A business process, like pure math, and like pure software is not patentable in many jurisdictions. What is being described here is a BUSINESS PROCESS, and lacks key patentability criteria under current patent law.
Whoever came up with this patent doesn't understand IP.
Some ISP somewhere with a/20 is going to project that in 6 months time they will be out of IPs, and it's going to be too expensive to buy another/20.
So they are going to buy some Cisco-hardware-NAT-appliance and say to their customers: "look here, you are all on NAT from now on, if you want a real IP you pay extra."
This NAT box will NAT a/20 to a/24 of temp addresses+ports. It will be plug-n-play and easier than setting up IPv6.
99.9% of customers won't read the announcement and won't notice. They are all NATing through their DSL modems anyway, and this Cisco equipment will have hacks for all those special apps that need it to work behind double NATing.
I have the exact requirements as you, so I spent the last six months developing a solution. It converts SentBoxes, Inboxes, gmail, PST files and regular mbox.
It archives and indexes everything and provides full text search with google-like phrase grouping and exclude phrases.
It normalizes addresses, eliminates duplicates, understands every character set and can display any email within it's web GUI with proper inlining of pics-in-html.
For me it can index 8 gigs of emails within a couple of hours.
We are pilot testing this solution at an ISP for our customers.
Whatever you do, don't make any broadcasts to alien vessels. Also, any signals you receive from the alien's should not be made public, or else YOU and your satelite dish will dissapear curtesy of secret UFO coverup agencies etc.
High-speed rail between cities works in Europe because when you arrive by HS rail you can get from the main station to whereever by light-train, tram, or bus and only have to walk five minutes. High speed rail won't work if you have to hire a car once you get there, or pay for an expensive cab, in order to complete the last leg of your journey, where you wouldn't have had to do so if you had jost drove your car the whole way.
Most of the US does not have high-density high-frequency public transport: meaning you usually have to walk for really long distances and wait a really long time.
Sun developed Java for embedded systems, and then further for business systems, investing enormous amounts of capital to create better technology. This was done over the period of over a decade. For this they deserve IP protection.
The fact that Google is so closely copying their method means that *whatever* patents Sun had on the Java VM, could easily be said to be infringed upon.
The details of course will play a part, but on the face of it myself I side with Oracle. If Google wanted to do Java on the android, they should have licensed the VM like everyone else, not stolen it.
What Google has done is exactly what the patent system was invented to protect agaist.
Now considering that one nuclear power station usually generates 1 to 5 GIGAwatts, and these generate in the order of TENS OF MEGAwatts, it is inconceivable to me how anyone can compare Solar to Nuclear.
You are welcome to start your own fork any time.
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The Linux kernel is not a company. Free software projects are a new kind of entity.
The debate is still open about whether it is correct to level "They should..." instructions at this kind of entity.
Possibly "I should..." statements are more appropriate.
"I can't prove this was due to a cosmic ray, or even a hardware error. It could have been some OS bug in my kernel that accidentally did a wild write into my memory in a way that only flipped a single bit. But that'd be a pretty weird bug."
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Probable the best thing about Free software projects are as a learning tool.
Join a project, learn the code base, submit patches, get experience.
Don't try learning to code from the code you write yourself.
-paul
YOU would not put up with it.
But others would if it were cheeper.
So the Internet will just be divided into the 0.01% of users
who have real IP address, and the 99.99% average Joe.
-paul
A business process, like pure math, and like pure software is not patentable in many jurisdictions. What is being described here is a BUSINESS PROCESS, and lacks key patentability criteria under current patent law.
Whoever came up with this patent doesn't understand IP.
It probably won't get approved.
It certainly won't get approved world-wide.
The first and foremost image comparison should be the Lenna image.
No Lenna, no approval.
Lenna forever. Long live Lenna. I am lossless without thee.
Lenna, you make my pixels huffman.
Lenna you transform my fft.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Basically, this is what is going to happen:
Some ISP somewhere with a /20 is going to project that in 6 months time they will be out of IPs, /20.
and it's going to be too expensive to buy another
So they are going to buy some Cisco-hardware-NAT-appliance and say to their customers: "look here,
you are all on NAT from now on, if you want a real IP you pay extra."
This NAT box will NAT a /20 to a /24 of temp addresses+ports. It will be plug-n-play and
easier than setting up IPv6.
99.9% of customers won't read the announcement and won't notice. They are all NATing through
their DSL modems anyway, and this Cisco equipment will have hacks for all those special
apps that need it to work behind double NATing.
And no one will ever think of switching to IPv6
-paul
or you could just added an extra 32-bits as a TCP or IP header-option
if you interleave the bits, you can keep all the routing configuration
-paul
> The only thing that *fails* is when [...]
thats quite a lot of things failing.
> similar to using an NAT router
no, there are 100 million people connected to the internet using ADSL and all *their* stuff works fine
why, because NAT is a solved problem with lot's of workarounds
ergo: IPv6 is just NAT all over again
we might as well solve the IPv4 address-space problem with huge /8 NAT'd networks.
good luck to the 0.0000001% of the Internet that has "successfully" switch to IPv6 after 20 years of IPv6 promotion.
-paul
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
-paul
"Treated" by who?
You have to file a charge in order for there to be a crime.
The guy needs to contact the public prosecutor to get him to take up the case and get a court order in the correct jurisdiction.
It's only because he doesn't understand the legal process that he can't get his info.
-paul
You are not reading the article.
How can a judge issue a court order outside of his jurisdiction?
-paul
The company is perfectly right. The judge only refused because the guy asked the wrong judge. This is explained in the article.
The company also is being entirely cooperative and "would encourage Mr Moorhouse to go to a solicitor and start a civil case".
Through a civil case he would be able to get a court order. I don't even think he would need a lawyer for this.
This law is in line with good civil rights: it's the same law that prevents Google from disclosing info about your searches.
http://www.quackometer.net/
gives it a zero cannard rating. This means her site is not quack.
I've already complained to the quackometer.net admin about this.
-paul
So the truth finally comes out: now one gives a flying fluck.
Not even surprising enough to warrant a sarcastic choke on the next sip of my coffee.
-paul
I have the exact requirements as you, so I spent the last six months developing a
solution. It converts SentBoxes, Inboxes, gmail, PST files and regular mbox.
It archives and indexes everything and provides full text search with google-like
phrase grouping and exclude phrases.
It normalizes addresses, eliminates duplicates, understands every character set and
can display any email within it's web GUI with proper inlining of pics-in-html.
For me it can index 8 gigs of emails within a couple of hours.
We are pilot testing this solution at an ISP for our customers.
Would you like to try it out?
My email http://2038bug.com/email.gif
-paul
Whatever you do, don't make any broadcasts to alien vessels.
Also, any signals you receive from the alien's should not be made public,
or else YOU and your satelite dish will dissapear curtesy of secret UFO coverup agencies etc.
Eat this message.
-paul
This draft standard smooths out Unix Time around the moment of a leap second:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/utc-sls/
-paul
See "UTC with Smoothed Leap Seconds (UTC-SLS)"
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/utc-sls/
-paul
High-speed rail between cities works in Europe because when you arrive by HS rail you can get from the main station to whereever by light-train, tram, or bus and only have to walk five minutes. High speed rail won't work if you have to hire a car once you get there, or pay for an expensive cab, in order to complete the last leg of your journey, where you wouldn't have had to do so if you had jost drove your car the whole way.
Most of the US does not have high-density high-frequency public transport: meaning you usually have to walk for really long distances and wait a really long time.
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2005-05-27-laugh-it-off-wins-case-against-sab
"T-shirt maker Laugh It Off has won its fight against South African Breweries (SAB) over its right to mock the Carling Black Label brand."
This was quite a widely publicized law suite at the time and set a legal precident.
In the US however you don't have legal precidents. *sigh*
-paul
Sun developed Java for embedded systems, and then further for business systems,
investing enormous amounts of capital to create better technology. This was done
over the period of over a decade. For this they deserve IP protection.
The fact that Google is so closely copying their method means that *whatever*
patents Sun had on the Java VM, could easily be said to be infringed upon.
The details of course will play a part, but on the face of it myself I side
with Oracle. If Google wanted to do Java on the android, they should have
licensed the VM like everyone else, not stolen it.
What Google has done is exactly what the patent system was invented to
protect agaist.
-paul
they point out that they get paid only $10,000 a year, whereas the coal
they mine produces $100,000,000 a year in electricity revenues.
-paul
Image 13 boxes each containing 13 revolvers.
One revolver has one bullet in it.
Now imagine being offered $100,000 to pick a box, and then pick a revolver and then shoot yourself with it.
That 1000:1 odds.
-paul
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_stations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations
Now considering that one nuclear power station usually generates 1 to 5 GIGAwatts, and these generate in the order of TENS OF MEGAwatts, it is inconceivable to me how anyone can compare Solar to Nuclear.
The Linux kernel is not a company. Free software projects are a new kind of entity.
The debate is still open about whether it is correct to level "They should..." instructions at this kind of entity.
Possibly "I should..." statements are more appropriate.
-paul
From the article:
"I can't prove this was due to a cosmic ray, or even a hardware error. It could have been some OS bug in my kernel that accidentally did a wild write into my memory in a way that only flipped a single bit. But that'd be a pretty weird bug."
Dude you have a lot of faith.
-paul