You posted this same thing farther up the discussion too, but as I replied there:
You are correct. Actually they patent it. And judges have already ruled that even if your crop is contaminated with Monsanto's strain through direct see drift even if its a fraction of your crop then you Monsanto own your crop. All of it. Google David VS Monsanto for details.
Actually it appears that decision was made by the Canadian supreme court, and that it was only the case because the farmer recognized the cross pollination of his crop but continued to use the seed anyway. Furthermore, at least according to wiki Monsanto wasn't awarded any damages in the case because the farmer didn't make any additional profit even knowingly using their seed. That being said the whole thing does still seem a bit ridiculous....
You are correct. Actually they patent it. And judges have already ruled that even if your crop is contaminated with Monsanto's strain through direct see drift even if its a fraction of your crop then you Monsanto own your crop. All of it. Google David VS Monsanto for details.
Actually it appears that decision was made by the Canadian supreme court, and that it was only the case because the farmer recognized the cross pollination of his crop but continued to use the seed anyway. Furthermore, at least according to wiki Monsanto wasn't awarded any damages in the case because the farmer didn't make any additional profit even knowingly using their seed. That being said the whole thing does still seem a bit ridiculous....
A company that hosts said pictures in a searchable index on the web? Yes.
It isn't a law yet, but will most likely be either an EU directive or maybe worked into European Convention on Human Rights.
In which case, you're begging the question by presupposing that this law which has not been passed yet applies. I'm not aware of any current law in either the online or offline worlds that would allow me to order pictures of myself destroyed, at least in the US.
So here's what's confusing to me, isn't Comcast in support of SOPA/PIPA? And isn't implementing DNSSEC under that plan one of the major issues with it? So wtf is going on here? It's like they're saying one thing and doing another.....
would have to have an active wide-band transmitter (to affect TV's, computers and everything else that's claimed)
While I agree with the view that the slashdot summary, if not the entire case, is bs, I do want to point out that you can indeed affect a CRT display with a permanent magnet if it is sufficiently close. To test this, set up an old CRT display on your computer and place a large speaker (the kind with a 4" - 6" ceramic magnet at the back) directly against the side of your monitor. Observe the distortion this creates.
That being said there's no way the house itself is going to do this to a TV or monitor, the distances involved are just too great. And you can completely forget about affecting a hard drive for a number of different already mentioned reasons.
If this was a DISPLAY that thin, then this would be groundbreaking.
Where have you been? From WP:
In May 2007, Sony publicly unveiled a video of a 2.5-inch flexible OLED screen which is only 0.3 millimeters thick.[102] At the Display 2008 exhibition, Sony demonstrated a 0.2 mm thick 3.5 inch display with a resolution of 320×200 pixels and a 0.3 mm thick 11 inch display with 960×540 pixels resolution, one-tenth the thickness of the XEL-1.[103][104]
what's to stop something else (another asteroid) that we'd usually not worry about (because it wasn't going to come too close) going ahead and hitting the orbiting asteroid, and possibly sending it our way (or just destabilizing it's orbit).
I'll let you do the probability calculations on one 10m (or even 1000m) asteroid hitting another. I'll give you a hint though, it's astronomically small.
What has happened in the past (and was reported on in the news a few weeks ago), is that a judge orders you to divulge the password(s) and if you refuse he sentences you to contempt of court and keeps you in jail/prison until you do reveal the passwords.
Actually that's not entirely true, the primary reason for our unused fiber is lack of the open access agreements/requirements which other countries have instated.
The cost of merely testing it before bringing it online could very well be financially infeasible.
You going to cite that? Because I have trouble believing it.
Slashdot Mirror
You posted this same thing farther up the discussion too, but as I replied there:
You are correct. Actually they patent it. And judges have already ruled that even if your crop is contaminated with Monsanto's strain through direct see drift even if its a fraction of your crop then you Monsanto own your crop. All of it. Google David VS Monsanto for details.
Actually it appears that decision was made by the Canadian supreme court, and that it was only the case because the farmer recognized the cross pollination of his crop but continued to use the seed anyway. Furthermore, at least according to wiki Monsanto wasn't awarded any damages in the case because the farmer didn't make any additional profit even knowingly using their seed. That being said the whole thing does still seem a bit ridiculous....
You are correct. Actually they patent it. And judges have already ruled that even if your crop is contaminated with Monsanto's strain through direct see drift even if its a fraction of your crop then you Monsanto own your crop. All of it. Google David VS Monsanto for details.
Actually it appears that decision was made by the Canadian supreme court, and that it was only the case because the farmer recognized the cross pollination of his crop but continued to use the seed anyway. Furthermore, at least according to wiki Monsanto wasn't awarded any damages in the case because the farmer didn't make any additional profit even knowingly using their seed. That being said the whole thing does still seem a bit ridiculous....
A company that hosts said pictures in a searchable index on the web? Yes.
It isn't a law yet, but will most likely be either an EU directive or maybe worked into European Convention on Human Rights.
In which case, you're begging the question by presupposing that this law which has not been passed yet applies. I'm not aware of any current law in either the online or offline worlds that would allow me to order pictures of myself destroyed, at least in the US.
So here's what's confusing to me, isn't Comcast in support of SOPA/PIPA? And isn't implementing DNSSEC under that plan one of the major issues with it? So wtf is going on here? It's like they're saying one thing and doing another.....
Mod parent up pls
Wait, does that mean....
Finally! A bittorrent search engine that's legal in the US! Way to go **AA!
...but there is a socioeconomic one in the United States...
Note: Correlation does not imply causality.
you should assume the client is hostile and act accordingly
And this line of reasoning is how Trusted Computing was born. Wait, you mean we're supposed to trust the client unless we have a good reason not to?!?
would have to have an active wide-band transmitter (to affect TV's, computers and everything else that's claimed)
While I agree with the view that the slashdot summary, if not the entire case, is bs, I do want to point out that you can indeed affect a CRT display with a permanent magnet if it is sufficiently close. To test this, set up an old CRT display on your computer and place a large speaker (the kind with a 4" - 6" ceramic magnet at the back) directly against the side of your monitor. Observe the distortion this creates.
That being said there's no way the house itself is going to do this to a TV or monitor, the distances involved are just too great. And you can completely forget about affecting a hard drive for a number of different already mentioned reasons.
If this was a DISPLAY that thin, then this would be groundbreaking.
Where have you been? From WP:
In May 2007, Sony publicly unveiled a video of a 2.5-inch flexible OLED screen which is only 0.3 millimeters thick.[102] At the Display 2008 exhibition, Sony demonstrated a 0.2 mm thick 3.5 inch display with a resolution of 320×200 pixels and a 0.3 mm thick 11 inch display with 960×540 pixels resolution, one-tenth the thickness of the XEL-1.[103][104]
what's to stop something else (another asteroid) that we'd usually not worry about (because it wasn't going to come too close) going ahead and hitting the orbiting asteroid, and possibly sending it our way (or just destabilizing it's orbit).
I'll let you do the probability calculations on one 10m (or even 1000m) asteroid hitting another. I'll give you a hint though, it's astronomically small.
What has happened in the past (and was reported on in the news a few weeks ago), is that a judge orders you to divulge the password(s) and if you refuse he sentences you to contempt of court and keeps you in jail/prison until you do reveal the passwords.
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[citation needed]
No, trusted computing is useful. What corporations are trying to do with it is eevil...
Actually that's not entirely true, the primary reason for our unused fiber is lack of the open access agreements/requirements which other countries have instated.
The cost of merely testing it before bringing it online could very well be financially infeasible.
You going to cite that? Because I have trouble believing it.
and thus improve broadband speeds and internet capacity across the world (outside the US)
FTFY
Also, In case anyone wants a source.