Network neutrality in California would entice voters in Texas (interstate) to complain about NN and shift their political donations (buying politicians = commerce), therefore it's an Interstate Commerce Clause problem.
It means you must also block end-to-end encryption, as that means you don't have the encryption keys to decode the conversation. CALEA was written in the age of landline phones: Adding encryption to a landline phone is difficult (requires hardware modification), where adding encryption to your Email is just a software update.
The job of the USPTO is to make money on patent applications, and to enrich American companies by giving them something worth money. Actually examining patent applications for meeting patent law or not having prior art doesn't appear to be in their job description.
A working prototype should be essential to get a patent. Allowing people to get a patent on "Ideas" stifles progress. And the patent application should require sufficient information to allow you to build it or no patent. The entire point of patents is to spread knowledge of new technology. For software that should include source code. And software should only be covered by patent, not copyright. If Microsoft wants legal protection they should have to file the source code for Windows and Office.
The oil will run out eventually. Covering the country with solar power would give them an export once the oil runs out, and allow the house of Saud to remain wealthy.
In all the countries where child mortality rates dropped they had reductions in family size. We just need to extend those improvements to the rest of the planet.
How about breeding mosquitoes that are not carriers for Malaria? Or that don't target humans? Having the bats and birds die because we killed their main food source seems like a bad idea.
I suspect that China has seen what happened to Japan (become economic powerhouse, dominate entire industries, watch jobs go to low wage countries) and wants to move their economy to the higher wage jobs.
It's not third world countries that have the most to fear, it's the first world developed countries. If they don't have jobs they don't have money to buy from AI. Third world countries will always have subsistence farming and hunter-gather to fall back on.
China is no longer the lowest labour cost country, those jobs are now moving. All it would take is some country in Africa deciding to priortize their infrastructure and education and they become the new China.
Many coders are "Work for Hire", so no royalties. Software should be under patent not copyright, as a cross compiler renders the files sufficiently different it should void the copyright.
Eventually some lawyer is going to convince a court that retroactive copyright extension is expropriation without compensation, and get a lot of money.
Global sea level rise will increase if this catches on. A cubic mile of ice isn't much, but when every equitorial country does this because it's cheaper than desalination the results will be noticable.
If you stop spending money on the war on drugs you'd have enough for foot patrols. You know something is wrong when the police arrest and prosecute the Victim of crime.
There are big differences between a "Police Force" and "An Occupational Army" that people are missing. 1-A police force is there to Protect the Community, and must have community support to achieve that goal. If nobody reports crime they have nothing to investigate. A police force must conduct foot patrols to be effective. You can tell who the police work for by looking at where they conduct their foot patrols. 2-An occupational army isn't there to protect the community, they are there to protect their "Friends". Beating up blacks and "Troublemakers" sends a message, keep away from us or we'll destroy you. Driving around in tanks is perfectly reasonable for body guards of the rich and powerful, it prevents them from hearing the poor complaining about being victimized.
Patent sugestions: updating your patent application should not reset the clock on patent duration. For a machine patent you should need to submit a working prototype. Anyone sued for patent infringement should be able to challenge the validity and scope of the patent. Your patent application should require sufficient detail to allow building it. For software patents you should need to submit source code and essential details on compiling it. Copyright should only cover artwork and books, not software. Failure to actually use a patent should preclude any damages for patent violations.
Have a government run company own and operate the wires and cell towers. Let companies compete to make use of that network. It's what we do with roads.
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Network neutrality in California would entice voters in Texas (interstate) to complain about NN and shift their political donations (buying politicians = commerce), therefore it's an Interstate Commerce Clause problem.
How would you feel if it was a Democrat nomination from Obama?
It means you must also block end-to-end encryption, as that means you don't have the encryption keys to decode the conversation. CALEA was written in the age of landline phones: Adding encryption to a landline phone is difficult (requires hardware modification), where adding encryption to your Email is just a software update.
The job of the USPTO is to make money on patent applications, and to enrich American companies by giving them something worth money. Actually examining patent applications for meeting patent law or not having prior art doesn't appear to be in their job description.
A working prototype should be essential to get a patent. Allowing people to get a patent on "Ideas" stifles progress. And the patent application should require sufficient information to allow you to build it or no patent. The entire point of patents is to spread knowledge of new technology. For software that should include source code. And software should only be covered by patent, not copyright. If Microsoft wants legal protection they should have to file the source code for Windows and Office.
The oil will run out eventually. Covering the country with solar power would give them an export once the oil runs out, and allow the house of Saud to remain wealthy.
Our success in experience with the carrier pidgeon suggests that having mosquitoes the size of eagles would make a cheap and plentiful food source.
In all the countries where child mortality rates dropped they had reductions in family size. We just need to extend those improvements to the rest of the planet.
Disease is not the primary limiting factor on human population, we have extra kids to make up for that. It's food and water that limit human numbers.
How about breeding mosquitoes that are not carriers for Malaria? Or that don't target humans? Having the bats and birds die because we killed their main food source seems like a bad idea.
This sounds like a business opportunity to sell an aftermarket replacement tractor computer.
I suspect that China has seen what happened to Japan (become economic powerhouse, dominate entire industries, watch jobs go to low wage countries) and wants to move their economy to the higher wage jobs.
It's not third world countries that have the most to fear, it's the first world developed countries. If they don't have jobs they don't have money to buy from AI. Third world countries will always have subsistence farming and hunter-gather to fall back on.
China is no longer the lowest labour cost country, those jobs are now moving. All it would take is some country in Africa deciding to priortize their infrastructure and education and they become the new China.
Many coders are "Work for Hire", so no royalties. Software should be under patent not copyright, as a cross compiler renders the files sufficiently different it should void the copyright.
Orin Hatch is commonly refered to as the Senator from Disney.
Eventually some lawyer is going to convince a court that retroactive copyright extension is expropriation without compensation, and get a lot of money.
Fire requires fuel and oxygen to burn. I doubt his flamethrower includes an oxygen tank as that would make it burn much hotter (unsafe).
Californian farmers waste water because it's heavily subsidized. If they had to pay market value they would be more careful.
Global sea level rise will increase if this catches on. A cubic mile of ice isn't much, but when every equitorial country does this because it's cheaper than desalination the results will be noticable.
If you stop spending money on the war on drugs you'd have enough for foot patrols. You know something is wrong when the police arrest and prosecute the Victim of crime.
There are big differences between a "Police Force" and "An Occupational Army" that people are missing. 1-A police force is there to Protect the Community, and must have community support to achieve that goal. If nobody reports crime they have nothing to investigate. A police force must conduct foot patrols to be effective. You can tell who the police work for by looking at where they conduct their foot patrols. 2-An occupational army isn't there to protect the community, they are there to protect their "Friends". Beating up blacks and "Troublemakers" sends a message, keep away from us or we'll destroy you. Driving around in tanks is perfectly reasonable for body guards of the rich and powerful, it prevents them from hearing the poor complaining about being victimized.
Body cams and dash cams would be more effective than a camera from 10,000 feet.
Patent sugestions: updating your patent application should not reset the clock on patent duration. For a machine patent you should need to submit a working prototype. Anyone sued for patent infringement should be able to challenge the validity and scope of the patent. Your patent application should require sufficient detail to allow building it. For software patents you should need to submit source code and essential details on compiling it. Copyright should only cover artwork and books, not software. Failure to actually use a patent should preclude any damages for patent violations.
Have a government run company own and operate the wires and cell towers. Let companies compete to make use of that network. It's what we do with roads.