If I visit www.thepiratebay.org... it works! (or it actually redirects me to thepiratebay.sx)
If I visit www.thepiratebay.se the result is...
Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to resolve the server's DNS address
The server at thepiratebay.se can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Chromium from accessing the network.
I really can't say which one of us has got a better censorship. But more importantly, thanks for helping me to hack around this terrible obstacle of entering the pirate bay. Now the internet feels whole again.
I don't know about your priorities, but "we the programmers" are important partners for those resisting true tyrannies. Thus, pursue making your programs compatible as tools of revolution - not something that will get freedom fighters and their friends thrown into jails.
Consider communicating to the internet using HTTPS, TOR or something similar. Have cell-phone pictures (atleast those from the worst totalitarian countries) by default stripped off their GPS-data and other identification data. Embrace anonymity by default. And if possible make all your communication and messaging software end- to-end encrypted. And finally help the revolunaries getting rid of incriminating evidence from the hard disks, USB sticks; for example by overwriting data not just by removing filenames.
Those who trust their lives, and the lives of their loved ones, upon your software do appreciate you going that extra mile.
Fact is Snowden sacrificed himself so that people would know about (what he considered) unconstitutional searches and universal violations of universal human rights- right?
"Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Maybe the PATRIOT ACT has made you think these kinds of writings are particularly unamerican? Or you could just accept the fact that Snowden's acts are just as american as were the actions of founding fathers of the United States; who were also temporarily considered traitors.
Also consider that now Snowden has higher approval rating than...
US Congress and Barack Obama
...and I'm sure, all over the world, Edward Snowden has a higher approval rating than NSA.
Now, how were you supposed "to institute a new Government"? Oh you can't. And if you'd even become interested about it the government would know about it; thanks to PRISM.
"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
I think Snowden is well worth one Nobel Peace Prize.
I think protecting the freedom of speech, democracy, human rights and civil liberties is the new 'environmental' issue that matters the most. And it appears the pirate party is the most active in resisting human-right supressing stasi-like activities... and quite frankly I don't care that much for Sunde's or pirate party's other ideas or priorities.
In the 80's green party movement/party was a great political invention, which eventually helped in ending the acid rains, CFC-freons, overuse of farm pesticides and other nasty things. The industry would not have stopped poisoning the environment without a clear political guidance. For me the pirate party is like the 80's green party movement... this time it's just protecting humans instead/besides the nature. Ok, not everybody needs to have these political priorities;)
Peter Sunde will run for European Parliament in 2014 election with Pirate Party of Finland. Quite impossible to think any intelligent person not voting for him.
Dear Prokaryote(s),
Please sue me in Japan instead. I've always wanted to visit Tokyo.
Also, I'm running out of toilet paper, so please send lots of legal documents
to our ISP - preferably printed on soft paper.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium,
will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for
sending frivolous legal threats.
It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are....... morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.
Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be published in full on
http://www.thepiratebay.org./
Go fuck yourself.
Europol? More like Eurolol! Lololololol!!1 hahahaha ok we very funny
and on (b) I'll reply
Yeah good luck with that. Ask your buddies at the MPAA, RIAA, MAFIAA and the american justice department how much effect
that usually does. We got raided once due the american government going to bed with the swedish gov and some pillowtalking
into an agreement about shutting us down. We were down for 3 days. Not as much of a problem comparing to how long it took
us to get online when a former admin went on a drunk rampage and was nowhere to be found (down for 5 days. some million in
fines, 4 dead sheep and a story never to be told, without level 4 clearance.. yeah, more than you have, you're only at level 3
lolololol)
> Thank you for your cooperation.
Hey your're welcome! Feel free to grab some retractable batons on your way out. If the MPAA didn't grab em all.
Wikipedia tells he used to TBP's spokesperson, hopefully he will be speaking soon in EU parliament
I don't like your diagnose, doctor. Here's a second opinion. OP asked a valid "nerdish" question. And OP could be doing any number or projects that may require keeping information "safe enough". For example he could be helping out a dentist or a lawyer with safe-guarding some patient records or legal documents. Or OP may self have a need to design an ad for a new product or write a patent application - without having some unspesified FEAR of texts or designs possibly leaking to pastebin or hacker forums.
A couple of months ago I needed to write a patent application and probably faced the same kind of "safe enough" need as the OP. My solution was to temporarely have a non-networked XP just for writing the damn thing. As the patent application has now been filed and I know the process was "safe enough", I can contact any angel investor or VC and without "FEELING" any (unreasonable) uncertainty over possible leaks that may have happened.
A little know finnish start-up made in 2003 a motion controlled touchscreen smartphone. Combine that with Samsung's designs and you get an iPhonish thing.
The Android “Police Tape” app records video and audio discreetly, disappearing from the screen once the recording begins to prevent any attempt by police to squelch the recording. In addition to keeping a copy on the phone itself, the user can choose to send it to the ACLU-NJ for backup storage and analysis of possible civil liberties violations
the Register said this about Jefferson's and his friends alias usage
I've been reading Ron Chernow's exceptional "Washington: A Life" and have been struck by how venomous the press was in the days of the early republic – and how it was made more so by the common practice of prominent men taking pseudonyms to launch near-sadistic attacks on their opposition.
This wasn't just relegated to the rabble of 18th Century America, either. Washington's own cabinet member, Thomas Jefferson, was one of his harshest anonymous critics, along with James Madison and others among the founding fathers. The attacks were often willfully false, cruel, and only possible because of their anonymous nature. Jefferson, indeed, opted to launch his attacks through intermediaries, rather than sully his own hands.
However, the same anonymity that drove Washington to distraction (and an earnest desire to leave office after just one term, though he was persuaded to remain for two) was also critical in fostering the republic in the first place.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay used pseudonyms to argue the case for a constitution and a harmonizing of interests in a grand republic, rather than a weak federation of sovereign states. They needed anonymity to be able to argue freely, allowing their arguments to be decoupled from the actual people advancing them.
Indeed, this Janus-faced anonymity problem/opportunity is well-expressed by Madison's writings. He did profound good with anonymity in the Federalist Papers, and then put anonymity to destructive use against Washington throughout his presidency.
As much as I hate the bile that web anonymity encourages, it's the price we have always paid to ensure free speech. Sometimes that speech is hateful and wrong. But that isn't sufficient justification to close mouths to establish a marketing bonanza for Google(+) or anyone else.
I read somewhere that at the beginning of their revolutionary path Jefferson and many of the founding fathers were using various alias names and operated via proxies to conceal their true identity and goals. Ok, if they had been more open of their goals and identities they would have been shot and not remembered. Right to be anonymous, maybe it should have been written into constitution.
it was an internet ready touchscreen phone build and revieved by the press. Too bad that start-up was trying to reach success in finland where all people were mentally fixated into only buying Nokia phones. And so that MyOrigo company with it's MyDevice phone soon found it's way into bankruptcy.
Using this technology webmasters can optimize Adsense colors,borders&fonts so quickly, that any webmaster could make several versions of each ad. This would allow Google to measure the performance of each of those "approved" ad formats. And then choosing to use those that are most attractive and most profitable.
The current Adsense ad-setting technology is slow and cumbersome as webmasters need to (by hand) adjust hex values for text, border and background colors and font-sizes and font-types, trying to imagine how that combination of those would look like when placed on a target web-page. And still after half an hour of fine-tuning, the webmaster will have no idea if that ad is going to be attractive or not.
Google knows their technology is cumbersome and probably for that reason they have chosen to limit the available ad design options. My technology is easy to use and allows creating various background textures, 3D-effects and gradients to be put into ad backgrounds in seconds. (I think the "background effects" makes ads that much more better looking.)
Do you want to sell the idea? Do you want them to hire you? Do you want them to take you over?
Yes, to all. I would assume this technology would increase ad click rates by 3-4 percentage points and Google's (and webmasters) Adsense profits by at least 2%. In Google's scale that 2% increase in Adsense profits would amount $200 million annually. I was thinking to sell this technology at a low price. Originally I build it for a Google scale user (with no limiting bottle-necks), as there aren't many other kinds of companies who could use technology like this. It would be rather easy to add to Google's webmaster tools, but yes they would probably want to hire me for implementing it.
By the way, that page doesn't work in Chromium (on Ubuntu), although it worked on Firefox. I assume it probably doesn't work on Chrome (on Windows) either.
Ouch & Thanks. I just insalled Chrome to winxp and Chromium to Ubuntu 32-bit and it worked on both. Maybe you have 64-bit Ubuntu?. Before posting to/. I just briefly checked with Ununtu-Firefox that the tool is still there:)
I made a tool that can semi-automatically set the colors right in adsense ads; in about 30 seconds
And I thought google might be interested as with their webmaster center tools, the same task takes ~30 minutes (to match the colors to the hosting web-page).
As Adsense is basically their money making machine, so one might think they would be interested to see a demo of that technology - NOT.
As of now there's probably noone at the google who knows about the tool / technology. And it is not because I would not have tried enough.
To summarise I tried to call to at least 30 people at the Google headquarters (found couple of answering machines) , I send a message *twice* to all kinds of "business proposal" "partner with google" mailboxes at Google's website. And based on my logs nobody ever came to test drive the tool. And I send a message to Google adsense forum. Still no comment from anyone. And I kept calling google offices around Europe and the most human contact was with the telephone answering machine. Well, except in spain and (I think) Norway? there was a receptionis who said she was just a hired office receptionist not working for google and there's noone at google she could connect me to.
And, here in Finland, I saw Google opened office in Oulu, So I went there and meet em in person. And at the lobby hall I said I have a tood / demo that might interest Google. But no, she basically run away without checking the demo. Later last summer I challenged someone who had been co-operating with Googles Finnish leader Anni Ronkainen to try to get her to check the demo. But as this helpful person tried to reach CEO Anni Ronkainen, she never came back to this PhD lecturer person with whom she actually had agreed partisipate at a seminar later. And I send Anni couple sms - messagea asking to contact me - no reply. And someone suggested I might be able to connect Google people through one ad agency that does online-ad campaings with google, no that didn't work eather. And it didn't work eather through another guy who had written PhD thesis online advertisement - even he wan's able to contact anyone there - PhD guy was at least facined about the technology.)
To summarize, my experience is that nobody works at Google. The company is probably a front office and run by Skynet or something.
I am facing this "problem" of soon having to choose if I will locate my new company avoiding USA or not. Business will be 100% legal, but the US web-policies appear very unfrindly. Recently I've been thinking (most positively) about using only EU investors, EU-site, EU-domain but it may be hard to avoid all e.g. Visa / Paypal / Mastercard connections to USA. Maybe it's worth it maybe not. But for me the news topic is true, The US Government is Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US - or at least it's doing it's best in keeping me away.
prior art is "the total body of knowledge, which teaches or otherwise relates directly to an invention. This is the primary criteria in determining the patentability of a new invention. Establishes novelty and unobviousness of the art that relates to the invention in question. Prior art references include documentary sources such as patents and publications from anywhere in the world, and nondocumentary sources such as things known or used publicly."
OR
"Prior art or state of the art is all information that has been disclosed to the public in any form before a given date. Prior art does not include information kept secret, whether from trade secrecy or just a simple lack of interest in publication. Normally, we expect prior art to be descriptions sufficient to inform the average worker in the field (or the man skilled in the art), published in fixed form and made available in public libraries. Normally, prior art does not include unpublished work or mere conversations (though according to the European Patent Convention, oral disclosures also form prior art"
This is slashdot and many of those who choose to come and read news about "Pirate bay's co-founder starting P2P-DNS", are enough experts in fieds of filesharing, TOR, bittorrent and cloud technologies. In fact, I am pretty sure even you would read that "prior art patent-claim" to be (mostly) describing a "bit-torrent-TOR-hybrid-system", where the amount of data that the user mediates to other users impacts the amount of data that user is allowed to submit to the distributed-cloud- webserver-right. And based on just that you could see the the obvious industrial benefits being at least...
vandals could not flood the distributed webserver with bogus data.
cloud-webserver would be available as a storage media, files would be stored on (almost) 'randomly chosen' users computers
Because the distributed fileserver would fetch the files using an encrypted onion-router like structure privacy of users would be improved
Storing the files in encrypted form would allow even companies to use that as data distribution, storage server.
So, how could that used as a prior art, well lets assume lets say in 10 years time a company X would start patent trolling companies who use that kind of distributed storage. And if that patent was really a problem then EFFI of some other instance could challenge that patent and request prior art to that patent... and there is a high probability I would also see that request. And I would check my submit mini-prior art to the one needing it.
I believe these kinds of submarine-prior- art patent-busters could be very effective against submarine- patent trolls. If this type of action was popular among independent coders, it would take away much of the problem with stupid software patent. Companies would not dare to start costly process of suing everybody for something obvious, as there would be a BIG probability that someone in the world might just show up and invalidate the whole patent in the middle of an expensive legal process.
For me it was easy to cast that technology to public domain, as I have no use for it self and I'd like that being used. Ok, it is likely that the writing of that patent-buster was 15 minutes of wasted time, but there is also a small chance it wasn't. I consider that being a small service to the community.
Slashdot Mirror
If I visit www.thepiratebay.se the result is...
Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to resolve the server's DNS address
The server at thepiratebay.se can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Chromium from accessing the network.
I really can't say which one of us has got a better censorship. But more importantly, thanks for helping me to hack around this terrible obstacle of entering the pirate bay. Now the internet feels whole again.
"Hacking Contest to Secure Finland's Computerized School Exams", might be more informative.
I don't know about your priorities, but "we the programmers" are important partners for those resisting true tyrannies. Thus, pursue making your programs compatible as tools of revolution - not something that will get freedom fighters and their friends thrown into jails.
Consider communicating to the internet using HTTPS, TOR or something similar. Have cell-phone pictures (atleast those from the worst totalitarian countries) by default stripped off their GPS-data and other identification data. Embrace anonymity by default. And if possible make all your communication and messaging software end- to-end encrypted. And finally help the revolunaries getting rid of incriminating evidence from the hard disks, USB sticks; for example by overwriting data not just by removing filenames.
Those who trust their lives, and the lives of their loved ones, upon your software do appreciate you going that extra mile.
"Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Maybe the PATRIOT ACT has made you think these kinds of writings are particularly unamerican? Or you could just accept the fact that Snowden's acts are just as american as were the actions of founding fathers of the United States; who were also temporarily considered traitors.
...and I'm sure, all over the world, Edward Snowden has a higher approval rating than NSA.
Also consider that now Snowden has higher approval rating than... US Congress and Barack Obama
Now, how were you supposed "to institute a new Government"? Oh you can't. And if you'd even become interested about it the government would know about it; thanks to PRISM.
"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
I think Snowden is well worth one Nobel Peace Prize.
I think protecting the freedom of speech, democracy, human rights and civil liberties is the new 'environmental' issue that matters the most. And it appears the pirate party is the most active in resisting human-right supressing stasi-like activities... and quite frankly I don't care that much for Sunde's or pirate party's other ideas or priorities.
;)
In the 80's green party movement/party was a great political invention, which eventually helped in ending the acid rains, CFC-freons, overuse of farm pesticides and other nasty things. The industry would not have stopped poisoning the environment without a clear political guidance. For me the pirate party is like the 80's green party movement... this time it's just protecting humans instead/besides the nature. Ok, not everybody needs to have these political priorities
oh, quite the opposite
Peter Sunde will run for European Parliament in 2014 election with Pirate Party of Finland. Quite impossible to think any intelligent person not voting for him.
'Barbaturex' means 'bearded king,' and Morrison called himself the Lizard King, so this was perfect
If that doesn't make sense, read the lyrics of "The Celebration Of The Lizard" and you'll understand it all
Dear Prokaryote(s), Please sue me in Japan instead. I've always wanted to visit Tokyo. Also, I'm running out of toilet paper, so please send lots of legal documents to our ISP - preferably printed on soft paper.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium, will result in a) a suit being filed for harassment b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for sending frivolous legal threats. It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.
Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be published in full on
http://www.thepiratebay.org./
Go fuck yourself.
Europol? More like Eurolol! Lololololol!!1 hahahaha ok we very funny and on (b) I'll reply Yeah good luck with that. Ask your buddies at the MPAA, RIAA, MAFIAA and the american justice department how much effect that usually does. We got raided once due the american government going to bed with the swedish gov and some pillowtalking into an agreement about shutting us down. We were down for 3 days. Not as much of a problem comparing to how long it took us to get online when a former admin went on a drunk rampage and was nowhere to be found (down for 5 days. some million in fines, 4 dead sheep and a story never to be told, without level 4 clearance.. yeah, more than you have, you're only at level 3 lolololol) > Thank you for your cooperation. Hey your're welcome! Feel free to grab some retractable batons on your way out. If the MPAA didn't grab em all.
Wikipedia tells he used to TBP's spokesperson, hopefully he will be speaking soon in EU parliament
I don't like your diagnose, doctor. Here's a second opinion. OP asked a valid "nerdish" question. And OP could be doing any number or projects that may require keeping information "safe enough". For example he could be helping out a dentist or a lawyer with safe-guarding some patient records or legal documents. Or OP may self have a need to design an ad for a new product or write a patent application - without having some unspesified FEAR of texts or designs possibly leaking to pastebin or hacker forums.
A couple of months ago I needed to write a patent application and probably faced the same kind of "safe enough" need as the OP. My solution was to temporarely have a non-networked XP just for writing the damn thing. As the patent application has now been filed and I know the process was "safe enough", I can contact any angel investor or VC and without "FEELING" any (unreasonable) uncertainty over possible leaks that may have happened.
I'm leaving Ubuntu too. Been a faithful user since 6.06. Typical reasons for leaving. And Mint seems to be the likely destination ... Goodbye Ubuntu
A little know finnish start-up made in 2003 a motion controlled touchscreen smartphone. Combine that with Samsung's designs and you get an iPhonish thing.
The Android “Police Tape” app records video and audio discreetly, disappearing from the screen once the recording begins to prevent any attempt by police to squelch the recording. In addition to keeping a copy on the phone itself, the user can choose to send it to the ACLU-NJ for backup storage and analysis of possible civil liberties violations
more information here
an iPhone version is probably still awaiting approval from Apple
I've been reading Ron Chernow's exceptional "Washington: A Life" and have been struck by how venomous the press was in the days of the early republic – and how it was made more so by the common practice of prominent men taking pseudonyms to launch near-sadistic attacks on their opposition.
This wasn't just relegated to the rabble of 18th Century America, either. Washington's own cabinet member, Thomas Jefferson, was one of his harshest anonymous critics, along with James Madison and others among the founding fathers. The attacks were often willfully false, cruel, and only possible because of their anonymous nature. Jefferson, indeed, opted to launch his attacks through intermediaries, rather than sully his own hands.
However, the same anonymity that drove Washington to distraction (and an earnest desire to leave office after just one term, though he was persuaded to remain for two) was also critical in fostering the republic in the first place.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay used pseudonyms to argue the case for a constitution and a harmonizing of interests in a grand republic, rather than a weak federation of sovereign states. They needed anonymity to be able to argue freely, allowing their arguments to be decoupled from the actual people advancing them.
Indeed, this Janus-faced anonymity problem/opportunity is well-expressed by Madison's writings. He did profound good with anonymity in the Federalist Papers, and then put anonymity to destructive use against Washington throughout his presidency.
As much as I hate the bile that web anonymity encourages, it's the price we have always paid to ensure free speech. Sometimes that speech is hateful and wrong. But that isn't sufficient justification to close mouths to establish a marketing bonanza for Google(+) or anyone else.
Happy Birthday USA
I read somewhere that at the beginning of their revolutionary path Jefferson and many of the founding fathers were using various alias names and operated via proxies to conceal their true identity and goals. Ok, if they had been more open of their goals and identities they would have been shot and not remembered. Right to be anonymous, maybe it should have been written into constitution.
maybe EFF could use that as a propaganda tool
it was an internet ready touchscreen phone build and revieved by the press. Too bad that start-up was trying to reach success in finland where all people were mentally fixated into only buying Nokia phones. And so that MyOrigo company with it's MyDevice phone soon found it's way into bankruptcy.
What is your goal for this technology?
Using this technology webmasters can optimize Adsense colors,borders&fonts so quickly, that any webmaster could make several versions of each ad. This would allow Google to measure the performance of each of those "approved" ad formats. And then choosing to use those that are most attractive and most profitable.
The current Adsense ad-setting technology is slow and cumbersome as webmasters need to (by hand) adjust hex values for text, border and background colors and font-sizes and font-types, trying to imagine how that combination of those would look like when placed on a target web-page. And still after half an hour of fine-tuning, the webmaster will have no idea if that ad is going to be attractive or not.
Google knows their technology is cumbersome and probably for that reason they have chosen to limit the available ad design options. My technology is easy to use and allows creating various background textures, 3D-effects and gradients to be put into ad backgrounds in seconds. (I think the "background effects" makes ads that much more better looking.)
Do you want to sell the idea? Do you want them to hire you? Do you want them to take you over?
Yes, to all. I would assume this technology would increase ad click rates by 3-4 percentage points and Google's (and webmasters) Adsense profits by at least 2%. In Google's scale that 2% increase in Adsense profits would amount $200 million annually. I was thinking to sell this technology at a low price. Originally I build it for a Google scale user (with no limiting bottle-necks), as there aren't many other kinds of companies who could use technology like this. It would be rather easy to add to Google's webmaster tools, but yes they would probably want to hire me for implementing it.
By the way, that page doesn't work in Chromium (on Ubuntu), although it worked on Firefox. I assume it probably doesn't work on Chrome (on Windows) either.
Ouch & Thanks. I just insalled Chrome to winxp and Chromium to Ubuntu 32-bit and it worked on both. Maybe you have 64-bit Ubuntu?. Before posting to /. I just briefly checked with Ununtu-Firefox that the tool is still there :)
I made a tool that can semi-automatically set the colors right in adsense ads; in about 30 seconds
And I thought google might be interested as with their webmaster center tools, the same task takes ~30 minutes (to match the colors to the hosting web-page).
As Adsense is basically their money making machine, so one might think they would be interested to see a demo of that technology - NOT.
As of now there's probably noone at the google who knows about the tool / technology. And it is not because I would not have tried enough. To summarise I tried to call to at least 30 people at the Google headquarters (found couple of answering machines) , I send a message *twice* to all kinds of "business proposal" "partner with google" mailboxes at Google's website. And based on my logs nobody ever came to test drive the tool. And I send a message to Google adsense forum. Still no comment from anyone. And I kept calling google offices around Europe and the most human contact was with the telephone answering machine. Well, except in spain and (I think) Norway? there was a receptionis who said she was just a hired office receptionist not working for google and there's noone at google she could connect me to.
And, here in Finland, I saw Google opened office in Oulu, So I went there and meet em in person. And at the lobby hall I said I have a tood / demo that might interest Google. But no, she basically run away without checking the demo. Later last summer I challenged someone who had been co-operating with Googles Finnish leader Anni Ronkainen to try to get her to check the demo. But as this helpful person tried to reach CEO Anni Ronkainen, she never came back to this PhD lecturer person with whom she actually had agreed partisipate at a seminar later. And I send Anni couple sms - messagea asking to contact me - no reply. And someone suggested I might be able to connect Google people through one ad agency that does online-ad campaings with google, no that didn't work eather. And it didn't work eather through another guy who had written PhD thesis online advertisement - even he wan's able to contact anyone there - PhD guy was at least facined about the technology.)
To summarize, my experience is that nobody works at Google. The company is probably a front office and run by Skynet or something.
I am facing this "problem" of soon having to choose if I will locate my new company avoiding USA or not. Business will be 100% legal, but the US web-policies appear very unfrindly. Recently I've been thinking (most positively) about using only EU investors, EU-site, EU-domain but it may be hard to avoid all e.g. Visa / Paypal / Mastercard connections to USA. Maybe it's worth it maybe not. But for me the news topic is true, The US Government is Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US - or at least it's doing it's best in keeping me away.
printer tracking was taking place for a decade before being made public by EFF
...but good for calling an ambulance; if you happen to break your de-mineralized hip bone
Facebook info page
Facebook wall page
I know someone who no longer doesn't need to worry much about Kinetic patents. Thank you Mr. Dewitt
Good downgrades are available as Sony is loosing the PS3 jailbreak fight by a technical knockout
prior art is "the total body of knowledge, which teaches or otherwise relates directly to an invention. This is the primary criteria in determining the patentability of a new invention. Establishes novelty and unobviousness of the art that relates to the invention in question. Prior art references include documentary sources such as patents and publications from anywhere in the world, and nondocumentary sources such as things known or used publicly. "
OR
"Prior art or state of the art is all information that has been disclosed to the public in any form before a given date. Prior art does not include information kept secret, whether from trade secrecy or just a simple lack of interest in publication. Normally, we expect prior art to be descriptions sufficient to inform the average worker in the field (or the man skilled in the art), published in fixed form and made available in public libraries. Normally, prior art does not include unpublished work or mere conversations (though according to the European Patent Convention, oral disclosures also form prior art"
This is slashdot and many of those who choose to come and read news about "Pirate bay's co-founder starting P2P-DNS", are enough experts in fieds of filesharing, TOR, bittorrent and cloud technologies. In fact, I am pretty sure even you would read that "prior art patent-claim" to be (mostly) describing a "bit-torrent-TOR-hybrid-system", where the amount of data that the user mediates to other users impacts the amount of data that user is allowed to submit to the distributed-cloud- webserver-right. And based on just that you could see the the obvious industrial benefits being at least...
So, how could that used as a prior art, well lets assume lets say in 10 years time a company X would start patent trolling companies who use that kind of distributed storage. And if that patent was really a problem then EFFI of some other instance could challenge that patent and request prior art to that patent... and there is a high probability I would also see that request. And I would check my submit mini-prior art to the one needing it.
I believe these kinds of submarine-prior- art patent-busters could be very effective against submarine- patent trolls. If this type of action was popular among independent coders, it would take away much of the problem with stupid software patent. Companies would not dare to start costly process of suing everybody for something obvious, as there would be a BIG probability that someone in the world might just show up and invalidate the whole patent in the middle of an expensive legal process.
For me it was easy to cast that technology to public domain, as I have no use for it self and I'd like that being used. Ok, it is likely that the writing of that patent-buster was 15 minutes of wasted time, but there is also a small chance it wasn't. I consider that being a small service to the community.