As with most things legal, the even simpler solution is to simply follow the original intent and not grant patents that are obvious.
The entire point of the patent system is to entice an inventor to disclose non-obvious details about his/her invention in return for a temporary monopoly on its use. In this fashion society benefits by receiving valuable information that might otherwise have died with the inventor, and the inventor benefits by being granted the legal right to prevent competitors from using his breakthrough idea.
The simple fix for the patent system is for society NOT to grant these rights to people who aren't actually submitting non-obvious ideas!
Thats an interesting idea (and I'm sure that it does work for you) but having the same IP address resolve to two different MAC addresses on the network seems to be a Bad Idea. Ignoring the network itself though, if that works then the MacOS kernel must already have some support for this because (for example) if you opened a connection on the WiFi interface, some internal juggling has to happen if you say plug in your Ethernet jack and then turn off the WiFi, right? What prevents that socket connection from simply closing when you turn off the associated hardware?
What do I think of it?? I want it! More than once I've started a large file transfer on the LAN from my laptop only to remember that I am on the WiFi. Instead of plugging in the cable and restarting the transaction I would love it if I just had to plug in the higher bandwidth connection and the kernel would handle the transition between adapters.
Unfortunately a lot of the same sites where you would want to use this kind of information gathering (adding the "+thisSite" to your email address) refuse to validate email addresses with the '+' character. I've run into this in more than a few places.
Hi,
I have a job to do and although I've come up with some solutions on my own, I would like to tap into the wider experience of the/. community whose broad experiences may go further in depth than I am able to go with the time I have been given to find a solution.
In addition, I would like to start a conversation that may be of interest or future use to other people, as they may currently have or in the future have the same problem that I have right now.
Which of course is invariably followed by a couple responses like yours.
Ah, I had not analyzed the command. I assumed that since it was using tar that one archive file was being created, and therefore your derision of that example was due to file overhead to file size ratio related.
Well, it might not be faster for the example in question, but that's a neat idea if someone reading this has a slightly different need in mind - ie backing up many small files.
I would have chosen a slightly different term than the parent. While you may not have an ethical obligation to Walmart (ethics being a set of shared values between you and a group of some definition), I personally (and I think this is what the parent post was getting at) feel a moral obligation - not to Walmart, but to myself - to support the physical store that helped me make my purchase decision.
Morals - a set of personal values; an obligation to yourself to follow them. Ethics - a set of values shared by a group; an obligation to the group/your membership in that group. Laws - a set of values shared by society at large; an obligation to society.
But you don't actually have to start the 14-day free trial to do the record search from the Titanic. Originally that's what I thought as well. However you can start entering searches without starting the trial (I guess I went through the page where I created a login but then when I got to the credit card info page I clicked back to their main page) by hitting the orange Search Now button.
I agree that the "give us your info now and we won't charge you immediately so this is FREE!" bit is sleazy.
The water that gets dissolved into ethanol screws the crap out of outboard motor carburetion systems. Don't think I want to convert to 100% ethanol in my car.
Well, there could always be the issue of "thats the way we always did it." If no one has shown the folks doing the purchasing how the process ought to go before, then they will do whatever they are familiar with/whatever they can come up with. You might be able to get somewhere by setting up a very simple procedure (making sure to avoid the problems mentioned in parent) and then get out and talk with the people who are making the requests that sidestep your department. Basically, if you can train people to come to you first then you can sanitize all the requests. On the other hand, if people perceive faults like the parent suggested, this won't work.
Thats an interesting point. If you follow the golden rule you will get hurt by someone who doesn't - and that person won't be hurt at all. On the other hand if you "treat other people as they treat you" at least there is some feedback, some encouragement to follow the rule as well.
Your analogy is flawed; music/video pirates don't generally turn around and sell what they 'swoop in and steal', whereas software pirates in this case are profiting immensely.
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Depends. If it's one of the modified Nestors it will probably retrieve what it was sent to get in the warehouse and then walk back out.
%s/[sS][^ ]*[uU][^ ]*[sS][^ ]*[eE]/SUSE/g
The first I read about it, it felt like a false flag operation. I know, I know, item 1 on a list of "How to sound like a paranoid".
What you need is a bar stool. When you want to stand, your desk will be at the right height. When you want to sit, pull up your stool!
TANSTAAFL.
As with most things legal, the even simpler solution is to simply follow the original intent and not grant patents that are obvious.
The entire point of the patent system is to entice an inventor to disclose non-obvious details about his/her invention in return for a temporary monopoly on its use. In this fashion society benefits by receiving valuable information that might otherwise have died with the inventor, and the inventor benefits by being granted the legal right to prevent competitors from using his breakthrough idea.
The simple fix for the patent system is for society NOT to grant these rights to people who aren't actually submitting non-obvious ideas!
I prefer "cogito ergo es"
"I think therefore you is"
Thats an interesting idea (and I'm sure that it does work for you) but having the same IP address resolve to two different MAC addresses on the network seems to be a Bad Idea. Ignoring the network itself though, if that works then the MacOS kernel must already have some support for this because (for example) if you opened a connection on the WiFi interface, some internal juggling has to happen if you say plug in your Ethernet jack and then turn off the WiFi, right? What prevents that socket connection from simply closing when you turn off the associated hardware?
What do I think of it?? I want it! More than once I've started a large file transfer on the LAN from my laptop only to remember that I am on the WiFi. Instead of plugging in the cable and restarting the transaction I would love it if I just had to plug in the higher bandwidth connection and the kernel would handle the transition between adapters.
Unfortunately a lot of the same sites where you would want to use this kind of information gathering (adding the "+thisSite" to your email address) refuse to validate email addresses with the '+' character. I've run into this in more than a few places.
Hi, /. community whose broad experiences may go further in depth than I am able to go with the time I have been given to find a solution.
I have a job to do and although I've come up with some solutions on my own, I would like to tap into the wider experience of the
In addition, I would like to start a conversation that may be of interest or future use to other people, as they may currently have or in the future have the same problem that I have right now.
Which of course is invariably followed by a couple responses like yours.
Deep Space Nine? What are we talking about again?
Ah, I had not analyzed the command. I assumed that since it was using tar that one archive file was being created, and therefore your derision of that example was due to file overhead to file size ratio related.
Well, it might not be faster for the example in question, but that's a neat idea if someone reading this has a slightly different need in mind - ie backing up many small files.
Vim is free. Just throwing that out there.
Memoirs found in a Bathtub is pretty explicitly depressing, although I had to go back and re-read the first chapter for it to really hit me.
I would have chosen a slightly different term than the parent. While you may not have an ethical obligation to Walmart (ethics being a set of shared values between you and a group of some definition), I personally (and I think this is what the parent post was getting at) feel a moral obligation - not to Walmart, but to myself - to support the physical store that helped me make my purchase decision.
Morals - a set of personal values; an obligation to yourself to follow them.
Ethics - a set of values shared by a group; an obligation to the group/your membership in that group.
Laws - a set of values shared by society at large; an obligation to society.
But you don't actually have to start the 14-day free trial to do the record search from the Titanic. Originally that's what I thought as well. However you can start entering searches without starting the trial (I guess I went through the page where I created a login but then when I got to the credit card info page I clicked back to their main page) by hitting the orange Search Now button.
I agree that the "give us your info now and we won't charge you immediately so this is FREE!" bit is sleazy.
UPS package tracking FTW
The water that gets dissolved into ethanol screws the crap out of outboard motor carburetion systems. Don't think I want to convert to 100% ethanol in my car.
Well, there could always be the issue of "thats the way we always did it." If no one has shown the folks doing the purchasing how the process ought to go before, then they will do whatever they are familiar with/whatever they can come up with. You might be able to get somewhere by setting up a very simple procedure (making sure to avoid the problems mentioned in parent) and then get out and talk with the people who are making the requests that sidestep your department. Basically, if you can train people to come to you first then you can sanitize all the requests. On the other hand, if people perceive faults like the parent suggested, this won't work.
Where in the world is . . . Carmen Sandiego?
Thats an interesting point. If you follow the golden rule you will get hurt by someone who doesn't - and that person won't be hurt at all. On the other hand if you "treat other people as they treat you" at least there is some feedback, some encouragement to follow the rule as well.
Your analogy is flawed; music/video pirates don't generally turn around and sell what they 'swoop in and steal', whereas software pirates in this case are profiting immensely.
Erm. Whoosh?