Pay close attention to this, people. Someone has to thrash this patent by coughing up the RFC in court.
The USPTO is overworked and understaffed. The average patent gets, what? Two, three man-hours of review? It used to be days were spent on a patent. The problem is twofold: 1. The people in there are not experts. 2. The experts don't want to be in there because government pay scales.. suck.. compared to corporate America. (Living near DC ain't too good either. DC taxes suck, and the murder rate is rather unhealthy.)
The people in charge of the USPTO should figure out some way for there to be experts. Remember that the guideline for a patent is "something which is not immediately obvious to an expert in the field"? The USPTO thugs ain't agreeing with that anymore.
The only reason the Chinese didn't take over was because the Emperor was a reactionary. He took the nations inventors and, well... introduced reasons to not invent.
The problem is not the law, it's the enforcement. If every speeder was ticketed every time they pulled 35 in a 20, then no one would.
The good - and bad - about a limited police force is that they can't be everywhere at once and they have to use their resources for headlines to convince people they need more powers anbd money.
The priorities of most major metro police forces are:
A. Solving Murders. Death sucks, and killers must needs be found.
B. Getting Narcotics. Those mega-million displays of guns, cash, and drugs make good PR.
C. Major Crimes. Major meaning felony, the higher the better.
D. Everything Else.
The most interesting history lesson this should teach the/kiddies is that some of the things you think are 'new' really are not.
Atomic theory was proposed in the 300's BC by Democritus, a Hellenic philosopher.
Steam power was proposed in 100 BC as a way to open the doors of an Egyptian temple by simply lighting a fire to awe the masses, but the priests said, 'We have slaves to do that!'
There is evidence that the first battery was used in 100's AD Iraq to heal people's ailments.
Oh yeah... Ancient Hellenic philosophers also proposed (and PROVED) a heliocentric solar system which was accepted until the Christian religion screwed science.
And don't forget the Colossus of Rhodes.. the Pyramids.. and other ancient structures which we scratch our heads to figure out.
I passed through Michigan when I went to H2K this past july. I was supposed to meet a rideshare in Detroit, but cutting through Canada and visiting a casino (and actually winning!) wasn't too shabby.
Michigan has a ZERO-TOLERANCE law for minors. Doesn't matter if you're driving; if you are under 21 and you test positive for alcohol, you lose your license and/or are disqualified for one.
This sort of law isn't too surprising to me; the state has been actively courting corps to come to the land of no sales tax.
And from what I saw of detroit in three hours of local driving, most of Detroit sucks too. The only good thing about Detroit is the tunnel and the bridge to Windsor, Ontario, a land with a lower drinking (and higher smoking) age.
Step 1. Eliminate Windows. Windows is insecure by its nature. If an OS is a block of cheese, Windows is Swiss. And unlike the nationality of that name, MS is decidedly not neutral in the OS wars.
Step 2. Go for a free Unix.
The best thing to do is use an IP Masquerade active network if you go online. The good thing is that the internal machines are protected from the external net, and even a dedicated cracker would have a head of a time determining the internal config. (I use a homogenous network to protect this box over DSL lines. No cracks.)
The Really Big Point in the article is that the rights we Americans have are much, much easier to legislate away than to protect. Could you imagine an America in which the only 'free speech' is that which the corporations allow?
DeCSS is the tip of the iceberg. As mentioned in a previous/. article, The Right To Read is inching closer to a reality.
The two best things I can suggest at this point in spacetime are the following:
1. Support the EFF. They are the spearhead, and unlike the ACLU are not entrenched in the public consciousness. Donate something.. ANYTHING. (If you're paranoid, send 'em a money order.)
2. Vote For Ralph Nader and Against ALL Incumbent Senators. The first link takes you to the site of the only candidate who has been and is willing to take on the corporations and the two major parties, the Democritans and the Republocrats, who are all sleeping together like some incestuous menage-a-trois. He takes NO PAC money, NO soft money. He is the only candidate to have visited all 50 states. (So donate a few bucks, huh?:)And w/r/t the senators: The second link takes you to the website with the roll-call vote which passed the DMCA. S. 2037 (1998) was the number of the bill which became the DMCA. (Check it out. You'll see it's true.)
Step 1. Close any and all bank accounts you have. Take the assets as cash, unless the accounts are worth more than 10,000 dollars. If that situation is true, then take your cash out in less-than-10k bundles.
The big banks all sell and swap information about you. Remove your cash and remove your name from their lists.
Step 2. If you own any other properties (stocks, bonds, real estate, cars, etc.), ice 'em, again respecting the 10k at a time rule.
A good number of these records are available to the public at low to no charge.
Step 3. Pack your bags and get a job within the EU.
The European privacy standards are extremely strict. A company requesting personal data MUST tell you what they are collecting, why, and if it is to be given to outsiders, they must ask for your permission.
Another perk? You're outside the range of the DMCA!
The Clarke reference is pretty good. In 3001, the last book of the four-part trilogy, major historic sites were coated in diamond to protect them from the harsh environment they happen to abide in.
In "Shadowrun", they talk about long, bladed weapons coated with nanodiamond coats to keep a painfully sharp blade sharp without honing stones etc.
I personally think that nanodiamond coats are the best way to reduce friction on spacecraft; the near-perfect surface thus created would probably be able to get closer to subphotonic speeds than anything else we've come up with to date.
Wouldn't it be interesting if both houses creating 'legal Linux DVD players' were strong-armed by the DVD CCA to claim a Linux project for a prop of the DMCA case vs. 2600.
Digital cell phones emit frequencies in the 1.9 GHz range. That's pretty damned high, and the wavelength is measured in centimeters. 15 to be almost exact.
Cell phones also emit maybe 3 watts on a low gain antenna. And most conversations are extremely short.
The real "danger range" for humans is in the VHF band, 2-meter and 125-cm.
This is according to the references courtesy the ARRL and your friendly/. ham and hacker sandwich.
The first law of lawsuits is, "Sue if you're sure you'll win."
The second law of lawsuits is, "Sue if your legal budget outstrips theirs by a factor of 100."
The third law of lawsuits is, "Never sue an established publisher, because they will blacklist your name in ALL their works." "And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
And before you think that $178 for crude nanotubes is a decent deal, a gram of C-12 isn't too large size-wise. "And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
I guess no one has heard of the FISA courts.
(No, NOT soccer. FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was expanded after the OK City bombings. Funny thing? The 'experts' claimed foreigners did it, whereas a spook who spoke at H2K predicted 'disgruntled postal employee.' He was right, but Congress heard 'bin Laden' instead of 'John Smith.')
These courts ARE the DoJ's 'rubber stamp'.
Their proceedings are private, no records are available to the public, and
In the 20 years since FISA, the court has not turned down any of the government's
approximately 10,000 surveillance requests.
Additional links are here, here, and here.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
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Pay close attention to this, people. Someone has to thrash this patent by coughing up the RFC in court. The USPTO is overworked and understaffed. The average patent gets, what? Two, three man-hours of review? It used to be days were spent on a patent. The problem is twofold: 1. The people in there are not experts. 2. The experts don't want to be in there because government pay scales.. suck.. compared to corporate America. (Living near DC ain't too good either. DC taxes suck, and the murder rate is rather unhealthy.) The people in charge of the USPTO should figure out some way for there to be experts. Remember that the guideline for a patent is "something which is not immediately obvious to an expert in the field"? The USPTO thugs ain't agreeing with that anymore.
The Coffee? Guess you want the Coffee Mini-HOWTO. Need a cup o' joe? Punch up /usr/bin/coffee..
(Just make sure the grinds are fresh.)
Why is it, that every time I get a new toy, some mother f***er says, "Don't f***in' play wit dat?"
Man... F*** THAT! I'm gonna hack dat s**t up and you gonna suck my d***!
The only reason the Chinese didn't take over was because the Emperor was a reactionary. He took the nations inventors and, well... introduced reasons to not invent.
You're dead-on.
The problem is not the law, it's the enforcement. If every speeder was ticketed every time they pulled 35 in a 20, then no one would.
The good - and bad - about a limited police force is that they can't be everywhere at once and they have to use their resources for headlines to convince people they need more powers anbd money.
The priorities of most major metro police forces are:
A. Solving Murders. Death sucks, and killers must needs be found.
B. Getting Narcotics. Those mega-million displays of guns, cash, and drugs make good PR.
C. Major Crimes. Major meaning felony, the higher the better.
D. Everything Else.
The most interesting history lesson this should teach the /kiddies is that some of the things you think are 'new' really are not.
Atomic theory was proposed in the 300's BC by Democritus, a Hellenic philosopher.
Steam power was proposed in 100 BC as a way to open the doors of an Egyptian temple by simply lighting a fire to awe the masses, but the priests said, 'We have slaves to do that!'
There is evidence that the first battery was used in 100's AD Iraq to heal people's ailments.
Oh yeah... Ancient Hellenic philosophers also proposed (and PROVED) a heliocentric solar system which was accepted until the Christian religion screwed science.
And don't forget the Colossus of Rhodes.. the Pyramids.. and other ancient structures which we scratch our heads to figure out.
I passed through Michigan when I went to H2K this past july. I was supposed to meet a rideshare in Detroit, but cutting through Canada and visiting a casino (and actually winning!) wasn't too shabby.
Michigan has a ZERO-TOLERANCE law for minors. Doesn't matter if you're driving; if you are under 21 and you test positive for alcohol, you lose your license and/or are disqualified for one.
This sort of law isn't too surprising to me; the state has been actively courting corps to come to the land of no sales tax.
And from what I saw of detroit in three hours of local driving, most of Detroit sucks too. The only good thing about Detroit is the tunnel and the bridge to Windsor, Ontario, a land with a lower drinking (and higher smoking) age.
Step 1. Eliminate Windows. Windows is insecure by its nature. If an OS is a block of cheese, Windows is Swiss. And unlike the nationality of that name, MS is decidedly not neutral in the OS wars.
Step 2. Go for a free Unix.
The best thing to do is use an IP Masquerade active network if you go online. The good thing is that the internal machines are protected from the external net, and even a dedicated cracker would have a head of a time determining the internal config. (I use a homogenous network to protect this box over DSL lines. No cracks.)
The Really Big Point in the article is that the rights we Americans have are much, much easier to legislate away than to protect. Could you imagine an America in which the only 'free speech' is that which the corporations allow? DeCSS is the tip of the iceberg. As mentioned in a previous /. article, The Right To Read is inching closer to a reality.
The two best things I can suggest at this point in spacetime are the following:
1. Support the EFF. They are the spearhead, and unlike the ACLU are not entrenched in the public consciousness. Donate something.. ANYTHING. (If you're paranoid, send 'em a money order.) :)And w/r/t the senators: The second link takes you to the website with the roll-call vote which passed the DMCA. S. 2037 (1998) was the number of the bill which became the DMCA. (Check it out. You'll see it's true.)
2. Vote For Ralph Nader and Against ALL Incumbent Senators. The first link takes you to the site of the only candidate who has been and is willing to take on the corporations and the two major parties, the Democritans and the Republocrats, who are all sleeping together like some incestuous menage-a-trois. He takes NO PAC money, NO soft money. He is the only candidate to have visited all 50 states. (So donate a few bucks, huh?
Hee hee hee :-)
Maestro got my last MP.
(And I ain't a Brit.)
I guess it's time to release IPv8.
Can't afford them fascist corporatists to get to everything first, don'cha know.
That has GOT to be somethink funny to think about: THese eight gumdrops do more raw processing than a 1990 Cray.
The only thing that would be funnier would be to swap out motherboard diodes for LED's and seeing them flash with the data.
It's called RIP, dude.
.uk!
That's what's happening to your legal rights online.
Boycott Britain! Screw the
Step 1. Close any and all bank accounts you have. Take the assets as cash, unless the accounts are worth more than 10,000 dollars. If that situation is true, then take your cash out in less-than-10k bundles.
The big banks all sell and swap information about you. Remove your cash and remove your name from their lists.
Step 2. If you own any other properties (stocks, bonds, real estate, cars, etc.), ice 'em, again respecting the 10k at a time rule.
A good number of these records are available to the public at low to no charge.
Step 3. Pack your bags and get a job within the EU.
The European privacy standards are extremely strict. A company requesting personal data MUST tell you what they are collecting, why, and if it is to be given to outsiders, they must ask for your permission.
Another perk? You're outside the range of the DMCA!
"Written by a EU citizen. Piss off."
The Clarke reference is pretty good. In 3001, the last book of the four-part trilogy, major historic sites were coated in diamond to protect them from the harsh environment they happen to abide in.
In "Shadowrun", they talk about long, bladed weapons coated with nanodiamond coats to keep a painfully sharp blade sharp without honing stones etc.
I personally think that nanodiamond coats are the best way to reduce friction on spacecraft; the near-perfect surface thus created would probably be able to get closer to subphotonic speeds than anything else we've come up with to date.
Too bad I'm in Chicago :)
What class license have you? Because, remember, anything above 300 GHz is free space for hams and is probably unpopulated.
Another advantage? Tiny, high-gain antennas. Imagine a two-meterlong Yagi giving you a 10.. 20.. 30+ dB gain. You could EME your network packets!
"These are the ramblings of a damned lunatic. I am to be thinkink about super-footooristik designes for werld Konkwest."
Wouldn't it be interesting if both houses creating 'legal Linux DVD players' were strong-armed by the DVD CCA to claim a Linux project for a prop of the DMCA case vs. 2600.
You don't mind if I ask you a simple question from a cimple mind...
1. I have an interest in packet radio, and that means an FCC license. How do I get that as a 'uSA' citizen?
2. I like to travel extranationally, and I don't think my home state issues passports. What do I do about that?
An answer would be appreciated.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Actually.. there's a very high order of probability that a BSD variant is used.
BSDi has popularity due to the strong encription and the fact that it's from Canada.
OK. Let's get this clear.
/. ham and hacker sandwich.
Digital cell phones emit frequencies in the 1.9 GHz range. That's pretty damned high, and the wavelength is measured in centimeters. 15 to be almost exact.
Cell phones also emit maybe 3 watts on a low gain antenna. And most conversations are extremely short.
The real "danger range" for humans is in the VHF band, 2-meter and 125-cm.
This is according to the references courtesy the ARRL and your friendly
Hey, moron! {knock, knock}
.gov and .mil joints are VASTLY unqualified or VASTLY corrupt.
Most government rigs do NOT run Windows. They are rated C2, the absolute LOWEST grade of 'secure', only when off a network!
Why d'ya think the Army.mil server is an APPLE?
The long and short of it is that the folks workin' as sysadmins on
Or both.
I mean, government pay scales suck!
No kidding.
The first law of lawsuits is, "Sue if you're sure you'll win."
The second law of lawsuits is, "Sue if your legal budget outstrips theirs by a factor of 100."
The third law of lawsuits is, "Never sue an established publisher, because they will blacklist your name in ALL their works."
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
And before you think that $178 for crude nanotubes is a decent deal, a gram of C-12 isn't too large size-wise.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
Can anyone say 'deprecated'?
I knew we could.
A lot of the legacy code is there so that the newer bastard son of code works with stuff written for the older bastard son of code.
Hey, I still use "center" instead of the newer spec for centering text.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"
I guess no one has heard of the FISA courts. (No, NOT soccer. FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was expanded after the OK City bombings. Funny thing? The 'experts' claimed foreigners did it, whereas a spook who spoke at H2K predicted 'disgruntled postal employee.' He was right, but Congress heard 'bin Laden' instead of 'John Smith.') These courts ARE the DoJ's 'rubber stamp'. Their proceedings are private, no records are available to the public, and In the 20 years since FISA, the court has not
turned down any of the government's
approximately 10,000 surveillance requests. Additional links are here, here, and here.
"And they said onto the Lord.. How the hell did you do THAT?!"