Tor was created to hide activity from evil governments. Perforce it hides everything from all governments. A free people have to decide if they really want that or not. If all other nations were free democracies with strong constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press (right to duplicate and distribute) then I'd say let's talk.
This decision one way or another should be done consciously through legislation rather than via reinterpretation of old laws by unelected officials looking for another notch in their belt.
So much hot air. So few control groups. If only there was an economist who made multiple loud public predictions against other standard economists. 10 year predictions. What of these predictions were counter-intuitive at that? And they came true and the blustery, book-selling, talking head economists were wrong?
If only such a man existed. You'd think people would adopt his proven theories instead of ignoring them in place of the same failed ones.
These aren't drugs or sirgocal procedures. If someone tries to raise a legal stink over it, I'd try getting it thrown out over freedom of speech.
The purpose of speech is to have an effect on people through words. "Congress shall pass no law", and all that inconvenient stuff. Certainly trying different words to see the effect is part of free speech -- and optimizing it at that.
20 years ago, a department store chain called Crowley's in the midwest went out of business. They did so right after Christmas, refusing to honor all the gift cards people bought, claiming they were "contracts" now null and void.
They sold all those gift cards knowing they were going out of business. Nobody went to jail. My dad got ripped off for $200 for a gift card he bought for my grandma.
It's time to start de-electing politicians who are allowing this busybody (i.e. typical) government agency to run rampant without thought or control, like kings of old.
You do realize the NSA is monitoring this thread, logging IPs and tracking and...
And a bunch of better guys it couldn't be, go get those EFF and Greenpeace terrorist lovers. Take the frist psot while you're at it. (Note I didn't use "ur"! Yey America!)
I think your solution leaves out that many of the H1-B visa applicants would be willing to work for less than the $13,000 gap, resulting in lower salaries all around, the same amount of displaced workers, and more exploitation. When stated out load, it actually sounds like an ideal solution for corporate america -- never mind.
Not only that, but I have no desire to give the government a way to profiteer off this, thus introducing a reason to have it yet keep the cost down in the "eh, cost of doing business" level.
Morpheus: You're going to learn, Neo, that there's a difference between a law that may or may not be a good idea, and whether the government was given the power to create that law by its constitution.
If it isn't, the correct course is to amend the constitution by the deliberately laborious process of convincing most people it's a good idea. This process stops, or at least slows, the decline to dictatorship by government exercising ever more expanded powers.
Neo: But The People!
Morpheus: We're here, and listening, but also scared shitless by human history.
I learned one important thing from that web site: It was programmed by yet another clown who feels it's vital to have a menu overlay taking up 25% of my scarce phone screen real estate.
I propose a Constitutional amendment to execute them. Whoever decided tiny screens need to be even tinier deserves it.
To put this negotiation process in perspective, it's like the Ghostbusters negotiating for the old firehouse.
Venkman: What do you think, Egon?
Spengler: I think this building should be condemned. Thereâ(TM)s serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, itâ(TM)s completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.
Stantz: Hey. Does this fire pole still work? Wow. This place is great. When can we move in? You gotta try this pole. Iâ(TM)m gonna get my stuff. Hey. We should stay here. Tonight. Sleep here. You know, to try it out.
Venkman: I think weâ(TM)ll take it.
Outing the negotiation early will get complaints about bad things we pseudo-want but are actually using to twist someone's arm decried by our own populace, thus the other side is no longer afraid of it making it into the final treaty.
Well, can you patent a gene? A ton of expensive investment and clever innovation could be involved to discover it, greater than many "normal" inventions.
You can't patent a molecule. Saying all software is algorithms and thus not patentable is like saying the Wright Brother's plane is a giant molecule and thus not patentable.
You are overly worried. Obama already has a meme for this scenario: The law still demands these things be done, this just cuts the funding.
But I shall interpret the demand as creating a valid debt, which, by the Constitution, we are obligated to pay. Therefore I shall ignore Congress' spending freeze just like I wanted to do in the sequester debacle.
1. [We have long held that] Laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are “the basic tools of scientific and technological work.” and are not patentable.
2. Restricting such an idea and applying it in a particular domain also is not patentable, long established.
3. This is an abstract idea -- and a well-known one in your industry at that.
4. Applying it "on a computer" is trying to patent it in a restricted domain, and thus not patentable.
So this is basically a smartphone app to feed a Bluetooth audio stream to the car's audio system, which is designed exactly for this anyway and people already do with their phones.
Got it. Project an interface -- project away and wait for the lawsuits you have no idea about but the automotive industry does.
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Tor was created to hide activity from evil governments. Perforce it hides everything from all governments. A free people have to decide if they really want that or not. If all other nations were free democracies with strong constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press (right to duplicate and distribute) then I'd say let's talk.
This decision one way or another should be done consciously through legislation rather than via reinterpretation of old laws by unelected officials looking for another notch in their belt.
' Google said, "The Gmail account, DummyThrowawaySoICanSignUpForBigBrother9LiveFeed@gmail.com, had not been accessed in quite some time." '
> belts...[use instead] elastic waistbands
I hear Sandisk diskless flash chips company started out as the Sansabelt slacks company.
So much hot air. So few control groups. If only there was an economist who made multiple loud public predictions against other standard economists. 10 year predictions. What of these predictions were counter-intuitive at that? And they came true and the blustery, book-selling, talking head economists were wrong?
If only such a man existed. You'd think people would adopt his proven theories instead of ignoring them in place of the same failed ones.
If only such a man existed.
If only such a theory existed.
Attention congressional assclowns! We view you as a cybersecurity threat, and intend to take care of it at the next election.
Wow that was an impressive misspelling of "surgical".
These aren't drugs or sirgocal procedures. If someone tries to raise a legal stink over it, I'd try getting it thrown out over freedom of speech.
The purpose of speech is to have an effect on people through words. "Congress shall pass no law", and all that inconvenient stuff. Certainly trying different words to see the effect is part of free speech -- and optimizing it at that.
Many older apartment buildings had a common antenna on the roof for a TV, and a lead in your apartment you could attach to your TV.
I wonder how that would play out in this modern environment, given it was part of your rent, even if not called out explicitly.
I wonder if modern HD TV is handled in a similar way in any apartment buildings, not that most people would use anything but cable anyway.
The only non-adaptive, risk-averse, useless, ancient dinosaur here is government-as-usual.
20 years ago, a department store chain called Crowley's in the midwest went out of business. They did so right after Christmas, refusing to honor all the gift cards people bought, claiming they were "contracts" now null and void.
They sold all those gift cards knowing they were going out of business. Nobody went to jail. My dad got ripped off for $200 for a gift card he bought for my grandma.
It's time to start de-electing politicians who are allowing this busybody (i.e. typical) government agency to run rampant without thought or control, like kings of old.
"Stop flying it more safely! You may only fly it the more dangerous old way!"
You do realize the NSA is monitoring this thread, logging IPs and tracking and...
And a bunch of better guys it couldn't be, go get those EFF and Greenpeace terrorist lovers. Take the frist psot while you're at it. (Note I didn't use "ur"! Yey America!)
I think your solution leaves out that many of the H1-B visa applicants would be willing to work for less than the $13,000 gap, resulting in lower salaries all around, the same amount of displaced workers, and more exploitation. When stated out load, it actually sounds like an ideal solution for corporate america -- never mind.
Not only that, but I have no desire to give the government a way to profiteer off this, thus introducing a reason to have it yet keep the cost down in the "eh, cost of doing business" level.
Morpheus: You're going to learn, Neo, that there's a difference between a law that may or may not be a good idea, and whether the government was given the power to create that law by its constitution.
If it isn't, the correct course is to amend the constitution by the deliberately laborious process of convincing most people it's a good idea. This process stops, or at least slows, the decline to dictatorship by government exercising ever more expanded powers.
Neo: But The People!
Morpheus: We're here, and listening, but also scared shitless by human history.
I learned one important thing from that web site: It was programmed by yet another clown who feels it's vital to have a menu overlay taking up 25% of my scarce phone screen real estate.
I propose a Constitutional amendment to execute them. Whoever decided tiny screens need to be even tinier deserves it.
I assume US citizens can still find this stuff in searches.
umptions that the other way is better are silly.
Whence cometh the idea it's "only for recreational purposes"?
FAA, we The People, hereby instruct you to quit dragging ass and come up with commercial service. Yours is to obey us, not the other way around.
Also, Congress should get off its ass and mandate this too.
To put this negotiation process in perspective, it's like the Ghostbusters negotiating for the old firehouse.
Venkman: What do you think, Egon?
Spengler: I think this building should be condemned. Thereâ(TM)s serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, itâ(TM)s completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.
Stantz: Hey. Does this fire pole still work? Wow. This place is great. When can we move in? You gotta try this pole. Iâ(TM)m gonna get my stuff. Hey. We should stay here. Tonight. Sleep here. You know, to try it out.
Venkman: I think weâ(TM)ll take it.
Outing the negotiation early will get complaints about bad things we pseudo-want but are actually using to twist someone's arm decried by our own populace, thus the other side is no longer afraid of it making it into the final treaty.
Well, can you patent a gene? A ton of expensive investment and clever innovation could be involved to discover it, greater than many "normal" inventions.
You can't patent a molecule. Saying all software is algorithms and thus not patentable is like saying the Wright Brother's plane is a giant molecule and thus not patentable.
You are overly worried. Obama already has a meme for this scenario: The law still demands these things be done, this just cuts the funding.
But I shall interpret the demand as creating a valid debt, which, by the Constitution, we are obligated to pay. Therefore I shall ignore Congress' spending freeze just like I wanted to do in the sequester debacle.
It's all memes baby!
Well...saying people with salaries approaching or exceeding six figures are "getting fucked" is a bit of an exaggeration.
A summary of the decision:
1. [We have long held that] Laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are “the basic tools of scientific and technological work.” and are not patentable.
2. Restricting such an idea and applying it in a particular domain also is not patentable, long established.
3. This is an abstract idea -- and a well-known one in your industry at that.
4. Applying it "on a computer" is trying to patent it in a restricted domain, and thus not patentable.
5. quo novus ordo et tu Brute seclorum GT 9-0 FO
So this is basically a smartphone app to feed a Bluetooth audio stream to the car's audio system, which is designed exactly for this anyway and people already do with their phones.
Got it. Project an interface -- project away and wait for the lawsuits you have no idea about but the automotive industry does.