I’m not a very “political” guy. I’m a technical guy. I like to engineer, and I like to code. That’s me. That’s what I do. But when I read things like article on Slashdot about the settlement between Apple and Creative over Patent 6,928,433, I feel as though I must quit my job and spend my life fighting to change the patent process. There is no technical innovation in this patent: they implemented menus that can change dynamically! Good grief. Will the stupidity ever end? When the USPTO is willing to grant patents like this, it only drives corporations to patent every idea they have, instead just the ones that are technically innovative. It means more work for corporations since they have to go through the patent process, it means more work for the PTO because they should be reviewing every patent that comes in–although there is clearly a problem here, and it means more cost to the consumer, since we’re ultimately the people paying for the product and, of course, the government collects our taxes. The process must change. Grrrr.
Archive for August, 2006
I’ve been reading some posts about Guido’s pronouncement that Django is the Python Web Framework to use at SciPy ‘06. I’m not sure that’s really good for the community, and I’m not sure it’s a good thing to endorse it that way. Continue reading ‘Django: The Python Web Framework?’
Then you need to check out this link: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030814.html. It incorporates creating a pid file, controlling the daemon (start, and stop), and doing the work of actually daemonizing and installing signal handlers. It’s nice snippet of code to work from if you ever need to create your own daemon. I needed to do something like this for work, and used the Python Cookbook recipe to daemonize, but took a quick look at this for the signal handlers to install and ignore. Continue reading ‘Need to write a daemon in Python?’
So this is the first year I’ve decided to attend the BlackHat and DefCon conferences. BlackHat was definitely interesting, especially Joanna’s presentation on subverting the Windows Vista x86_64 kernel. Continue reading ‘BlackHat and DefCon…’