I think one of the central issues is whether a patent stops progress or creates progress. It only creates progress in the incentive for new work to be done. It stiffles progress when others want to extend that work or improve on it or use it to create new work. The patent rights hold back innovation in this way. Therefore I feel that patents and copyrights probably don't belong in Acedemia. They should not be looking at extending the field of knowledge as a gold mine. Just like orivate prisons have a vested interest in laws that put people in jail. Institutions that have a vested interest in patents will support laws that get them the most money and control of IP at the expense of the general good.
In software development, every company I have worked for wanted to own all your work lock stock and barrel. I know one employee that left because of that and with teaching at a university that had the same restrictions, I had to ammend the wording on the corporate agreement because the wording suggested that all work "during employment" would be owned by them. I think the patent law should be changed to not allow the rights to be held by a corporation but always with the individual. But then we will get companies that play the same sort of games that record companies played with the copyrights to songs from their stable of singers.
Government work should be public domain and PHD thesis I think are required to be. But the busness end of Academia is going whole hog into getting not only copyright but patents locked down. In my teaching they were trying to copyright all instructional material and video presentations with no benefit for the instructors. Certainly not only should schools add to the public domain but patents and copyrights should belong to the creators of that intellectual property.
Now I took a number of IQ tests and never found out the results. The purpose was for the teachers and counselors to understand what the capabilities of the student are. I think that is the reason behind the tests, not to give you a number or a pat on the back.. I think is unwise to tell someone their score, unless they are smart and an underachiever as a prod to get them off their lazy butt.
The problem here is, with not sending experts, with deleting information, with the stance they had initially, most likely to save face (which trumps reality). It could be more like a case of supressing someone saying Fire in a crowded theater that actually is on fire, because you did not want people to panic and your relatives die in the ensuing conflagration. With nuclear power, certainly with explosions that rip open the building and probably core meltdown. I think that the Fire Fire Run analogy is out of place. We are talking about potential atomic bomb's and class 7 nuclear accident.
There are too many cases in the news about cops abusing their authority, most recently in Chicago about a copy slapping a handcuffed suspect over and over. That is a little overboard. I am sure in this case the cops were told that they were going to arrest a stinking pedophile before they went in, not that they were going to apprehend a suspect in an alleged child pornography downloading incident. They are taught to project control and certainly the swat teams are military style with missions and orders and no-questions asked military discipline. The police should not be the military, they should not be manhandling individuals, this is not and should not be a police state. They should be professionals which it appears they are not always nor I suspect trained or corrected when they are not.
Too many wrong headed sterotypes, my head hurts. I have not seen anyone as you have discribed in my 60+ years of life. One size does not fit all, thats why they have different models of TV and different size burgers on the menu, and different resturants next to one another on the street, and certainly over simplification does not serve anyone. But I have to say I don't think Blue Ray is needed but some other high definition format inevitable. Possibly without all the DRM, although we are heading for a rent a life business model in software and media. Until someone does a switch successfully like Borland did with Turbo Pascal.
Sorry, as an average American I don't see your image or your point. I think you must not be an American and/or spend too much time watching old sitcom's.
I think there actually is an average American and he and his family live in Ohio, but for the rest of us there are so many Americans within America. You have your urban / rural split, your East Coast/West Coast/Middle Coast/Midwest/South/Southwest/Texas divisions each with different cultures with different values sets, distinct. Within the cities you have your inner city/Immigrant/suburban/old residents/Yupie/Blue Collar breakdowns. Each distinct. I had a boss once that talked with a Linguist from U of C that in 5 minutes of talking was able to tell him where in Chicago he grew up within 2 blocks. The differences are marked and far reaching.
The point being, your view of Americans and Average are way off base, inapproiate albiet entertaining.
An to add to the interesting approaches, my understanding is that they wanted to get rid of the passanger service so through the accounting trick/hanky panky charged the passenger service 100% of maintenance for the tracks over which the passenger service traveled and gave the freight a free ride, making the freight cheaper artifically and the passenger service more expensive. They were unable to close down the passenger service. I don't know if they are still playing that trick on us. If they are, maybe passenger rail would really be much less expensive than air travel. If the burden was shared that is. They may not want to have increased passenger service as that makes track scheduling more of a nightmare and would effect both freight and passengers.
Chicago CTA tried the same sort of thing with switching half's of two legs of some parallel paths to get the two least profitable segments together to try and close that half. The government thankfully told them that that was fine but they would just have to pay back the fedral money paid over the years that had the condition that those tracks be kept up and running. The CTA backed off, repaired the lines and both are operating today.
History catches us up. We don't have high speed rail because we had a large rail system laid out that has remained intack. Germany and Japan and a lot of Europe however got the hell bombed out of their rail systems during the war and had to rebuild. Newer beds and rails allowed them to have an infrastructure that supports putting in high speed rail.
Another historical switch, Russia captured more German rocket scientists at the end of the war and was able to build huge rockets and got into space first, but with big dumb satelites. The U.S. however could only put up something grapefruit sized so had to develop new technologies to pack it in. IC's were created which overnight killed the Japanese transistor radio market.
China did not have a big telephone wire network laid down, so when their economy started to take off. People just used cell phones with no need for land lines. Now they are getting land lines because they want to have internet access. Our old land line structure is like our railroads, but that is being transformed to higher speed digital types because it can ride the back of the cable TV upgrades, and it is easier to lay down new wire than new rail or roads.
Sometimes being first allows someone else to leapfrog into the next level of technology.
That is true, no free energy. Like walking on sand. Each step would expend more energy, that is unless it is taking over a normal function of the shoe that was disapating that much energy in heat, sound, wear. If that is the case then it could be that the walking will not be any harder.
The earlier article quoted Samsung as admitting to placing the software on their computers to gather information. Either that part of the earlier story is false or the current one is. This is not good journalism.
I think it's like the no-fly lists. I once had a yahoo account that I could not get to some business networking sections and they recommended that I go to the underage site. There was no way to get them to change whatever flag had been set, through emails or phone calls. Watch out you may be under aged .
On the contrary. The internet is a public place, just like the streets you live on. The PC's sold are sold to people to use to access that public place where they can meet and shop and be entertained and learn and find out information and communicate with family. And it was close to a safe place until fairly recently. It is how that place should be. The problem are the criminals and vandels that have have routes to pillage and steal and burn. They are the problem not the people trying to live part of their lives online.
Do you actually think that you everyone that gets into a car to drive on the road should know how an automatic transmission works or can change the brakes on their car, or know the physics of combustion. Ridiculous. The internet devices are as turnkey as an automobile. The trouble is the basic systems are written wrong and people of bad character take advantage.
Still, you put blame on the victim. There is no getting around that. A bad neighborhood does not make the perpatrator blameless. You dis the victim not the one doing the stealing.
I would counter with the idea that, of course there is such a thing as prudent behavior. There is also a thing like, walking into a new neighorhood that is more dangerous than you imagined, and the behavior you had in your own neighborhood is not prudent in this new place. Or what is the case with the internet, the gangs are coming into your neighborhood, with the zero day exploits and the landscape is suddenly changed and you aren't aware of it. Are you to blame if your ar mugged outside your own suburband house in a safe neighborhood. That is what we are seeing. The blame rests not with the victim.
I never blame the owner for openly trusting. That is the way things should be. You like the poster I responded to seems to pass over that the person going around asking "will you give me the keys to your house" and robs you is blameless. You could make the same argument that if you did not lock the door to your garage, and someone goes in and steals your car, you are to blame for leaving the door unlocked, or to extend that towards the argument above, if you have a commercial lock on your garage and someone is able to pick it you are at fault for not having a deadbolt with laser cut keys, or further, if you did not have a motion detector hooked up to a security firm that notifies the police, you are at blame for your car stolen.
You are never at blame for your car stolen, even if you leave it on the street, door open, keys in the lock. If someone takes your car they are the thief and you are blameless. No one is ever blamless if they steal, under no mitigating circumstances. You are not at fault for someone stealing from you. Foolish maybe but never at fault, never.
When are you people going to stop putting the blame in the wrong place. Robbery and thieft are not like a rainstorm. They are not acts of God they are overt or covert acts of criminal behavior. That is the problem. Lets address that, and place the blame squarely where it belongs.
I think you will find prior art in the original Journey of the Center of the Earth movie with the echo direction locator they carried.
Now we know that this device will fall into enemy hands. What is the risk if our enemy has this same device? Maybe they should also develop a ventriquist barrel attachment to make the sound seem to come from one of the enemy positions. They can probably get a good design from some of the hackers that do IP masquerading
All good but propaganda non the less. The stories are all designed to make the US look good. Although it does provide a more balance reporting of stories into those territories that are not getting the stories because of controlled media. But then this is controlled media too. We should have something like that coming from other countries into our back yard to hold a mirror up to some of what the rest of the world sees that our country is doing at home and abroad.
This is what we railed against with the godless Communists. Now with the neo-conservatives, they are bringing their business practices into the government and law enforcement realms. Look at Abu Grab, the recent Psy-Op's scandel from Afganistan. etc.
Actually they could pick up some tips from the law enforment departments that have been trying to trap people online by posing as underaged children that want to go have sex with them. I think we are veering away from some basic core principals that used to make the world look up to us. Hell used to make us look up to us.
Actually, not the dumbest. They at least know how to market themselves, often without telling what their agenda's are. Scott Walker in Wisc is a good example. Buyer's remorse. Well in Texas, I think maybe they mostly support this idea. I atribute it to a mutation of mad cow desease that has spread througout the bible belt.
Well I have spent a little time in Texas and they are a unique people. I was impressed when I went into a ferm bar in Austin and saw the fancy brass plaque on the wall next to the bar that directed people to leave their guns at bar. This was about 2 years ago. Now I have a hard time reconcilling the gun totting Christian majority that thinks to force one version of extremist religious views on the general public. But then I got a recorded call from Mike Huckabee last night wanting me to lend support against an attempt to stop a government supported Christian Prayer day or some such thing. Religion is fine, Christianity is fine. It's a personal choice and does not belong in the public government domain. This law is not to prevent discrimination, it is to make discrimination law. Intellegent design is a fabrication like a lot of Bush fact's. As Bush II said. He doesn't let facts get in the way of his idea's. Same here. That's right he's from Texax. Go figure.
Your absoulutely right, and hostages are at fault for being in that bank at that time. Of course the bank robbers don't have anything to do with it. Thats their job, they are just part of nature. The hostages should have been carrying guns, trained for years in martial arts and been wearing armored vests and carrying secure military style communcations systems, driving hum vee's with automatic weapons on them to protect against the threats in their neighborhood bank.
I think this is a good analogy to the envirionment on the internet. It has been turned into a war zone. So microsofts takedown is akin to taking back one neighborhood from gangs of thieves.
We should not have to have anti-virus protection. We should not have to protect ourselves against someone trying to take over our computer to make money or deny service to someone else. These are criminals and that is what you should focus on. Eliminating those people's ability to assault our property and our lives and our finances by better designed systems (we require that of auto manufactures and food and drug manufactures) , or by putting those people in jail where they can't steal from us.
I agree it is prudent to have anti-virus protection. But remember these evil people will find technological and social engineering ways around each roadblock we put up, at least until they are caught. They should be caught and pay for their crimes. So blaming people for not knowing the work around de jour is missed placed blame.
Adjusting my armored vest. Can't be too safe out there. Now where did I put the AK?
I know to get a PHD you have to have original work but this seems like stretching it a bit. What if the facebook page had negitive comments attached. I don't think they checked that one. What if the picture on Facebook was a bad hair day? So many variables so little time.
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I think one of the central issues is whether a patent stops progress or creates progress. It only creates progress in the incentive for new work to be done. It stiffles progress when others want to extend that work or improve on it or use it to create new work. The patent rights hold back innovation in this way. Therefore I feel that patents and copyrights probably don't belong in Acedemia. They should not be looking at extending the field of knowledge as a gold mine. Just like orivate prisons have a vested interest in laws that put people in jail. Institutions that have a vested interest in patents will support laws that get them the most money and control of IP at the expense of the general good.
In software development, every company I have worked for wanted to own all your work lock stock and barrel. I know one employee that left because of that and with teaching at a university that had the same restrictions, I had to ammend the wording on the corporate agreement because the wording suggested that all work "during employment" would be owned by them. I think the patent law should be changed to not allow the rights to be held by a corporation but always with the individual. But then we will get companies that play the same sort of games that record companies played with the copyrights to songs from their stable of singers.
Government work should be public domain and PHD thesis I think are required to be. But the busness end of Academia is going whole hog into getting not only copyright but patents locked down. In my teaching they were trying to copyright all instructional material and video presentations with no benefit for the instructors. Certainly not only should schools add to the public domain but patents and copyrights should belong to the creators of that intellectual property.
Now I took a number of IQ tests and never found out the results. The purpose was for the teachers and counselors to understand what the capabilities of the student are. I think that is the reason behind the tests, not to give you a number or a pat on the back.. I think is unwise to tell someone their score, unless they are smart and an underachiever as a prod to get them off their lazy butt.
The problem here is, with not sending experts, with deleting information, with the stance they had initially, most likely to save face (which trumps reality). It could be more like a case of supressing someone saying Fire in a crowded theater that actually is on fire, because you did not want people to panic and your relatives die in the ensuing conflagration. With nuclear power, certainly with explosions that rip open the building and probably core meltdown. I think that the Fire Fire Run analogy is out of place. We are talking about potential atomic bomb's and class 7 nuclear accident.
There are too many cases in the news about cops abusing their authority, most recently in Chicago about a copy slapping a handcuffed suspect over and over. That is a little overboard. I am sure in this case the cops were told that they were going to arrest a stinking pedophile before they went in, not that they were going to apprehend a suspect in an alleged child pornography downloading incident. They are taught to project control and certainly the swat teams are military style with missions and orders and no-questions asked military discipline. The police should not be the military, they should not be manhandling individuals, this is not and should not be a police state. They should be professionals which it appears they are not always nor I suspect trained or corrected when they are not.
Too many wrong headed sterotypes, my head hurts. I have not seen anyone as you have discribed in my 60+ years of life. One size does not fit all, thats why they have different models of TV and different size burgers on the menu, and different resturants next to one another on the street, and certainly over simplification does not serve anyone. But I have to say I don't think Blue Ray is needed but some other high definition format inevitable. Possibly without all the DRM, although we are heading for a rent a life business model in software and media. Until someone does a switch successfully like Borland did with Turbo Pascal.
Sorry, as an average American I don't see your image or your point. I think you must not be an American and/or spend too much time watching old sitcom's.
I think there actually is an average American and he and his family live in Ohio, but for the rest of us there are so many Americans within America. You have your urban / rural split, your East Coast/West Coast/Middle Coast/Midwest/South/Southwest/Texas divisions each with different cultures with different values sets, distinct. Within the cities you have your inner city/Immigrant/suburban/old residents/Yupie/Blue Collar breakdowns. Each distinct. I had a boss once that talked with a Linguist from U of C that in 5 minutes of talking was able to tell him where in Chicago he grew up within 2 blocks. The differences are marked and far reaching.
The point being, your view of Americans and Average are way off base, inapproiate albiet entertaining.
I wonder what stereotype you fall into?
An to add to the interesting approaches, my understanding is that they wanted to get rid of the passanger service so through the accounting trick/hanky panky charged the passenger service 100% of maintenance for the tracks over which the passenger service traveled and gave the freight a free ride, making the freight cheaper artifically and the passenger service more expensive. They were unable to close down the passenger service. I don't know if they are still playing that trick on us. If they are, maybe passenger rail would really be much less expensive than air travel. If the burden was shared that is. They may not want to have increased passenger service as that makes track scheduling more of a nightmare and would effect both freight and passengers.
Chicago CTA tried the same sort of thing with switching half's of two legs of some parallel paths to get the two least profitable segments together to try and close that half. The government thankfully told them that that was fine but they would just have to pay back the fedral money paid over the years that had the condition that those tracks be kept up and running. The CTA backed off, repaired the lines and both are operating today.
History catches us up. We don't have high speed rail because we had a large rail system laid out that has remained intack. Germany and Japan and a lot of Europe however got the hell bombed out of their rail systems during the war and had to rebuild. Newer beds and rails allowed them to have an infrastructure that supports putting in high speed rail.
Another historical switch, Russia captured more German rocket scientists at the end of the war and was able to build huge rockets and got into space first, but with big dumb satelites. The U.S. however could only put up something grapefruit sized so had to develop new technologies to pack it in. IC's were created which overnight killed the Japanese transistor radio market.
China did not have a big telephone wire network laid down, so when their economy started to take off. People just used cell phones with no need for land lines. Now they are getting land lines because they want to have internet access. Our old land line structure is like our railroads, but that is being transformed to higher speed digital types because it can ride the back of the cable TV upgrades, and it is easier to lay down new wire than new rail or roads.
Sometimes being first allows someone else to leapfrog into the next level of technology.
That is true, no free energy. Like walking on sand. Each step would expend more energy, that is unless it is taking over a normal function of the shoe that was disapating that much energy in heat, sound, wear. If that is the case then it could be that the walking will not be any harder.
In America conmerce controls the government.
The earlier article quoted Samsung as admitting to placing the software on their computers to gather information. Either that part of the earlier story is false or the current one is. This is not good journalism.
I think it's like the no-fly lists. I once had a yahoo account that I could not get to some business networking sections and they recommended that I go to the underage site. There was no way to get them to change whatever flag had been set, through emails or phone calls. Watch out you may be under aged .
On the contrary. The internet is a public place, just like the streets you live on. The PC's sold are sold to people to use to access that public place where they can meet and shop and be entertained and learn and find out information and communicate with family. And it was close to a safe place until fairly recently. It is how that place should be. The problem are the criminals and vandels that have have routes to pillage and steal and burn. They are the problem not the people trying to live part of their lives online.
Do you actually think that you everyone that gets into a car to drive on the road should know how an automatic transmission works or can change the brakes on their car, or know the physics of combustion. Ridiculous. The internet devices are as turnkey as an automobile. The trouble is the basic systems are written wrong and people of bad character take advantage.
Still, you put blame on the victim. There is no getting around that. A bad neighborhood does not make the perpatrator blameless. You dis the victim not the one doing the stealing.
I would counter with the idea that, of course there is such a thing as prudent behavior. There is also a thing like, walking into a new neighorhood that is more dangerous than you imagined, and the behavior you had in your own neighborhood is not prudent in this new place. Or what is the case with the internet, the gangs are coming into your neighborhood, with the zero day exploits and the landscape is suddenly changed and you aren't aware of it. Are you to blame if your ar mugged outside your own suburband house in a safe neighborhood. That is what we are seeing. The blame rests not with the victim.
I don't here you blaming the thiefs.
I never blame the owner for openly trusting. That is the way things should be. You like the poster I responded to seems to pass over that the person going around asking "will you give me the keys to your house" and robs you is blameless. You could make the same argument that if you did not lock the door to your garage, and someone goes in and steals your car, you are to blame for leaving the door unlocked, or to extend that towards the argument above, if you have a commercial lock on your garage and someone is able to pick it you are at fault for not having a deadbolt with laser cut keys, or further, if you did not have a motion detector hooked up to a security firm that notifies the police, you are at blame for your car stolen.
You are never at blame for your car stolen, even if you leave it on the street, door open, keys in the lock. If someone takes your car they are the thief and you are blameless. No one is ever blamless if they steal, under no mitigating circumstances. You are not at fault for someone stealing from you. Foolish maybe but never at fault, never.
When are you people going to stop putting the blame in the wrong place. Robbery and thieft are not like a rainstorm. They are not acts of God they are overt or covert acts of criminal behavior. That is the problem. Lets address that, and place the blame squarely where it belongs.
I think you will find prior art in the original Journey of the Center of the Earth movie with the echo direction locator they carried.
Now we know that this device will fall into enemy hands. What is the risk if our enemy has this same device? Maybe they should also develop a ventriquist barrel attachment to make the sound seem to come from one of the enemy positions. They can probably get a good design from some of the hackers that do IP masquerading
All good but propaganda non the less. The stories are all designed to make the US look good. Although it does provide a more balance reporting of stories into those territories that are not getting the stories because of controlled media. But then this is controlled media too. We should have something like that coming from other countries into our back yard to hold a mirror up to some of what the rest of the world sees that our country is doing at home and abroad.
This is what we railed against with the godless Communists. Now with the neo-conservatives, they are bringing their business practices into the government and law enforcement realms. Look at Abu Grab, the recent Psy-Op's scandel from Afganistan. etc.
Actually they could pick up some tips from the law enforment departments that have been trying to trap people online by posing as underaged children that want to go have sex with them. I think we are veering away from some basic core principals that used to make the world look up to us. Hell used to make us look up to us.
Actually, not the dumbest. They at least know how to market themselves, often without telling what their agenda's are. Scott Walker in Wisc is a good example. Buyer's remorse. Well in Texas, I think maybe they mostly support this idea. I atribute it to a mutation of mad cow desease that has spread througout the bible belt.
Well I have spent a little time in Texas and they are a unique people. I was impressed when I went into a ferm bar in Austin and saw the fancy brass plaque on the wall next to the bar that directed people to leave their guns at bar. This was about 2 years ago. Now I have a hard time reconcilling the gun totting Christian majority that thinks to force one version of extremist religious views on the general public. But then I got a recorded call from Mike Huckabee last night wanting me to lend support against an attempt to stop a government supported Christian Prayer day or some such thing. Religion is fine, Christianity is fine. It's a personal choice and does not belong in the public government domain. This law is not to prevent discrimination, it is to make discrimination law. Intellegent design is a fabrication like a lot of Bush fact's. As Bush II said. He doesn't let facts get in the way of his idea's. Same here. That's right he's from Texax. Go figure.
Your absoulutely right, and hostages are at fault for being in that bank at that time. Of course the bank robbers don't have anything to do with it. Thats their job, they are just part of nature. The hostages should have been carrying guns, trained for years in martial arts and been wearing armored vests and carrying secure military style communcations systems, driving hum vee's with automatic weapons on them to protect against the threats in their neighborhood bank.
I think this is a good analogy to the envirionment on the internet. It has been turned into a war zone. So microsofts takedown is akin to taking back one neighborhood from gangs of thieves.
We should not have to have anti-virus protection. We should not have to protect ourselves against someone trying to take over our computer to make money or deny service to someone else. These are criminals and that is what you should focus on. Eliminating those people's ability to assault our property and our lives and our finances by better designed systems (we require that of auto manufactures and food and drug manufactures) , or by putting those people in jail where they can't steal from us.
I agree it is prudent to have anti-virus protection. But remember these evil people will find technological and social engineering ways around each roadblock we put up, at least until they are caught. They should be caught and pay for their crimes. So blaming people for not knowing the work around de jour is missed placed blame.
Adjusting my armored vest. Can't be too safe out there. Now where did I put the AK?
I know to get a PHD you have to have original work but this seems like stretching it a bit. What if the facebook page had negitive comments attached. I don't think they checked that one. What if the picture on Facebook was a bad hair day? So many variables so little time.