Leaving the US with intent to avoid DMCA provisions - you are committing the crime in the US - which is leaving or planning to leave with intent to avoid the DMCA. - pseudoextraterrorial jurisdiction.
Eventually they might even do this:
Making it illegal for any US citizen to do something outside the US which would be a violation of the DMCA at home.
- true extraterroritorial jurisdiction.
The first, and then the second were made illegal with regards to perverts who wished to avoid the age of consent. Since the precident was used against sickos, no one complained. But now it is a precedent which can be used for other things - and the Republicans care far more about make the rich richer, and the Democrats care far more about appeasing their Hollywood power base than either of them ever did about the children - and hackers are lumped in with terrorists - so expect a nice bipartisan "anti-terrorist" anti-hacker push to add the above extraterroritorial provisions to the DMCA.
You can run, but you can't hide.
You have to fight.
Or enter a world where you own nothing, just like Soviet Russia (not joking).
TDMA can't do soft-handoffs, take advantage of multi-path or use multiple towers at once. CDMA can. Multi-path means the direct signal and/or reflected signals can be combined to make your signal better, rather than worse, which is what happens with non-TDMA technology. Multiple tower at once means soft-handoffs, better reception when there is no one tower which gives you a good signal, and less dropped calls. TDMA may be more resistant to noise since there isn't multiple usages of the same time slice and frequency that CDMA uses.
GSM will likely be moving to CDMA in the not too distant future.
There are 4 bands.
1900/800 are used everywhere, 850 is in the US, 900 is Europe, I don't know about Canada, Mexico and other countries.
So you need a 1900/800/850/900 phone if you wish to travel the world and still be able to use your phone. Although you can use a phone that lacks 850 in the US, but it might not always work well, or at all, depending on who you are with and where you are at.
Nuclear bombs will work fine in a vacuum. They don't need oxygen or anything else to support combustion, because they don't use combustion - they use a NUCLEAR (imagine that!) reaction, not a chemical one. The high explosive used to fire the nuke I don't believe needs O2 either, and if it did, that would be an easy problem to deal with.
Yeah, no one will hear the explosion, but that isn't a problem.
Now why do special effects people make explosions make noise in a vacuum in sci-fi movies, shows, etc.
And then less diabetes, which will hurt the doctors and if the doctors can't make enough to feed themselves and then we have no doctors and the next polio or West Nile or something will wipe us out.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
P.S. Actually it really would be bad if sugar got wiped out - then we'd have even more high fructose corn syrup in our food.
What about blocking the download using your firewall (firewalls are very intelligent right now)?
You didn't remove the feature or modify the code in violation of the license.
How you configure your firewall to allow or disallow access to your app is not supposed to be under copyright jurisdiction, right?
Also, what if you do want people to have the source, but not use up your bandwidth?!
What if the web app just provides weather or something low bandwidth, but people dl'ing the 100 MB source (open source software bloats a lot nowadays) uses up 95% of your bandwidth? Should you pay 10X what you would otherwise pay for bandwidth? Even if it makes it impossible for you to provide the service?
GPL v3 is a BAD, BAD, BAD idea.
GPL v2 is enough, and many people think it is too much. E.g. PostgreSQL is BSD licensed (!) even though it would almost certainly still be successful as a GPL program.
If I have a website with a DB backend, and I used a GPL v3 DB (slightly tweaked, e.g. I add a feature, possibly minor) do I now have to be a download site for the (likely huge) DB source??? That might very well be something I won't or can't (bandwidth costs money!) do.
Using your logic regarding how exclusive the "exclusive rights" should be by that clause in the Constitution and taking it to its logical conclusion, one would have to be against fair use and compulsory licenses for copyrights - as they make the exclusive rights less exclusive.
More and more people being able to use your credit score to decide any/every thing of their business with you.
That's not government or even the credit bureaus.
Individual lenders make the decision using the information provided.
Equifax, Trans Union, and Experian are the the information providing business - they don't offer or deny credit. And they aren't any secret conspiracy and you can (and SHOULD) check your credit scores and reports (http://www.myfico.com/ is a good place to go).
A lender is free to give a loan to someone with a 300 (horrible, horrible, horrible beyond belief) FICO score. It's legal, but they likely won't get any money back. Why? The scores measure risk. Without scores it would be harder to determine risk, so there would be more defaults and thus higher interest rates and it would be harder for people to get loans in general. Less companies would feel safe offering credit at all. It would take longer to get approvals, no 30 second approvals for credit. Furthermore, there would be more opportunities for discrimination. Back in the day it was almost universal that African-Americans had an extremely hard time getting credit and the rates were outragous. Things are FAR from perfect and much of that is still true, but things are somewhat better, much due to civil rights activism and laws, some due to public perceptions changing and changes in people's wealth and equality, but credit scores are a part of the improvement. If an African-American with a 725 (quite good - will almost certainly pay back) FICO scores gets denied for a $250K house, and a white person with a 550 (pretty lousy - good luck getting paid!) gets it, then it is MUCH easier to make a case that it was discrimination. Without scores, the courts would have to compare lending records, and the lender could just cherry pick items from both reports to justify their decision (e.g. the black guy's credit history was only 65 months and the white guy's was 123 months) and the case would not be as cut and dried).
Also credit scores let you objectively know where you stand.
Credit scoring protects the consumer, informs consumers, levels the playing field, helps to allievate discrimination, makes more credit available, allows credit to be offered at lower rates, and expedites credit approval processes from days to seconds.
Yes, the financial system is often unfair, yes there is rampant racial discrimination especially against African-Americans, yes, the people getting denied checking accounts from a ChexSystems record is often unfair (kicks people when they are down, etc - but it is the banks doing the denying), yes there is wage disparity and yes these things NEED to be fixed.
But FICO scores aren't evil, they aren't the mark of the beast, Fair and Issac aren't part of the Illuminati and scores and the credit bureaus which provide the information that goes into them and the company which calculates and provides them aren't an evil fascist conspiracy.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Yeah, most of you will probably tell me I need to get a tinfoil hat. Now what DID happen to Elvis?
The patent infringment part of the suit was dropped, not due to state secrets, but because there is a Federal law that states use by the government is not an actionable infringement.
They have most of their evidence eexcluded for the remainder of their case (trade secret and breach of contract) because it is claimed it endangers national security. It may be false, in which case it is an injustice, or true, in which case disclosure would harm national security - many people can be dead - if we can't intercept when and where Al Qaeda plans to nuke us (look up "Americam Hiroshima"), it could be millions. Since this possibly deals indirectly with tapping undersea fiber cables, that isn't far fetched. I live in Las Vegas, one of the cities Al Qaeda has its eyes on - I believe in freedom - but we need to protect Americans. Again, the gov't can be lying, or telling the truth, I, and you all, don't know which.
A public trial, even with the evidence already made public, could help the enemy piece things together in a coherent whole. Much of intelligence isn't just the pieces of the puzzle, but how they fit. A trial may provide that and make the puzzle "come together" and be much more useful to the enemy.
I'm afraid that even this Slashdot story might help those we don't want helped.
As for the inventors, they have not had the trade secret and breach of contract dismissed. Judges might allow them to recover if they have other evidence and they might be willing to give them leeway because they had evidence they can't use.
As far as I can tell, they are free to license the patent to others and sue them if they infringe. The application must have other uses and it appears they still have full rights in that area. Eminent domain is wrong, they still have their patent - they just have a compulsory license (which most of us like when it comes to music, etc and the public) to the government and their trade secret and breach of contract suits are impeded. Not good, and Lucent should honor contracts (if they are or they aren't I don't know) in any event.
If you wrote software, and one client got to use it without paying you and you had no recourse it would be bad, but if you have full rights in regards to other clients you'd likely be OK.
Why did the inventors only deal with Lucent?
The patented invention wasn't made secret, the patent is still available on the gov't own site!
If some people in the Federal government knew how leeves worked, and thus why they need to be maintained, and didn't cut the funding, a lot of what happened in New Orleans wouldn't have happened and there would've been a lot less victims.
Of course, having a horse trainer in charge of FEMA didn't help matters any.
And then someone accidently puts their credit card (which you often need to check out) on that pad and it then it gets wiped and then they sue, for inconvenience or embarrassment because they went to dinner and then they found out their card was erased and couldn't pay.
Without trigonometry, much of advanced power systems engineering wouldn't be possible, so you wouldn't have an electric bill, or electric service to worry about - well you might have DC power or some very localized AC power system (like one on each city block or something).
Modern power grids require power factor correction, synchronization of different power sources, etc - trigonometry helps make this possible.
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Eventually that could be illegal.
Leaving the US with intent to avoid DMCA provisions - you are committing the crime in the US - which is leaving or planning to leave with intent to avoid the DMCA. - pseudoextraterrorial jurisdiction.
Eventually they might even do this:
Making it illegal for any US citizen to do something outside the US which would be a violation of the DMCA at home.
- true extraterroritorial jurisdiction.
The first, and then the second were made illegal with regards to perverts who wished to avoid the age of consent. Since the precident was used against sickos, no one complained. But now it is a precedent which can be used for other things - and the Republicans care far more about make the rich richer, and the Democrats care far more about appeasing their Hollywood power base than either of them ever did about the children - and hackers are lumped in with terrorists - so expect a nice bipartisan "anti-terrorist" anti-hacker push to add the above extraterroritorial provisions to the DMCA.
You can run, but you can't hide.
You have to fight.
Or enter a world where you own nothing, just like Soviet Russia (not joking).
GSM is currently a TDMA based technology.
TDMA can't do soft-handoffs, take advantage of multi-path or use multiple towers at once.
CDMA can.
Multi-path means the direct signal and/or reflected signals can be combined to make your signal better, rather than worse, which is what happens with non-TDMA technology.
Multiple tower at once means soft-handoffs, better reception when there is no one tower which gives you a good signal, and less dropped calls.
TDMA may be more resistant to noise since there isn't multiple usages of the same time slice and frequency that CDMA uses.
GSM will likely be moving to CDMA in the not too distant future.
There are 4 bands.
1900/800 are used everywhere, 850 is in the US, 900 is Europe, I don't know about Canada, Mexico and other countries.
So you need a 1900/800/850/900 phone if you wish to travel the world and still be able to use your phone. Although you can use a phone that lacks 850 in the US, but it might not always work well, or at all, depending on who you are with and where you are at.
Some things to keep in mind.
Alltel??
I was an Alltel customer and they got bought by Verizon and thus was a Verizon customer for a while?
Does Alltel still exist?
Ironically if you actually are going to Germany, you'll be unlocked just to end up using their German network.
:)
T-Mobile = Deutsche Telekom (German for German Telecom).
Umm, you're kidding, right?
Nuclear bombs will work fine in a vacuum. They don't need oxygen or anything else to support combustion, because they don't use combustion - they use a NUCLEAR (imagine that!) reaction, not a chemical one. The high explosive used to fire the nuke I don't believe needs O2 either, and if it did, that would be an easy problem to deal with.
Yeah, no one will hear the explosion, but that isn't a problem.
Now why do special effects people make explosions make noise in a vacuum in sci-fi movies, shows, etc.
We KNOW better than that, well most of us anyway.
but the extra amount added to the price of each unit will likely be less than the cost of return postage, since only a fraction of the people do that.
$20 postage * 35% return rate = $7 per unit to recover costs.
Of course they could increase it by more, because they can, and people will expect it to be $20 more instead of $7 more in the example above, etc.
3 to 5 times the cost?
Not even close.
5 to 10 times the space?
Are you even serious?!
The monorail track is smaller, but the vehicle is wider than the track.
You need to take into account the clearances needed when a train is there!
Light Rail Transit beats monorail on almost every criteria.
Even elevated LRT beats monorail on cost, monorail might be slightly quicker to put into place, but that's about it.
Light Rail Transit (LRT) vs monorail comparison
Why are the mayor and the City Council going to deny permits to use city streets??
If it was uneconomical, that alone would kill it.
Why make it illegal for it to run? - that would be unnecessary.
Denying permits is a vicious way for the city to kill a project it has no business killing.
If the money is there, the city should let it use the streets. If there is no money, no need to deny permits, it won't exist anyway.
The city ain't paying, they shouldn't have the right to say no.
It appears the city wanted to kill it itself, why I don't know.
Car lobby, oil companies, NIMBY neighbors perhaps.
Something Google is out of beta - and in related news, the temperature in Hell is down to 31 degrees F. :)
We can't let the sugar producers get wiped out.
Then they'll be a shortage of sugar.
And then less diabetes, which will hurt the doctors and if the doctors can't make enough to feed themselves and then we have no doctors and the next polio or West Nile or something will wipe us out.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
P.S. Actually it really would be bad if sugar got wiped out - then we'd have even more high fructose corn syrup in our food.
What about blocking the download using your firewall (firewalls are very intelligent right now)?
You didn't remove the feature or modify the code in violation of the license.
How you configure your firewall to allow or disallow access to your app is not supposed to be under copyright jurisdiction, right?
Also, what if you do want people to have the source, but not use up your bandwidth?!
What if the web app just provides weather or something low bandwidth, but people dl'ing the 100 MB source (open source software bloats a lot nowadays) uses up 95% of your bandwidth? Should you pay 10X what you would otherwise pay for bandwidth? Even if it makes it impossible for you to provide the service?
GPL v3 is a BAD, BAD, BAD idea.
GPL v2 is enough, and many people think it is too much. E.g. PostgreSQL is BSD licensed (!) even though it would almost certainly still be successful as a GPL program.
If I have a website with a DB backend, and I used a GPL v3 DB (slightly tweaked, e.g. I add a feature, possibly minor) do I now have to be a download site for the (likely huge) DB source??? That might very well be something I won't or can't (bandwidth costs money!) do.
1. Moral relativism ends when it comes to moral relativism compared to anything else. Moral relativism isn't subject to itself, at least in practice.
2. The 100 record executives have support of the government, which has massive firepower. The people unfortunately don't.
Using your logic regarding how exclusive the "exclusive rights" should be by that clause in the Constitution and taking it to its logical conclusion, one would have to be against fair use and compulsory licenses for copyrights - as they make the exclusive rights less exclusive.
Don't need Linux to stop most trespassers, attrib +h under any Microsoft OS will do quite nicely for stopping 90% of threats. :)
The patent holder still has his patent and can still enforce it against others.
Are the record companies hurt so very much because of the P2P infringers?
No, they still make much money with the people who DO buy.
Just shut up about it, get a big antenna/coil, and get your power for free. :)
More and more people being able to use your credit score to decide any/every thing of their business with you.
That's not government or even the credit bureaus.
Individual lenders make the decision using the information provided.
Equifax, Trans Union, and Experian are the the information providing business - they don't offer or deny credit. And they aren't any secret conspiracy and you can (and SHOULD) check your credit scores and reports (http://www.myfico.com/ is a good place to go).
A lender is free to give a loan to someone with a 300 (horrible, horrible, horrible beyond belief) FICO score. It's legal, but they likely won't get any money back. Why? The scores measure risk. Without scores it would be harder to determine risk, so there would be more defaults and thus higher interest rates and it would be harder for people to get loans in general. Less companies would feel safe offering credit at all. It would take longer to get approvals, no 30 second approvals for credit. Furthermore, there would be more opportunities for discrimination. Back in the day it was almost universal that African-Americans had an extremely hard time getting credit and the rates were outragous. Things are FAR from perfect and much of that is still true, but things are somewhat better, much due to civil rights activism and laws, some due to public perceptions changing and changes in people's wealth and equality, but credit scores are a part of the improvement. If an African-American with a 725 (quite good - will almost certainly pay back) FICO scores gets denied for a $250K house, and a white person with a 550 (pretty lousy - good luck getting paid!) gets it, then it is MUCH easier to make a case that it was discrimination. Without scores, the courts would have to compare lending records, and the lender could just cherry pick items from both reports to justify their decision (e.g. the black guy's credit history was only 65 months and the white guy's was 123 months) and the case would not be as cut and dried).
Also credit scores let you objectively know where you stand.
Credit scoring protects the consumer, informs consumers, levels the playing field, helps to allievate discrimination, makes more credit available, allows credit to be offered at lower rates, and expedites credit approval processes from days to seconds.
Yes, the financial system is often unfair, yes there is rampant racial discrimination especially against African-Americans, yes, the people getting denied checking accounts from a ChexSystems record is often unfair (kicks people when they are down, etc - but it is the banks doing the denying), yes there is wage disparity and yes these things NEED to be fixed.
But FICO scores aren't evil, they aren't the mark of the beast, Fair and Issac aren't part of the Illuminati and scores and the credit bureaus which provide the information that goes into them and the company which calculates and provides them aren't an evil fascist conspiracy.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Yeah, most of you will probably tell me I need to get a tinfoil hat. Now what DID happen to Elvis?
The patent infringment part of the suit was dropped, not due to state secrets, but because there is a Federal law that states use by the government is not an actionable infringement.
They have most of their evidence eexcluded for the remainder of their case (trade secret and breach of contract) because it is claimed it endangers national security. It may be false, in which case it is an injustice, or true, in which case disclosure would harm national security - many people can be dead - if we can't intercept when and where Al Qaeda plans to nuke us (look up "Americam Hiroshima"), it could be millions. Since this possibly deals indirectly with tapping undersea fiber cables, that isn't far fetched. I live in Las Vegas, one of the cities Al Qaeda has its eyes on - I believe in freedom - but we need to protect Americans. Again, the gov't can be lying, or telling the truth, I, and you all, don't know which.
A public trial, even with the evidence already made public, could help the enemy piece things together in a coherent whole. Much of intelligence isn't just the pieces of the puzzle, but how they fit. A trial may provide that and make the puzzle "come together" and be much more useful to the enemy.
I'm afraid that even this Slashdot story might help those we don't want helped.
As for the inventors, they have not had the trade secret and breach of contract dismissed. Judges might allow them to recover if they have other evidence and they might be willing to give them leeway because they had evidence they can't use.
As far as I can tell, they are free to license the patent to others and sue them if they infringe. The application must have other uses and it appears they still have full rights in that area. Eminent domain is wrong, they still have their patent - they just have a compulsory license (which most of us like when it comes to music, etc and the public) to the government and their trade secret and breach of contract suits are impeded. Not good, and Lucent should honor contracts (if they are or they aren't I don't know) in any event.
If you wrote software, and one client got to use it without paying you and you had no recourse it would be bad, but if you have full rights in regards to other clients you'd likely be OK.
Why did the inventors only deal with Lucent?
The patented invention wasn't made secret, the patent is still available on the gov't own site!
A cigarette lighter port can handle a continuous 400W load?
:)
And is there anything one CAN'T buy at Wal*Mart?
If some people in the Federal government knew how leeves worked, and thus why they need to be maintained, and didn't cut the funding, a lot of what happened in New Orleans wouldn't have happened and there would've been a lot less victims.
Of course, having a horse trainer in charge of FEMA didn't help matters any.
He'd save the lightning bolts to restart Cheney's heart.
Global Warming won't have a chance to destroy us.
Peak Oil is here, it is all downhill from here - when the oil runs out so does most of the CO2 emissions.
Either we use other sources of energy, or it is LIGHTS OUT for us all.
A paper shredder can't shred credit cards, debit cards or room keys.
Shredders that can are expensive.
And then someone accidently puts their credit card (which you often need to check out) on that pad and it then it gets wiped and then they sue, for inconvenience or embarrassment because they went to dinner and then they found out their card was erased and couldn't pay.
Interesting choice of example.
Without trigonometry, much of advanced power systems engineering wouldn't be possible, so you wouldn't have an electric bill, or electric service to worry about - well you might have DC power or some very localized AC power system (like one on each city block or something).
Modern power grids require power factor correction, synchronization of different power sources, etc - trigonometry helps make this possible.