While that is no big reason to worry over GM food more than to worry over some strange food from the jungle that you don't know, it is still possible that GM foods can be dangerous.
This is especially true when the GM crops were altered such that lots of strange proteins are created, for example when the GM crops create their own poisons against crop diseases.
There are also other issues surrounding GM crops; One of the most worrying is the possibility that some GM crops contribute to honey bee colony collapse, and bees are vital to growing crops.
Another problem with GM crops is that they are often altered to produce seeds that do not grow into new crops, and even when that is not the case, farmers are forbidden by patents to grow and sow their own seeds. While a rich country may don't care about this, it can be fatal for people in a poor country.
Well, your guitar is not considered to be under copyright. So open source licenses do not apply to your project, since, well, there is no binary.
So you can Either choose a creative commons license, there are lots of them to choose from.
Or, you could make your own license, along the lines of the GPL, which would disallow people from selling your guitars unless they passed on the files that told how to construct them with the guitar. That alone would be in the spirit of an open source license. The EFF would probabaly help you with that. Or you could look at the RepRap community, it has experience with that topic.
Also, you don't have to offer a license at all.
You could for example, forbid all people to use the files, but hope secretly that all people pirated your files. In this line of thinking, you could also add a pirate licensing terms, which might just state: All people who distribute my files are pirates.
Well, that would be kind of strange, so I guess what I really should have said is this: It really depends on what you want from your license. I would suggest you restate the question somewhere, but include what you want from the license.
Well, it is unlikely that the German coast guard have many offices in Munich. However, thanks to advances in military computing, the army can now order submarine parts in Munich, if they feel like it.
Yes, BSD can sometimes be substituted with the GPL, since it is more permissive, and by that I mean that you can do more with BSD licensed source code, for example merge it with business source code in one binary.
However, the same is not true for program binaries distributed under the BSD license, because these may contain components that you will not get a license for. So, if you want to improve a binary that includes BSD as a customer, you are bound to violate licensing terms.
The BSD license is not the main target of my arguments in the previous post, but other licenses are, which are completely incompatible with the GPL, both regarding source and binary.
The GPL concept comes from a time when a few companies like IBM, which were used to selling "big" mainframes, also owned the software on these machines. If these companies had successfully cornered the personal software market, even more people still would be stuck in using proprietary software.
If you release software to people, you are sharing the code already. It is just undocumented, in a format that can only easily be converted to assembler code, and only rude people who don't care about copyright law can use it.
If someone likes your program, and wants a legit copy that he can improve, he will have to spend extra work. So GPL'ed code saves peoples' work, and without paying for it. Naturally, business doesn't like that.
One reason to be for the GPL as a FOSS license is that it is there. There often are problems with merging code and projects under different licenses, and having more of them, isn't better.
2nd answer: Not all popular licenses are FOSS licenses. The BSD license is a permissive license. Calling it a business license would be as sensible.
3rd answer: Many good intentions have been invested in the GPL. It is a license with a concept behind it.
This ruling implies that Apple stole the technology from Motorola, and the lawsuit is Motorola's attempt to force Apple to relent.
No. Depending on the country the patent in question was issued in, it implies that Motorola was either the first to visit the patent office, or first to make the discovery.
Stealing would imply reading the patent, or other sources associated to Motorola, and acting upon it.
It also would imply that all of the patent is valid, in the sense that other requirements for a patent apply, as required by the various jurisdictions (that is practically none except prior art in the USA, but a certain level of inventiveness in the EU, and the exclusion of some fields in the EU, for example mathematics.).
It has been pointed out to me, so I'd like to point it out myself:
trickle-down-effect is being used to refer to the movement of technology, products, and behavior from wealthy people to less wealthy people.
trickle-down-economics or trickle-down-theory refers to the argument that by making wealthy people more wealthy, the income trickles down to the entire economy.
What is even more disconcerting than electromagnetic jamming is that the west is unsuccesfull at communicating with some groups of people.
This becomes obvious if you study the following case: step 1: Ahmadinedschad holds one of his talks at the UN assembly. step 2: Western news report that diplomats walked out of the assembly in protest. step 3: News reports catering to other groups of people report that Ahmadinedschad was applauded while talking in concilatory tone. step 4: Shit happens step 5: Profit
Suppose you signal the nesting level by indentation, as most programmers today do.
If you add a condition around some code, then for example 3 lines might indented, resulting in 5 lines being altered instead of the 2 which actually have changed.
For this, the proposed improved grep and diff might be good, at least better than the current state of diff. Okay, maybe I'm not telling about the -b flag, but the -b flag might be a problem if you code in whitespace or so;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
The appropriate way to deal with this would be to convert all program code to intermediate language, including comments and if available assertions, and to only check this code into the versioning system.
On check out, the code would be transformed according to an either agreed on formatting, or even to a different formatting for everyone.
tags:programming languages versioning systems patents prior art
I still find it interesting that in most RTS games, it is fine to massacre the peons of the enemy, while our modern military learns that this is not supposed to happen.
I think Cossacks: European Wars was the exception, where peons and farms would actually convert to your side if no enemy military unit was near them.
Some outer space conquest games penalize you by harming your relations to other players that is AI if you use biologic warfare. So the concept is not totally unheard of in games.
Well, I might have no clue how you sequence a gene or genome today, but I would guess the procedure would involve using traditional rna in a non-arsenic environment to multiply the dna before analysing it.
This process would of course not preserve the arsenic. To get better tools, you would have to look at how the adapted lifeform reads and processes its dna, and how the cells factories actually translate the messenger rna, as this might be different. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Code#Variations_to_the_standard_genetic_code
However, they are most certainly included in this report to make it more "sensational".
Ehm, no, they are included because it is hard to tell what the program is doing. Not all things can be resolved with rules, e.g. a chain of regex replaces. And you cannot brute-force it either most of the time by checking all inputs. All you can do then is to determine the possible outputs by some rules, so a false positive is reported, whenever your rules are not exact.
You never know what the IT guy is worth until you replace him. Preferably with someone new on the job.
And then you go and complain about schools, and ask for more H1B visa;-)
It is also very hard for the IT guy to know what he is worth.
For the sales guy it is easy because he just adds up all money he has raked in. Probably he will even have a tendency to overestimate because he doesn't know at what cost the company is producing its goods and services.
A manager with access to financial data, knows when the company is doing well financially, and knows when his pay is tiny in comparison to the turnover of his department.
Both are obviously in a better position to negotiate, unless the IT guy analyzes the company's data, for which most IT guys neither have the time nor the desire.
75% didn't look at confidential data, and of the 25% who admitted to peeking, you don't know how much they strayed from their tasks.
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There are studies which show that DNA and RNA can both survive digestion.
http://www.zivilcourage.ro/pdf/mazza.pdf
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/09/21/what-you-eat-affects-your-genes-rna-from-rice-can-survive-digestion-and-alter-gene-expression/
While that is no big reason to worry over GM food more than to worry over some strange food from the jungle that you don't know, it is still possible that GM foods can be dangerous.
This is especially true when the GM crops were altered such that lots of strange proteins are created, for example when the GM crops create their own poisons against crop diseases.
There are also other issues surrounding GM crops; One of the most worrying is the possibility that some GM crops contribute to honey bee colony collapse, and bees are vital to growing crops.
Another problem with GM crops is that they are often altered to produce seeds that do not grow into new crops, and even when that is not the case, farmers are forbidden by patents to grow and sow their own seeds.
While a rich country may don't care about this, it can be fatal for people in a poor country.
Well, your guitar is not considered to be under copyright.
So open source licenses do not apply to your project, since, well, there is no binary.
So you can Either choose a creative commons license, there are lots of them to choose from.
Or, you could make your own license, along the lines of the GPL, which would disallow people from selling your guitars unless they passed on the files that told how to construct them with the guitar. That alone would be in the spirit of an open source license. The EFF would probabaly help you with that. Or you could look at the RepRap community, it has experience with that topic.
Also, you don't have to offer a license at all.
You could for example, forbid all people to use the files, but hope secretly that all people pirated your files.
In this line of thinking, you could also add a pirate licensing terms, which might just state:
All people who distribute my files are pirates.
Well, that would be kind of strange, so I guess what I really should have said is this:
It really depends on what you want from your license.
I would suggest you restate the question somewhere, but include what you want from the license.
It is more like blaming the houseowner for putting handles on the doors, since these faciliate entry.
Well, it is unlikely that the German coast guard have many offices in Munich. However, thanks to advances in military computing, the army can now order submarine parts in Munich, if they feel like it.
I would consider any of these
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
an open source license, since others do.
Yes, BSD can sometimes be substituted with the GPL, since it is more permissive, and by that I mean that you can do more with BSD licensed source code, for example merge it with business source code in one binary.
However, the same is not true for program binaries distributed under the BSD license, because these may contain components that you will not get a license for.
So, if you want to improve a binary that includes BSD as a customer, you are bound to violate licensing terms.
The BSD license is not the main target of my arguments in the previous post, but other licenses are, which are completely incompatible with the GPL, both regarding source and binary.
The GPL concept comes from a time when a few companies like IBM, which were used to selling "big" mainframes, also owned the software on these machines. If these companies had successfully cornered the personal software market, even more people still would be stuck in using proprietary software.
If you release software to people, you are sharing the code already. It is just undocumented, in a format that can only easily be converted to assembler code, and only rude people who don't care about copyright law can use it.
If someone likes your program, and wants a legit copy that he can improve, he will have to spend extra work.
So GPL'ed code saves peoples' work, and without paying for it. Naturally, business doesn't like that.
while(!false) people.select("stallman.richard[middle_letter='m']").hair.comb(combs.grab());
One reason to be for the GPL as a FOSS license is that it is there.
There often are problems with merging code and projects under different licenses,
and having more of them, isn't better.
2nd answer:
Not all popular licenses are FOSS licenses.
The BSD license is a permissive license.
Calling it a business license would be as sensible.
3rd answer:
Many good intentions have been invested in the GPL.
It is a license with a concept behind it.
The KERNEL32.DLL wrapper provided by OldBoy2k and OldCigarette also makes executables with EncodePointer/DecodePointer work in windows 2000.
This ruling implies that Apple stole the technology from Motorola, and the lawsuit is Motorola's attempt to force Apple to relent.
No. Depending on the country the patent in question was issued in, it implies that Motorola was either the first to visit the patent office, or first to make the discovery.
Stealing would imply reading the patent, or other sources associated to Motorola, and acting upon it.
It also would imply that all of the patent is valid, in the sense that other requirements for a patent apply, as required by the various jurisdictions (that is practically none except prior art in the USA, but a certain level of inventiveness in the EU, and the exclusion of some fields in the EU, for example mathematics.).
It has been pointed out to me, so I'd like to point it out myself:
trickle-down-effect is being used to refer to the movement of technology, products, and behavior from wealthy people to less wealthy people.
trickle-down-economics or trickle-down-theory refers to the argument that by making wealthy people more wealthy, the income trickles down to the entire economy.
I would guess the latter is meant here.
I always knew there was a reason why we weren't understanding each other.
Of course Earth is special, but there might be lots of other places that are special too, maybe in some other way. The universe is not a small place.
What is even more disconcerting than electromagnetic jamming is that the west is unsuccesfull at communicating with some groups of people.
This becomes obvious if you study the following case:
step 1: Ahmadinedschad holds one of his talks at the UN assembly.
step 2: Western news report that diplomats walked out of the assembly in protest.
step 3: News reports catering to other groups of people report that Ahmadinedschad was applauded while talking in concilatory tone.
step 4: Shit happens
step 5: Profit
Suppose you signal the nesting level by indentation, as most programmers today do.
If you add a condition around some code, then for example 3 lines might indented, resulting in 5 lines being altered instead of the 2 which actually have changed.
For this, the proposed improved grep and diff might be good, at least better than the current state of diff. Okay, maybe I'm not telling about the -b flag, but the -b flag might be a problem if you code in whitespace or so ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
The appropriate way to deal with this would be to convert all program code to intermediate language, including comments and if available assertions, and to only check this code into the versioning system.
On check out, the code would be transformed according to an either agreed on formatting, or even to a different formatting for everyone.
tags:programming languages versioning systems patents prior art
I still find it interesting that in most RTS games, it is fine to massacre the peons of the enemy, while our modern military learns that this is not supposed to happen.
I think Cossacks: European Wars was the exception, where peons and farms would actually convert to your side if no enemy military unit was near them.
Some outer space conquest games penalize you by harming your relations to other players that is AI if you use biologic warfare. So the concept is not totally unheard of in games.
Well, I might have no clue how you sequence a gene or genome today, but I would guess the procedure would involve using traditional rna in a non-arsenic environment to multiply the dna before analysing it.
This process would of course not preserve the arsenic.
To get better tools, you would have to look at how the adapted lifeform reads and processes its dna, and how the cells factories actually translate the messenger rna, as this might be different.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Code#Variations_to_the_standard_genetic_code
Your company is just looking for a reason to fire anyone on their terms.
It is completely fine to play some game that comes pre-installed with the PC, if you are waiting for an important reply, or an action to be taken.
Of course you could instead write some document in the meantime, with a probablity of 10% that anybody but you ever reads it.
I would have wished for a download link ..
However, they are most certainly included in this report to make it more "sensational".
Ehm, no, they are included because it is hard to tell what the program is doing. Not all things can be resolved with rules, e.g. a chain of regex replaces. And you cannot brute-force it either most of the time by checking all inputs.
All you can do then is to determine the possible outputs by some rules, so a false positive is reported, whenever your rules are not exact.
Strange, and I thought I knew all the software developers working at the company.
.. they were lost by the 10% of commuters stupid enough to lose an USB stick.
After finding the God particle, scientists will say: "Hey let's find the Devil particle!"
Then we will escalate experiments till we manage to blow up Earth with one.
Fermi paradox solved, some of the most advanced lifeforms just blow themselves up.
You never know what the IT guy is worth until you replace him. Preferably with someone new on the job.
And then you go and complain about schools, and ask for more H1B visa ;-)
It is also very hard for the IT guy to know what he is worth.
For the sales guy it is easy because he just adds up all money he has raked in. Probably he will even have a tendency to overestimate because he doesn't know at what cost the company is producing its goods and services.
A manager with access to financial data, knows when the company is doing well financially, and knows when his pay is tiny in comparison to the turnover of his department.
Both are obviously in a better position to negotiate, unless the IT guy analyzes the company's data, for which most IT guys neither have the time nor the desire.
75% didn't look at confidential data, and of the 25% who admitted to peeking, you don't know how much they strayed from their tasks.
Management has access to this information as well and no one can complain.