I agree, there is no real distinction between patent trolls and corporations which use patents offensively or through threats but which are no "patent trolls".
Then show me the compliant whatsapp clients, or the microsoft office compliant applications. Its damn hard to reverse engineer a binary data protocol. Perhaps its easier in the age of json, but I doubt it. If you use idapro or similar tools, you infringe their copyright. In fact, security analysts infringe copyright for their day job. Just the copyright holders don't want to tell their names to the state, so they can't sue them.
You know I have nothing against the concept of intellectual property or patents. Its good to have it. The only thing I am against are software patents, as in 99% of the cases they are just trivial patents, and in all other cases they only help the big companies and those with sufficient funding.
About copyright, a term of 70 years after the death of the creator is far too long, and should be life of the creator plus 25 years or something, and 50 years for works that were created by multiple people.
And having a patent term of 20 years in the software industry is far too long. There are four protection mechanisms the software industry has. First, the compiler and minifier: if you publish your software, its hard to find out how it works. Second, non disclosed communication protocols: Often the communication protocols your software uses in order to talk or save stuff or so is not documented, which means only your software can access it. Number three and four are copyright and patent law.
Usage of these four mechanisms has rendered competition impossible in many areas of the software industry, creating world wide monopolies, like google search, microsoft office, or microsoft windows.
The software industry is really fast moving. Having a term of 20 years for patents in the software world is far too much for the industry, there even 5 years mean more than 20 years in other industries. Also, I don't think the software industry needs patents at all. It has a really big a monopoly problem (what I outlined above), and that problem can't be solved by giving them government granted monopolies.
I mean, yeah, a lot of these cases are patent trolls. But other cases could be legitimate patent issues between two companies.
Can you explain me the difference?
So if you are a company that tries to kill a cheaper competitor by demanding high fees from them because of 'we invented it first' then that's better than a company that focuses in research? And where do you make the difference? Its not apple which manufactures the iphones, its a completely different company. Apple did a contract with that company, but where again, is the difference between foxconn doing a contract with apple, or doing a contract with an alleged "patent troll"?
Saying that "only" patent trolls are evil is not enough. Even if you make business, then having a 20-year monopoly on things in such a fast evolving economy is just outright wrong. There is just so much push in the economy towards new inventions, it would live well without a patent system as well. In fact, it would stifle competition.
Cryptolockers do almost the same thing, they store a key on their servers and take away direct control over your files. But it seems apple is getting away with this. Because its headquarters isn't in a country with cyrillic or chinese writing systems, but in SV.
Same for songs, or rights to songs. Nobody cares if you actually own the rights for Happy birthday, it is enough if you construct a story that makes the courts believe its yours. Fortunately in the Happy birthday case the judge has shown some neutrality.
Well, there would be no direct access of course, but it certainly would be connected to the LAN. Then you can maybe upload data about how to conduct the operation from a nearby computer, or the robot wants to export a protocol file of how and where it did its stitches and add that to the patient's file. Especially interesting for insurances when there is the suspicion that something went wrong during the operation.
You can think of many different things here, and when our current time we live in shows one thing, than its that we are so great at finding reasons why to connect stuff to the internet that doesn't need any connection at all.
It is horrible what has happened to your family, and the holocaust/shoa is one of the biggest crimes in human history.
The muslim database he proposes can mean many things, some dangerous, some less dangerous, some even good. Perhaps he will use it to adapt a (in my eyes very unfair) model that Israel uses already.
Of course, if that database is used for background checks for important positions it would be horrible, but there are many good uses for it as well, for example in order to coordinate efforts to bring moderate and western-friendly imams to the communities, or to reach out and listen to the problems these communities have in order to prevent radicalisation.
It all depends what you make with such a database, and other countries have such databases already.
The american people always has been very welcoming to people who were oppressed because of their religion. That's why you have the amish, the evangelicals, or the mormons, and that's why many jews moved to the USA after the war. But you became very aware towards one religion, and that's the muslims. Probably because of the attacks on the western world conducted by a few who abuse the muslim faith. So you are very cautious, and Trump's success is just an expression of that cautiousness.
But note his positions on these matters are not why I support him. Building a wall is a stupid thing to do. I really like his economic policies though, and that he wants to make peace with russia. This will bring even more peace upon the world (there are *two* proxy wars atm between russia and the west), and perhaps then the west doesn't have to be friends with medieval regimes like saudi arabia any more.
Its almost free for google anyway. They have their own CA, so while they have to maintain to fulfill CA requirements and do all the paperwork, they do not have to pay for one particular certificate.
Yeah, they are so elite. Just recently they have encypted their whole main site over https! Their main site, just think of the processing power required for this. Of course, slashdot is much more advanced than them, we already have encryption since months now.
"globally connected unit" shouldn't mean that you are the puppet of the big corporations which can move production and taxes to wherever its cheapest, and wherever regulations are lowest. This creates a situations where nations have to compete by offering the lowest regulations they can offer, with negative effects to environment and workers.
I don't mind that something is produced at the other end of the world. That's fine. But if its produced in a building that will likely collapse when the next earthquake happens or where a fire means dozens are dead, or where the environment is destroyed, and where there is an alternative that can avoid all these negative effects, then I don't want it.
The third and developing world is cheaper because they don't give a fuck about worker safety and the environment. The moment they care, they become as expensive as the west. This is happening in china at this moment.
And Trump in fact seems to like the democracy more than the other republican candidates. He opposes the system where big corporations fund politicians. He doesn't like the caucus system (or a layered one), and prefers straight voting for the candidate.
Kasich could have won every delegate from Tuesday night to convention time and still would not have caught Trump.
If that unlikely event happened, then there would have been a contested convention. So there would have been a chance of Trump not becoming nominee. Now, with all candidates gone, only Trump remains to get the remaining delegates.
According to wikipedia, HVDC has about 3.5% losses per 1000 km, or 96.5% is kept. This means, on a hypothetical, 20 000 km long power line that spans half the globe to the other side where the sun shines you would have a ratio of.965^20 ==.49. I'm no physicist, perhaps you would require stations on the path to convert the sunk current back up to more efficient levels. But even with this simplistic calculation, you have 51% losses.
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I agree, there is no real distinction between patent trolls and corporations which use patents offensively or through threats but which are no "patent trolls".
The key word is plane here.
Then show me the compliant whatsapp clients, or the microsoft office compliant applications. Its damn hard to reverse engineer a binary data protocol. Perhaps its easier in the age of json, but I doubt it. If you use idapro or similar tools, you infringe their copyright. In fact, security analysts infringe copyright for their day job. Just the copyright holders don't want to tell their names to the state, so they can't sue them.
You can tag people on facebook who haven't registered on it?
Shhh, silent, or somebody files a patent for it and makes a SV startup unicorn.
You know I have nothing against the concept of intellectual property or patents. Its good to have it. The only thing I am against are software patents, as in 99% of the cases they are just trivial patents, and in all other cases they only help the big companies and those with sufficient funding.
About copyright, a term of 70 years after the death of the creator is far too long, and should be life of the creator plus 25 years or something, and 50 years for works that were created by multiple people.
And having a patent term of 20 years in the software industry is far too long. There are four protection mechanisms the software industry has. First, the compiler and minifier: if you publish your software, its hard to find out how it works. Second, non disclosed communication protocols: Often the communication protocols your software uses in order to talk or save stuff or so is not documented, which means only your software can access it. Number three and four are copyright and patent law.
Usage of these four mechanisms has rendered competition impossible in many areas of the software industry, creating world wide monopolies, like google search, microsoft office, or microsoft windows.
The software industry is really fast moving. Having a term of 20 years for patents in the software world is far too much for the industry, there even 5 years mean more than 20 years in other industries. Also, I don't think the software industry needs patents at all. It has a really big a monopoly problem (what I outlined above), and that problem can't be solved by giving them government granted monopolies.
Having a solar driven plane circle the world is still cool.
I mean, yeah, a lot of these cases are patent trolls. But other cases could be legitimate patent issues between two companies.
Can you explain me the difference?
So if you are a company that tries to kill a cheaper competitor by demanding high fees from them because of 'we invented it first' then that's better than a company that focuses in research? And where do you make the difference? Its not apple which manufactures the iphones, its a completely different company. Apple did a contract with that company, but where again, is the difference between foxconn doing a contract with apple, or doing a contract with an alleged "patent troll"?
Both of them "did all the research" haven't they?
Saying that "only" patent trolls are evil is not enough. Even if you make business, then having a 20-year monopoly on things in such a fast evolving economy is just outright wrong. There is just so much push in the economy towards new inventions, it would live well without a patent system as well. In fact, it would stifle competition.
Lol seems I opened a can of worms here
Cryptolockers do almost the same thing, they store a key on their servers and take away direct control over your files. But it seems apple is getting away with this. Because its headquarters isn't in a country with cyrillic or chinese writing systems, but in SV.
Same for songs, or rights to songs. Nobody cares if you actually own the rights for Happy birthday, it is enough if you construct a story that makes the courts believe its yours. Fortunately in the Happy birthday case the judge has shown some neutrality.
Vote for Bernie. Probably he's dead by then but maybe you have luck.
Well, there would be no direct access of course, but it certainly would be connected to the LAN. Then you can maybe upload data about how to conduct the operation from a nearby computer, or the robot wants to export a protocol file of how and where it did its stitches and add that to the patient's file. Especially interesting for insurances when there is the suspicion that something went wrong during the operation.
You can think of many different things here, and when our current time we live in shows one thing, than its that we are so great at finding reasons why to connect stuff to the internet that doesn't need any connection at all.
It is horrible what has happened to your family, and the holocaust/shoa is one of the biggest crimes in human history.
The muslim database he proposes can mean many things, some dangerous, some less dangerous, some even good. Perhaps he will use it to adapt a (in my eyes very unfair) model that Israel uses already.
Of course, if that database is used for background checks for important positions it would be horrible, but there are many good uses for it as well, for example in order to coordinate efforts to bring moderate and western-friendly imams to the communities, or to reach out and listen to the problems these communities have in order to prevent radicalisation.
It all depends what you make with such a database, and other countries have such databases already.
The american people always has been very welcoming to people who were oppressed because of their religion. That's why you have the amish, the evangelicals, or the mormons, and that's why many jews moved to the USA after the war. But you became very aware towards one religion, and that's the muslims. Probably because of the attacks on the western world conducted by a few who abuse the muslim faith. So you are very cautious, and Trump's success is just an expression of that cautiousness.
But note his positions on these matters are not why I support him. Building a wall is a stupid thing to do. I really like his economic policies though, and that he wants to make peace with russia. This will bring even more peace upon the world (there are *two* proxy wars atm between russia and the west), and perhaps then the west doesn't have to be friends with medieval regimes like saudi arabia any more.
Real hackers use emacs.
if your hospital is infected by a virus. And medical computer security is almost non-existent.
Its almost free for google anyway. They have their own CA, so while they have to maintain to fulfill CA requirements and do all the paperwork, they do not have to pay for one particular certificate.
Yeah, they are so elite. Just recently they have encypted their whole main site over https! Their main site, just think of the processing power required for this. Of course, slashdot is much more advanced than them, we already have encryption since months now.
"globally connected unit" shouldn't mean that you are the puppet of the big corporations which can move production and taxes to wherever its cheapest, and wherever regulations are lowest. This creates a situations where nations have to compete by offering the lowest regulations they can offer, with negative effects to environment and workers.
I don't mind that something is produced at the other end of the world. That's fine. But if its produced in a building that will likely collapse when the next earthquake happens or where a fire means dozens are dead, or where the environment is destroyed, and where there is an alternative that can avoid all these negative effects, then I don't want it.
The third and developing world is cheaper because they don't give a fuck about worker safety and the environment. The moment they care, they become as expensive as the west. This is happening in china at this moment.
And Trump in fact seems to like the democracy more than the other republican candidates. He opposes the system where big corporations fund politicians. He doesn't like the caucus system (or a layered one), and prefers straight voting for the candidate.
And you know yourself how much Hillary is supported by people who just outright hate democracy: http://www.thepoliticalinsider...
Yeah somebody you can threaten with an FBI investigation is much better than somebody clean.
Kasich could have won every delegate from Tuesday night to convention time and still would not have caught Trump.
If that unlikely event happened, then there would have been a contested convention. So there would have been a chance of Trump not becoming nominee. Now, with all candidates gone, only Trump remains to get the remaining delegates.
And to linking to an alternate source. Kudos to the editors.
This site always has been partly about US-american politics.
According to wikipedia, HVDC has about 3.5% losses per 1000 km, or 96.5% is kept. This means, on a hypothetical, 20 000 km long power line that spans half the globe to the other side where the sun shines you would have a ratio of .965^20 == .49. I'm no physicist, perhaps you would require stations on the path to convert the sunk current back up to more efficient levels. But even with this simplistic calculation, you have 51% losses.