Now the idea here is that private companies, trading on their reputation, are the ones that do the checks. The IEEE and UL labs, both important safety groups are both private companies. I'd see a number food safety companies come into existance. A maker of a food products would have to prove that their food is safe to the satisfaction of the certifying company in order to be able to put the company's trademark on their product, just as with UL underwriting.
They do not trade on thier reputation.
UL labs has the force of government law and insurance companies. It is also an approved lab
by the government regulators. It is illegal to sell
a consumer appliance that is not approved by UL (or an equivalent lab). Also using such an appliance invalidates your insurance. So if you plug in that coffemaker that doesn't have a UL logo (or equivalent) and
it causes a fire, you are up the crick without a paddle. Companies do not get UL approval for a PR gesture, they get UL approval because it is
required. Although I agree that UL has
a good reputation, UL gets its power because it is
backed by regulation.
When I was an undergrad back in the early
80's we had a different version of assassin.
The rules are similar with one major difference,
The assassince are not limited to squirt guns. The assasin could
use different weapons provided the umpire approved
of it in advance. A buddy of mine was on the escalator in the
student center when a group of ballons was dropped on him from above. Taped to the balloons was a card that said "10 ton safe". Crushed ACME style!!
Another aquaintance was pegged by one of the females in the group that came up and kissed him.
Then said, "poison lipstik"!
It could get crazy, but the umpires did a good
job of keeping things at least comic book real.
It amazes me that people think that building a rocket weighing "hundreds of pounds" or flying over 60 miles is "a hobby.
<sarcasm>
It amazes me that people think that writing your own operating system is "a hobby".
</sarcasm>
What about mountain climbing? What about amateur astronomers that
make
their own 30 to 40" telscopes including
computerized tracking systems
accurate to less than 1/2 arc second?
What about amateur robotics?
Now it may be the case that there needs to be some type
of regulations for serious hobbies, but there is such
a thing as overkill.
Absolutely true. But unfortunately you have to fight against the T.V. culture built by shows such as C.S.I, where DNA samples are done on the spot with the investigator walking into the lab just as the laser printer prints out the DNA results.
These shows, while entertaining have little connnection with reality. When was the last time you saw a forensic analysis interogating suspects?
There are. There was a recent slashdot
story about the da vinci group. They are about
to announce thier launch date and are in the final stages of approval from Transport Canada. The launch
site is only a couple of hundred miles from where I grew up (very close in Canadian terms).
I've also been both positions. As a graduate student and then during my 6 years in industry, I was extremely interested in building from source (custom kernels, custom libaries, webservers, the whole nine yards).
However now as a profiessor, I've become more interested in focusing on building the tools that are part of my research. These I publish (or will publish once they are ready) as open source. But for the other elements such as development libraries, servers, etc.: I just want them to work.
The difference is the professor is (potentially) providing a service that I am paying for. It is not the reverse with the students.
Unless you are at a fully private university, your education
is substantially subsized by the Government. Such a
review might help to better spend taxpayer dollars.:->
I'm of mixed views of this. In a recent real world case, a sleazy
third party stole the picture of a friend of mine from her website,
defaced it and then posted it on his web site as "cow of the
month". When we went to the registrar database, all we got
for the contact fields were N/A. In this case the registrar
was also the internet provider so we complained to the
provider (but didn't get much help).
If the site was registered with independely of the IP provider,
then you have to jump through many more hoops. Lookup
the address, find NIS database which IP provider is claiming
the IP address and then look them up. For governments and
the RIAA, this is relatively straight forward with a warrant. But
for small victims with little technical savy such as my friend, this
is a more daunting prospect.
I support anonymous communication, there are tradeoffs.
Posting messages anonymously on slashdot for example. It is
analagous to standing on the soapbox in the middle of the park
giving your say, or putting up a poster on a public bulleting
board or lamp post. Similarly an anonymous account on an
hosting web site also provides that anonymous communication.
But when you take a permanant presence on the internet with
a registered domain name, it becomes the closer to the
equivalent of owning/renting/leasing property in the real
world, and we don't allow that anonymously.
Only if the tenant service has an org mailbox with
the email address 'tenant@base.BoS.mil'. If the email
address is anything different that it is not relevant
to the patent. Of course if the email address
is 'tenant@base.BoS.mil', then it is a great example
of prior art and I thank you for bringing it forward.
Similarly, if the base wide mailbox
(i.e. the commanders mailbox) does not have the
same name as the base in the website address, then
it is also not relevant to the patent. What the patent
claims to cover is the relationship between an email
address and a web site address by replacing the @
character in the email address with a period.
Close but no cigar. This is in fact a way arround the patent, because to be infringing, the web site address would have to be foo.freeserv.com. Addming 'members' between foo and freeserve makes it different than the claim in the patent
I've got several linux boxen at the lab and at home. I've been musing about mailing a request for a licence and enclosing the requested fee in monopoly money. It seems appropriate on so many levels.
It will also let Darl buy that house he wants on park place.
I agree, the numbers are not that dramatic. And the implications of the open frame towers never occurred to me. I did notice in the article that they were blaming some of the raptor deaths on the fact that there are rodents in the fields under the towers.
But it is still the case that equipment wears out over time and has to be replaced. The onwers of the windfarm would probably make some points if they were to include an upgrade plan to gradually replace towers over time.
Part of the problem is the older technology used in these farms. From the pictures, it looks like they are about 7 metre blades that rotate at a relatively fast rate. The new towers such as the one recently put up in
Pickering, ON,
are the larger 30 metre constant velocity blades(typically they run at about 12 rpm) This presents a significantly lower risk to birds and bird risk was part of the environmental impact study (Lake Ontario is on the major migratory flight paths). It is also much quieter (the tower is right over one of the main walking paths on the shore of Lake Ontario)
Perhaps a better way rather than a straight renewal would be a planed upgrade path to newer technology towers that
present less of a hazard to wildlife.
I believe that the 160 grand figure in the article refers
to the cost of getting the degree (tuition + living expenses for four years). Not the expected salary.
Keep anybody who has a website accountable, and the net will be a better place.
I agree. My sister had here picture on a website, and some jerk copied the picture and put it on his web site after defacing it and making very rude and insulting comments about it. He had completely falsified all of information in the WHOIS database and we had to complain to the company that hosted his DNS records. A WHOIS lookup on the DNS server. Even then they weren't too much help.
If you purchase a domain name, then in my opinion, you've
have certain obligatons which includes some reliable and legally binding means of someone getting in touch with you. (i.e. someplace that I can send registered mail). An email address by itself is not sufficient. Privacy issues are not relevant in this case.
Slashdot Mirror
I decoded the dots on mine. It said "DEADBEEF"
They do not trade on thier reputation. UL labs has the force of government law and insurance companies. It is also an approved lab by the government regulators. It is illegal to sell a consumer appliance that is not approved by UL (or an equivalent lab). Also using such an appliance invalidates your insurance. So if you plug in that coffemaker that doesn't have a UL logo (or equivalent) and it causes a fire, you are up the crick without a paddle. Companies do not get UL approval for a PR gesture, they get UL approval because it is required. Although I agree that UL has a good reputation, UL gets its power because it is backed by regulation.
Another aquaintance was pegged by one of the females in the group that came up and kissed him. Then said, "poison lipstik"!
It could get crazy, but the umpires did a good job of keeping things at least comic book real.
It amazes me that people think that building a rocket weighing "hundreds of pounds" or flying over 60 miles is "a hobby.
<sarcasm>
It amazes me that people think that writing your own operating system is "a hobby".
</sarcasm>
What about mountain climbing? What about amateur astronomers that make their own 30 to 40" telscopes including computerized tracking systems accurate to less than 1/2 arc second? What about amateur robotics?
Now it may be the case that there needs to be some type of regulations for serious hobbies, but there is such a thing as overkill.
Absolutely true. But unfortunately you have to fight against the T.V. culture built by shows such as C.S.I, where DNA samples are done on the spot with the investigator walking into the lab just as the laser printer prints out the DNA results.
These shows, while entertaining have little connnection with reality. When was the last time you saw a forensic analysis interogating suspects?
pot says kettle is black. Ice says snow is cold. River says ocean is wet.
If you have the proof of installation without
a EULA, then maybe you should make the defendants of the suit aware of it. Might help in court.
Their claims against Linux are pure science fiction.
It may be pure science fiction, but is it good science fiction?
I think not.
There are. There was a recent slashdot story about the da vinci group. They are about to announce thier launch date and are in the final stages of approval from Transport Canada. The launch site is only a couple of hundred miles from where I grew up (very close in Canadian terms).
However now as a profiessor, I've become more interested in focusing on building the tools that are part of my research. These I publish (or will publish once they are ready) as open source. But for the other elements such as development libraries, servers, etc.: I just want them to work.
I think that you will find that the next time you renew
your insurance, that there will be a bit of a pentaly.
Unless you are at a fully private university, your education is substantially subsized by the Government. Such a review might help to better spend taxpayer dollars. :->
But it is available in the records office for anyone who wants go and look it up.
If the site was registered with independely of the IP provider, then you have to jump through many more hoops. Lookup the address, find NIS database which IP provider is claiming the IP address and then look them up. For governments and the RIAA, this is relatively straight forward with a warrant. But for small victims with little technical savy such as my friend, this is a more daunting prospect.
I support anonymous communication, there are tradeoffs. Posting messages anonymously on slashdot for example. It is analagous to standing on the soapbox in the middle of the park giving your say, or putting up a poster on a public bulleting board or lamp post. Similarly an anonymous account on an hosting web site also provides that anonymous communication.
But when you take a permanant presence on the internet with a registered domain name, it becomes the closer to the equivalent of owning/renting/leasing property in the real world, and we don't allow that anonymously.
Only if the tenant service has an org mailbox with the email address 'tenant@base.BoS.mil'. If the email address is anything different that it is not relevant to the patent. Of course if the email address is 'tenant@base.BoS.mil', then it is a great example of prior art and I thank you for bringing it forward.
Similarly, if the base wide mailbox (i.e. the commanders mailbox) does not have the same name as the base in the website address, then it is also not relevant to the patent. What the patent claims to cover is the relationship between an email address and a web site address by replacing the @ character in the email address with a period.
- testpharm@hypermart.net
- dthomas9@hypermart.net
name@testpharm.hypermart.net only has relevance if there was also a website with the address name.testpharm.hypermart.net.Similarly, the yahoo references are only relevant if yahoo also has an email addresses:
- finance@yahoo.com
- my@yahoo.com
- news@yahoo.com
Now if the latter is true and there are such email addresses at yahoo, then we definitely have a case of prior artClose but no cigar. This is in fact a way arround
the patent, because to be infringing, the web site address
would have to be foo.freeserv.com. Addming 'members'
between foo and freeserve makes it different than
the claim in the patent
Great pointer, but was it a valid server and email address
prior to 1999?
- a general email address for the base "base@BOS.mil" (which matches base.BOS.mil)
- personal web sites for the email address of the form fname.lname.base.BOS.mil
It's still a rediculous patent, but if we want to shoot it down, we have to understand what the prior art is.It will also let Darl buy that house he wants on park place.
But it is still the case that equipment wears out over time and has to be replaced. The onwers of the windfarm would probably make some points if they were to include an upgrade plan to gradually replace towers over time.
Perhaps a better way rather than a straight renewal would be a planed upgrade path to newer technology towers that present less of a hazard to wildlife.
I believe that the 160 grand figure in the article refers to the cost of getting the degree (tuition + living expenses for four years).
Not the expected salary.
Given the fact that the aircraft is not completely finished and they plan to do the flight on th 100th anniversary, it's not entirely a surprise!!
I agree. My sister had here picture on a website, and some jerk copied the picture and put it on his web site after defacing it and making very rude and insulting comments about it. He had completely falsified all of information in the WHOIS database and we had to complain to the company that hosted his DNS records. A WHOIS lookup on the DNS server. Even then they weren't too much help.
If you purchase a domain name, then in my opinion, you've have certain obligatons which includes some reliable and legally binding means of someone getting in touch with you. (i.e. someplace that I can send registered mail). An email address by itself is not sufficient. Privacy issues are not relevant in this case.