There is a screwed up graph on page two where they use the same graphic twice, and the caption describes aspects of the one that is missing. I really wanted to see the comparison too. You would think in an article of that size and scope someone would be responsible for checking layout as well as copy. It is no wonder we are losing to china. Their English may be worse, but their work ethic and attention to detail is possibly better.
What you are proposing is simply putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.
You have (ineffectively) treated a symptom of a broken system, and as others have pointed out, left the system ripe for abuse from the privileged still.
The system needs to be rewritten from the ground up. Unfortunately this will never happen. The broken patent system is just one symptom of a far larger disease, and that is the continued concentration of wealth and power in corporations. That concentration is little different than the robber barons, or lords over feudal serfs abusing their position. Until the people put down their bread, and turn off their circuses, these abuses will continue.
Spread the word, proclaim intelligently the injustice of the current system to all who can and will hear, write your congress critters, bitch and moan if you have to as well, but stand up too, and encourage all you know to stand up as well. Otherwise eventually you will have no legs to stand on, because those have been patented or outsourced too.
...McAfee AV used on my PC. I know it held the CPU hostage. And demanded more money and threatened me when I did not pony up. It told me I was not safe.. that I needed to 'buy' protection. I tried contacting the local police, but an IT friend of mine said that the entire county, including the popo was under a McAfee 'contract'.
...and there's actually useful applications in having a laser attached to the animal.
Publicity and fundraising perhaps. Anyone know real applications? I would RTFA, but I cannot get a response from the subscribe.wired.com server, I have a hard time believing that is slashdotted though.
They take some people off the street who, at the very least, have an abnormally high interest in making war against the U.S. within our borders. More important, it makes terrorists wary of trusting one another, thus disrupting their operations.
At the time of 9/11, people criticized the FBI for sitting on its ass and letting Bin Laden get away with it. Call me crazy, but I'm all for jailing and killing people who want to destroy the U.S.
So then, we should jail and kill most of the legislature, lobbyists, and the execs of major corps and banks at the minimum? Oh that's right, they do it for money not political or religious ideologies. And they people they destroy get to go on living a shitty life since they were not destroyed with a gun or a bomb.
Lordmetroid huh... related to Samus Aran or Justin Bailey??:)
I do not think it is over exaggerated at all. Look at all the unwashed masses content to do nothing but watch 'Deadliest Crotch' or 'Basketball Wives', or 'Big Brother Backstabfest #283'
Just look at the buffoons in our current congress and state legislatures, and the oblivious masses living on bread and circuses, and I would say that perhaps we are now naturally deselecting.
Mod parent up...
That is what trade secrets are for. To use food examples, coke has never patented it's formula.. all the copies and generics are just guesses. The same is true of General Mills. I remember watching a documentary a year or two ago, where no one was allowed in the area where they design new breakfast cereals. Simply for the fact that they are very closely held trade secrets, and to patent them would allow others to derive similar but different recipes much more easily.
If you need the protection a patent affords then it should also be something non-obvious. Unlike rounded corners or a slightly different bluetooth headset. Unfortunately, the patent offices is flooded with and routinely grants patents to obvious applications as will. Things that should have never even been submitted.
The real suggestion should be to throw out the entire USPTO and most of the paper it holds and start from scratch. Perhaps with a GIT or CVS style patent system where all similar patents are grouped and pieces owned by their contributors.
They compared its genome with those in hundreds of databases around the world, with little luck. In all that looking they "have only found a partial match with a gene sequence in Tibet.
Is it part of the Rinpoche system? The next Dali Lama perhaps?
...but routers don't verify that the route 'announcements.'
Verify that the announcements what? Are legit, make toast, or perhaps fart in their sleep?
My spelling and grammar are not good, but come on, edit those submissions and look professional!
Hey google, I found a bug. It is called the sign in button. Use it and all ones personal data is compromised nearly as bad as the facebook social virus. Now where is my check?
Extremists may shout "death to america," but they should realize as I do that with this and a million other things we are witnessing the death OF America.
Sad
Google takes a hardline aproache to the DCMA? Why the hell don't they with Youtube takedowns then? I will answer my own questions, because DCMA takedowns are not threatening revenue streams there. Money with a facade of resppnsibility is all the are. Many companies have dispensed with the facade, google will too someday.
Augmented reality pong. There is no ball, but you and the other player swing your devices around madly whilst still trying to see the virtual ball superimposed on reality. Should result in many dropped or flung devices and a surge in replacement sales.
In short: by the well-known formula E = h * f, a hypothetical variation on h induces changes in f, the transition frequency that keeps the time in atomic clocks, both on earth and aboard the satellites. When taking account of other time variations, such as general relativistic time dilation, and assuming the invariance of E (atomic transition energy) on physical grounds, we can figure out an upper bound on the variation of h reflected in the measured variation in f."
But have you figured out why your not getting laid yet?
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There is a screwed up graph on page two where they use the same graphic twice, and the caption describes aspects of the one that is missing. I really wanted to see the comparison too. You would think in an article of that size and scope someone would be responsible for checking layout as well as copy. It is no wonder we are losing to china. Their English may be worse, but their work ethic and attention to detail is possibly better.
What you are proposing is simply putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.
You have (ineffectively) treated a symptom of a broken system, and as others have pointed out, left the system ripe for abuse from the privileged still.
The system needs to be rewritten from the ground up. Unfortunately this will never happen. The broken patent system is just one symptom of a far larger disease, and that is the continued concentration of wealth and power in corporations. That concentration is little different than the robber barons, or lords over feudal serfs abusing their position. Until the people put down their bread, and turn off their circuses, these abuses will continue.
Spread the word, proclaim intelligently the injustice of the current system to all who can and will hear, write your congress critters, bitch and moan if you have to as well, but stand up too, and encourage all you know to stand up as well. Otherwise eventually you will have no legs to stand on, because those have been patented or outsourced too.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
...McAfee AV used on my PC. I know it held the CPU hostage. And demanded more money and threatened me when I did not pony up. It told me I was not safe.. that I needed to 'buy' protection. I tried contacting the local police, but an IT friend of mine said that the entire county, including the popo was under a McAfee 'contract'.
Article appears to be slasdotted..and sparse per prior posts. Any better links?
Oh that's right.. unlike the submitter or the eds.. I can use google.
http://www.livescience.com/20048-ridiculously-automated-dorm-room.html
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/01/cal-student-creates-a-ridiculously-automated-dorm/
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-video-berkeleys-most-ridiculously-automated-dorm-room-ever-20120501,0,2225746.story
...and there's actually useful applications in having a laser attached to the animal.
Publicity and fundraising perhaps. Anyone know real applications? I would RTFA, but I cannot get a response from the subscribe.wired.com server, I have a hard time believing that is slashdotted though.
They take some people off the street who, at the very least, have an abnormally high interest in making war against the U.S. within our borders. More important, it makes terrorists wary of trusting one another, thus disrupting their operations.
At the time of 9/11, people criticized the FBI for sitting on its ass and letting Bin Laden get away with it. Call me crazy, but I'm all for jailing and killing people who want to destroy the U.S.
So then, we should jail and kill most of the legislature, lobbyists, and the execs of major corps and banks at the minimum? Oh that's right, they do it for money not political or religious ideologies. And they people they destroy get to go on living a shitty life since they were not destroyed with a gun or a bomb.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Lordmetroid huh... related to Samus Aran or Justin Bailey?? :)
I do not think it is over exaggerated at all. Look at all the unwashed masses content to do nothing but watch 'Deadliest Crotch' or 'Basketball Wives', or 'Big Brother Backstabfest #283'
Yes there was!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
Just look at the buffoons in our current congress and state legislatures, and the oblivious masses living on bread and circuses, and I would say that perhaps we are now naturally deselecting.
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Mod parent up...
That is what trade secrets are for. To use food examples, coke has never patented it's formula.. all the copies and generics are just guesses. The same is true of General Mills. I remember watching a documentary a year or two ago, where no one was allowed in the area where they design new breakfast cereals. Simply for the fact that they are very closely held trade secrets, and to patent them would allow others to derive similar but different recipes much more easily.
If you need the protection a patent affords then it should also be something non-obvious. Unlike rounded corners or a slightly different bluetooth headset. Unfortunately, the patent offices is flooded with and routinely grants patents to obvious applications as will. Things that should have never even been submitted.
The real suggestion should be to throw out the entire USPTO and most of the paper it holds and start from scratch. Perhaps with a GIT or CVS style patent system where all similar patents are grouped and pieces owned by their contributors.
They compared its genome with those in hundreds of databases around the world, with little luck. In all that looking they "have only found a partial match with a gene sequence in Tibet.
Is it part of the Rinpoche system? The next Dali Lama perhaps?
I am 13 years old. When Natalie Portman shows up with beer and bikini, I will have the 'To Catch A Predator' crew on hand.
...but routers don't verify that the route 'announcements.'
Verify that the announcements what? Are legit, make toast, or perhaps fart in their sleep?
My spelling and grammar are not good, but come on, edit those submissions and look professional!
Hey google, I found a bug. It is called the sign in button. Use it and all ones personal data is compromised nearly as bad as the facebook social virus. Now where is my check?
Greenpeace: blah blah blah blah bad bad bad
Apple: blah blah blah blah good good good
The truth? Probably somewhere in the middle.
...welcome our new overlord, Mr. Bezos.
Extremists may shout "death to america," but they should realize as I do that with this and a million other things we are witnessing the death OF America. Sad
If you think either side gave away thier true responses then you sirr are either naive or an idiot.
Isnt coding apps for a dead OS like Win 8 a bit like writing sci-fi in latin? Only it makes even less sense.
Google takes a hardline aproache to the DCMA? Why the hell don't they with Youtube takedowns then? I will answer my own questions, because DCMA takedowns are not threatening revenue streams there. Money with a facade of resppnsibility is all the are. Many companies have dispensed with the facade, google will too someday.
Augmented reality pong. There is no ball, but you and the other player swing your devices around madly whilst still trying to see the virtual ball superimposed on reality. Should result in many dropped or flung devices and a surge in replacement sales.
In short: by the well-known formula E = h * f, a hypothetical variation on h induces changes in f, the transition frequency that keeps the time in atomic clocks, both on earth and aboard the satellites. When taking account of other time variations, such as general relativistic time dilation, and assuming the invariance of E (atomic transition energy) on physical grounds, we can figure out an upper bound on the variation of h reflected in the measured variation in f."
But have you figured out why your not getting laid yet?