The Mother Country. Most Commonwealth countries traditionally could appeal back to "the Queen in Council" to have decisions settled by the highest Court in "the land" as it were.
Yes, in 1912 it did - but until the Statute of Westminster we were essentially not independent and cases this far back on these issues have little relevance today. By pre-dating the Australia Acts I meant the Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968 & the Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act 1975 - which closed it off as an avenue from the High Court (except in a particular circumstance that the UK Parliament closed off when they passed their own Australia Act stopping the States going to the Privy Council).
The legislative effect of these was that you must have a certificate of the High Court to go to the Privy Council and the High Court will not grant one. s74 may as well be void.
Just to be more of a pedant, Supreme Courts aren't really below the Federal Court. You can't appeal a decision of a Supreme Court to the Federal Court. They're different jurisdictions.
> The supreme court is the highest court in each state
This is only sort of true (at least in NSW, but I assume elsewhere too?).
You can appeal a decision of the NSW Supreme Court to the NSW Court of Appeal. However, the Court of Appeal is a branch of the Supreme Court in the they're established.
Many corporate issues, trade practices and IR cases are also heard in State courts. It depends on the case in point.. (the NSW Dept of Fair Trading for instance, brings its cases in NSW. Many companies sue each other over contractual disputes in the state courts etc.)
Apple have sought leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia, Australia's highest court. So it's like the Supreme Court in the US - there are no appeals beyond that, and they get to pick and choose what cases they take, so there is little certainty Apple will get anywhere appealing now.
(The Supreme Court usage in the summary is misleading to Australians because Supreme Courts here are State-based courts.)
This is a good ruling I think. You could readily buy the 10.1 here online (ebay etc) and have it shipped to you - cheaper than you'd pay a local retailer too. If there is merit to Apple's case they'll be able to get damages down the line for the patent infringement.
> That leaves me thinking: what does this article tell us that we couldn't find out ourselves by ripping through some prime numbers?
Nothing?
The important thing is that they ripped through some prime numbers and did notice, and they were the first to publish what they noticed.
The world moves forward in tiny steps like this. Maybe the next mathematician gets his 'Ahuh' moment on the back of an insight like this and bang modern crypto is fucked. He might even be able to prove it for you.
They throw up a lot of interesting problems from a research point of view, but I'm not sure they're ready for prime time... (and yes I realise the intervening years have started to add up!)
Pushing boundaries is good in research of course, and lots of things do end up appearing in real products even if not the in the form originally imagined.
I had the same reaction re the number of accounts. It is small.
However, Germany isn't all that small.
So some back of the envelope calcs:
They claim 21/.75 = 28M bank accounts in Germany
It's got roughly 80M people. Assume something like 2.2 people per househould (dunno what it is in Germany), and you get 36M. You gotta figure each household has at least one. I don't know how things really work in Germany, but I assume they're like the rest of the developed world and you essentially can't function without a bank account.
Then there are businesses. Even very small businesses will run several accounts.
I think the 28M bank accounts is just bullshit. It's gotta be heaps higher.
so there are already a bunch of answers that agree with the basic premise that you may want to protect your name because patent trolls may come after you.
Can anyone give even one concrete example of a patent troll going after an open source contributor? It seems incredibly unlikely to me. Surely they go where the money is - they sue Microsoft or Cisco or similar. Why stuff around suing people that even when you win the pay off is crap?
I know this is News For Nerds and all that, but isn't this a tad specific?
An alpha/beta of the most recent linux kernel patch had a bug fixed, and it hits the front page?
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they found it, but this is kinda the point of debug cycles.. If we start reporting every bug squashed in all the major open source projects out there this is going to go downhill fast.. (of course, it's possible some may think that the idle. is only a step above..)
In my day we were happy sniffing our own farts the old fashioned way- but no, that wasn't good enough. These days everyone is into their damn methane ice.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, you're old fashioned.
This was a thing, yes, but only for that brief period when you actually got your slashdot id. Since then? Not so much ...
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> Arthur Rock, Mike Markkula and Andy Grove put up plenty of money to fund Apple Computer
I'd never heard that Andy Grove had funded Apple. Markkula sure.
Is this true? I can't find it mentioned elsewhere. Interesting tidbit if true.
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The Mother Country. Most Commonwealth countries traditionally could appeal back to "the Queen in Council" to have decisions settled by the highest Court in "the land" as it were.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Committee_of_the_Privy_Council
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You're wrong, sorry to say :)
Yes, in 1912 it did - but until the Statute of Westminster we were essentially not independent and cases this far back on these issues have little relevance today. By pre-dating the Australia Acts I meant the Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968 & the Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act 1975 - which closed it off as an avenue from the High Court (except in a particular circumstance that the UK Parliament closed off when they passed their own Australia Act stopping the States going to the Privy Council).
The legislative effect of these was that you must have a certificate of the High Court to go to the Privy Council and the High Court will not grant one. s74 may as well be void.
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No, there isn't.
The Australia Acts (Federal and State) removed appeal to the Privy Council in the 80s for Australians.
The High Court doesn't and can't grant an appeal to the Privy Council (and this predates even the Australia Acts).
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Just to be more of a pedant, Supreme Courts aren't really below the Federal Court. You can't appeal a decision of a Supreme Court to the Federal Court. They're different jurisdictions.
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> The supreme court is the highest court in each state
This is only sort of true (at least in NSW, but I assume elsewhere too?).
You can appeal a decision of the NSW Supreme Court to the NSW Court of Appeal. However, the Court of Appeal is a branch of the Supreme Court in the they're established.
Many corporate issues, trade practices and IR cases are also heard in State courts. It depends on the case in point .. (the NSW Dept of Fair Trading for instance, brings its cases in NSW. Many companies sue each other over contractual disputes in the state courts etc.)
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Apple have sought leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia, Australia's highest court. So it's like the Supreme Court in the US - there are no appeals beyond that, and they get to pick and choose what cases they take, so there is little certainty Apple will get anywhere appealing now.
(The Supreme Court usage in the summary is misleading to Australians because Supreme Courts here are State-based courts.)
This is a good ruling I think. You could readily buy the 10.1 here online (ebay etc) and have it shipped to you - cheaper than you'd pay a local retailer too. If there is merit to Apple's case they'll be able to get damages down the line for the patent infringement.
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Doh. Login fail :(
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Politics might be stupid in Australia, like lots of places. But no, it won't go the same was as China.
We have transparency and rule of law.
However fucked out Communications Minister might be.
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Ironically the same cannot be said fro blackberry, which is only available from Telstra.
I've had a blackberry (well, various handsets) for many years through Optus. They're also at least available through Vodafone.
Agreed on our iphone though. Not only can get them from any of the carriers, you can also just buy them outright and unlocked from Apple.
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FUCK 'EM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A FUCKING JOKE!
If you can't take a joke from Brad Templeton you've definitely got issues ...
rhf - the net's oldest blog (at least if you buy into Brad's theory ;) CmdrTaco might object...
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> That leaves me thinking: what does this article tell us that we couldn't find out ourselves by ripping through some prime numbers?
Nothing?
The important thing is that they ripped through some prime numbers and did notice, and they were the first to publish what they noticed.
The world moves forward in tiny steps like this. Maybe the next mathematician gets his 'Ahuh' moment on the back of an insight like this and bang modern crypto is fucked. He might even be able to prove it for you.
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The author of TFA Felix Salmon is a good read. If you're into finance or economic happenings check out his blog Market Movers at portfolio.com
I've had him on my feed list for a few years through various sites he's been at.
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During the first year of my Phd (1996?) I worked on the networking stack of a Persisent Operating System called Grasshopper.
They throw up a lot of interesting problems from a research point of view, but I'm not sure they're ready for prime time... (and yes I realise the intervening years have started to add up!)
Pushing boundaries is good in research of course, and lots of things do end up appearing in real products even if not the in the form originally imagined.
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Oh please, if you're the copyright holder are you really paying Apple and downloading it off itunes?
No. You're not.
GP is correct.
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Germany. Family of 4: 2 adults and 2 children.
Me and my wife share the same bank account and have separate Maestro Cards to access it. So 1 account / 4 people.
Take that, you insensitive American.
Bite me.
As if I'm an American. You silly northern hemisphere folks and your stupid generalisations ;)
I probably am insensitive, but given how touchy you were, I don't think I needed to mention as being particularly out of the ordinary.
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I had the same reaction re the number of accounts. It is small.
However, Germany isn't all that small.
So some back of the envelope calcs:
They claim 21/.75 = 28M bank accounts in Germany
It's got roughly 80M people. Assume something like 2.2 people per househould (dunno what it is in Germany), and you get 36M. You gotta figure each household has at least one. I don't know how things really work in Germany, but I assume they're like the rest of the developed world and you essentially can't function without a bank account.
Then there are businesses. Even very small businesses will run several accounts.
I think the 28M bank accounts is just bullshit. It's gotta be heaps higher.
Surely 100M wouldn't be that big a figure even?
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Sure, we got entertainment.
Name a single OSS developer they sued?
Again, they went after the money... That's my point.
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Hey,
so there are already a bunch of answers that agree with the basic premise that you may want to protect your name because patent trolls may come after you.
Can anyone give even one concrete example of a patent troll going after an open source contributor? It seems incredibly unlikely to me. Surely they go where the money is - they sue Microsoft or Cisco or similar. Why stuff around suing people that even when you win the pay off is crap?
I think the key premise here is just FUD.
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Why, the same place all the slide rules went, of course.
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If it didn't have so many false positives I'd agree with you.
However Kaspersky seems far and away the most prone to them.
From random image false positives, to objecting to "hacking" tools, otherwise known as network discovery tools...
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I know this is News For Nerds and all that, but isn't this a tad specific?
An alpha/beta of the most recent linux kernel patch had a bug fixed, and it hits the front page?
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they found it, but this is kinda the point of debug cycles.. If we start reporting every bug squashed in all the major open source projects out there this is going to go downhill fast.. (of course, it's possible some may think that the idle. is only a step above..)
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Hang on a minute!
Didn't you also like cause the Civil war or something?
Oh, and get perfect marks at West Point?
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Damnit. Kids these days.
In my day we were happy sniffing our own farts the old fashioned way- but no, that wasn't good enough. These days everyone is into their damn methane ice.
Who thinks this stuff up?
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