Effectively through an extension of drug law powers previously made constitutional by the massive expansion of government power granted the to government during FDR's threatening of the Court during his New Deal.
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970, the existing carte blanche for drug prohibition currently wielded by the federal government, was signed into law by President Nixon.
If he "rips it off" then he is violating copyright protections. If he copies the look and feel of the software with the intent to deceive or confuse the customer, then there is probably a trademark violation. If he just duplicates the functionality of the software, well, that's just competition. Deal with it.
The Courier was seriously deep into "Shut up and take my money!" territory. Even if it was just a concept, the technology existed to make it happen. They could have named their own price and made Apple-style mountains of cash. Even now, there still isn't even anything on the horizon that is really comparable to what the Courier proposed to be.
It's not critical to normal, healthy adults in a resting state, but when the heat index hits 105 to 130 F (40-55C), the sick, elderly, and those performing physical labor start dying. I'd wager that over 50% of the deaths attributed to this storm are due to heat-related illness.
I used the term "patent system" to refer specifically to the administration of patents, distinct from the USPTO. Just because a single office administers both systems does not mean that "patent system," "trademark system," and "USPTO" are interchangeable. Patent law and trademark law are related, but nonetheless distinct concepts.
I should also add that I realize that design patents DO exist in our broken patent system, but my point is that design patents do not address any legitimate issue not already handled by trademarks.
Yeah, I acknowledged the existence of design patents. The fact they exist doesn't stop them from being stupid. I had two points, one of which is the design patent shouldn't exist in the first place as it is not relevant to the philosophical basis for a patent system (fostering technical innovation). The second point was that your suggestion that the patent protects against consumer confusion is flat out wrong. That is the intent of trademark protections; design patents instead protect the design full-stop, regardless of the utility of the item. If Apple's rounded rectangle design patent is valid, then they could sue the makers of the Etch-a-Sketch or those little rounded-corner chalkboards we had as kids (prior art much?). Trademark protections address a legitimate issue (consumer confusion), design patents do no such thing while also providing far more wide-reaching implications in their enforcement. This is why I said "the very concept of a design patent is utter horseshit."
When Samsung's own lawyers can't tell the difference between the two products, how can you reasonably expect the average consumer to be able to tell the difference? That confusion is what a design patent protects against - consumers mistakenly thinking one product is actually another because the design is so similar.
No, that confusion is what trademark law protects against. The patent system is design to foster TECHNICAL innovation, and the very concept of a design patent is utter horseshit.
I would think so, yes. Nobody gives a shit when academics and journalists bitch about it; they're commoners. It's been obvious from day one that HFT is a zero-sum game that has no value outside of allowing large financial institutions to skim free money off the top of the markets. Since the primary benefactors of HFT have been the fabulously wealthy, its significant when billionaires like Cuban, who probably has/could profit(ed) substantially from HFT due to his wealth and connections, publicly speak out against it. Despite the short term profits available with HFT systems, he seems, unlike many other rich people, to recognize the potentially catastrophic destabilizing effects HFT has on markets.
Between this and his recent live TV appearance where he rips Skip Bayless a new one, Cuban is rapidly becoming one of my favorite billionaires.
No, they don't. Most Chinese live in poverty, only dreaming of the luxury of higher education.
China is also home to the largest middle class population of any nation, already exceeding 300 million people and growing rapidly. Most Chinese by percentage of China as a whole may still live in poverty, but in absolute terms, the Chinese middle class is the size of the ENTIRE POPULATION of the United States. Considering a larger middle class, and a greater societal emphasis on academic excellence, it's not far fetched to think that China may have a larger population (in absolute terms) of well educated young adults than the US.
Even better than this, get a job working at a local bar or restaurant. You'll learn everything any other unskilled hourly job will teach you, with the added bonus that many of your coworkers will probably be attractive, slutty girls. And if you're shy/socially awkward, waiting tables is probably a good start to breaking through that barrier.
Do executive level recruiters fill entry-level positions? It seems that in more senior positions, nobody gives a shit about GPA because you have a experience and performance history that is more important. However, it was my experience looking for my first job out of college that GPA is VERY important when it comes to entry level engineering positions. Many places won't even touch your resume unless your GPA is over a 3.0. The big companies compete very hard for new graduates with GPAs of 3.7 or higher. This is all reflected in your starting salary. My evidence is merely anecdotal, but my peers with 3.7+ GPAs got offers with significantly higher starting salaries than those with the same degree, but lower GPAs.
Increased availability of aid and loans may very well create some tuition inflation, but I seriously doubt it is the major driving factor at public universities. It took me a while to graduate since I got called up to active duty for a while, but the tuition at the in-state public land grant university I attended nearly doubled between when I entered as a freshman and when I graduated. In 2003, tuition and fees was about 2200 USD/semester, but had ballooned to just over 4000 USD/Semester in Spring 2011. As far as I am aware, there hasn't been massive increases in the availability of aid or loans in that span (in fact, I'd argue generous private loans have become LESS available since 2008). What HAS happened is massive state budget short-falls due to economic downturns and short-sighted tax cuts. When the state is short on cash, higher education funding seems to always take the brunt of the damage in budget cuts, so public universities make up the difference by hiking tuition and/or recruiting out-of-state students.
I'm not necessarily defending the airframe, but it very much is in use in Afghanistan. The Marines have been using it in theater even longer than the Air Force.
In fact I'm reaching the point where I think NO central government would be a good plan, except to provide a navy and army for defense, and build roads for internal transport, and that's about it.
Yeah, because that whole Articles of Confederation thing and 13 different currencies worked out real well, didn't it?
I have not used the N9, but I share your sentiments on the issue of multitasking. Last year I transitioned from Maemo on my n900 to an android handset after my charging connector went on the fritz (for the second time, though this time out of warranty). While it was nice to finally have a mature ecosystem full of applications, I immediately found android's task switching to be infuriating. I had no idea what was running and what wasn't. It seemed like whether an application was merely hidden or killed outright seemed like a matter of sheer chance at first.
Maemo handled it much better, and it's interface was cleaner, more intuitive, and far more powerful. All it needed to be perfect was a small bit of polish and for developer support to reach critical mass. I miss my N900, and I wish Nokia would have stuck to its guns and doubled down on Meego/QT:(
Picture the following situation: a black neighborhood watch volunteer kills an unarmed white kid. Two white preachers jump into the fray and make loud declarations about the racial nature of the killing.
In your situation, the black man is likely arrested on sight, charged with voluntary manslaughter or worse in a matter of days, and held without bail. Nobody outside of the local media would even notice; It's a tragic death, but nobody is outraged since a black man is in jail for murder and that's not news in this country.
GP was being facetious/sarcastic by pointing out that strong regulation of job markets doesn't necessarily result in jobs disappearing. GP's whole point was that the German economy is holding up just fine despite labor regulations that many assert "kills jobs."
The use of the term "Bricking" is misleading in this context. What they're actually talking about is IMSI blacklisting. Every cell phone has a unique hardware ID much like a MAC address that can be blacklisted by the carriers.
Is this really a fucking serious question? I have to wonder whether a submitted trolled the editors, or the editors are trolling the users.
I am not the kind of person who can just 'not browse the internet.' If I ever have to travel with this laptop, I may want to read an ebook or watch a movie or maybe even play a game.
Seriously, you simply cannot browse the internet? Will you go into diabetic shock without it? Your employer won't let you read an e-book or watch a movie waiting in the airport? If your work machine is so locked down or corporate use policies so strict that you can't use it for any personal use while traveling, why don't you BUY YOUR OWN FUCKING LAPTOP AND TAKE THAT WITH YOU TWO? Or are you too frail to carry an extra 5 lbs of laptop?
Seriously, WTF Slashdot? I figured everything would go to shit when Malda left, but I didn't think it would happen this fast.
I'm not wholly against federal safety mandates, but in this case they're looking in all the wrong places for things to mandate. If we're going to be mandating safety equipment, why don't we start with anti-lock braking systems? It's standard equipment on many vehicles these days, so many people don't realize it, but ABS is NOT a federally mandated requirement. Yet electronic stability control (which is of limited benefit on the low-powered, front wheel drive vehicles most americans drive) is mandated for 2012 and beyond, and now they want to mandate backup cameras? If you've got ESC hardware anyway, ABS is trivial to implement, yet we still lack a federal mandate to do so.
This is just a bunch of "think of the children!" overreaction, in my opinion. Most people backing over a kid probably would ignore a back-up camera anyway. There's a selection bias in the statistics, I suspect, as buyers voluntary choosing back up camera-equipped vehicles are likely more risk averse and more responsible drivers to begin with.
I'm not familiar with the airframe load limitations, but what's to stop them from pitching down sharply and banking back and forth to control airspeed?
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Effectively through an extension of drug law powers previously made constitutional by the massive expansion of government power granted the to government during FDR's threatening of the Court during his New Deal.
Uhm, what now? The only significant piece of drug policy I could find that came out of the FDR administration, The Marijuana Tax Act, was actually ruled UNconstitutional, despite being an exercise in taxing authority rather than drug law per se.
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970, the existing carte blanche for drug prohibition currently wielded by the federal government, was signed into law by President Nixon.
If he "rips it off" then he is violating copyright protections. If he copies the look and feel of the software with the intent to deceive or confuse the customer, then there is probably a trademark violation. If he just duplicates the functionality of the software, well, that's just competition. Deal with it.
The Courier was seriously deep into "Shut up and take my money!" territory. Even if it was just a concept, the technology existed to make it happen. They could have named their own price and made Apple-style mountains of cash. Even now, there still isn't even anything on the horizon that is really comparable to what the Courier proposed to be.
It's not critical to normal, healthy adults in a resting state, but when the heat index hits 105 to 130 F (40-55C), the sick, elderly, and those performing physical labor start dying. I'd wager that over 50% of the deaths attributed to this storm are due to heat-related illness.
I used the term "patent system" to refer specifically to the administration of patents, distinct from the USPTO. Just because a single office administers both systems does not mean that "patent system," "trademark system," and "USPTO" are interchangeable. Patent law and trademark law are related, but nonetheless distinct concepts.
I should also add that I realize that design patents DO exist in our broken patent system, but my point is that design patents do not address any legitimate issue not already handled by trademarks.
Yeah, I acknowledged the existence of design patents. The fact they exist doesn't stop them from being stupid. I had two points, one of which is the design patent shouldn't exist in the first place as it is not relevant to the philosophical basis for a patent system (fostering technical innovation). The second point was that your suggestion that the patent protects against consumer confusion is flat out wrong. That is the intent of trademark protections; design patents instead protect the design full-stop, regardless of the utility of the item. If Apple's rounded rectangle design patent is valid, then they could sue the makers of the Etch-a-Sketch or those little rounded-corner chalkboards we had as kids (prior art much?). Trademark protections address a legitimate issue (consumer confusion), design patents do no such thing while also providing far more wide-reaching implications in their enforcement. This is why I said "the very concept of a design patent is utter horseshit."
When Samsung's own lawyers can't tell the difference between the two products, how can you reasonably expect the average consumer to be able to tell the difference? That confusion is what a design patent protects against - consumers mistakenly thinking one product is actually another because the design is so similar.
No, that confusion is what trademark law protects against. The patent system is design to foster TECHNICAL innovation, and the very concept of a design patent is utter horseshit.
Not to mention appearance and "look and feel" are TRADEMARK issues, and have no business anywhere near the patent system.
I would think so, yes. Nobody gives a shit when academics and journalists bitch about it; they're commoners. It's been obvious from day one that HFT is a zero-sum game that has no value outside of allowing large financial institutions to skim free money off the top of the markets. Since the primary benefactors of HFT have been the fabulously wealthy, its significant when billionaires like Cuban, who probably has/could profit(ed) substantially from HFT due to his wealth and connections, publicly speak out against it. Despite the short term profits available with HFT systems, he seems, unlike many other rich people, to recognize the potentially catastrophic destabilizing effects HFT has on markets.
Between this and his recent live TV appearance where he rips Skip Bayless a new one, Cuban is rapidly becoming one of my favorite billionaires.
No, they don't. Most Chinese live in poverty, only dreaming of the luxury of higher education.
China is also home to the largest middle class population of any nation, already exceeding 300 million people and growing rapidly. Most Chinese by percentage of China as a whole may still live in poverty, but in absolute terms, the Chinese middle class is the size of the ENTIRE POPULATION of the United States. Considering a larger middle class, and a greater societal emphasis on academic excellence, it's not far fetched to think that China may have a larger population (in absolute terms) of well educated young adults than the US.
Even better than this, get a job working at a local bar or restaurant. You'll learn everything any other unskilled hourly job will teach you, with the added bonus that many of your coworkers will probably be attractive, slutty girls. And if you're shy/socially awkward, waiting tables is probably a good start to breaking through that barrier.
Do executive level recruiters fill entry-level positions? It seems that in more senior positions, nobody gives a shit about GPA because you have a experience and performance history that is more important. However, it was my experience looking for my first job out of college that GPA is VERY important when it comes to entry level engineering positions. Many places won't even touch your resume unless your GPA is over a 3.0. The big companies compete very hard for new graduates with GPAs of 3.7 or higher. This is all reflected in your starting salary. My evidence is merely anecdotal, but my peers with 3.7+ GPAs got offers with significantly higher starting salaries than those with the same degree, but lower GPAs.
Increased availability of aid and loans may very well create some tuition inflation, but I seriously doubt it is the major driving factor at public universities. It took me a while to graduate since I got called up to active duty for a while, but the tuition at the in-state public land grant university I attended nearly doubled between when I entered as a freshman and when I graduated. In 2003, tuition and fees was about 2200 USD/semester, but had ballooned to just over 4000 USD/Semester in Spring 2011. As far as I am aware, there hasn't been massive increases in the availability of aid or loans in that span (in fact, I'd argue generous private loans have become LESS available since 2008). What HAS happened is massive state budget short-falls due to economic downturns and short-sighted tax cuts. When the state is short on cash, higher education funding seems to always take the brunt of the damage in budget cuts, so public universities make up the difference by hiking tuition and/or recruiting out-of-state students.
You must not be from Texas.
The V-22 isn't in use anywhere? That's odd because I deployed with CV-22s to Afghanistan in 2010, and we lost 4 men and an aircraft to a crash during combat operations.
I'm not necessarily defending the airframe, but it very much is in use in Afghanistan. The Marines have been using it in theater even longer than the Air Force.
If there's one thing the elderly NEVER forget to do, it's to vote.
In fact I'm reaching the point where I think NO central government would be a good plan, except to provide a navy and army for defense, and build roads for internal transport, and that's about it.
Yeah, because that whole Articles of Confederation thing and 13 different currencies worked out real well, didn't it?
I have not used the N9, but I share your sentiments on the issue of multitasking. Last year I transitioned from Maemo on my n900 to an android handset after my charging connector went on the fritz (for the second time, though this time out of warranty). While it was nice to finally have a mature ecosystem full of applications, I immediately found android's task switching to be infuriating. I had no idea what was running and what wasn't. It seemed like whether an application was merely hidden or killed outright seemed like a matter of sheer chance at first.
Maemo handled it much better, and it's interface was cleaner, more intuitive, and far more powerful. All it needed to be perfect was a small bit of polish and for developer support to reach critical mass. I miss my N900, and I wish Nokia would have stuck to its guns and doubled down on Meego/QT :(
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Picture the following situation: a black neighborhood watch volunteer kills an unarmed white kid. Two white preachers jump into the fray and make loud declarations about the racial nature of the killing.
In your situation, the black man is likely arrested on sight, charged with voluntary manslaughter or worse in a matter of days, and held without bail. Nobody outside of the local media would even notice; It's a tragic death, but nobody is outraged since a black man is in jail for murder and that's not news in this country.
*Woooooosh*
Man, that aircraft is flying low over us!
GP was being facetious/sarcastic by pointing out that strong regulation of job markets doesn't necessarily result in jobs disappearing. GP's whole point was that the German economy is holding up just fine despite labor regulations that many assert "kills jobs."
The use of the term "Bricking" is misleading in this context. What they're actually talking about is IMSI blacklisting. Every cell phone has a unique hardware ID much like a MAC address that can be blacklisted by the carriers.
Is this really a fucking serious question? I have to wonder whether a submitted trolled the editors, or the editors are trolling the users.
I am not the kind of person who can just 'not browse the internet.' If I ever have to travel with this laptop, I may want to read an ebook or watch a movie or maybe even play a game.
Seriously, you simply cannot browse the internet? Will you go into diabetic shock without it? Your employer won't let you read an e-book or watch a movie waiting in the airport? If your work machine is so locked down or corporate use policies so strict that you can't use it for any personal use while traveling, why don't you BUY YOUR OWN FUCKING LAPTOP AND TAKE THAT WITH YOU TWO? Or are you too frail to carry an extra 5 lbs of laptop?
Seriously, WTF Slashdot? I figured everything would go to shit when Malda left, but I didn't think it would happen this fast.
I'm not wholly against federal safety mandates, but in this case they're looking in all the wrong places for things to mandate. If we're going to be mandating safety equipment, why don't we start with anti-lock braking systems? It's standard equipment on many vehicles these days, so many people don't realize it, but ABS is NOT a federally mandated requirement. Yet electronic stability control (which is of limited benefit on the low-powered, front wheel drive vehicles most americans drive) is mandated for 2012 and beyond, and now they want to mandate backup cameras? If you've got ESC hardware anyway, ABS is trivial to implement, yet we still lack a federal mandate to do so.
This is just a bunch of "think of the children!" overreaction, in my opinion. Most people backing over a kid probably would ignore a back-up camera anyway. There's a selection bias in the statistics, I suspect, as buyers voluntary choosing back up camera-equipped vehicles are likely more risk averse and more responsible drivers to begin with.
I'm not familiar with the airframe load limitations, but what's to stop them from pitching down sharply and banking back and forth to control airspeed?
I have to wonder what meta-analyses you have been reading. Aside from the fact that meta-analysis is highly susceptible to agenda biases, there is also this meta-analysis. It concluded that SSRI's like Prozac, at least in the case of severe depression, were not only statistically significant, but reached the more stringent standard of clinical significance.