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The major problem is there is no way for the PTO to search prior art in the case of business models.
Keep in mind that their current rules keep them from even doing google searches. The only thing they can search are the congressional library resources. Any search out side of that could reveal details of what is going to be patented.
Software patents are a real problem because a large number of people didn't know the rules had changed and were under the wrong impression that software patents were not valid. Those companies that went ahead anyway are now the winners in the patent issues. The same thing will repeat with business model patents.
Cars have to transport that energy too and they have massive losses as well. Powerplants haven't been in the 95% range for a long time but modern cars are much worse than 45%.
Most decent car tech came from auto racing. There is also a problem getting the cars slower so they introduce new rules every year. Too bad the race committee isn't taking advantage of their power to increase R&D in new areas. If they said next years cars had to use electric motors but could power them anyway they wanted, it could be quite interesting.
Lovely facts...
Your 3,4,5 rule is not correct.
3 is used for many different cards just like 6.
Visa (which gets about 60% of the cc business) has almost exclusive use of 4..... but MasterCard which only has 30% has to share 5 with other compaines like JBC and Eurocard.
The 6 digit blocks are allocated to a bank or collection of banks that have their own processing systems. Most small banks don't have their own systems and use someone else which takes care of the consolidation of small banks.
19 digit card number... Commenwelth Bank of Australia. This is not the CVV codes which also are 3 digits.
The mod 10 checksum assumes you drop a nibble of data on alphas and if they were in ebcdic they work just fine. The routine was designed so that it could be done very quickly on old mainframes. If you take more than 5 lines of code to do it, something is wrong.
You are right about the track 2 being all numbers.
Also correct with most machines not accepting alphas in cc numbers. As far as entering them, my mobile phone lets me do it just fine.
There are cards in circulation with as few as 9 digits. Sometimes the short cards have trailing zeros on their mag strip sometimes they don't.
I'm not sure smart cards are going to work in the real world. I've got a card from an early pilot project a few years ago and now the card won't work. Did I lose the value on the card? Is that money just gone? I know people who refuse to use phone smart cards because they have lost money when they die.
I now two women who can't wear electronic watches because they end up zapped. They just seem to have strange static field that tends to wipe out stuff. One used to wipe out computers constantly until she went with full anti-static precautions (floor mat, wrist strap, even anti-static chair). Will these people ever be able to use smart cards?
I'm in Oz which is a "world leaderd in HDTV" because they wanted to do it before the olympics. HDTVs here cost about the same as a new car.
I keep hearing about how great PAL is but the only problem is I have not seen a decent picture on any TV in oz yet. Most of the broadcast stuff has funky frame rates (are they using 30 frame transmission stuff and then cutting it to pal?), the convertion from film (24 fps) to PAL (25 fps) is done by speeding up the movies. That tends to change the pitch of all the audio and things just don't seem right. American (can Canadian) TV is the major source of programs and every time anything is supposed to move fast, it gets blocky or jittery. Even locally produced stuff is done at 30 frames since they can't sell 25 fps stuff to the US market. Same is true in NZ. Zena is done at 30 fps, not 25. The sports boradcasing always has mpeg blockyness and there just isn't smooth action.
If I send a spamers email address off to abuse@bozo's_isp and the spamer contacts the prosecutor's office, then I'll get a peice of paper with the spamers address on it.
I think I can live with that risk. After all if I can quantitize the abuse to enough real $$$ then they can be coutnter sued.
Personaly I think this is just one more way that Australia is tring to take over the title of most litigious country on earth.
These rules apply in the US as well. The coopyright law is the same except now Oz law states that email is a "created work". In the US email is also a "created work" and has the same protection, its just not listed in the CFR. You could nail someone for copyright infringment for publishing your email in the US but the court could decide the publishing was "fair use". Same thing could happen in Aus as well. If I send email to the editors @ "the Age" (a local news paper), they can assume I intended for them to publish it and publish it under fair use.
This is not new, its just clearing up some confusion. Check out the legaleese sections of any book publishing site (like ora.com or lonely planet are two I know). They mention that they have the right to use email you send them in their books.
Transport of a message is not replicating work according to most countrie's copyright rules.
Codes, codes and more codes. There is a theory (deja sci.geo.sat-nav for ref) that the codes used by the GPS sats are unique. The reason for this is that they broadcast are exteremely predictable data. If they were discovered, then it would comprmise all US military sat communications. Some say the code was developed at the NSA in a "clean room" enviroment with new crypto experts.
SA was a pseuedo random delay put into the timing signals. The pseudo random SA offsets are predictable. Someone posted the pseudo random cryto polynomial years ago how ever no one ever got very far predicting it away. It may had had something to do with crap hardware used to induce the random signal which is a coil of wire and motor on the early sats. Some stats (PRN #1) never did SA at all. Others seemed to do it improperly. Someone (at trimble?) figured out you could find the exact bit start by looking for a bit that gets cut out of the encrypted military channel. The bit timing is so precise that its adjusts the start of the data stream based on exact seconds (down to the picosecond) but there is not nice way to get the baud rate divided into seconds because of inconsistant relativity time shifts. The basic idea is use the unencrypted data for position but figure out just what the time offset is beteeen the two signals. This is in addition to the time offsets because of the differen frequences used L1,L2,L5.
The keys for the military channel get generated on the ground and transmitted to all the sats. Usualy that happens from Colorado but could happen from other places too. Everything else is from fake random numbers generated based on well published routines.
What would happen if NASA started naming projects after dead presidents? I suspect that would cause more budget interest at the cost of stupid names for things but do you think Jr would kill a project named after dad?
In the US and Europe most works are created by a copyright by the person that created the work (not the company). The copyright notice is there to show others they should not assume its in the public domain as well as provide proof of first publishing.
This could be brought to the public attention by getting someone (EFF?) to sue someone public (like the goverment, library or university) that uses a large web cache for copyright violation.
I just paid AU$2202. for an X1 from a sun distributer. With the Aussie doller sitting at US.525 its not that much more. That included 10% GST. This is the one that Sun claims is under $2000 on their web page and US$995.
Of course most adverting people have such a fine grasp on math that they can't deal with division.
Look at TV shop "market share" some time. The ad rates are higher for a show that gets 40% of the viewers even though the total number or people watching is 1/10 of a 20% share show however they keep moving shows to more competitve timeslots. This is why networks will take decent shows and run them aginst popular shows and then cancel them and the networks still haven't figured it out. You would have thought that when the simpsons hit the cosby show time slot, someone would have figured out they could double their ad revenue by shifting one of the shows 1/2 hour but they didn't and they both lost out.
Computer people should take a few pages out of the adverting game book. For example, how about getting paid to do proposals that suck? Advertiing people charge you to give sales presentations.
Of course what do ad agencies sell? Its not your companys product, its their own. Their goals are not to get your product out the door but to convince you that you need to spend more on advertising with them. Typically it starts with a "low cost" program and then they come back and push the even more expensive ads.
The solution to this is set base rates for non-standard ads to be 500x the normal rate. After all its going to be seen right?
The dolphins I've see all have much larger mouths and teeth than the sharks I've seen and I've seen a fair number of both. Sure the great white is big but most sharks are slightly smaller than dolphins and won't attack people except by mistake. Dolphins on the other hand will play with humans and they play rough. They have also been known to attempt to stun people with their sonar. it works with small fish and not so well with humans but it could be fatal.
I just mentioned the point to bring up some interesting discussion. I'm not the least bit worried about being attacked by a either sharks or dolphins.
These people claim there was 1 shark attack fatality in 2000 in the US
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/statistics/ 20 00attacksummary.htm
That was the year which a kid was killed in Fl after being knocked in the head by a bottle nose dolphin but I can't find that story.
Story about another dolphin attack
http://www.i5ive.com/article.cfm/whales/23805
Yet another story:
http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask99/0494.ht ml
After one of those stories hit the main press was when the Parks dept sent out their warning which basicly said that warning were to be put up where people my interact with dolphins saying that they are wild animals and can be unpredictable.
Dolphins (and sharks) are natural killers. That how they survive. Recently a large amount of evidence shows they can be violent. A google search on "dolphin attack" will give you lots of reading material.
Most transactions are not 1 to 1. Money fixes that problem. If you grow grain and you want bred, you can trade with a baker for bread. Fair and cash free transaction where you both gain. Now extend that a bit more. How about a new plow? You have grain but the plow maker has no use for grain, he wants bread so will he take your grain in trade for the plow and then trade the grain for bread? now he has to be able to haul around grain. This is why money was invented.
Debt is something that lets people maintain their trading balance through hard times. If you farm you would know this but I expect you've never even seen a farm. Some years the crops just don't happen. Go back 50 or 100 to 300 years and things were much worse than the risks today of bad crops. Debt allows people to continue to obtain the things they need when their source of income dries up.
Debt is something that has allowed the industrial revolution to happen. Up until the late 1800's, Christians in most of Europe were not allowed to go into debt and the only bankers were Jewish. This resulted in the Jewish community ending up with a much more stable economic situation as europe destoryed its self through war and was one of the leading causes of the bad will towards Jews that was widespread in before WW2.
I wonder if this will be like some of the attempts to speak with apes that turned out to be scientifically flawed and many of the results are due to wishful thinking on the part of the researchers. One example is the Koko uses American Sign Language which some words must be done at specific locations. Koko never did that so when some researchers were counting its vocabulary they would over count simple hand motions. People who often used sign language to communicate with others didn't understand what Koko was saying. Koko's communication was no more complex than the communication between smart dogs and preceptive masters.
I wonder if this is going to be the same thing.
A side note about cute dolphins: The US Parks department had a warning a few years ago because
dolphins kill and attack more people in the US than sharks.
They have a strong military. Its called the US Army/Air Force/Navy.
Remember that Germany and Japan started something called WWII and Germany did their best to destroy France and Italy? Part of their rebuilding plan was they would allow the US to provide their defense so they could use that money to rebuild. Now France and Italy aren't worried about other countires invading so their militray has adapted.
There is a large number of US jets stationed at many of Canada's air force bases.
The golf war was about protecting Europe's Oil. The US doesn't use much oil out of the Gulf any more. The US gets its imported oil out of the North Sea. The reason the US got involved was to keep everyone elses oil supply safe so that places like Japan and Europe wouldn't have an economic collapse when oil prices went up. The economys of places like France to just to damn unstable to deal with energy prices changes and the US wasn't going to let that bring them down.
Your looking at it as a zero-sum-gain situation. If that was the case, then there would be no advantage to have seperate wheat farmers and bakers since none of them add an real value. Since we learned to have seperate farmers and bakers, we have produce more since the farmer can optimize farming without also spending time to feed him self and the baker can produce food for many other people letting them work on other things. Maybe you should go read the first chapter on an economics book some time.
The explotation you describe just makes some level of the exchange look better for some people but is not required.
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The major problem is there is no way for the PTO to search prior art in the case of business models.
Keep in mind that their current rules keep them from even doing google searches. The only thing they can search are the congressional library resources. Any search out side of that could reveal details of what is going to be patented.
Software patents are a real problem because a large number of people didn't know the rules had changed and were under the wrong impression that software patents were not valid. Those companies that went ahead anyway are now the winners in the patent issues. The same thing will repeat with business model patents.
Cars have to transport that energy too and they have massive losses as well. Powerplants haven't been in the 95% range for a long time but modern cars are much worse than 45%.
Most decent car tech came from auto racing. There is also a problem getting the cars slower so they introduce new rules every year. Too bad the race committee isn't taking advantage of their power to increase R&D in new areas. If they said next years cars had to use electric motors but could power them anyway they wanted, it could be quite interesting.
Lovely facts...
Your 3,4,5 rule is not correct.
3 is used for many different cards just like 6.
Visa (which gets about 60% of the cc business) has almost exclusive use of 4..... but MasterCard which only has 30% has to share 5 with other compaines like JBC and Eurocard.
The 6 digit blocks are allocated to a bank or collection of banks that have their own processing systems. Most small banks don't have their own systems and use someone else which takes care of the consolidation of small banks.
19 digit card number... Commenwelth Bank of Australia. This is not the CVV codes which also are 3 digits.
The mod 10 checksum assumes you drop a nibble of data on alphas and if they were in ebcdic they work just fine. The routine was designed so that it could be done very quickly on old mainframes. If you take more than 5 lines of code to do it, something is wrong.
You are right about the track 2 being all numbers.
Also correct with most machines not accepting alphas in cc numbers. As far as entering them, my mobile phone lets me do it just fine.
There are cards in circulation with as few as 9 digits. Sometimes the short cards have trailing zeros on their mag strip sometimes they don't.
I'm not sure smart cards are going to work in the real world. I've got a card from an early pilot project a few years ago and now the card won't work. Did I lose the value on the card? Is that money just gone? I know people who refuse to use phone smart cards because they have lost money when they die.
I now two women who can't wear electronic watches because they end up zapped. They just seem to have strange static field that tends to wipe out stuff. One used to wipe out computers constantly until she went with full anti-static precautions (floor mat, wrist strap, even anti-static chair). Will these people ever be able to use smart cards?
The 1st 6 digits are assigned in blocks.
Credit card numbers can have 19 digits, not just 16. This is going to burn lots of people who assume that the cards are only 16.
There is nothing keeping letters out of the credit card numbers. The mod 10 checksum even allows for it.
Large amounts of the number space have been taken by some of the visa 12 digit cards.
Robin Hood is about the people with nothing attacking and taking what belongs to the rich for use by themselves. Thats what this is about.
Of course some would consider it inapproprate allocation of resources but that is always the case with any sort of wealth.
I'm in Oz which is a "world leaderd in HDTV" because they wanted to do it before the olympics. HDTVs here cost about the same as a new car.
I keep hearing about how great PAL is but the only problem is I have not seen a decent picture on any TV in oz yet. Most of the broadcast stuff has funky frame rates (are they using 30 frame transmission stuff and then cutting it to pal?), the convertion from film (24 fps) to PAL (25 fps) is done by speeding up the movies. That tends to change the pitch of all the audio and things just don't seem right. American (can Canadian) TV is the major source of programs and every time anything is supposed to move fast, it gets blocky or jittery. Even locally produced stuff is done at 30 frames since they can't sell 25 fps stuff to the US market. Same is true in NZ. Zena is done at 30 fps, not 25. The sports boradcasing always has mpeg blockyness and there just isn't smooth action.
If I send a spamers email address off to abuse@bozo's_isp and the spamer contacts the prosecutor's office, then I'll get a peice of paper with the spamers address on it.
I think I can live with that risk. After all if I can quantitize the abuse to enough real $$$ then they can be coutnter sued.
Personaly I think this is just one more way that Australia is tring to take over the title of most litigious country on earth.
These rules apply in the US as well. The coopyright law is the same except now Oz law states that email is a "created work". In the US email is also a "created work" and has the same protection, its just not listed in the CFR. You could nail someone for copyright infringment for publishing your email in the US but the court could decide the publishing was "fair use". Same thing could happen in Aus as well. If I send email to the editors @ "the Age" (a local news paper), they can assume I intended for them to publish it and publish it under fair use.
This is not new, its just clearing up some confusion. Check out the legaleese sections of any book publishing site (like ora.com or lonely planet are two I know). They mention that they have the right to use email you send them in their books.
Transport of a message is not replicating work according to most countrie's copyright rules.
Codes, codes and more codes. There is a theory (deja sci.geo.sat-nav for ref) that the codes used by the GPS sats are unique. The reason for this is that they broadcast are exteremely predictable data. If they were discovered, then it would comprmise all US military sat communications. Some say the code was developed at the NSA in a "clean room" enviroment with new crypto experts.
SA was a pseuedo random delay put into the timing signals. The pseudo random SA offsets are predictable. Someone posted the pseudo random cryto polynomial years ago how ever no one ever got very far predicting it away. It may had had something to do with crap hardware used to induce the random signal which is a coil of wire and motor on the early sats. Some stats (PRN #1) never did SA at all. Others seemed to do it improperly. Someone (at trimble?) figured out you could find the exact bit start by looking for a bit that gets cut out of the encrypted military channel. The bit timing is so precise that its adjusts the start of the data stream based on exact seconds (down to the picosecond) but there is not nice way to get the baud rate divided into seconds because of inconsistant relativity time shifts. The basic idea is use the unencrypted data for position but figure out just what the time offset is beteeen the two signals. This is in addition to the time offsets because of the differen frequences used L1,L2,L5.
The keys for the military channel get generated on the ground and transmitted to all the sats. Usualy that happens from Colorado but could happen from other places too. Everything else is from fake random numbers generated based on well published routines.
What would happen if NASA started naming projects after dead presidents? I suspect that would cause more budget interest at the cost of stupid names for things but do you think Jr would kill a project named after dad?
In the US and Europe most works are created by a copyright by the person that created the work (not the company). The copyright notice is there to show others they should not assume its in the public domain as well as provide proof of first publishing.
This could be brought to the public attention by getting someone (EFF?) to sue someone public (like the goverment, library or university) that uses a large web cache for copyright violation.
I just paid AU$2202. for an X1 from a sun distributer. With the Aussie doller sitting at US.525 its not that much more. That included 10% GST. This is the one that Sun claims is under $2000 on their web page and US$995.
Dude, Kingson isn't brand name memory. Its brand name packaging. Brand names in memory silicon vendors like Micron.
Sun told me that they don't even support the SS20 with Solaris 8.
Bummer.
Thats ok. I'm going to start running ascii art banner ads just for you!
Of course most adverting people have such a fine grasp on math that they can't deal with division.
Look at TV shop "market share" some time. The ad rates are higher for a show that gets 40% of the viewers even though the total number or people watching is 1/10 of a 20% share show however they keep moving shows to more competitve timeslots. This is why networks will take decent shows and run them aginst popular shows and then cancel them and the networks still haven't figured it out. You would have thought that when the simpsons hit the cosby show time slot, someone would have figured out they could double their ad revenue by shifting one of the shows 1/2 hour but they didn't and they both lost out.
Computer people should take a few pages out of the adverting game book. For example, how about getting paid to do proposals that suck? Advertiing people charge you to give sales presentations.
Of course what do ad agencies sell? Its not your companys product, its their own. Their goals are not to get your product out the door but to convince you that you need to spend more on advertising with them. Typically it starts with a "low cost" program and then they come back and push the even more expensive ads.
The solution to this is set base rates for non-standard ads to be 500x the normal rate. After all its going to be seen right?
The dolphins I've see all have much larger mouths and teeth than the sharks I've seen and I've seen a fair number of both. Sure the great white is big but most sharks are slightly smaller than dolphins and won't attack people except by mistake. Dolphins on the other hand will play with humans and they play rough. They have also been known to attempt to stun people with their sonar. it works with small fish and not so well with humans but it could be fatal.
I just mentioned the point to bring up some interesting discussion. I'm not the least bit worried about being attacked by a either sharks or dolphins.
These people claim there was 1 shark attack fatality in 2000 in the US/ 20 00attacksummary.htm
t ml
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/statistics
That was the year which a kid was killed in Fl after being knocked in the head by a bottle nose dolphin but I can't find that story.
Story about another dolphin attack
http://www.i5ive.com/article.cfm/whales/23805
Yet another story:
http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask99/0494.h
After one of those stories hit the main press was when the Parks dept sent out their warning which basicly said that warning were to be put up where people my interact with dolphins saying that they are wild animals and can be unpredictable.
Dolphins (and sharks) are natural killers. That how they survive. Recently a large amount of evidence shows they can be violent. A google search on "dolphin attack" will give you lots of reading material.
Maybe you should go read one of those books.
Most transactions are not 1 to 1. Money fixes that problem. If you grow grain and you want bred, you can trade with a baker for bread. Fair and cash free transaction where you both gain. Now extend that a bit more. How about a new plow? You have grain but the plow maker has no use for grain, he wants bread so will he take your grain in trade for the plow and then trade the grain for bread? now he has to be able to haul around grain. This is why money was invented.
Debt is something that lets people maintain their trading balance through hard times. If you farm you would know this but I expect you've never even seen a farm. Some years the crops just don't happen. Go back 50 or 100 to 300 years and things were much worse than the risks today of bad crops. Debt allows people to continue to obtain the things they need when their source of income dries up.
Debt is something that has allowed the industrial revolution to happen. Up until the late 1800's, Christians in most of Europe were not allowed to go into debt and the only bankers were Jewish. This resulted in the Jewish community ending up with a much more stable economic situation as europe destoryed its self through war and was one of the leading causes of the bad will towards Jews that was widespread in before WW2.
I wonder if this will be like some of the attempts to speak with apes that turned out to be scientifically flawed and many of the results are due to wishful thinking on the part of the researchers. One example is the Koko uses American Sign Language which some words must be done at specific locations. Koko never did that so when some researchers were counting its vocabulary they would over count simple hand motions. People who often used sign language to communicate with others didn't understand what Koko was saying. Koko's communication was no more complex than the communication between smart dogs and preceptive masters.
I wonder if this is going to be the same thing.
A side note about cute dolphins: The US Parks department had a warning a few years ago because
dolphins kill and attack more people in the US than sharks.
I thought it would be a story about the dolphins right before the world was destoryed.
Don't Panic!
They have a strong military. Its called the US Army/Air Force/Navy.
Remember that Germany and Japan started something called WWII and Germany did their best to destroy France and Italy? Part of their rebuilding plan was they would allow the US to provide their defense so they could use that money to rebuild. Now France and Italy aren't worried about other countires invading so their militray has adapted.
There is a large number of US jets stationed at many of Canada's air force bases.
The golf war was about protecting Europe's Oil. The US doesn't use much oil out of the Gulf any more. The US gets its imported oil out of the North Sea. The reason the US got involved was to keep everyone elses oil supply safe so that places like Japan and Europe wouldn't have an economic collapse when oil prices went up. The economys of places like France to just to damn unstable to deal with energy prices changes and the US wasn't going to let that bring them down.
Your looking at it as a zero-sum-gain situation. If that was the case, then there would be no advantage to have seperate wheat farmers and bakers since none of them add an real value. Since we learned to have seperate farmers and bakers, we have produce more since the farmer can optimize farming without also spending time to feed him self and the baker can produce food for many other people letting them work on other things. Maybe you should go read the first chapter on an economics book some time.
The explotation you describe just makes some level of the exchange look better for some people but is not required.