If someone is violating your patent, you know it and don't do anything; you'll lose in court. Rambus lost big this way when RSDRAM was clobbered in the market by DDR SDRAM. Rambus knew DDR SDRAM was violating their patents before it made its way to market and did nothing hoping to use lawsuits at a later time if RSDRAM was losing. The courts slapped them around for bit for fun and then said DDR SDRAM was in the clear.
If someone is violating your patent you need to sue now. Suing later just makes your job much, much harder. Especailly with the CEO of your company saying things like were said in the article.
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It was actually first implemented after Pan-Am 103 when a bomb was fashioned into a boom-box in the cargo hold of the plane, but were discontinued when it was found that they don't actually improve security in any measurable way. They were re-instituted after the September 11 attacks in order to "do something", but like the "no liquids" on the plane they've remained in place even after they've been proven to be completely irrational and with no improvement of security.
Also the "turn on" rule was part of the aftermath of Pan-Am 103 until it was pointed out that the computer or boombox can still work perfectly fine ever after most of its internals have been removed to make a bomb.
Just thank god they didn't implement their first idea which was to ban all electronics from the cabin of the plane. Someone had the rationality to say, no that's just stupid.
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Like every other country on the planet.
The lady at the Osaka airport looked at me weird when I tried to take my laptop out of the bag. I think Japan has an x-ray machine that can look through cloth, I cannot explain it any other way. We should buy those instead of what we got now and not waste our time on "Airport Cleared" bags.
It's basically the information superhighway joke that has been pushed for years. The Internet was invented before the idea of the "Internet" was created. As such the reality never matched the idea of a commercially controlled and monitored selling place. Luckily the "Internet" built to the ideal is pretty much commercially doomed to failure if forced to compete against the Internet without some outside controlling legislation banning the regular Internet (for more information please see the old AOL or Prodigy)
There will be this same push for a new "Internet" until probably all those people are dead.
The tax is here for one. Because the purchase is anonymous you don't have the issues with the 5th ammendment that Leary v US did, but you can still be prosecuted after the fact for failing to pay the tax if you're caught with the controlled substance.
Also, the 1970 law was written for a whole host of reasons, to state that it was just a reaction to Leary v US greatly oversimplifies how the law proceeded through Congress (since the drugs were illegal with or without the taxes applied to them).
Nope, the pot stamp laws are still on the books and enforced in many states. It's easier to prosecute someone for tax evasion then pot dealing so they're kept around. The drug scheduling was developed to harminoze and simplify the laws on the books at the time of passage, not due to any overturned laws by the Supreme court.
By the US Constitution, Congress has the right to set the limits to anything they damn well please. The only restriction is that they must be limited (i.e. a set time, any time will do even if it's 1 million years). While the initial terms were 12-13 years for both, nothing in the Constitution said they had to stay that way. The Supreme Court also indicated that the whole thing was dumb in Eldred v. Ashcroft, but basicly came to the conclusion there was nothing in the Constitution that prevents Congress from doing dumb things.
Raising the fees won't help since most of the fee is not put into hiring and keeping patent examiners, but put into the general fund to spend on other things. Also, even at 100x times the current fee, I doubt it'll make much of a dent in the trolls business since their only real expense is the fees and the lawyers. If you try to make something it'll hit you harder since your costs need to calculate in the higher fees your going to have to pay per widget that you make.
Subsidies may account for much of the price. At least it does in the United States, where it may only cost the end consumer $2-$3 dollars/gallon, but costs every taxpayer $2-$3 dollars/gallon on top of that price. I blame Iowa, but that's just me.
[C]omputer science is not about theoretical virtual machines, but the practical implementation of complex concepts on limited physical computers
Computer Science is about theoretical virtual machines. Computer Engineering is about the practical implementation. That is why one is called "science" and the other called "engineering", most people get confused on the two due to how most all Universities structure (or more correctly fail to structure) their Engineering and Computer Science courses. Computer Science has more to do with the Math programs than the engineering programs, but it's usually part of the School of Engineering so it becomes all mush in the curriculum.
What I think is lost is that the credit score system was invented before the credit card and the large nationwide banks. Originally the score was a way bankers could tell other bankers that this person was cool with loans in the past so he's not trying to get a big loan and leave for Mexico. Your original loan was given by bankers in the community who knew you and your family personally (and could evaluate the collateral directly) so the credit score wasn't involved or even looked at. With community banks pretty much dead, the hold over from the old system (the credit score) remains and is now king because it's the only way to evaluate anybody when the loan originator and the loan receiver never meet. It's more of one of those unintended consequences than an actual designed system to screw you over.
It exists to prevent companies from front loading IT contract payments while expensing it over a number of years. It was the result of a number of front-loading shennagans done by Enron's IT services field in thier heyday. Yea, it's kind of silly for consumer products, but those are the rules.
But the Applications folder does not run as root, but as the regular user. The malware can only screw up the current users session, it cannot access or modify anything that needs root permissions without asking for the root password. Without root, malware is annoying, but not difficult to get rid of.
Finally. It really, really sucked trying to find one before when I smoked my MacBook Pro's ethernet port. I finally found a USB-Ethernet device for the Wii that the drivers for the same chipset on worked for.
You're not looking on the bright side, since it's small enough to fit in an envelope, it'll be easier to mail back to Apple when the battery finally kicks off.
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I think you don't know the meaning of gouge.
If someone is violating your patent, you know it and don't do anything; you'll lose in court. Rambus lost big this way when RSDRAM was clobbered in the market by DDR SDRAM. Rambus knew DDR SDRAM was violating their patents before it made its way to market and did nothing hoping to use lawsuits at a later time if RSDRAM was losing. The courts slapped them around for bit for fun and then said DDR SDRAM was in the clear.
If someone is violating your patent you need to sue now. Suing later just makes your job much, much harder. Especailly with the CEO of your company saying things like were said in the article.
It was actually first implemented after Pan-Am 103 when a bomb was fashioned into a boom-box in the cargo hold of the plane, but were discontinued when it was found that they don't actually improve security in any measurable way. They were re-instituted after the September 11 attacks in order to "do something", but like the "no liquids" on the plane they've remained in place even after they've been proven to be completely irrational and with no improvement of security.
Also the "turn on" rule was part of the aftermath of Pan-Am 103 until it was pointed out that the computer or boombox can still work perfectly fine ever after most of its internals have been removed to make a bomb.
Just thank god they didn't implement their first idea which was to ban all electronics from the cabin of the plane. Someone had the rationality to say, no that's just stupid.
Like every other country on the planet.
The lady at the Osaka airport looked at me weird when I tried to take my laptop out of the bag. I think Japan has an x-ray machine that can look through cloth, I cannot explain it any other way. We should buy those instead of what we got now and not waste our time on "Airport Cleared" bags.
It's basically the information superhighway joke that has been pushed for years. The Internet was invented before the idea of the "Internet" was created. As such the reality never matched the idea of a commercially controlled and monitored selling place. Luckily the "Internet" built to the ideal is pretty much commercially doomed to failure if forced to compete against the Internet without some outside controlling legislation banning the regular Internet (for more information please see the old AOL or Prodigy)
There will be this same push for a new "Internet" until probably all those people are dead.
Unless they found Nina's blood all over Reiser's car
I think they did, which is why he was charged over other possible suspects.
Yep, it's called BeFS.
The tax is here for one. Because the purchase is anonymous you don't have the issues with the 5th ammendment that Leary v US did, but you can still be prosecuted after the fact for failing to pay the tax if you're caught with the controlled substance.
Also, the 1970 law was written for a whole host of reasons, to state that it was just a reaction to Leary v US greatly oversimplifies how the law proceeded through Congress (since the drugs were illegal with or without the taxes applied to them).
Nope, the pot stamp laws are still on the books and enforced in many states. It's easier to prosecute someone for tax evasion then pot dealing so they're kept around. The drug scheduling was developed to harminoze and simplify the laws on the books at the time of passage, not due to any overturned laws by the Supreme court.
The point is not everyone would be killed at once as indicated by the great grandparent.
The explosive decompression is just an urban legend. Please stop repeating it.
By the US Constitution, Congress has the right to set the limits to anything they damn well please. The only restriction is that they must be limited (i.e. a set time, any time will do even if it's 1 million years). While the initial terms were 12-13 years for both, nothing in the Constitution said they had to stay that way. The Supreme Court also indicated that the whole thing was dumb in Eldred v. Ashcroft, but basicly came to the conclusion there was nothing in the Constitution that prevents Congress from doing dumb things.
Raising the fees won't help since most of the fee is not put into hiring and keeping patent examiners, but put into the general fund to spend on other things. Also, even at 100x times the current fee, I doubt it'll make much of a dent in the trolls business since their only real expense is the fees and the lawyers. If you try to make something it'll hit you harder since your costs need to calculate in the higher fees your going to have to pay per widget that you make.
Subsidies may account for much of the price. At least it does in the United States, where it may only cost the end consumer $2-$3 dollars/gallon, but costs every taxpayer $2-$3 dollars/gallon on top of that price. I blame Iowa, but that's just me.
Bank of America calls it "Shop Safe"
60 miles or 100km, not 60 km. Don't cheat the SS1 out of it's success.
In the above example, you're confusing chemists with chemical engineers.
[C]omputer science is not about theoretical virtual machines, but the practical implementation of complex concepts on limited physical computers
Computer Science is about theoretical virtual machines. Computer Engineering is about the practical implementation. That is why one is called "science" and the other called "engineering", most people get confused on the two due to how most all Universities structure (or more correctly fail to structure) their Engineering and Computer Science courses. Computer Science has more to do with the Math programs than the engineering programs, but it's usually part of the School of Engineering so it becomes all mush in the curriculum.
What I think is lost is that the credit score system was invented before the credit card and the large nationwide banks. Originally the score was a way bankers could tell other bankers that this person was cool with loans in the past so he's not trying to get a big loan and leave for Mexico. Your original loan was given by bankers in the community who knew you and your family personally (and could evaluate the collateral directly) so the credit score wasn't involved or even looked at. With community banks pretty much dead, the hold over from the old system (the credit score) remains and is now king because it's the only way to evaluate anybody when the loan originator and the loan receiver never meet. It's more of one of those unintended consequences than an actual designed system to screw you over.
It exists to prevent companies from front loading IT contract payments while expensing it over a number of years. It was the result of a number of front-loading shennagans done by Enron's IT services field in thier heyday. Yea, it's kind of silly for consumer products, but those are the rules.
But the Applications folder does not run as root, but as the regular user. The malware can only screw up the current users session, it cannot access or modify anything that needs root permissions without asking for the root password. Without root, malware is annoying, but not difficult to get rid of.
No. It's due to an unrelated bug in the printing subsystem. Nice guess though.
Finally. It really, really sucked trying to find one before when I smoked my MacBook Pro's ethernet port. I finally found a USB-Ethernet device for the Wii that the drivers for the same chipset on worked for.
You're not looking on the bright side, since it's small enough to fit in an envelope, it'll be easier to mail back to Apple when the battery finally kicks off.
Don't feel so bad, this one is made out of used pinball machine parts.