It costs approximately $2500-$3500 USD to obtain
a patent. Once issued, even if prior art is then
found, the patent remains valid. It can be
rescinded in two ways, either via a court ruling,
or by the patent office. Either way costs money.
He indicated to me that the patent office is
aware of the problem and is trying to build up
their database of 'prior art'. He also indicated
that they use the IBM patent database.
The main problem is lack of money.
Correct. The contact data should really be split
between domainnames and ip addresses. Then you
can have contacts for the machines and contacts
for the domains, with the machine contacts being
very useful to network people, and domain contacts
being more useful for business purposes.
It's really a data normalization problem.
The ip addresses must be unique in one table,
with domain names not having to be unique once
they are qualified with the rootserver.
Once split, technical contact still works,
but you can have competition for nameservers,
and in fact, can create new TLDs.
A method to verify the user really wanted to
perform a doubleclick. Alternatively, via a
mode setting, a TripleClick would be the same
as performing a right-button click.
Slashdot Mirror
And they have a link to their homepage
*ON* their homepage.
Plus this (a link back to the old site):
Welcome
Incidents.org is the new name of the SANS Global Incidents Analysis Center (GIAC).
NEWS: New Linux worm. Check out www.sans.org/current.htm
Not ready?
The word "innovate" is for the courts when
you run out of meaningful explanations for
your past behaviour.
M$: "Your Honor,
we were just trying to innovate Linux."
See the Usenet newsgroups
alt.sysadmin.recovery
alt.tech-support.recovery
I have.
It costs approximately $2500-$3500 USD to obtain
a patent. Once issued, even if prior art is then
found, the patent remains valid. It can be
rescinded in two ways, either via a court ruling,
or by the patent office. Either way costs money.
He indicated to me that the patent office is
aware of the problem and is trying to build up
their database of 'prior art'. He also indicated
that they use the IBM patent database.
The main problem is lack of money.
Did I mention money? It's *ALL* about money.
Perfect application, ala electric fence.
Internet access? We call that planet 'Earth'.
Correct. The contact data should really be split
between domainnames and ip addresses. Then you
can have contacts for the machines and contacts
for the domains, with the machine contacts being
very useful to network people, and domain contacts
being more useful for business purposes.
It's really a data normalization problem.
The ip addresses must be unique in one table,
with domain names not having to be unique once
they are qualified with the rootserver.
Once split, technical contact still works,
but you can have competition for nameservers,
and in fact, can create new TLDs.
I find it interesting that the court ordered all briefs to also be filed on CDROM in PDF format with Hyperlinks.
A method to verify the user really wanted to perform a doubleclick. Alternatively, via a mode setting, a TripleClick would be the same as performing a right-button click.