Those restrictions don't achieve much since you have your own copyright on additions and modifications to the text, and you can impose your own restrictions on those. The practical effect is the same, since people can't copy the page in its entirety anymore and since nobody can tell which part is original and which part has been added. The only way to avoid that limitation is to add a GPL-like clause that extends the license to additions and modifications.
Life has been found in boiling water, inside ice, inside rocks, exposed to high levels of UV, inside nuclear reactors, and even on the outside of spacecraft. It can probably even travel between planets. Life could probably survive on Mars even today, and it almost certainly could survive at some point in the past. It would be truly surprising if Mars were completely sterile. Whether there is, or has been, life on Mars or not, either way, there is something to be explained and learned. So, looking for life on Mars and finding that Mars is completely sterile (as you so unscientifically assume) is itself really important.
In different words, the point of these probes is not to prove that there is life on Mars, the point is to answer the question whether there is or has been life on Mars, and any of the three possible outcomes (always sterile, sterile now, and never sterile) is interesting.
Or maybe high salinity and high acidity is what life needs to get started and the conditions on modern earth are the weird ones. Or maybe it doesn't matter because what life really needs to get started is ice, and when ice freezes and thaws repeatedly, you get pockets of water.
I think it simply doesn't make sense to try to draw conclusions based on so little data. We need to send a fleet of robots to Mars, robots that drill, search across the whole planet, etc. For the price of the Iraq war, we could have gotten this done...
This is the same EU where there are cameras on every corner in the UK? The same EU where cameras track, record, and transmit license plate numbers to central servers nationwide in Germany? The same EU where you register where you live with the government? Where many personal records are available and shared by government offices?
And they are concerned whether printed paper contains a code that is not even tied to a person but merely a print engine? Don't make me laugh.
Not necessarily. Even if the abiogenic hypothesis was shown to be correct, that wouldn't necessarily mean either that there are that many more reserves out there,
"The abiogenic hypothesis" doesn't just mean that oil can be created non-organically in tiny amounts--that's been clearly demonstrated--but it also means that there's lots of the stuff around.
"Gates and Alwaleed have collaborated for at least two years. After attending a dinner at Gates's home in Bellevue, Washington, in early 2004, Alwaleed agreed to explore ways to assist Microsoft's expansion in Saudi Arabia."
These people seem like they are busy trying to take us back to the "good" old days of kings, feudal lords, and private empires. And spending $100m to taint Linux a little more (through SCO) is pocket change to them. Scary.
Perhaps even more important than the system they found is how they found it: through gravitational microlensing. The technique is quite general and powerful.
The evidence is against near-surface deposits being of non-biological origin. There is no evidence either for or against deep deposits being of non-biological origin. So, I think we simply don't know how much, if any, oil is of abiogenic origin. Unfortunately, this has become a political and commercial hot potato.
From an environmental point of view, we should hope it's false because if there is substantially more oil and gas than we think there is, we will sooner or later transform Earth into Venus. In fact, this is well what may have happened to Venus...
I find your ability to back up your assertion with fact to be very lacking.
What the hell do you want? A 15 page legal analysis? Go read the discussions about this on Slashdot; they contain a lot of the points that are worth mentioning.
When this patent came out (just like the TiVo patent), the idea had been kicking around for many years; I remember being astonished at the time how a company could be so brazen or ignorant.
The actual legal argument is being prepared as people are documenting prior art (the patent should really be overturned based on obviousness, but that's unfortunately hard to do). I hope they'll nail TrendMicro to the wall over this. It's a shame that companies don't face liability for bad patents; if they did, these kinds of patents might cease.
Any decent open source program that is more than a few months old is cross platform anyway
Cross-platform applications are a myth. Something like OpenOffice, Java, Firefox, or Pidgin may seem cross platform, but it really isn't. Either people are spending a lot of work maintaining multiple ports, or you lose a lot of functionality on the non-preferred platform.
Using a biometric identifier for watermarking is pointless and only broadcasts your biometric id across the world. Biometric ids are there for proving that you are you, not that something belongs to you.
If you have a good watermarking scheme, embed a string like "This image is Copyright 2008 by..." into the images. If, for some reason, you want to sign your images digitally, sign them digitally.
"Android will be open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they emerge. The platform will continue to evolve as the developer community works together to build innovative mobile applications."
Not only are the developers good, they have implemented exactly this system before and run it on low-end processors: they developed Danger's Hiptop (a company built from the ground up on Java, strangely enough recently purchased by Microsoft).
The central goal of the Haiku project is to create an operating system that is ideally suited for use on the desktop
The degree to which an OS is suited to use on the desktop is primarily determined by (1) available applications, (2) ease of use, (3) driver support, and (4) stability. Linux has BeOS beat on (1) and (3). There is almost no work on usability on Haiku. And even in the best case, Haiku is at best equal to Linux on (4).
Many people, really. Read the discussion of prior art last time this came up here. Nobody should have been granted a patent on something this broad. If they had had a particular, clever method for actually doing the detection faster or more reliably, then that might have warranted a patent.
But it did not succeed, and that is what matters. And as a result, the US ended up fighting fascism, while the Europeans ended up murdering millions of Jews and other minorities.
The US rejected many jewish refugees, its industrialists did business with the Nazis, and IBM aided and abetted.
The US isn't the only place on the globe that should have accepted refugees. And prior to 1941, there was little reason, or legal means, for the US to stop US companies from doing business with the legitimate government of Germany.
Even today, nations don't operate by other standards either. Europe could save millions of lives every year by letting in more refugees, but chooses not to. And Europe continues to do brisk business with regimes that torture and murder their citizens.
The difference is one of degree, only
No, it is not, and trying to portray it that way is reprehensible.
You're suggesting that the USA has clean hands, never supported or installed tyrants and corporatists
Where is he suggesting that?
to do with the Holocaust, that Operation Paperclip was just a liberation, that the fascists who attempted a coup on FDR met justice and were punished (look up Smedley Butler).
Did the coup succeed? Did the US end up gassing millions of Jews? No. And that's the difference.
The 'Empire' is slowly moving from Utopian Europe to a darker phase.
When was this "Utopian Europe" ever realized? In the 50's? In the 60's? In the 70's? Every decade has had its own paranoias and its own intrusion into civil liberties.
Nor is the concern about this new either. Look at all the dystopian SciFi from the 70's.
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you can use it to sample the stellar population,
And that's what makes it important.
but once the lensing event is over you have no chance of being able to study any particular system further.
"No chance" is a bit strong. There are plenty of background sources.
Comcast will now probably simply impose soft traffic caps and soft caps on the number of connections users can make.
Those restrictions don't achieve much since you have your own copyright on additions and modifications to the text, and you can impose your own restrictions on those. The practical effect is the same, since people can't copy the page in its entirety anymore and since nobody can tell which part is original and which part has been added. The only way to avoid that limitation is to add a GPL-like clause that extends the license to additions and modifications.
Life has been found in boiling water, inside ice, inside rocks, exposed to high levels of UV, inside nuclear reactors, and even on the outside of spacecraft. It can probably even travel between planets. Life could probably survive on Mars even today, and it almost certainly could survive at some point in the past. It would be truly surprising if Mars were completely sterile. Whether there is, or has been, life on Mars or not, either way, there is something to be explained and learned. So, looking for life on Mars and finding that Mars is completely sterile (as you so unscientifically assume) is itself really important.
In different words, the point of these probes is not to prove that there is life on Mars, the point is to answer the question whether there is or has been life on Mars, and any of the three possible outcomes (always sterile, sterile now, and never sterile) is interesting.
Or maybe high salinity and high acidity is what life needs to get started and the conditions on modern earth are the weird ones. Or maybe it doesn't matter because what life really needs to get started is ice, and when ice freezes and thaws repeatedly, you get pockets of water.
I think it simply doesn't make sense to try to draw conclusions based on so little data. We need to send a fleet of robots to Mars, robots that drill, search across the whole planet, etc. For the price of the Iraq war, we could have gotten this done...
This is the same EU where there are cameras on every corner in the UK? The same EU where cameras track, record, and transmit license plate numbers to central servers nationwide in Germany? The same EU where you register where you live with the government? Where many personal records are available and shared by government offices?
And they are concerned whether printed paper contains a code that is not even tied to a person but merely a print engine? Don't make me laugh.
Gates violating US and European monopoly laws is one thing (and bad enough).
Gates colluding with a member of a royal family to force a nation to adopt Microsoft software just is even beyond that.
It's simple. You stated that Trend did not invent the category. I asked who did.
I did answer your question: I did. And so did thousands of other engineers around the world.
Is that clear enough?
Not necessarily. Even if the abiogenic hypothesis was shown to be correct, that wouldn't necessarily mean either that there are that many more reserves out there,
"The abiogenic hypothesis" doesn't just mean that oil can be created non-organically in tiny amounts--that's been clearly demonstrated--but it also means that there's lots of the stuff around.
Speaking of Gates and Carlyle...
"Gates and Alwaleed have collaborated for at least two years. After attending a dinner at Gates's home in Bellevue, Washington, in early 2004, Alwaleed agreed to explore ways to assist Microsoft's expansion in Saudi Arabia."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/12/bloomberg/bxfour.php
These people seem like they are busy trying to take us back to the "good" old days of kings, feudal lords, and private empires. And spending $100m to taint Linux a little more (through SCO) is pocket change to them. Scary.
Perhaps even more important than the system they found is how they found it: through gravitational microlensing. The technique is quite general and powerful.
The evidence is against near-surface deposits being of non-biological origin. There is no evidence either for or against deep deposits being of non-biological origin. So, I think we simply don't know how much, if any, oil is of abiogenic origin. Unfortunately, this has become a political and commercial hot potato.
From an environmental point of view, we should hope it's false because if there is substantially more oil and gas than we think there is, we will sooner or later transform Earth into Venus. In fact, this is well what may have happened to Venus...
that's space you're smelling???
I find your ability to back up your assertion with fact to be very lacking.
What the hell do you want? A 15 page legal analysis? Go read the discussions about this on Slashdot; they contain a lot of the points that are worth mentioning.
When this patent came out (just like the TiVo patent), the idea had been kicking around for many years; I remember being astonished at the time how a company could be so brazen or ignorant.
The actual legal argument is being prepared as people are documenting prior art (the patent should really be overturned based on obviousness, but that's unfortunately hard to do). I hope they'll nail TrendMicro to the wall over this. It's a shame that companies don't face liability for bad patents; if they did, these kinds of patents might cease.
Any decent open source program that is more than a few months old is cross platform anyway
Cross-platform applications are a myth. Something like OpenOffice, Java, Firefox, or Pidgin may seem cross platform, but it really isn't. Either people are spending a lot of work maintaining multiple ports, or you lose a lot of functionality on the non-preferred platform.
Using a biometric identifier for watermarking is pointless and only broadcasts your biometric id across the world. Biometric ids are there for proving that you are you, not that something belongs to you.
..." into the images. If, for some reason, you want to sign your images digitally, sign them digitally.
If you have a good watermarking scheme, embed a string like "This image is Copyright 2008 by
Just use Google!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=android%20open%20source
Then you find:
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/android_overview.html
"Android will be open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they emerge. The platform will continue to evolve as the developer community works together to build innovative mobile applications."
Google has promised that Android will become fully open source at some point; then it should be fairly easy to port it.
Not only are the developers good, they have implemented exactly this system before and run it on low-end processors: they developed Danger's Hiptop (a company built from the ground up on Java, strangely enough recently purchased by Microsoft).
The central goal of the Haiku project is to create an operating system that is ideally suited for use on the desktop
The degree to which an OS is suited to use on the desktop is primarily determined by (1) available applications, (2) ease of use, (3) driver support, and (4) stability. Linux has BeOS beat on (1) and (3). There is almost no work on usability on Haiku. And even in the best case, Haiku is at best equal to Linux on (4).
Many people, really. Read the discussion of prior art last time this came up here. Nobody should have been granted a patent on something this broad. If they had had a particular, clever method for actually doing the detection faster or more reliably, then that might have warranted a patent.
It nearly succeeded,
But it did not succeed, and that is what matters. And as a result, the US ended up fighting fascism, while the Europeans ended up murdering millions of Jews and other minorities.
The US rejected many jewish refugees, its industrialists did business with the Nazis, and IBM aided and abetted.
The US isn't the only place on the globe that should have accepted refugees. And prior to 1941, there was little reason, or legal means, for the US to stop US companies from doing business with the legitimate government of Germany.
Even today, nations don't operate by other standards either. Europe could save millions of lives every year by letting in more refugees, but chooses not to. And Europe continues to do brisk business with regimes that torture and murder their citizens.
The difference is one of degree, only
No, it is not, and trying to portray it that way is reprehensible.
Trend Micro is not a patent troll, they are a legitimate company who patented a process that they developed.
They didn't "patent a process", they have patented an entire category of applications, and one that they did not invent.
You're suggesting that the USA has clean hands, never supported or installed tyrants and corporatists
Where is he suggesting that?
to do with the Holocaust, that Operation Paperclip was just a liberation, that the fascists who attempted a coup on FDR met justice and were punished (look up Smedley Butler).
Did the coup succeed? Did the US end up gassing millions of Jews? No. And that's the difference.
The 'Empire' is slowly moving from Utopian Europe to a darker phase.
When was this "Utopian Europe" ever realized? In the 50's? In the 60's? In the 70's? Every decade has had its own paranoias and its own intrusion into civil liberties.
Nor is the concern about this new either. Look at all the dystopian SciFi from the 70's.