It would be "aiding or giving comfort to the enemies of the United States" – by encouraging them to take over for the US companies that this type of legislation would kill.
Isn't RT just a Russian propaganda rag, like Pravda? The equivalent of the UK's Daily Mail.
This should not be on the front page, at least not the RT link. As for the content, well, it should be main-page when and if such documents are leaked – not before.
Slashdot is for discussion of news, not speculation of what might be released, and what it might mean. Just wait for the wikileaks release, and then main-page it.
And hearing the Pentagon advising against a war... That does not happen very often.
Today, when creating more humans is not always the wisest choice, same sex relationships do not have a negative effect, and are not viewed as a evil by many.
This is exactly why I have never wanted to have, nor have inseminated anyone to bear, children. I am a straight male. This, even despite my extraordinarily valuable semen... It's great semen. It is so great. So great.
I do have two wonderful children, and two grandchildren – although these are through marriage. I have not contributed to the overpopulation of the planet.
That's just stupid! I'm 62 years old and been in a few situations that were life-threatening and involved guns. Universally, more guns by people in a given situation == more stupid shit!
Listen, I'm no pussy Liberal and own 3 guns (Charter Arms 1911-clone; Ruger 10-22 and Ruger Blackhawk.357 magnum, with a 5" barrel) but our country is fucking insane when it comes to guns! Guns have become our new God! Why would I say that? Simple: when you regularly, willingly sacrifice your children and others on a regular basis, you are worshipping your God!
If we ever wake up and decide to do something sensible, I'd happily qualify, license or surrender my guns. No problem. Again, I like my guns a lot, but I do NOT love/worship them to the extent that I'm willing to be complicit in the worship of a false God.
... At 5am, the SWAT team finally breaches and kills the terrorist.
That left the attacker with 3 whole hours to kill his hostages. Shades of Columbine, where the police were similarly afraid to respond until they had ridiculously overwhelming force.
I guess a bunch of fancy ex-DOD equipment and other war gear and machines are not all that's needed to form an effective SWAT team.
If the FBI "have suggestions the individual has leanings towards (Islamic terrorism), but right now we can't say definitely...".
Ahem. Immediate aftermath. No one knows anything. In any case, when an organization wants to write something, but has nothing to back it up, they have their office-mate 'suggest' to them something they write on a piece of paper.
If the FBI knew something about this guy being a "bad guy", then why the fuck did they not stop him, if they are so goddamned smart?
Another time at a different store I purchased Myst on a CD or DVD. The game failed after a couple of day at a specific place. The disc was in perfect condition and in was within the first week. I tried to get a replacement at the store and was told that since it was opened that there is nothing they could do.
They lied to you.
Me, I bought Myst on a Friday, played it the whole way through over the weekend (with a friend), and then returned it on Monday for a full refund.:-P
Still, nothing is invisible to your service provider. They still have control of what will pass over the network.
True, but the FCC has declared them to be "utility" companies, just like water and sewage service. That adds a huge regulatory umbrella over them.
It is probably why Verizon and AT&T are selling off all of their fiber (physical connections), at least in three cities so far. They're betting on wireless service to the home, which could get them out from under that umbrella.
Whatever the reason, Frontier(TM), who took over my local FiOS, actually care about their customers. They have always been a utility – usually wire and phone – but that experience gives them a real edge. They know how to comply with "utility" regs.
It is one Great system. And I'll make it even greater. We have got plans for an even greater system. You'll be able to park your car on the bus... yes the bus... using the mobility impaired-space. It will be a great, great system. I guarantee it.
But is it so great that you'll get tired of it being so great?
That's a tough question to answer, as either a "yes" or a "no" is the wrong answer. Therefore, I will go back into Trump mode.
In the style of Don the Con: No one can get tired of greatness. Just look at me. It will be great. Just great. Really, really great. It will keep getting greater. Much greater. And "Ol Olsoc the Moldy Sweatsock", call him "Old Sock-puppet". People like that. Those people. You know who. THOSE people. They never achieve greatness. They don't pay for the Platinum package. They can't be Great anyway. Old Sock-puppet doesn't want to be great.
NOTE: Apologies to Ol Olsoc for using you in my Don the Con response. Your comment was clever.
Those cars you mention are hitting pedestrians in my residential neighborhood with increasing frequency.
Do you have stats that show Waze is increasing pedestrian involved accidents, or are you just making that up? 'Cause it sounds like you are just making that up.
Nope. Correlation is not causation, of course, but all roads within a mile or two of my neighborhood have been fully built-out for years. That is, the traffic patterns had been stable. There is a correlation with Waze usage and traffic density on our streets—I have observed them for eight years, and have discussed the issue with 20-year residents.
Also, it is not MY neighborhood's drivers. It is people who choose to have long commutes. Highways and Interstates are built for them. These highways pass by neighborhoods (or through) for the express purpose of avoiding commuter traffic flowing through long-time built-out neighborhoods with bike lanes, moms with strollers, and numerous pedestrians. My specific neighborhood is built with many small but dispersed commercial-zoned properties. We can walk to most any place where we need sundries or services.
Waze is routing the commuters around the purpose-built commuter roadways. They drive like commuters on a highway, although they are actually in a 30 mph zone. They do not give a shit about whose neighborhood they are recing through. And when I say "recing through", I mean it literally. They barely slow for STOP signs, drive at about 50+ mph, and so on.
People that live in my neighborhood drive with pedestrians and cyclists in mind as the priority vehicles, and slow or stop for them as a routine behavior. Commuters do not give a fuck, and race through, as if a marked cross-walk with a STOP sign means nothing, and that they have the right-of-way. It is easy to spot commuters taking alternate routes, versus local drivers.
Waze is partially to blame. Another large part of the blame lies on local law enforcement, who don't bother to do their jobs – at least not here. I am speaking of the Santa Monica Police Department who, despite there being easy ticket-traps, usually don't bother. SMPD do not do their job.
As for data, I am collecting speed data via survey-calibrated video recording the speed of drivers just 150 feet after a STOP sign, which can often be highway speeds. Yes, the City could put in one of those radar monitors that tells you your speed, but they won't. So, I will collect the data, and light a fire under the City Council's ass. (I am a PhD imaging expert, and data does not lie. I might even publish a methods paper in some civil engineering journal, or an industry trade magazine, just to provide even more credibility.)
If I forgot to mention my answer to you: There is a direct correlation in time with the rise of Waze and the number of non-law-abiding drivers in my own neighborhood. Call it strongly qualitative right now, but I will go through the City's own data on pedestrian accidents, plotting the numbers through time, and plot that in comparison to Waze usage-data.
I don't want to create a speed trap. I just want the law followed and enforced.
Hyperbole much? Maybe we should ban all cars, or maybe pedestrians.
The world is not SimCity. Different roadways are designed by civil engineers for specific purposes and capacities.
For example: * Pedestrians are banned on certain roadways.
* Mountain roads have "passing pull-offs", and many also have crash zones for semis that have lost their brakes – usually just before a sharp turn, after a straight or steep grade, consisting of about 100 m of pea gravel and an impact absorber at the end.
* Many roads have dedicated "bus and emergency vehicle lanes".
* Most interstates have accident pulloff zones, especially where they run through cities.
* Interstates and highways have guardrails for some reason or other. By your logic, maybe we should install guardrails on all roads.
Those cars are getting better gas mileage not sitting in bumper to bumper traffic... Those users can get home faster to their families, and so can you since you can drive through some other neighborhoods when traffic backs up... Now get off my lawn!
Those cars you mention are hitting pedestrians in my residential neighborhood with increasing frequency. Some of the pedestrians don't get home to their families. EMTs cannot get to them quickly because these side-roads, not intended for dual-lane or heavy traffic, become clotted with traffic when someone gets hit.
It's hard to believe a company can produce that many novel things that need protecting
It's called "creating a 'Patent Thicket' or 'Patent Wall'. Multiple patents covering minor variations of something, making the cost of an infringement-allegation defense more expensive.
These are also how cross-licensing deals are worked out. The negotiating parties (effectively) slap their binders full of patents onto the table, and whoever's is taller has more clout in the "OK, we won't sue each other on these ones" negotiations.
The idea of getting work done in your car on the way to work is ridiculous, bordering on scary...
I do it all the time. I take the bus directly to work. Internet through my iPhone, and it's emails-away!
BONUS: Arrive at work not stressed from fighting traffic.
How do you get your car on the bus?
It's a Porsche. Well, erm, a Hot-Wheels version of one that I keep in my computer bag.
If it was my bike I used for bus-stop-to-office, I'd plunk it down on the front-grille bike-holder that all of our buses have attached.
Great system. Great system. Le-, le-, lemme tell you. Just listen-up now. It is one Great system. And I'll make it even greater. We have got plans for an even greater system. You'll be able to park your car on the bus... yes the bus... using the mobility impaired-space. It will be a great, great system. I guarantee it.
Oh yes, yes I do. Recall that US Navy Battleship (or Destroyer) that went BSOD during a military exercise about 13 years ago? Now imagine yourself in LA traffic (or NYC, DC, or a wind-ey country road), and having your car BSOD.
While I agree with everything you stated in regards to faculty level conflicts, I think the (UG and MS) student factors are understated because they are less likely to sue. Below is an excerpt from a manual on IP issues in technology transfer practice written by the Association of University Technology Managers:
While the main purpose of a university’s interaction with students is in the delivery of education, there are times when these students develop intellectual property. These inventions can occur, for example, when students are working on entrepreneurship projects, when they are working in the lab as part of a research experience, or during industry-sponsored Capstone projects. In some cases these inventions have real value,... Accordingly, student-generated IP lies outside of the clear-cut employment context and raises a unique set of issues concerning ownership and other IP-related rights.
They can say what they want, but the USPTO rules (US CODE) state clearly that if an inventor is left off of a Patent, especially if done with fore-knowledge, is ground for invalidation of said Patent.
An inventor is an inventor, no matter their relationship status with the University. A result of a student not being considered an employee means that they might have personal rights to said invention. Even with an IP agreement, cutting someone out of a Patent is not wise at all.
Internal rules of institutions often say things that are not legally enforceable. But people just sign them, and believe what they read, rather than taking the documents to an attorney for review.
Back in the 1600s, philosopher Rene Descartes considered the matter and decided that the only thing he could know for sure was that he existed, because he was thinking about it. Everything else might have been false. (His famous line, in Latin, was Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am.)
Descartes used circular logic. His foundational cogito er sum is an axiom, not a known.
And oddly – we name a rectilinear coordinate system after him! ???
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It would be "aiding or giving comfort to the enemies of the United States" – by encouraging them to take over for the US companies that this type of legislation would kill.
You or I would go to Federal Prison for that.
Isn't RT just a Russian propaganda rag, like Pravda? The equivalent of the UK's Daily Mail.
This should not be on the front page, at least not the RT link. As for the content, well, it should be main-page when and if such documents are leaked – not before.
Slashdot is for discussion of news, not speculation of what might be released, and what it might mean. Just wait for the wikileaks release, and then main-page it.
And hearing the Pentagon advising against a war... That does not happen very often.
meh.
Today, when creating more humans is not always the wisest choice, same sex relationships do not have a negative effect, and are not viewed as a evil by many.
This is exactly why I have never wanted to have, nor have inseminated anyone to bear, children. I am a straight male. This, even despite my extraordinarily valuable semen... It's great semen. It is so great. So great.
I do have two wonderful children, and two grandchildren – although these are through marriage. I have not contributed to the overpopulation of the planet.
That's just stupid! I'm 62 years old and been in a few situations that were life-threatening and involved guns. Universally, more guns by people in a given situation == more stupid shit!
Listen, I'm no pussy Liberal and own 3 guns (Charter Arms 1911-clone; Ruger 10-22 and Ruger Blackhawk .357 magnum, with a 5" barrel) but our country is fucking insane when it comes to guns! Guns have become our new God! Why would I say that? Simple: when you regularly, willingly sacrifice your children and others on a regular basis, you are worshipping your God!
If we ever wake up and decide to do something sensible, I'd happily qualify, license or surrender my guns. No problem. Again, I like my guns a lot, but I do NOT love/worship them to the extent that I'm willing to be complicit in the worship of a false God.
Thank you.
Thank you.
THANK YOU!
... At 5am, the SWAT team finally breaches and kills the terrorist.
That left the attacker with 3 whole hours to kill his hostages. Shades of Columbine, where the police were similarly afraid to respond until they had ridiculously overwhelming force.
I guess a bunch of fancy ex-DOD equipment and other war gear and machines are not all that's needed to form an effective SWAT team.
Huh.
If the FBI "have suggestions the individual has leanings towards (Islamic terrorism), but right now we can't say definitely...".
Ahem. Immediate aftermath. No one knows anything. In any case, when an organization wants to write something, but has nothing to back it up, they have their office-mate 'suggest' to them something they write on a piece of paper.
If the FBI knew something about this guy being a "bad guy", then why the fuck did they not stop him, if they are so goddamned smart?
Another time at a different store I purchased Myst on a CD or DVD. The game failed after a couple of day at a specific place. The disc was in perfect condition and in was within the first week. I tried to get a replacement at the store and was told that since it was opened that there is nothing they could do.
They lied to you.
Me, I bought Myst on a Friday, played it the whole way through over the weekend (with a friend), and then returned it on Monday for a full refund. :-P
Their mistake; their loss.
This is straight-up false advertising.
Still, nothing is invisible to your service provider. They still have control of what will pass over the network.
True, but the FCC has declared them to be "utility" companies, just like water and sewage service. That adds a huge regulatory umbrella over them.
It is probably why Verizon and AT&T are selling off all of their fiber (physical connections), at least in three cities so far. They're betting on wireless service to the home, which could get them out from under that umbrella.
Whatever the reason, Frontier(TM), who took over my local FiOS, actually care about their customers. They have always been a utility – usually wire and phone – but that experience gives them a real edge. They know how to comply with "utility" regs.
It is one Great system. And I'll make it even greater. We have got plans for an even greater system. You'll be able to park your car on the bus... yes the bus... using the mobility impaired-space. It will be a great, great system. I guarantee it.
But is it so great that you'll get tired of it being so great?
That's a tough question to answer, as either a "yes" or a "no" is the wrong answer. Therefore, I will go back into Trump mode.
In the style of Don the Con: No one can get tired of greatness. Just look at me. It will be great. Just great. Really, really great. It will keep getting greater. Much greater. And "Ol Olsoc the Moldy Sweatsock", call him "Old Sock-puppet". People like that. Those people. You know who. THOSE people. They never achieve greatness. They don't pay for the Platinum package. They can't be Great anyway. Old Sock-puppet doesn't want to be great.
NOTE: Apologies to Ol Olsoc for using you in my Don the Con response. Your comment was clever.
Don the Con
Don the Con
Those cars you mention are hitting pedestrians in my residential neighborhood with increasing frequency.
Do you have stats that show Waze is increasing pedestrian involved accidents, or are you just making that up? 'Cause it sounds like you are just making that up.
Nope. Correlation is not causation, of course, but all roads within a mile or two of my neighborhood have been fully built-out for years. That is, the traffic patterns had been stable. There is a correlation with Waze usage and traffic density on our streets—I have observed them for eight years, and have discussed the issue with 20-year residents.
Also, it is not MY neighborhood's drivers. It is people who choose to have long commutes. Highways and Interstates are built for them. These highways pass by neighborhoods (or through) for the express purpose of avoiding commuter traffic flowing through long-time built-out neighborhoods with bike lanes, moms with strollers, and numerous pedestrians. My specific neighborhood is built with many small but dispersed commercial-zoned properties. We can walk to most any place where we need sundries or services.
Waze is routing the commuters around the purpose-built commuter roadways. They drive like commuters on a highway, although they are actually in a 30 mph zone. They do not give a shit about whose neighborhood they are recing through. And when I say "recing through", I mean it literally. They barely slow for STOP signs, drive at about 50+ mph, and so on.
People that live in my neighborhood drive with pedestrians and cyclists in mind as the priority vehicles, and slow or stop for them as a routine behavior. Commuters do not give a fuck, and race through, as if a marked cross-walk with a STOP sign means nothing, and that they have the right-of-way. It is easy to spot commuters taking alternate routes, versus local drivers.
Waze is partially to blame. Another large part of the blame lies on local law enforcement, who don't bother to do their jobs – at least not here. I am speaking of the Santa Monica Police Department who, despite there being easy ticket-traps, usually don't bother. SMPD do not do their job.
As for data, I am collecting speed data via survey-calibrated video recording the speed of drivers just 150 feet after a STOP sign, which can often be highway speeds. Yes, the City could put in one of those radar monitors that tells you your speed, but they won't. So, I will collect the data, and light a fire under the City Council's ass. (I am a PhD imaging expert, and data does not lie. I might even publish a methods paper in some civil engineering journal, or an industry trade magazine, just to provide even more credibility.)
If I forgot to mention my answer to you: There is a direct correlation in time with the rise of Waze and the number of non-law-abiding drivers in my own neighborhood. Call it strongly qualitative right now, but I will go through the City's own data on pedestrian accidents, plotting the numbers through time, and plot that in comparison to Waze usage-data.
I don't want to create a speed trap. I just want the law followed and enforced.
Hyperbole much?
Maybe we should ban all cars, or maybe pedestrians.
The world is not SimCity. Different roadways are designed by civil engineers for specific purposes and capacities.
For example:
* Pedestrians are banned on certain roadways.
* Mountain roads have "passing pull-offs", and many also have crash zones for semis that have lost their brakes – usually just before a sharp turn, after a straight or steep grade, consisting of about 100 m of pea gravel and an impact absorber at the end.
* Many roads have dedicated "bus and emergency vehicle lanes".
* Most interstates have accident pulloff zones, especially where they run through cities.
* Interstates and highways have guardrails for some reason or other. By your logic, maybe we should install guardrails on all roads.
I'm lucky that I sold a bunch of my GE stock at the opening bell... before hearing of this news.
Are you all fucking nuts?
Those cars are getting better gas mileage not sitting in bumper to bumper traffic... Those users can get home faster to their families, and so can you since you can drive through some other neighborhoods when traffic backs up... Now get off my lawn!
Those cars you mention are hitting pedestrians in my residential neighborhood with increasing frequency. Some of the pedestrians don't get home to their families. EMTs cannot get to them quickly because these side-roads, not intended for dual-lane or heavy traffic, become clotted with traffic when someone gets hit.
Go piss on your lawn.
It's hard to believe a company can produce that many novel things that need protecting
It's called "creating a 'Patent Thicket' or 'Patent Wall'. Multiple patents covering minor variations of something, making the cost of an infringement-allegation defense more expensive.
These are also how cross-licensing deals are worked out. The negotiating parties (effectively) slap their binders full of patents onto the table, and whoever's is taller has more clout in the "OK, we won't sue each other on these ones" negotiations.
Do you have statistics for the aforementioned rapes and robberies? -PCP
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Why post as AC, troll?
To everyone else, I am not feeding a troll. Click the link...
The idea of getting work done in your car on the way to work is ridiculous, bordering on scary...
I do it all the time. I take the bus directly to work. Internet through my iPhone, and it's emails-away!
BONUS: Arrive at work not stressed from fighting traffic.
How do you get your car on the bus?
It's a Porsche. Well, erm, a Hot-Wheels version of one that I keep in my computer bag.
If it was my bike I used for bus-stop-to-office, I'd plunk it down on the front-grille bike-holder that all of our buses have attached.
Great system. Great system. Le-, le-, lemme tell you. Just listen-up now. It is one Great system. And I'll make it even greater. We have got plans for an even greater system. You'll be able to park your car on the bus... yes the bus... using the mobility impaired-space. It will be a great, great system. I guarantee it.
The idea of getting work done in your car on the way to work is ridiculous, bordering on scary...
I do it all the time. I take the bus directly to work. Internet through my iPhone, and it's emails-away!
BONUS: Arrive at work not stressed from fighting traffic.
How do you get your car on the bus?
It's a Porsche. Well, erm, a Hot-Wheels version of one that I keep in my computer bag.
You can see the Reply posted above yours, an hour before you.
Or, you can copy-paste this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The idea of getting work done in your car on the way to work is ridiculous, bordering on scary...
I do it all the time. I take the bus directly to work. Internet through my iPhone, and it's emails-away!
BONUS: Arrive at work not stressed from fighting traffic.
Need I say more?
Oh yes, yes I do. Recall that US Navy Battleship (or Destroyer) that went BSOD during a military exercise about 13 years ago? Now imagine yourself in LA traffic (or NYC, DC, or a wind-ey country road), and having your car BSOD.
Now maybe the major studios will release on OS X at the same time as other platforms.
While I agree with everything you stated in regards to faculty level conflicts, I think the (UG and MS) student factors are understated because they are less likely to sue. Below is an excerpt from a manual on IP issues in technology transfer practice written by the Association of University Technology Managers:
While the main purpose of a university’s interaction with students is in the delivery of ... Accordingly, student-generated IP lies outside of
education, there are times when these students develop intellectual property. These
inventions can occur, for example, when students are working on entrepreneurship
projects, when they are working in the lab as part of a research experience, or during
industry-sponsored Capstone projects. In some cases these inventions have real value,
the clear-cut employment context and raises a unique set of issues concerning ownership
and other IP-related rights.
They can say what they want, but the USPTO rules (US CODE) state clearly that if an inventor is left off of a Patent, especially if done with fore-knowledge, is ground for invalidation of said Patent.
An inventor is an inventor, no matter their relationship status with the University. A result of a student not being considered an employee means that they might have personal rights to said invention. Even with an IP agreement, cutting someone out of a Patent is not wise at all.
Internal rules of institutions often say things that are not legally enforceable. But people just sign them, and believe what they read, rather than taking the documents to an attorney for review.
Back in the 1600s, philosopher Rene Descartes considered the matter and decided that the only thing he could know for sure was that he existed, because he was thinking about it. Everything else might have been false. (His famous line, in Latin, was Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am.)
Descartes used circular logic. His foundational cogito er sum is an axiom, not a known.
And oddly – we name a rectilinear coordinate system after him! ???