Prior art is not dead, but does need to be public to be useful.
This should be a wake up call to the small inventor to file for patent before you show anyone else - with the up side of giving additional protection to everyone when you want VC to commercialise.
It should also be a wakeup call to any corporation relying on secrecy for R&D or complex formulas, if info is leaked (or some leaves a prototype in a pub), either it enters the public domain via the internet or traditional publication and is un-patentable, or someone else files for it instead of you.
e.g if the "secret" formula for Coke gets leaked, someone else could potentially patent and "own" it. If the publish on the web then no-one, not even Coke could patent the formula.
There isn't really an argument, so maybe this is more a lawyer unemployment bill - it's a start anyway.
More to the point, in 10 years time my girlfriend will have implants that can recharge my ipod. Obviously contactless power would be best; not sure USB piecings would go down too well.
I might even start saving for my own pec implants now.
HD Recovery specialists? They could have could have bought something like GetBackData for NTFS and saved themselves $199921 in recovery costs. As far as I'm aware, reformatting your HD is one of the least successful methods of permanently destroying your data (even if you mean too).
Basically, you guys are screwed. In 50 years the US will be left behind choking in the dust of China, India and Europe. When "researchers" of any field are harrassed and investigated into extinction everyone should start to worry. The whole research system of science/medicine/technolgy or whatever is based on results expected by sponsors. Once results deviate, then funding is at risk. If there is no sponsor, as in this case, then freedom is at risk by those who probably knew the results before they were published anyway. Seriously, if this security hole was as easy as it looked, then someone should have known about it; the TSA should be investigating themselves.
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That's because they didn't watch enough TV or movies. Everyone knows you need to follow the money.
Prior art is not dead, but does need to be public to be useful. This should be a wake up call to the small inventor to file for patent before you show anyone else - with the up side of giving additional protection to everyone when you want VC to commercialise. It should also be a wakeup call to any corporation relying on secrecy for R&D or complex formulas, if info is leaked (or some leaves a prototype in a pub), either it enters the public domain via the internet or traditional publication and is un-patentable, or someone else files for it instead of you. e.g if the "secret" formula for Coke gets leaked, someone else could potentially patent and "own" it. If the publish on the web then no-one, not even Coke could patent the formula. There isn't really an argument, so maybe this is more a lawyer unemployment bill - it's a start anyway.
And it's even today's comic:
XKCD 834.
Damn, an hour wasted clicking the Random button on this site!
More to the point, in 10 years time my girlfriend will have implants that can recharge my ipod. Obviously contactless power would be best; not sure USB piecings would go down too well. I might even start saving for my own pec implants now.
"news.com reports that Microsoft is withdrawing Vista" would have been nice.
HD Recovery specialists? They could have could have bought something like GetBackData for NTFS and saved themselves $199921 in recovery costs. As far as I'm aware, reformatting your HD is one of the least successful methods of permanently destroying your data (even if you mean too).
Basically, you guys are screwed. In 50 years the US will be left behind choking in the dust of China, India and Europe. When "researchers" of any field are harrassed and investigated into extinction everyone should start to worry. The whole research system of science/medicine/technolgy or whatever is based on results expected by sponsors. Once results deviate, then funding is at risk. If there is no sponsor, as in this case, then freedom is at risk by those who probably knew the results before they were published anyway. Seriously, if this security hole was as easy as it looked, then someone should have known about it; the TSA should be investigating themselves. --- Advertisement: positions open for researchers - apply in person to the UK.
hey, don't suppose you remember the combo? um, I think I left something in there by accident.