Actually it does. linky. Most things don't have to be 'perfect' when 'good enough' will get the job done - especially in low economic areas.
Commercial product would cost thousands of dollars. you can print this robo-hand for maybe a hundred bucks. Shipping one printer to a 3rd world country is going to be much much cheaper than importing everything already made.
And that needs a 3D printer why, please tell. The solar panels are presumably produced by conventional means, but somehow that doesn't work for simple accessories?
Never said it 'needs' a 3D printer. just that it can be done easier and simpler than setting up an entire manufacturing process to build by 'conventional' means. I haven't seen a desktop injection molder for $500 bucks - have you?. And comparing the complex nature of a solar panel to plastic parts and gears is ridiculous.
Food is special, because recipes are explicitly not copyrightable. As long as they call it something else and don't infringe on trademarks, it's completely fair game to copy someone else.
As you say 'tributes' are tried and true ways of copying stuff. Counterfeits are basically 'just' fraud and not an IP issue technically speaking.
Counterfeits are not Knock Offs. Very different things. It's a tried and true tactic to conflate them by the entrenched industry players though.
Citation provided. Also go read stuff at TechDirt. Lots of good material there on a variety of IP issues.
When/if the hypothetical 3D-printing is used by both the fake and the real — producing indistinguishable pieces from the same designs — the clothing designer will stop being a profession and become a hobby.
Have you seen the fashion industry lately? (and by lately I mean for decades) It's entirely copy what's hot and make something as close to the original as possible. Nobody NEEDS the latest fashion, yet year after year it's a multi-billion dollar industry that's rife with product that is very hard to distinguish from the brand name stuff.
if some other way to reward designers is not found, they'll stop designing
They currently do NOT have any 'reward' for fashion designers. There is no IP protection in fashion. And yet they make very very good money - oh and they haven't stopped designing. It's a cut-throat business to be sure, but that just means the best rise and innovate faster than the market can keep up. Exactly how a free market is supposed to work.
We could make replica parts (in plastic) that once painted you'd have a hard time telling they weren't the real thing just from looking at them.
So you're saying you've passed off fake stuff as geniune? Lets just say I don't want my brake rotor to only 'look' real...
Actually you can print metal.
At home? In your family room? I wouldn't recommend that... Yes there are printers that can do that stuff, but you simply aren't going to have them be usable by the average person in their home.
no but by bringing costs down, it frees up money to be put to those things. When things are ubiquitous they aren't stolen very often since by definition they're everywhere.
Reliable electricity? I'll be good money you could 3D print most parts to make a stand for a solar panel to make it a heliostat, thus providing 'more' power.
Bad example as these were the target of lawsuits already:) Somebody uploaded warhammer-esque figurines to thingiverse and got slapped hard by the copyright holders.
For years cheap knock-offs of designer clothes and footwear have been available at a fraction of the "real thing" prices.
And you know what? GOOD designers are still THRIVING despite having no IP laws protecting them...
People buy knock offs to 'look' cool, and when they can afford the Prada bag...they tend to buy it.
this will HELP people who design things by making them better and faster at it. If not, then they go out of business...which is sort what business is about no?
You know how many people make backup copies of software and movies in case they lose the original media? (yes I know, physical media is dead! Long live physical media!)
I see people now going to also scan in the pieces of whatever they bought so that when something breaks, they can just print out a replacement on the spot.
OOOORRRRR really good companies actually provide you with the 3D design for the parts directly. Saves them materials,inventory and shipping costs for the few people who need replacements.
Filabot - a machine that takes your recyclable plastic and converts it into filament that your 3D printer uses. Even uses your old printed objects as well.
Only in that we don't need them to build our trinkets anymore. On the other hand though, they now can build things themselves in the same manner. Cheaper and locally. On sum I suspect it will really *help* developing countries a lot more than it might ever hurt.
It's a lot more like replacement or 'custom' parts rather than the full product itself.
You can't copyright a recipe. I would think that 'dimensions' would be very very similar to a 'recipe' though I have no idea if that's been legally fought/settled.
Nobody is going to have the ability to print out an actual car. (yes there's a guy who just did it, but it's not actually a BMW, just a bunch of plastic). Printers simply aren't going to be user quality and printing in materials like steel or carbon fiber.
The cost and complexity of building such a massive operation in the Antarctic isn't worth the effort for a hundred(ish) degrees difference in starting temperature. And what happens if you have a power outage or other such mechanical problem? The 'stored' CO2 you're refrigerating is going right back to gas form and poof you've lost all your progress. You'd get better bang for your buck by building the wind turbines here and reducing our CO2 emissions at the source.
We need to find a way to store CO2 in a format that doesn't require active input to keep it sequestered.
This is one such method. Storing in underground 'vaults' is another though I'd suspect it's far from certain that it would stay there for 1000s of years.
First off, do we have a proven or at least technically sound way to actually capture all the CO2 released from Coal plants? Next up is mobile sources like cars?
If a car emits 5 tons of CO2 annually, that means every day ~25-30 pounds of CO2 needs to be collected, pressurized and stored on vehicle. That's going to add up quick and it's not really something the average person can store up even to a weeks worth of I wouldn't think.
'At least' with nuclear the waste can be stored on site (but obviously we don't all have DeLorean's with Flux Capacitors either!)
The energy for pumping can be made green if it's electric. And even if at first all power comes from coal plants, unless we spend 100% more energy to store 50% of our emissions, it's a net gain isn't it? (or whatever the actual equation would be...don't take that as gospel)
if you aren't aging then you are still viable as a worker. This isn't just extending the time we're elderly, this is extending the time we're in our prime work years.
As has been noted. Having a question that incriminates the 3rd party witness by default makes that person not a 3rd party witness for the purposes of the question.
The situation being asked about is someone who is 3rd party and not at all related and quite presumably not affected by anything that might be asked. If they are asked something like that then plead the 5th because they aren't 'disinterested' anymore.
That's why you have a lawyer. He asks the judge based on what you tell him (and the NSA!) as to whether you have grounds for 5th amendment. The judge can either agree or disagree and compel you to testify. If you have reason to believe answering the question may possibly incriminate yourself, then you ask for immunity from prosecution if the judge doesn't give you outright 5th amendment protections.
I'm actually unsure why this even got posted. "Why aren't 3rd parties protected?" Uh, because they aren't in jeopardy perhaps?
So, you'd enjoy a Japanese military with significant offensive capability? We tried that once...now you can certainly argue they're 'different' now, and you'd probably be right. But it's not why the policy was started. You really didn't want an armed Japan or Germany for that matter after WWII.
Take a look where most of the land is. It's in temperate to tropical zones. And how exactly to you move a few billion people to these new 'polar' paradises?
A photo posted on facebook doesn't automatically provide
Did you miss the part about facial recognition? Or perhaps the numerous times Facebook has been caught using their cookies to track *everyone* even when you're not logged into Facebook or even a friggin member?
Facebook's entire business plan is to link data to actual people. This gives them the face to do it even more.
Home Depot, Best Buy and Apple already know the local tax rates because they have physical presences in those states and already calculate the taxes. Amazon does not have the physical presence that they do.
I'm all in favor of there being a standardized place and method, but without it, there really is a burden placed on companies trying to do business on the web. Amazon might be able to swing it, but what about the mom & pop store selling on the internet? How exactly do they find out what the tax rates in Lake Wobegon are?:)
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Which it doesn't.
Actually it does. linky. Most things don't have to be 'perfect' when 'good enough' will get the job done - especially in low economic areas.
Commercial product would cost thousands of dollars. you can print this robo-hand for maybe a hundred bucks. Shipping one printer to a 3rd world country is going to be much much cheaper than importing everything already made.
And that needs a 3D printer why, please tell. The solar panels are presumably produced by conventional means, but somehow that doesn't work for simple accessories?
Never said it 'needs' a 3D printer. just that it can be done easier and simpler than setting up an entire manufacturing process to build by 'conventional' means. I haven't seen a desktop injection molder for $500 bucks - have you?. And comparing the complex nature of a solar panel to plastic parts and gears is ridiculous.
Food is special, because recipes are explicitly not copyrightable. As long as they call it something else and don't infringe on trademarks, it's completely fair game to copy someone else.
As you say 'tributes' are tried and true ways of copying stuff. Counterfeits are basically 'just' fraud and not an IP issue technically speaking.
Citation provided. Also go read stuff at TechDirt. Lots of good material there on a variety of IP issues.
When/if the hypothetical 3D-printing is used by both the fake and the real — producing indistinguishable pieces from the same designs — the clothing designer will stop being a profession and become a hobby.
Have you seen the fashion industry lately? (and by lately I mean for decades) It's entirely copy what's hot and make something as close to the original as possible. Nobody NEEDS the latest fashion, yet year after year it's a multi-billion dollar industry that's rife with product that is very hard to distinguish from the brand name stuff.
if some other way to reward designers is not found, they'll stop designing
They currently do NOT have any 'reward' for fashion designers. There is no IP protection in fashion. And yet they make very very good money - oh and they haven't stopped designing. It's a cut-throat business to be sure, but that just means the best rise and innovate faster than the market can keep up. Exactly how a free market is supposed to work.
We could make replica parts (in plastic) that once painted you'd have a hard time telling they weren't the real thing just from looking at them.
So you're saying you've passed off fake stuff as geniune? Lets just say I don't want my brake rotor to only 'look' real...
Actually you can print metal.
At home? In your family room? I wouldn't recommend that... Yes there are printers that can do that stuff, but you simply aren't going to have them be usable by the average person in their home.
no but by bringing costs down, it frees up money to be put to those things. When things are ubiquitous they aren't stolen very often since by definition they're everywhere.
Reliable electricity? I'll be good money you could 3D print most parts to make a stand for a solar panel to make it a heliostat, thus providing 'more' power.
warhammer figurines
Bad example as these were the target of lawsuits already :) Somebody uploaded warhammer-esque figurines to thingiverse and got slapped hard by the copyright holders.
For years cheap knock-offs of designer clothes and footwear have been available at a fraction of the "real thing" prices.
And you know what? GOOD designers are still THRIVING despite having no IP laws protecting them...
People buy knock offs to 'look' cool, and when they can afford the Prada bag...they tend to buy it.
this will HELP people who design things by making them better and faster at it. If not, then they go out of business...which is sort what business is about no?
You know how many people make backup copies of software and movies in case they lose the original media? (yes I know, physical media is dead! Long live physical media!)
I see people now going to also scan in the pieces of whatever they bought so that when something breaks, they can just print out a replacement on the spot.
OOOORRRRR really good companies actually provide you with the 3D design for the parts directly. Saves them materials,inventory and shipping costs for the few people who need replacements.
Filabot - a machine that takes your recyclable plastic and converts it into filament that your 3D printer uses. Even uses your old printed objects as well.
So now you're saving the planet too!
developing countries might suffer
Only in that we don't need them to build our trinkets anymore. On the other hand though, they now can build things themselves in the same manner. Cheaper and locally. On sum I suspect it will really *help* developing countries a lot more than it might ever hurt.
So really I don't see why we treat it as a new issue, because really it's not
The new 'issue' is scale and barriers to entry. One is huge whereas it was infinitesimal before, the other was huge and is going rapidly down.
This is what's known as 'Disruptive Innovation'.
It's a lot more like replacement or 'custom' parts rather than the full product itself.
You can't copyright a recipe. I would think that 'dimensions' would be very very similar to a 'recipe' though I have no idea if that's been legally fought/settled.
Nobody is going to have the ability to print out an actual car. (yes there's a guy who just did it, but it's not actually a BMW, just a bunch of plastic). Printers simply aren't going to be user quality and printing in materials like steel or carbon fiber.
The cost and complexity of building such a massive operation in the Antarctic isn't worth the effort for a hundred(ish) degrees difference in starting temperature. And what happens if you have a power outage or other such mechanical problem? The 'stored' CO2 you're refrigerating is going right back to gas form and poof you've lost all your progress. You'd get better bang for your buck by building the wind turbines here and reducing our CO2 emissions at the source.
We need to find a way to store CO2 in a format that doesn't require active input to keep it sequestered.
This is one such method. Storing in underground 'vaults' is another though I'd suspect it's far from certain that it would stay there for 1000s of years.
First off, do we have a proven or at least technically sound way to actually capture all the CO2 released from Coal plants? Next up is mobile sources like cars?
If a car emits 5 tons of CO2 annually, that means every day ~25-30 pounds of CO2 needs to be collected, pressurized and stored on vehicle. That's going to add up quick and it's not really something the average person can store up even to a weeks worth of I wouldn't think.
'At least' with nuclear the waste can be stored on site (but obviously we don't all have DeLorean's with Flux Capacitors either!)
The energy for pumping can be made green if it's electric. And even if at first all power comes from coal plants, unless we spend 100% more energy to store 50% of our emissions, it's a net gain isn't it? (or whatever the actual equation would be...don't take that as gospel)
That's a lot of 'IF's though...
if you aren't aging then you are still viable as a worker. This isn't just extending the time we're elderly, this is extending the time we're in our prime work years.
As has been noted. Having a question that incriminates the 3rd party witness by default makes that person not a 3rd party witness for the purposes of the question.
The situation being asked about is someone who is 3rd party and not at all related and quite presumably not affected by anything that might be asked. If they are asked something like that then plead the 5th because they aren't 'disinterested' anymore.
That's why you have a lawyer. He asks the judge based on what you tell him (and the NSA!) as to whether you have grounds for 5th amendment. The judge can either agree or disagree and compel you to testify. If you have reason to believe answering the question may possibly incriminate yourself, then you ask for immunity from prosecution if the judge doesn't give you outright 5th amendment protections.
I'm actually unsure why this even got posted. "Why aren't 3rd parties protected?" Uh, because they aren't in jeopardy perhaps?
So, you'd enjoy a Japanese military with significant offensive capability? We tried that once...now you can certainly argue they're 'different' now, and you'd probably be right. But it's not why the policy was started. You really didn't want an armed Japan or Germany for that matter after WWII.
Take a look where most of the land is. It's in temperate to tropical zones. And how exactly to you move a few billion people to these new 'polar' paradises?
You're assuming the warming stops at 'habitable'...
A photo posted on facebook doesn't automatically provide
Did you miss the part about facial recognition? Or perhaps the numerous times Facebook has been caught using their cookies to track *everyone* even when you're not logged into Facebook or even a friggin member?
Facebook's entire business plan is to link data to actual people. This gives them the face to do it even more.
Only criminals* buy electrical tape.
*and state licensed electricians - you do have your license papers right?
As I said, doable, just not easy :)
:)
Home Depot, Best Buy and Apple already know the local tax rates because they have physical presences in those states and already calculate the taxes. Amazon does not have the physical presence that they do.
I'm all in favor of there being a standardized place and method, but without it, there really is a burden placed on companies trying to do business on the web. Amazon might be able to swing it, but what about the mom & pop store selling on the internet? How exactly do they find out what the tax rates in Lake Wobegon are?
Funny, you don't have to agree to the contract. Vote with your wallet.
This isn't really Amazon, this is crazy tax laws that Amazon is trying to not deal with.
On the flip side you could just be happy with Amazon raising their prices to cover the sales taxes?
the problem is keeping track of tax rates in 3000+ counties plus cities plus other 'special' economic zones.
It's certainly a doable thing, but it ain't easy, nor is there any mechanism for knowing what is the 'correct' tax to charge at a given point.
Next up, is it shipping address? Billing address? what if the tax rates are different between them?
What if the tax rate varies on other factors?
What if my IP says I'm in Sweden, what then?
It's not as easy as collect the tax when there are quite a few permutations that don't tell you when they change.