Every time they issue a patent that's later invalidated, they should pay compensation for issuing the patent.
Oh, no. I've got a better idea. Every patent that gets invalidated should result in not only the USPTO paying a fine, but the company that was issued the patent should have to pay a massive fine as well for wasting everybody's time.
How quickly do you think patent trolls will suddenly start disappearing if this occured?
To bad no windows port is available. It would be nice to see my unix drives from windows.
Ext2/3 and ReiserFS have all been ported to Windows, so I don't see there would be any problem porting the Linux ZFS implementation as an IFS driver for Windows Vista/XP/2000
TiVo is not a GPL-based entity. Just because they use Linux as the base OS of their otherwise closed-source, proprietary, DRM-encumbered, locked-down product, it doesn't mean that they have a business model based on GPL. The next thing you'll say is that Microsoft is a GPL-based entity because they provide GPL code in Services for Unix.
So what you're saying is that people with a vested interest in making money on other people's code are demanding that code move to a more 'permissive' license like BSD instead of GPLV3? Because I've seen more projects move in the opposite direction -- moving away from BSD-like and into GPLV2 rather than the other way around. But, for the most part, projects that have BSD-like licenses and those with GPL-like licenses tend to either stay with the same license or move to a dual-license scenario. OTOH, I see more new projects going with GPL-like licenses over BSD-like licenses.
Whatever. I don't see GPLV3 causing any major shift in the open source/free software community
Propulsion systems will likely be driven by some sort of nuclear energy. The theory of operation of these systems will probably revolve around some set of quantum effects, maybe even superposition. These will be early systems based on this technology and, as such, may be prone to various difficulties imposed by the limits of an unrefined technology. They will be capable of traveling at unprecedented speeds using amazingly small amounts of fuel.
While there will definitely be privately-funded space travel, systems based on these new technologies will be very costly, and thus will only be in use by government space agencies around the world. The key to developing these new technologies will be international colloboration, most likely between Japan, Europe, the United States, Canada and possibly India and China.
Doesn't Congress have other things they should be worrying about like the wars they allowed, Katrina,and the public infrastructure instead of worrying about business profits?
Worrying about wars, Katrina or public infrastructure doesn't do nearly as much for the campaign war chest as worrying about business profits. I've said it once and I'll say it again (and again, and again...): if you want to know why things are the way they are in this country, follow the money.
Aren't civil courts the ones set up to deal with things like this?
Except that businesses don't like the civil courts. Civil courts cost them money. They are merely necessary evils. Criminal courts, OTOH, from the corporate perspective, are free. So why make laws like the DMCA, which, among other things, criminalizes some forms of copyright violation, within limits? Yup. Follow the money.
Look, the bottom line here is that, however reliable the Standard Model is, there are other possible explanations for mass than the Higgs boson. Otherwise, why would these scientists even be wasting their time looking for it?
Einstein once criticized quantum physicists for building unproven theories on top of other unproven theories, and I believe the Standard Model was one of them. Yes, it has since withstood the rigors of many other experiments and observations. But direct observation of the Higgs boson, which has been indirectly observed, would be a great symbolic and psychologically significant victory for particle physics.
So, yes, I agree in principle, but in spirit, direct observation of the Higgs boson would be quite significant.
The problem with most GUTs is that they make assumptions that certain things, like the Standard Model of particle physics, are true. The problem is that the Standard Model is unproven, as the Higgs boson has never directly been observed.. If the Higgs boson can be observed, it goes a long way towards proving the Standard Model, which in turn, helps to support various GUTs that depend on the Standard Model.
They are undoubtedly talking about the still-only-theoretical Higgs boson, that's supposed to explain the difference between massless particles like the photon and other particles that have mass. Basically, if the Higgs boson is found, it goes along way to proving various Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) of cosmological physics.
Precisely. It's all logical fallacy: appeal to sympathy, appeal to authority, complex cause, begging the question, etc. The whole terrorist thing is hasty generalization.
The IFPI is essentially just trying to mindfuck people into believing that nothing needs to change in the music industry and everything needs to change with P2P file sharing. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle -- the music industry needs to learn a better model for making money and P2P file sharing networks need to develop methods of revenue generation that repays artists and producers, while at the same time allowing relatively free exchange of music for casual sharers.
If someone can come up with that solution, they will not only make everyone happy, but they will likely make themselves rich in the process.
But it seems to me that 'transporting' data, whether or not using quantum entanglement, isn't quite the same thing as transporting matter and really brings us no close the 'transporter' technology as seen on Star Trek.
We can already transport data through space without using quantum entanglement at all -- it's called radio.
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Oh, no. I've got a better idea. Every patent that gets invalidated should result in not only the USPTO paying a fine, but the company that was issued the patent should have to pay a massive fine as well for wasting everybody's time.
How quickly do you think patent trolls will suddenly start disappearing if this occured?
Knowing their track record? A zipper would get stuck.
"Houston, we have a problem!"
Oops. Here, let me fix that for you:
There. That's better.
I just patented DNA replication. That's right. J. Craig Vetner, along with everyone else here, must pay up now, be sued, or die.
Thank you! At least there's someone with some damn sense around here.
Don't you people get it? Microsoft is trying to destroy Linux as a viable platform for corporate use.
Hello? Linus? You need to sue Microsoft for slander of title.
Hi! I think you're on the wrong site. I believe you are looking for digg.
Aren't there still licensing issues to iron out?
Ext2/3 and ReiserFS have all been ported to Windows, so I don't see there would be any problem porting the Linux ZFS implementation as an IFS driver for Windows Vista/XP/2000
Okay, then so is Microsoft.
TiVo is not a GPL-based entity. Just because they use Linux as the base OS of their otherwise closed-source, proprietary, DRM-encumbered, locked-down product, it doesn't mean that they have a business model based on GPL. The next thing you'll say is that Microsoft is a GPL-based entity because they provide GPL code in Services for Unix.
So what you're saying is that people with a vested interest in making money on other people's code are demanding that code move to a more 'permissive' license like BSD instead of GPLV3? Because I've seen more projects move in the opposite direction -- moving away from BSD-like and into GPLV2 rather than the other way around. But, for the most part, projects that have BSD-like licenses and those with GPL-like licenses tend to either stay with the same license or move to a dual-license scenario. OTOH, I see more new projects going with GPL-like licenses over BSD-like licenses.
Whatever. I don't see GPLV3 causing any major shift in the open source/free software community
Hey! I'm offended by that, you insensitive clod!
I'll take a stab.
Propulsion systems will likely be driven by some sort of nuclear energy. The theory of operation of these systems will probably revolve around some set of quantum effects, maybe even superposition. These will be early systems based on this technology and, as such, may be prone to various difficulties imposed by the limits of an unrefined technology. They will be capable of traveling at unprecedented speeds using amazingly small amounts of fuel.
While there will definitely be privately-funded space travel, systems based on these new technologies will be very costly, and thus will only be in use by government space agencies around the world. The key to developing these new technologies will be international colloboration, most likely between Japan, Europe, the United States, Canada and possibly India and China.
How's that?
Gosh, I hadn't realized Doritos were so popular worldwide!
So that's why you haven't upgraded your MySQL in years... ;)
I'm gonna F***ing KILL Chairbot!!!!
Hmmm. Well, it probably still beats the hell out of Windows for Warships
Worrying about wars, Katrina or public infrastructure doesn't do nearly as much for the campaign war chest as worrying about business profits. I've said it once and I'll say it again (and again, and again...): if you want to know why things are the way they are in this country, follow the money.
Except that businesses don't like the civil courts. Civil courts cost them money. They are merely necessary evils. Criminal courts, OTOH, from the corporate perspective, are free. So why make laws like the DMCA, which, among other things, criminalizes some forms of copyright violation, within limits? Yup. Follow the money.
Assemblers! Pffft! Kids these days. In my day, we toggled our Web pages in from the front panel!
Text files?! Pfft! That would imply a file system. REAL databases are stored on paper tape!
Kids! *sigh* Now get off my lawn, you brats!
Look, the bottom line here is that, however reliable the Standard Model is, there are other possible explanations for mass than the Higgs boson. Otherwise, why would these scientists even be wasting their time looking for it?
*looks horrified* But then whatever will happen to Slashdot?
Einstein once criticized quantum physicists for building unproven theories on top of other unproven theories, and I believe the Standard Model was one of them. Yes, it has since withstood the rigors of many other experiments and observations. But direct observation of the Higgs boson, which has been indirectly observed, would be a great symbolic and psychologically significant victory for particle physics.
So, yes, I agree in principle, but in spirit, direct observation of the Higgs boson would be quite significant.
The problem with most GUTs is that they make assumptions that certain things, like the Standard Model of particle physics, are true. The problem is that the Standard Model is unproven, as the Higgs boson has never directly been observed.. If the Higgs boson can be observed, it goes a long way towards proving the Standard Model, which in turn, helps to support various GUTs that depend on the Standard Model.
They are undoubtedly talking about the still-only-theoretical Higgs boson, that's supposed to explain the difference between massless particles like the photon and other particles that have mass. Basically, if the Higgs boson is found, it goes along way to proving various Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) of cosmological physics.
Precisely. It's all logical fallacy: appeal to sympathy, appeal to authority, complex cause, begging the question, etc. The whole terrorist thing is hasty generalization.
The IFPI is essentially just trying to mindfuck people into believing that nothing needs to change in the music industry and everything needs to change with P2P file sharing. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle -- the music industry needs to learn a better model for making money and P2P file sharing networks need to develop methods of revenue generation that repays artists and producers, while at the same time allowing relatively free exchange of music for casual sharers.
If someone can come up with that solution, they will not only make everyone happy, but they will likely make themselves rich in the process.
But it seems to me that 'transporting' data, whether or not using quantum entanglement, isn't quite the same thing as transporting matter and really brings us no close the 'transporter' technology as seen on Star Trek.
We can already transport data through space without using quantum entanglement at all -- it's called radio.