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by bediger 16y ago
+1 to the author of the article (not the "obfuscators") for using the word "therein". And correctly, as near as I can tell.
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by bediger 16y ago
Gosh, US patent law is more messed up than I thought. Not only do The Lawyers get a huge cut of the money on any "infringement" cases, but you have to pay them along the way to make sure that you get your rightful infringement vengence.
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by bediger 16y ago
Interesting view of how Linux would have worked out, had Sun done the right things with x86 processors. But this strikes me as denying Sun's position, as per Clayton Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma". Sun passed on a number of opportunit
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by bediger 16y ago
Borderline spammy.
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by bediger 16y ago
Flag; This headline no verb.
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by bediger 16y ago
How do we detect the astroturfers and shills? It's pretty obvious that sites likeZDnet.com, techdirt.com and groklaw.net are targeted by some fairly well-heeled trolls, but what about the more subtle shills? How can we detect and banish t
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by bediger 16y ago
Now that we all know about the farce of "Intellectual Ventures", can we dispense with Myhrvold entirely?
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by bediger 16y ago
Or the lawyering. The law department seems like a very costly line item, one that could be done remotely, as long as you set up the proper procedure for the outsourced lawyers to follw.
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by bediger 16y ago
Wait, wasn't R&D the piece of a corporation's work that was going to stay in the US, because every worker here was talented, good at problem solving and so forth?
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by bediger 16y ago
This article makes a ton of good points, but misses typesetting. A lot of the books he cites got typeset with troff. Certainly all of Kernighan's books, and all of Stevn's books, got typeset using troff. It's not that troff is so great at
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by bediger 16y ago
Elaborate on this? Certainly. Visit a website that allows comments, and posts articles on controlversial topics. Say, techdirt.com or groklaw.net. Read all the comments for 10 articles. You'll quickly come to the realization that a numbe
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by bediger 16y ago
Ha ha! The leak that blows the sockpuppets/trolls wide open! We knew this day would arrive, and it finally did. But the bigger question: why didn't dailykos.com link to the Aaron Barr email in question? I ask for two reasons. First, it se
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by bediger 16y ago
I have to agree. It just reads wrong, like some ineffable North Korean press release, maybe. Either Al Jazeera's editors favor a Neo-Stalinist writing style, or they got trolled.
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by bediger 16y ago
The US Government (Department of Defense and "Intelligence Community") doesn't have a lot of choice. They've let the already incestuous aerospace industry contract to about 4 main companies, and those 4 don't compete with Boeing in the pas
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by bediger 16y ago
The Forbes article misses a few key follow-on questions: 1. How many other "security" firms offer the kind of borderline illegal services that HBGary Federal offered? HBGary Federal probably isn't alone in any of this, or is it? 2. Has the
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by bediger 16y ago
Please elucidate. Post some URLs that give step-by-step instructions for "placing content into the public domain". Show some examples. I've heard tell that it's almost impossible to currently, in the US, place anything in the public domai
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by bediger 16y ago
I've been using Vim for a long time, maybe since version 3 or 4, because what sold me was multiple windows, either into the same file, or each window displaying different files.
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by bediger 16y ago
Do you "owe" your employees a career path? In a word, no. But having a career path is something you can pitch to prospective employees as an additional reason for working at your company. Besides that, the jump from "lead engineer" to "fro
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by bediger 16y ago
From the viewpoint of the article, this looks like a case of "Best Practices" (Microsoft) vs "Best Design" (Apple). What's the difference? "Best Practices" are describable and repeatable, while "Best Design" depends on artistic sensibility
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by bediger 16y ago
Wow, this is an almost unprecedented scale for Internet-vandalism-related crimes. Part of me wants to ask where this level of effort is with respect to spammers and other sociopathic internet goofballs.
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by bediger 16y ago
That may be what it needs, but will it get US-style "security"? Gotta watch out for that one, Medvedev.
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by bediger 16y ago
Yes, there are indeed two costs of production, and free market economics has terms to cover both: "Sunk costs" and "marginal costs". Free market economics says that the price of a good in a competitive market falls to the marginal cost of
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by bediger 16y ago
You're denying basic free market economics with an emotional argument. In a competitive market, the cost of a good tends towards its marginal cost of production. We get all excited as the cost of solar cells tends lower and lower, as the
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by bediger 16y ago
This is rubbish on the part of Illinois State. Mere citizens are photographed an filmed all day. Not counting the bus itself, I counted 16 CCTV camera pods between getting off the bus and passing through the security at the entrance to my
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by bediger 16y ago
Humbug. This is just another Old Media guy who can't handle interaction with people unmediated by editors. He's peeved because his throne went away with the paper magazine.
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by bediger 16y ago
Thank you! That clarifies what I meant, as I was indeed struck by the "social class" phrase as out of place or something.
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by bediger 16y ago
So, if you obtain enough money, and at least profess the same taste in canape's and worker relations, you can be one of the new asian aristocracy? Or is there an ethnic or length of wealthiness component? Like the "old money" vs "new mone
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by bediger 16y ago
Not so much. Almost everyone claims to be "middle class", the definition is so vague as to be meaningless. People who are obviously very, very well off claim middle class status. Only a very few would claim "working class" status, and typ
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by bediger 16y ago
Help out a poor, ignorant American: what's a "social class"? One of the Gazillionaires mentions that "everyone in his social class" lost someone they knew in the Mumbai terrorist attack. In 25 words or less, what's a "social class"?
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by bediger 16y ago
In general, you can't tell if you're "stealing" (more properly "infringing") on copyright material. A court has to decide formally.

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