Heck, you need funding or a lot of free time (and money in the bank to pay your own personal bills) to just get something to the point you can show it to someone else to find out if it is worth continuing to make it good enough to seek funding to do the marketing, etc.

I had an idea based on a problem I saw here at work, and I know that a good solution would have kept me comfortable for a looong time. Unfortunately, I would need to take 6 months to a year to develop it well enough to even begin trying to sell, so I'd need enough $ to cover my paycheck, my health insurance, insurance for my wife and kids, etc. Sure, I got a skeleton of the idea working by staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning, but between working full time, teaching a couple of classes as adjunct, taking a class here and there, trying to be involved with my family, it just won't work.

So here I am 15 years later - my idea still has value, I've not seen a product to fix the issue, and I *still* can't do much of anything with it.

Oh well.

Dunno... assuming he's healthy there are 2 kidneys, 2 lungs, a liver that can be used for 2 or 3 partial transplants, the heart, eyes, etc....

By having half the courses offered in those areas required for the STEM students as gen-ed stuff.

Too much of a pain to do all of that, at least for me. I simply route the various ad hosts I find annoying to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file, and enjoy.

Price is tolerable. That is actually what showtime costs me on top of my DishTV subscription. If I could get HBO, Starz, etc. in the same manner, I could in theory drop the Dish stuff and just consume the same content I normally get via the streaming service.

So... my fence has been damaged by DUI drivers a bunch of different times in the past 15 years. Also had a nice oak tree killed by one.

Can I sue Ford, Chevy, and Budwiser?

No....

So these victim families sued, lost, and part of the loosing is "looser pays winners court costs". Which is an idea I've seen championed a bunch here on slashdot....

Having a restraining order, felony conviction, conviction of a crime would could get you a sentence of more than 1 year, and having a misdemeanor conviction of domestic violence all make you a prohibited buyer and the NCIC check *should* catch it.

https://www.atf.gov/file/61446...

That is the 4473 form, which the buyer fills out when purchasing from a licensed dealer.

Face to face private transactions are legal where I am (and in many states) but as a personal thing if a buyer doesn't have a CCW permit then I pay the $20 to transfer it to them thru a local FFL.

No, the NFA of '34 enacted the tax stamp for full auto, short barrel rifle/shotguns, destructive devices, and "any other weapon" weapons.

Funnily enough, when Mr Miller's case went to the SCOTUS, the government was planning on arguing that the 2nd protects arms as would be issued to the average infantryman - and at the time, that meant a bolt action ('03A3/A4) or Garand, so the full auto Thompson and sawed off shotgun Mr Miller was convicted of having weren't protected by the 2nd.

What is issued to the average infantry today? Select fire, short rifles (the M4 has a 14" barrel - 2" under what is legal for a civilian to own w/o the $200 tax stamp). Oh, and short shotguns for door breaching. And suppressors.

What is really funny is that in England, etc. where super strict gun laws exist, suppressors aren't regulated, and they are considered to be "required" to be polite and limit the noise. Here, they are considered "evil" and some states out right ban them and the Feds put a oppressive tax on 'em.

And if you are willing to be in the business (ie, get a FFL) and pay the SOT (special occupation tax) you can own post-86 dealer samples. Of course, you need a friendly law enforcement agency to provide a demo request letter, but after that it is easy.

Lets see... if I wanted to get something on a plane to do Something Evil ...

1) Become airport employee

2) Become TSA employee

3) Simply smuggle it, maybe even using multiple trips or cooperating with multiple mules

4) Improvise something I can get in an airport after going thru the "security" checks

And I'm no rocket surgeon. I'm sure that most other slashdotters could easily come up with ways of doing all of these things on their own. Internal knowledge of the TSA, or how a backscatter machine works, etc. isn't needed. Sure it would help, but it isn't needed.

The copyright holder(s) of the software need to go after SF and whoever else (Cnet!), etc. - the license they use may be using one of those "integrity of the authors code/name/work/project name" clauses. Or the recipients need to - if there is only a single license agreement (say, the GPL v2) presented, then the source for the adware/malware/etc must also be given if asked for.

Government contracts. After all, when you can print your own money spending a hundred mill or two over what you actually have isn't really noticeable...

Of course, the basics that help make good STEM students - teaching kids how to learn instead of just rote memorization and regurgitation of facts, how to solve problems using the tools at hand, how to think critically - are very useful no matter what field someone ends up in, be it programming or performance art.

Ah, not quite. The version you can download from their git repo is NOT the same as what is running if you have a hosting contract with them. And of all of the schools I know of that use Canvas (I'm the Canvas admin for the college I work for) none of them are using a self-hosted version. Not even the schools that have the resources to do so (University of Florida, UCF, etc - and I know the admins there too).

The "know it from inside out" support, etc.

Same reason people use companies like 1and1 for webhosting or one of the companies that provide Big Blue Button instances - sure, anyone can get a VPS or a dedicated 'net connection and server machine(s) and install Linux, Apache, PHP, etc. and run a site or a mail server or BBB instance. All with Free (and free) code. But not everyone is an expert at doing it, or keepign it up and running, or configuring it just right, or integrating your authentication, or answering end-users support questions or ....

And the same reason groups use vendors to host non-free stuff even when your license allows you to download and run a local version. The college I work for did it with our last learning management system - sure, we had a local instance, but it was used for testing API code, new features, confirming bugs and bug fixes the company announced, etc. Our students and instructors didn't even know about it - they only used the vendor hosted instance.