The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a Supreme Court brief re Bilski, and I loved this idea within it: “The source code of a program which performs the steps described in a software patent is distinguishable from the literal …
Slate reports on the Senate Finance Committee’s vote against a public health option. “Even among Republicans, opposition to the public option (42 percent) is outweighed by support (47 percent).” In an Indirect Democracy, “The people elect government officials who then …
I see nothing in the current health care proposals that limit the premiums insurance companies can charge. Yes, they may be subject to premium ratios, but their plaint will be that to cover the burden of insuring everyone, all premiums …
I believe that the average person has six original ideas in their lifetime. By “original idea”, I mean a new view of how the world is or could be. “Why don’t we go to Hawaii this summer?” or “”Let’s paint …
Timothy Lee writes eloquently about the stupidity of a company that exists only to think up patents and use them to sue – no actual creation of product required. How is this of the slightest benefit to society?
Firstly consider this quote (color emphasis added): “Clearly, we’ve got to find Mohammed Omar, we’ve got to find Osama bin Laden, and we’ve got to find other key leaders of the al-Qaida network, or we will have failed. We’re not …
I have an application with a main window. It opens a find dialog that can remain open, i.e. it is not modal. I mark it as STAY_ON_TOP so it does not disappear behind the application window. The application pops up …
Glenn Greenwald is consistently brilliant. Here he eviscerates Jane Harman for changing her position on wire-tapping once it happens to her. “So if I understand this correctly — and I’m pretty sure I do — when the U.S. Government eavesdropped …
There is an excellent analysis of the plight of newspapers on Groklaw, and PJ ends by pointing out that Groklaw itself is an example of what the newspapers have not been providing, and what will arise in the wake of …
Bruce Perens has an excellent analysis of the Microsoft/Tom Tom case.