i have a yahoo account, get about 5 spam emails a day, and forward most of them right on to the FTC. not sure if they're actually doing anything, but it makes me feel good:)
As someone who works in data privacy for a large corporation, I can say that "unwieldy" is a good word. Slashdotters should understand the need for good consistent standards. Respecting user privacy will be that much more difficult with 50 different standards to conform to. Yes, you say, but just adapt to meet the highest standard. Well, monitoring federal legislation takes time enough, keeping up with 50 different standards to make sure that you don't violate a portion of a single state's privacy law will add cost to *any* company's legal dept.
While we're not in favor of any of the particular federal bills being developed now (they really aren't well thought out from a consumer or corporate standpoint), we would rather see overriding federal legislation than have to keep up with a million local laws.
one of the major themes througout the comic *WAS* the love/hate relationship that he had with New Yorkers (I haven't read the comic in years, this was back in the late 80s). They did try to put some of that into the movie, but in two hours it is hard to get across.
I could see the scene with the New Yorkers throwing bricks at the Goblin if the movie was made 10 yrs ago, or 10 yrs later.
The scene at the end with the flag was seemed to be noticeably pushing the patriotism issue, but what are you gonna do?
Beyond patent pooling there is patent selling and trading.
We had a patent lawyer (specializing in emerging technology) give a short presentation in a class last year. In the QnA portion, he told us how if a lawsuit came up, it was his job to investigate the opposing company, find out what technologies they were using, and go out and buy patents from other companies so they could counter sue. Kind of like a game of war - each company would get 15-20 patents that they claimed the other was infringing on, and then used that leverage to avoid going to court.
It was fascinating, but totally undermined my feelings for what patents were originally designed for.
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"Aarrgh! That'll be replacin' the whale in me nightmares!"
i have a yahoo account, get about 5 spam emails a day, and forward most of them right on to the FTC. not sure if they're actually doing anything, but it makes me feel good :)
and my inbox remains relatively free of spam.
While we're not in favor of any of the particular federal bills being developed now (they really aren't well thought out from a consumer or corporate standpoint), we would rather see overriding federal legislation than have to keep up with a million local laws.
Does anyone know if Netscape will pick up support for P3P or other privacy standards?
This is an interesting point, *EXCEPT* that...
one of the major themes througout the comic *WAS* the love/hate relationship that he had with New Yorkers (I haven't read the comic in years, this was back in the late 80s). They did try to put some of that into the movie, but in two hours it is hard to get across. I could see the scene with the New Yorkers throwing bricks at the Goblin if the movie was made 10 yrs ago, or 10 yrs later. The scene at the end with the flag was seemed to be noticeably pushing the patriotism issue, but what are you gonna do?
And you run a bigger chance of introducing new "bugs" into the system.
Beyond patent pooling there is patent selling and trading.
We had a patent lawyer (specializing in emerging technology) give a short presentation in a class last year. In the QnA portion, he told us how if a lawsuit came up, it was his job to investigate the opposing company, find out what technologies they were using, and go out and buy patents from other companies so they could counter sue. Kind of like a game of war - each company would get 15-20 patents that they claimed the other was infringing on, and then used that leverage to avoid going to court.
It was fascinating, but totally undermined my feelings for what patents were originally designed for.