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by follower 16y ago
Excluding work-for-hire, does a copyright transfer affect the copyright term in a way that makes the date of the original author's death no longer relevant? (IANAL and couldn't find a discussion of this when I had a quick look.) Ignoring th
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by follower 16y ago
Yes, you remember correctly ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft ) but GNU would have an issue with the term "IP". :) I don't have a link but my impression is that part of the need for the GPL to exist in the first place is due to restri
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by follower 16y ago
> significantly benefits everyone else making a living off intellectual property. Doesn't that presuppose that the incremental gain from adding another N years of copyright coverage after an author's death is greater than the potential
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by follower 16y ago
I wonder if anyone has ever considered that existing copyright legislation puts authors' lives at risk by making the term: date of death + N years? There's a short story in that at least but now I'm too afraid for my life to write it. :)
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by follower 16y ago
Always enjoy reading articles like this that describe the process of reverse engineering a particular technology or device. Also appreciated the mention of the rageagainstthecage exploit which looks like it could be used to enable a "full u
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by follower 16y ago
> There is a compelling natural rights justification for intellectual property But Copyright as law is only about 300 years old and wasn't implemented because of "natural rights". > If people's intellectual property rights are not r
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by follower 16y ago
In addition to the (currently down) http://www.publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011 link provided by 2mur this blog entry also talks about what entered the public domain this year: http://blog.okfn.org/2010/10/18/which-works-enter-the-p
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What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?(law.duke.edu)
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by follower 16y ago
Yeah, my impression is that the MakerBot line is a much easier way to get started, so that makes sense. What you are thinking of was essentially the approach I was going to suggest. :)
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by follower 16y ago
Are you specifically planning to get a RepRap or are you considering one of the MakerBot line?
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by follower 16y ago
Here's a couple of presentations which address that question: * http://webchick.net/files/women-in-floss.pdf * http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/07/25/standing-out-in-the-cro...
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by follower 16y ago
> "This however is a shame because if you remove the github component..." I'm quite happy using the hg-git plugin (by the GitHub folks) which allows you to use Mercurial to interact with GitHub: http://hg-git.github.com/
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by follower 16y ago
> I have a clone repo on the production server with a production branch Do you protect the dot-files from being accessed via the web? I was at a security conference recently and a speaker mentioned a number of companies had source code
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by follower 16y ago
> The thing that chaps our asses is that it's almost exclusively used where a simple circuit would have done fine, often boiling down to being just a 555 timer or a parallel port breakout box. So what's been lacking in the nearly 40 yea
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by follower 16y ago
This article seems to be more concerned about "hacker" vs "script kiddie" than "hacker" vs "cracker" which most comments here seem to be focused on. But on that topic I'm actually less pessimistic about the use of "Hacker" than I used to be
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by follower 16y ago
> he emailed to "give me the bad news," he said "we're going with another candidate, but enjoy your summer at Company X!" I'd say this loosely qualifies as rejecting me like an asshole. Really? Wow. I'd have interpreted that as an attem
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by follower 16y ago
> Sometimes I look that the O'Reilly Head First or Wiley Dummies books and have trouble keeping track of the actual content I'm not sure I'd be inclined to put both series into the same category. Admittedly I haven't looked at the recen
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by follower 16y ago
> Anon can hurt MasterCard without cost to himself (presumably) Presumably getting caught and jailed/fined is a potential cost? So it's not an action without risk/cost.
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by follower 16y ago
Can you walk down the street while typing a SMS message or entering a street address without looking at the phone? That's pretty much my "is a soft keyboard good enough" test.
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by follower 16y ago
Given the manufacturing partner is Samsung the "S" may be related to their Galaxy S line.
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by follower 16y ago
It would be nice if the title of the current track was displayed somewhere in the top of the page so you don't have to scroll down to find it.
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by follower 16y ago
> difference between harassment and offensive I've read somewhere that using the words "offensive" or "offended by" puts the emphasis on the person who has expressed concern about the situation. It focuses on the negative: "what can we
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by follower 16y ago
I guess I should have RTFF. :) "Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link? Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and weblog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a
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by follower 16y ago
What you present is a false dichotomy. Have you considered treating people as people? See someone (whatever the gender) at a tech conference? Talk to them about tech. Simple.
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by follower 16y ago
In short, no. You might be interested in reading: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sex_is_beautiful Also, don't assume that it's only women who object to sexual content in technical contexts.
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by follower 16y ago
> In fact that stereotypical geek has, I think, never been the one to pull of these sorts of overt sexual advances (so the link is/was an unfair one). But if the people at these conferences aren't "stereotypical geeks" then who are they
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by follower 16y ago
Maybe you're a lot more confident in social situations than I am then. :) I don't think the hacker community is any more welcoming of dissenting opinions than the world at large. Standing out is a good way to get flamed. Or be told that one
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by follower 16y ago
> The only "sexism" I observed was excessive delight: "Oh wow, a woman!" which I hardly consider harassing. FWIW some people would consider that unwelcoming/harassing--I think the term is "othering". i.e. what's treated as important is
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by follower 16y ago
[Citation needed.]
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by follower 16y ago
> but the chivalrous guys far outnumber the jerks. If this is the case, why do these incidents keep happening? I guess it comes back to the cliched "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [people] do nothing". And ha

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