Allow the extension of prior art to softer situations, so don't simply look at academic papers and other patents but include any other reasonable source of prior art (blog postings which outline similar ideas, public speculation in the media).
Not 100% sure, but I think that the "first to file" provisions, recently enacted, effectively limit those checks to patents and patent applications, thus leaving such determinations to the judicial system.
I'm not sure why only a single day, but I remember from my high school US History and Government clases that at the time "second Tuesday in November" was standardized, it was a good time of the year for farmers to take off a day or three to go visit the town or city where voting was taking place. Tuesday because it allowed traveling on Monday for those people who could not make it to the polls on time when traveling on the same day - and not require them to travel on a Sunday. Second Tuesday because that would always be after All Saints Day (Novemeber 1)
As for "work week day" vs "weekend day", from my observations (and of many people I know), the working poor are very likely to be required to work at least one, and often both, of Saturday and Sunday. I don't think it would matter which day(s) were election days, national holiday or not, there will be a lot of people who have to work that day and have trouble getting time to go to the polls.
Add to that the fact that the number of polling places is being cut back - due to budget constraints (nevermind that many polling places are active public shools or otherwise available free of rent - and many pollworkers are unpaid volunteers) - so the waiting times are longer and some people have to leave before they get to vote.
It's also a good justification for the original method of having state legislatures elect Senators.
We did away with that system because it had become completely, utterly corrupt. Senators were openly bought by large corporations. Sound familiar? I could se moving back to that system,... only because it would buy us a decade or two while the corporate machine slowly adjusted to the new system and found a new way to buy their way to power.
Nice theory, but big corps would adapt immediately. Much smaller audience to pursuade. And they already have the lobbyists in place.
that will forbid anyone from connecting to our network from home while using a Cisco/Cisco-Linksys/Linksys branded device
The company I work for provides us with laptops with a preconfigured, stronly encrypted VPN installed. These laptops are the only way we can connect to the company network - in the office or not. Our IT department basically assumes that any network or PC outside of the company's network is insecure or otherwise not trustworthy. The VPN allows us safer access while we are working outside the office (for example, at customer or supplier offices - and yes, even us software developers get to go to off-site meetings)
While issuing company owned and configured routers to your workers might sound like a good idea, it isn't. Because you will still be exposing your company's network to untrustworthy PCs. Though you could configure the routers to only work with company issued PCs, there are ways around this. Your best option is to install a good, strongly encrypted VPN on company issued PCs and only allow those to connect to the company's network.
I've been considering the idea that the company provide routers for them, anyway. It won't be CIsco. Most likely it will be something based on DD-WRT, and maybe even a local build of it if I get the time to delve into it,
I just remembered a post by one of the open sourse "super luminaries" that building from source is not enough. You first have to review the source completely. And even then, you can't be sure of the compiler. It is possible to plant a virus in the compiler that inflects anything you build with it. That leads to a chicken-and-egg problem. Is the GCC "boot strap" compiler useful any more?
FYI, the boot strap compiler is a set of compilers, from very simple to full featured, to enable getting a compiler running on a new archetecture. The idea is that the simple compiler is not too unreasonable to compile "by hand", then is used to compile the next, more sophisticated compiler, then use that to compile an even more sophiosticated compiler until you have the full featured compiler running.. This technique has not been needed for many years as one can use the new "back end", for the target archetecture, with a compiler already running on any convenient machine. The resulting executables can then be run on the new machine.
My e1000 and e3000 (not listed as Cloud Connect compatible) will no longer allow direct connection and configuration while connected to the internet. They will not accept a connection from the LAN if there is a live cable on the WAN port.
This could be a good thing. When you disconnect the WAN side, what else is disabled or missing (or new)?
But, good, bad or invisable, there is still the possibility of monitoring being installed as part of the update.
I originally got a d-Link WiFi router, parly because fellow geeks I knew liked it and I could buy a bundled router and WiFi card for my laptop. After about 6 months, the router started randomly reseting. Since it was beyind the 90 day warrantee it came with, I tried calling d-Link tech support to resolve the problem. But, after a month and still no resolution, I then got a Linksys WRT54G based on recomendations of fellow geeks I knew. Never had a problem with it. 2 years, after getting a new laptop with built in 802.11n, I got a Linksys E3000. Have never had a problem, with it.
Apparantly this Cloud Connect service is not available for the E3000, so I don't have to worry about it. However, unlikely I will get another Cisco product, and certainly not one with this Cloud Connect service. Nor will I get one with a similar service from another vendor.
Of course, it is probably just a matter of time before all SOHO and other non-enterprise routers have monitoring built in. I hope my E3000 lasts a good long time and at least one of the open source firmware projects continues to support it.
Decades later, we still have the notion that in order to eject a cd, you need to throw it into the trash bin! Regardless of the used-to-be-functional button on the drive itself, which of course is disabled because....."we know better"
The eject button on my CD/DVD drive works. Of course, if a file that is on the CD/DVD is open, ejecting is inhibited.
I've never been asked more than a few questions when crossing to Caanada, not even when I was traveling for business reasons - and I work for a Canadian company that has a product development center in the US and had my comopany issued ID with me, which the border agent wanted to see, along with my passport
One could argue that atheism was one's "religion", and provide a self-written document stating as such (I'd personally give it about a 50/50 shot depending on the immigration officer). Yes, I think it could be clearer, and if they do actually refuse citizenship to pacifist atheists for this reason, the ACLU should get involved.
There is a "church" for atheists. As I recall, it is called "The Church of Secular Humanism". I know someone who has a certificate of ordination as a minister of it and is leglly recognised by the state he lives in to perform the various duties and rites of a minister of a conventional religion, including marriage and taking confession.
However, this church has no doctrin beyond the non-existense of dieties, so no help to pacifism. There might be another secular church with a doctrin of pacifism.
A decent band usually costs more than even a professional DJ - even if it's your friends/siblings/cousins/other who are playing "for free" as you end up compensating them in other ways. IF you are evening getting a DJ at all. Most of the parties I've been to in the past 3 years, the host(ess) set up a play list in LinAmp/iTunes/other and left the music on auto-pilot.
This article is about collection of royalties for recordings. They seem to be expanding the scope of events to include private events. This is in addition to any fees you have to pay to SOCAN/ASCAP/BMI/SESAC.
4 if you are playing recordings. Sound Exchange is the arm of the RIAA that the US Copyright Board has authorised to collect statutory royalties for recordings.
SOCAN has always collected fees for radio play, and recorded music at public functions, shows, etc in Canada. All that's happened now is that the fee structure for certain types of event has been updated. (simplified, I think?)
This article implies that it is being expanded to include private functions as well. Weddings are almost always private.
Don't know about this new "Re-Sound", but the US version of it, "Sound Exchange", in order to collect your share of the royalties they collect, you have to pay $50 annual "membership dues". And then they still take a percentage as "administrative costs". (And if your recording is released through a label over than your own, your share gets filtered through the record company as well.)
(You can avoid Sound Exchange taking a share by directly licensing each and every one of your recordings to the DJs (or other people) playing your recordings. BUT, if your license can in any way be interpreted as a "blanket license", then SE gets to collect statutory royalties.)
Before Katz, the right to unreasonable search and seizure was categorical, and limited to a small list of places: e.g. inside your home..
The 4th amendment says "... in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..."
That's a rather expansive list despite being only 4 items long. Back then, the only files people had were on paper, so applying today's technology to their era's terminalogy, "papers" would include computer files, email messages and more. Back then, "effects" meant personal property. Even in recent years, the phrase "personal effects" is occasionally used. So, the term "effects" would include a person's mobil phone, iPod/iPad/tablet PC, laptop PC or even desk PC.
Erosion of 4th admendment rights is mainly accomplished by finding ways to justify narrowing the interpretation these terms, and by justifying exclusion of things not explicitly mentioned.
While we might not be able to do much about lawyers aguring over the meanings of each and every word in the constitution and the mariad of laws we have, the 9th amendment specifies "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or desparage others retained by the people." Back then, this was their main worry about privacy - beyond that, you could ensure your privacy by looking around you to see if anyone was near enough to spy on you. Just becaue they didn't imagine the technology to circumvent this once simple precaution does not mean they intended to exclude protection from such intrusions by whatever means.
For me, compiling my project involves 4 tools: Make, AWK, the compiler and the linker. Usually at least 2 source files need to be compiled, more if I edit a header file. Then AWK updates the build number and the linker produces the executable from the object files produced by the compiler. A lot of file I/O (mostly I) is going on, so yes, an SSD does speed up compiling.
You missed the bit where he said "Work PC". That means it's so loaded with enterprise-grade crap and the need to run eight hundred boot scripts that need to download more crap over a network with a latency worthy of a satellite link that it's going to take 10-15 minutes to boot even with a liquid-nitrogen-cooled i7-EE and any kind of SSD you care to mention.
Yeah, the last several years, the places I've worked, it's common for people to Sleep/Standby their PCs overnight, during the week, to avoid long boot times. (Used to use hibernate, but that option went away with the latest PC upgrade; IT claims it's the PCs, not anything they did) At my previous main client, IT would give us flack saying that Windows needs to be rebooted everyday, especially work PCs. Our response was always "If it didn't take 10+ minutes to get a usable desktop, we wouldn't to hibernate the PCs." At my current main client, the IT people sleep/standby their PCs along with the rest of us.
for the state it is beneficial to kill people the moment they turn unproductive, which tends to be 10-20 years before these people become truly infirm. In the case of chronic unemployment, it can even be 50 years or more before one becomes infirm
By what definition of unproductive? Retired people are often able to mentor children and young adults Sadly, our society tends to ignore the great many of these potential mentors. Should they be penalized for simply being ignored? Then add in the increasing occurrence of forced retirement for no reason other than a perception they are too old. (Some of my best coworkers are from 70 to 90+ years and are still very productive.)
Before we consider euthanizing the elderly, we should first stop discarding otherwise productive people - whether they work in a business/school/etc or help their younger family members.
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The floors of most buildings are actually flat. Warpage notwithstanding, the steel beams and lumber we build with are mostly straight lines.
Allow the extension of prior art to softer situations, so don't simply look at academic papers and other patents but include any other reasonable source of prior art (blog postings which outline similar ideas, public speculation in the media).
Not 100% sure, but I think that the "first to file" provisions, recently enacted, effectively limit those checks to patents and patent applications, thus leaving such determinations to the judicial system.
I'm not sure why only a single day, but I remember from my high school US History and Government clases that at the time "second Tuesday in November" was standardized, it was a good time of the year for farmers to take off a day or three to go visit the town or city where voting was taking place. Tuesday because it allowed traveling on Monday for those people who could not make it to the polls on time when traveling on the same day - and not require them to travel on a Sunday. Second Tuesday because that would always be after All Saints Day (Novemeber 1)
As for "work week day" vs "weekend day", from my observations (and of many people I know), the working poor are very likely to be required to work at least one, and often both, of Saturday and Sunday. I don't think it would matter which day(s) were election days, national holiday or not, there will be a lot of people who have to work that day and have trouble getting time to go to the polls.
Add to that the fact that the number of polling places is being cut back - due to budget constraints (nevermind that many polling places are active public shools or otherwise available free of rent - and many pollworkers are unpaid volunteers) - so the waiting times are longer and some people have to leave before they get to vote.
It's also a good justification for the original method of having state legislatures elect Senators.
We did away with that system because it had become completely, utterly corrupt. Senators were openly bought by large corporations. Sound familiar? I could se moving back to that system, ... only because it would buy us a decade or two while the corporate machine slowly adjusted to the new system and found a new way to buy their way to power.
Nice theory, but big corps would adapt immediately. Much smaller audience to pursuade. And they already have the lobbyists in place.
with this:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/04/03/18/0132222/nasa-develops-tech-to-hear-words-not-yet-spoken
Unfortunately, the original article is gone. Time to search the WABACK machine.
On further thought, see my posting in another sub-thread, about building from source and questioning the compiler.
that will forbid anyone from connecting to our network from home while using a Cisco/Cisco-Linksys/Linksys branded device
The company I work for provides us with laptops with a preconfigured, stronly encrypted VPN installed. These laptops are the only way we can connect to the company network - in the office or not. Our IT department basically assumes that any network or PC outside of the company's network is insecure or otherwise not trustworthy. The VPN allows us safer access while we are working outside the office (for example, at customer or supplier offices - and yes, even us software developers get to go to off-site meetings)
While issuing company owned and configured routers to your workers might sound like a good idea, it isn't. Because you will still be exposing your company's network to untrustworthy PCs. Though you could configure the routers to only work with company issued PCs, there are ways around this. Your best option is to install a good, strongly encrypted VPN on company issued PCs and only allow those to connect to the company's network.
I've been considering the idea that the company provide routers for them, anyway. It won't be CIsco. Most likely it will be something based on DD-WRT, and maybe even a local build of it if I get the time to delve into it,
I just remembered a post by one of the open sourse "super luminaries" that building from source is not enough. You first have to review the source completely. And even then, you can't be sure of the compiler. It is possible to plant a virus in the compiler that inflects anything you build with it. That leads to a chicken-and-egg problem. Is the GCC "boot strap" compiler useful any more?
FYI, the boot strap compiler is a set of compilers, from very simple to full featured, to enable getting a compiler running on a new archetecture. The idea is that the simple compiler is not too unreasonable to compile "by hand", then is used to compile the next, more sophisticated compiler, then use that to compile an even more sophiosticated compiler until you have the full featured compiler running.. This technique has not been needed for many years as one can use the new "back end", for the target archetecture, with a compiler already running on any convenient machine. The resulting executables can then be run on the new machine.
My e1000 and e3000 (not listed as Cloud Connect compatible) will no longer allow direct connection and configuration while connected to the internet. They will not accept a connection from the LAN if there is a live cable on the WAN port.
This could be a good thing. When you disconnect the WAN side, what else is disabled or missing (or new)?
But, good, bad or invisable, there is still the possibility of monitoring being installed as part of the update.
I originally got a d-Link WiFi router, parly because fellow geeks I knew liked it and I could buy a bundled router and WiFi card for my laptop. After about 6 months, the router started randomly reseting. Since it was beyind the 90 day warrantee it came with, I tried calling d-Link tech support to resolve the problem. But, after a month and still no resolution, I then got a Linksys WRT54G based on recomendations of fellow geeks I knew. Never had a problem with it. 2 years, after getting a new laptop with built in 802.11n, I got a Linksys E3000. Have never had a problem, with it.
Apparantly this Cloud Connect service is not available for the E3000, so I don't have to worry about it. However, unlikely I will get another Cisco product, and certainly not one with this Cloud Connect service. Nor will I get one with a similar service from another vendor.
Of course, it is probably just a matter of time before all SOHO and other non-enterprise routers have monitoring built in. I hope my E3000 lasts a good long time and at least one of the open source firmware projects continues to support it.
I especially like how they get to keep your Internet history.
This also means they are using bandwidth quota with out notifying the end users before doing so.
So who just plugs in a firewall/router and starts using it out of the box without changing the password and checking over all the settings?
You presume that disabling remote management and automatic updates actually proevents the vendor from remote access to your router.
I did disable automatic updates and remote management. Having just found out about this, I will find out this evening whether they pwned my E3000
Decades later, we still have the notion that in order to eject a cd, you need to throw it into the trash bin! Regardless of the used-to-be-functional button on the drive itself, which of course is disabled because....."we know better"
The eject button on my CD/DVD drive works. Of course, if a file that is on the CD/DVD is open, ejecting is inhibited.
I've never been asked more than a few questions when crossing to Caanada, not even when I was traveling for business reasons - and I work for a Canadian company that has a product development center in the US and had my comopany issued ID with me, which the border agent wanted to see, along with my passport
One could argue that atheism was one's "religion", and provide a self-written document stating as such (I'd personally give it about a 50/50 shot depending on the immigration officer). Yes, I think it could be clearer, and if they do actually refuse citizenship to pacifist atheists for this reason, the ACLU should get involved.
There is a "church" for atheists. As I recall, it is called "The Church of Secular Humanism". I know someone who has a certificate of ordination as a minister of it and is leglly recognised by the state he lives in to perform the various duties and rites of a minister of a conventional religion, including marriage and taking confession.
However, this church has no doctrin beyond the non-existense of dieties, so no help to pacifism. There might be another secular church with a doctrin of pacifism.
A decent band usually costs more than even a professional DJ - even if it's your friends/siblings/cousins/other who are playing "for free" as you end up compensating them in other ways. IF you are evening getting a DJ at all. Most of the parties I've been to in the past 3 years, the host(ess) set up a play list in LinAmp/iTunes/other and left the music on auto-pilot.
This article is about collection of royalties for recordings. They seem to be expanding the scope of events to include private events. This is in addition to any fees you have to pay to SOCAN/ASCAP/BMI/SESAC.
4 if you are playing recordings. Sound Exchange is the arm of the RIAA that the US Copyright Board has authorised to collect statutory royalties for recordings.
SOCAN has always collected fees for radio play, and recorded music at public functions, shows, etc in Canada. All that's happened now is that the fee structure for certain types of event has been updated. (simplified, I think?)
This article implies that it is being expanded to include private functions as well. Weddings are almost always private.
Don't know about this new "Re-Sound", but the US version of it, "Sound Exchange", in order to collect your share of the royalties they collect, you have to pay $50 annual "membership dues". And then they still take a percentage as "administrative costs". (And if your recording is released through a label over than your own, your share gets filtered through the record company as well.)
(You can avoid Sound Exchange taking a share by directly licensing each and every one of your recordings to the DJs (or other people) playing your recordings. BUT, if your license can in any way be interpreted as a "blanket license", then SE gets to collect statutory royalties.)
Before Katz, the right to unreasonable search and seizure was categorical, and limited to a small list of places: e.g. inside your home..
The 4th amendment says "... in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..."
That's a rather expansive list despite being only 4 items long. Back then, the only files people had were on paper, so applying today's technology to their era's terminalogy, "papers" would include computer files, email messages and more. Back then, "effects" meant personal property. Even in recent years, the phrase "personal effects" is occasionally used. So, the term "effects" would include a person's mobil phone, iPod/iPad/tablet PC, laptop PC or even desk PC.
Erosion of 4th admendment rights is mainly accomplished by finding ways to justify narrowing the interpretation these terms, and by justifying exclusion of things not explicitly mentioned.
While we might not be able to do much about lawyers aguring over the meanings of each and every word in the constitution and the mariad of laws we have, the 9th amendment specifies "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or desparage others retained by the people." Back then, this was their main worry about privacy - beyond that, you could ensure your privacy by looking around you to see if anyone was near enough to spy on you. Just becaue they didn't imagine the technology to circumvent this once simple precaution does not mean they intended to exclude protection from such intrusions by whatever means.
For me, compiling my project involves 4 tools: Make, AWK, the compiler and the linker. Usually at least 2 source files need to be compiled, more if I edit a header file. Then AWK updates the build number and the linker produces the executable from the object files produced by the compiler. A lot of file I/O (mostly I) is going on, so yes, an SSD does speed up compiling.
You missed the bit where he said "Work PC". That means it's so loaded with enterprise-grade crap and the need to run eight hundred boot scripts that need to download more crap over a network with a latency worthy of a satellite link that it's going to take 10-15 minutes to boot even with a liquid-nitrogen-cooled i7-EE and any kind of SSD you care to mention.
Yeah, the last several years, the places I've worked, it's common for people to Sleep/Standby their PCs overnight, during the week, to avoid long boot times. (Used to use hibernate, but that option went away with the latest PC upgrade; IT claims it's the PCs, not anything they did) At my previous main client, IT would give us flack saying that Windows needs to be rebooted everyday, especially work PCs. Our response was always "If it didn't take 10+ minutes to get a usable desktop, we wouldn't to hibernate the PCs." At my current main client, the IT people sleep/standby their PCs along with the rest of us.
for the state it is beneficial to kill people the moment they turn unproductive, which tends to be 10-20 years before these people become truly infirm. In the case of chronic unemployment, it can even be 50 years or more before one becomes infirm
By what definition of unproductive? Retired people are often able to mentor children and young adults Sadly, our society tends to ignore the great many of these potential mentors. Should they be penalized for simply being ignored? Then add in the increasing occurrence of forced retirement for no reason other than a perception they are too old. (Some of my best coworkers are from 70 to 90+ years and are still very productive.)
Before we consider euthanizing the elderly, we should first stop discarding otherwise productive people - whether they work in a business/school/etc or help their younger family members.
Fate is what it is, but government wants to control when you die because otherwise it messes up the spreadsheets.
Government wants to prevent us from having control of our own deaths. They want us to leave that to fate (except in case of a capital crime)
(But see my earlier post)