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by greyfade 14y ago
Gather prior art and file for a reexamination. You can file prior art for applications now, too: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120717/00232219721/
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by greyfade 14y ago
I was speaking in the specific context of ideas. Clearly, sensitive data should be protected, and an NDA is a good legal control for that. But I don't believe that an idea is worthy of an NDA, and therefore that so-misnamed "IP" would be "f
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by greyfade 14y ago
I feel that if you need an NDA, more than likely, you're not the first person to come up with the idea, and chances are, someone else is already executing it. The NDA would just get in the way of getting the resources you need together quic
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by greyfade 14y ago
Instead of using `grep "(1)"`, use the `-s` switch: $ apropos -s1 copy bsdcpio (1) - copy files to and from archives cp (1) - copy files and directories dd (1) - convert and copy a file
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by greyfade 14y ago
Or, if Vim isn't present, at least some version of `vi` will be. (Whether it be busybox-vi, nvi, or Ritter's Traditional Vi.)
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by greyfade 14y ago
To do it. And while we're there, science the place up. There are still some experiments we can only do in person that can't be done with robots. I can imagine experiments relating to terraforming would be high on the list.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I've had a few situations where I found it easier to review commits, retag, and merge from `gitk`, which sadly has a very confusing UI, over the command-line, where it's difficult sometimes to keep mental track of commit trees.
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by greyfade 14y ago
If you think that's cool, look at Daeken's Magister: http://demoseen.com/windowpane/magister.png.html A PNG that's interpreted as HTML and loads itself as compressed JavaScript!
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by greyfade 14y ago
> You could walk outside now, and start yelling "I NEED A PHP PROGRAMMER!" and you'd probably find someone pretty quickly. This is something that I point out as a negative. Yes, you can get a PHP programmer just about anywhere. But bein
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by greyfade 14y ago
I'm dubious of patent pools. What benefit do they provide beside the protection of other members of the pool?
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by greyfade 14y ago
> Why else would you "default" to "he" instead of "she"? Because you assume the author to be a man. I can say both from experience and personal perspective that, especially in America, it is a cultural norm to use "he" as a gender-neutr
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by greyfade 14y ago
And some are, unfortunately, hard to pronounce. ( I.e., Sie and Zhe.)
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by greyfade 14y ago
Setting aside your confirmation bias, I'll point out that Google haven't themselves brought these patent cases to the ITC in the same number or with the same force as have Apple, Microsoft, or anyone else. Google has filed fewer cases with
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by greyfade 14y ago
I don't think Apple should pay. And I question whether anyone else should, either. These "standards-essential" patents are under RAND terms because to do otherwise devalues the patent and provides incentive for the standard to "work around"
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by greyfade 14y ago
> As for flash having more bugs than IE, add some links for reference, I would love to read up on that. Then I would recommend starting with Secunia's Advisory and Vulnerability Database and NIST's National Vulnerability Database. Both
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by greyfade 14y ago
Amazon.com was famously put together by mostly Lisp engineers. They more recently switched to C++ and apparently experienced a lot of growing pains as they had to learn how to scale up C++ to match what they had been doing in Lisp for years
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by greyfade 14y ago
A blame field is unnecessary. Just note the broken revision and `git blame` or `svn annotate` or whatever equivalent you have. :)
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by greyfade 14y ago
Are you kidding? The 945GM doesn't have fixed-function hardware! The entire 3D pipeline save for the shaders is implemented in _software_. Intel didn't even add fixed-function hardware until the GMA X3000 series in the G/GM965 and GL960
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by greyfade 14y ago
I don't know about the rest of the DoD, but I know that most of the fire brigades on Marine Corps and Army bases are using IE7 or Firefox. But I don't think their CAC-managed systems allow them access to the web at large.
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by greyfade 14y ago
He apparently knows several languages (including Perl, I've heard), and he learned Java specifically to try this case.
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by greyfade 14y ago
There's still the matter of whether it was Fair Use, which the Jury was hung on.
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by greyfade 14y ago
My question is, why do they have this page at all in the first place? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If there's a known-bad client, it seems reasonable to me to show a notification of that fact on the "front" page. (Not being a Facebo
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by greyfade 14y ago
Bah. Those are dirty reactors. Why don't we talk about Thorium or something?
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by greyfade 14y ago
No, I'm talking about native ports. Though IE8 and possibly IE9 work in Wine, yes, that's not what I meant. I meant that Microsoft was actively developing and supporting native ports of IE 3 through 5 on Solaris, HP-UX, Xenix, and maybe pos
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by greyfade 14y ago
Given that IE hasn't run on anything other than Windows since version 5 (when it ran on Solaris, HP-UX, Xenix, and, I've heard Linux as well - up to 5.5 on Mac OS), I'd say they probably don't have any plans for it.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I do. I think it'd be hilarious if a Copyright case like this went forward and the defendant said, essentially, that they "threw away and rewrote" the copied code because it had too many bugs.
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by greyfade 14y ago
This is code that Oracle has claimed that Google illegally "copied" from OpenJDK without proper license. Whether you could write this code yourself is irrelevant - this is Copyright, not Patent law. What matters is whether it was copied, an
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by greyfade 14y ago
Hence Google's argument for de minimis , which the Jury seemed to reject, I guess? I'm still having trouble wading through the filings, rulings, and jury verdict.
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by greyfade 14y ago
No, it seems pretty clear (both based on physical models and modern theory) that the universe is not ray-traced, but is in fact radiosity-illuminated.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I stopped feeling that way when I hauled another load of boxes out to the recycling bin the other day.

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