That is a nice idea, but how would you propose to come up with the length of the patent? In practice, I think that your idea would merely make more work for an already-overworked patent office, and probably from there directly to Bad Things.
There are some relatively simple ideas that ought to have a reasonable patent length. "1-click" is not a bad patent because it's a simple idea, but because it is an over-broad business method patent. It is not, as you said, an algorithm.
For my opinion, I don't think algorithms should be patentable at all, for any term.
Ornithopters predate Edgar Rice Burroughs, at least in concept. Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks were full of designs for ornithopters. This was sometime in the late 15th century.
Could've happened to a nicer company. Ellison won one of the Golden Jackboot awards for pushing a national ID card system backed by Oracle databases. Here's the Google link for the stories.
Shades of Ender's Game...
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Remember the monitor Ender had to wear? A little more advanced, but similar idea.
Power consumption is good, according to a recent MacAddict article. It mentioned that the 1.8GHz chip had low enough consumption to be put in a laptop. Drool....
Say a kid bypasses the system and goes to a naughty site. Can the library system be sued (by the kid's parents or by offended passersby)?
And another problem... What about, say, economically disadvantaged folks who have no home internet access? Perhaps one of these folks might want to research breast cancer. Whoops, naughty-naughty, that page contains "breast". Better nuke it. Filters that are overwide cause too many problems. How much time are libraries going to spend arguing with people who need access to inappropriately blocked information?
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This technology sounds like adaptation to certain, shall we say, "naughtier" activities than gaming could be a possibility.;)
They simulated a visit to the Monterey Aquarium, why not simulate, say, a visit to a secluded hamlet in Soviet Russia with Natalie Portman? Sign me up.
I know some people like Opera for Mac, but personally I couldn't care less. I am tired of fighting with horribly buggy betas that crash constantly. If Opera wants to compete, they need to produce a robust full version of Opera, without ads, that lives up to their speed claims. As it is, I'll use anything but IE over Opera.
I am not trying to troll here - I genuinely would like Opera to succeed. The company just needs to get their act together.
This isn't about just any P2P file sharing, it's about sharing copyrighted files without permissions.
That is blatantly illegal, whether it's P2P or not.
I'm no lawyer, but I was wondering if any real one know if there is a legal remedy to be pursued against Overpeer by the P2P companies. It seems like there at least ought to be one, given that Overpeer could be argued to be degrading the quality of service by posting garbage.
Of course, the P2P companies may not want to appear in court for any reason.
While that is correct, seven passes isn't really necessary in most cases. The only time you'd really need to use that much security is if you've got highly sensitive data (like, say, corporate secrets). Average users almost certainly do not need to go that far. One pass makes it "gone" enough that Norton can't get it back, and that's good enough for me.
Before you sell a computer, wipe the damn hard drive! Don't just reformat - do a low-level reformat and have it overwritten with zeros. If you're really worried, use PGP to do it. Then re-install the system and whatever else belongs there.
If you know somebody who's selling/giving away a computer, make sure they know that the Trash/Recycle Bin doesn't really delete anything.
I haven't read any P2P app EULAs, but I wonder if some of them might try including a clause that "You agree by using this Software that You will not attempt to degrade the effectiveness of the Network in any manner, including intentional distribution of flawed or nonsense files."
Now, IANAL, but it seems like the outcome of such an action would be positive for the geek community:
The RIAA might simply stop.
They might sue, and have EULAs ruled not binding (this would be negative in the sense that they could continue the monkey business, but good overall).
The P2P companies might take them to court and win. Wouldn't that be nice?
Anybody see why this wouldn't work (unless some clients failed to put the clause in)?
This'll take what, a billion years? Last I heard, even the National Security Agency couldn't brute-force a 2048 bit key. I seem to recall reading that even a lesser public key (1024 or 1536 bits, cant remember), would require several times the age of the universe to crack - if you had all the computing power on Earth to throw at it.
Anybody got some actual numbers?
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That is a nice idea, but how would you propose to come up with the length of the patent? In practice, I think that your idea would merely make more work for an already-overworked patent office, and probably from there directly to Bad Things.
There are some relatively simple ideas that ought to have a reasonable patent length. "1-click" is not a bad patent because it's a simple idea, but because it is an over-broad business method patent. It is not, as you said, an algorithm.
For my opinion, I don't think algorithms should be patentable at all, for any term.
Ornithopters predate Edgar Rice Burroughs, at least in concept. Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks were full of designs for ornithopters. This was sometime in the late 15th century.
Could've happened to a nicer company. Ellison won one of the Golden Jackboot awards for pushing a national ID card system backed by Oracle databases. Here's the Google link for the stories.
Remember the monitor Ender had to wear? A little more advanced, but similar idea.
Other stories can be found here(1) and here(2)."
# man 1 here
No entry for here in section 1 of the manual.
# man 2 here
No entry for here in section 2 of the manual.
I was under the impression that JAR was effectively the same thing as ZIP. Anybody care to clarify?
Have you read any Orson Scott Card? He writes in various genres, but he has some excellent science fiction (particularly Ender's Game and Pastwatch)
Power consumption is good, according to a recent MacAddict article. It mentioned that the 1.8GHz chip had low enough consumption to be put in a laptop. Drool....
Another interesting question...
Say a kid bypasses the system and goes to a naughty site. Can the library system be sued (by the kid's parents or by offended passersby)?
And another problem...
What about, say, economically disadvantaged folks who have no home internet access? Perhaps one of these folks might want to research breast cancer. Whoops, naughty-naughty, that page contains "breast". Better nuke it. Filters that are overwide cause too many problems. How much time are libraries going to spend arguing with people who need access to inappropriately blocked information?
Oh... shrinky dinks. That's OK then.
This technology sounds like adaptation to certain, shall we say, "naughtier" activities than gaming could be a possibility. ;)
They simulated a visit to the Monterey Aquarium, why not simulate, say, a visit to a secluded hamlet in Soviet Russia with Natalie Portman? Sign me up.
"This company is now the ultimate power in the movie industry. I suggest we use it."
I know some people like Opera for Mac, but personally I couldn't care less. I am tired of fighting with horribly buggy betas that crash constantly. If Opera wants to compete, they need to produce a robust full version of Opera, without ads, that lives up to their speed claims. As it is, I'll use anything but IE over Opera.
I am not trying to troll here - I genuinely would like Opera to succeed. The company just needs to get their act together.
Wouldn't it be nice if all Microsoft's stupid mistakes came back to bite them like this? Perhaps that would inspire them to make better software.
This isn't about just any P2P file sharing, it's about sharing copyrighted files without permissions.
That is blatantly illegal, whether it's P2P or not.
It depends on if you have any pretty teenage girls in the house... then you'll have to have it neutered.
I'm no lawyer, but I was wondering if any real one know if there is a legal remedy to be pursued against Overpeer by the P2P companies. It seems like there at least ought to be one, given that Overpeer could be argued to be degrading the quality of service by posting garbage.
Of course, the P2P companies may not want to appear in court for any reason.
While that is correct, seven passes isn't really necessary in most cases. The only time you'd really need to use that much security is if you've got highly sensitive data (like, say, corporate secrets). Average users almost certainly do not need to go that far. One pass makes it "gone" enough that Norton can't get it back, and that's good enough for me.
Before you sell a computer, wipe the damn hard drive! Don't just reformat - do a low-level reformat and have it overwritten with zeros. If you're really worried, use PGP to do it. Then re-install the system and whatever else belongs there.
If you know somebody who's selling/giving away a computer, make sure they know that the Trash/Recycle Bin doesn't really delete anything.
Scaling Server Performance my foot. They post an article about how they survived a Slashdotting and now the article is Slashdotted.
Now, IANAL, but it seems like the outcome of such an action would be positive for the geek community:
Anybody see why this wouldn't work (unless some clients failed to put the clause in)?
What drives the Internet economy? Pr0n.
What should they tax? Pr0n.
"It'd certainly make chartered accountancy more interesting."- Monty Python.
This is a verdict in NORWAY! Not the United States. The 2600 ruling was in the courts of the US. How is a Norwegian verdict going to help them?
How could a verdict in a Norwegian court affect a United States law?
This'll take what, a billion years? Last I heard, even the National Security Agency couldn't brute-force a 2048 bit key. I seem to recall reading that even a lesser public key (1024 or 1536 bits, cant remember), would require several times the age of the universe to crack - if you had all the computing power on Earth to throw at it. Anybody got some actual numbers?