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Some patents are worse than others. Still, I am not surprised that IBM & MS oppose this bill.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Whew...Now my Incrementor patent will make me rich.
Here are the details:
Any code which uses any of the following methods will require payment to me.
++i;
i += [Literal];
i = i + [Literal];
i++;
It won't be long now and I'll be rich because of my contribution to the programming world.
It's good to troll, when you have a patent.
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fine, i'll just rewrite to this:
x = i;
i = x + [Literal]
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"high-quality software patents" is an oxymoron.
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Google's chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, suggests that privacy is a fairly new development that may not be sustainable. "Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Cerf said at an FTC event yesterday while taking questions. Elaborating, he explained that privacy wasn't even guaranteed a few decades ago: he used to live in a small town without home phones where the postmaster saw who everyone was getting mail from. "In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing." "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the postmaster saw who everyone was getting mail from
Unless the postmaster also opened every letter and read its contents in order to deliver more "personalised" junk-mail, that analogy sounds like BS to me.
And even if privacy is a fairly new development, that doesn't mean we should abandon it. I presume he's not suggesting that the internet, computers, and wide-spread access to education and health care are also unsustainable?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes.
By that token, most of Human Rights are also an anomaly.
Why don't we start burning witches again?
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Searching for great technical information is tough – and finding the right place to contribute and show off great content that you’ve either written or discovered is also challenging. With our new content service Curah!, we have a way to make both those tasks easier. "Think about the real victims: the people who saw an overcrowded market and said, 'Me, too!'"
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Two years later than planned, Microsoft's new graphical operating system went on sale November 20, 1985. It wasn't worth the wait. But a bigger story was soon to unfold. I sense a trend here...
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That article was...er...brief
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Some users of popular GitHub source code repository service had passwords, access tokens and SSH keys reset. People! You, of all people, should know better!
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As EnterpriseDB unveils new versions of its Postgres management console and database, it points to Oracle pricing as the prime cause for the present rise of the open-source database. And in related news, the CEO of Oracle was seen sailing his 88m yacht to his island (Lanai, most of it anyway)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And in related news, the CEO of Oracle was seen sailing his 88m yacht to his island (Lanai, most of it anyway)
A 5 for this.
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Scott argues that while the OMG has been successful in marketing UML, it's been less successful in producing something people find useful. It was certainly a success for publishers of books on the subject
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Not to mention scholars who studied Ada Lovelace's ability to write programs despite not having a computer to run them on.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There is another obscure way of tracking users without using cookies or even Javascript. It has already been used by numerous websites but few people know of it. This page explains how it works and how to protect yourself. Feed your browser with some Etags instead of cookies! Anyone still thinking that telling a website "Do not track" is really going to have an effect?
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Wow,
These is the kind of info that lies between the and the
thx
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Haven't seen it yet myself, so it was at least news to me
Veni, vidi, caecus
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After identifying an attack, businesses now have several options to protect themselves according to the capabilities of their attacker. Bihani told ZDNet that depending on the business' risk appetite, they could scale up their response to an attacker's actions accordingly.
If you know you are being hacked, is it still hacking?
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If you watch someone break into your home is it still burglary?
I'd say yes. You knowing about it doesn't change a thing.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates held back tears today as he discussed the significance of his company's search for its next CEO. Gates didn't have any major updates on Microsoft's efforts to replace Steve Ballmer, but he did acknowledge the company is interviewing external and internal candidates. "It’s a complex role to fill," said Gates, before noting that Ballmer's successor will need to be comfortable running a company like Microsoft. The choices were that bad?
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Perhaps they need to bring back the people that Ballmer forced out of Microsoft. He seemed quite a nasty snake to work for. Then again, perhaps he did them a favour. Perhaps a stuffed toy that looks like Jobs would be a worthy successor.
Whatever they do, the successor will inherit a poisoned chalice. The toxic decisions Ballmer made will linger a good while after his departure.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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