And they have intertial navigation systems that use dead reckoning based on last known position and acceleration measurements to determine current position. The short version of this is that even if $ENEMY knocked out all the land-based missiles and blew the GPS satellites out of the sky, our Tridents will be delivering them a torrent of MIRVs in return.
If Mr. Ravicher is correct and 70% of patents are revoked in re-examination, then at least one of these will survive.
This reminds me of a story. On matriculation day at a UC campus, the chancellor said "One out of every three students here is gay. Look at the person to your left. Look at the person to your right. If they're not gay, you are."
The whole purpose of the GPL is to use IP to host IP with its own petard. It's not written using copyright out of some sympathy for copyright--it's written using copyright because for the GPL to be invalid, so must copyright be.
for crimes against humanity. There's no excuse for assisting an oppressive state with censorship, and the fact that an American company is doing it makes me ashamed to be an American citizen.
A Passport is by definition, a National ID, I agree. But it doesn't have the ubiquity of a driver's license that causes every barkeep, convenience store manager, and check cashing shop to be able to demand it as a condition of doing business. A National ID card issued to every citizen would be all that, and more.
I agree it's a dumb idea--but I think it's really a segue into some companies requiring these tokens for everyone who wants to do business with them. The Federal government, for example, has been trying to figure out for years a practial way to give each citizen a public key to be able to, for example, apply for Social Security benefits or file a FEMA claim online. But since the easiest place to put a public key, a National ID card, spawns (rightfully) mention of the Book of Revelation happens every time it's mentioned, USB keys could be an alternative.
I don't think this whole thing is a good idea, but I'm sure Verisign has worked out a deal with the one or two agents really working on the almost non-existent "pedophiles in 'chat rooms'" problem to falsify tokens for them.
In fact, if other users were able to verify the tokens, that would further reduce the hypothetical defendant's chance of being able to claim s/he didn't know the alleged underage participant was underage.
This is about making sure you're a kid, not that you're an adult. The theory is that it'll keep the pedophiles, who won't have the "I'm a kid" token, out of the elementary school "chat rooms."
Besides the "problem" of pedophiles in "chat rooms" being completely overblown, this is probably just the precursor of some sort of infrastructure to eliminate anonymous browsing. And who wouldn't like a piece of selling a token for $20/year to anyone who wants to get any information from the Internet in 10 years?
. . . why is there a "list of students" involved? And seriously, do they not know these tokens are lent? Either this is an insidious attempt at a pilot of some sort of "internet ID" or a completely dumb idea.
This is true only if you bought the on-site service. And if you're a small business, they'll jerk you around for two hours running through the script to get it. And will Dell move the data from your old system? And is eBay the only source of old machines?
The only good reason for small businesses to buy Dells is to get a machine with Word and Excel for about the price of an Office license without the machine. Dell's legendary service is not a factor.
When the machines are free, there's no reasonable expectation of support. You do the same thing you end up doing with the Dell--throw it away and plug in another one. Only it's much cheaper.
I guess the fuzzy thing made what I was talking about, well, fuzzy. In another case, the book's a paperback (Law and Kelton's Simulation_Modeling_and_Analysis, if it matters), printed in Signapore and blessed by McGraw-Hill. It contains a statement that it's only authorized for sale in Signapore:
Exclusive rights by McGraw-HYill Book Co - Signapore, for manufacture and export. This book cannot be re-exported from the country to which it is consigned by McGraw-Hill
My contention is that the intermediary who sold it to me might be in violation of Signapore's law by exporting it, but that I might also be of in violation of U.S. law by importing it, since I'm buying it, rather than bringing in a personal item. This assumes that Signapore also isn't subject to a doctrine of first sale similar to ours.
Having written this, I think I might just be tired and confused, but it seems now like as you say, I would be covered if the Computer Science police ever kicked down my door:).
I'm not talking about pirated copies--I'm talking about copies sold by the publisher outside the U.S. for less money. The best analogy I can think of is the price discrimination happening with prescription drugs.
The law you're citing seems to have implications for import of textbooks from overseas. That is, it would mean that buying a copy of the "value" fuzzy-type edition of a theory book from Signapore for $10 and having it sent into the U.S. instead of paying the $100 for it here is a crime. That just seems wrong.
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What the heck else would they do there :)?
And they have intertial navigation systems that use dead reckoning based on last known position and acceleration measurements to determine current position. The short version of this is that even if $ENEMY knocked out all the land-based missiles and blew the GPS satellites out of the sky, our Tridents will be delivering them a torrent of MIRVs in return.
This reminds me of a story. On matriculation day at a UC campus, the chancellor said "One out of every three students here is gay. Look at the person to your left. Look at the person to your right. If they're not gay, you are."
The whole purpose of the GPL is to use IP to host IP with its own petard. It's not written using copyright out of some sympathy for copyright--it's written using copyright because for the GPL to be invalid, so must copyright be.
for crimes against humanity. There's no excuse for assisting an oppressive state with censorship, and the fact that an American company is doing it makes me ashamed to be an American citizen.
This is fair, so long as any citizen can opt out (and the option is publicized) and not just the privileged like cops.
Touche' and a-men!
Because it would be harder to pass a law requiring me to have it on me when not driving a motor vehicle.
Adds a whole new meaning to "I'm feeling lucky," doesn't it!
A Passport is by definition, a National ID, I agree. But it doesn't have the ubiquity of a driver's license that causes every barkeep, convenience store manager, and check cashing shop to be able to demand it as a condition of doing business. A National ID card issued to every citizen would be all that, and more.
I wonder how many of those hits were image loads from spams resulting from Outlook or other mail clients that load images when reading email.
A one-time token is an excellent practical and cryptographic model, but a poor revenue model for Verisign :).
I agree it's a dumb idea--but I think it's really a segue into some companies requiring these tokens for everyone who wants to do business with them. The Federal government, for example, has been trying to figure out for years a practial way to give each citizen a public key to be able to, for example, apply for Social Security benefits or file a FEMA claim online. But since the easiest place to put a public key, a National ID card, spawns (rightfully) mention of the Book of Revelation happens every time it's mentioned, USB keys could be an alternative.
In fact, if other users were able to verify the tokens, that would further reduce the hypothetical defendant's chance of being able to claim s/he didn't know the alleged underage participant was underage.
Besides the "problem" of pedophiles in "chat rooms" being completely overblown, this is probably just the precursor of some sort of infrastructure to eliminate anonymous browsing. And who wouldn't like a piece of selling a token for $20/year to anyone who wants to get any information from the Internet in 10 years?
. . . why is there a "list of students" involved? And seriously, do they not know these tokens are lent? Either this is an insidious attempt at a pilot of some sort of "internet ID" or a completely dumb idea.
Or he could have said "or is reappointed," which would also have been correct.
You forgot the $5.00 per month for the "privilege of doing business with us." That's when they lost my landline long distance business after 20 years.
The only good reason for small businesses to buy Dells is to get a machine with Word and Excel for about the price of an Office license without the machine. Dell's legendary service is not a factor.
When the machines are free, there's no reasonable expectation of support. You do the same thing you end up doing with the Dell--throw it away and plug in another one. Only it's much cheaper.
Yup. Because if your Dell breaks, support is only a couple of hours on hold and half a world away.
Having written this, I think I might just be tired and confused, but it seems now like as you say, I would be covered if the Computer Science police ever kicked down my door :).
I'm not talking about pirated copies--I'm talking about copies sold by the publisher outside the U.S. for less money. The best analogy I can think of is the price discrimination happening with prescription drugs.
Mod parent up--nailed it.
The law you're citing seems to have implications for import of textbooks from overseas. That is, it would mean that buying a copy of the "value" fuzzy-type edition of a theory book from Signapore for $10 and having it sent into the U.S. instead of paying the $100 for it here is a crime. That just seems wrong.