How bad does it have to get before the entire system is scrapped?
My guess:
When patents for methods of political fundraising become popular (and begin to be litigated), we will begin to see fundamental change within the patent process.
That is kinda how MS kicked apples ass back in the day. (Macs were strongly against allowing competition to design hardware, Microsoft encoraged a huge compeating pricewar to drive down hardware prices and boost software sales.)
"Boy sells kidney for an iPad 2"
"Boy donates kidney to stranger and gets an iPad and some cash as a reward"
Same facts, different spin. This kid didn't need an iPad, he needed a PR person to milk his story to see what else he could have gotten besides the known cash & prizes...
With the higher temperatures causing more people to bathe and increasing rainfall causing more people to use bathtubs as boats, an economic and societal crisis looms within the bathtub manufacturing industry. "The current bathtub manufacturing capacity simply cannot provide enough new bathtubs to satisfy demand in 30 years", an industry insider stated. No solution is in sight. Back to you, Kate.
Yeah, your tracking data is anonymous... until it shows your anonymous but unique tracking data number driving 80MPH and then parking at the same house every evening.
My Intel CPU has 128 64bit general purpose registers. Although I'm pretty certain that nearly every single program on my computer uses these registers, I've never given *any* of them explicit permission to use them. Most people don't even know about these registers, and therefore cannot give consent to their use, by your logic. Therefore, every single program running on our computers is accessing our computers in an unauthorized manner?
Authorization is a big grey blob, not a nice black/white subject.
On Topic: I suspect the timing, and not the persuing the prosecution of the crime itself, is orchestrated by Cisco. This is a very interesting story to follow. I really want to be on this guy's side, if not for a mere "David Vs. Goliath" interest. But the evidence does point to him illegally gaining access to Cisco's computers and stealing code, so it looks like David is using a stolen rocket launcher, and not a home-made slingshot, in this case.
This isn't always a valid option. I had an Windows product key that only worked with the OEM version of Windows that came on an HP machine (via their hard disk recovery image or seperate install disk I paid $30 for (I ordered the "Windows Install CD" thinking it would just be a bare Windows install), both of which included all of their bloatware). When I tried this product key with a "Full Version" of Windows (100% legit, bought it for another PC) that I installed on that same HP machine (after formatting the HD), the product verification (phone home) didn't accept the HP product key for the full version of Windows (but same level, both were "home premium" if I recall correctly). The error that I got back specifically stated that my product key was only good for the HP OEM version.
Man did that piss me off...
Moral of the story is that not all OEM product keys work on unbloated generic Windows versions of the same level of OS.
Taxes, or an excuse to get a GPS device on every car in the US? I remember what they did with the GPS devices in every phone, *promising* that it could only be used for emergency 911 calls. Now a warrant isn't even needed to track them.
Obviously you jest, as the Replication Institute for Autonomous Awareness would *cough* slapp that down.
Just say the applicant was overqualified and be done with it.
Heh, that would solve a *lot* of other issues. I like it. But then there wouldn't be many candidates left to vote for. At all. Hmm, that sounded like a problem when I first said it...
To be honest, I *WANT* senators and elected officials to have to go through all of the security procedures that us regular folks have to endure.
Eating their own dog food, and all that.
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How bad does it have to get before the entire system is scrapped?
My guess: When patents for methods of political fundraising become popular (and begin to be litigated), we will begin to see fundamental change within the patent process.
Rainbows, too.
Miracles
That is kinda how MS kicked apples ass back in the day. (Macs were strongly against allowing competition to design hardware, Microsoft encoraged a huge compeating pricewar to drive down hardware prices and boost software sales.)
sed s/MS/IBM
FTFY
"What is GPS?", Alex.
Because she lost 45 lbs and just got divorced?
Oh wait, this is Slahdot:
Because she also just dumped Windows and installed Ubuntu?
Unless they had a way of testing for our existence, and of developing a way to tell us of it.
Unless they had a way of testing for our existence, but upon observation, we behave like Schrödinger's cat.
FTFY
It's all in the spin.
"Boy sells kidney for an iPad 2"
"Boy donates kidney to stranger and gets an iPad and some cash as a reward"
Same facts, different spin. This kid didn't need an iPad, he needed a PR person to milk his story to see what else he could have gotten besides the known cash & prizes...
With the higher temperatures causing more people to bathe and increasing rainfall causing more people to use bathtubs as boats, an economic and societal crisis looms within the bathtub manufacturing industry. "The current bathtub manufacturing capacity simply cannot provide enough new bathtubs to satisfy demand in 30 years", an industry insider stated. No solution is in sight.
Back to you, Kate.
Yeah, your tracking data is anonymous... until it shows your anonymous but unique tracking data number driving 80MPH and then parking at the same house every evening.
Umm... No.
My Intel CPU has 128 64bit general purpose registers. Although I'm pretty certain that nearly every single program on my computer uses these registers, I've never given *any* of them explicit permission to use them. Most people don't even know about these registers, and therefore cannot give consent to their use, by your logic. Therefore, every single program running on our computers is accessing our computers in an unauthorized manner?
Authorization is a big grey blob, not a nice black/white subject.
On Topic: I suspect the timing, and not the persuing the prosecution of the crime itself, is orchestrated by Cisco. This is a very interesting story to follow. I really want to be on this guy's side, if not for a mere "David Vs. Goliath" interest. But the evidence does point to him illegally gaining access to Cisco's computers and stealing code, so it looks like David is using a stolen rocket launcher, and not a home-made slingshot, in this case.
I believe that you have just taken a Synergistic Comparable Post Opportunity.
Syncompoop for the 2.0 folks.
It's 1 better than 4.
Cubits.
Just because some of the terrorist-minded extremists who got caught were idiots doesn't mean that the ones who haven't been caught are idiots as well.
Having said that, I really wish that you were correct.
Man did that piss me off...
Moral of the story is that not all OEM product keys work on unbloated generic Windows versions of the same level of OS.
Taxes, or an excuse to get a GPS device on every car in the US? I remember what they did with the GPS devices in every phone, *promising* that it could only be used for emergency 911 calls. Now a warrant isn't even needed to track them.
I'm normally not paranoid, but jeeeez...
The only way you would be restricted is by your own ignorance.
Or if you don't want to commit a crime by decrypting the document that you purchased.
Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) about Anticircumvention (DMCA)
Now I gotta re-roll a new soldier for the next 250,000-man raid.
Obviously you jest, as the Replication Institute for Autonomous Awareness would *cough* slapp that down.
Just say the applicant was overqualified and be done with it.
For all, um, Intensive Purposes, we knew what you meant.
Blame it on... Enthalpy.
Heh, that would solve a *lot* of other issues. I like it. But then there wouldn't be many candidates left to vote for. At all.
Hmm, that sounded like a problem when I first said it...
To be honest, I *WANT* senators and elected officials to have to go through all of the security procedures that us regular folks have to endure.
Eating their own dog food, and all that.
In related news, dozens of multi-bil[ERROR: NO CARRIER]
(FTFY)
Yeah, "Liberty". The name "DRM I" (Dynamic Recovery Module version I) ran into a few little legal issues...