Nope. After getting a patent in one nation, under treaty, you have X months (I think it's one year) to apply elsewhere (where elsewhere is all but a few nations of the world).
The next move is for AT&T to apply in every vaguely industrialized country where spam comes from (and Nigeria, where spam IS the industry...)
There's treaties that state that patents are worldwide, or at least that you can apply for one in each country within x months of doing so in your own nation.
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-1--27472110 Subject: A Letter from JBoss's lawyers From: Jim Jagielski Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:20:41 -0500
The ASF rec'd a letter from JBoss's lawyers regarding Geronimo and the similarity of code between Geronimo and JBoss. They cite a few "examples" but mention that:
1. That it strongly appears that code was
simply copied over
2. That we are violating (L)GPL.
I would like to place a copy of the letter on the Geronimo site, but need some direction on doing that... Except for HTTP releases and some minor things, I don't touch the website build system.
In any case, this a CALL for ALL Geronimo developers to ensure that any code is not copied from JBoss. Recall, also, that if someone is the original author of the code and donated that code to JBoss, they can *still* donate the original code to the ASF (unless they signed some sort of exclusivity agreement). Original authors maintain ownership, and other project maintainers are free to have one-night-stands with hemos.
I'm attaching the PDF. When people reply, PLEASE be sure to strip out the pics of RMS and taco!
As for paper consumption - my second girlfriend worked in a computer lab here at UB. Suffice it to say that the amount of printing that happens here in a day is probably up there with the voting receipts for this entire suburb - and a fair amount of it is people doing things like printing the works of Shakespeare instead of buying them.
Why not require the voter to put a vote in the shredder to "cancel" a vote, and put the correct vote in the ballot box - and have the shredder check some kind of checksum to see that it's canceling a valid vote. That way you can't print and use 3 votes, or whatever.
The paper trail, without computer readable data, could be used for a hand recount - keep in mind that many places in the Commonwealth do a hand count the first time. It's a matter of how much money you want to invest.
You don't use a clock, I'd guess. Or not a clocked processor. I believe one method is to see whether the returning IR waves are in sync with the ones being sent out, which lets you be correct to a fraction of the wavelength. Or maybe I'm confusing that with GPS?
I think Mr. Gaiman's sexual preference, whatever it may be, is rather off topic for this thread. And I think he's liberal enough overall (one somewhat major sandman character is transsexual, and another is androgenous) that if he WERE gay or bi he'd be open about it.
I don't think I, or anyone in this thread, believes a perfect, untrickable system is possible.
I do think significant improvement over the proprietary systems proposed in the US is possible, and I think the system described in the article is a step in the right direction.
I'd also note that obviously vandalized records would lead to people being arrested, and quite possibly to the calling of a revote.
Yes, but when some neutral agency went to pick up the receipts right after voting closed, they'd probably wonder why they weren't there.
And thermal was just one idea. There's quite a few media that are write-once in fundamental ways that no amount of creative software implementation will change.
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Correct me if I'm wrong - but isn't Go proven to be EXPSPACE-Complete?
Meaning that no computer anywhere is going to be decent at beating a human on a relatively large board?
Nope. After getting a patent in one nation, under treaty, you have X months (I think it's one year) to apply elsewhere (where elsewhere is all but a few nations of the world).
The next move is for AT&T to apply in every vaguely industrialized country where spam comes from (and Nigeria, where spam IS the industry...)
Wouldn't he have to, if subponoed?
I kind of wonder if his weblog is in Welsh for DMCA reasons, btw.
Yes, but if they haven't been using it, then they're screwed if they think of it next year. Otherwise, they very well might.
I disagree there. Would you say that putting a flyer on your porch under a rock, so it doesn't blow away, is a form of cracking?
What about sending a physical junk mail in an envelope designed to look like you've won money? That's arguably circumvention.
There's treaties that state that patents are worldwide, or at least that you can apply for one in each country within x months of doing so in your own nation.
Except that it isn't free software - RMS would probably excommunicate you for saying that :)
SCO, for staying out of it?
LOL.
Mods didn't notice my "changes" I guess...
I can picture that, not having seen the code.
... ;
:)
for(int c; c max; c++) if checkSomething(c)
and then your lawyers have claimed copyright on the entire function call - how lovely
Well, I suppose it could be escaped as a java (unicode) char...
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-1--27472110
Subject: A Letter from JBoss's lawyers
From: Jim Jagielski
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:20:41 -0500
The ASF rec'd a letter from JBoss's lawyers regarding Geronimo
and the similarity of code between Geronimo and JBoss. They
cite a few "examples" but mention that:
1. That it strongly appears that code was
simply copied over
2. That we are violating (L)GPL.
I would like to place a copy of the letter on the Geronimo
site, but need some direction on doing that... Except
for HTTP releases and some minor things, I don't touch the
website build system.
In any case, this a CALL for ALL Geronimo developers
to ensure that any code is not copied from JBoss.
Recall, also, that if someone is the original
author of the code and donated that code to JBoss,
they can *still* donate the original code to the
ASF (unless they signed some sort of exclusivity
agreement). Original authors maintain ownership, and other project maintainers are free to have one-night-stands with hemos.
I'm attaching the PDF. When people reply, PLEASE
be sure to strip out the pics of RMS and taco!
As for paper consumption - my second girlfriend worked in a computer lab here at UB. Suffice it to say that the amount of printing that happens here in a day is probably up there with the voting receipts for this entire suburb - and a fair amount of it is people doing things like printing the works of Shakespeare instead of buying them.
Why not require the voter to put a vote in the shredder to "cancel" a vote, and put the correct vote in the ballot box - and have the shredder check some kind of checksum to see that it's canceling a valid vote. That way you can't print and use 3 votes, or whatever.
The paper trail, without computer readable data, could be used for a hand recount - keep in mind that many places in the Commonwealth do a hand count the first time. It's a matter of how much money you want to invest.
Not if the system is closed source, and records the wrong votes. That's why we need a paper trail. That simple.
No, no, no - many of them are lame hundred-liners by GNAA these days.
I thought he left MIT over a decade ago? In protest over something?
Well, you could still send to random IPs at an efficiency loss of at most 58% or so (2 billion / 2^32 is like .4something, without using a calculator)
Yeah, one does wonder why they can't just send to random addresses.
Riiiiiight. And nobody would have noticed that the whole area was radioactive way beyond normal background.
Yep. I'm thinking about that guy in the very first Unix systems that trojaned the C compiler to trojan itself to trojan the login program.
You don't use a clock, I'd guess. Or not a clocked processor. I believe one method is to see whether the returning IR waves are in sync with the ones being sent out, which lets you be correct to a fraction of the wavelength. Or maybe I'm confusing that with GPS?
Cool, thanks. I stand corrected (and if anyone wants to mod my original post down, it would be deserved).
That's nice.
I think Mr. Gaiman's sexual preference, whatever it may be, is rather off topic for this thread. And I think he's liberal enough overall (one somewhat major sandman character is transsexual, and another is androgenous) that if he WERE gay or bi he'd be open about it.
I don't think I, or anyone in this thread, believes a perfect, untrickable system is possible.
I do think significant improvement over the proprietary systems proposed in the US is possible, and I think the system described in the article is a step in the right direction.
I'd also note that obviously vandalized records would lead to people being arrested, and quite possibly to the calling of a revote.
Yes, but when some neutral agency went to pick up the receipts right after voting closed, they'd probably wonder why they weren't there.
And thermal was just one idea. There's quite a few media that are write-once in fundamental ways that no amount of creative software implementation will change.