Sure - compulsory licensing for IP, just like is done for mechanical rights of recordings; though I would favor a sliding scale of payment based on the quantity. You're ALWAYS allowed to negotiate a lower rate, but any patent may be licensed for production for a fixed rate simply by filing a form.
It puts a cap on what you can and cannot do, and it makes compliance very easy. Without it, the entire semi-pro music field would grind to a halt.
Make patents non-transferrable. Then they can't be used for collateral and there is no conflict at all.
" If you wanted to remove all patent trolls, you will also make it almost impossible for a start-up company that only has intellectual property to get start-up capital."
It's a contract, and should be sufficient. It's why there are courts and laws.
Have you ever seen a large corp like this go after you for money? If you stiff a phone co on their fees, no other phone co will ever let you sign up again because they'll look at your credit rating and laugh so hard tears will start running down their faces. I don't fee sorry for the carriers one bit as they get to write all the terms of the contract.
Tesla's supercharger network is like bragging about having Gigabit fiber to you home, but having a single outlet and an 802.11b router in the far end of your basement. Yes, if you happen to be on the lines where they put a SC network, it'll be great. For the other 99.995% of the US, it doesn't matter because you'll, never, ever see one.
The pretty US maps with bubbles is cute, but impractical. You would need 1000 charging stations just to outfit the US interstate system with a charger at 50 mile intervals. And, let's face it, if you're out and need a charge, how likely are you to want to drive up to 50 miles to juice up, provided you're already near an interstate (which many people aren't). People still bitch about finding diesel fuel, and there are 60,000 fueling stations for diesel in the US.
You are presuming that the supply of lithium ion batteries is somehow limited like the ability to extract oil from the ground. On the contrary, the raw materials are abundant and the technology to produce the cells is fairly straight forward. The price per unit of storage is likely to *continue* downward, with greater production demand resulting in increased manufacturing capacity and (likely) efficiencies. A quick look at google turned up this from early last year: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/battery-news-roundup.html showing the downward trend.
The difference with batteries is also that, once expended, the materials used to create the cells do not need to be mined. Much like recycled aluminum is far cheaper than that produced from ore. Oil, otoh, is not really in any state to be "remanufactured" easily after being used in an ICE.
Do you know why NBA players get so much money? Because there are less than 500 players and there are no less than 20 million fans. Not only that, but by playing a single game, they can provide entertainment to all of them with no more effort than if there were just a single fan. With a ratio of 40,000:1 and the ability to connect with all of them simultaneously it's easy to get good pay.
In any given classroom there are 20-40 students (more for cattle classes, fewer for jr/sr classses). Any more and the personal connection which makes teaching such an interactive endeavor is reduced. 30:1 isn't a great ratio for increasing compensation.
If every NBA fan kicks in an extra $25, you can raise a player's salary by a million dollars a year. If every student kicks in an extra $25, you could raise a teachers salary by $750 - not quite the bump you're looking for to make it a highly desirable pay scale.
Actually, the GP is correct: Tenured professors generally didn't get there by being good teachers. Most involve heavy research and the ability to get and maintain grants for that research - neither of which makes for a good teacher. If you throw a bunch of people into a room who want to be professors, some will want to teach (a good selector, but not perfect, for good teaching), some will want to research. All will be required to teach classes. If the ones that do lots of research end up with tenure more frequently, that leaves the lousy researchers and a mixed pool of good and bad teachers. The good teachers now make up a larger percentage of that "non-tenured" pool. Self selection has elevated people who are good researchers to a tenured position. That isn't to say that they're not good teachers, but their efforts are channeled to a different purpose.
I'm sorry if you feel that your tenure position somehow stigmatises you as a poor teacher.
So protecting foreign combatants by intentionally masking their communications and refusing to assist the federal government in their apprehension is NOT giving them aid and/or comfort.
I'm curious...if it were drug runners laundering money through a major US bank, would you consider that assisting them in such a way that would be against the RICO act?
(note: I'm not siding with the government, or against those who would give the NSA the middle finger - let them do their own legwork, but I'm curious where you draw the line, and how straight that line is)
Microseconds has to be in single quotes, and defined in the same sentence it is used. That's ignoring that fact that it is also, apparently, a tag. *sigh*
Bootup happens so infrequently now (even on W7 I might cold boot once a month) that time is fairly minor. When I switched from spinner to SSD, the difference in minute-to-minute operations was significant, and that's with 24GB of RAM installed. Then again, I work in CAD with large models, and very large printed (PDF) files (Often TIFF scans 30x42@300-600dpi), so I run through a lot more RAM than the typical person.
Actually with a continuous backup system, you may only be out several minutes of work. AutoCAD, which I work in, autosaves every 5 minutes, and I work on a local-with-cloud-backup that backs up as files are changed. Worst case, I'm out 7-8 minutes of work.
The delay is, of course, if the SSD craps out that the work environment is gone and has to be rebuilt from scratch or from backup (which, honestly, can take hours even in the best scenario).
I wonder if the Judge would have considered Morse Code a readily accessible transmission at the time of the law's writing. Because Morse is just a digital code (trinary, but digital) transmitted over radio waves. I wonder if Chinese radio transmissions in the US fall outside of "readily accessible," since most Americans don't have the expertise to decode Chinese?
You mean "readily accessible" as in "I can understand it by hearing an audio facsimile" (as the Judge implied) or "readily accessible" as in anyone with a smart phone can access without even pressing a single button - you walk near the transmitter and magical pages of information come up on my phone at my whim. Would Morse Code be not "readily accessible" since few people today use Morse Code, because it's an unencrypted digital (trinary) transmission, but would have certainly been considered fair game back when the law was written?
Which, I presume, means a very poor understanding of radio. Would Morse Code have not been radio communication? Because it's digital (trinary), unencrypted, and not a commercial broadcast.
Well, typical ceramic/glass/china dishes are generally good for 100-125Gs of impact force. So, about 3x as durable as your mom's good tableware. Which is good, but probably not drive-away-with-it-on-the-top-of-your-car good.
THey also don't hire aerospace engineers. Ask them - they'll confirm it. I did when I was looking for internships 25 years ago. Guess what - you know why I checked into it? Because I knew of an aero who worked for them. Yeah, they're not the most open of sorts.
Here's the thing - if one of your primary missions is breaking modern cryptography, you're going to hire experts in the field. Oh, you'll hire lots of other folks too. This isn't 15 guys in a rented strip mall office. And they'll be working with both vulnerabilities AND new math. I'd bet a dollar they have an entire department set up just to keep up with the newest forms of encryption mathematics so that they can be working to break them before the standards are even being written.
Yeah, the guys who jailbreak iPhones and root Android devices. How about the crackers - all those pirated programs on the internet, or DeCSS and the bluray keys that are published. The ones who hack new features into Canon cameras with third party firmware. You know these guys, right?
Great - now go pick the ones who have trained for this and have PhDs in cryptography. Give them a $80-120,000/yr salary and benefits. Tell them they are responsible for keeping the USA safe by ferreting out every plot that gets communicated over any device in the world.
Congratulations, you now know who works for the NSA. And yet, somehow, we're surprised that they've managed to crack (for surveillance) the same devices we crack for entertainment and features.
" There's got to be better ways of bringing down machines than technology that's been around since the Song Dynasty in China (960 - 1279)."
Of course there is. It's just that shooting them down is both more fun and provides a sense of direct connection with the termination. People don't shoot things because it's the only solution, but the one that provides the most entertainment in the process.
If the data mining companies already fill in your profile and preferences by scouring multiple resources and linking multiple accounts to get the best picture they can, why would you think that starting a new account would be anything other than a temporary break in their data which they would fill in as soon as they correlate the new account with your old ones?
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Sure - compulsory licensing for IP, just like is done for mechanical rights of recordings; though I would favor a sliding scale of payment based on the quantity. You're ALWAYS allowed to negotiate a lower rate, but any patent may be licensed for production for a fixed rate simply by filing a form.
It puts a cap on what you can and cannot do, and it makes compliance very easy. Without it, the entire semi-pro music field would grind to a halt.
Make patents non-transferrable. Then they can't be used for collateral and there is no conflict at all.
" If you wanted to remove all patent trolls, you will also make it almost impossible for a start-up company that only has intellectual property to get start-up capital."
I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing.
It's a contract, and should be sufficient. It's why there are courts and laws.
Have you ever seen a large corp like this go after you for money? If you stiff a phone co on their fees, no other phone co will ever let you sign up again because they'll look at your credit rating and laugh so hard tears will start running down their faces. I don't fee sorry for the carriers one bit as they get to write all the terms of the contract.
Tesla's supercharger network is like bragging about having Gigabit fiber to you home, but having a single outlet and an 802.11b router in the far end of your basement. Yes, if you happen to be on the lines where they put a SC network, it'll be great. For the other 99.995% of the US, it doesn't matter because you'll, never, ever see one.
The pretty US maps with bubbles is cute, but impractical. You would need 1000 charging stations just to outfit the US interstate system with a charger at 50 mile intervals. And, let's face it, if you're out and need a charge, how likely are you to want to drive up to 50 miles to juice up, provided you're already near an interstate (which many people aren't). People still bitch about finding diesel fuel, and there are 60,000 fueling stations for diesel in the US.
You are presuming that the supply of lithium ion batteries is somehow limited like the ability to extract oil from the ground. On the contrary, the raw materials are abundant and the technology to produce the cells is fairly straight forward. The price per unit of storage is likely to *continue* downward, with greater production demand resulting in increased manufacturing capacity and (likely) efficiencies. A quick look at google turned up this from early last year: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/battery-news-roundup.html showing the downward trend.
The difference with batteries is also that, once expended, the materials used to create the cells do not need to be mined. Much like recycled aluminum is far cheaper than that produced from ore. Oil, otoh, is not really in any state to be "remanufactured" easily after being used in an ICE.
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Hey, don't judge...it was my week to chaperone the pre-teen girls on movie night.
Actually, the cost is enormous.
Do you know why NBA players get so much money? Because there are less than 500 players and there are no less than 20 million fans. Not only that, but by playing a single game, they can provide entertainment to all of them with no more effort than if there were just a single fan. With a ratio of 40,000:1 and the ability to connect with all of them simultaneously it's easy to get good pay.
In any given classroom there are 20-40 students (more for cattle classes, fewer for jr/sr classses). Any more and the personal connection which makes teaching such an interactive endeavor is reduced. 30:1 isn't a great ratio for increasing compensation.
If every NBA fan kicks in an extra $25, you can raise a player's salary by a million dollars a year. If every student kicks in an extra $25, you could raise a teachers salary by $750 - not quite the bump you're looking for to make it a highly desirable pay scale.
Actually, the GP is correct: Tenured professors generally didn't get there by being good teachers. Most involve heavy research and the ability to get and maintain grants for that research - neither of which makes for a good teacher. If you throw a bunch of people into a room who want to be professors, some will want to teach (a good selector, but not perfect, for good teaching), some will want to research. All will be required to teach classes. If the ones that do lots of research end up with tenure more frequently, that leaves the lousy researchers and a mixed pool of good and bad teachers. The good teachers now make up a larger percentage of that "non-tenured" pool. Self selection has elevated people who are good researchers to a tenured position. That isn't to say that they're not good teachers, but their efforts are channeled to a different purpose.
I'm sorry if you feel that your tenure position somehow stigmatises you as a poor teacher.
Can an entire three-letter-agency get a corporate hard-on? 'Cause if they can, this gave our favorite one the biggest boner in the known universe.
So protecting foreign combatants by intentionally masking their communications and refusing to assist the federal government in their apprehension is NOT giving them aid and/or comfort.
I'm curious...if it were drug runners laundering money through a major US bank, would you consider that assisting them in such a way that would be against the RICO act?
(note: I'm not siding with the government, or against those who would give the NSA the middle finger - let them do their own legwork, but I'm curious where you draw the line, and how straight that line is)
Microseconds has to be in single quotes, and defined in the same sentence it is used. That's ignoring that fact that it is also, apparently, a tag. *sigh*
Bootup happens so infrequently now (even on W7 I might cold boot once a month) that time is fairly minor. When I switched from spinner to SSD, the difference in minute-to-minute operations was significant, and that's with 24GB of RAM installed. Then again, I work in CAD with large models, and very large printed (PDF) files (Often TIFF scans 30x42@300-600dpi), so I run through a lot more RAM than the typical person.
Actually with a continuous backup system, you may only be out several minutes of work. AutoCAD, which I work in, autosaves every 5 minutes, and I work on a local-with-cloud-backup that backs up as files are changed. Worst case, I'm out 7-8 minutes of work.
The delay is, of course, if the SSD craps out that the work environment is gone and has to be rebuilt from scratch or from backup (which, honestly, can take hours even in the best scenario).
I wonder if the Judge would have considered Morse Code a readily accessible transmission at the time of the law's writing. Because Morse is just a digital code (trinary, but digital) transmitted over radio waves. I wonder if Chinese radio transmissions in the US fall outside of "readily accessible," since most Americans don't have the expertise to decode Chinese?
You mean "readily accessible" as in "I can understand it by hearing an audio facsimile" (as the Judge implied) or "readily accessible" as in anyone with a smart phone can access without even pressing a single button - you walk near the transmitter and magical pages of information come up on my phone at my whim. Would Morse Code be not "readily accessible" since few people today use Morse Code, because it's an unencrypted digital (trinary) transmission, but would have certainly been considered fair game back when the law was written?
Which, I presume, means a very poor understanding of radio. Would Morse Code have not been radio communication? Because it's digital (trinary), unencrypted, and not a commercial broadcast.
Well, typical ceramic/glass/china dishes are generally good for 100-125Gs of impact force. So, about 3x as durable as your mom's good tableware. Which is good, but probably not drive-away-with-it-on-the-top-of-your-car good.
Love the one you're with.
Wait...you think they actually reviewed the applications? They're likely scanned into a database for "future use".
I'm just jealous I didn't think of a stunt like this.
THey also don't hire aerospace engineers. Ask them - they'll confirm it. I did when I was looking for internships 25 years ago. Guess what - you know why I checked into it? Because I knew of an aero who worked for them. Yeah, they're not the most open of sorts.
Here's the thing - if one of your primary missions is breaking modern cryptography, you're going to hire experts in the field. Oh, you'll hire lots of other folks too. This isn't 15 guys in a rented strip mall office. And they'll be working with both vulnerabilities AND new math. I'd bet a dollar they have an entire department set up just to keep up with the newest forms of encryption mathematics so that they can be working to break them before the standards are even being written.
Yeah, the guys who jailbreak iPhones and root Android devices. How about the crackers - all those pirated programs on the internet, or DeCSS and the bluray keys that are published. The ones who hack new features into Canon cameras with third party firmware. You know these guys, right?
Great - now go pick the ones who have trained for this and have PhDs in cryptography. Give them a $80-120,000/yr salary and benefits. Tell them they are responsible for keeping the USA safe by ferreting out every plot that gets communicated over any device in the world.
Congratulations, you now know who works for the NSA. And yet, somehow, we're surprised that they've managed to crack (for surveillance) the same devices we crack for entertainment and features.
" There's got to be better ways of bringing down machines than technology that's been around since the Song Dynasty in China (960 - 1279)."
Of course there is. It's just that shooting them down is both more fun and provides a sense of direct connection with the termination. People don't shoot things because it's the only solution, but the one that provides the most entertainment in the process.
But that would mean your right to bear arms terminates at age 45, and if you were listed as an exception.
Gun rights start at birth and end when they pry your weapon from your cold dead hands. Or so I've been told.
If the data mining companies already fill in your profile and preferences by scouring multiple resources and linking multiple accounts to get the best picture they can, why would you think that starting a new account would be anything other than a temporary break in their data which they would fill in as soon as they correlate the new account with your old ones?