examiners don't get paid by the claim, they get paid by the disposal and first action, so a case with 10 claims counts as much towards one's quota as a case with 500
They are not paid in quotas, quotas are not valid currency. Figure the economics of paying someone as part of the price. If someone is only paid for one of the claims not 7200 claims or 12 claims they are still busy processing those claims which still means you need more inspectors ie still more pay per claim just expressed differently.
The USPTO is not self sustaining. The patent fees cover some but not all of the operating expenses. See the patent cost is a fixed value, the research to determine if it is valid or not is not a fixed amount. As a matter of a fact, the more claims of prior art, the more the patent office has to research and spend. The attempt to keep costs down to what the fee covers is why people can patent things like a pda on their shirt collar. The uspto is a waste of taxpayer money but a valuable investment to businesses whose market departments seem to write patents for them. Think about it. I could probably patent "A small transparent self contained environment for diminuitive mammals" ie a hamster cage! If you call prior art(enough times) my patent will end up costing money to the tax payer.
Of course it is a threat... It's a threat because people are able to quickly organize and protest.
Exactly, the press can use cell phones to follow celebs (like Bush) and give them good press. The only way our freedom of speech really works is to get equal visibility which means appearing when the press is there. Giving up 'flash mobs' means that politicians could appear on tv with NO protesters many times.
Why is it that so many Slashdotters piss and moan when any kind of system is released by commercial industry that isn't 100% flawless?
I do not really know what motivates/.ers who probably all have children or niece/nephew proxy devices (for those of us too smart to have kids / or too geeky to have gfs) to get upset when people who are proven not to understand security decide that they should provide security for minors. An example of how bad an idea this is: Say I find a way to plant a program that reads the usb shtick. I then write a program that puts an occasional beacon out on a specific port. Then I wrap the whole thing up in a very successful, known, readily available worm. I download some Harry Potter drivel or something and send it around. All the sudden school kids PCs are BEACONING their age/gender. Then we could have pedophile spambots etc... Granted all that is worse case but, worse case does not mean impossible, or even difficult. These are things similar to other attacks that have gone on by advertisers combined with a little Anna K story.
Yeah, because we all know that none of the pedophiles out there have kids of their own who might leave this key plugged in, or laying on the desk for dad/mom to use?
In my opinion it will be worse due to the fact that the very secure common household PC now has a flag to tell you that a child is using it. The post above yours says pedophiles in chat rooms is an overblown problem?!?! How is it overblown are there only a few dozen kids abducted / molested a year instead of hundreds so it is no big deal? I am with you, this is a dumb idea just for moneygrubbers. The problems that face kids online are real, this solution is not.
When I'm made president I'll make sure that IT salaries are kept low!
Asked about that quote at that press conference Kerrys reply was "I have always endorsed raising IT salaries, It is paid way too much" Many analysts were stunned by the skillful use of the mid-sentence flip-flop.
Go ahead, flame me. I am a liberal and I can say that about our 'stunning' candidate.
it's natural to assume that they will also want to oversee construction and whatnot, just to make sure Things Are Done Right.
"President Bush...what an unexpected surprise!"
"We can dispense with the pleasantries, commander. I am here to get you back on schedule"
"My lord, my men are working as fast as they can. Dick Cheney asks the impossible of us""
"Perhaps you can tell that to him personally when he arives" Cue the imperial march
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone, an Ask Jeeves senior vice president. "We are both operating at a world-class level. We just have a different flavor."
This is a very good point. Both of them are excellent at what they do and what they do could be compared to a flavor. Google is much like chocolate and Ask Jeeves is unfortunately Ass. Need I point out which flavor is preferred.
A lot of hand gesturing, karate chopping at the air. George HW Bush voice from SNL...
"Sending users threatening letters...wouldn't be prudent, not gonna do it."
I offer this as a first question
You state that MS should get credit for how aggressively they stand behind their product. Are you referring specifically to Lawsuits and indemnity? I sure have never seen MS step up to bat about the damage to the internet, small and large businesses etc... caused by the uncountable number of viruses written to your platform. Please do clarify.
Microsoft immediately countered by saying WinFS will now support "twelveteen million billion times" as much storage as Sun's ZFS, and is "a bazillion times" more secure.
Alex Trebek interjected "There is no such number"
To which Microsoft replied "Not, yet"
In terms of the 'badness factor' of this practice. My tax dollars funding cert should insure that Cert never does this, that is the big issue. Cert shooting itself in the foot with reliable bug submitters is ignorant.
When you make your source open then I'll be interested but until that, this is just a bone for the community to do work for Sun and not actually get a full fledge open source solution.
They are, that's what the article is about. They are not opening source they do not own. Your comment could also be directed at Linus for not opening up the Cisco VPN drivers for example...THEY ARE NOT HIS to do so. Also, I am sure that your market analysis is based on a lot of research but just one flaw. How would having less revenue force them to get rid of established drivers which work well and are mature and instead hope that the community will make them fast? Seems that would ultimately cost more and be counterproductive.
As usual, Microsoft continues to push the blame elsewhere instead of fixing their damn OS! If users didn't have rights to do "bad" things, then USB keys and iPods wouldn't be a concern. Yet Windows continues to insist on letting users run with privileges that only administrators should have.
As usual if you badmouth MS in your post you get modded up regardless of content. Example as to why your post is erroneous...Nuclear researchers at Los Alomos have access to Nuclear research...this is a good thing it helps them to earn their hefty salaries. Had they not been able to write to the A: drive the last several security breaches would not have occurred. Microsoft is not 'passing blame' they are acknowledging that the ability to use these devices may not always be right. If it upsets you that you can not sync your ipod to your office PC...Boo Hoo. Get a different job.
apparently I'm in good company because the school's attorneys seem to agree with me.
EWWW!!!
As someone who rents out homes I will tell you that many things in a lease can be challenged and defeated. The hope we have is that the renters will not do this. The fact that I can write in my lease that WiFi devices are prohibited does not mean I can prohibit WiFi devices...unless of course the person signing BELIEVES that I can. That is why the last line of my lease reads that if any item is found to be invalid in this lease it in no way invalidates any other items. (not a specific quote as I am not the lawyer who wrote it, nor am I a lawyer...I have only read it a couple times)
I'm baffled as to why you seem to think that FCC regulations bestow extra rights onto you.
Ah yes the best debaters, when their arguments fail, can always bring our semantics. The FCC says that you have a right to use unlicensed and you don't think that makes it a "fundamental right" OK right, the constitution gives us those. The FCC can only regulate, however they have regulated they have said others can interfere or regulate your use of that spectrum. So we do not have the "right" to use it. But it is not within the authority of the Uni to interfere with our use of it.
Really. Can you excercise your "fundamental right" to have a cat in the dorm? Can you excercise your "fundamental right" to have a toaster oven? To burn candles?
Nice try. No you can not exercise your right to have a cat in your room...why? Because there is no regulatory body stating that you HAVE a right to a cat in your dorm. Sounds like you still didn't find the link. I think you can set your browser to underline them for you.
When you rent your property out you give up a subset of those rights. The students do not live in a dorm as 'invited guests'. They are paying tenants and as such have rights.
According to the FCC you do have a fundamental right to install WiFi routers wherever you see fit. There was a link to that specific bit of info cleverly hidden in plain view in the article.
That's read the supplemental links. The FCC has established that use of unlicensed radio equipment is your RIGHT and that they alone can impose restrictions on that right. Since it is YOUR spectrum in those apartments I am not clear how they feel they can do this.
Slashdot Mirror
examiners don't get paid by the claim, they get paid by the disposal and first action, so a case with 10 claims counts as much towards one's quota as a case with 500
They are not paid in quotas, quotas are not valid currency. Figure the economics of paying someone as part of the price. If someone is only paid for one of the claims not 7200 claims or 12 claims they are still busy processing those claims which still means you need more inspectors ie still more pay per claim just expressed differently.
The USPTO is not self sustaining. The patent fees cover some but not all of the operating expenses. See the patent cost is a fixed value, the research to determine if it is valid or not is not a fixed amount. As a matter of a fact, the more claims of prior art, the more the patent office has to research and spend. The attempt to keep costs down to what the fee covers is why people can patent things like a pda on their shirt collar. The uspto is a waste of taxpayer money but a valuable investment to businesses whose market departments seem to write patents for them. Think about it. I could probably patent "A small transparent self contained environment for diminuitive mammals" ie a hamster cage! If you call prior art(enough times) my patent will end up costing money to the tax payer.
Of course it is a threat... It's a threat because people are able to quickly organize and protest.
Exactly, the press can use cell phones to follow celebs (like Bush) and give them good press. The only way our freedom of speech really works is to get equal visibility which means appearing when the press is there. Giving up 'flash mobs' means that politicians could appear on tv with NO protesters many times.
Why is it that so many Slashdotters piss and moan when any kind of system is released by commercial industry that isn't 100% flawless?
/.ers who probably all have children or niece/nephew proxy devices (for those of us too smart to have kids / or too geeky to have gfs) to get upset when people who are proven not to understand security decide that they should provide security for minors. An example of how bad an idea this is: Say I find a way to plant a program that reads the usb shtick. I then write a program that puts an occasional beacon out on a specific port. Then I wrap the whole thing up in a very successful, known, readily available worm. I download some Harry Potter drivel or something and send it around. All the sudden school kids PCs are BEACONING their age/gender. Then we could have pedophile spambots etc... Granted all that is worse case but, worse case does not mean impossible, or even difficult. These are things similar to other attacks that have gone on by advertisers combined with a little Anna K story.
I do not really know what motivates
All it takes is enough drink and the right students.
/. !!!!! Who knew?
Michael Jackson posts on
Yeah, because we all know that none of the pedophiles out there have kids of their own who might leave this key plugged in, or laying on the desk for dad/mom to use?
In my opinion it will be worse due to the fact that the very secure common household PC now has a flag to tell you that a child is using it. The post above yours says pedophiles in chat rooms is an overblown problem?!?! How is it overblown are there only a few dozen kids abducted / molested a year instead of hundreds so it is no big deal? I am with you, this is a dumb idea just for moneygrubbers. The problems that face kids online are real, this solution is not.
When I'm made president I'll make sure that IT salaries are kept low!
Asked about that quote at that press conference Kerrys reply was "I have always endorsed raising IT salaries, It is paid way too much" Many analysts were stunned by the skillful use of the mid-sentence flip-flop.
Go ahead, flame me. I am a liberal and I can say that about our 'stunning' candidate.
This happened after an upgrade from Unix to Windows.
How does one upgrade from Unix to Windows?
it's natural to assume that they will also want to oversee construction and whatnot, just to make sure Things Are Done Right.
"President Bush...what an unexpected surprise!"
"We can dispense with the pleasantries, commander. I am here to get you back on schedule"
"My lord, my men are working as fast as they can. Dick Cheney asks the impossible of us""
"Perhaps you can tell that to him personally when he arives"
Cue the imperial march
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone, an Ask Jeeves senior vice president. "We are both operating at a world-class level. We just have a different flavor."
This is a very good point. Both of them are excellent at what they do and what they do could be compared to a flavor. Google is much like chocolate and Ask Jeeves is unfortunately Ass. Need I point out which flavor is preferred.
A lot of hand gesturing, karate chopping at the air. George HW Bush voice from SNL...
"Sending users threatening letters...wouldn't be prudent, not gonna do it."
By which time of course USB will be a distant memory.
Other changes by that time may prevent the MS-DOJ from taking any action against them.
I offer this as a first question
You state that MS should get credit for how aggressively they stand behind their product. Are you referring specifically to Lawsuits and indemnity? I sure have never seen MS step up to bat about the damage to the internet, small and large businesses etc... caused by the uncountable number of viruses written to your platform. Please do clarify.
Microsoft immediately countered by saying WinFS will now support "twelveteen million billion times" as much storage as Sun's ZFS, and is "a bazillion times" more secure.
Alex Trebek interjected "There is no such number"
To which Microsoft replied "Not, yet"
In terms of the 'badness factor' of this practice. My tax dollars funding cert should insure that Cert never does this, that is the big issue. Cert shooting itself in the foot with reliable bug submitters is ignorant.
I wonder how they'll handle the Unix(TM) code in there and all the various other contributed stuff from Samsung etc.
Duh! They put in a lot of comments that say things like " Don't forget to fix this function I wrote for Sun in 1975" etc...
When you make your source open then I'll be interested but until that, this is just a bone for the community to do work for Sun and not actually get a full fledge open source solution.
They are, that's what the article is about. They are not opening source they do not own. Your comment could also be directed at Linus for not opening up the Cisco VPN drivers for example...THEY ARE NOT HIS to do so. Also, I am sure that your market analysis is based on a lot of research but just one flaw. How would having less revenue force them to get rid of established drivers which work well and are mature and instead hope that the community will make them fast? Seems that would ultimately cost more and be counterproductive.
As usual, Microsoft continues to push the blame elsewhere instead of fixing their damn OS! If users didn't have rights to do "bad" things, then USB keys and iPods wouldn't be a concern. Yet Windows continues to insist on letting users run with privileges that only administrators should have.
As usual if you badmouth MS in your post you get modded up regardless of content. Example as to why your post is erroneous...Nuclear researchers at Los Alomos have access to Nuclear research...this is a good thing it helps them to earn their hefty salaries. Had they not been able to write to the A: drive the last several security breaches would not have occurred. Microsoft is not 'passing blame' they are acknowledging that the ability to use these devices may not always be right. If it upsets you that you can not sync your ipod to your office PC...Boo Hoo. Get a different job.
apparently I'm in good company because the school's attorneys seem to agree with me.
EWWW!!!
As someone who rents out homes I will tell you that many things in a lease can be challenged and defeated. The hope we have is that the renters will not do this. The fact that I can write in my lease that WiFi devices are prohibited does not mean I can prohibit WiFi devices...unless of course the person signing BELIEVES that I can. That is why the last line of my lease reads that if any item is found to be invalid in this lease it in no way invalidates any other items. (not a specific quote as I am not the lawyer who wrote it, nor am I a lawyer...I have only read it a couple times)
At least someone is trying to make the RIAA feel the same way that a 14 year old kid does when he/she gets served with a subpoena.
You honestly believe....that the RIAAs first thought was "Oh cool, I'll be on the news!"
I'm baffled as to why you seem to think that FCC regulations bestow extra rights onto you.
Ah yes the best debaters, when their arguments fail, can always bring our semantics. The FCC says that you have a right to use unlicensed and you don't think that makes it a "fundamental right" OK right, the constitution gives us those. The FCC can only regulate, however they have regulated they have said others can interfere or regulate your use of that spectrum. So we do not have the "right" to use it. But it is not within the authority of the Uni to interfere with our use of it.
Really. Can you excercise your "fundamental right" to have a cat in the dorm? Can you excercise your "fundamental right" to have a toaster oven? To burn candles?
Nice try. No you can not exercise your right to have a cat in your room...why? Because there is no regulatory body stating that you HAVE a right to a cat in your dorm. Sounds like you still didn't find the link. I think you can set your browser to underline them for you.
i) Sign up at school
ii) Fail to follow school rules
iii) Bann occurs.
iv) Obtain job at favourite fast food outlet
PROFIT
Duh!
When you rent your property out you give up a subset of those rights. The students do not live in a dorm as 'invited guests'. They are paying tenants and as such have rights.
According to the FCC you do have a fundamental right to install WiFi routers wherever you see fit. There was a link to that specific bit of info cleverly hidden in plain view in the article.
That's read the supplemental links. The FCC has established that use of unlicensed radio equipment is your RIGHT and that they alone can impose restrictions on that right. Since it is YOUR spectrum in those apartments I am not clear how they feel they can do this.