Prior art is still part of the law. It states in plain english that you can't get a patent if there is prior art. This change is about a rare edge case in patent law. When two people claim to invent the same thing and both of them are seeking patents on that invention. Prior art would make both patent applications moot.
It also states you still must be the inventor. You would not be able to patent a stolen trade secret under this law. Though in practice it would be hard to prove someone stole a trade secret.
Studies have shown that the profit motive does not work for jobs requiring creative thought. You can't be thinking about science and art the same time your thinking about how to spend your money. One distracts from the other. If the profit reward is too high then it is distructive to the task. The best environment for creative thought is one that elliminates distractions. You pay the person just enough so they don't worry about things. So they don't take on a second job. Anything more and they start worring about taxes, investments, and spending.
The benifits of centralizations don't scale to nation the size of an empire. Most countries are small. The USA isn't. Federalism and republicanism are methods of deviding the work to the proper scale. The state of Texas is big enough that you don't have redundant administration. That administration would need to exist regardless of whether Texas set the sales tax rate. Technology has moved the bar of what the proper size is. The USA might benifit if some states were merged and others were split.
Why should the sales taxes be flat accross the whole of the United States? Costs of goverment are not the same evenly accross the country. In cities you have extra costs. Those costs don't scale evenly with population. A flat VAT is nuts. You wind up taking tax money from region A to give to region B. Region B has no incentive to control its costs becuase short falls come from region A. Because the rate is flat and national it become very hard to get it changed.
The law assumes that the postal service is going to go bankrupt and be closed down. It makes perfect sense that they fully fund the pensions under those expectations. Congress doesn't want to advert the postal services collapse. The collapse is the solution in their eyes.
Congress is considering doing the following: Take the budget used to subsidize phone service and postal service used to ensure universal access and put it towards universal access to fiber internet. Package delivery would still need to be supported but communication would be taken care of. The big huge drawback is the layoffs that would be needed. Congress would need to fire a ton of post office employees. They may wait till the post office collapses in debt. Then they can be viewed as fixing a problem instead of firing a bunch of people.
It needs to go everseas. That is the other precurser to the colapse. Students will offshore thier educations. Go to India and get a certified engineering degree on the cheap. Same professors, standards, and labs 1/10 the price. If it is good enough for the guy with a visa it is good enough for me.
Nonsense. During my parents generation they were less effective at that. According to my parents, colleges hated to hand out poor grades during the Vietnam war. So everyone got A's.
It was also a gentlemens agreement between the companies involved with the standard. It is not even an agreement they made with Apple. Apple is upset that they didn't extend the agreement to them.
It is a system. Microsoft tried to create the following:
1) A system where people can purchase and play games
2) Where the integrity of play is controlled by restricting hardware to validated machines.
3) Where membership is limited to those who don't cheat.
4) Where membership is limited to those who purchase games
Why can't they create this? What is so evil about it? It is no different from any sports club on earth. You can't argue that the XBox 360 is not the validated machine in the above system. Being a validated machine is its whole purpose. It is what make a XBox 360 different from a PC. If you don't want to be a part of the system then don't purchase the validated machine. Buy a PC.
Your free to chose what hardware you own though. XBox 360 owners are a self selected group of people who don't want their hardware cracked. Its anti-social to buy into that culture and then break its tenants. If a group of people want to support a system where the hardware is locked down, how do they go about it? In what way can they keep hackers away? What hoops do we need to put in place to prevent their interference? So yeah buy a PC please.
Any text message between a embasy and the parent goverment. Used to be done with international submarine communications cables. Likely done with all the above.
Banning the use of encription is not new. It was the norm till computers made it easy and e commerce made it neccesary. The United States, Autralia, and Britain had various restrictions in the past.
It would prevent people from using hidden cameras. If your cought recording the police with a pin hole camera pointing out of a back pack they can arrest you in MA.
It was already pretty high. This ruling was at the appeals court. It applies to the whole circuit. There is already another circuit that ruled contrary. I think the one in Califorina went the other way. So either of those cases can be appealed to the surpreme court.
Its also important to note that the court didn't rule the law was bad. They ruled that it didn't apply here. The law only applies to sercret recordings. Secretly recording the police is a different ballgame. You would likely need a warrent to legally do that. This guy did everything in the open though. He held up is camera phone where everyone could see it and recorded the crime scene. He wasn't hiding behind a bush. The phone wasn't deguised as cake. He was acting as the press. And the press have the right to record crimes scenes.
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This isn't the artcile I originally read. I can't find it. But it is similer. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html
It was a TED talk by Dan Pink I think. http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/24/the_surprising/
It also doesn't address process/software patents. Software patents pretty much make every practicing software developer a patent infringer.
Prior art is still part of the law. It states in plain english that you can't get a patent if there is prior art. This change is about a rare edge case in patent law. When two people claim to invent the same thing and both of them are seeking patents on that invention. Prior art would make both patent applications moot.
It also states you still must be the inventor. You would not be able to patent a stolen trade secret under this law. Though in practice it would be hard to prove someone stole a trade secret.
Studies have shown that the profit motive does not work for jobs requiring creative thought. You can't be thinking about science and art the same time your thinking about how to spend your money. One distracts from the other. If the profit reward is too high then it is distructive to the task. The best environment for creative thought is one that elliminates distractions. You pay the person just enough so they don't worry about things. So they don't take on a second job. Anything more and they start worring about taxes, investments, and spending.
Maybe 20 years ago. Magazine fame is not what it used to be.
The benifits of centralizations don't scale to nation the size of an empire. Most countries are small. The USA isn't. Federalism and republicanism are methods of deviding the work to the proper scale. The state of Texas is big enough that you don't have redundant administration. That administration would need to exist regardless of whether Texas set the sales tax rate. Technology has moved the bar of what the proper size is. The USA might benifit if some states were merged and others were split.
Why should the sales taxes be flat accross the whole of the United States? Costs of goverment are not the same evenly accross the country. In cities you have extra costs. Those costs don't scale evenly with population. A flat VAT is nuts. You wind up taking tax money from region A to give to region B. Region B has no incentive to control its costs becuase short falls come from region A. Because the rate is flat and national it become very hard to get it changed.
The law assumes that the postal service is going to go bankrupt and be closed down. It makes perfect sense that they fully fund the pensions under those expectations. Congress doesn't want to advert the postal services collapse. The collapse is the solution in their eyes.
Congress is considering doing the following: Take the budget used to subsidize phone service and postal service used to ensure universal access and put it towards universal access to fiber internet. Package delivery would still need to be supported but communication would be taken care of. The big huge drawback is the layoffs that would be needed. Congress would need to fire a ton of post office employees. They may wait till the post office collapses in debt. Then they can be viewed as fixing a problem instead of firing a bunch of people.
It needs to go everseas. That is the other precurser to the colapse. Students will offshore thier educations. Go to India and get a certified engineering degree on the cheap. Same professors, standards, and labs 1/10 the price. If it is good enough for the guy with a visa it is good enough for me.
Nonsense. During my parents generation they were less effective at that. According to my parents, colleges hated to hand out poor grades during the Vietnam war. So everyone got A's.
It was also a gentlemens agreement between the companies involved with the standard. It is not even an agreement they made with Apple. Apple is upset that they didn't extend the agreement to them.
It is a system. Microsoft tried to create the following:
1) A system where people can purchase and play games
2) Where the integrity of play is controlled by restricting hardware to validated machines.
3) Where membership is limited to those who don't cheat.
4) Where membership is limited to those who purchase games
Why can't they create this? What is so evil about it? It is no different from any sports club on earth. You can't argue that the XBox 360 is not the validated machine in the above system. Being a validated machine is its whole purpose. It is what make a XBox 360 different from a PC. If you don't want to be a part of the system then don't purchase the validated machine. Buy a PC.
Your free to chose what hardware you own though. XBox 360 owners are a self selected group of people who don't want their hardware cracked. Its anti-social to buy into that culture and then break its tenants. If a group of people want to support a system where the hardware is locked down, how do they go about it? In what way can they keep hackers away? What hoops do we need to put in place to prevent their interference? So yeah buy a PC please.
Any text message between a embasy and the parent goverment. Used to be done with international submarine communications cables. Likely done with all the above.
Do US companies currently outsource to Pakistan? I figured all that would of been gone after the Patriot act.
I detected the word stenography in the word steganography. You need a better method of hiding words.
Banning the use of encription is not new. It was the norm till computers made it easy and e commerce made it neccesary. The United States, Autralia, and Britain had various restrictions in the past.
CIA has plenty of money for bribes too. So does China and India.
This was an appeals court ruling. They already screwed up. This ruling is precedence for the entire circuit now.
It would prevent people from using hidden cameras. If your cought recording the police with a pin hole camera pointing out of a back pack they can arrest you in MA.
It was already pretty high. This ruling was at the appeals court. It applies to the whole circuit. There is already another circuit that ruled contrary. I think the one in Califorina went the other way. So either of those cases can be appealed to the surpreme court.
Yeah the state dropped charges pretty quick. No jury is going to prosecute someone for recording the police.
Its also important to note that the court didn't rule the law was bad. They ruled that it didn't apply here. The law only applies to sercret recordings. Secretly recording the police is a different ballgame. You would likely need a warrent to legally do that. This guy did everything in the open though. He held up is camera phone where everyone could see it and recorded the crime scene. He wasn't hiding behind a bush. The phone wasn't deguised as cake. He was acting as the press. And the press have the right to record crimes scenes.