it would make absolute sense

Now back up a second there and consider proprietary software. Imagine if you bought Microsoft Office for your company and a year later Microsoft comes along and starts threatening you with patent infringement lawsuits over your use of their patents. I can't imagine that a court would stand for that at all without at least a fine print "requires additional patent license" and even then there's fitness requirements that the court would have at least a little discussion on.

Why would it be different for something given to you for free with explicit permission to use and give away? If the patent holder wants to provide a reference implementation to licensors, they can do so with a license tied to their patent, but it should not be the GPL.

There's already a generic

There's already a generic name. The government, in all its benevolence, has been permitting drug holders to "lock in" their expiring drugs and prevent generics from being marketed for a certain period after it expires. There are even drug companies that pay other companies not to produce their drug so they can continue to sell the brand name (at an inflated cost to ensure there's a profit even after these payments).

It's gonna be abused.

The Republicans are absolutely certain they're going to win it in 2016 so it will be them who get to abuse it.

Big Government is only bad when Republicans aren't in control.

I urge you to join me in voting “no” on H.R. 4681, the intelligence reauthorization bill, when it comes before the House today.

Thank you for posting the bill number, since neither slashdot nor the hill thought we should be able to look it up and see who voted for this bullshit.

It appears in the Senate it was passed by voice vote by a bunch of cowards that did not want their name attached to the bill.

I'm still not sold on BGP. Someone give me a sign!

No, seriously. Show me a photo with text in it. Adventure with the Windmills was pretty damn good, but I want to see what this will do to actual text.

Our company had looked at putting together the Pi and a few pieces to build a device we could sell to our customers but we had the issue of configuring each device individually, which at the point we abandoned it meant hooking up a keyboard and tv and editing configuration files. If we could have mounted the device over USB it would have simplified configuration, we could have written a program that could be run on a PC by an end user to set up networking in cases where dhcp isn't possible.

At the price it was at the time it was released, it really was something special. It wasn't a supercomputer but for people that wanted something cheap that was effectively a throwaway computer, there wasn't anything like it.. People have fought it all the way, complaining that they can get this soekris board for $400, or that Intel board for $200, or an arudino that can't run Linux.

Now, years later, the Raspberry Pi "killers" have finally caught up in the price field, Like the Banana Pi if you can get one, or this Odroid-C1. Raspberry will have to step up its game or face irrelevance.

The government has always claimed that they can show up and take anything that I give to anyone else without any kind of warrant or subpoena, unless the person I gave the item to has the balls to go to the mat for me over it.

Email on a cloud provider server? That's taking candy from a baby, they've probably already cashed their check from the NSA.

The intelligence gained from the program was critical to our understanding of al-Qa’ida

Thanks to the torture we now know all of the linebackers for their football team!

How dare you question his credentials! He's worked for no less than TEN startups, and he's never seen code that's more than three months old before it gets sold off and the company shuts down. That's 10 samples, statistically significant compared to whatever silly anecdote you've got from working at some hidebound behemoth like SAP or IBM for a decade! These posers don't even count!

because "hurr durr the Bible" and "hurr durr anti-science"

Because "hurr durr" the Republicans passed laws that say that Tesla must use a network of independent middle men to sell their cars.

It's crucial that we find out!

Legitimate local proxies will have the clients configured to use them and will work fine with https.

The public can and does use it. You can too, you just have to be faster than the secret service.

he considers having "only" 30 M$ the same as being bankrupt

Or he considers having 98 medallions which might be sellable for 30 million dollars if he's lucky to be the same as being bankrupt. Or what he did was take out a 98 million dollar loan with his medallions as collateral back when they were auctioning for a million dollars each, and now that they're worth a fraction of that, the back wants 68 million dollars back.