I think we should let them, only with the stipulation of a $1.5 Billion penalty when they file a lawsuit against the wrong person. Of course, this would be payable in cash to the person they sue.
Nah, they'd sue the plaintiff for not telling them who they should have sued. Do keep up.;)
I would think that this would be an equally justifiable fine and would encourage some top tier lawyers to defend the public for a marginal percentage.
Indeed. Then again if you want to host some throwaway site for your friends and family or some non-profit or club or whatever, or you want to squat on a dozen typo-squat domains to redirect them to your main page, while preventing real typosquatters from grabbing them godaddy is just fine.
But no I wouldn't trust a million dollar business site to godaddy.
Godaddy's not right for everyone, but its perfectly fine for a lot of applications.
And as for the site you linked. Pretty much everyone has horror stories with every 'mega-discount-or-free-super-host-that-does-all-business-and-support-via-their-website'.
google 'gmail horror stories' or 'facebook horror stories' or 'Wild West Domains horror stories' or ebay, paypal, hotmail, adsense,... etc...etc...etc.
That's why Kennedy wanted something that was "hard" to do. At the time, Mars would have been impossible, and Venus is still impossible (to land on). So the Soviets were basically trapped as far as taking any larger "leap" for mankind. The largest possible leap had already been taken.
Manned space station? [The Russians actually accomplished this one.] Manned orbit of Venus (even without landing this would be a technical feat) Manned lunar base?
I agree landing on the moon was a big deal and tough to top, but there *were* and still are some options without having to land on venus or mars.
My registrar sends me email notices 2 months before mine expires, then again at 1 month, then a couple more times after that. They make it really hard to forget.
Actually, so does goddady. I get all kinds of reminders from them. They also have auto-renewal options.
I suppose the only way to blow it would be to have your contact address some spam catcher address you never check. But that's not godaddy's fault.
Doing that much work seems ridiculous. I just stop the programs and services I don't want running. What do I care if I'm wasting a few GB on the hard drive? It doesn't offend me that Mail or Calendar are physically present on the disk.
but the other weird thing that they did was the "only unlock the driver door" feature. Now I always have to hit the button 3 times to make sure I have unlocked the tailgate.
The idea is that its more secure this way.
Picture the scenario... "woman gets into car in dark parking lot... car automatically unlocks... stalker/weirdo/freak hinding behind the car climbs in on the passenger side when she unlocks the door..."
And countless variations on the theme. Rapists. Carjackings. Whatever.
How much validity you give to the likelyhood of this feature ever stopping an attack is up to you... but its a feature people wanted, that showed up in polls and focus groups.
Asus aaaw. As in "aaaw my battery is dead already!?!?!"
Good thing he thought of that and added external power switches so he could turn off the devices he didn't need at any given time, but don't read the article, its much more fun to see off-the-cuff wit like this repeated ad nauseum.;)
More like, it's revolutionized the way people could and should interact with the console, but aside from Nintendo-made games has mainly resulted in a ton of disappointing ports.
1) Nintendo was regarded as the underdog running into this generation. Its success literally took 3rd parties by surprise. So all they've had time to do was release disappointing ports. Give them some time.
2) Nintendo-made games were enough to prop up the gamecube.
3) The next gen is going to copy the Wii wholesale. So even if the Wii itself is hindered by 3rd party support, its legacy will be that it has fundamentally changed games forever.
either pay for the software that you use or use open source. Sorry no-one gets my support in this type of issue.
A lot of those BSA audits fine people who have legitimately purchased and licensed software.
I know of a company that got nailed because they'd been with a product a long time and gradually growing. So each time a new version come out they bought x upgrade licenses plus y new licenses. After a decade or so and some 7 or 8 upgrades, their last of which was like 150 upgrades and 20 new licenses they got nailed...
They couldn't properly show that every single license had a proper upgrade trail going all the way back to version 1 some 15 years ago. Some one had long since thrown away the floppies and receipts showing that those had been purchased.
Of course the vendor had changed names and been bought out at some point, and they certainly didn't have any records going back that far either.
So some 50 of their 150 upgrades had been ruled in 'non-compliance' simply because they were upgrades of upgrades of upgrades that could only be traced back 4 or 5 versions, but not back to an original purchase in the early 90's.
So, even if you pay for the software that's not enough. You have to cover your own ass so carefully its absurd.
Even the government doesn't require you to keep records that far back.
The BSA's tactics would be roughly akin to the RIAA showing up in your home, grabbing your ipod full of 5000 songs you ripped from your CD collection and demanding you prove you own it all.
So you confidently walk over to your CD's and start handing them over...but you've only got maybe 100 on hand... you put the rest in storage in your basement and attic. Now its a royal hassle... but you start digging through your boxes of stuff and passing those CDs over too.
And when its all done you've found the original CD for some 4900 songs... but you just can't locate the last 8 CDs. Maybe they were in your previous cars glove box when you sold it? Maybe you lent them to your brother? Maybe you stepped on them, broke them, and tossed them? Who knows... they're gone.
Too bad for you: Only 98% compliance... prepare to be fined big time for the balance...
And that's when they look at the stack of 494 CDs you spent the last several hours digging out when they say, "Now what about these? Do you have receipts?"
Lots of books cost $50.00. Check out piratebay, there's dozens torrents out there containing stuff like "1100 computer books". (Most of which are $30.00 and up each.) Or download the rules and expansions for warhammer 40k or other games like that. (Again most of these books are upwards of $20.00.) And, hell, these days a half decent paperback costs around $10.00.
I know a number of people who have larger PDF collections than MP3 collections.
Photographers can much more easily sue any website that reuses their images.
What about all those photos being downloaded into 'personal collections' that aren't being republished back onto the internet?
Computer software companies? It's far more acceptable to build licensing in to software than it is in to movies/DVDs
So what? Any software worth using has been cracked and is readily available on the internet? Why shouldn't they be entitled to recapture those 'losses' via tax?
bloggers and supermodels jumping on board? Why not? Once this is the systm we're on they only have to convince a few politicians to raise the tax and allocate them a slice? Why wouldn't they try? Why wouldn't they succeed?
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Bottom line, if someone wants to open a music store with a $5/mo subscription with a substantial library that's great. If someone wants to do the same for movies or some other IP that's great too? I'll even consider signing myself up, but don't make it a tax shoved down our throats, where the moment its implemented it will inevitably start down the road to transition into a mockery of its own raison d'etre.
So first we pay the songwriters $5/mo Then we pay the movie writers $10/mo Then we pay the book industry $10/mo Then we pay the software industry $10/mo Then adobe and microsoft step up and say they are so big and widley pirated they should each get their own special levies...$20/mo Then we pay Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft [again] $10/mo for piracy of their console games Then the songwriters notice they are only getting $5/mo and demand a raise to $10/mo like everyone else Then bloggers find out when people read their blogs they are actually downloading a copy and demand their cut... $10/mo Then photographers demand their fee for all the images that get downloaded.. $10/mo Then supermodels and celebrities discover that people are trading naked pictures of them without a model release and demand their fee, separate from the photographers... $10/mo Then myspace users who are having their 'private pictures' redistributed...
"A $60 annual tax is really nothing to complain about."
I wish Canada worked that way. Yeah I know... off topic, I don't care.
Why?
The ability of the judiciary to override parliament helps parliament can't do an end run around the charter of rights etc. The judiciary can't create laws, only reject them. Canada has its whole checks and balances thing much better set up than the UK... now if only we could get a working senate...
No. Let them fight it out until they are both obsolete. Both formats suck for the consumer, but blu-ray sucks more. (DRM is not optional, I can't release an independant movie without DRM even if I wanted to. And licensing the DRM isn't cheap either.)
But the consumer is better off without either.
Let them both die a laserdisc death so we can get on board with the next generation of hidef content.
That would be cool. But while the iPhone knows the current date, it has to look up the current weather. I'd rather not have it hit the network every time I push the home button.
Fair comment. But what if its on wifi, like your iphone probably is a significant portion of the day. Or in the case of an ipod touch, the only mode it has? Or at the very least, show a custom icon from the last time it refreshed. It might not *always* be up to date, but at least it would be reacting to the world its in.
That said, my biggest complaint with the weather is there is no forecast. I can see what the temperature is in several different cities around the world... but I can't find out if its likely going to rain tonight... or tomorrow...in the city I live.
The judge will just order you to provide the police with the pass phrase. Refuse and you'll be jailed for contempt of court until to hand it over.
If we've got a judge making that order we're pretty safe from having it searched automatically as part of an arrest for something unrelated. They've got you before a judge!! That would be entirely reasonable.
What is needed is a dual pass phrase encryption application. Enter the legit code and you get access to your data. Enter an alternate and it opens a volume with 'manufactured' information.
Providing the 'alternate', if they figured it out, would amount to contempt of court and compound your problems. (*IF* they figured it out... but if the main selling feature of the encryption tool you are using is this 'dual pass phrase' stuff... you can bet they'll be sucpicious if they're even slightly savvy.)
What is REALLY needed are laws that make the contents of your laptop protected, so that you can't be compelled to hand them over at the drop of a hat. So they need a damned good reason along with a warrant before it happens... and even -then- there should be limitations on what they are allowed to use as evidence when they find something if its not what they are warranted to look for.
Tufte's books concern interactive interface design. This primary purpose of this video is not to be an interactive interface. Instead it is a pre-recorded ('stacked in time') presentation designed to demontrate specific features of the iPhone's interface.
That's the point: Its a terrible interactive interface for the purpose of demonstrating specific features of the iPhone interface. It crams the entire set into a linear interface stacked in time without even so much as a chapter selection function, leaving absolutely no efficient way to move from one demonstration to the next except to view the entire thing or just stab randomly at different time points to see what he's doing there.
The problem isn't the use of video as a medium to demonstrate things that are really best demonstrated in video. Video is a great way to illustrate lots of things from how geosyncrous orbits work to how the 'pinch' feature on an ipod works.
The problem is that all the information is in one linear time stacked 'black box', when it doesn't need to be and doesn't benefit from it. The demonstrations are independant and should be, to use Tufte' own dogma: spactially separated, not time separated.
The only thing that inherently needs to be time separated or benefits from time separating are the frames within individual clips of a specific feature demo.
Therefore a -better- solution would be to use multiple short videos, one for each feature, separated in space on the page, each separately viewable, and introduced with headings and text.
Consider that even youtube essentially does it this way!! (And can you imagine if youtube search results were just one big stream all spliced together... and you'd just wait for the clip you wanted to show up?)
AMEN. I HATE VIDEO for precisely this reason. Not only is the information stacked in time, but its totally and completely unindexed and nearly unnavigatable... sure I can drag a slider around but I have no information about where I am or where I'm going, and I have to get their and start watching before I know where I've gone.
And above all, I have no interest in taking MINUTES to have information spoon-fed to me in real-time. I can read orders of magnitude faster than I can listen. And if I'm reading something that doesn't interest me I can easily skip ahead, because any decent author will include titles, section headings, paragraph breaks... and other cues to allow skipping ahead and finding the interesting parts.
It's high time for better software, and the only way to get that is to apply market pressure. Software liability is the answer.
1) If the market really wanted extensive 'software liability' then we'd already have it. Customers would demand it, suppliers would figure out how much it would cost to provide it, and prices would sort themselves out. Turns out the prices go WAY up, and customers (most of them) don't want to pay them.
2) What happens to Linux in a world with mandatory software liability? Who is liable? The company providing install and support? The volunteer contributor who wrote that line of code? The project maintainer who accepted the patch?... And you wonder why your post was modded flaimbait?
That's a very common mistake, but actually "Frankenstein" was the name of the doctor who created it, not the monster himself!
Actually, it was not a mistake; I'm well aware of that.
However, the monster itself has no proper given name, so we have to improvise, and the only name that would be a near universally understood reference is 'Frankenstein'.
Besides, the monster, as a creation of Frankenstein could reasonably called 'a Frankenstein', perhaps even 'the Frankenstein' in the same way we refer to 'a Rembrandt' or 'a Van Gogh'.
No. The standard was unclear on the subject. When a standard is unclear you
Go to the standards body and get clarification? Ask the others what they're doing and reach a consensus? Implemenent it the best you can while remaining open to change when clarification arrives?
implement the most sane interpretation of it,
Yeah, ok. But you don't dig in and refuse to change when the standard goes a different direction.
Besides the 'netscape' interpretation wasn't insane. Hell, one could even rationally argue that the box should be defined by the border, with margin on the outside and padding on the inside, and then we can argue whether the actual border should be inside or outside...
An insane interpretation would be one in which the margin and padding are counted but the border width isn't.
and Microsoft did that, and Netscape/Mozilla implemented a brain-dead interpretation of it,
and manipulated the W3C to make their mistakes the law.
1) Even if that is exactly what happened, you still bring your product into compliance with the standard when the standard gets clarified.
2) I think you are overstating the degree of 'manipulation' here.
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I think we should let them, only with the stipulation of a $1.5 Billion penalty when they file a lawsuit against the wrong person. Of course, this would be payable in cash to the person they sue.
;)
Nah, they'd sue the plaintiff for not telling them who they should have sued. Do keep up.
I would think that this would be an equally justifiable fine and would encourage some top tier lawyers to defend the public for a marginal percentage.
Like 95%. Plus expenses.
Re:No one should take that as a recommendation.
... etc...etc...etc.
Indeed. Then again if you want to host some throwaway site for your friends and family or some non-profit or club or whatever, or you want to squat on a dozen typo-squat domains to redirect them to your main page, while preventing real typosquatters from grabbing them godaddy is just fine.
But no I wouldn't trust a million dollar business site to godaddy.
Godaddy's not right for everyone, but its perfectly fine for a lot of applications.
And as for the site you linked. Pretty much everyone has horror stories with every 'mega-discount-or-free-super-host-that-does-all-business-and-support-via-their-website'.
google 'gmail horror stories' or 'facebook horror stories' or 'Wild West Domains horror stories' or ebay, paypal, hotmail, adsense,
They pretty much all suck at customer service.
That's why Kennedy wanted something that was "hard" to do. At the time, Mars would have been impossible, and Venus is still impossible (to land on). So the Soviets were basically trapped as far as taking any larger "leap" for mankind. The largest possible leap had already been taken.
Manned space station? [The Russians actually accomplished this one.]
Manned orbit of Venus (even without landing this would be a technical feat)
Manned lunar base?
I agree landing on the moon was a big deal and tough to top, but there *were* and still are some options without having to land on venus or mars.
Isn't that called paraphrasing?
Isn't this called paraphrasing?
(c) Jan 31 2008 A vux984 original post.
My registrar sends me email notices 2 months before mine expires, then again at 1 month, then a couple more times after that. They make it really hard to forget.
Actually, so does goddady. I get all kinds of reminders from them. They also have auto-renewal options.
I suppose the only way to blow it would be to have your contact address some spam catcher address you never check. But that's not godaddy's fault.
Doing that much work seems ridiculous. I just stop the programs and services I don't want running. What do I care if I'm wasting a few GB on the hard drive? It doesn't offend me that Mail or Calendar are physically present on the disk.
but the other weird thing that they did was the "only unlock the driver door" feature. Now I always have to hit the button 3 times to make sure I have unlocked the tailgate.
The idea is that its more secure this way.
Picture the scenario... "woman gets into car in dark parking lot... car automatically unlocks... stalker/weirdo/freak hinding behind the car climbs in on the passenger side when she unlocks the door..."
And countless variations on the theme. Rapists. Carjackings. Whatever.
How much validity you give to the likelyhood of this feature ever stopping an attack is up to you... but its a feature people wanted, that showed up in polls and focus groups.
Asus aaaw. As in "aaaw my battery is dead already!?!?!"
;)
Good thing he thought of that and added external power switches so he could turn off the devices he didn't need at any given time, but don't read the article, its much more fun to see off-the-cuff wit like this repeated ad nauseum.
More like, it's revolutionized the way people could and should interact with the console, but aside from Nintendo-made games has mainly resulted in a ton of disappointing ports.
1) Nintendo was regarded as the underdog running into this generation. Its success literally took 3rd parties by surprise. So all they've had time to do was release disappointing ports. Give them some time.
2) Nintendo-made games were enough to prop up the gamecube.
3) The next gen is going to copy the Wii wholesale. So even if the Wii itself is hindered by 3rd party support, its legacy will be that it has fundamentally changed games forever.
either pay for the software that you use or use open source. Sorry no-one gets my support in this type of issue.
A lot of those BSA audits fine people who have legitimately purchased and licensed software.
I know of a company that got nailed because they'd been with a product a long time and gradually growing. So each time a new version come out they bought x upgrade licenses plus y new licenses. After a decade or so and some 7 or 8 upgrades, their last of which was like 150 upgrades and 20 new licenses they got nailed...
They couldn't properly show that every single license had a proper upgrade trail going all the way back to version 1 some 15 years ago. Some one had long since thrown away the floppies and receipts showing that those had been purchased.
Of course the vendor had changed names and been bought out at some point, and they certainly didn't have any records going back that far either.
So some 50 of their 150 upgrades had been ruled in 'non-compliance' simply because they were upgrades of upgrades of upgrades that could only be traced back 4 or 5 versions, but not back to an original purchase in the early 90's.
So, even if you pay for the software that's not enough. You have to cover your own ass so carefully its absurd.
Even the government doesn't require you to keep records that far back.
The BSA's tactics would be roughly akin to the RIAA showing up in your home, grabbing your ipod full of 5000 songs you ripped from your CD collection and demanding you prove you own it all.
So you confidently walk over to your CD's and start handing them over...but you've only got maybe 100 on hand... you put the rest in storage in your basement and attic. Now its a royal hassle... but you start digging through your boxes of stuff and passing those CDs over too.
And when its all done you've found the original CD for some 4900 songs... but you just can't locate the last 8 CDs. Maybe they were in your previous cars glove box when you sold it? Maybe you lent them to your brother? Maybe you stepped on them, broke them, and tossed them? Who knows... they're gone.
Too bad for you: Only 98% compliance... prepare to be fined big time for the balance...
And that's when they look at the stack of 494 CDs you spent the last several hours digging out when they say, "Now what about these? Do you have receipts?"
Lots of books only cost like 5$
Lots of books cost $50.00. Check out piratebay, there's dozens torrents out there containing stuff like "1100 computer books". (Most of which are $30.00 and up each.) Or download the rules and expansions for warhammer 40k or other games like that. (Again most of these books are upwards of $20.00.) And, hell, these days a half decent paperback costs around $10.00.
I know a number of people who have larger PDF collections than MP3 collections.
Photographers can much more easily sue any website that reuses their images.
What about all those photos being downloaded into 'personal collections' that aren't being republished back onto the internet?
Computer software companies? It's far more acceptable to build licensing in to software than it is in to movies/DVDs
So what? Any software worth using has been cracked and is readily available on the internet? Why shouldn't they be entitled to recapture those 'losses' via tax?
bloggers and supermodels jumping on board? Why not? Once this is the systm we're on they only have to convince a few politicians to raise the tax and allocate them a slice? Why wouldn't they try? Why wouldn't they succeed?
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Bottom line, if someone wants to open a music store with a $5/mo subscription with a substantial library that's great. If someone wants to do the same for movies or some other IP that's great too? I'll even consider signing myself up, but don't make it a tax shoved down our throats, where the moment its implemented it will inevitably start down the road to transition into a mockery of its own raison d'etre.
Hell... look what happened to copyright!!
So first we pay the songwriters $5/mo .. $10/mo
Then we pay the movie writers $10/mo
Then we pay the book industry $10/mo
Then we pay the software industry $10/mo
Then adobe and microsoft step up and say they are so big and widley pirated they should each get their own special levies...$20/mo
Then we pay Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft [again] $10/mo for piracy of their console games
Then the songwriters notice they are only getting $5/mo and demand a raise to $10/mo like everyone else
Then bloggers find out when people read their blogs they are actually downloading a copy and demand their cut... $10/mo
Then photographers demand their fee for all the images that get downloaded
Then supermodels and celebrities discover that people are trading naked pictures of them without a model release and demand their fee, separate from the photographers... $10/mo
Then myspace users who are having their 'private pictures' redistributed...
"A $60 annual tax is really nothing to complain about."
How about $1200+ ??
I wish Canada worked that way. Yeah I know... off topic, I don't care.
Why?
The ability of the judiciary to override parliament helps parliament can't do an end run around the charter of rights etc. The judiciary can't create laws, only reject them. Canada has its whole checks and balances thing much better set up than the UK... now if only we could get a working senate...
No. Let them fight it out until they are both obsolete. Both formats suck for the consumer, but blu-ray sucks more. (DRM is not optional, I can't release an independant movie without DRM even if I wanted to. And licensing the DRM isn't cheap either.)
But the consumer is better off without either.
Let them both die a laserdisc death so we can get on board with the next generation of hidef content.
Obviously to stick them into one convenient file that pretty much anyone who gets will be able to open.
Nintendo does too... but in their case shipped and sold happen to be the same number lately.
The Fifth Amendment says that I can not be compelled by police or a court to surrender my passwords.
A lower level judge has upheld that passwords are protected by the 5th, but its hardly a done deal yet.
That would be cool. But while the iPhone knows the current date, it has to look up the current weather. I'd rather not have it hit the network every time I push the home button.
Fair comment. But what if its on wifi, like your iphone probably is a significant portion of the day. Or in the case of an ipod touch, the only mode it has? Or at the very least, show a custom icon from the last time it refreshed. It might not *always* be up to date, but at least it would be reacting to the world its in.
That said, my biggest complaint with the weather is there is no forecast. I can see what the temperature is in several different cities around the world... but I can't find out if its likely going to rain tonight... or tomorrow...in the city I live.
The judge will just order you to provide the police with the pass phrase. Refuse and you'll be jailed for contempt of court until to hand it over.
If we've got a judge making that order we're pretty safe from having it searched automatically as part of an arrest for something unrelated. They've got you before a judge!! That would be entirely reasonable.
What is needed is a dual pass phrase encryption application. Enter the legit code and you get access to your data. Enter an alternate and it opens a volume with 'manufactured' information.
Providing the 'alternate', if they figured it out, would amount to contempt of court and compound your problems. (*IF* they figured it out... but if the main selling feature of the encryption tool you are using is this 'dual pass phrase' stuff... you can bet they'll be sucpicious if they're even slightly savvy.)
What is REALLY needed are laws that make the contents of your laptop protected, so that you can't be compelled to hand them over at the drop of a hat. So they need a damned good reason along with a warrant before it happens... and even -then- there should be limitations on what they are allowed to use as evidence when they find something if its not what they are warranted to look for.
Tufte's books concern interactive interface design. This primary purpose of this video is not to be an interactive interface. Instead it is a pre-recorded ('stacked in time') presentation designed to demontrate specific features of the iPhone's interface.
That's the point: Its a terrible interactive interface for the purpose of demonstrating specific features of the iPhone interface. It crams the entire set into a linear interface stacked in time without even so much as a chapter selection function, leaving absolutely no efficient way to move from one demonstration to the next except to view the entire thing or just stab randomly at different time points to see what he's doing there.
The problem isn't the use of video as a medium to demonstrate things that are really best demonstrated in video. Video is a great way to illustrate lots of things from how geosyncrous orbits work to how the 'pinch' feature on an ipod works.
The problem is that all the information is in one linear time stacked 'black box', when it doesn't need to be and doesn't benefit from it. The demonstrations are independant and should be, to use Tufte' own dogma: spactially separated, not time separated.
The only thing that inherently needs to be time separated or benefits from time separating are the frames within individual clips of a specific feature demo.
Therefore a -better- solution would be to use multiple short videos, one for each feature, separated in space on the page, each separately viewable, and introduced with headings and text.
Consider that even youtube essentially does it this way!! (And can you imagine if youtube search results were just one big stream all spliced together... and you'd just wait for the clip you wanted to show up?)
AMEN. I HATE VIDEO for precisely this reason. Not only is the information stacked in time, but its totally and completely unindexed and nearly unnavigatable... sure I can drag a slider around but I have no information about where I am or where I'm going, and I have to get their and start watching before I know where I've gone.
And above all, I have no interest in taking MINUTES to have information spoon-fed to me in real-time. I can read orders of magnitude faster than I can listen. And if I'm reading something that doesn't interest me I can easily skip ahead, because any decent author will include titles, section headings, paragraph breaks... and other cues to allow skipping ahead and finding the interesting parts.
It's high time for better software, and the only way to get that is to apply market pressure. Software liability is the answer.
... And you wonder why your post was modded flaimbait?
1) If the market really wanted extensive 'software liability' then we'd already have it. Customers would demand it, suppliers would figure out how much it would cost to provide it, and prices would sort themselves out. Turns out the prices go WAY up, and customers (most of them) don't want to pay them.
2) What happens to Linux in a world with mandatory software liability? Who is liable? The company providing install and support? The volunteer contributor who wrote that line of code? The project maintainer who accepted the patch?
That's a very common mistake, but actually "Frankenstein" was the name of the doctor who created it, not the monster himself!
Actually, it was not a mistake; I'm well aware of that.
However, the monster itself has no proper given name, so we have to improvise, and the only name that would be a near universally understood reference is 'Frankenstein'.
Besides, the monster, as a creation of Frankenstein could reasonably called 'a Frankenstein', perhaps even 'the Frankenstein' in the same way we refer to 'a Rembrandt' or 'a Van Gogh'.
No. The standard was unclear on the subject. When a standard is unclear you
Go to the standards body and get clarification? Ask the others what they're doing and reach a consensus? Implemenent it the best you can while remaining open to change when clarification arrives?
implement the most sane interpretation of it,
Yeah, ok. But you don't dig in and refuse to change when the standard goes a different direction.
Besides the 'netscape' interpretation wasn't insane. Hell, one could even rationally argue that the box should be defined by the border, with margin on the outside and padding on the inside, and then we can argue whether the actual border should be inside or outside...
An insane interpretation would be one in which the margin and padding are counted but the border width isn't.
and Microsoft did that, and Netscape/Mozilla implemented a brain-dead interpretation of it,
and manipulated the W3C to make their mistakes the law.
1) Even if that is exactly what happened, you still bring your product into compliance with the standard when the standard gets clarified.
2) I think you are overstating the degree of 'manipulation' here.
whenever she needs a new body part, she'll just go and hack one off another person's body and use it. Now, she just needs a cool nickname
How about "Frankenstein"?