... as about people being encouraged to create bogus issues in order to harvest money.
A previous poster cited the lawyer who filed this patent application as "dumbest fuck ever" but I feel reasonably confident he got paid to file the patent.
I'd be surprised if there are not several members of the legal profession getting paid to decide this matter, including a judge.
The legal system probably can't be trusted to stop these abuses, especially in jurisdictions that have actively encouraged this type of litigation. Quick; without looking it up, take a wild guess at which state the complaint will be filed in. I have not looked either, but even if it's being filed somewhere else, I bet most readers thought of the same place (perhaps even the same county)
Even if all patents were eliminated, do you think that the bickering over IP would stop ? No; I read here another poster was concerned that some gray haired judge would not be able to see the truth for what it was.
I would add to that concern about "rocket dockets" that have signaled a particular leaning toward litigants with money to spend in this way.
Sure, patents could be much improved, but there are problem with the legal system too. Eliminating patents would not eliminate trumped up bogus legal proceedings that favor wealthy litigants.
It seems lazy lawmaking to me that CA would put some law on the books and just wait for problems to arise.
One would have thought that with a week or two on ask slashdot, a whole bunch of the more obvious problems with this approach could have been forestalled. And with another few weeks of expert review even more simple constraints could have been devised.
It seems to me inevitable that this approach to investigation will only get more prevalent, so I don't see any reason why CA could not have spent some time to try and get some of the details right in advance.
How about introducing a law with some overly-strict limitations and then relax them over time instead of introducing an overly-loosely managed system and then going back to make it right after it's ruined a few peoples lives.
It just seems like a piss poor attitude to lawmaking to me.
I don't see why any nameserver (especially the root nameservers) could not carry signatures from multiple CAs. Maybe that's not DNSSEC (I can't be bothered to read the RFCs !) but it's certainly a technical possibility.
Also, I think any device looking up any DNS record can chose to ignore the signatures if it wants to anyway (most will).
So I fail to see what all the conspiracy issues are surrounding the signature of the root name servers. It seems a far cry from implementing a system to roll dnssec out to every nameserver and if a better solution comes along later, or DNSSEC gets better, the new ideas can probably get bolted on.
I had read somewhere (must be true then...) that by the time Londoners got to drink water, it had passed through an average of 7 other people upstream of London.
It was said to account for the good flavor and "softness" of London tap water, which does well in taste tests, and, in a separate article, for the sexual mutation of the fish in the river (from birth control pills apparently).
The surviving spider "Nowachnid" was challenged by police who watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun.
They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowachnid was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said. Inside Nowachnid's jar authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and incriminating e-mails.
Nowachnid was wearing an 8-leg diaper at the time of the arrest.
Sounds like she's thought of a great idea for a book, and she may well be making up the story about her savings being blown anyway. Perhaps she's smarter than all of us.
If you go the route whereby you issue everyone with a laptop and install a VPN client on the laptop, then I would also prevent the use of the VPN client when the user is in the office to call outward.
I would not want to think of my office network being bridged to another LAN over a tunnel created from the inside. It's especially fun to bash Microsoft here, but windows PCs will find gaps in the network and merrily bond with anything it can connect to by any method. It's like having a swinger installed on your PC.
So build towers in the middle of the bigger islands and only go down to the beach when the tide is out. Even the sea levels in 2100 will only cover some of the islands, not all. And one would like to think that something could be done to improve the situation globally. If man has caused this then man can have some hand in fixing it.
The problem with moving en-masse to another country is that eventually all the things that made Maldivianians (?) special will eventually leech away. The solution, to my mind, is to look to becoming more special.
There are Napoleonic forts in the sea that have been there for years, if Napoleon could do it...
Seems to me more likely insurance companies will effectively ban this activity.
What's the premium for insuring your home when your hobby is "explosive experimenter" and how does it change after you screw something minor up and just burn down a wall or something.
It's fun to experiment, but who wants to live next door to the next Marie Curie ?
My impression is that most of the shining examples given were of people doing relatively innocuous things in less litigious times. I'm sure that there are more honest mistakes than malicious intentions among the hobbyists.
There probably is some interesting and worthwhile chemistry to be done with non-exotic ingredients that don't easily go boom or convert to phosgene.
This goes to the heart of the Joe the plumber issue and the current rush on gun sales.
Each party is supposed to say what they've always said. If someone says something much different then they simply are not believed.
I'm sure that it was not so much that Joe the Plumber did not know Obama's stated tax policy, nor that he did not seem to understand the difference between Net and Gross income, but rather that he simply would not believe what Obama was saying was true.
I think after a while they just want viewers to get what they want - it's a formula that gets people to watch. Their function has nothing to do with news really, it's entertainment. So far as I can see, the CNN purpose was...
1) Provide a vehicle for Anderson Cooper to look pretty
2) Add entertainment value by having a bunch of knee-jerk reactionary comment (it's not such a good show without it) and spark a few arguments among those in the panel to inflame wedge issues.
3) Make David Gergen look as thoughtful as possible, including side shots of him staring into space while the cogs in his mind appeared to be turning (he's probably just listening to the producer).
The general idea is for Cooper to prance around and initiate a fight between two no-name idiots and then for Gergen to quench the fight by speaking "some sense". Everyone is so happy that the inane fight is over that they accept Geregen's comment as if it were the word of Solomon.
It's a simple formula that gets people to watch. Fox has their formula too. They are both doing what they should be doing, capturing eyeballs and creating more wedge issues with which to capture more eyeballs.
Plus, in my opinion, there were several stories to tell about Obama.
He was not as well known as McCain so there was something of his background to fill in
He had at least two or three messages on the issues of the day rather than the single anti-Obama message McCain had.
There was simply more substantive news to be had about him.
The most newsworthy things about the republican ticket were Palin and Joe the Plumber. I think it shows bias toward the GOP when those two get a break by not being covered - what an embarassment.
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... as about people being encouraged to create bogus issues in order to harvest money.
A previous poster cited the lawyer who filed this patent application as "dumbest fuck ever" but I feel reasonably confident he got paid to file the patent.
I'd be surprised if there are not several members of the legal profession getting paid to decide this matter, including a judge.
The legal system probably can't be trusted to stop these abuses, especially in jurisdictions that have actively encouraged this type of litigation. Quick; without looking it up, take a wild guess at which state the complaint will be filed in. I have not looked either, but even if it's being filed somewhere else, I bet most readers thought of the same place (perhaps even the same county)
Even if all patents were eliminated, do you think that the bickering over IP would stop ? No; I read here another poster was concerned that some gray haired judge would not be able to see the truth for what it was.
I would add to that concern about "rocket dockets" that have signaled a particular leaning toward litigants with money to spend in this way.
Sure, patents could be much improved, but there are problem with the legal system too. Eliminating patents would not eliminate trumped up bogus legal proceedings that favor wealthy litigants.
It seems lazy lawmaking to me that CA would put some law on the books and just wait for problems to arise.
One would have thought that with a week or two on ask slashdot, a whole bunch of the more obvious problems with this approach could have been forestalled. And with another few weeks of expert review even more simple constraints could have been devised.
It seems to me inevitable that this approach to investigation will only get more prevalent, so I don't see any reason why CA could not have spent some time to try and get some of the details right in advance.
How about introducing a law with some overly-strict limitations and then relax them over time instead of introducing an overly-loosely managed system and then going back to make it right after it's ruined a few peoples lives.
It just seems like a piss poor attitude to lawmaking to me.
you should encrypt your DNA using truecrypt.
I don't see why any nameserver (especially the root nameservers) could not carry signatures from multiple CAs. Maybe that's not DNSSEC (I can't be bothered to read the RFCs !) but it's certainly a technical possibility.
Also, I think any device looking up any DNS record can chose to ignore the signatures if it wants to anyway (most will).
So I fail to see what all the conspiracy issues are surrounding the signature of the root name servers. It seems a far cry from implementing a system to roll dnssec out to every nameserver and if a better solution comes along later, or DNSSEC gets better, the new ideas can probably get bolted on.
I had read somewhere (must be true then...) that by the time Londoners got to drink water, it had passed through an average of 7 other people upstream of London.
It was said to account for the good flavor and "softness" of London tap water, which does well in taste tests, and, in a separate article, for the sexual mutation of the fish in the river (from birth control pills apparently).
Yes, they lost the case, they may have to pay some money but they won by what I'm guessing is their criteria for winning going into this fudcast.
Looks like we need a phone anonomizing solution. Of course only Val Kilmer, terrorists, plumbers and presidents would want it.
The surviving spider "Nowachnid" was challenged by police who watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun.
They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowachnid was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said. Inside Nowachnid's jar authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and incriminating e-mails.
Nowachnid was wearing an 8-leg diaper at the time of the arrest.
Can they not leave the man in peace. What possible value is there is disturbing him.
but over a Peta-BSODps
Wasn't there a "lost in space" episode where the hero dropped a wrench that subsequently became space debris and caused an accident.
Perhaps the astronauts need an attorney; I've heard that litigiousness is ruining martian society.
so the scenario is that the suit is evacuated of air and yet the astronaut can still speak somehow through the vacuum.
This just gets better.
Besides, if there was something wrong in the first 30 seconds all NASA would get from me is...
Psssssttttt, Oh, Shit...
Sounds like she's thought of a great idea for a book, and she may well be making up the story about her savings being blown anyway. Perhaps she's smarter than all of us.
Maybe she's even an undercover Nigerian.
When the book comes out - check the spelling.
If you go the route whereby you issue everyone with a laptop and install a VPN client on the laptop, then I would also prevent the use of the VPN client when the user is in the office to call outward.
I would not want to think of my office network being bridged to another LAN over a tunnel created from the inside. It's especially fun to bash Microsoft here, but windows PCs will find gaps in the network and merrily bond with anything it can connect to by any method. It's like having a swinger installed on your PC.
So build towers in the middle of the bigger islands and only go down to the beach when the tide is out. Even the sea levels in 2100 will only cover some of the islands, not all. And one would like to think that something could be done to improve the situation globally. If man has caused this then man can have some hand in fixing it.
The problem with moving en-masse to another country is that eventually all the things that made Maldivianians (?) special will eventually leech away. The solution, to my mind, is to look to becoming more special.
There are Napoleonic forts in the sea that have been there for years, if Napoleon could do it...
Seems to me more likely insurance companies will effectively ban this activity.
What's the premium for insuring your home when your hobby is "explosive experimenter" and how does it change after you screw something minor up and just burn down a wall or something.
It's fun to experiment, but who wants to live next door to the next Marie Curie ?
My impression is that most of the shining examples given were of people doing relatively innocuous things in less litigious times. I'm sure that there are more honest mistakes than malicious intentions among the hobbyists.
There probably is some interesting and worthwhile chemistry to be done with non-exotic ingredients that don't easily go boom or convert to phosgene.
Maybe less fun though...
can it solve the problem my 401k has with stocks ?
The entire loss was due to shoplifting, they should have been more suspicious of their customers. Hopefully there will be a crackdown now.
This goes to the heart of the Joe the plumber issue and the current rush on gun sales.
Each party is supposed to say what they've always said. If someone says something much different then they simply are not believed.
I'm sure that it was not so much that Joe the Plumber did not know Obama's stated tax policy, nor that he did not seem to understand the difference between Net and Gross income, but rather that he simply would not believe what Obama was saying was true.
I think after a while they just want viewers to get what they want - it's a formula that gets people to watch. Their function has nothing to do with news really, it's entertainment. So far as I can see, the CNN purpose was...
1) Provide a vehicle for Anderson Cooper to look pretty
2) Add entertainment value by having a bunch of knee-jerk reactionary comment (it's not such a good show without it) and spark a few arguments among those in the panel to inflame wedge issues.
3) Make David Gergen look as thoughtful as possible, including side shots of him staring into space while the cogs in his mind appeared to be turning (he's probably just listening to the producer).
The general idea is for Cooper to prance around and initiate a fight between two no-name idiots and then for Gergen to quench the fight by speaking "some sense". Everyone is so happy that the inane fight is over that they accept Geregen's comment as if it were the word of Solomon.
It's a simple formula that gets people to watch. Fox has their formula too. They are both doing what they should be doing, capturing eyeballs and creating more wedge issues with which to capture more eyeballs.
Plus, in my opinion, there were several stories to tell about Obama.
He was not as well known as McCain so there was something of his background to fill in
He had at least two or three messages on the issues of the day rather than the single anti-Obama message McCain had.
There was simply more substantive news to be had about him.
The most newsworthy things about the republican ticket were Palin and Joe the Plumber. I think it shows bias toward the GOP when those two get a break by not being covered - what an embarassment.
you should learn to use wait() properly.
I remember reading very similar sentiments about the impending bubble two or three years ago.
Supposedly the only people not reading The Economist were the economists.
Lack of foresight was definitely not the problem here. As you say, greed, and I would add lack of balls to say "enough!"
Can anyone think of any financial leader that actually did something appropriate in the face of the evidence of impending collapse ?
I too had hoped for more from McCain.
When I was watching Obama's half-hour TV slot the other night, It occurred to me that he did not mention McCain much, if at all.
I can't help but think that a half hour McCain/Palin slot would have been about nothing but Obama's supposed evildoing.
I'm hardly an equal participant in capitalism with the few 1000s that are in my 401k. I simply must play the game that the big dogs dictate.
I want regulation that evens the playing field.