You've apparently never driven on U.S. 101 in the SF Bay Area; the primary reasons for traffic slowdowns are:

(1) Auuuuuuuugh! There's a huge ball of light up in the sky! We fears it, my precious!

(2) Look! An accident! Is there blood? Hey, Bill, can you see any blood?!?!

(3) I must get in the fast lane because it is the "fast" lane, even though I'm coming up on my exit!

(4) I must get from the fast lane all the way over to the exit lane, but it's OK if this takes forever, I was in the fast lane for 50 feet, dammit!

(5) Yes, I know it's after 3 PM and before 7PM! What do you mean, the lane to the left of mine is "The Car Pool Lane"? I'm driving slow in the middle lane; if you want to pass, you should get into the car pool lane and pass, then get back into this lane; you probably won't get a ticket anyway...

(6) Let me race up in this lane that I need to be out of before too long, rather than getting over now, even though I see barricades ahead, because I know some dumbass will let me in, right? Right? Hey, dumbass, I'm talking to you!

(7) I want to get on one of the bridges, but I don't want to wait behind all the people who also want to get on one of these bridges, so I'm going to block the next lane over until someone lets me in just to punish everyone else... if I have to wait, then everybody else damn well has to wait, too.

That probably should have been a countdown; fast lane discipline while car pool hours are in effect is probably the number one cause of traffic slowdowns, followed by "I'm too stupid to get over ahead of time", with "Auuuugh! Ball of fire!" in third place...

Voter intimidation is easier when you don't have to get them to register for an absentee ballot ahead of time.

A lot of Slashdot back end code is being rewritten, and HTML5 is supposed to be part of the deal. All the people who actually work on the site and read your comments agree that Flash video is [insert bad word here].

The obvious solution? Just make a rule: "No Blasters."

Last time I checked the ACM was pro software patents, but I can't verify that is the case now because as others have said, their website is awful.

> after the $6,500 max, all expenses are paid

In practice, the insurance companies find ways to increase your out of pocket, or just outright not pay. Let me give my personal example.

I have a medical issue where I will be on a certain drug for the rest of my life. The issue is completely taken care of by this drug, and all medical literature that I can find (and my doctor) says this is the correct treatment. After a year of insurance paying for the drug smoothly, I arrive at the pharmacy and insurance is no longer paying. The insurance company says my "pre approval" has expired and that process takes a week Ok, since I could die without my medication, I pay cash out of pocket. Meanwhile, my doctor calls them for "pre approval", and supposedly it is cleared up. A month goes by, I show up in the pharmacy, the insurance company will only pay for half the dosage. So I pay cash for half, and call my doctor, who says they applied correctly, the insurance company made a mistake, and they will reapply for "pre approval". Boom, I've exceeded my "supposedly" out of pocket max. Welcome to my world of the insurance company refuses to pay by being difficult and sleazy and slow.

So in practice, there is this new part of the system nobody is warning us about. Everybody thinks if the treatment is well understood and your doctor prescribes the treatment then the insurance company MUST PAY, but this is not true. The insurance company can (and regularly does) simply refuse to pay AT THE LAST MINUTE WITH NO WARNING because . Side note: sometimes the reason is there is a cheaper, yet less effective treatment, I ran into that for a DIFFERENT medication once. But my doctor cannot possibly seem to check this in advance? I always find out at the pharmacy at the final moment as I attempt to leave with the drug?

Don't misunderstand me, I do not have a solution for health care, I don't know if single payer would be better or worse, I don't know how to lower costs, and there may not exist a better system than what we have now. But I do know I dislike the current system, it feels antiquated and inefficient. My pharmacy, doctor, and insurance company use FAX to communicate. FAX?! There is no ticketing system where I can keep the pre approval moving along, or where I can double check the final outcome. And it seems clear to me the insurance company is overstepping their bounds. When you get a correct, legitimate prescription, they should pay, but that is not the current system.

As a general comment... it's pretty funny that this wouldn't be an issue, since they complied with the GPL as they were required to do, and published their sources.

Only the politics of Open Source is such that the projects that they published the changes for were not updated to include the changes, because they felt that it was not their responsibility to update their projects to include someone else's changes to their projects. They felt, instead, that it was the responsibility of the people making the changes to join their projects, and then make the changes with the editorial oversight of the community.

This is somewhat ironic, since they wouldn't have published the sources in the first place, if it hadn't been for the license.

So it's interesting to me that you can more or less not comply with the license by complying with it, and that the license is only effective for however long your product and company are around, and, if not picked up by the community to be carried forward, get lost after a short period of time, even if the company continues to exist.

I guess I wonder if it's legal to sell remaindered product (or used product) without offering the sources, per the terms of the license, or if, after that period of time, the products become illegal to transfer the binary licenses, since the originators are no longer around, and you cant appeal to them in order to get around your personal obligation, as the seller/reseller, to make the sources available any more (but you, as the middleman, failed to take advantage of the offer while it was possible to do so).

Probably, projects need to be a little less pissy about integrating third party changes, fixes, and extensions back into their main line.

Pretty sure they want it dead.

Perhaps next time you should do a little searching around for the fille PODS_1_2_OpenSrc_Orig_Mods.zip which can no longer legally be distributed before you ask me to distribute it, rather than merely giving you enough information that you could find it if you were smart enough to be able to do the type of programming that the OP is asking to be able to do in the first place, since it's going to be pretty useless to you otherwise.

No, it just invalidates the suggestion as an effective method of geographically constraining data away from users in a particular region, which is what you are trying to do by using the IP address as some sort of magic geotag.

SDK available here:

http://gl.access-company.com/p...

Perhaps next time you will read the acquisition history for the software you are trying to find in the Wikipedia article, and then go to the OpenSource/Downloads section of the company website for the current owner of the technology yourself?

Why bother? Because it's a challenge and it's fun. I'm working on a customized bike with stabilizer wheels instead of simply buying a trike like other Old People.

Why? It's a challenge and it's fun. :)