I think it is important to point out that Yahoo! is not a search engine, it is a directory. People hand pick the websites at Yahoo! unlike google's web crawlers which are automated. So technically they aren't even in the same category. But the above article still applies. Just a little fact I thought I would throw in.
They tried doing this at the college I go to, Drexel University. For a final project we had to write a program that allowed for seamless transfer between wireless access points, before there were systems that did this. Drexel owns the rights to the project and, as is very common with this school, if the project is good, they sell it to other compaines. We use code that was under the GPL to prevent this exact thing from happeneing. Even though I had signed a contract with my school, allowing them to 'own' my work, they could not distribute it because of the GPL. The laywers figured this out, so I would assume that you are in the same boat. You can rest assured that it won't be taken and distributed.
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You are correct...I was mixing up Matt Groening series, for shame.
It was Hawking on an episode of the simpsons.
I think it is important to point out that Yahoo! is not a search engine, it is a directory. People hand pick the websites at Yahoo! unlike google's web crawlers which are automated. So technically they aren't even in the same category. But the above article still applies. Just a little fact I thought I would throw in.
The RFIDs in the passports are passive. They were to be active but that was canceled. I think you may be "misrepresenting articles."
Agreed. I'm glad somebody said this, because this is one of the worst written articals that I have ever seen.
They tried doing this at the college I go to, Drexel University. For a final project we had to write a program that allowed for seamless transfer between wireless access points, before there were systems that did this. Drexel owns the rights to the project and, as is very common with this school, if the project is good, they sell it to other compaines. We use code that was under the GPL to prevent this exact thing from happeneing. Even though I had signed a contract with my school, allowing them to 'own' my work, they could not distribute it because of the GPL. The laywers figured this out, so I would assume that you are in the same boat. You can rest assured that it won't be taken and distributed.