The original article refers to products employing security through obscurity as "commercial grade". He says that like it's a good thing, but I don't think he knows what it means. Running msWindows -- *that* is commercial grade.
Things like this should only be done when the relevant systems are already largely in agreement and having been static for some time.
Moving the patent system into WIPO hands at this point simply makes sure that only those participating in WIPO, generally behind closed doors, will get any say. WIPO participants in general are very pro IP, and thus have no interest in allowing for, just a for instance, the US's constitutional requirement that all IP laws promote progress. You can be sure that any such process will produce treaties that congress will then proceed to implement without considering section I.8.8.
Then we'll have to sue, yet again, to have those treaty-mandated laws nullified.
Thanks for spoiling it for the rest of us. Now intellectual pursuits such as searching for a cure for cancer will be outlawed.
If people aren't even free to piss away their own money, do you really think we'll be free for much longer to get high on thoughts? Let me guess, thinking leads to harder drugs?
It's a strategic thing. To encourage wide industry adoption, one might adopt lgpl or a bsd-like license. Case in point: ogg.
If on the other hand the library is fairly unique or say, the competitors cost an arm and the assignment of an unborn child, then gpl's a good strategic decision. Case in point -- say, what library are you asking about anyway?
Ask him what he's doing with an iPhone in the first place. Maybe offer him, as a contributor, a free copy for his iPhone. And encourage him to port it to Android and distribute it there, in that somewhat saner environment.
Unfortunately, in the Apple ecosystem, that's as close as even GPL gets to making sure everybody plays fair.
I must be more careful to make sure all of my sperm is fresh. Perhaps there's some way I could extract the old sperm for disposal. Hmm, this will require some thinking.
If you have difficulty remembering, repeat this phrase each night to help you fall asleep: "Hares are stupid. Gorgons are not." Trust me, you'll remember.
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The original article refers to products employing security through obscurity as "commercial grade". He says that like it's a good thing, but I don't think he knows what it means. Running msWindows -- *that* is commercial grade.
Having thought about it for a day, perhaps I should've said: thinks like a human, feels like a machine.
The best of both worlds! Human stupidity plus the compassion of a machine.
weight problem solved
If you mean the reference to Pascal's wager as an endorsement, please see the wikipedia entry under section Criticisms.
(In short, Pascal inadvertently rendered religion to its proper ridiculous essence.)
Worry not, there will be cheap knockoffs coming out of China soon enough.
Obviously, it refers to Jack Palance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Palance
I think they must be speaking to the motivation that patents on abstractions give us freedom-loving persons. So "fueled" with rage, I suppose?
After all, IBM would never dare oppose the Movement on this.
Things like this should only be done when the relevant systems are already largely in agreement and having been static for some time.
Moving the patent system into WIPO hands at this point simply makes sure that only those participating in WIPO, generally behind closed doors, will get any say. WIPO participants in general are very pro IP, and thus have no interest in allowing for, just a for instance, the US's constitutional requirement that all IP laws promote progress. You can be sure that any such process will produce treaties that congress will then proceed to implement without considering section I.8.8.
Then we'll have to sue, yet again, to have those treaty-mandated laws nullified.
Do tell. How would you quantify LIVES vs privacy vs money?
What about lesser crimes, like robbery?
What about rape and kidnapping?
Or better yet, victimless crimes like smoking a joint?
I don't know how it operates over there, but here in the US this is what's called a request for more money.
Who benefits from people being scared of unknowingly breaking the law by carrying paper money?
Anybody who wants to track a person's expenditure via credit card usage. Unfortunately, the list is too large to draw any conclusion.
Thanks for spoiling it for the rest of us. Now intellectual pursuits such as searching for a cure for cancer will be outlawed.
If people aren't even free to piss away their own money, do you really think we'll be free for much longer to get high on thoughts? Let me guess, thinking leads to harder drugs?
Sweet. Where do I buy an ARM netbook?
It's a strategic thing. To encourage wide industry adoption, one might adopt lgpl or a bsd-like license. Case in point: ogg.
If on the other hand the library is fairly unique or say, the competitors cost an arm and the assignment of an unborn child, then gpl's a good strategic decision. Case in point -- say, what library are you asking about anyway?
I personally default to lgpl for libraries.
Depends. Are we talking African or European clams?
Space clams.
Finally, we have a reason for the war on drugs. The lack of social relationships makes people easier to control because they don't gang up on The Man.
Ask him what he's doing with an iPhone in the first place. Maybe offer him, as a contributor, a free copy for his iPhone. And encourage him to port it to Android and distribute it there, in that somewhat saner environment.
Unfortunately, in the Apple ecosystem, that's as close as even GPL gets to making sure everybody plays fair.
+1 Dungeon Keeper.
Ouch!
I must be more careful to make sure all of my sperm is fresh. Perhaps there's some way I could extract the old sperm for disposal. Hmm, this will require some thinking.
Since when is 90% reliability even remotely acceptable?
There's still the question of what to do with the gathered CO2. Use it to feed plants that you grow in an airtight environment.
It's "hare" brained not "hair" brained.
If you have difficulty remembering, repeat this phrase each night to help you fall asleep: "Hares are stupid. Gorgons are not." Trust me, you'll remember.
But cowboying our way through is what got us where we are today!