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A number of commercially farmed crops are grown using genetically modified seeds. The farmers license the seeds from the company that holds the patents to the various gene modifications (principally Monsanto.) These licenses tend to obligate the farmer to not use the seeds produced by their crops, but rather to buy a whole new bag of seeds each year.

I doubt they'd go after a private gardener, but they could.

Further reading:

http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/Why-Does-Monsanto-Pa...

>"The first time growers purchase Monsanto seed, they sign a stewardship agreement and contract agreeing not to save and replant seeds produced from the crops they grow from Monsanto seed."

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Even further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Legal_actions_and_con...

http://rense.com/general38/saver.htm

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/02/scotus-hears-...
The difference, of course, is that your neighbor's patented computer/car/lamp/soda won't spray pollen out that hits your computer/car/lamp/soda, causing it to produce little baby patent-violating computers/cars/lamps/sodas that you can be sued for. Yet exactly that can happen with crops.
Well, the launch event alone will certainly not become legendary, nor something worth rewatching.
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The problem is, how do you define DRM vs just a regular online service?

If I launch a web-app for example I don't necessarily want to have to support it forever.
Is it not possible for you to sort best to worst and keep just what your best at? The other factor is to consider the demand for e language. You may not love Python the most but if your goal is to get a job almost anywhere, then prioritizing your Python experience is a good strategy.
More IP craziness.
Doesn't sound very appetizing!
I was just pointing out that someone who was aware of the key weakness issue would probably just implement the known fix, rather than carefully select and test different salts.
We are most likely going to be adding this. It was in the original plan, but we wanted to get something out first.
Nitpicking I know but reusing the Google Reader favicon actually caused me confusion for a second. Cool idea though, and way more interesting than what I did last night!

Anyone complaining about "the RSS landscape changingblah blah blah" must really hate fun. Someone did this in a night to address an immediate problem and probably had a blast doing it, let the guy (girl?) enjoy the fruit of their labor.
This is awesome, but I kind of wish that it matched progressions with progressions.

Right now, if I give it I V vi IV, it'll show me "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne. While that song does contain those chords, in that order, they function very differently - because the actual progression is vi IV I V.
Since I got my degree in Germany, things are slightly different, but it seems to me like the premises of the situation are very similar. During and after high-school I worked as a web dev for a small compnay and did some projects on the side. At the time the only college degree you could go for was a "Diplom", which is a 5 year program and qualifies you for PhD studies - or just keep working and making very good money at the time.

After having done web development - I'm talking front-end stuff here: HTML, JavaScript, CSS and simple business logic stuff with ColdFusion/Perl/PHP and MySQL - I wanted to move on to more interesting things. And that's what the degree allowed me to do. I qualified the kind of web development I did, because there are some very interesting fields on the server side when it comes to scaling things, but I can see how the front-end technologies get boring.

It certainly depends on what courses you are going to take. But if your aim is to get a deeper understanding of more complex problems, I suggest you go for it and apply that rule to the courses you are going to take. Personally I did mainly machine learning and compilers and worked at the chair for distributed systems.

So what has this gotten me? Well, that depends on the way you look at it, but together with my co-founder I'm working on a startup that analyzes location information and motion detection to track user behavior. It's interesting, technically challenging, not a lot of other folks work in this area and we might even make money with it ;)
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"My name is Christian, I'm unemployed and I live with my parents.". I probably don't deserve anyones attention, but please, bare with me for a moment. I should add that I'm nearing my 24th birthday, live in Europe and my real name is Failure.

Programming is about the only thing I can do that doesn't turn me crazy. I realized that too late. I was sitting on a high horse for too long, yet nothing but an unpaid internship was necessary to attend college.

With nearly no friends, terrible grades, disappointed parents, never having felt the embrace of a women not just giving a rats ass about me and terrible anxiety I never got that internship, or done anything else with my life. I jumped from pastime to pastime, never really mastering anything. I learned to love the computer. Python and all the web development stuff stuck with me.

All I used my knowledge for was downloading porn in more and more efficient ways. Now I love webscraping.

My friend said that he has never met anyone who was as good at soaking up knowledge as I was, as good a programmer I am. I fell too low to know whether he's right. I only know one thing. Change is in order.

My sadness has turned into desire. If I had the money to travel, I would have the energy to climb Everest and die. I sprung up, shaved, did 50 push-ups, nearly died thinking about a girl that probably hates me for sleeping with her because who wants to remember that guy living at his parents. I browsed trough the paper looking for a job. Too many requiring a car, an education and a lot of flaky stuff. Even thought about working part time as a courier, which would barely be enough to pay my debt in about a year and for health insurance. I have no fricking idea how "working" even works. But I know that I have a lot of stuff to catch up to.

Getting a domain that doesn't scream idiot, a github account filled with projects, an identity. I don't know where to begin and what needs to be done. What would you guys do with this amount of free time?
"Piracy only breeds stronger and more invasive DRM"

I don't think the history of music publishing supports that claim.

On the other hand it may be unique, e.g. the normal smallest granularity is a 3-5 or so minute song, AND the 33 RPM vinyl LP allowed publishers to move away from that (the 78 and 45 RPM formats weren't very long at all). Some of what we're seeing is a rejection of what turned out to be a fairly short lived business model.
Nice! I am a diehard Slackware user, but this gives me ideas. Thank you!
If you start with a minor chord and always follow the most likely chords, you end up having the exact chord progression from the song. They were right after all.
Depending on how and where you're storing, liberating space of stuff you don't really need means you can:

- Gain additional working ("scratch") space.

- Gain space for storing things you actually do need / can use.

- Move items from current living space to (newly freed) storage space.

- Stop paying for storage lockers / rentals. Move your car/bike into covered/secured storage, etc.
As my career grew, I found myself putting less and less on the skills section of my resume. My next version might not have the section all together. The reason is that I want to be considered as a code architect and not simply a list of buzzwords. I am at the point in my career that I can be picky about who I work for and no one will pigeonhole me into buzzwords.

Of course, if you are junior, you might need to list these skills in order to pass any matching software if you are applying to big companies. In general, only list skills that you wish the explore and develop further. Do not care for PHP anymore? Do not list it. Are you rusty in some language that you used as a freshman? I would not list it as well. Do not list "common" tech skills such as HTML. If a recruiter (internal/external) does not have a buzzword match with your resume, you probably do not want to work for that company anyways.

For any skill section (language, OS, etc...) list at least 2-3 to show you have some depth. Applying to a job with Ruby as your only language is not ideal.

EDIT: I should add that the skills section is definitely a good spot to add something that you have been learning on your own. It is a great conversation starter and shows your interest to grow outside of work.
>Region searching is currently broken! When it is fixed, the task you are trying to do will be easy. Until then, the best you can do is invite through the friend system.

How is it that every single thing in this game is broken? I tried playing multiplayer as well once I got bored playing alone and got just as bored except faster because I was still playing singleplayer because nobody will ever join.
Time flies when you're having fun?

Maybe we don't realize how long it takes to acquire a new skill.

If someone had told me it would take a year to just become comfortable with emacs, I would never have picked it up. I already have sublime installed, and textmate!

But I picked it up because I respected people I knew who were wielding with great skill, and I wanted to try org-mode for TODO lists.

I'm glad I did.
Thanks for your feedback. English is not my native language so I can sound rude unintentionally in written expression (it's hard enough already in my native language.)

I'll try throwing random smileys next time :P
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Exactly. It's going to be more difficult for unknown artists to bootstrap their way to million dollar movies, but that's how it is in the industry already. Eventually there will be folks who make big movies with wide ranging cultural impact who do so entirely outside of the traditional system. But until then, baby steps.
You can alias the main domain, or you can add a new separate domain with its own settings, both of which we use on the one account.
But the author gives example of reselling iPods. I'm not aware of discounted wholesale pricing on iPods, so how would you make a profit without ripping people off (i.e. selling over Apple's price)?
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First of all - great job! :-)

When I search for any song, I only get the chord progressions of an excerpt, not for the whole song. Question: do you have the chord progressions for the whole song stored?

If yes, why don't you show them? It would be great to use in a fake book...

If no, what did you normally chose? Verse, Chorus? Sometimes the musically most interesting things happen in the Bridge... Why didn't you find the full progression - just for time reasons? I think if you have mostly Chorus progressions, it's quite difficult to deduce general statistical information about "all of popular music", wouldn't you agree?
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In general I make a resume targeted to the company I'm looking to apply for (or if it's a job site the type of position I'm most interested).

With that in mind I keep the main language that the company cares about front and center, and maybe a few supplemental languages if they are a multi-language shop. For specific positions I do research into what languages that position most requires. For sysadmin for example, I would most likely put Ruby (Chef/Puppet), perl (parsing, general scripting), and bash (general scripting).

If you really want to go into depth, there's always the interview for that.
>"Native" advertising, a.k.a. sponsored content

Which is fine. If you're gonna have an ad I can't avoid but doesn't significantly slow down page load, fine with me.
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I installed glider.io and, as of now, I'm not sure why it is better than simple Gmail labeling / filter.
But on the other hand, it is better that "smart" outlook.com classification (which cannot even figure out where to put mails from billing@microsoft.com).
So there might be something about this is the future.
The "Rel" option uses relative notation for easy transposition. Nice!
If a product is bought and sold, it should mean that ownership has been transferred.

If ownership has changed hands, then the previous owner should not be allowed to retain control over the product. DRM, withholding of root passwords, forced updates, it really shouldn't matter. The owner should be the person of total control, and anyone interfering with that should be sent to court as a thief or intruder. This was after all the economic model in USA before DRM was invented.
Taking money is a lot of effort compared to just setting up google ads. There have been attempts to do something like you suggest - one of these reader-type sites (readability?) used to collect money for content creators as compensation for hiding their ads.
> "...it seems very likely the people running the company were operating in good faith"

I don't think that matters. They're not in good faith selling ownership, because they're not selling ownership.
There's a supreme court case on this issue going on now: http://rt.com/usa/supreme-court-monsanto-patent-615/

The question is how far the licensing terms reach. The software companies support Monsanto's seed claims because they don't want people pirating software.
I think the exact opposite may eventually work. Offer some storage for £250 (or even £500) per year, along with a convincing narrative about how much wine deteriorates if not stored properly, and why your storage is better than anything else.
It's somewhat plausible that storing expensive wine must be expensive. But £10 per year? Meh, someone who is really into wine has his own cellar which costs way more than that.
I lead a team, and I work remotely. Actually I manage two teams. But I work in a mid-size company (400 people) that's completely remote.
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Certainly I can continue to use Virtualbox. However, VMWare is more efficient and more stable - virtualbox is a bit slow and tends to crash your mac once in a while. I'd be willing to shell out some money for that feature, but given the price I probably won't, at least not in the near future.
>A computer or a car or a lamp or soda is different from a plant because they do not propagate

Which is why Monsanto and other companies tried to introduce "terminator seeds": plants who are sterile, so they a) guarantee more profits and b) the IP becomes easier to protect. The technology hasn't been introduced because protests were too large.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Terminator_seeds
Eh, I had never heard of Hugin before.

Don't try Muninn, it's already taken for something sorta similar: http://code.google.com/p/muninn/
This is kinda my point the pricing is based on old maximums. Today the pricing could have a consumer centric model priced around arrival performance vs. ticket refund-ability and other sub classes.
They used to celebrate it, before loosing all the Nortel patents:

http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE76104L20110702
Thanks, i will definitely remove the "common" skills.
Not very similar. The problem with ether is that it fixed a preferred frame. So some objects were truly still and some objects were truly moving.

The Higgs field also permeates all objects, but the mathematical structure is different and it has no preferred frame, so there is no truly still object, all the movements are relative.

This is not a strange thing. The photons are the bosons of the electromagnetic field, that also permeates all objects and it has no preferred frame, so there is no truly still object, all the movements are relative.

And the gluons are the bosons of the strong force field with exactly the same properties.

Even the electrons have and associated field that that also permeates all objects and it has no preferred frame, so there is no truly still object, all the movements are relative. But electrons are fermions, no bosons, so some properties are different, but they have an associated field.

The same happens with the up and down quarks (and neutrinos). Each one has a associated field, with the same properties. (And the other particles too, but this is becoming too repetitive.)

The strange thing is not that the Higgs Bosons have an associated field. The strange thing is that the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs Fields is not zero.

In all the other cases (photons, electrons, ...) the vacuum expectation value is zero, so if you have an empty box, there are almost no particles there (some virtual particles appear, but in some sense they are only a few, (in another sense they are a lot, but it's better to think that they are only a few).) The important thing is that if any particle pass through the box, it will almost not bounce against any other particle (photons, electrons, ...) because it is empty.

But for the Higgs fields the vacuum expectation value is not zero! So even inside the empty box the value of the Higgs field is not zero, there is something like a background value. If any particle passes through the box, it will bounce many many many times against the background even if the box is empty. An easy way to interpret all this bouncing is to say that the particle has apparent mass.

But the Higgs field is not even, it has bumps, and those bumps are the Higgs Bosons. The empty box has only very few Higgs Bosons (or a lot in another technical sense). The normal particles can bounce against the background (vacuum expectation value) and we call it "mass" and they can also bounce against the bumps (bosons) and we call it "interactions".
After a short period of confusion, I can now switch back and forth with no hassle.
I really miss the social aspect of Google reader before they axed it back in 2011. It's not really social in the traditional sense, it's social in the sense that I could outsource the job of scouring feeds on various topics to other people. Everything they found interesting would be mainlined right into my reader interface so I didn't have to personally check 20 feeds on Android.

I do hope that Digg can create a simple and fast interface that captures this concept without too much clutter from the more traditional social features.
Good faith means less when you're selling an ongoing service and accept money. When they promised an ongoing service to host purchases, they laid the rug out and stood on it.
My main issue is that I want to avoid needing to customize my resume to the company every time. I already spend a bunch of time writing cover letters to companies, and most of the time you never even hear back. (I'm applying to internships)
It always bugged me that dvds would be advertised as "own the movie now!" I wonder how that would play in court.
I don't like ads and I don't click on ads. I prefer to help content creators I enjoy in more direct ways, like buying their books, apps and donating to their projects. Advertising sets a very low minimum fee for content. Web advertising is why traditional news papers are going out of business. Some of us prefer to buy DVDs instead of watching commercial television.
Amen to that! You should consider putting together a little blog post about "the Node way." Way too many people are just porting their heavyweight frameworks from Ruby/PHP/Python and not realizing that successful Node apps are a series of tiny components (brilliantly managed by npm), not complex frameworks.

This is something that I spend a lot of time thinking about (for instance, how can we apply this to the organization of corporations?)..
But the fact that it's illegal has wider implications than the prosecution of the infringing person. For example, it becomes hard to distribute tools to remove DRM, should someone build them. Thus, it is unfeasible that DRM removal could become commonplace, since everyone has to do it for himself, or make a big effort to get help. There can't be legal commercial incentives to help people solve this problem, and even if someone made a free good tool for that, it would be legally attacked if it became popular; that means it probably won't be solved.
To support Dave case here, we at Jumpseller, got over 5.000 stores after opening up with just our free plan.

Later we expanded our plans and focused only on paying customers.

There is a bit difference between people who are willing to pay 0USD and those willing to pay 1USD.
It was terse, yes. I apologise for that.

It was the end of the day and I was feeling tired and irritable.

However, I do stand by my original post's intent. I think that copy eliciting funds from potencial backers should be as 'proper' as it can be. To me this communicates a level of professionalism.
You've just given me a horrible, horrible idea.

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Yes, they're absolutely right. Not having bacn in my INBOX is wonderful. But I have that already, using Gmail filters. Glider could automate it for me, which would be valuable. I don't think I'd value it at $9/month, though. Maybe I'm not in the target market for this.
I agree that this is insane, but I'm not sure what the solution is.

With most patents, the company that developed the technology to be patented has a unique advantage even without the patent. They have a better technical understanding of the technology than the competitors, and they can incorporate it into their products faster.

With crop patents, the patent seems far more necessary as an incentive to innovate. If Monsanto can't patent their new seed, then anyone else who wants to can also sell the seed, and Monsanto will never recoup the R&D costs. Under this scenario, I don't see why anyone would develop new plants.

Assuming we want to encourage selective breeding/genetic engineering of new plant species, what incentives can we devise that don't have the problems posed by patents?
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I have an idea that I am confident would be popular enough to warrant exploring it further.

This project would require some development capital (20-30k is sufficient) for the term of project.

As this is the first project I've ever even thought of looking for outside funding for, I'm stuck at a point where I'm not sure what to do next!

YC is unfortunately out for me, as I'm unable to move.

What are some places/people to look at for potential funding?

What are the downfalls that I may encounter?

What are your experiences with attempting seed funding?
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If you can program, then you can probably get paid to program. Make a list of every person you know: friends/acquaintances, family, old coworkers, Internet connections, etc. Ask each one if they have any programming/web development work you could do or if they know someone who might. You are concerned you won't be able to work, and I bet you will have some difficulty learning how to sustainably apply yourself to someone else's problem for days or weeks at a time. You're just going to have to stick to it. I recommend finding a client or a job that has you working at their office if possible, or finding a new cafe/restaurant/coworking space from which to work when you do get work.

What I'm suggesting isn't easy to do, but it is possible and requires nothing that you currently lack.
Have you tried freelancing? Or maybe a remote position? What about working on a side project porn related that will generate some income for you?

I am 28 with a job (not a career) and I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up. I taught myself HTML, CSS, PHP, I am now TRYING to teach myself Python.

You sound like you just want to give up. You have to keep going man. Best of luck.