Sure, he'd have published, but as he says, he's an average guy and he's had 4 ideas in his life. So there are millions of people like him, and each of them files a patent every 10 years, we're looking at several thousand a day, they just wouldn't be read.
Having a published article acting as a patent is far more valuable since the publishing agency has a vested interest in the ideas they publish being good and so they can vet the ideas and select the best.
Having a monetary dissuasion from publishing patents is always going to favour the rich, but having no dissuasion is not the solution, we need to discriminate on quality so that we can benefit the deserving.
Has anyone else ever noticed that slashdot (which is mostly american) invariably notices and complains when the US authorities are out of line? Why aren't there any stupid yanks on slashdot? Maybe only/.ers should get a vote, it would solve a lot of problems:P
A government effort would get it done but it would cost several orders of magnitude more than what the free market could do it for. The difference is that the free market will do it when the technology is made available and it becomes economical, neither of which is currently the case.
They have a website that looks as if it's been knocked together by a 13-year-old kid who wants to be a rocket scientist. If what's on display there is anything to go by the company seems to be going nowhere.
"Primarily targeting the hardware of the space elevator, the LiftPort Group member companies are researching and designing the nuts and bolts in the fields of carbon nanotube production, robotics, photo voltaics, power beaming and targeting, and permanent floating structures for the ocean. Outside of that, we also are responsible for project management, web design, public relation, accounting, and legal issues for each member company of the group."
So we need to do all this... we're not really sure how to do it... but give us some money and we'll work it out. If it wasn't in the news I'd have assumed it was a scam. Somebody really didn't do their homework before they made an investment.
The right to post photographs wherever you like is simply freedom of speech, if we support freedom of expression how can we limit it to specific means of communication? As usual I've argued far more here: http://alittlebitoffreedom.blogspot.com.
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"duplicate functionality" Otherwise known as competition? Surely that's going to be an easy law suit.
Sure, he'd have published, but as he says, he's an average guy and he's had 4 ideas in his life. So there are millions of people like him, and each of them files a patent every 10 years, we're looking at several thousand a day, they just wouldn't be read. Having a published article acting as a patent is far more valuable since the publishing agency has a vested interest in the ideas they publish being good and so they can vet the ideas and select the best. Having a monetary dissuasion from publishing patents is always going to favour the rich, but having no dissuasion is not the solution, we need to discriminate on quality so that we can benefit the deserving.
Has anyone else ever noticed that slashdot (which is mostly american) invariably notices and complains when the US authorities are out of line? Why aren't there any stupid yanks on slashdot? Maybe only /.ers should get a vote, it would solve a lot of problems :P
A government effort would get it done but it would cost several orders of magnitude more than what the free market could do it for. The difference is that the free market will do it when the technology is made available and it becomes economical, neither of which is currently the case.
They have a website that looks as if it's been knocked together by a 13-year-old kid who wants to be a rocket scientist. If what's on display there is anything to go by the company seems to be going nowhere. "Primarily targeting the hardware of the space elevator, the LiftPort Group member companies are researching and designing the nuts and bolts in the fields of carbon nanotube production, robotics, photo voltaics, power beaming and targeting, and permanent floating structures for the ocean. Outside of that, we also are responsible for project management, web design, public relation, accounting, and legal issues for each member company of the group." So we need to do all this... we're not really sure how to do it... but give us some money and we'll work it out. If it wasn't in the news I'd have assumed it was a scam. Somebody really didn't do their homework before they made an investment.
The right to post photographs wherever you like is simply freedom of speech, if we support freedom of expression how can we limit it to specific means of communication? As usual I've argued far more here: http://alittlebitoffreedom.blogspot.com.
RCTV getting round censorship laws is great, companies in general being above laws is just plain scary... I've elaborated on my blog so I won't do it here.