Well, rather than posting a 120-page comment filled with airtight legal language, I just sort of assumed people would understand the high-level concept.
Feel free to jump right in there and lawyer it up until it meets your standards.
If I invent something, I should be free to parlay that IP into as much profit as I want to, through whatever means suit me (including selling to an IP house), within some reasonable timeframe.
Similarly, if I buy somebody else's invention (as an IP house), I should have the ability to control that IP to protect my investment for some reasonable period of time, and so long as I can prove I am actively working to realize value from that IP and I'm not just sitting on it in order to stifle innovation.
I'm sure the US can just hire some of those well-trained and eager Chinese cybersecurity experts who seem friendly and anxious to come across on H1 visa.
There have already been numerous movies made featuring $COMPUTER_TECHNOLOGY being used in ways that generally ruin the lives of the protagonists. Yet strangely, I don't see any improvement in the habits or knowledge of the average computer user.
I propose we link spam filters to the users bank account, so if they click a link or open an attachment they are automatically fined $5. The money collected could be split evenly between the SFLC and Sourceforge.
1) Other companies also make a show of "cracking down" on bad suppliers. Nike springs most immediately to mind but there are others.
2) Even if we choose to believe Apple is sincere, addressing just child labour violations still leaves a pretty long list of reasons to avoid China. A list that includes atrocious environmental stewardship, human rights abuses and oppression in Tibet and various other regions, lack of privacy and personal freedom, poor labour standards, shoddy product QC, etc.
I once worked with a client with subcontractors in China, who would at various times send him mockups and technical drawings for various products. On one particular project, time was getting tight and the subcontractor became strangely non-communicative at a crucial juncture. My client's blood pressure started rising as he kept trying (within the confines of a 10-12 hour timezone difference and a fairly significant language barrier on the telephone) to figure things out and get all the information we needed.
The subcon kept insisting "I sent the files. I sent the files" but he never received them. As a workaround I set up an FTP space where files could be exchanged and we got through our deadlines that way. After the fact, an idea occurred to me and I told my client "hey, why don't you just phone up your ISP and ask them why you're not getting email from China?"
Sure enough, it turned out his ISP had one day decided to just unilaterally stop accepting email from Chinese IP addresses. They did this as a spam and malware control measure, but didn't see fit to inform their customers of the change since they assumed it wouldn't impact anyone in any real way.
I've found that in some cases, the "nothing" is actually the better alternative here. Rather than buying a cheap piece of crap that I can barely afford right now, I make a conscious decision to hold off and simply do without for a few months or maybe even forever. It's not always easy, but it brings a remarkable sense of peace when you figure out a way to be okay with less.
This may be true to some extent, but I can also report from my own direct first-hand experience that there have been times I've seen an item in the store for what I thought was an exorbitant price, and I decided to build it myself instead. And while I did get the "enjoyment" payoff you mention, after buying all the wood, fasteners, hinges, paint, etc. (not to mention a specialized tool if the project requires one) I sometimes found that I spent as much or more than the "exorbitant" item would have cost in the first place. There are certain economies of scale offered by bulk container ships and million-square-foot factories that a lone handyman working in his garage or basement can never match.
Having said that, the finished product I built by hand always turns out way cooler than any store-bought alternative.
In defence of the researchers, they were trippin' pretty hard when they wrote that paper, and they still had the good judgment to edit out the chapter that was tentatively titled "the era when the whole fucking sun was like this really intense multicolored strobe light."
Would probably have fit in 1930s Germeny with ease.
What an utterly foolish retort. I suggest you take a good, long look at the fascist leadership of 1930's Germany and the propaganda efforts there. Then, take a good, long look at the kinds of policies and positions broadcast by Fox News. Your attempts to paint people who distrust Fox News with a Nazi brush are, at the very least, ironic.
Lord help you if you ever try to hang your laundry in the fresh air outside in order to conserve a bit of electricity. HMAs go positively ballistic at the sight of a few t-shirts and denims hanging in the backyard of a house you own - never mind a pair of boxers.
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Well, rather than posting a 120-page comment filled with airtight legal language, I just sort of assumed people would understand the high-level concept.
Feel free to jump right in there and lawyer it up until it meets your standards.
How about something more along the lines of:
If I invent something, I should be free to parlay that IP into as much profit as I want to, through whatever means suit me (including selling to an IP house), within some reasonable timeframe.
Similarly, if I buy somebody else's invention (as an IP house), I should have the ability to control that IP to protect my investment for some reasonable period of time, and so long as I can prove I am actively working to realize value from that IP and I'm not just sitting on it in order to stifle innovation.
Better?
Just add Cantonese or Mandarin to your list of qualifications and you should be able to get a good cybersecurity job in a snap.
movies perpetuate ridiculous myths
No way. Really?
I'm sure the US can just hire some of those well-trained and eager Chinese cybersecurity experts who seem friendly and anxious to come across on H1 visa.
Billions of people are idiots.
Fixed that for you.
There have already been numerous movies made featuring $COMPUTER_TECHNOLOGY being used in ways that generally ruin the lives of the protagonists. Yet strangely, I don't see any improvement in the habits or knowledge of the average computer user.
I propose we link spam filters to the users bank account, so if they click a link or open an attachment they are automatically fined $5. The money collected could be split evenly between the SFLC and Sourceforge.
Nike does all 3 of these things AFAIK.
Everyone else gets the Chinese equivalent of AOL, pre-1993
They get floppies in the mail every month?
1) Other companies also make a show of "cracking down" on bad suppliers. Nike springs most immediately to mind but there are others.
2) Even if we choose to believe Apple is sincere, addressing just child labour violations still leaves a pretty long list of reasons to avoid China. A list that includes atrocious environmental stewardship, human rights abuses and oppression in Tibet and various other regions, lack of privacy and personal freedom, poor labour standards, shoddy product QC, etc.
I once worked with a client with subcontractors in China, who would at various times send him mockups and technical drawings for various products. On one particular project, time was getting tight and the subcontractor became strangely non-communicative at a crucial juncture. My client's blood pressure started rising as he kept trying (within the confines of a 10-12 hour timezone difference and a fairly significant language barrier on the telephone) to figure things out and get all the information we needed.
The subcon kept insisting "I sent the files. I sent the files" but he never received them. As a workaround I set up an FTP space where files could be exchanged and we got through our deadlines that way. After the fact, an idea occurred to me and I told my client "hey, why don't you just phone up your ISP and ask them why you're not getting email from China?"
Sure enough, it turned out his ISP had one day decided to just unilaterally stop accepting email from Chinese IP addresses. They did this as a spam and malware control measure, but didn't see fit to inform their customers of the change since they assumed it wouldn't impact anyone in any real way.
Fun times.
In Soviet China, domain registers you.
How many photos would I have to edit to make that cost effective?
How much do your clients typically pay you for an average sized design job? The answer to your question could be anywhere between 1 and 100.
The choice is third world junk or nothing.
I've found that in some cases, the "nothing" is actually the better alternative here. Rather than buying a cheap piece of crap that I can barely afford right now, I make a conscious decision to hold off and simply do without for a few months or maybe even forever. It's not always easy, but it brings a remarkable sense of peace when you figure out a way to be okay with less.
A touch-sensitive table-sized LCD gaming surface would be something I'd actually consider spending $8K on.
This may be true to some extent, but I can also report from my own direct first-hand experience that there have been times I've seen an item in the store for what I thought was an exorbitant price, and I decided to build it myself instead. And while I did get the "enjoyment" payoff you mention, after buying all the wood, fasteners, hinges, paint, etc. (not to mention a specialized tool if the project requires one) I sometimes found that I spent as much or more than the "exorbitant" item would have cost in the first place. There are certain economies of scale offered by bulk container ships and million-square-foot factories that a lone handyman working in his garage or basement can never match.
Having said that, the finished product I built by hand always turns out way cooler than any store-bought alternative.
According to authors Ward and Brownlee, it is indeed one of the prerequisites.
If you're willing to classify radioisotope decay as a form of "fission," then not only is it likely, it's highly probable.
http://www.physlink.com/News/121103PotassiumCore.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay
Dude, you're posting AC. You don't have to use the "my buddy" cover.
In defence of the researchers, they were trippin' pretty hard when they wrote that paper, and they still had the good judgment to edit out the chapter that was tentatively titled "the era when the whole fucking sun was like this really intense multicolored strobe light."
Would probably have fit in 1930s Germeny with ease.
What an utterly foolish retort. I suggest you take a good, long look at the fascist leadership of 1930's Germany and the propaganda efforts there. Then, take a good, long look at the kinds of policies and positions broadcast by Fox News. Your attempts to paint people who distrust Fox News with a Nazi brush are, at the very least, ironic.
It's easy to get rid of all the fans in a computer. Just underclock it, and keep underclocking until you reach the desired thermal envelope.
Lord help you if you ever try to hang your laundry in the fresh air outside in order to conserve a bit of electricity. HMAs go positively ballistic at the sight of a few t-shirts and denims hanging in the backyard of a house you own - never mind a pair of boxers.