--under control of instructions that are executed by one or more computing devices:
--receiving multiple annotations from different authors for particular content in a digital work;
--storing the annotations in association with the digital work;
--providing a list of abbreviated versions of the annotations to a user desiring to access one or more of the annotations, wherein the list presents the annotations in an order determined by reference to a criterion;
--receiving an authorization credential from a user desiring to access one or more of the annotations; and if the authorization credential is valid,
--providing a full version of one or more of the annotations of the digital work to the user in context with regard to the digital work.
Seems to me that this very web page does these things. As does SVN.
The problem, as I see it is that if A+B+C exists, you are still allowed to patent A+B+C', where C' is an extremely small incremental advancement over C.
Pretty much everything we do is built on the shoulders of previous works at this point. And some ideas are definitely innovative and novel. The problem is actually qualifying what the difference between C and C' needs to be for it to be a non-obvious solution and non-trivial advancement.
The entire Known Space series is worth reading; the ARM era stuff is, IMO, even better then Ringworld. Mostly because he is dealing with well predicted social trends that are coming to life now, and not technology indistinguishable from magic so much.
Fox sells a world view that, while fraught with fears and enemies, is familiar territory to a certain mindset - a mindset that cannot accept the fact that the world is rapidly evolving and changing. Thus, despite the fact that they are absolutely hate and fear mongers, what they sell is comforting to that certain group of people.
Rape is considered cruel and unusual punishment - which is in the constitution that you hard liner conservatives love to quote but never seem to understand in full.
When you think about the costs of simple incarceration, without the rape and beatings and so forth thrown in, it's pretty high.
One loses one's family, in many cases, one's possessions (can't take care of them); one loses one's future possibilities, and one loses time that can never be regained.
... our viri were written by true hackers and named after great artists. None of these script kiddie generated bots with names that read like poorly named perl variables.
Real decent of you to point out my descent into near-homophone spelling confusion.
Always nice to see folks adding substance to the discussion and providing gentle yet enlightened and firm guidance on such critical and pertinent matters.
There are lots of things that work without the benefit of science
Your phrasing says a lot about your mindset.
Nothing requires science to work. Rather, science tells us what works, and how well.
Science is not some magic battery that powers some things and not others. While some inventions and approaches may be the result of applying the scientific method, there is no power of some sort being drawn off some reservoir of science.
I know that this should be obvious to readers here, but precision in language about these things matters. See also "I believe in X" where X is a scientific theory - your belief doesn't matter. What matters are the observations and the logical chains that lead from those empirical premises. Belief has nothing to do with it.
To be an effective placebo, it has to be a believable placebo.
Thus, you have to dress it up with ritual or herbs or pins and needles or lots of water or whatever the method of convincing the patient that they're getting something that will help.
Just part of our decent into a post-industrial dark age, where technology is magic to most folks.
And since it's magic, why shouldn't other forms of magic work?
What does one do when intel data is compromised?
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Say the data was worthless / false / dated / phony / a decoy from the start.
Of course, that doesn't mean that it isn't any and/or all of those things anyway, but still - it does seem that there's a number of folks in power who do take them seriously.
Perhaps more importantly: the police aren't military. Though, they are becoming more and more so in approach, there is an important distinction that seems to be getting lost.
Especially with HLS trying to fill in the role of a national police force.
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--under control of instructions that are executed by one or more computing devices:
--receiving multiple annotations from different authors for particular content in a digital work;
--storing the annotations in association with the digital work;
--providing a list of abbreviated versions of the annotations to a user desiring to access one or more of the annotations, wherein the list presents the annotations in an order determined by reference to a criterion;
--receiving an authorization credential from a user desiring to access one or more of the annotations; and if the authorization credential is valid,
--providing a full version of one or more of the annotations of the digital work to the user in context with regard to the digital work.
Seems to me that this very web page does these things. As does SVN.
The problem, as I see it is that if A+B+C exists, you are still allowed to patent A+B+C', where C' is an extremely small incremental advancement over C.
Pretty much everything we do is built on the shoulders of previous works at this point. And some ideas are definitely innovative and novel. The problem is actually qualifying what the difference between C and C' needs to be for it to be a non-obvious solution and non-trivial advancement.
Obviously.
The entire Known Space series is worth reading; the ARM era stuff is, IMO, even better then Ringworld. Mostly because he is dealing with well predicted social trends that are coming to life now, and not technology indistinguishable from magic so much.
Second the motion on Heechee saga and Hyperion series.
Fox sells a world view that, while fraught with fears and enemies, is familiar territory to a certain mindset - a mindset that cannot accept the fact that the world is rapidly evolving and changing. Thus, despite the fact that they are absolutely hate and fear mongers, what they sell is comforting to that certain group of people.
Strange world we live in.
So, is that what happened to Azure?
Rape is considered cruel and unusual punishment - which is in the constitution that you hard liner conservatives love to quote but never seem to understand in full.
When you think about the costs of simple incarceration, without the rape and beatings and so forth thrown in, it's pretty high.
One loses one's family, in many cases, one's possessions (can't take care of them); one loses one's future possibilities, and one loses time that can never be regained.
And you want to throw ass rape on top of it?
It's all about context.
If you smash up corporate property and embarrass the monied powers by throwing tea in the harbor, it's patriotism.
If you smash up corporate property and embarrass the monied powers by throwing their data in the bit bucket, it's criminal.
Which is why the FBI absolutely had to conscript it's leader.
That was a malicious virus. Perhaps it was supposed to be fun/funny, but it crashed machines, and was non-trivial at the time to get rid of.
They ran as TSRs, with hooks into the interrupt for disk read/writes.
... our viri were written by true hackers and named after great artists. None of these script kiddie generated bots with names that read like poorly named perl variables.
Now get off my lawn.
Phase 2 is when we follow our new, well welcomed robot overlords around. And I for one welcome them.
This.
The dark side is always the one controlling the fight.
The only way there will be any justice for the consumer is if it is us that name the terms of the fight, not them.
Real decent of you to point out my descent into near-homophone spelling confusion.
Always nice to see folks adding substance to the discussion and providing gentle yet enlightened and firm guidance on such critical and pertinent matters.
I'd suggest you start here:
http://www.wright.edu/cola/descartes/mede.html
You only need a few words from that page in each book to make it effective...
So how do you explain all the intelligent people using it?
Because intelligence is not by any means always adequate to overcome fear.
There are lots of things that work without the benefit of science
Your phrasing says a lot about your mindset.
Nothing requires science to work. Rather, science tells us what works, and how well.
Science is not some magic battery that powers some things and not others. While some inventions and approaches may be the result of applying the scientific method, there is no power of some sort being drawn off some reservoir of science.
I know that this should be obvious to readers here, but precision in language about these things matters. See also "I believe in X" where X is a scientific theory - your belief doesn't matter. What matters are the observations and the logical chains that lead from those empirical premises. Belief has nothing to do with it.
To be an effective placebo, it has to be a believable placebo.
Thus, you have to dress it up with ritual or herbs or pins and needles or lots of water or whatever the method of convincing the patient that they're getting something that will help.
Just part of our decent into a post-industrial dark age, where technology is magic to most folks.
And since it's magic, why shouldn't other forms of magic work?
Say the data was worthless / false / dated / phony / a decoy from the start.
Of course, that doesn't mean that it isn't any and/or all of those things anyway, but still - it does seem that there's a number of folks in power who do take them seriously.
http://www.pixiq.com/article/i-recovered-the-full-uninterrupted-video-police-deleted
Perhaps more importantly: the police aren't military. Though, they are becoming more and more so in approach, there is an important distinction that seems to be getting lost.
Especially with HLS trying to fill in the role of a national police force.