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How are the current laws any more favorable to the little guy? In the current situation, patent trolls "win" against small businesses, because even if you fight the patent and win, you still are severely damaged - if not bankrupted - by the legal fees.

I would far rather have the lion's share of the risk be assigned to the plaintiff.
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Those cards are the stupidest idea that I ever heard. This woman is complaining for being harrased in a place where 10000 men from 15-50 are constantly drunk, really. And the answer is giving out colored cards? nature forces can't be controlled with cards.
winner-take-all elections are a poor substitute for a veto over legislation.

Proportional representation is much better. Having both PR and the ability to approve or veto legislation is even better.

Switzerland has BOTH of these features. And government is not the slave of lobbies as it is in the US.

And there's no need for letter writing campaigns in a vain attempt to get these people to listen to the voters.
This is going to change the way we interact.
Nokia sold the Qt licensing business over a year ago. The remainder was in the offing as soon as the Windows deal went down.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/07/nokia-sells-qt/
Most patent trolls such as Intellectual Ventures set up a shell company for each lawsuit, essentially (or group of lawsuits if they're targetting multiple companies) so they only really have the patents used in the case they'd be losing to sell.
What else would the meeting be for? He's incredibly naive if he honestly thought that the meeting was going to be them congratulating him for making a good product and nothing more.

I was hoping the outcome of this meeting would be executive-level support for my impending product launch.

What executive-level support would they give him except to buy him/his product? The bad faith here is going into this meeting with no intention of entertaining their obvious position.
//I've had great experiences working for great companies. At a recent job at Big4 firm, the CEO of the firm sent out my resignation letter to the entire company because of how great it was. It was a positive email, with no negatives.

But, now that you wrote this post, I guess people are going to doubt what you wrote in that letter... haha
The cards hopefully shame you into changing your behavior. Your brain is what needs to be controlling you. No matter how drunk you are.

EDIT: Also, being rude (a word which epically understates the kind of behavior mentioned here) is not a natural force. It's a behavior, like being polite. Which your brain controls. No matter how drunk you are.
"businesses that are already well established online like Netflix are best positioned to reap the rewards"

Netflix is in a tight spot where in some delivery schemes they are an extra middleman that could end up being unneeded. Content -> Netflix -> Apple -> Users can very quickly collapse to Content -> Apple -> Users. So if the sea change comes from a wildly popular new Apple Smart TV that's bad news for Netflix.

The same thing is going to be true if the cable companies manage to transfer their current cable monopoly to content on demand.

The "best positioned businesses" are probably the content producers because Content -> Users is realistic long term model. Which is why Netflix is ramping up their own content (Lillehammer, House of Cards, Arrested Development...).

That said even traditional content is under attack from all corners -- YouTube is commonly cited but there's also traditional console gaming, social apps, the social gaming apps, etc. In a few years I think we'll see more and more content startups based around animation-on-the-cheap tools like the forthcoming Source Filmmaker or NME (Taiwan Animated News). You could probably do a startup today that filled a cable channel with South Park quality original animation. Yes, that's very limited graphically but the competition (very low fee cable channels) is pretty godawful.
If they're going to get penalized for the resulting fraud then no, it isn't up to you.
What I said was extremely simple, there are a million ways it could turn into law. A simplistic solution in my mind would be a rule that if your example were to happen, the patent is transferable in the case that the purchasing company intended to act on that patent (insert legal shenanigans to define what that means here).

The general intention is that a company can not own a patent which it does not have a vested interest in acting on, how that is defined could be an entire thread of its own.
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The name made me think of me.dium.com from a few years back (later renamed OneRiot, and then bought by Wal-Mart), which now just shows a phpinfo() page: http://me.dium.com/
Is it? One could argue that divorcing widgets from backend infrastructure so thoroughly is an asset.
The flip side of this is that even if we decide to no longer issue software patents today, we still have 20 years of software patent lawsuits (I'm assuming that invalidating all current software patents would be too difficult), and so methods for mitigating the harm that comes from software patent trolling are welcome.
It would be an interesting thought, certainly I'd be willing to entertain the idea of some kind of e-voting system, wherein people could, at very least, keep a running poll for each senator/representative in their jurisdiction regarding each piece of legislation, maybe make it an electoral college/delegate thing. Accurate information is hard to come by in those regards, so a lot of politicians vote the way they've voted for decades because they assume people still believe what they did when they first ran for election.
Additionally, I'm intrigued by the Pirate Parties' "liquid feedback" system, which allows people to have a back and forth with their representatives and each other, in addition to being able to vote on the party platform.
FWIW All the "demo" images look like this:

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I didn't say anything about banning copyright; I didn't express my own position at all.

Frankly I'm at a loss as to your point, or how it is relevant. You seem to be jumping between various argumentative positions as they crumble away. It's clear you'd really like to discredit RMS, but beyond that I don't know what you're trying to achieve.

I'd rather not argue with you. I'm just here to explain the problem with your initial position and I've already done that.
Well, was going to post about this but looks like someone beat me to it :)

Basically my dotfiles, as a starter repo so you can fork, edit and use.

Also using my 'dotsync' script that can push/pull changes around multiple machines.

Has setups for zsh, vim and a number of other utils.
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I don't think those cards are just for being hit on, really.
MySQL chose correctly, not maciej.

The coercing bin('y') to 0 makes no sense though - I agree with you there.
> So what is wrong with documenting them not being nice?

Nothing wrong with it at all. Go for it.

Let me know how that works out.
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Precisely, especially with Anonymous' doings lately I've heard several senators express a desire to outlaw TOR in the US, ironic since we were so in favor of it's use in Egypt, and since we developed it for use by Chinese dissidents.
> It's sad that we have to assume the worst, isn't it?

Yes, I agree that it is a sad state of affairs.

Whether you accept it or not, this is the world we've created for ourselves.

(Obviously you do accept it, as evidenced by the lawyers you mention)
From the article

The cards are a hilarious way to raise awareness of the problem of brutal sexual harassment at DEFCON and similar conferences. Unfortunately, it will take more than raising awareness to make hacker conferences safe for women.

We’re waiting to hear about the first[2] hacker conference to adopt a specific, enforceable, well-planned policy protecting women from harassment – and then we’re going to promote the hell out of it.

Did you really just get bored and stop reading when you got to the colored cards? You were already 80% through the thing!
I didn't notice any sexual harassment this year at either BSidesLV (where I was on the security team both days, and where one of the main organizers is a woman) or at Defcon (although the in-your-face Chippendales posters all over the hotel were annoying). Nor at HOPE. Other than at Bsides, I wasn't actively seeking out bad behavior either, but it wasn't in-your-face if it did exist. (One speaker at Defcon used a James Bond movie hook in a talk about trusted platforms, with "don't get hacked, win the money, and get the girl", but I wouldn't consider that particularly inappropriate -- that it was James Bond makes it less bad than if it were a generic "don't get hacked, get laid" reference.)

Compared to Defcon 1-13, which had pretty pervasive sexual harassment. (Plus more public drunkenness and drug use, too). I was in Iraq during 14-18, so I can't really comment on those.

(This year, at an after-Defcon party on Sunday, the only obnoxiously drunk harassing person I encountered was female, too. That's probably not an improvement for society.)

I do kind of hate how people-with-kids now bring their children to Defcon, and the general push to turn it into "hacker disneyland" (with NSA recruiting there, various "Defcon kids" programs, etc.). I don't think that's related to less sexual harassment, just with the thing being bigger and a lot of participants now being old.

USENIX Security, IETF, and Nanog seem to be the best overall blend of "non-offensive atmosphere", "actual technical content", and smart/interesting people. There's probably a role for something cheaper and similar, maybe an extension of BSides, since as an individual, I'm a lot more willing to pay $100-200 for a conference than $1500-2500.
If I remember correctly, the courts ruled against this practice, deciding that only the actual owner of a patent had standing to sue for infringement.
> working

From my personal experience, I'd have to say that's highly debatable.
This might be different for seed stage folks, accelerators, etc. YC, for example, would quickly run out of markets if they avoided potential competitors. Also, pivots happen a lot early, so you see early stage companies oftentimes become competitive after the investment. There are good ways for investors to deal with this... See Andreessen Horowitz and Instagram/Picplz:
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/23/ben-horowitz-on-why...
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I think it's like that in Canada too.
I agree, brain control over impulses is what separate us from monkeys. But we are still monkeys, and the "creeper" guy over millenia tends to reproduce more over the polite guy, and so the creeper gen get selected and survives, that's how evolution works. It sucks that womens have a bad time at confs, but the last thing that I want is a police force caring for offended people, it's bad enough that modern confs are mostly social events about who get invited to which party, the antithesis of nerd/hacker behaviour.
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...and that is why I stay away from any of these MVC frameworks.
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> Stuff like this is so easy to catch in a unit or integration test.

Unit and integration tests are great, but you can't rely on them for everything. There is always a temptation to trust the tests instead of the real world, and that's where you get in trouble. The caption for this photo might as well have read 'all tests are green' http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7v0yrMrJ21rzupqxo1_500.jp...
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Excuse me (it's more polite than what I'd like to say.) I'm a man and I don't get drunk and think that I have a right to grope other women or other men.

Natural forces tell you that groping women is okay?

edit: Further more, if someone does manage to become so uncivilized from the amount of alcohol it takes for them to get to such a state, maybe, just maybe they shouldn't do that. In public. Around people that they can't seem to help but grope. Jesus, is this a real conversation I'm having?
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We don't have to wait for evolution. We have brains that can learn - during the span of our own lifetimes! I really think you didn't read the article if you think this is about being "offended". It specifically mentions Like the man who drunkenly tried to lick my shoulder tattoo. Like the man who grabbed my hips while I was waiting for a drink at the EFF party. Like the man who tried to get me to show him my tits so he could punch a hole in a card that, when filled, would net him a favor from one of the official security staff which you can read about in more detail here http://singlevoice.net/2012/07/12/sexism-redyellow-cards-at-...
It being an .exe and a JAR file doesn't surprise me at all. JAR files follow the ZIP format, and self-extracting ZIP files have always worked by being simultaneously a valid EXE and ZIP file.
If only big corporations took the same line as you. I can't believe the last company I worked for (starts with A, one that Steve Jobs hated) re-appropriated my 3 year old scuffed, dented, damaged MBP to a new employee after I left.

I thought I could keep it as a write-off when I left the company cos I had warped the case in a bicycle accident and dropped a video camera on the keyboard so a few of the plastic keycaps had been smashed. It still worked fine and meant a lot to me but I wouldn't be too impressed if I had received that computer as an employee. It would show a basic lack of respect for the work I will be contributing.
Perhaps he shouldn't have changed his mind.

But he could, and he did.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.194596-Faceboo...
It's also useful for developing developer tools (for the same effect as interposing).
Hacker sounds like kind of an idiot. I really liked the point made that being able to analyze "The Old Man and the Sea" doesn't come up very often in day to day life, but is still a good thing to be exposed to. Additionally, I appreciate the valid opinion that most teachers, particularly elementary, and to a lesser extent, middle school teachers have little to no math education. My mother actually changed majors and became a teacher because she did not have the prior education to pass calculus, and did not think she would ever be able to pass it. She's a very good teacher, and very smart, but it's for the best that she teaches HS English, and isn't required to teach math.
Okay, I'm dropping the politeness. I wish I could unilaterally remove you from the programming/hacker/humanity community. And Voxx. And anyone else who wants to act like it's unreasonable for women to want to go to a conference like this and not be, frankly, sexually molested. It's not "offended" people and to characterize it as such is so out of line, I'm not sure how best to express it.

(edited to remove my less-less-politeness, I feel guilty using such language on HN)
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That's about as reasonable as saying there are LOTS of ways to show multiple applications on a screen, Microsoft (and HP) shouldn't have used overlapping windows (and so on).

As a matter of pure legal hackery, I suppose it is impressive that Apple's lawyers have found a way around the previous "look and feel" lawsuit, but the rest of us should realize that an old dog is up to the same old tricks.
Those two statements conflict with each other and I don't see how you reconcile those without placing blame on MySQL.
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When I'm leaving, I'm already at the point where I've attempted to give all the possible feedback, and I've become jaded enough that I simply don't care about helping the company any longer.

I write the world's nicest email, praising the technical and personal quality of the team and its leadership, reiterating how much of a dream it was working with them. I make everybody feel great about themselves, and move on with my life, never to look back again.
"Nature forces". Right. So we should all just rape, murder, pillage, steal, and throw our feces around because those are natural impulses?

I'll pass on that world, I like my humans with at least a modicum of civility.
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I was trying to be simple, elementary, and easy to read! But my comment was not at all "pedantic"!

Even with all the context you suggested, the problem statement is just not very clear, and, in computing, computer science, and software, that lack of clarity is not a small point.

Put more bluntly, there is no excuse, and in serious software, especially for embedded systems, there is no role, for abbreviations that are on or over the line into gibberish. You are correct that such gibberish is common in software; my point is that we should not do that and should object.

Yes, in my suggested problem statement, I used notation common in mathematics. Still, the math community still says that such writing is English. GOOD.

Here is a big point: Computer science, computing, and software have no good substitute for such use of how mathematics is written. There is a partial substitute in practice if assume a particular programming language.

The error of n instead of -n or the absolute value of n is small but is an example of a huge point: A subroutine needs a description. A subroutine is precisely something and should have a precise description. The problem here is so simple we can get by with being imprecise as you suggest, but computing is not limited to such simple routines, and the complicated ones also need precise descriptions. Net, we need to write precise descriptions. Knuth did this in TACP (yes, I abbreviate!); it really is possible.

For assuming that 'add1' means an argument 1 passed to a function add is asking a lot even just in the context of software.

In passing a constant to a function there will be the issue, that should be addressed, of passing 'by value' or 'by reference'. In Fortran a constant is passed by reference with all the problems, side effects, and surprises there unto appertaining! We can't yet assume that Fortran is buried!

If my work does well and I start to hire, I will give a lot of weight to people who are good at reading and writing technical material and will prefer that they know how to read and write abstract math. For learning Visual Basic .NET, a book of code samples and a one week class should be able to do a lot. Net, I'm questioning if I should require new hires for programming to know any 'computing' at all.
I dont know much about how a venture capitalist estimates the value of a startup that has not yet marketed their product. But we all see how big name tech companies are stuck paying huge amounts to buy up competition: ie MS paying $9B for Skype, Facebook buys Instagram for $1B. Clearly Daltan wants to create value for his company that it does not yet have. The only way he can do this is by promoting himself on social media under the guise of a "this could happen to you" story.
yes, I agree with this. You have already tried to give the feedback already, you didn't wait until the exit interview.
If you were an active practioner in the field you wouldn't need a patent, you would have trade secrets.

Suppose I'm a consultancy and i invent an improvement to an MRI machine. I can sell the idea an MRI maker - or without patent protection I would have to set up in business making million $ MRI machines and compete with Toshiba/Philips/GE etc in order to benefit from my small improvement.
Every product has bugs.

The philosophy of attempting to work when possible (coercion and other things) is good.

They clearly messed up here, but it doesn't mean they should never try to coerce values.

Even the warning when you try it makes no sense (what double?):

1292: Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value: 'y '

It's clearly a bug, and not something fundamental to MySQL.
Here's one way Facebook has benefited from this type of model - http://gawker.com/5885714/ - "Inside Facebook’s Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where ‘Camel Toes’ are More Offensive Than ‘Crushed Heads’"
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Presumably because they dogfood their own product to their employees. I don't actually know if they do that, but I do know a lot of other companies that do. And it makes sense--if your employees don't use your product on a regular basis, then you're in trouble. But apparently keeping company data in a Dropbox account (personal or otherwise) also has potential security implications.
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All true - still means that bare minimum, a Pi (delivered) is double the price of a W703N (delivered).

If you need add any/all of: wifi, power supply, SDcard, enclosure - to the Pi for your project, then I think "a few times the price" is a reasonable description. Not everybody will have "spares" of those "on hand", and if your project involves building more than one of whatever, then you can't rely on "on hand" extras.

On the other hand, if you don't need wifi and you do need video out, then the Pi is an obvious choice.

my project for the TL-W703N is a Tahoe-LAFS server/storage appliance - the router and a 1 or 2TB USB harddrive - if I could put 10 or 12 of them together and distribute them amongst friends, just a harddrive sized package they need to plug into the wall and allow on their wifi (or wired) network, in return everyone gets several hundred Gig of "private cloud storage" with baked-in encryption and distributed storage reliability.
Great win for IBM/MSFT/Google/Apple etc.
I am trying to defend myself against them stealing my ideas - but if I lose I have to pay their legal bill.

All they have to do is to threaten to use their vast internal legal team to run up potential $M in bills and I have no choice but to settle out of court.
So what you're saying here is that we shouldn't be arresting people who commit sex crimes while drunk we should be euthenizing them to remove their genes from the population?
Would they also appeal to people who like cars? :)
Thanks, and nice work yourself :-)