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Comment: Re: Good to see intelligence rewarded for once. (Score 1) 194

Bad idea yes, but being kicked out of school and retorted to police isn't a proportional punishment.

The right answer would be a figurative slap on the wrist for "borrowing" chemicals from the lab, and some detention exercises to calculate the reaction results, and the pressures/temperatures generated in the containment vessel.

Yes, this. Punishment designed to correct, not a reaction based on anger.

Kids like this are not the ones you want to filter out of the system.

Comment: Re:Ethernet is only 33 years old (Score 1) 122

by KGIII (#43808371) Attached to: Ethernet Turns 40

Cite? Not that I doubt you but, rather, that I think that the reading would be interesting. I did try the mighty Google with the terms "original spec ethernet wireless" and skimmed a couple of pages (including the history section at Wikipedia) and didn't find anything.

Again, it is not that I doubt you or the likes - I'm just curious and would like to read.

Comment: Re:??? Weird wording in OP. (Score 1) 122

by KGIII (#43808309) Attached to: Ethernet Turns 40

Be in contradiction with. That is the second definition in TheSage.

So... Hmm... ...its relative presence everywhere and ease of is in contradiction with what the Ethernet has done for the networking industry...

Maybe the author is trying to convey that many things tech related are complicated and difficult and thus this is surprisingly easy and effective?

I'm not entirely sure, I'm not the author of course, but I agree that it is awkward as all hell. I'm thinking the above parsing may be what was intended.

Hmm... Indeed.

OED has this as the third verb use:

a. to belie the truth : to misrepresent or pervert the truth. Obs.
b. To give a false representation or account of, to misrepresent; to be misleading with regard to. Also: to be at variance or incompatible with. Also intr. (obs. rare).

So, yeah, it's a rather unusual sentence but with some twisting and imagination I guess we can probably make it work as the author intended.

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"belie, v.2". OED Online. March 2013. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/17366?rskey=LvhK03&result=1 (accessed May 23, 2013).

Comment: Re:Ethernet is really only 33 (Score 1) 122

by KGIII (#43808233) Attached to: Ethernet Turns 40

Digital Equipment Corp had a fab and R&D facility not too far from where I live. (Side note: Anything under a few hours isn't too far away in Mainiac lingo.) Chances are that any networking equipment from DEC came from Augusta, Maine. Here's a newspaper article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19761210&id=UaYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6509,2109951

I never did a whole lot with them. I worked with some of the DEC Alpha systems, which were a 64 bit RISC ISA, I dimly recall them being quite sound and advanced for the day. The sad thing is I don't recall a damned thing specific about it... *sighs* I either burnt those braincells out or I've written new information over them. I should probably spend some time re-familiarizing myself with it just for old time's sake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha

I doubt that there are many in use today. A lady friend of mine was on the manufacturing line and I had a couple of friends in research. I'd be surprised if there were any of the systems still alive today but not too terribly surprised (if that makes sense) to find someone running one in their closet somewhere. Yeah, it would be surprising but not too surprising to find a small local bank or business that still has one churning out payroll or the likes.

Hmm... A quick Google (which is a verb I tells ya!) reveals this:

http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/cgi-bin/listpawfaqs.pl/148

There also appears to be an AlphaLinux so, wow... I guess there probably are a few boxes left that still have life in them. I recall Compaq had some cloned Alpha boxes as well. I seem to recall some of their tech making it into a desktop but I'm going to stop searching before I get locked into a maze that takes me a few hours to negotiate and I'll post this now before it becomes a novella.

Comment: Re:For free? (Score 1) 114

by Todd Knarr (#43808071) Attached to: WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

I think it wasn't so much that he didn't show he had a right to the domains, as he didn't show that the current owners didn't. How it's supposed to work is that someone who has rights to the name wins over someone who doesn't, but if both parties have a right to use the name then whoever registered it first wins. "Rights" here gets a bit fuzzy, too. Ron Paul himself obviously has a right to use his name, but eg. a blogger doing commentary on Ron Paul's political activities also has a right to use the name (he's got every right to name who he's commenting on).

Comment: Re:Don't copy that floppy! (Score 1) 285

by KGIII (#43807125) Attached to: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook

If you make something and I make a copy of it and sell it as my work then you've lost that freedom, that right, to profit off your labor and to control your property. I'm a fan of taking as little freedom as possible from people. An example would be you writing a novel and I, due to my being more wealthy than you, am able to get your work to press faster than you so I can claim I wrote it, sell it, and keep the profit without rewarding you for your labor. That doesn't foster growth or encourage creation. That deprives the worker of their due profit. That takes away their freedom, that takes away their rights, and it is wrong and serves only to benefit the wealthy or those with means.

Having said that, I'd agree that the duration of protection that copyright affords should be lessened but there's no reasonable alternative and the government is the only facility that can reasonably assure those protections. It is difficult to discuss reform with the slow people insisting that they be heard.

So, yes, you're saying that you don't believe people have the right to profit from their work. It's an interesting way to justify copyright infringement I suppose but you've not really given me any compelling arguments as to why we should abolish them. If you make it then it is yours to decide how it can be used to some extent. If you make it then you have every right to tell me that I can't copy it. If you spent the time, effort, and money to create a new and unique work then you own it - you have control over it, it is your property.

I'm not a fan of taking your property nor am I a fan of taking away your freedom. You may be but, fortunately, you're in the minority. The rest of us are varied but I think you'll find that most would agree that some changes would be beneficial but abolishing would be asinine. I can think of no justification to limit your freedom in these regards. It seems your primary motivation is to be able to take another person's idea and capitalize on it without their permission and without regards to their initial work and that's simply a reduction of freedom that nobody is going to accept. If you want to profit then get off your ass and learn something useful so that you can then create something useful. The idea that you should be able to coast along without doing your own work is absurd.

It is called ownership and yes it does apply to intangibles. It is YOUR idea, your work, your code, your art, and you have a right to control it and profit from its use for a reasonable amount of time (I'd argue that it is an unreasonable amount of time currently, fuck Disney and their mouse). You have that right because you made it. I'm not at liberty to copy your work and profit from it without your permission. If you want to work for free then be my guest but your morality isn't justification for stripping the rights of other people away. We tend to value our freedom, you're not at liberty to deprive us of our freedom.

It is the internet, I don't expect random anonymous pixels to change your mind. But, no. No, I'm not at liberty to take your rights away. I'm not at liberty to take your work and call it my own. Your arguments have been examined, measured, and found lacking. Nobody is going to abolish copyright and your bleating interrupts discussion that may lead to productive copyright and/or patent reforms that could be actually be beneficial. I've wasted enough time on you, you're dismissed.

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