Simpler solution make the expiry date for patents 0 years... They are an artificial monopoly and are relatively recent, we didn't need them at all before but somehow now people have built industries around them... this is not what they were for
Copyright and trademarks are a different matter (although copyright is too long...) but patents are unnecessary and do not protect anyone
Start a new business in the USA, have an idea and the patent system that is supposed to protect you from people stealing your idea, and from larger rivals, does not do this... instead it protects the company (not individual) with the most patents regardless if they invented the patented idea or simply bought the patent
Go and look at industries without patents, or copyright (e.g. the fashion industry) and you will see people getting rich, a dynamic industry full of new ideas... now go and look at a patent heavy industry (e.g. Pharmaceuticals) and you will see a stagnant industry focusing on smaller and smaller 'innovations' that are just enough to renew an about to expire patent...
Now name some peaceful Muslim countries...if you can because they are the the ones that don't get in the news because nothing interesting happens there, like all the peaceful Christian or Secular states that never get in the news....
Whereas the USA and the UK have been involved in most wars over the last 100 years or so...
USA is the only country that uses MM/DD/YYYY USA is the only country that still uses it's own form of imperial (not the same as anyone else) USA is the only country that does not understand 24hr time...(except the Military) USA (and others in NANPA) is the only country that does not have ITU international dialling
etc.. etc... Large rich arrogant country will not update to be compatible with the rest of the world...
The people who the media have interviewed who claim to be high up in a non-hierarchical organisation are boastful poseurs.......meanwhile the members of Anonymous you really need to worry about are the ones you have never heard of...
Doyon seems like a wannabe not an important member of Anonymous...
No-one can prove they are a member, for the same reason that it is so hard to go after them, there is no leadership, no organisation, it is just an ad-hoc collection of people where the active members drift in and out depending on what is going on currently and if they agree with it today
Some (many) are I suspect script kiddies, and have no real knowledge, and these will be the ones that the anti-hacker brigade will catch most easily... a few actually have the detailed knowledge to do real damage beyond DDoS attacks
The Patent system was put in place to protect innovators, it does not do this, abolishing it would leave trademarks and copyright, trade secrets, fraud etc to protect businesses...
The only people who are worried about losing patents are those who's business model is founded on them, these are mostly very large companies who could change if they were motivated to....
He teaches not self defence but how to attack and injure people deliberately... he was going to talk to areas hit by riots last year to promote his methods
Death valley, is not devoid of Water, it does actually get very cold there sometimes....
The Sailing stones probably move by differential ice formation
The rocks in Ireland were assumed to have moved during the last Tsunami (1700's) but now someone has bothered to study them, they have found they have definitely moved recently, just like the locals said all along) , the mechanism is unlikely to be the same as the desert rocks...?
Sound, Wifi, Graphics, are the most common systems that the manufacturers will not release any interface specs for - So no Linux driver or Buggy one
For Windows they write the Driver themselves... or there isn't one and they can't sell any...but bugs in a driver for a card that is more than a year old and you are on your own...
There is no way to make these secure, biometrics do not work well enough and probably never will, no matter what the manufacturers of biometric readers would say
The supposedly hyper-secure completely unfakeable biometric passports were shown off in the USA at a security conference by the the firm who designed it, they had a reader setup to show all the details of a person on a sample passport, and then someone walked in with a passport that was accepted by the system as genuine, for Elvis....
Currently I don't need a secure ID to access the internet, and I suspect that many devices will not be able to use this... why do I need this...?
Lots of false positives and negatives make the system constantly alerting and having to be manually checked.... i.e. annoying and people get used to just accepting that it is always warning...
A system that is constantly flagging alerts is next to useless...it is only marginally better then alerting all the time....
32% of the search market when they are the default search engine on most desktop PC's is not good enough, and when then most search for word on Bing is 'Google'...
Games, they pay games companies to write them, Facebook they own but otherwise have nothing to do with, Nokia is no longer the worlds largest mobile phone operator....
Microsoft rapidly becoming a minor player in most markets...
Note this is manufacturing not design, many other companies design chips
Note this is only cutting edge chips, how many PC's were bought with these cutting edge chips... ?
What are people actually buying, Moderate PC's, a few servers, and a lot of Phones and Tablets.... all of which use FAB methods less advanced than this...
Yes Intel are ahead, but the rest of the world are not necessarily buying their products
If you are rich then you can give your kids a good start in life and support them through their vulnerable early years until they can support themselves, so you only need 2 kids, they will both live long enough to give you 2 grandkids each all of whom will also have the same support...
If you are poor, then some of your kids might die young (in the armed forces, crime, gangs etc...) and not have kids, or might be injured, disabled, or sick and not be able to support their family and so you will have less than 2 effective children, and less than 4 effective grandchildren (i.e. alive, well, and able) even though you had many more children...
Evolution ensures that the most fit for the environment survive the most, the current environment is one we have at least partly designed and includes technology
We are evolving towards this new environment, but it is a slow process and the environment is moving much much faster....
We are still evolving towards a farmed diet, mostly we are suited for a hunter gatherer diet, this is why we crave sweet, fatty foods (hard to find/catch, but easy to farm) and salads are bland (easy to find)
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Simpler solution make the expiry date for patents 0 years ... They are an artificial monopoly and are relatively recent, we didn't need them at all before but somehow now people have built industries around them ... this is not what they were for
Copyright and trademarks are a different matter (although copyright is too long ...) but patents are unnecessary and do not protect anyone
Start a new business in the USA, have an idea and the patent system that is supposed to protect you from people stealing your idea, and from larger rivals, does not do this ... instead it protects the company (not individual) with the most patents regardless if they invented the patented idea or simply bought the patent
Go and look at industries without patents, or copyright (e.g. the fashion industry) and you will see people getting rich, a dynamic industry full of new ideas ... now go and look at a patent heavy industry (e.g. Pharmaceuticals) and you will see a stagnant industry focusing on smaller and smaller 'innovations' that are just enough to renew an about to expire patent ...
Now name some peaceful Muslim countries ...if you can because they are the the ones that don't get in the news because nothing interesting happens there, like all the peaceful Christian or Secular states that never get in the news ....
Whereas the USA and the UK have been involved in most wars over the last 100 years or so ...
North Korea - Is currently at war with South Korea
USA is the only country that uses MM/DD/YYYY ...(except the Military)
USA is the only country that still uses it's own form of imperial (not the same as anyone else)
USA is the only country that does not understand 24hr time
USA (and others in NANPA) is the only country that does not have ITU international dialling
etc .. etc ... Large rich arrogant country will not update to be compatible with the rest of the world ...
..only used for a large number of US planes ...
Obviously no-one else made jets, so did not need an equivalent machine ... like Russia, UK, France, China, etc .. etc .. etc ...
If you want one of these I'm sure China has a couple to spare ...
Wear it like a watch --- strange I have one of those it does not use sub-dermal magnets, it is has this innovative thing called a "watch strap" ....
The people who the media have interviewed who claim to be high up in a non-hierarchical organisation are boastful poseurs .... ...meanwhile the members of Anonymous you really need to worry about are the ones you have never heard of ...
Doyon seems like a wannabe not an important member of Anonymous ...
No-one can prove they are a member, for the same reason that it is so hard to go after them, there is no leadership, no organisation, it is just an ad-hoc collection of people where the active members drift in and out depending on what is going on currently and if they agree with it today
Some (many) are I suspect script kiddies, and have no real knowledge, and these will be the ones that the anti-hacker brigade will catch most easily ... a few actually have the detailed knowledge to do real damage beyond DDoS attacks
The Patent system was put in place to protect innovators, it does not do this, abolishing it would leave trademarks and copyright, trade secrets, fraud etc to protect businesses ...
The only people who are worried about losing patents are those who's business model is founded on them, these are mostly very large companies who could change if they were motivated to ....
He teaches not self defence but how to attack and injure people deliberately... he was going to talk to areas hit by riots last year to promote his methods
How to stop a determined suicide bomber getting onto a flight with a device powerful enough to down the plane ... you can't it's impossible
All the security at airports does two things only :
1) makes the passengers feel safe enough so that they will continue to fly (this is debatable...)
2) deter all but the most determined and clever enough terrorists ...who hopefully the government are already aware of by other means
Death valley, is not devoid of Water, it does actually get very cold there sometimes ....
The Sailing stones probably move by differential ice formation
The rocks in Ireland were assumed to have moved during the last Tsunami (1700's) but now someone has bothered to study them, they have found they have definitely moved recently, just like the locals said all along) , the mechanism is unlikely to be the same as the desert rocks ...?
Sound, Wifi, Graphics, are the most common systems that the manufacturers will not release any interface specs for - So no Linux driver or Buggy one
For Windows they write the Driver themselves ... or there isn't one and they can't sell any ...but bugs in a driver for a card that is more than a year old and you are on your own ...
There is no way to make these secure, biometrics do not work well enough and probably never will, no matter what the manufacturers of biometric readers would say
The supposedly hyper-secure completely unfakeable biometric passports were shown off in the USA at a security conference by the the firm who designed it, they had a reader setup to show all the details of a person on a sample passport, and then someone walked in with a passport that was accepted by the system as genuine, for Elvis ....
Currently I don't need a secure ID to access the internet, and I suspect that many devices will not be able to use this ... why do I need this...?
4th most populated country in Europe 12th largest country in Europe ...
If it were a US state it would easily be the most populous, (almost the same as California and Texas together) , and the 12th largest by area ...
If you can sneak into someone's office and use their computer at all, then detecting people by mouse movements is the least of your worries
Your staff leaving their computer unlocked, their door unlocked, and their office unattended, and no-one noticing are much worse security issues ...
Lots of false positives and negatives make the system constantly alerting and having to be manually checked .... i.e. annoying and people get used to just accepting that it is always warning ...
A system that is constantly flagging alerts is next to useless ...it is only marginally better then alerting all the time ....
Windows the current versions only (Win 7 and 2008 server) have 21 Editions available ... is that too many?
...and lack of diversity is why Windows is still riddled with scumware, viruses and similar even after all Microsoft's efforts ....
One monolithic target is easier to hit than a diverse but similar group ....
XBox360 - 62m sold
Wii - 95m sold
32% of the search market when they are the default search engine on most desktop PC's is not good enough, and when then most search for word on Bing is 'Google' ...
Games, they pay games companies to write them, Facebook they own but otherwise have nothing to do with, Nokia is no longer the worlds largest mobile phone operator....
Microsoft rapidly becoming a minor player in most markets ...
Hacking riding a horse for pleasure
I'm going hacking = I am going horse riding
Depends on the context and who you are speaking to what it means ...
Better product is a point of view, if I want plugins to block ads, stop javascript, etc .etc. etc then Chrome is not really an option
I also note that more websites I use (my sampling may be biased) work in Firefox than Chrome ...
Note this is manufacturing not design, many other companies design chips
Note this is only cutting edge chips, how many PC's were bought with these cutting edge chips... ?
What are people actually buying, Moderate PC's, a few servers, and a lot of Phones and Tablets .... all of which use FAB methods less advanced than this ...
Yes Intel are ahead, but the rest of the world are not necessarily buying their products
If you are rich then you can give your kids a good start in life and support them through their vulnerable early years until they can support themselves, so you only need 2 kids, they will both live long enough to give you 2 grandkids each all of whom will also have the same support ...
If you are poor, then some of your kids might die young (in the armed forces, crime, gangs etc ...) and not have kids, or might be injured, disabled, or sick and not be able to support their family and so you will have less than 2 effective children, and less than 4 effective grandchildren (i.e. alive, well, and able) even though you had many more children ...
Evolution ensures that the most fit for the environment survive the most, the current environment is one we have at least partly designed and includes technology
We are evolving towards this new environment, but it is a slow process and the environment is moving much much faster ....
We are still evolving towards a farmed diet, mostly we are suited for a hunter gatherer diet, this is why we crave sweet, fatty foods (hard to find/catch, but easy to farm) and salads are bland (easy to find)