they CAN monitor ALL teh intartubez. Well, yes, they can - but to enforce anything costs more than a DPI on a couple of cables.
Yeah, it will be so easy to track 192.168.1.xxx, right. Use a server to geolocate it like all those annyoing sigs in PHPBB "your ip is blah and you're using firefox on a hackintosh so I know where you live!!!11"
What's new?
Of course you could argue that neither company is obliged to do anything. But alternatively you could argue that both companies have behaved in an explicitly anti-competitive way. This is itself is of course no surprise to anyone other than the US justice department.
Yeah, I wish I could have said "told you so", but it would have been mass-modded to "redundant" at that time.
Use postgres. Never heard of it? That's the first reason to choose it then.
MySQL has sucked big dirty monkey balls for YEARS before it was anything near remotely usable (how that"no subrequests"? - or whatever you call it in the RDBMS world - yeah they have those now, only took ages to implement) while Postgres was busy kicking Oracle's ass in every possible way.
MySQL has sucked for aeons from clueless devs, now they don't even have any dev left? Good riddance.
Use postgres.
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No it doesn't. I know, I tried. I edited a PDF in Adobe Reader, and now when I open it in Preview, the fonts (in form fields) are illegible. Complete gibberish : some characters are mirrored (i.e. read an 'e' in a mirror, some'e' chars appear just like that), others are replaced by international characters (a capital 'c' with an accent on it? In what language? I filled it in English btw)
So, yes, you can do without Reader, but not if you have to read PDF forms that have been filled using it.
Yeah, right - just base your corp in Europe and ignore the patents. Fcking idiots.
About the effectiveness of cow dung for haemorrages and that of ground tiger dicks for aphrodisiacs? Yeah, you go develop an industry on that.
Oh wait...
Yeah, but the standard practice for the tests are a bureaucrat's wet dream and anybody else's nightmare.
Anyway... if India really wanted to help their poor, instead of trying to develop their own Big Pharma... They'd just say "We just don't recognize patent protection on drugs and we WILL produce them cheap and sell them for peanuts to our starving masses, so PLEASE go on disclosing how to make them in PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE patents, and FUCK your racketeering bottom line"
Now THAT would send a message. And Big Western Pharma would do what, wage war on a nation that has nukes? Yeah right.
Because you can't license the one object? Whereas you can make money suing into oblivion everyone who uses your business method (which is patentabl by law).
If that is right, then US patent law is recursively broken.
Usually, this happens in corporations and academia because they're the only ones that have been working in the field long enough to know the limits of current technology, but it can definitely happen with small time innovators as well if they read alot technical literature on a particular subject.
Not always. In my chocolate factory, we had patented an idea; it must have been good, because as soon as the patent expired, everyone and their dog (in the chocolate world) began doing Just That.
It was small-time innovation at the time... now a few years back (but much later), we met a guy who was using the same idea in his products and he thanked us for the idea that had made him rich. Way richer than us, I can tell you...
But the idea was had without reading lots of technical stuff. All you need for having ideas is a working brain. There was even no machine for doing what we had invented at that time...
In fact, wouldn't the high-performance javascript of Chrome make more complex web-based games possible?
Not really. Seen many games in Java these days? It has 3D and sound, though... but its perf still suck too much. So I'm not betting on Chrome's JS interpreter having better perfs than Sun's Java VM.
I've played the same game, same settings, on both XP and via WINE, with higher FPS on the latter (though the other way around is more usual). Surely this should tell you something?...
I'd like to know which game, because as soon as I see "more FPS in WINE than XP" I automatically think "LIAR".
Now if you have an example, I'd be happy to believe it without further evidence, so I can rant later about the morons who can't even program games that run at least as well on WINE as on XP.
Yeah, but they won't. If they bought a company that inserts ads in games, it's to push their ads, not to make games, and that is so fucking obvious that the person who even thought Google would make games based on that must have their brains wired backwards.
I'm not sure that kind of legalese is supposed to make sense. It's supposed to give all rights on the most possible content to the company who commissioned the writing of the ToS, whether that's enforceable or no.
My attitude is "fuck that, I'll do what the hell I want with any content that interests me and I'm too poor to be sued out of billions."
I know the standard answers to that, yes. I'm irresponsible, stupid, yadda yadda, living in a dream world where companies won't try to force me out of billions I'll never ever have a snowflake's chance in Hell to own - look at it this way : If I ever write some music or draw some piece that $EVIL_CORP steals and make billions off of, well, I couldn't have dreamt of marketing it that well.
Case in point : innovation in chocolates. I work in a small chocolate factory, we have five range of highly varied products, most of which are true innovations, as in "never been done before". And yesterday, browsing teh intartubez, I found an other, much more recent firm, that markets their products really, really well (that is, "much better than we even dream of"), based on ideas that are ALL in our production for at least several years, and much better done. (A champagne praline? How cliché. Try Marc de Champagne. A cognac praline? Come on, use Armagnac instead!). .be, and the other would entail launching our sixth range of products), but we just silently included in our normal ranges.
I suppose that, in the US, we could sue them into oblivion [if we could afford better lawyers than theirs], but we (me & my boss) just shrugged and admired the superior craftmanship of their pralines. (They're Japanese and thus can afford to produce very pretty designs that would have insanely prohibitive labour costs here in Belgium.)
And we kind of laughed to see that they were spinning their marketing around ideas we had thought of years prior (save two innovations of theirs, of which one would be insanely pricey to make here in
My point is, innovation is easy. I, for one, have ideas all the time. What about a matrix of, say, chocolate truffles made from various chocolate origins flavoured with various coffee origins? I found that one six months ago, can't wait to see someone implement it. (_We_ would do it better anyway, because we're only ever buying the best quality available in the world - that's our most basic design principle.)
Ideas are cheap. Better : they're free. And they want to be free. They're information.
But if you want to make money, you have to implement them, which is an investment, and, most importantly, market them.
How much money you make is directly proportional to how good your marketing is.
Now back on topic. If I ever produce digitizable content, that is, content that can be produced for an up-front cost and then be copied and distributed for a cost of zero, I still have to market it, no matter how good it is, or how much market penetration it can have (if I write, say, "psychedelic jazz/doom-metal for oboe and electric harp plus a violin", its penetration in the music market will be very near zero no matter how good it is). And if $EVIL_CORP steals my content, decides it will be the Next Big Thing and puts it up on heavy rotation on MTV, then they're marketing it much better than I can dream to ever do.
Now, who deserves the money? Me, or $EVIL_CORP? I'd say it's them, not me. It may be that without me there wouldn't be content, but without them, there would be no awareness of its existence. And THAT is why the companies in the RIAA don't pay their artists : they're very aware that THEY are making the MONEY. They know thhey are not making the content. And yes, no matter how much it hurts the artists' feelings, the "content of the content" does not matter - it really is work for hire. Morally ass-backwards? Yes. But that's how it works. I'm not saying that history justifies them, it's a totally different argument. I'm saying that the content itself -basically information- is worthless in dol
Yeah, but if you had to patch, say, DirectX (in CLI) and recompile it, so as to be able to play some given game, that game would Just Not Sell, right?
Thank you for the information. I've been using Gentoo during two years and liked it.
As of now, I'm not going to spend several days watching packages compile to make sure they do so cleanly and fix them when they don't, just to get the one patch that would make my WLAN card work.
Especially since Canonical HIRES people who are supposed to make sure that such features DO Just Work.
But my real gripe actually is with the OSX86 people (I'm looking at you, iwidarwin devs) who can't seem to fucking read the Linux driver and rewrite it so that the hardware card just interfaces with Airport. Srsly, Apple code is supposed to be so clean and neat and warm and fuzzy, and they haven't been able to do it for two fucking years?!?11
I can't code anything non-trivial, otherwise I'd have done Just That myself. I've read Linux driver code (for a scsi card that was only ever supported for one kernel version) and it's a fucking form where you fill in the blanks : "forward this command in such form to that memory address through hmmm path" and little to no in-driver logic. How much harder is it to code -under OSX- an interface between the AirPort lib/daemon/whatever and the hardware? Can't be that much.
If you're too dense to understand that "rootkit" is a subset of "malware", but not all "malware" is "rootkit", then, well, you are stupid. More than I am.
I could have just written OMG YFI!!TW1CE!!! GO ME BRAINZ0R FTW!!!!!LOLOLOL11 and THAT would have made me look really stupid.
I must be stupid to answer to this anyway... Trollfood as answer to flamebait, that's what intarwebz forums seem to be made for as of now
Oh. Yeah. Right. Forgot how it works. *slaps self*
I haven't written C for a long, long time. But I would have formatted it in a way I would have parsed right.