Patents are for technology and copyrights are for works created by people. Neither are for facts of nature. Genes should not be patented. Those who try to patent the genetic sequences of living things should have their own genes rendered into slag.
But it would be precedent saying that APIs can by copyrighted, which they can't because they're technical methods, not creative works, and if the Oracle API becomes copyrighted, every API that isn't called public domain by its makers can be copyrighted and almost no matter what you use, you will have to pay several different entities for function calls, API calls, etc.
The point you're missing is we hit your state of being over 100 years ago. Filling the worlds needs is not that difficult. Filling in the gaps by filling the worlds wants is what consumerism is. It's the totalitarian regimes that keep the needs unfulfilled in locations where they are unfulfilled.
No, I'm not missing that point. I just didn't state it as clearly as I could have. What happens when 1 million programmers are sufficient to the DEMANDS of the world economy? Yes, we are employing more programmers over time now, but the problems they are working on will be in diminishing economic importance over time. Eventually, the number of jobs available in programming will decrease because there will already be working software for every profitable task. How far off that time is (10 years? 20 years? 50 years?) is anybody's guess.
Why don't you climb down off that high horse and join the rest of us in the real world, where breaking the law is a risky move and publishing a cookbook showing how to penetrate somebody else's computer network is considered antisocial behavior?
That's the kid's own website, right? If we don't already trust a teenager's claims to have made a homebrew fusion reactor, why would we trust a site where he congratulates himself for his achievements? As far as I know, it's a LED in a fancy looking tube.
>>âoeThis is true four years after the initial test, and regardless of the type of autism treatment the children received,â she said.
> In other words, the autism treatments don't work.
This is incorrect thinking. Autism is NOT something to be "cured."
It is a DIFFERENT way of THINKING. See the movie "Temple Grandin" if you want to understand how Asperger's / Austistic children see the world.
Temple Grandin doesn't know how severely autistic people see the world. She is on the extremely high-functioning end of what's loosely called "autistic." We don't even know if her condition is related to severe autism.
they built a house using their bare hands during the great depression. and they had a storm cellar. not enough spare income from their website gigs to build 8 inch concrete walls i guess.
but hey, thanks for the judgemental lecture. very helpful.
You just told me that your grandparents built a safer house than present day builders typically build and sell in Oklahoma and most other tornado-prone places. Why are commercial home builders allowed to make and sell houses that wouldn't have been considered safe enough by 1920s Oklahoma residents?
The only "solution" is "every man for himself" and his politically active subgroup. As long as we are rich enough to feed the underclass, we'll have domestic peace. People revolt for lack of food, nothing else.
Please explain the American revolutionary war. Americans were better fed than the people of the British Isles, at the time.
"Every man for himself" isn't a solution. It's a problem with no solution.
Even the high-tech teat will dry up. What happens when most new tech tools and toys that typical people find worth paying for are already last year's news? What happens when a million programmers are all the world needs, and all the goods anybody can afford can be produced by 500 million of the world's 10 billion people? Do you think the other 9.8 billion can be employed providing services to those 5% of people?
It's the lure of the $1.1Billion payout for a couple years work that has everybody wanting to be the next Tumblr. Why work on something that will actually do something new and useful when there's $1.1 billion available for the next free porn shovel?
Whatever his intentions, he broke the law. It's important to remember that you can be prosecuted for breaking the law even if you consider yourself a "white hat." Instead, he should have sent the demonstration code in hardcopy without ever actually intruding on the system he was trying to help improve.
Tell it to these people: http://weather.aol.com/2013/05/21/photos-devastating-tornado-strikes-moore-okla/
In Oklahoma, weather comes to YOU.
In Oklahoma city 149 tornadoes had come to town since 1890 as of last fall. With this spring's new crop, it now stands at 151 or maybe 152. So tornadoes-near-you in Oklahoma are pretty much an annual event. A direct hit where you are is a little less likely. But dangerous weather and seriously damaged buildings don't require a direct hit. Evidence suggests that bigger tornadoes are getting more common. Two massive storms (one with an EF5 and this latest with 3 smaller twisters) in less than two weeks within a few miles of each other! Even these smaller twisters killed 5 people and injured dozens more.
It really is time to consider whether critical infrastructure ought to be built do withstand at least anything less than a direct hit (say, 150 MPH winds) and whether building standards for homes and other places where people spend a lot of time (such as schools) ought to include a tornado shelter.
What does one/reported/ and/confirmed/ find typically mean? There are no singularities in nature.
It proves that GM wheat is out there. It doesn't tell you how common it is.
But the way American farmers use glyphosate, they're heavily selecting the wild wheat population to be dominated by the GM kind.
Well, since the "supercharger" stations aren't part of a *car*, there's no need to find another term.
Of course, then you went on to complain that somebody used "wireless music receiver" instead of "radio" to describe something that is distinctly different from a radio.
It becomes a problem when the same term is used with different meanings in a related context. The same context is "cars." How does one interpret, "I'm going to get a new supercharger for my car."
Which is why they shouldn't have been conducting this research outside. I know that it's terribly expensive to properly control it, but who knows what's going to happen when you have random GMO strains contaminating each other. One gene might not be a problem on its own, but who knows what happens when 2 or 3 or 6 different genes interact.
According to this Forbes articlehttp://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2013/05/31/illegal-genetically-modified-wheat-found-in-oregon-farm-should-we-be-worried/ , the Roundup Ready wheat program was discontinued 9 years ago, which suggests that this wheat may have survived in the wild that long or longer, in which case it may be widespread. If that has happened, it's a good bet that most volunteer wheat is GMO.
The issue of regulation is already one of the biggest problems for GMO. If Monsanto invents a new type of crop they need to get it approved for growing and for human consumption in every market. In the US it isn't so bad because there is just the FDA, but even in Europe it takes much longer and you have to convince many different agencies that it is safe. Then you have to start doing the rest of the world country by country.
That's why Japan immediately halted these imports. Even if the FDA or whoever in the US says this stuff is okay to eat the are, of course, going to want to determine that for themselves.
Japan's reaction is ridiculous, and blatant protectionism. A tiny amount of GMO contamination in 2 billion bushels isn't a crisis.
Just thank stockholders that Monsanto doesn't sell its patents to the likes of scan-to-email trolls. Then you'd plant what you buy at the grain elevator and the owners of the patent would come after you when your seeds do what they are made to do. Oh Wait!
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Patents are for technology and copyrights are for works created by people. Neither are for facts of nature. Genes should not be patented. Those who try to patent the genetic sequences of living things should have their own genes rendered into slag.
But it would be precedent saying that APIs can by copyrighted, which they can't because they're technical methods, not creative works, and if the Oracle API becomes copyrighted, every API that isn't called public domain by its makers can be copyrighted and almost no matter what you use, you will have to pay several different entities for function calls, API calls, etc.
Didn't this come up in court last year and didn't the court send Oracle packing?
There are always great rationalizations for not doing rational things.
The point you're missing is we hit your state of being over 100 years ago. Filling the worlds needs is not that difficult. Filling in the gaps by filling the worlds wants is what consumerism is. It's the totalitarian regimes that keep the needs unfulfilled in locations where they are unfulfilled.
No, I'm not missing that point. I just didn't state it as clearly as I could have. What happens when 1 million programmers are sufficient to the DEMANDS of the world economy? Yes, we are employing more programmers over time now, but the problems they are working on will be in diminishing economic importance over time. Eventually, the number of jobs available in programming will decrease because there will already be working software for every profitable task. How far off that time is (10 years? 20 years? 50 years?) is anybody's guess.
Why don't you climb down off that high horse and join the rest of us in the real world, where breaking the law is a risky move and publishing a cookbook showing how to penetrate somebody else's computer network is considered antisocial behavior?
That's the kid's own website, right? If we don't already trust a teenager's claims to have made a homebrew fusion reactor, why would we trust a site where he congratulates himself for his achievements? As far as I know, it's a LED in a fancy looking tube.
>>âoeThis is true four years after the initial test, and regardless of the type of autism treatment the children received,â she said. > In other words, the autism treatments don't work.
This is incorrect thinking. Autism is NOT something to be "cured."
It is a DIFFERENT way of THINKING. See the movie "Temple Grandin" if you want to understand how Asperger's / Austistic children see the world.
Didn't we just see something like this on /. recently?
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/silicon-valley-coders-and-autism-and-asperbergers-maybe-its-a-new-kind-of-design-thinking/
Temple Grandin doesn't know how severely autistic people see the world. She is on the extremely high-functioning end of what's loosely called "autistic." We don't even know if her condition is related to severe autism.
they built a house using their bare hands during the great depression. and they had a storm cellar. not enough spare income from their website gigs to build 8 inch concrete walls i guess.
but hey, thanks for the judgemental lecture. very helpful.
You just told me that your grandparents built a safer house than present day builders typically build and sell in Oklahoma and most other tornado-prone places. Why are commercial home builders allowed to make and sell houses that wouldn't have been considered safe enough by 1920s Oklahoma residents?
Not so much: Picture showing last 50 years of tornado tracks
The only "solution" is "every man for himself" and his politically active subgroup. As long as we are rich enough to feed the underclass, we'll have domestic peace. People revolt for lack of food, nothing else.
Please explain the American revolutionary war. Americans were better fed than the people of the British Isles, at the time.
"Every man for himself" isn't a solution. It's a problem with no solution.
Even the high-tech teat will dry up. What happens when most new tech tools and toys that typical people find worth paying for are already last year's news? What happens when a million programmers are all the world needs, and all the goods anybody can afford can be produced by 500 million of the world's 10 billion people? Do you think the other 9.8 billion can be employed providing services to those 5% of people?
It's the lure of the $1.1Billion payout for a couple years work that has everybody wanting to be the next Tumblr. Why work on something that will actually do something new and useful when there's $1.1 billion available for the next free porn shovel?
Whatever his intentions, he broke the law. It's important to remember that you can be prosecuted for breaking the law even if you consider yourself a "white hat." Instead, he should have sent the demonstration code in hardcopy without ever actually intruding on the system he was trying to help improve.
Tell it to these people: http://weather.aol.com/2013/05/21/photos-devastating-tornado-strikes-moore-okla/
In Oklahoma, weather comes to YOU.
In Oklahoma city 149 tornadoes had come to town since 1890 as of last fall. With this spring's new crop, it now stands at 151 or maybe 152. So tornadoes-near-you in Oklahoma are pretty much an annual event. A direct hit where you are is a little less likely. But dangerous weather and seriously damaged buildings don't require a direct hit. Evidence suggests that bigger tornadoes are getting more common. Two massive storms (one with an EF5 and this latest with 3 smaller twisters) in less than two weeks within a few miles of each other! Even these smaller twisters killed 5 people and injured dozens more.
It really is time to consider whether critical infrastructure ought to be built do withstand at least anything less than a direct hit (say, 150 MPH winds) and whether building standards for homes and other places where people spend a lot of time (such as schools) ought to include a tornado shelter.
For people who don't already know those things off the top of their heads, it gives them a sense of scale.
How cool is this. 1.7 miles of orbiting rock. Let's capture that sucker and bring it where we can use it.
What does one /reported/ and /confirmed/ find typically mean? There are no singularities in nature.
It proves that GM wheat is out there. It doesn't tell you how common it is.
But the way American farmers use glyphosate, they're heavily selecting the wild wheat population to be dominated by the GM kind.
Well, since the "supercharger" stations aren't part of a *car*, there's no need to find another term.
Of course, then you went on to complain that somebody used "wireless music receiver" instead of "radio" to describe something that is distinctly different from a radio.
Captcha: perplex
No it's not. It's a radio.
It becomes a problem when the same term is used with different meanings in a related context. The same context is "cars." How does one interpret, "I'm going to get a new supercharger for my car."
We don't know that yet. We have one find of wild contaminated wheat ever.
Which is why they shouldn't have been conducting this research outside. I know that it's terribly expensive to properly control it, but who knows what's going to happen when you have random GMO strains contaminating each other. One gene might not be a problem on its own, but who knows what happens when 2 or 3 or 6 different genes interact.
According to this Forbes articlehttp://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2013/05/31/illegal-genetically-modified-wheat-found-in-oregon-farm-should-we-be-worried/ , the Roundup Ready wheat program was discontinued 9 years ago, which suggests that this wheat may have survived in the wild that long or longer, in which case it may be widespread. If that has happened, it's a good bet that most volunteer wheat is GMO.
The issue of regulation is already one of the biggest problems for GMO. If Monsanto invents a new type of crop they need to get it approved for growing and for human consumption in every market. In the US it isn't so bad because there is just the FDA, but even in Europe it takes much longer and you have to convince many different agencies that it is safe. Then you have to start doing the rest of the world country by country.
That's why Japan immediately halted these imports. Even if the FDA or whoever in the US says this stuff is okay to eat the are, of course, going to want to determine that for themselves.
Japan's reaction is ridiculous, and blatant protectionism. A tiny amount of GMO contamination in 2 billion bushels isn't a crisis.
Just thank stockholders that Monsanto doesn't sell its patents to the likes of scan-to-email trolls. Then you'd plant what you buy at the grain elevator and the owners of the patent would come after you when your seeds do what they are made to do. Oh Wait!