"According to the online tracking, it sat in their post office for two days before USPS deigned to deliver it. Fortunately, the packages were still "on time" that time, but we did have some worries over it."
You're complaining that you didn't get a faster delivery than what you paid for?
Also, do you think that UPS and FedEx don't leave packages at their destination depot if the delivery commitment can be met tomorrow? They do that deliberately to distinguish 1-, 2-, and 3- delivery so people won't gamble that a slower delivery will get their one day faster than what they paid for.
a) The direct question was about intellectual property, not intellectual property protection. b) If you have intellectual property that you value but is not protected by law, you'd be interested on changes to law that would add protection. c) If your intellectual property in not in directly protected by law, you'd be interested in access controls that can be backed up by criminal charges, e.g. "breaking and entering or hacking a computer".
For IP to not be important, your business could not have any of these things: a name and logo a customer list a supplier list a product distinguishable from that of competitors a way of making a product distinguishable from that of competitors a plan for dealing with an employee absence
The overwhelming majority of the comments here, either for or against, assume IP is only something you consume. IP is also something you produce.
"Baking recipes are not protected by the law." "Trade secrets fall within contract law,"
So you admit they are protected by law. But you're still wrong, since trade secrets are covered under US Code Title 18 Chapter 90 which makes no reference to contracts.
"No one can sue me for using a gas chromatograph to figure out the recipe for food and then prepare the same food. "
Which is just like any other type of trade secret, where independently deriving the same information is not a violation of the secret.
"* - It's possibly worth noting here that the United States is a republic, not a democracy." It's not worth noting that at all since it implies that it is not a democracy BECAUSE it is a republic, which makes no sense.
Is it worth noting that you mother is a slut, not a whore?
"Is this the same type of local law enforcement agency... "
It's not any kind of law enforcement agency. It is a financial institution. It just happens to specifically handle funds for people that work for local law enforcement.
You are assuming that the final manufactured product actually matched the Rambus design, rather than being a different design that just happened to be patent encumbered.
I only have hearsay from people that worked on this stuff, but it all agrees on the fact that Rambus did not have a working design.
a) Radio pays 0 performance royalties, only publishing royalties.
b) The publishing rights clearinghouses distribute royalties based on sampling, despite the fact that radio stations are required to submit their complete logs books. So if you're far enough down the long tail they may never recognize your play count.
EMV is not necessarily Chip+PIN. Chip+Signature Prefered and even Chip+Signature Only still complies.
My card from Bank of America is Chip + Signature Only, so I can't buy train tickets from kiosks in Euopre bu I can use ATMs in Europe because they fall back to mag stripe + PIN.
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Why are you claiming that the PINs were stored?
Clearly, OP has mistranslated "fanny".
If by "equivalent" you mean "can fit inside"
These days trolls take pride in their work and want to be identified with it.
Obviously you're supposed to ssh in and edit video via command line.
"According to the online tracking, it sat in their post office for two days before USPS deigned to deliver it. Fortunately, the packages were still "on time" that time, but we did have some worries over it."
You're complaining that you didn't get a faster delivery than what you paid for?
Also, do you think that UPS and FedEx don't leave packages at their destination depot if the delivery commitment can be met tomorrow? They do that deliberately to distinguish 1-, 2-, and 3- delivery so people won't gamble that a slower delivery will get their one day faster than what they paid for.
"we were stuck there for the longest time now."
It was worse than that, we went down from 1200 to 1080.
"Just give me laptops with resolution better than 1366 x 768 at 13"
These days, that's a crappy resolution for a *phone*.
a) The direct question was about intellectual property, not intellectual property protection.
b) If you have intellectual property that you value but is not protected by law, you'd be interested on changes to law that would add protection.
c) If your intellectual property in not in directly protected by law, you'd be interested in access controls that can be backed up by criminal charges, e.g. "breaking and entering or hacking a computer".
"he NEVER said the laws were not valid or were insufficient."
On the other hand, *every* story was about the insufficiency of the laws. If they were sufficient, Giskard would have had to invent the zeroth law.
Asimov did not have to come out and say they were insufficient, Gödel took care of this about a decade earlier.
For IP to not be important, your business could not have any of these things:
a name and logo
a customer list
a supplier list
a product distinguishable from that of competitors
a way of making a product distinguishable from that of competitors
a plan for dealing with an employee absence
The overwhelming majority of the comments here, either for or against, assume IP is only something you consume. IP is also something you produce.
"Baking recipes are not protected by the law."
"Trade secrets fall within contract law,"
So you admit they are protected by law. But you're still wrong, since trade secrets are covered under US Code Title 18 Chapter 90 which makes no reference to contracts.
"No one can sue me for using a gas chromatograph to figure out the recipe for food and then prepare the same food. "
Which is just like any other type of trade secret, where independently deriving the same information is not a violation of the secret.
Oliver North, though he was arrested and indicted for other things.
"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
How many charities could actually deal with nearly a billion dollars being left on their doorstep on their own?
Quimby's Usiform Robots, from the short story "Q.U.R." by Anthony Boucher.
"* - It's possibly worth noting here that the United States is a republic, not a democracy."
It's not worth noting that at all since it implies that it is not a democracy BECAUSE it is a republic, which makes no sense.
Is it worth noting that you mother is a slut, not a whore?
SpaceX is the only company in a position to actually use it for launching any time soon. Exclusive use means Blue cannot be used a cat's paw.
"Is this the same type of local law enforcement agency... "
It's not any kind of law enforcement agency. It is a financial institution. It just happens to specifically handle funds for people that work for local law enforcement.
You are assuming that the final manufactured product actually matched the Rambus design, rather than being a different design that just happened to be patent encumbered.
I only have hearsay from people that worked on this stuff, but it all agrees on the fact that Rambus did not have a working design.
a) The patents were originally filed before Rambus joined JEDEC.
b) The patents were amended after Rambus left JEDEC.
a) Radio pays 0 performance royalties, only publishing royalties.
b) The publishing rights clearinghouses distribute royalties based on sampling, despite the fact that radio stations are required to submit their complete logs books. So if you're far enough down the long tail they may never recognize your play count.
How good would the Intel compiler have to be at optimizing on AMD processors to avoid accusations that they were deliberately slowing things down?
EMV is not necessarily Chip+PIN. Chip+Signature Prefered and even Chip+Signature Only still complies.
My card from Bank of America is Chip + Signature Only, so I can't buy train tickets from kiosks in Euopre bu I can use ATMs in Europe because they fall back to mag stripe + PIN.
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