HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Udev has existed for quite a while now (before systemd existed) and until very recently, had no dependencies on systemd.

Computers have been able to "program themselves" since the first Fortran compiler. We just taught computers how to interpret specifications written at higher and higher levels. Let me know what it'd take for a computer to come up with a program's requirements all by itself, and then we'll know what a singularity needs.

I'd be interested in reading a citation supporting your theory that granting a nonexclusive license for qualifying noncommercial uses will weaken a trademark.

Disney sues people for putting a picture of Mickey Mouse on the wall of a day care. LEGO, on the other hand, puts out a movie decrying certain media companies' fanwork ban policy.

First, Abe wasn't any part of the government of the Confederacy so the obligation to openness didn't apply there.

However, no matter where you might draw the line for public disclosure, surely the executive has no right to keep Congress and the judicial branch in the dark as they have done with Stingray. I would go further and say that the existence and use of the tech should be publicly disclosed while I understand they may need to keep the operational details of a particular use secret until they either prosecute or abandon the investigation (but no longer).

Any longer than that and they have defied consent of the governed and lost all moral legitimacy.

Six million people killed for practicing Judaism, as well as members of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses sent to the camps for their pacifism, would disagree with you.

Can be but isn't in practice. Fort Wayne's bus system isn't quite "on-demand" because it has at least one 36-hour downtime each week: from Saturday evening through early Monday morning.

When you buy a car, you're buying the ability to have a car in front of you when you leave the building. Autonomous rental cars that drive themselves to the doorstep also provide that ability. Making cars fungible in this manner which changes the threshold for "you are going to use the asset infrequently".

Until your employer happens to relocate you to a city whose buses don't run at all on Saturday evenings, Sundays, or six major holidays.

I agree. You have a good idea and domain knowledge. Next up is finding the passionate hacker that can say "yeah but" and get all the crap out of the idea, figure out how your idea for an internal document management system could be GoogleDocs instead etc. Sometimes it is the business person that finds the market and sometimes it is the technical person that finds the problem that the idea solves.

I'm not sure this thread is giving the poster enough credit it depends how hierarchical his last job was but in my experience IT/systems admins can have WAY more business experience than software developers. Often they handle purchasing of IT equipment meaning interviewing users and determining needs, specing out the boxes, finding a vendor etc. Since the users cross the corporate spectrum you get exposed to the business practices and relative skills of different departments which can help greatly when you realize that for example a good records clerk might be a wizard with Excel but otherwise be an idiot with how to use a computer, but that is okay they can still do their job.

Often they have to handle reporting in order to allocate the expense back to departments, have to write or help explain the corporate IT use policy in such a way that it conforms to regulations etc.. Managing a much more complicated budget (service contracts, internal and external employees, equipment purchasing and refresh cycle etc: it can be much closer to running a smaller business within the bigger business. In software development it is much easier to just become the guy that makes the widgets and doesn't have to worry his pretty little head about how it is used. At best, again in my experience, dev managers can manage people hiring and allocating to projects to try to keep the projects going. They have little experience managing other types of resources.

I agree just having a masters degree doesn't mean you are ready to run everything. Corporate culture vs university culture is completely different. Spending grant money you've convinced someone to give you for the next 3 years is much different than spending money you are borrowing from an investor/bank/your personal retirement savings in hopes of making a business that will be profitable. In university it is often okay to say: we experimented and proved it wasn't a good idea, in business it is waste and needs to be managed or you'll quickly be out of business.

You mean like Konami v. Roxor, the lawsuit over the Dance Dance Revolution patent that led to a claim construction in Konami's favor?