Howdy All,
Looking at what the Republicans are trying to do, keeping their delegates secret, sickens me. I thought they were supposed to represent the people they are delegating. How are the people that they are representing supposed to contact them and let them know what views we want expressed? Well we can't without contact information. What it sounds like is that the terrorists won. By not giving out this information, we have changed our system to compensate for what the terrorists want us to feel... Fear. Guess what, we obviously are fearful. I personally think this is cowardly and that leaders need to step up and become leaders.
As a concerned citizen, that sees the system starting to break, we got to start being more responsible, and make a democracy work, and start talking, not hiding.
I know that it is hard to risk your families, and your lives at these conventions (and I am personally not sure really how high of a terrorist threat that exists), but someone has too, and you choose to be the leaders, and represent. As the people that are still in school and that you are inspiring (or not), we got to be able to write and let you know our views.
We are not electing a dictator that chooses policy for 4 years, the person we elect is supposed to be a president that hears the people and reacts.
A president can change his mind. A candidate can change his mind. They are supposed too as they get public opinion, more information about controversal subjects, and become more informed to make a better intelligent decision.
But to make an intelligent decision, we got to know who to talk too. Else the system breaks down.
Imagine you were a CEO, and had to tell 10 people a message, just to get a message the client representative. I have done this game before (not through ten people, but three), and communication breaks down. The client wants to be able to pick up the phone and talk to the people in charge, or at least the secretary.
Guess what delegates, we are the client, and we want to call and contact, and pass our opinions. It is how our system works. I don't want to have my email lost, and I have no clue when I send one, what really happens to it. I imagine most of the public does not know what really happens to it. Maybe someone should do a commercial about how their voice counts? It could make for a nice way to get their votes.
Well I hope this lets out some of the frustration I am feeling, and I hope the lists stop becoming "secret".
Thanks and Gig'em!
Lets say the United States uses a contractor, that has a foreign national as part of their staff, but does not know it, and this national is in charge of building some software. The foreign national knows exactly where to place key code segments to crash the program (lets say a missle interception program) when they want too. The foreign national knows exactly what test cases are being done, and knows how to avoid them, therefore hte software looks bullet proof. The software is approved as working, and is shippped. But the U.S. Government does not know, is that one line in tens of millions, checks for an override code. Now, unless an extensive code review is done -- which is supposed to be done, but not always done -- to go over all lines as they are checked in, this bug will make it past the checks. Once the code is delivered, the chances, at lesat from what I can imagine, that it getting caught till the damage is done, is super small.
Now, if the code was open source, it would get reviewed, and looked at constantly. Yes, again, what are the chances of someone finding that bug, but I am sure they are greater than someone trying to find a bug in closed software....:)
The Austrailan voting system has been open source now for a number of years, and that system has just gotten more secure over time. I think that is a prime example of something that is borderline needing to be secure, and how open source worked. I Think it can work again, and that the US. should adopt it, if our greedy companies do not get in the way first.
By the way, the top paragraph was completely hypothetical -- no one wants CIA agents at their door.
Currently, the remote site is not in a good state of affairs. Someone has decided that html injection is the way to go, and well it has become a porn site. I would recommend not going to it for a day till tehy can get that stuff removed from teh database.
This device could use some major improvements, and I think we all agree from the postings.
100 hours battery life, the device can be modified to use kinetic engery. This would make for a nice senior design project in affective wearables. Any profs taking this project up?
GPS Tracking - Keep track of the user as they work out. Using RF to a cell phone the user is wearing, the data can be sent back to a base terminal as the cell phones cache is filled up. This could be especially useful for elderly wearers, so that their wearabouts can be tracked, and monitored by family members. If the family member stays in place for two long, emergency personal are notified, to alert of a possible fall. It could also be helpful to track children where abouts. Ethical issues are another debate.
Sensor technology - not only track foot position, but use the shoe to track Blood Volume Pressure (Oxygen levels and blood pressure) as well as pulse, and skin conductance. Sensors could be easily developed to be placed around the toes and or on the bottom of the foot, as the foot is slipped into the shoe.
Using heads up display technology or just simple voice from the cell phone again, the shoe could give feedback to the wearer as the runner is working out. It could track the workout and give progress updates. Custom programs can be added.
Make the shoe a power source for other wearable devices. It could be a convienent power source for other affective wearables and on board computing devices. All you would need to do is come out with a line of clothing that has simple fashionable connectors that would connect to the shoe to a pair of pants and or shirt so that other devices could be easily added. To allow for fast adoption, allow other manufactuers and universities to make devices for the clothing line. Give money to Sr. Design research projects that can produce wearable sensors to be used and later marketed.
The shoe, being in contact with the ground, can be used as a input / output device. When used in a car, it could direclty interface into the car, to provide the car with sensor data about the user. This could be accomplished with RF, but this is another posibility. It could give the user also other feedback about the car state, including any warnings through changing the shoes conformaty or shape, or provide a vibration. It could be easily used to keep a driver awake if he or she started to fall asleep at the wheel.
It can be used as another form of authentication. Using RF, the shoe can be used as a way of identifying the wearer based on walking styles and patterns of movement. Afater a series of steps, the user can be considered authenticated, and then can procede to move around a building with out using an ID card for entry, but instead, the shoe will transmit the user identity. Cars security, computer security, etc.
It can be used in hospitals as a tracking system for patients, nurses and doctors. It can be especially useful for ER nurses, for they are on their feet alot; so if it could detect stress in wearers legs, it could advise them to sit down and take a break. I know ER nurses can suffer from being on concrete floors for too long. This shoe can be a great help. My aunt could have used this.
This shoe though would pose a problem for airport security....have the manufactures thought about this, especially when it becomes more common place...
Keeping track of little kids is big problem for class field trips. This could be used to help enforce the buddy system. If uniforms were a must at school, these could be part of them.
If hte shoes could provide enough curent, they could be used as a light source, so that when ladies are trying to get to their cars at night, they could use the shoes as a way to light their way. If modules like these were provided for the shoes, the sales could take off quickly.
Have programs that can be used to help correct technique in sporting events. Baseball, basketball, soccer, Make a
This could mean a lot to industry. These chips can be constructed cheaper once mass production starts, can hold more bits, which means that machines with very large memories can be built cheaper than what is currently available today, and more memory can be next to CPU for caching reasons.
What I like is that games and simulations can become more complicated because of the increased memory.
Has anyone heard if it is faster or what the power consumption is going to be? I would assume that the power consumption per bit is less than what it is now. If so, laptops and portable computing devices would greatly benefit, from being able to be reduced in size, to needing less power.
We are doing a wearable computing project here at A&M and the biggest problem we have is dealing with the power constraints. Technology like this would go a long way toward increasing the period that our batteries would last!
After looking at that molecule it made me wonder could we create molecules that are photosynthetic (with higher efficiency) than solar panels?
Ok off to class. Have a good day everyone!
Gig'em!
Given that Europa is a ice world, and it might contain life under it's icy floor, we might find life there in a 100 years.
Second, these ice planets could make for good hydrogen fuel source when we finally venture out that far.....
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Chernobyl mice are changing due to pollution, just a lot faster. The link discusses how mice have mutated more in the last 20 years than in the last 15 million, points out that pollution does have its effect. This is just anonter example of how life is changing, for the better or for the worse. I would guess that due to pollution, we are getting more copies of DNA in sensitive animals for redundency, but if those copies all express themselves, you might get more legs as an example.
Another thought, pollution could just be another form of chaotic engergy causing recombinations to occur. It would probally make for a nice study when compared to evolution.
Software patents are a major topic of debate. They are brought up in my ethics class it seems every week. I personally don't agree with software patents. I do agree we need a ways for software makers to make money off of their products and hard sweet, heck, I am one of them. We don't need software patents, software has been doing fine for the last thrity years, that is why we have been able to come this far so fast, because anyone can improve upon an idea.
If software patents were allowed, then we are in essence patenting any particular combination of 1s and 0s that represent a process in real life. If we do not allow for software patents, then we are in essence setting a precidence for all other patents to be revoked, because they are to representing a process, just in real life and not virtually.
The next quetsion we have to ask is, do we really need a patent system? We base our economy on free enterprise. The problem is that free enterprise is all about protection from competition (duh), so they are going to be looking for ways to protect their product. Therefore they will want a patent system. We have all noticed that products that are no longer protected by patents still get along great without protection. The next argument is that patents provide protection for startups so that tehy may recoup R&D costs. I say that let the best person to make a product make it. It benifits society faster. We are still going to have people who are going to invent stuff since these people are ones that enjoy making stuff better, but instead of all the R&D costs being concentrate within one company, the costs will be spread out across numerous companies and individuals that want a share of the action.
In conclusion, I ask all Slashdoters what is a software patent, what does it represent, and by saying no to them, don't we really say no to the entire patent system? It is my thought for the day, not sure it if compelty right or wrong, but it is what seems to becoming around the corner.
Night all, I am off to bed here in Aggieland! WHOOP! If there are any spelling mistakes, I really don't care, it is 12:48 am in the morning.
The opposite argument is that there is one major difference between the 1950's and 60's and now: The Internet. As long as small software companies can orgainze on the internet, then they stand a chance of getting rid of software patents. All it is going to take it patents to be inforced enough to cause serious software development problems.
Ok, this discussion is bringing up a good question that I am sure a lot of us are having, what do we do about the DMCA other than writing our congressman? Is there a strongly organized group against it that we can join? Does anyone know one? I personally think this law is doing more damage than good, and the damage heavily outways the good it was intended to do. I just would like to know if anyone has started a major organized movement against the DMCA. If so does anyone have any sites they recommend to these organizations? Any help would be appriciated and I think everyone else in the discussion would benifit as well!:)
I would have to agree that the music industry current business model is failing if not already failed. They need to change how they are distriubting the music, and the number of middle men between the artist and store. Yes jobs are going to be lost, but I would have to think that in the long run that is better for the economy since it will be improved by workforce that is working on problems and solutions that are current.
Second, this is just not a music industry problem. Anything that is information, wether books, movies, articles, or even software. My personal opinion is that the economy is changing, and it is the service of providing information on demand, and not the information iteself, that will hold and retain value.
A good example is Google. Google, in my opinion, is much more powerful and valuable as a tool then Yahoo or MSN when it comes to searching for information. All three have access to the same information, but it is the service of that information that makes the difference. The service quality is why I choose Google over the rest.
Therefore if the music industry, movie industry, software industry all need to change to reflect that it is not the final product that makes the money, but the satisfaction that the product gives when it is purchased.
The music companies need to make it worth it to pay 13.99 for a CD to get that kind of price. Add features to a website that track hte music, reccommend good artist, provide a rating system, history, profiles, updates on tours, and also provide a wider range of artists to promote. If not, the artists are going to evenutally leave the RIAA probally and find a better solution to get their music to teh market.
Oh well that my thoughts on this as they come out of my head! Have a good day all!
Yeah, send them a piece of my mind. Well if they piss of enough of us, then they might just find out that we are a bunch of merry men just willing to get back, just like in Robin Hood!
Well, if this gets going any more seriously than it is already, I think we will be seeing marches on Washington. At least I will!!!!
This might sounds corny, but the answer to such questions is to look at biologoy as the answer to our problems. Biology says that every piece of information is on its own.
The problem is that we are a society that wants to charge for information. We cannot do this, we can only charge on the operations we do on tha information, and cannot hope to take the amount of money it will take to make a society that has a central system. Just not feasable!
Sigh....Microsoft, your days are numbered. If you do do not watch out, people will start taking these issues very seriously and to congress!
Information should be free, and only the service to get the information in format or speed you want the information in should be charged for. The problem comes in what we call information and what we call the process. These two things are one in the same. One holds information and the other has instructions on how to manipulate the information. For all you coders out there, (myself included), the use of reflection makes this boundry hard to clarify, and therefore points that there should not be a boundry in between the two. I guess you could say we are headed toward a time, when people prosper on actually doing the work, instead of just inventing the work. Instead of just creating and inventing, and then holding onto that invention for 100, 25 or even 1, you will have develope the service behind the invention. The problem lies here that Big Business can easily swoop down and clober and stake any invention from anyone with the current laws we have in place.
What we are seeing now is only the beginning of a huge problem to come. We simply cannot protect information the way we have protected inventions in the past. Centralized protection just is not worth the advantages it shoots for. We need to have laws that says that anyone can use the invention, but the royalty for the invention is based on formula or set cost.
This is a hard subject to dive into, mostly because it is monsterous, but I think we must start, and start now to act before we get ourselves trapped in something that we cannot get out of in our generation.
That my feelings on the subject...not so sure yet what to do with them, but they are growing!
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Howdy All, Looking at what the Republicans are trying to do, keeping their delegates secret, sickens me. I thought they were supposed to represent the people they are delegating. How are the people that they are representing supposed to contact them and let them know what views we want expressed? Well we can't without contact information. What it sounds like is that the terrorists won. By not giving out this information, we have changed our system to compensate for what the terrorists want us to feel... Fear. Guess what, we obviously are fearful. I personally think this is cowardly and that leaders need to step up and become leaders. As a concerned citizen, that sees the system starting to break, we got to start being more responsible, and make a democracy work, and start talking, not hiding. I know that it is hard to risk your families, and your lives at these conventions (and I am personally not sure really how high of a terrorist threat that exists), but someone has too, and you choose to be the leaders, and represent. As the people that are still in school and that you are inspiring (or not), we got to be able to write and let you know our views. We are not electing a dictator that chooses policy for 4 years, the person we elect is supposed to be a president that hears the people and reacts. A president can change his mind. A candidate can change his mind. They are supposed too as they get public opinion, more information about controversal subjects, and become more informed to make a better intelligent decision. But to make an intelligent decision, we got to know who to talk too. Else the system breaks down. Imagine you were a CEO, and had to tell 10 people a message, just to get a message the client representative. I have done this game before (not through ten people, but three), and communication breaks down. The client wants to be able to pick up the phone and talk to the people in charge, or at least the secretary. Guess what delegates, we are the client, and we want to call and contact, and pass our opinions. It is how our system works. I don't want to have my email lost, and I have no clue when I send one, what really happens to it. I imagine most of the public does not know what really happens to it. Maybe someone should do a commercial about how their voice counts? It could make for a nice way to get their votes. Well I hope this lets out some of the frustration I am feeling, and I hope the lists stop becoming "secret". Thanks and Gig'em!
Did anyone else notice that this letter is sponsored by the the Republican party?
RIAA behind this? Hmm.... Thoughts anyone?
Lets say the United States uses a contractor, that has a foreign national as part of their staff, but does not know it, and this national is in charge of building some software. The foreign national knows exactly where to place key code segments to crash the program (lets say a missle interception program) when they want too. The foreign national knows exactly what test cases are being done, and knows how to avoid them, therefore hte software looks bullet proof. The software is approved as working, and is shippped. But the U.S. Government does not know, is that one line in tens of millions, checks for an override code. Now, unless an extensive code review is done -- which is supposed to be done, but not always done -- to go over all lines as they are checked in, this bug will make it past the checks. Once the code is delivered, the chances, at lesat from what I can imagine, that it getting caught till the damage is done, is super small.
:)
Now, if the code was open source, it would get reviewed, and looked at constantly. Yes, again, what are the chances of someone finding that bug, but I am sure they are greater than someone trying to find a bug in closed software....
The Austrailan voting system has been open source now for a number of years, and that system has just gotten more secure over time. I think that is a prime example of something that is borderline needing to be secure, and how open source worked. I Think it can work again, and that the US. should adopt it, if our greedy companies do not get in the way first.
By the way, the top paragraph was completely hypothetical -- no one wants CIA agents at their door.
-A
Currently, the remote site is not in a good state of affairs. Someone has decided that html injection is the way to go, and well it has become a porn site. I would recommend not going to it for a day till tehy can get that stuff removed from teh database.
This device could use some major improvements, and I think we all agree from the postings.
100 hours battery life, the device can be modified to use kinetic engery. This would make for a nice senior design project in affective wearables. Any profs taking this project up?
GPS Tracking - Keep track of the user as they work out. Using RF to a cell phone the user is wearing, the data can be sent back to a base terminal as the cell phones cache is filled up. This could be especially useful for elderly wearers, so that their wearabouts can be tracked, and monitored by family members. If the family member stays in place for two long, emergency personal are notified, to alert of a possible fall. It could also be helpful to track children where abouts. Ethical issues are another debate.
Sensor technology - not only track foot position, but use the shoe to track Blood Volume Pressure (Oxygen levels and blood pressure) as well as pulse, and skin conductance. Sensors could be easily developed to be placed around the toes and or on the bottom of the foot, as the foot is slipped into the shoe.
Using heads up display technology or just simple voice from the cell phone again, the shoe could give feedback to the wearer as the runner is working out. It could track the workout and give progress updates. Custom programs can be added.
Make the shoe a power source for other wearable devices. It could be a convienent power source for other affective wearables and on board computing devices. All you would need to do is come out with a line of clothing that has simple fashionable connectors that would connect to the shoe to a pair of pants and or shirt so that other devices could be easily added. To allow for fast adoption, allow other manufactuers and universities to make devices for the clothing line. Give money to Sr. Design research projects that can produce wearable sensors to be used and later marketed.
The shoe, being in contact with the ground, can be used as a input / output device. When used in a car, it could direclty interface into the car, to provide the car with sensor data about the user. This could be accomplished with RF, but this is another posibility. It could give the user also other feedback about the car state, including any warnings through changing the shoes conformaty or shape, or provide a vibration. It could be easily used to keep a driver awake if he or she started to fall asleep at the wheel.
It can be used as another form of authentication. Using RF, the shoe can be used as a way of identifying the wearer based on walking styles and patterns of movement. Afater a series of steps, the user can be considered authenticated, and then can procede to move around a building with out using an ID card for entry, but instead, the shoe will transmit the user identity. Cars security, computer security, etc.
It can be used in hospitals as a tracking system for patients, nurses and doctors. It can be especially useful for ER nurses, for they are on their feet alot; so if it could detect stress in wearers legs, it could advise them to sit down and take a break. I know ER nurses can suffer from being on concrete floors for too long. This shoe can be a great help. My aunt could have used this.
This shoe though would pose a problem for airport security....have the manufactures thought about this, especially when it becomes more common place...
Keeping track of little kids is big problem for class field trips. This could be used to help enforce the buddy system. If uniforms were a must at school, these could be part of them.
If hte shoes could provide enough curent, they could be used as a light source, so that when ladies are trying to get to their cars at night, they could use the shoes as a way to light their way. If modules like these were provided for the shoes, the sales could take off quickly.
Have programs that can be used to help correct technique in sporting events. Baseball, basketball, soccer, Make a
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This could mean a lot to industry. These chips can be constructed cheaper once mass production starts, can hold more bits, which means that machines with very large memories can be built cheaper than what is currently available today, and more memory can be next to CPU for caching reasons.
What I like is that games and simulations can become more complicated because of the increased memory.
Has anyone heard if it is faster or what the power consumption is going to be? I would assume that the power consumption per bit is less than what it is now. If so, laptops and portable computing devices would greatly benefit, from being able to be reduced in size, to needing less power.
We are doing a wearable computing project here at A&M and the biggest problem we have is dealing with the power constraints. Technology like this would go a long way toward increasing the period that our batteries would last!
After looking at that molecule it made me wonder could we create molecules that are photosynthetic (with higher efficiency) than solar panels?
Ok off to class. Have a good day everyone! Gig'em!
Given that Europa is a ice world, and it might contain life under it's icy floor, we might find life there in a 100 years.
Second, these ice planets could make for good hydrogen fuel source when we finally venture out that far.....
Chernobyl mice are changing due to pollution, just a lot faster. The link discusses how mice have mutated more in the last 20 years than in the last 15 million, points out that pollution does have its effect. This is just anonter example of how life is changing, for the better or for the worse. I would guess that due to pollution, we are getting more copies of DNA in sensitive animals for redundency, but if those copies all express themselves, you might get more legs as an example.
Another thought, pollution could just be another form of chaotic engergy causing recombinations to occur. It would probally make for a nice study when compared to evolution.
... 4 merry maids, 1 golf ball collector, and a fortune cookie. Can I have sauce with that?
So has someone patented this yet? Better hurry, else someone 20 years from now might decided it's theirs!
Software patents are a major topic of debate. They are brought up in my ethics class it seems every week. I personally don't agree with software patents. I do agree we need a ways for software makers to make money off of their products and hard sweet, heck, I am one of them. We don't need software patents, software has been doing fine for the last thrity years, that is why we have been able to come this far so fast, because anyone can improve upon an idea.
:)
If software patents were allowed, then we are in essence patenting any particular combination of 1s and 0s that represent a process in real life. If we do not allow for software patents, then we are in essence setting a precidence for all other patents to be revoked, because they are to representing a process, just in real life and not virtually.
The next quetsion we have to ask is, do we really need a patent system? We base our economy on free enterprise. The problem is that free enterprise is all about protection from competition (duh), so they are going to be looking for ways to protect their product. Therefore they will want a patent system. We have all noticed that products that are no longer protected by patents still get along great without protection. The next argument is that patents provide protection for startups so that tehy may recoup R&D costs. I say that let the best person to make a product make it. It benifits society faster. We are still going to have people who are going to invent stuff since these people are ones that enjoy making stuff better, but instead of all the R&D costs being concentrate within one company, the costs will be spread out across numerous companies and individuals that want a share of the action.
In conclusion, I ask all Slashdoters what is a software patent, what does it represent, and by saying no to them, don't we really say no to the entire patent system? It is my thought for the day, not sure it if compelty right or wrong, but it is what seems to becoming around the corner.
Night all, I am off to bed here in Aggieland! WHOOP! If there are any spelling mistakes, I really don't care, it is 12:48 am in the morning.
Night
-Adam S.
The opposite argument is that there is one major difference between the 1950's and 60's and now: The Internet. As long as small software companies can orgainze on the internet, then they stand a chance of getting rid of software patents. All it is going to take it patents to be inforced enough to cause serious software development problems.
Ok, this discussion is bringing up a good question that I am sure a lot of us are having, what do we do about the DMCA other than writing our congressman? Is there a strongly organized group against it that we can join? Does anyone know one? I personally think this law is doing more damage than good, and the damage heavily outways the good it was intended to do. I just would like to know if anyone has started a major organized movement against the DMCA. If so does anyone have any sites they recommend to these organizations? Any help would be appriciated and I think everyone else in the discussion would benifit as well! :)
I would have to agree that the music industry current business model is failing if not already failed. They need to change how they are distriubting the music, and the number of middle men between the artist and store. Yes jobs are going to be lost, but I would have to think that in the long run that is better for the economy since it will be improved by workforce that is working on problems and solutions that are current.
Second, this is just not a music industry problem. Anything that is information, wether books, movies, articles, or even software. My personal opinion is that the economy is changing, and it is the service of providing information on demand, and not the information iteself, that will hold and retain value.
A good example is Google. Google, in my opinion, is much more powerful and valuable as a tool then Yahoo or MSN when it comes to searching for information. All three have access to the same information, but it is the service of that information that makes the difference. The service quality is why I choose Google over the rest.
Therefore if the music industry, movie industry, software industry all need to change to reflect that it is not the final product that makes the money, but the satisfaction that the product gives when it is purchased.
The music companies need to make it worth it to pay 13.99 for a CD to get that kind of price. Add features to a website that track hte music, reccommend good artist, provide a rating system, history, profiles, updates on tours, and also provide a wider range of artists to promote. If not, the artists are going to evenutally leave the RIAA probally and find a better solution to get their music to teh market.
Oh well that my thoughts on this as they come out of my head! Have a good day all!
Yeah, send them a piece of my mind. Well if they piss of enough of us, then they might just find out that we are a bunch of merry men just willing to get back, just like in Robin Hood!
Nano tech mixed with bio, mixedw ith comp sci!!! Great stuff! Worth the 26 bucks to read it! Wonderful vacation or weeekend reading material.
Are there any groups that can help us out and that are against the RIAA?
Slashdot Team,
Can you add a link to congress website for email letter submission to all of these hot legislation topics, so we can write congress easier?
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!
-Adam
Well, if this gets going any more seriously than it is already, I think we will be seeing marches on Washington. At least I will!!!! This might sounds corny, but the answer to such questions is to look at biologoy as the answer to our problems. Biology says that every piece of information is on its own. The problem is that we are a society that wants to charge for information. We cannot do this, we can only charge on the operations we do on tha information, and cannot hope to take the amount of money it will take to make a society that has a central system. Just not feasable! Sigh....Microsoft, your days are numbered. If you do do not watch out, people will start taking these issues very seriously and to congress!
Information should be free, and only the service to get the information in format or speed you want the information in should be charged for. The problem comes in what we call information and what we call the process. These two things are one in the same. One holds information and the other has instructions on how to manipulate the information. For all you coders out there, (myself included), the use of reflection makes this boundry hard to clarify, and therefore points that there should not be a boundry in between the two. I guess you could say we are headed toward a time, when people prosper on actually doing the work, instead of just inventing the work. Instead of just creating and inventing, and then holding onto that invention for 100, 25 or even 1, you will have develope the service behind the invention. The problem lies here that Big Business can easily swoop down and clober and stake any invention from anyone with the current laws we have in place.
What we are seeing now is only the beginning of a huge problem to come. We simply cannot protect information the way we have protected inventions in the past. Centralized protection just is not worth the advantages it shoots for. We need to have laws that says that anyone can use the invention, but the royalty for the invention is based on formula or set cost.
This is a hard subject to dive into, mostly because it is monsterous, but I think we must start, and start now to act before we get ourselves trapped in something that we cannot get out of in our generation.
That my feelings on the subject...not so sure yet what to do with them, but they are growing!