Notices by Kyle James (rainbowhurricane), page 8
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@omni Oh ok.
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What is it with users of a certain age being obsessed with how long they, or other people, have been here? It's not particularly interesting, nor is it particularly relevant to anything that happens here.
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@widget Sorry.. I do that out of reflex when I agree with something.
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Sunday, 04-Nov-12 21:12:27 UTC from web
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RT @widget @rainbowhurricane This is a major problem with our court system. They've been talking about "loser pays" for years, but it has yet to actually be implemented.
Sunday, 04-Nov-12 21:12:12 UTC from web -
@widget Yeah, I really really hate that. :P >.<
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RT @widget @rainbowhurricane And then there's the issue of larger companies stockpiling patents so they can "play the game" "properly".
Sunday, 04-Nov-12 21:09:45 UTC from web -
Torvalds, who has co-authored five patents, was speaking to students at the Heureka Science Centre in Helsinki, Finland. Some companies, he added, were taking advantage of judicial ignorance or corruption in the US to shop for jurisdictions that would take a favourable view of their claims. Read more: http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2219375/-abolish-software-patents-says-linus-torvalds#ixzz2BI4OnHOQ
Sunday, 04-Nov-12 21:09:30 UTC from web -
Europe, he said, generally had a better patent system, partly as a result of successfully resisting pressure to extend it to cover software, and partly because patent 'trolls' can be punished by the courts if they are deemed to be bringing frivolous cases. "In the US it's not very risky to bring a frivolous suit. In Europe, usually, if you take somebody to court and it's shown that you were really just doing bad things, they will hurt you," he concluded.
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He added: "It's not that patents necessarily are evil, it's that the system is so broken that bad patents get given out and once they're given out they get misused, and the whole system is geared towards this kind of odd, legal, suicidal behaviour, because nobody actually likes patents, except for one or two patent trolls that love taking big companies to court." Patents on software and ideas should be invalid, he said, and "medical and genetic information" is also not acceptable.
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@omni Lol yeah, It does.
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"The whole US system is geared around having juries where lawyers can dismiss any juror who knows anything about technology, so you have ignorant judges, ignorant juries and you have very smooth lawyers whose job it is to convince these people, who don't understand what the technology is all about, to say that the other side did something really bad and needs to give them £10bn," he said.
Sunday, 04-Nov-12 21:06:42 UTC from web -
The patent system in the US is particularly broken because the US legal system is different. In the US you can take a patent lawsuit into, for example, East Texas, which is well known for this: where you have judges that don't actually know technology.
Sunday, 04-Nov-12 21:06:08 UTC from web -
@omni Wait Linus switched back to KDE? searches news
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@rainbowhurricane Well, you can actually configure quite a lot. gnome-tweak-tool helps, but GNOME has this weird and utterly confusing windows-like registry-like thingy in which it saves all its settings which are hard as hell to set. It's one of those "by oversimplifying everything is made difficult" things.
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@omni Omg, That is exactly why I don't like it.
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But I haven't tried Cinnamon, or MATE.
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Personally, I like Xfce.
Sunday, 04-Nov-12 20:56:48 UTC from web -
@omni That's why I hate Gnome 3, not enough configuration options. It seemed like they were going for newbies, but that's just my opinion. :)
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@xrevan86 Haven't tried it. But I hear it's a fork of Gnome 2.
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@omni Lubuntu, and sometimes fedora. mostly Xfce based distributions. Because I don't like the new Gnome.
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@omni Yes, yes I do. :)
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@gladosenchilada I know that, I was just trying to understand what @ceruleanspark was saying.
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@omni I can't draw either, but I'm really good with computers. :D
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@rainbowhurricane I believe that's it. I can't draw or do a zillion other things, but I'm fairly good with computers.
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@gladosenchilada Still, if you think violence is wrong you're being a hypocrit for fighting, and he just doesn't seem like the type that would approve of any violence. Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and one of the main contributors to the GNU/Linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
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@mrdragon Yeah, few true men remain. If you want a fair fight you need a third party guy with a gun acting as a referee.
