What you are also forgetting is that companies are taken over regularly, where governments are not. We read daily here that some company with a lot of users and a huge amount of privacy-sensitive data is sold. The new owner can basically do whatever he likes: that new owner never made any promises and also does not feel to be bound to the old owner's ones. So trust is a company is void, even if the company itself can be trusted for as long as it is not sold.
Just like ancient Rome, the USA has a far-too-big army that has to be kept busy. So they will bully and keep on bullying, because they need to do so. And therefore they bully even international justice, their own allies, the world-wide environment, well, basically anything.
Then this is very sad justice indeed. That means that if I make, for instance, bicycles and attach some kind of EULA on it, I can put myself above the law by denying any responsibility in the EULA. I don't need to deliver basic quality, or a safe vehicle, or deliver a functional thing if I repair it. Even if an EULA is nothing more than a forced, after-the-sale contract which should be void in any country with a serious law.
If you can see a feature as an independent thing, then that feature was stolen after he bought it and paid for it. Otherwise, his machine was wilfully damaged by Sony.
I'm not at all sure that the government should be regulating in the internet at this picky level of detail.
I think people should not be haunted with ads by any technique. So this is not nitpicking, it is just regulation of how much privacy invading is allowed. And in my opinion this kind of automated man-hunt should be forbidden.
Why is it complicated that you create content with a CC license but not complicated that you can basically create anything? How is it more difficult for a CC licensed work of art to trace than for any other newly created work? If complication is an issue, maybe people should not be able to create anything at all! Oh wait, that is exactly the direction we are going...
.. not to mention cellular phone market is finally starting to standardize to micro-USB.
Finally? I hope all the companies that implemented that horrible plug will go back to mini-usb. It is as big, by far more robust, you can get cables for it and you are not afraid to plug it in. And plugging in is easier, as the plug will "find" its way in.
If you have to have a zillion different tubes at hand and also of different lengths, you are bound to be out of one of the necessary ones each time. Now this can be life-threatening. Also, the time it takes to search for each of them could easily kill a few patients as well.
The USPO is effetively executing a law, but is clearly not able to do so. So the US government should deny the USPO their license to execute that law. This is nothing new. This happened in the Netherlands, for example, with an organization that oversaw the small private aircraft manufacturing.
US patent law is already the joke of the day world-wide, and it is long past due to start doing something about it. But that should be done.
What on earth do Doctors think they will see in the source code?
That you did your job as you say you did. That something can go right and that laws were respected is no surprise to me. But I want to make sure that that is the case. You probably only see the cases that have a good testing. I want to make sure I am not depending my life on a device that was not tested adequately. I worked in both aviation and medical firms, and the security attitude of the medical world really scared the living daylight out of me.
So no, I will not take adequate medical testing for granted. Especially when information technology is involved.
Yes I can say this is obvious now. Anyone with the same problem would probably have solved it the same or at least thought about that solution. So what is really patented here is the problem, not the solution.
They should not be challenged, they should not exist in the first place. I read about so many obvious patents here that is is totally infeasible to challenge them all. The patent system might work if only a limited set of brilliant ideas is granted a patent, but not if every breath is granted a patent. If this were an incident, you were right. But this is not an incident. The US Patent Office is really incapable of granting patents.
Using existing channel separation to (shock!) separate channels is really so obvious that I would never even imagine to apply for a patent. The US Patent Office should have lost its right to handle patents long ago, as they are only hurting society with their "we grant everything" attitude. They are not capable at all.
I think we used mills for grinding grain before we used them for pumping water. That is why the earliest mills were "rotatable houses" that could be directed at the wind. The grain was lifted up and ground high up in the mill. The first watermills resembled that design, but needed a "kings axis" that went through the directional axis (which was now replaced by a roller bearing) and reached all the way to the waterline. Only later the design was changed to a fixed tower-like structure with only a small movable top.
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I think the vikings are just tired of fighting and have given up. Some time ago already. France will never learn...
Maybe if they disconnect the government from the internet. It is standard practice if you don't pay your ISP.
What you are also forgetting is that companies are taken over regularly, where governments are not. We read daily here that some company with a lot of users and a huge amount of privacy-sensitive data is sold. The new owner can basically do whatever he likes: that new owner never made any promises and also does not feel to be bound to the old owner's ones. So trust is a company is void, even if the company itself can be trusted for as long as it is not sold.
Just like ancient Rome, the USA has a far-too-big army that has to be kept busy. So they will bully and keep on bullying, because they need to do so. And therefore they bully even international justice, their own allies, the world-wide environment, well, basically anything.
Then this is very sad justice indeed. That means that if I make, for instance, bicycles and attach some kind of EULA on it, I can put myself above the law by denying any responsibility in the EULA. I don't need to deliver basic quality, or a safe vehicle, or deliver a functional thing if I repair it. Even if an EULA is nothing more than a forced, after-the-sale contract which should be void in any country with a serious law.
If you can see a feature as an independent thing, then that feature was stolen after he bought it and paid for it. Otherwise, his machine was wilfully damaged by Sony.
I'm not at all sure that the government should be regulating in the internet at this picky level of detail.
I think people should not be haunted with ads by any technique. So this is not nitpicking, it is just regulation of how much privacy invading is allowed. And in my opinion this kind of automated man-hunt should be forbidden.
Why is it complicated that you create content with a CC license but not complicated that you can basically create anything? How is it more difficult for a CC licensed work of art to trace than for any other newly created work? If complication is an issue, maybe people should not be able to create anything at all! Oh wait, that is exactly the direction we are going...
.. not to mention cellular phone market is finally starting to standardize to micro-USB.
Finally? I hope all the companies that implemented that horrible plug will go back to mini-usb. It is as big, by far more robust, you can get cables for it and you are not afraid to plug it in. And plugging in is easier, as the plug will "find" its way in.
There has never been a worse plug than micro-usb.
If you have to have a zillion different tubes at hand and also of different lengths, you are bound to be out of one of the necessary ones each time. Now this can be life-threatening. Also, the time it takes to search for each of them could easily kill a few patients as well.
better.
The USPO is effetively executing a law, but is clearly not able to do so. So the US government should deny the USPO their license to execute that law. This is nothing new. This happened in the Netherlands, for example, with an organization that oversaw the small private aircraft manufacturing.
US patent law is already the joke of the day world-wide, and it is long past due to start doing something about it. But that should be done.
What on earth do Doctors think they will see in the source code?
That you did your job as you say you did. That something can go right and that laws were respected is no surprise to me. But I want to make sure that that is the case. You probably only see the cases that have a good testing. I want to make sure I am not depending my life on a device that was not tested adequately. I worked in both aviation and medical firms, and the security attitude of the medical world really scared the living daylight out of me.
So no, I will not take adequate medical testing for granted. Especially when information technology is involved.
Yes I can say this is obvious now. Anyone with the same problem would probably have solved it the same or at least thought about that solution. So what is really patented here is the problem, not the solution.
Or so companies think.
They should not be challenged, they should not exist in the first place. I read about so many obvious patents here that is is totally infeasible to challenge them all. The patent system might work if only a limited set of brilliant ideas is granted a patent, but not if every breath is granted a patent. If this were an incident, you were right. But this is not an incident. The US Patent Office is really incapable of granting patents.
Using existing channel separation to (shock!) separate channels is really so obvious that I would never even imagine to apply for a patent. The US Patent Office should have lost its right to handle patents long ago, as they are only hurting society with their "we grant everything" attitude. They are not capable at all.
I was thinking something like that. You can train your dog or your horse as a truck driver! Dog- and horsecarts just got bigger.
Recycling of existing photos is more "green" than wasting them and making new ones.
Exactly. I would turn it around even:
"for the purpose of defending from illegal activity", namely privacy violations.
I think we used mills for grinding grain before we used them for pumping water. That is why the earliest mills were "rotatable houses" that could be directed at the wind. The grain was lifted up and ground high up in the mill. The first watermills resembled that design, but needed a "kings axis" that went through the directional axis (which was now replaced by a roller bearing) and reached all the way to the waterline. Only later the design was changed to a fixed tower-like structure with only a small movable top.
He bought the machine because of this sticker: http://www.paulkidby.com/stickers/index.html
It's like Tivoization: the software is open, but the hardware blocks any changes.
Off course. And because I say that I am an organisation helping traffic security, you should hand it to me.