If McDonalds coffee was really dangerous, they'd have been sued in every country around the World. Were they? Didn't think so.
And if "Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds" how ever did other customers drink this coffee without burning their mouths and throats and requiring skin grafts?
Once upon a time there were two little companies, AlphaCo and BetaCo, both producing bad products.
AlphaCo spent its money on marketing, sold millions of its bad products, and grew into a big company.
BetaCo spent its money on engineering and restructuring, eventually producing better products at a higher profit margin, but few people even knew it existed.
Eventually Big AlphaCo bought little BetaCo and lived happily ever after.
The moral is, big companies do things better, just not the things you're interested in.
The report makes no sense until you realise it means the Linux guys had to write their own manuals. Obviously the Yankee Group denied them personal Internet access so the survey would be fair.
20 percent less annual uptime (about 70 days) is damn good, if you must document an operating system *and* get the servers back online. Windows lusers would take 10 times as long.
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Re: In order to protect democratic discourse in the future, the Internet must remain a fair and level playing field for the distribution of political speech. The full capability of the Internet must remain available to all, without restriction by religious, business, or political interests.
Be careful what you wish for... You can't allow all political messages without also allowing spam and offensive content.
Politics and spam already get confused. For example I was recently involved with a news mailing about economic policy, and this triggered spam filters. Why? Because there's a heck of a lot of spam advertising cheap loans, comparing rates, and my email compared interest rates too. But you couldn't unblock my democratic mailing without also unblocking some of that spam.
Re: the only way for there to be peace is for the "alpha wolf" to be (or appear to be) so much stronger that no one dares challenge him.
A show of strength doesn't bring peace against tiny attackers. "The mosquitos feasted on us and the wolves as well. The wolves were constantly tormented by the hordes of insects." - The Making of The Snow Wolves
"It's good to see it discussed, so a proper balance can be found before we start seeing widespread litigation over this issue, which otherwise I am sure we will." - Groklaw
Re: You do realize, that Mexico has a fence, with armed guards, at their southern border. And they shoot trespassers on sight. Funny how that fact never makes it into the US media.
There are plenty of stories about that border. Just not on Fox News, apparantly. Don't confuse one with the other.
The GNU General Public License grants recipients of a product various rights, but (as in this case) they don't give any considerations in return.
Also (as in this case) nobody "screens the registrants before granting access".
If it's legal to access the Stop Corporate Extortion Website while apparantly breaking its terms of use and copyright, would it also be legal to use GPL'd software while breaking its terms? What's the significant difference, if any?
"Northants Ch Insp Peter Glover said the message is that carrying knives is never acceptable in any circumstances... "Simply carrying a knife in a public place is a crime. If you are stopped and searched by police, you could be arrested and could end up with a criminal record."" - Knife warning as amnesty launched.
They'll have to pry my vegetable peeler and picnic cutlery away from my cold dead hands.
Re: "Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson has hit out at an industry... wedded to a culture of "patch, patch, patch," at a cost to businesses of $59 billion"
So, if people pirated software, instead of buying it, there would be no need for vendors to provide patches and business would be $59 billion richer.
Parent is right about Europe. I bought a basic prepay phone in the UK last week and spent 15 mins pestering the assistants about minimal payments. Bottom line: none of the major networks require monthly payments - you just make one call every 6 months to prove the phone is being used.
Where we lose out is rip-off roaming charges when visiting other European countries.
Re the main topic. My new 'phone is smaller and prettier, but slightly harder to use because its predictive text input is very slow for numbers and punctuation, but there are so many option settings that I can't find how to turn it off.
"One of the reasons that birds feed in flocks is that it means more eyes to watch for danger. Most of the time, at least one member of the flock will see the hawk coming and sound the alarm." - Hawks at the Feeder
The moral is obvious: living in a "proprietary monoculture" can reduce your risks.
"Patenting an idea means that you can [wait for] someone who can raise the millions of dollars it takes to develop a working device, [then sue them] driven by the incentive to make money. This ensures that the initial idea [will be harder to] actually get developed."
Also "I have worked in IP" means "I am not an inventor, but I like to pretend".
Not everyone has a static IP. Some (most?) of these "additional 30,000 never before seen IPs every day" could be the same PCs every time, which reduces the total.
These real live people are most often ill because they can't get clean water. So helping them get clean water is one solution.
You actually mention "vaccination" in your post, but have missed the point. This is another solution - vaccinate against the organisms that most often cause dysentary.
This biogenics firm has chosen to treat the symptoms of diarrhea only, rather than solving the real live people's problems, presumably because preventing the disease would be less profitable. No repeat business. Look at your own examples and reconsider whether you still think they are behaving ethically.
Everyone has two "methods for automatically altering audio to prevent undesired words and phrases from being understandable to a listener as originally uttered."
They're called "Getting Old" and "Getting Married".
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- If McDonalds coffee was really dangerous, they'd have been sued in every country around the World. Were they? Didn't think so.
- And if "Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds" how ever did other customers drink this coffee without burning their mouths and throats and requiring skin grafts?
Damn. You're a troll aren't you? D'Oh!Seems this rumour was an April Fool joke
- AlphaCo spent its money on marketing, sold millions of its bad products, and grew into a big company.
- BetaCo spent its money on engineering and restructuring, eventually producing better products at a higher profit margin, but few people even knew it existed.
Eventually Big AlphaCo bought little BetaCo and lived happily ever after.The moral is, big companies do things better, just not the things you're interested in.
After redefining bugs as features or issues since time immemorial, programmers now have a new word.
We can all follow NASA's lead and call them surprises in future.
The report makes no sense until you realise it means the Linux guys had to write their own manuals. Obviously the Yankee Group denied them personal Internet access so the survey would be fair.
20 percent less annual uptime (about 70 days) is damn good, if you must document an operating system *and* get the servers back online. Windows lusers would take 10 times as long.
Re: In order to protect democratic discourse in the future, the Internet must remain a fair and level playing field for the distribution of political speech. The full capability of the Internet must remain available to all, without restriction by religious, business, or political interests.
... You can't allow all political messages without also allowing spam and offensive content.
Be careful what you wish for
Politics and spam already get confused. For example I was recently involved with a news mailing about economic policy, and this triggered spam filters. Why? Because there's a heck of a lot of spam advertising cheap loans, comparing rates, and my email compared interest rates too. But you couldn't unblock my democratic mailing without also unblocking some of that spam.
Re: the only way for there to be peace is for the "alpha wolf" to be (or appear to be) so much stronger that no one dares challenge him.
A show of strength doesn't bring peace against tiny attackers. "The mosquitos feasted on us and the wolves as well. The wolves were constantly tormented by the hordes of insects." - The Making of The Snow Wolves
"It's good to see it discussed, so a proper balance can be found before we start seeing widespread litigation over this issue, which otherwise I am sure we will." - Groklaw
Re: You do realize, that Mexico has a fence, with armed guards, at their southern border. And they shoot trespassers on sight. Funny how that fact never makes it into the US media.
There are plenty of stories about that border. Just not on Fox News, apparantly. Don't confuse one with the other.
The GNU General Public License grants recipients of a product various rights, but (as in this case) they don't give any considerations in return. Also (as in this case) nobody "screens the registrants before granting access".
If it's legal to access the Stop Corporate Extortion Website while apparantly breaking its terms of use and copyright, would it also be legal to use GPL'd software while breaking its terms? What's the significant difference, if any?
"Northants Ch Insp Peter Glover said the message is that carrying knives is never acceptable in any circumstances ... "Simply carrying a knife in a public place is a crime. If you are stopped and searched by police, you could be arrested and could end up with a criminal record."" - Knife warning as amnesty launched.
They'll have to pry my vegetable peeler and picnic cutlery away from my cold dead hands.
You guys have obviously never been hacked.
Re: "Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson has hit out at an industry ... wedded to a culture of "patch, patch, patch," at a cost to businesses of $59 billion"
So, if people pirated software, instead of buying it, there would be no need for vendors to provide patches and business would be $59 billion richer.
Parent is right about Europe. I bought a basic prepay phone in the UK last week and spent 15 mins pestering the assistants about minimal payments. Bottom line: none of the major networks require monthly payments - you just make one call every 6 months to prove the phone is being used.
Where we lose out is rip-off roaming charges when visiting other European countries.
Re the main topic. My new 'phone is smaller and prettier, but slightly harder to use because its predictive text input is very slow for numbers and punctuation, but there are so many option settings that I can't find how to turn it off.
Re: I'll stop by later to pick up your car keys
No you won't, because you clearly believe in property rights and that plan is not original and doesn't belong to you.
"One of the reasons that birds feed in flocks is that it means more eyes to watch for danger. Most of the time, at least one member of the flock will see the hawk coming and sound the alarm." - Hawks at the Feeder
The moral is obvious: living in a "proprietary monoculture" can reduce your risks.
"Patenting an idea means that you can [wait for] someone who can raise the millions of dollars it takes to develop a working device, [then sue them] driven by the incentive to make money. This ensures that the initial idea [will be harder to] actually get developed."
Also "I have worked in IP" means "I am not an inventor, but I like to pretend".
FTA "the Miami researchers believe this is the first time an AUV has been used to map deepwater coral reefs". Seems they never use Google.
... deepwater coral reefs" - Jul 29, 2003
"New Underwater Imaging Vehicle Maps
Not everyone has a static IP. Some (most?) of these "additional 30,000 never before seen IPs every day" could be the same PCs every time, which reduces the total.
So helping them get clean water is one solution.
This is another solution - vaccinate against the organisms that most often cause dysentary.
This biogenics firm has chosen to treat the symptoms of diarrhea only, rather than solving the real live people's problems, presumably because preventing the disease would be less profitable. No repeat business. Look at your own examples and reconsider whether you still think they are behaving ethically.
Re: All through this article, Ms Holzer uses the term "intellectual property owner" where she means "patent owner".
I checked TFA and the author uses the term "owners of intellectual property" twice, balancing this by referring to "patent trolls" three times.
Or course, I wish she'd called IP by its correct name, "Invention Piracy".
Everyone has two "methods for automatically altering audio to prevent undesired words and phrases from being understandable to a listener as originally uttered."
They're called "Getting Old" and "Getting Married".
Which would save on funeral costs I suppose. Artificial pacemaker