I would love to help myself
As a longtime java developer, and advocate of the open source java, I think it's time to put my time where my mouth is. Albeit a few questions:
* Where is the effort being organised
* Is there a list of the methods that need to be reimplemented?
* Have I been tainted -- I've seen java code before, If I reimplement something and it might look like the previous code, how do I guard against this?
* Can we make java better? It seems to me that java.sun.com is the place to start looking for these answers, and not slashdot;)
Filed in 2002, patent granted in 2003. Hardly a recent occurrence.
Too, as soon as someone takes the expense to fight it, it won't stand up. Everything in here has existed for decades.
Seriously, are these questions the best he could come up with? ("Are you aware that your site is not very well indexed?... " "Yes") Instead of hearing hte reporters opinions about how the big corps should take notice of this work, I would be much more interested in hearing how and when he got into programming, does he apply any of this in his work as a radiologist, and so on...
Well, my antivirus went off either at that page, or when I clicked to investigate I've gotta say... if you didn't click to investigate it, you would very likely not need antivirus.
This (I know it's a bit late) is the last straw. RIAA will never get another dime from me.
I don't know why, but this makes me more sick than anything else i've heard the riaa do. Just choose your next path carefully. If you turn to illegitimate downloads of copyrighted material as some kind of 'statement', you're just providing more artillery for their war -- and in their minds, justifying such attempts as these.
Why in the hells would any idiot trust Jet for critical data? I have seen it fail m iserably when just 4 people access it concurrently. And these fools use it to handle VOTES? No wonder they don't want their source code audited.
Besides the music I listen to has been out of print for decades.I have them on vinyl LP records with a real good turntable.I don't buy Commercially made music CDs at all.never have,never will.I have purchased DRM-free indie music on occasion,making sure that the artist/group/label is not a member of the RIAA. Then contrary to common myths, you have nothing to worry about... while the RIAA practices are questionable, it's rare for them to indict someone who hasn't shared out files. And if you don't have anything from RIAA labels, they wouldn't care if you did.
Seriously man, paranoia is has its place... but it's no way to live.
Books for a language? Why?
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I used to buy these books -- Ruby, PHP, Java, etc. But I realized a startling thing -- I never used them after I read the first couple of chapters. Because those first couple of chapters inevitably showed me that it was just another programming language. It was either OO or proedural, but outside of that no significant differences.
So why waste 40-60USD on a book that provides information that is freely available on the Internet? Is it really something that looking at free documentation and examples won't teach a reasonably intelligent programmer?
It was the first thing that came to mind, but not wholly inaccurate. If a person has something in limited quantity (whether it be money, mod points, or eggs), that person will be more judicious in how that limited resource is used. It's the scarcity (in the economic sense) that makes it valuable; and the lack of scarcity that makes it essentially worthless.
While meta-moderating helps, and provides a good feedback system (esp as allocation of future 'resources' is based on good meta-mod results), the basic system of scarce resources needs to be in place for it to be effective. It does no good to be meta-modded as a bad mod, when it has no affect on how much you can mod.
(Hmm, that got a bit repetitive... hopefully it makes sense anyway...)
1.A loaded S&W.357 for use on the RIAA trolls trying to gain access to my house.(Under Ky Law I may defend my personal property using deadly force if I deem it necessary) KY state law doesn't allow you to shoot a deputy sheriff for serving a search warrant. And that's what this would be.
2.A good self destruct device (easy to built and arm) for the hard drive(renders it absolutely useless to any forensic expert,since it physically destroys the platters.) of course, now you've tampered with evidence (the small sound of an explosion may give it away), which is an actual crime as opposed to the copyright infringement which is not.
More importantly, they apparently had no or a very bad backout plan.
It's quite likely the development group listed this as a risk, with a good backout plan, and upper management simply didn't want to pay for the cost of having a quick backout.
If that's the case, you can be pretty sure upper management WON'T take the blame. I don't know what shops you've worked in, but the devs in most places I've worked never have a backout plan unless management forces them to -- the prevailing attitude is that the software is tested, so what could possibly go wrong?
Fair enough; though it does seem that digg has changed its goals in recognition of that fact. So I can agree that it was a failure in terms of its original intent; but in terms of its current intent not so much so.
For the record: I don't disagree that digg sucks -- when you give away free money (mod points) it rapidly becomes worthless.
Thanks for the info -- but the MPEP deals with current procedures. I was looking for information about the proposed legislation that would explain where GP got his info from -- specifically, that public domain material could not be patented. From everything that I've read, it seems that the opposite is true.
RighT! Because that's an easy thing for the 90% of users who use their pet or spouse or birthday for their password. (Yes, I did pull 90% out of my ass, but it's probably true in spite of that.)
oh, sod it, just read this[link to article titled Why Digg Failed Ummm... define "failed". I can't stand the place, but all the same I can't rightly call it a failure...
Could you post a link to where this additional info comes from? All I see in the article is the new system would be first-to-file; and that the US is the only country with a first-to-invent system. With the information given, yes anybody who wants to can file a patent on any idea that is not already patented -- including OS/PD software.
This is contrary to what you are saying the new legislation will do: that is, anything in the public domain is not patentable. I'm not disagreeing with you, I would just like to know what your source for this is, since it is clearly not the article itself.
Although it wasn't efficient, I hacked together a way to call "stored procedures" in MySQL and PHP.
Essentially I had a function callSP. You passed in the name of the SP's and whatever parameters you needed (as a string). Then I'd use PHP to build the necessary query and return $result. It worked for whatever I was doing... although it wasn't a "true SP". Umm... that's not a SP at all, never mind being a 'true SP' or not. You basically made a PHP function; the whole purpose of SP is that the database server does the work, not the calling application.
Huh. I've had very good luck recently with Ubuntu. The built in wifi in my laptop worked out of the box with Ubuntu, and two other cards I own worked as wel Mine worked out of the box, but only if I wanted to use the easily-broken-by-any-script-kiddie WEP. When I wanted to configure with the more secure WPA-PSK, it was a lot of headache.
From TFA:
"I think what they're worrying about is what if it's 2 o'clock in the morning, you're headed to a call but it's not an emergency call," Cpl. Bristo said. "If I roll right through that light, I might save myself a minute or two. With some calls, that minute or two can make a lot of difference." If that intersection is safe at 2o'clock in the morning, then it should be blinking yellow. Perhaps look in to having that problem corrected, instead of breaking the law.
I was going to express my opinion on this topic, but then I realized that I am logged into my account. The last thing I want is for an officer to be reading this and then to pull me over for something small and then have it escalate. Seriously, who is crazy enough to post a real opinion on a public forum without being anonymous. Wow. Jackass. oops! I wasn't anonymous! I hope you're not a cop or person of political clout, or a coworker!
On the other hand, I really detest red light cameras. They basically operate on the "guilty until proven innocent" principle, sometimes they get you on yellow. Has this happened to you or anyone you know? When I received a camera ticket, it clearly showed several frames of me approaching the intersection, the light being red before I reached the actual intersection, and the light being red while I was in the intersection.
If it actually caught you on a yellow, you could easily dispute it.
The fact is the traffic lights are there for a reason -- whether you agree or not (and I often don't), if you run a red light you are breaking the law. Why should it matter that a person witness it rather than a camera? Is obedience of traffic laws some kind game, that it must be done "fairly"?
I have run my fair share of red lights (ex: 3am and nobody coming for a mile), and I regularly drive over the speed limit. However, I am fully aware that I/am/ breaking the law, and will not complain if I get caught doing so. Sure, it generates revenue for the city -- but I can easily avoid contributing to that by obeying the laws.
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As a longtime java developer, and advocate of the open source java, I think it's time to put my time where my mouth is. Albeit a few questions:
* Where is the effort being organised
* Is there a list of the methods that need to be reimplemented?
* Have I been tainted -- I've seen java code before, If I reimplement something and it might look like the previous code, how do I guard against this?
* Can we make java better? It seems to me that java.sun.com is the place to start looking for these answers, and not slashdot
Filed in 2002, patent granted in 2003. Hardly a recent occurrence. Too, as soon as someone takes the expense to fight it, it won't stand up. Everything in here has existed for decades.
Seriously, are these questions the best he could come up with? ("Are you aware that your site is not very well indexed?... " "Yes") Instead of hearing hte reporters opinions about how the big corps should take notice of this work, I would be much more interested in hearing how and when he got into programming, does he apply any of this in his work as a radiologist, and so on...
I don't know why, but this makes me more sick than anything else i've heard the riaa do. Just choose your next path carefully. If you turn to illegitimate downloads of copyrighted material as some kind of 'statement', you're just providing more artillery for their war -- and in their minds, justifying such attempts as these.
Why in the hells would any idiot trust Jet for critical data? I have seen it fail m iserably when just 4 people access it concurrently. And these fools use it to handle VOTES? No wonder they don't want their source code audited.
Seriously man, paranoia is has its place... but it's no way to live.
So why waste 40-60USD on a book that provides information that is freely available on the Internet? Is it really something that looking at free documentation and examples won't teach a reasonably intelligent programmer?
While meta-moderating helps, and provides a good feedback system (esp as allocation of future 'resources' is based on good meta-mod results), the basic system of scarce resources needs to be in place for it to be effective. It does no good to be meta-modded as a bad mod, when it has no affect on how much you can mod.
(Hmm, that got a bit repetitive... hopefully it makes sense anyway...)
It's quite likely the development group listed this as a risk, with a good backout plan, and upper management simply didn't want to pay for the cost of having a quick backout.
If that's the case, you can be pretty sure upper management WON'T take the blame. I don't know what shops you've worked in, but the devs in most places I've worked never have a backout plan unless management forces them to -- the prevailing attitude is that the software is tested, so what could possibly go wrong?
Fair enough; though it does seem that digg has changed its goals in recognition of that fact. So I can agree that it was a failure in terms of its original intent; but in terms of its current intent not so much so. For the record: I don't disagree that digg sucks -- when you give away free money (mod points) it rapidly becomes worthless.
Thanks for the info -- but the MPEP deals with current procedures. I was looking for information about the proposed legislation that would explain where GP got his info from -- specifically, that public domain material could not be patented. From everything that I've read, it seems that the opposite is true.
RighT! Because that's an easy thing for the 90% of users who use their pet or spouse or birthday for their password. (Yes, I did pull 90% out of my ass, but it's probably true in spite of that.)
Dude, you named your computer persephone? ::points and laughs in a childish manner::
This is contrary to what you are saying the new legislation will do: that is, anything in the public domain is not patentable. I'm not disagreeing with you, I would just like to know what your source for this is, since it is clearly not the article itself.
What I don't understand, then, is why one would do this? What good is the interface, without the actual functionality ?
If it actually caught you on a yellow, you could easily dispute it.
The fact is the traffic lights are there for a reason -- whether you agree or not (and I often don't), if you run a red light you are breaking the law. Why should it matter that a person witness it rather than a camera? Is obedience of traffic laws some kind game, that it must be done "fairly"?
I have run my fair share of red lights (ex: 3am and nobody coming for a mile), and I regularly drive over the speed limit. However, I am fully aware that I /am/ breaking the law, and will not complain if I get caught doing so. Sure, it generates revenue for the city -- but I can easily avoid contributing to that by obeying the laws.
LK Sounds great, unless one of those tens of thousands saved every year is someone you care about.