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  1. "Open" or "OPEN" is not the generic term "open". on NZ, Sweden, Hungary Reflect OOXML Turmoil · · Score: 1

    I agree, the term "Open Standard" is used very inappropriately by RAND, M$ ... and many others.

    Correctly stated it is simply an "Industry Standard", not "Open".

    By accepted technologist and L/FOSS convention dating back to the 1980's the usage of the term "Open" is conceptually reserved to products/ideas... that closely follow the "Public Property" [GPL, "Open Content", "Open Standards" ...] concept/intent/ideals.

    If you want to use a two word phrase, then the correct phrase for a few decades now has been and still is an "Industry Standard" accepted by the "International Community" (maybe ISO, ASCII, IEEE ...) as a proprietary functional (not open) standard.

    When M$ and others present proprietary content for use in a standard (legally) it is not "Open" and/or freely available to anyone, and by making basic (non-creative/non-original) technology requirements private/property is anti-competitive and anti-capitalist corporatist-welfare.

    Marketeers' (M$, HP ...) use of the term "Open" as false advertising to imply a non-proprietary product/standard. Companies obvious fraudulent use of the capitalized term "Open" is criminal misrepresentation of the now decades old technology term "Open". This proprietary flimflam on governments, citizens, businesses, and legal institutions is to subvert "Open-Market" dynamics, injure the "Open" market/industry sectors of all markets globally. It is unfair and a fraud for proprietary companies over the past five years (+/-2) to start using the term "Open" to dilute the competitive real value of the term "Open", which injures those business that require the term "Open" to have specific meaning and use in the "Global Open Markets". These activities by M$ and others smack of a "New World Order Communism (NWOC)" where ideas and property are all company-owned, cripples freedom, innovation, and economic forces.

    Just like a public park, which is always paid for by the public or philanthropic individuals/foundations, the property is provided and developed for the public (benefit, competition, participation ...) welfare. Software patents and industry standards (using the term "Open") are an obvious attempt by totalitarian corporatist to inflate (by anti-competitive tactics) the proprietary property owners' wealth, while limiting/preventing [easement] access to public property by citizens.

    "Open" when capitalized or in all caps (like an acronym) should have as much legal standing as the term "Microsoft", "California", "Navajo" "The United States Constitution" "Organic" .... Repeated misuse of the term "Open" by industry, governments, agencies, foundations ... should not be allowed. The term "Open" when used in medicine, science, engineering, communications, literature, music, art, technology ... has a definite (though unregistered) trademark value in business and international economics that is being intentionally misused by corporate-fascist to financially harm individual programmers/entrepreneurs..., the public good, "Open Economics", and "Open Businesses" globally.

    Revisionist-spin is never reality, but can be dogma for fools and "Exploiticians" to use for legal
    property rights to the wind, they may even stupidly try to hold the wind for themselves.

    M$ OOXML IPR will never be "OPEN"

  2. Single point of failure architectures are fun .... on The Downsides of Software as Service · · Score: 1

    History: ARPANET & BBN ~1967~ http://web.mit.edu/cms/Events/mit2/Abstracts/Terje Rasmussen.pdf

    Basically the backbone of the internet started with a US 1960s cold-war requirement to build a highly robust and survivable telecommunications network for reliable delivery of data/content traffic from a source to a specified destination. LAN/WAN concepts were understood as well as requirements for protocols like TCP/IP for routing and delivery of content. Then Tim Burner-Lee at CERN in EU was the creator of the initial WWW protocols and the first website in the world was at CERN on 1991/08/06. Now that I provided credit to ....

    The internet purpose was valid, but has been forgotten by DoD and other money bag sources. The security fear has created (I believe) tunnel vision and a total lack of wit to look at past lessons-learned and solutions provided as having technology application value to today's network security survivability problems (no surprise).

    Internet purpose:
    1. Essential task to transfer data reliably from source to destination.
    2. Average transit time should be less than half a second.
    3. Subnets should operate autonomously.
    4. Hardware should be robust and reliable.

    Baran's theory was distributed communications/networks (LAN/WAN) signified many switching nodes and many links attached to each node. The system built in a high degree of network redundancy to make it more difficult to isolate users. Knocking out some nodes could not paralyze the whole network. The improbability of network communications through long-distance networks was thereby highly probable (with the right protocol usage). Store and forward switching which Baran adapted, made it possible for information to follow different routes to its destination. Each 'message block' was labeled with
    information about addressee and address, and this was passed on from one switching node to another, this was to be called packet switching. Messages were in digital form and could be ... [anyway you can read the rest for yourself RTF-URL/*.pdf].

    My Point: I strongly agree with Dvorak, "Don't trust" any single point of failure architectures. DoD and others are so damn focused on control of architecture (hardware and software) and management of networks that all the chickens and eggs are being put into one basket (point of failure). I call it a "point of failure" or at least a very limited number of "point of failure" architectures. This type of architecture provides an "easy to defend" false sense of security, but is without doubt an easy Enemy-Cracker-Target (ECT). Cracker-Weapon technology and applications can be developed with a specificity breaching any of many perceived/potential weak points of defense. Figuratively the breach would be like a dam-failure flooding the common community valley.

    Many small diverse LAN architectures of ~50 users behind a poxy-server, router/switch, firewall ... using PTP encryption with multiple servers/platforms, operating systems, applications ... OSS & proprietary (I think) could be configured in to far larger networks with greater robustness, survivability, and security. The one-way model ain't never the best, but it makes folks feel more in control, which is never a reason to feel secure.

    Yes, the management of such a network would cost more, but if security is more than a complex-password and PGP/PKI, then DoD and others in IT engineering and hardware/applications development may need to rethink the single point of failure architecture as a sensible strategy for security.

  3. Corporate Democracy In Action ... No Doubt! on Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML? · · Score: 1

    "Corporate Democracy In Action" protects defenseless corporate, government, and religious institutions from the ravages of the viral public infestation attempting to managing national interest, markets, and resources. Corporatism estates include the public contained within which can be bought, sold, spent ... as the owning corporatism estate finds most beneficial to sustainment.

    It would be a sad state of affairs if the oligarchical owners of draconian institution, whom dress in godly-patriotic and humanitarian camouflage, could not continue to service the public for private pseudo-sexual (megalomania) satisfaction.

    God bless them, one and all, for servicing US, EU, UN ... Citizens with such an overt and public display of power and control (ThemS&MostOthers) and leaving no doubt that any public demonstration without financial dictate is pitifully fake.

    Paraphrasing an old social philosopher; "Any war will kill my enemy (the citizens), but I need to make sure I win." They always dress in dress in godly-patriotic and humanitarian camouflage. More US, EU, UN ... corporate welfare, less for US, EU, UN ....

    "Corporate Democracy In Action" is good for US, EU, UN ... Corporations.

    "We The People" are the property of the corporate-estate.
    Within the New World Order Corporate Estates, exploitation
    will get you much further in life then complaining. In a
    war you must be on the "RightSide" to be in control.

  4. A hole ...? on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    Rupture or intrusion, empty noway, what's there, unknown, it ain't random, gap, opening, disruption, discontinued, why ...?

    Under SciFic-Physics:
    What if, our "Universal" Domain (we live in, is not everything) has a physics with dimensions (within our TS place) probably unique to all other "Unique" Domains (many external universes) all with their own U-Branes.

    REMEBER: THIS IS SciFic-Physics (treat accordingly) - Domains have Gravity and the Field between Domains has Levity. Where/when two Domain U-Branes meet, the Domains' Internal Gravitational and External Field Levitational Forces will increase in opposition until the field force breaks the Two Domain U-Branes/gravity bond. The resultant release of energy could cause the birth of another novel Domain. Universal Domains will continue to expand (exceeding initial energy input from Levity field) until the gravitational bond in the Domain is dissipated back into the Levity Field. The big-bang Newton cosmic egg would be a unique physics domain at the making singularity. If Torus and Omega domains/physics had U-branes meet, the result would probably never produce a domain identical to the Einstein or Bohr Domain physics. There would from the singularity meeting point emerge the new Newton/Infinity domain physics.

    SciFic Physics: Einstein/Torus's hook-up with Bohr/Omega results in Nativity of Newton/Infinity.
    __ Einstein/Torus Domain: alaxy, tar, and lanet Systems (a Phi physics)
    __ Bohr/Omega Domain: alaxy, tar, and lanet Systems (an Omega physics)
    __ Newton/Infinity Domain: alaxy, tar, and lanet Systems (the Infinity physics)

    NO, I dont' have the math ... a little green feller (maybe a gal) told me all about U-Branes |%~O) while visiting Area 6665169 in Russia.

  5. If the pipe is clogged .... on University Taps Sewers for Internet Access · · Score: 1

    More fiber may help generate more shit to clog the pipe,
    but with more shit clogging the pipe, probability is that
    the overflow will cause a very big shitty mess that no one
    will clean up, because everyone will refuse as usual to pay
    for an IT bathroom attendant to clear clogs as needed.

  6. FYI:"Industry Standards" are patented on Patent Threats In OOXML · · Score: 1

    Misnomer: Open Standards are often patented ...

    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=273615&cid= 20285361

  7. Misnomer: Open Standards are often patented .... on Patent Threats In OOXML · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree, the term "Open Standard" is used very inappropriately by RAND, M$ ... and many others.

    Correctly stated it is simply a standard, not "OPEN".

    If you want to use a two word phrase, then the correct phrase for a few decades now has been and still is an "Industry Standard".

    An "Industry Standard" is sometimes called an ANSI, ISO ... "International Standard", but in fact when proprietary content is used in a standard (legally) it is not "OPEN" and/or freely available to anyone, and is anti-competitive and anti-capitalist by making basic (non-creative/non-original) technology requirements private property for more socialist/communist (as in anti-capitalism) corporate-welfare.

    By accepted technologist and L/FOSS convention dating back to the 1980's the usage of the term "OPEN" is conceptually reserved to products/ideas... that closely follow the "Public Property" [GPL, "Open Content", "Open Standards" ...] concept/intent.

    Just like a public park, which is always paid for by the public or philanthropic individuals/foundations, the property is provided and developed for the public welfare. Software patents and industry standards are an obvious attempt by corporatist and their governments to prevent access [easement] to public property that could/would limit the private property's owners attempts to control public property use by citizens.

    I know you see my direction of debate/argument, the word "Open" when capitalized or in all caps (like an acronym) should have as much legal standing as the term "Microsoft", "California", "Navajo" "The United States" "Organic" .... Repeated misuse of the term "Open" by industry, governments, agencies, foundations ... should not be allowed. The term "Open" when used in medicine, science, engineering, communications, literature, music, art, technology ... has a definite (though unregistered) trademark value in business and international economics that is being intentionally misused by industry to financially harm the public good, "Open Economics", and "Open Businesses" globally.

    Revisionist-spin is never reality, but can be dogma for fools and "Exploiticians" to use for legal rights to the wind, they may even stupidly try to hold the wind for themselves.

  8. Re:Ugh... additional note ... rates can .... on Net Neutrality Debate Crosses the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Telco/CableCo broadband providers are allowed to increase or decrease their rates for providing a broadband utility service, but the content is none of their business/responsibility. Telco/CableCo broadband providers charging for premium, standard, poor content is much the same as theft of content property value. The content providers already have a business model which includes paying for bandwidth. The bandwidth providers have the right to increase rates for bandwidth provided.

    Telco/CableCo broadband providers are, by most home users in the USA, customers pay for access to a set expectation of bandwidth, most common are 56Kb/s and three variation (sort of) ADSL bandwidth (LessUp+MoreDown). Much like a utility the product flows at the same cost-per-volume much like water, gas, electricity. Just like any other utility you should not be expecting to get tap, pure, and flavored water (because you will not), high or low energy gas ain't gonna happen from the same gas pipe, as best I understand electrons are electrons (all the same) for electricity. Cost-per-volume is the only honest practice for a utility with infrastructure cost distributed across the community for the to be provided fairly to all citizens.

    Telco/CableCo broadband providers are, by most business/government users in the USA, contracted to provide a set bandwidth with a guaranteed quality and availability of service (premium/additional cost and penalties) not a this or that content filter depending on maybes, ifs, and scams.

    At home (in most of the USA) the quality and availability of service (there is no competition) is totally dependent upon what the telcos/cablecos want to provide, and what may cause a class action legal complaint from the residential customers.

    The USA ranks about 22nd in telecommunications services globally and with corporate lobbyist/politicians always in office, I suspect the USA will continue to decline as a world leader.

  9. Edit Required for word sensitivity, content is Ok on Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp · · Score: 1

    "Rabies" was a whoops, not caught by my eyes, mind, or spell check.
    "Rabbis" is the correct word. The ideas intentionally expressed in
    my comments remains unchanged, and I think objective.

  10. Re:Federally funded Evil and Damned Mythology Grou on Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp · · Score: 1

    My whoops, typo, and failure to catch a spelling error, is a mistake not a flame.

    If that was not obvious from the content of my comment, then
    "If you're going to flame people (implying bigotry), kindly reconsider your insult.

    I cope very well with having my spelling corrected. I
    like you, do not let overt or subtle insults slide.

  11. Re:Old news to revisit, but /. is 10yo on 20070901 on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    The last mile is only important as an excuse for telcos. The last-mile excuse is used to keep customers' hostage to poor service and high rates, or Korea, Norway, Japan, Australia, France ... has some secret magic that they are not telling the USA telcos and cablecos. Current conditions in the USA favor telcos, cablecos, and politicians in charge of the FCC.

  12. Re:Old news to revisit, but /. is 10yo on 20070901 on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    No, in the USA you need to offer your first born (for sacrifice) to get broadband in your house or have more than a million in liquid assets.

    I meant Bring Your Own Booze/Babe/..., I already know you can only get the telco/cableco USA marketeer-broadband spin-definition of 0.25-0.50 of real broadband.

    I'm apologize for causing this kind of confusion ... lets blame the politicians in the USA.

  13. Old news to revisit, but /. is 10yo on 20070901 on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Search the /. archives, /.s including myself have been describing and predicting to state of telecommunications in the USA as far back as 1997.

    Yep, that long ago, but do you think any of you younger /. whipper-snappers would remember back to 19970901 launch. CmdrTaco, Hemos, ... were all young fellers like yourselves are now ... young, but git'en older, wiser, wizen, creaking and crankier with age.

    Should we ask CmdrTaco and Hemos; When/What/Where are the 10th year celebration' keggers, or is it a BYOB in Death Valley?

  14. Re:So... another market-spin secret good one ... on US Spy Agencies See Bloggers as Journalists · · Score: 1

    You are testing this BS-spin on the wrong crowed they will never buy in on these DoD, CIA ... talking points.

    Come on tell the /.s the truth what is the real reason, and why is it so much fun to play "spot the fed" at DEFCON?

    However, I do agree, why/who moded that one up?

  15. Re:So... BINGO on US Spy Agencies See Bloggers as Journalists · · Score: 1

    You hit the bullshiteye of the government side.

    To many pet-rock managers ignoring real explicit and implicit knowledge/experience provided, and/or to little core knowledge on topics.

  16. A filter is ... what it filters ... secret sources on US Spy Agencies See Bloggers as Journalists · · Score: 1

    DOD, CIA, NSA ... all should now know (by 2000 a/o now) that there are many kinds of filters on the internet.

    Keeping track of journalists' content is (I suspect) legal under the USA Constitution, but I wounder if some agencies will try to recruit/track or spy on some individuals under this new "journalists" ploy.

    Some blogs, wikis, portals ... have more reliable (even by guesses) actionable information then others, some users/aliases that prove to be of consistent intelligence analyst value, will be of interest to US, EU, Russia, China, Egypt, Israel, terrorist ... collectors and handlers. Some sources you may want to hire and take dark from the internet, some you may want to turn off permanently, others would be of value for collecting content from many sources, special ones would be superb at disinformation. The DoD Original Software Development/Developers (OSD) for identifying a/o categorizing the sources a/o content, would be under a blanket of secrecy.

    This is all a bit old for /.s and some shadowy paranoid geeks/phreaks/ritzes, because I know you folks have for almost a decade been prescient in predictions, which indicate ...

    [QUICK! ... EVERYONE HIDE!] !HAVEFUN!.

    Oh, columnist Robert Novak, the Fox gang, and many others in news media are among the most clueless talking heads getting paid to be well dressed fashionable idiots for acceptable public presentation and consumption of bullshit. The Hilton gals and Bush babies are as believable/creditable. All they ever did was puke the marketing script drivel provided them by lobbyist, politicians, and business.

  17. Re:OOXML vote F8::A7::N1 is this political ...? on OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization · · Score: 1

    I found the vote very interesting and suspect "eight votes in favor, seven against, and one abstention".

    Can M$ lobbyist, nepotism, payola ... be involved in such a nice neat split decision?

    I agree, M$-Tactics and Biz-Model, has always been based on maintaining no industry (or any type of) standard that may allow innovative competitor products to diminish M$ customer hostage base. The M$ Biz-Model should be considered monopolistic (to include software patents) tactics that are highly disruptive to software innovation and software entrepreneurs in a free and open market economy (but we [US, EU ...] have a corporatist welfare economy). M$ keeps customers from coalescing around any other OEM/OSD industry format/product. M$ is not the lone institution (include Congress and EU Parliament) in maintaining an exploitive corporatist welfare economy.

    I have no doubt that the intent of M$ (and others) is always to delay any open/global standardizations, and support any proprietary industry standards (like a DRM/IPR de-facto/de-jure standard) that supports holding customers hostage, and/or preventing (via DRM/IPR... virtual Iron Curtain) immigration by customers to other Corporate States' formats/products. Wow, when I say it this way it sound really sinister and monopolistic (but all perfectly legal or ignored?).

    I object to M$ BizTactics, not their products which I never use at home.

  18. Reply:We Have Met t and He Is Wai Funny on Sharp Rise Seen in Chinese Patents · · Score: 1

    Good one! (Sorry, I ain't got no points)

    May the gods bless EU, US, and one and all with more plutocratic exploit corporatism.

  19. Re:Federally funded Evil and Damned Mythology Grou on Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp · · Score: 1

    I bought the rights to /... (whoops, sorry about the ... stutter) under the Brooklyn bridge on the Manhattan side.

    Anyway the smart folks here at /. explained to me that I could not own something the belonged to everyone. I decided, to not put it to a test in court.

    Yes, it is horrible the way I think in some ways (too much, too many ...).

  20. Re:Federally funded Evil and Damned Mythology Grou on Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp · · Score: 1

    I agree, we damn ourselves, or we save our soul, but god does not decide for US.

  21. Posys did you cause a /. DDoS for teaminfinity.com on Space Hotel to Open in 2012 · · Score: 1

    Yes you did, it is all your fault, they will thank you tomorrow, I will thank you today for something that pricked my curiosity.

    Yes, I am human; Therefor, my curiosity may get me in to unknown situations sometimes,
    and fycked at other times (some sort of possibly pleasurable quantum effect), but it
    will never intentionally get me killed or stuck in a wall.

  22. I agree with Mr. Dyson, we require the heritic ... on The Heretical Freeman Dyson · · Score: 1

    Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin ... all were considered heretics by institutions of mythology, accepted science dogma, and/or governments. So, Mr. Dyson may be saying that intelligence, innovation, and creativity while aggressively seeking the unknown is always in fact considered "Heretical" and potentially lethal to the heretic. For all heretics and adelophobics (irrational fear of the unknown) the threat is palpable, and you can only follow one path at a time. IOW: Heretics are always heroes of humanity, some are not recognized until sometime after their death.

    Yes, a heretic can be wrong, but if they taste a serious threat, then I will consider them a hero.

    NOTE: Heretics may be delusional, but they will never intentionally mislead anyone. To be a heretic you must be a true believer a/o seeker of truth.
    Only politicians, televangelist, criminals ... are intentionally misleading when there is a real threat to ideals, family, and friends.

  23. Federally funded Evil and Damned Mythology Groups on Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dogma Idiot Priority (DIP) "Morality in Media, a conservative religious group" seeks to combat consenting adult recreation, while damning children to the pedophiles on the internet and in public. Hell, it looks like they should start by trying to close down places of dancing and mixed sex social environments/events.

    DIP Morality in Media, a conservative religious/mythology group seeks to combat consenting adult recreation, while damning children to semi-illiteracy, oppressed dogma believing, poor/diseased health street urchins, and exploitable cheap labor for US & EU citizens of recognizable value. If you don't have what it takes to instill irrational fear into poorly educated people and/or at least an ability to legally extort from the poor and middle class citizens to make a living; well then, you need to be more subservient to the people that are of value to the new world order.

    DIP Morality in Media, a conservative religious/mythology group seeks to combat abortionist, freewill, free-speech, human-rights ... while assenting by silence (obscene lip-service [AKA: virtual BJ]) genocide, famine, child pornography, spouse abuse, slavery, criminal wars, pollution, corruption in government ... for their personal (not godly) interest on earth.

    Oh; NOW I SEE, all pseudo-religious/mythology groups are like BinLaden's terrorist groups with cruelty, suffering, injustice, evil ... as their most trusted and important tools for their common good and the oppression of humanity.

    I have always said; "I would respect mythology/religion groups/members more than null/zero... if they would (legally binding) sign/line up to adopt and raise as their own, all abandoned children on the street and in all orphanages globally (young and old, healthy and sick, Moslem or Jew, ...) providing the care of a family and good educations for all." Opposing abortion is 180degrees out from taking responsibility for the children alive today.

    For ("the prime threats" to US, EU, ... societies) Christian popes/bishops, Baptist ministers, Hebrew Rabies, Islam Imams, and/or any other pseudo-religious/political person to pontificate/fatwa about the wrongs of abortions and the evils of other nations/religions, and then not actively support and enforce laws in their/other nations around the world to end starvation, slavery, pollution, genocide ... is the greatest EVIL INCARNATE against children (born and aborted) and humanity, for all THEIR EVILS, DAMN THEM TO HELL!

    MF/FF/Gay/Incest/Donkey, though morally questionable/objectionable for many adults, ain't the problem. All of today's religious & political intercourse for exploiting and oppressing public security and welfare is the real obscenity and pornography promoted by religion and governments globally.

    Almost all religious leaders, politicians, and their families are more ugly and repugnant than Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon, Caesar ... to me, because they preach then breach the public's, Citizens', Humanity's trust. Then by inaction/proxy cause the same amount of suffering, cruelty, death, and mass-murder as any Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon ... mass-murders and traitors.

    I do not write this way to flame/troll/offend, but to intensely express what I see (objectively or subjectively, you choose) as the facts, which strongly indicate the origins of great crimes against humanity. Everything I write like this is "Open Content".

    FINAL WORD: GO TO HELL ALL YOU EVIL LYING OFFSPRING OF DEMONIC BITCHES!

  24. Reply: Goatse is good for J&J&Bush on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    J&J&Bush&Chaney&...politicians may not look like Goatse, but all those butts are as equally gross.

    Also, I just noticed that a Troll-Dole left me a point, which always means I have some respect from the dogma-hogs and mythologist.

    I wounder how to identify the entertaining doling Droll-Trolls [AKA: corporate lobbyist] on /..

    HAVEFUN!

  25. The ICRC owns the "Red Cross" logo on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference. Geneva, 26-29 October 1863.
    http://www.icrc.org/IHL.nsf/52d68d14de6160e0c12563 da005fdb1b/1548c3c0c113ffdfc125641a0059c537?OpenDo cument [icrc.org]

    The International Conference, desirous of coming to the aid of the wounded should the Military Medical Services prove inadequate, adopts the following Resolutions:

    Article 1...7
    Article 8. They shall wear in all countries, as a uniform distinctive sign, a WHITE ARMLET WITH A RED CROSS.
    Article 9...10

    Maybe J&J can start using a circle to represent their empty cranial capacity or a vertical bar with an x on it ... "Hold It", that may be an astrix*, and globally J&J would lay claim to all logos and text in the world, I hope it is already copyright/trademark protected in the USA from corporatist/congressional piracy.