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- hackers don't read source code All one has to do is look at the source for ping and questions like these are answered.

"excessive meetings" Based on that criteria we could probably cut some 15% of the total workforce. For many employees, that's all they do is attend meetings, all day long. We call …

I'd say this is a flaw of the "web" and relying on hyperlinking and "HTML forms" as a means to access all content. That's what web crawlers do. Better would be putting databases on…

Check out the Merck v Integra case on the page you linked to. That was what I was thinking of. Section 271. Subsection (e) and maybe another one or two.

Bacteria vs. Human body^1. 1. Specifically, teeth and saliva, but you must always consider the whole organism. Drink soda pop --> Advantage, Bacteria. Don't drink soda pop. --> Wha…

So, _hypothetically_, what if you don't use a third party email provider? That is, all your mail is delievred directly to you and is stored on your local machines/devices. Does tha…

The title could be better. What he's describing with the term "dark social" is not the "Web", it's the internet. That's a distinction that is important to understand. There is much…

Someone correct me if this is wrong but I think Dylan's Infidels was the first digitally recorded LP. I should probably Google it. Anyway, that was released in 1983, the same year …

Can you share the story of how you came to work with him? I for one would be interested to hear it. I laughed out loud at his new church idea.

Blah, blah, home taping, blah, blah, CD's, blah, blah. "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar" :) Some people miss Steve Jobs. I miss Frank Zappa. Genius.

Maybe I'm reading the story you linked to incorrecty but wasn't that a quote from his friend, Lars Wirzenius? The gist of what I was trying to say, poorly perhaps, is that in 1993 …

"cleaner, consistent.. better documented" I think that sums it up. Why should I use Linux? BSD definitely can't do everything that Linux can do, but it can do most things, normally…

Actually because of senior managment who told the company lawyers to take action. But yeah, this is the correct answer. Go figure it's at the bottom of the thread. Linus was a 386B…

"... without authority makes, ..." There are exceptions, e.g., for research and development. Would printing a prototype of a product to be produced overseas (and never imported) be…

I have done good. =D Laughing is healthy. I probably shouldn't have phrased the statement as I did. What I meant was projects that are _potentially_ open to anyone, but which are h…

The numerous references to hardware in your comment only serve to illustrate my point. Of course there have been some new algos and improvements to existing ones since 1984. But no…

I love the PWB! [line break] Sometimes the best stuff does not have the best marketing. Any chance the author can post a copy of the documentation his father had saved for the Docu…

The "threat" of 3D printing is not piracy it's prototypes. Potentially anyone can make a prototype, find a manufacturer in Asia and start a business. In other words, it spreads the…

My theory: He's a wannabe lawyer. As CTO at Microsoft he probably had to deal with lawyers and patent issues constantly. Maybe they upset him? Or they excited his curiousity? I cou…

I liked this blog entry a lot. A wee bit of multi-core/threads anti-hype is healthy. The comment about people wanting a single absolute measure of something is also spot on. The bi…

Could you define "practical OS"? What specifically do you want this OS to be able to do? (Note that we've reached a point where no user necesarily needs to restrict themselves to a…

I think we need more open source projects that are not open to contribution from anyone. This may upset some people but will keep the bar for quality high. Linus' original work has…

"That's progress." Yes, but not in software. It's the hardware that's improved. So the sw can be sloppy and inefficient and most people won't notice. Hardware has improved. Softwar…