In Europe (before the EPO at least) a software patent must produce some technical effect, something in the real world, in order to be patentable.
If your manuscript does that, eg tests the abilities of a digital camera or is used in psychological testing then I can see that it should be protected by patents as well as copyright. But IMO the line is not really as blurry [here] as you appear to suggest it is.
Assuming YouTube have the evidence, and it looks like they do, IMO the _executives_ at Viacom responsible should go to prison and the company should be fined an extremely damaging amount.
afaik there are very narrow circumstances where you can be forced to identify yourself on the street, and only some of those make it specifically illegal not to. vis.
The subject is "Miranda Rights" and the situation is that of being cautioned for committing an offense. You're right that under stop and search, unless you're being arrested, you don't have to provide identity details (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/police/powers/stop-and-search/).
However that is not the question addressed here, note the "unless you're being reported for an offense" in the above link as in the current situation. PACE(G) p.222 refers to this wherein it says a caution must be given that failing to provide ID info when charged means detention is likely; but I'm not sure from whence the general power comes.
There are non-arrest, non-terrorism, situations where you're obliged to provide identity details. Such as: under S165 of the Road Traffic Act (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1988/ukpga_19880052_en_14); under S50 of Police Reform Act 2002 when being anti-social; S43B of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 when being issued a penalty notice; etc..
In Scotland S13(1A) of Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995 requires identity information be divulged even by "suspects and potential witnesses".
They are going to get wupped for sure. Which is going to mean that the folks in the class action are going to get lots of money and the resources available for education in this district are going to be severely depleted.
The gain for those in the suit will be a short term financial affirmation that they screwed money out of a school that was trying to protect assets for the benefit of the pupils and overstepped the mark. Possibly one/some staff member(s) acted illegally too.
The loss will be in the education of, depending on the award, all pupils in the district.
Where I am the school has a duty of care to it's pupils and a responsibility to educate said pupils.
If things outside the school are putting the pupil at risk the school (by law) needs to take action, eg reporting abuse to the police, calling social care professionals in, etc..
If things outside the school are putting the child in a position that is preventing the school from performing their role as an educator, eg alcohol/substance/drug abuse or even just late nights, then the school should take action to resolve the situation with the child and parents.
If you wish to use a school for education then you can't deny them a place in your child's life. If not then you are required to ensure your child is getting a proper education elsewhere.
Just because nobody seems to have mentioned. Okular the default kde4 document viewer allows you to annotate any doc it opens, stick post-its on things and add marker highlighting. Presumably this also links in with the document search system which includes tagging via the dolphin file manager. The bit it doesn't appear to do is collaboration but it certainly seems that they're taking it that direction if indeed it isn't just a feature I've not found. Don't really know much about it.
Were you going for a funny there? If you use the spreadsheet as a Base database you can perform SQL operations on it. You can even create a form for data entry if you want to. You think OOo Calc doesn't have filtering?
I don't know about the rest of your comment but this tends to suggest you're biased. Different people find different interfaces more or less intuitive. Microsoft operating systems for most are more _familiar_ which trumps intuitiveness for initial use.
Software should adapt to my business, my business shouldn't have to adapt to the software.
It's somewhere in between. Upgraded to MS Word with the ribbon UI? Then your business just adapted to the software.
Now, it's easy to say "Well it's open source! Just hire some programmers to write the functionality you need." However...
I think I'd put it out to tender before I considered starting a software development shop.
For your Final Cut Pro I'll counter with Blender, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#Use_in_the_media_industry, admittedly you're going to win that one, but it shows that an in house development isn't always wrong and that OSS can make inroads even into the movie industry. The biggest thing with Apple software use for design is surely that it is taught in design colleges and so the breadth of talent that can use such apps instinctively is far greater than those that can easily adapt to something like Blender say.
We should always compare IT costs vs doing the work manually.
IT != computers.
Or at least that's what I was taught in school back at the start of the 90s. Non-computer options should be considered where appropriate but when changing the system you compare with your current implementation not with a manual version (that may not even be possible).
I simply can't believe you're naive enough to think that all makers of shock sites put headers up to allow the likes of netnanny to stop you surfing there by accident. You're not really a moron are you?
How much money would you devote to supporting IE6?
As little as possible.
In the UK we have the disability discrimination act (DDA) which means that any business must make appropriate effort (depending on size, income, etc.) to accommodate the disabled. This means supporting braille and audio browsers (JAWS, etc.) for nearly every business. Simply test in IE6 to see if informational content can be viewed at all and use a minimal stylesheet to provide the text - that actually doesn't take long and on the whole you'd just be sending the same version as you'd put to a screenreader.
Smaller SMEs that absolutely can't afford an extra hour of dev time are excused IMO.
And then finally they'll get the bright idea to implement software that recognizes whether it's upside down and only print out the ones that are right-side up!
They can't implement that software because a method for doing that has already been patented!
That patent application is an A1, it has been filed but not examined.
In the UK at least it would be mere application of a computer their is no added technical effect. There's a general principle that just doing something known with a computer is not a novel application of technology.
The first claim is excessively broad and there's no way that would be granted. Perhaps looking at just the i's and T's would be novel. Is it inventive? Not sure about the prior art so I couldn't say. If it were granted (as say claim 11) then as long as you looked at the top line of text and not just the selected chars you would bypass the patent.
Before the USPTO (at least this was true a few years ago) one has to inform them of the closest prior art you know about. This application can't have reached that stage yet as ABBYY certainly know about most of the art in this field.
I'm guessing as part of the receipt process, these are legal docs after all, the incoming facsimile pages are immediately stamped and barcoded automatically. Then you have a problem, you can't tamper with the docs and remove the stamp as this is a legal notation of receipt. You can't modify the incoming doc and then stamp it as unaltered from that received as that would be a minor fraud.
When you digitise and rotate so the docs are readable onscreen the tagging and barcodes are now misplaced - print a header page and it can no longer be automatically checked for barcodes/ receipt stamps without checking in 2 places and processing further. Moreover the space in the forms for the stamping is not being used and instead the stamp is probably covering informational parts of the doc.
The alternative is to handle incoming faxes manually. If someone chooses to file their document or amendments by fax and their patent is a few hundred pages long then this is going to be a pretty silly thing to do manually, especially as the manual stamping of the docs is going to need to be checked and will require more machine processing to read than if it had been automated in the first place.
So your argument is that whilst MPEG LA are going to screw everyone over and demand money to license their codec we should continue and use it but just not pay them.
Nothing wrong with that argument provided you can get it embodied in the law that people/companies are immune to prosecution for non payment of license fees wrt the relevant patents.
Unisys did collect money on LZW use in GIF if they'd not been bothered about PR they could have collected far more extensively.
Semantics. This is just one of the tricks one uses in writing patent applications. The method is performed using software (or possibly hard coded in a special chip) on a computer.
Device support for Theora does suck. And for me, that's the deal breaker.
[Bad?] car analogy: There are less mechanics that can properly service a Skoda than a Ford. If you give away Skoda's to everyone on the internet then very shortly you'll find that the after "sales" market and the support services for Skoda soon outstrip those for Ford (at least in quantity!). Indeed you'll find that modders develop optimisations too.
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In Europe (before the EPO at least) a software patent must produce some technical effect, something in the real world, in order to be patentable.
If your manuscript does that, eg tests the abilities of a digital camera or is used in psychological testing then I can see that it should be protected by patents as well as copyright. But IMO the line is not really as blurry [here] as you appear to suggest it is.
Assuming YouTube have the evidence, and it looks like they do, IMO the _executives_ at Viacom responsible should go to prison and the company should be fined an extremely damaging amount.
That is all.
"First off, practice all of this on layed out newspapers while developing your preferred methodology. "
If you use laid out graph paper you'll be able to tell how much distortion you're introducing into your "scans".
[citation needed]
afaik there are very narrow circumstances where you can be forced to identify yourself on the street, and only some of those make it specifically illegal not to. vis.
The subject is "Miranda Rights" and the situation is that of being cautioned for committing an offense. You're right that under stop and search, unless you're being arrested, you don't have to provide identity details (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/police/powers/stop-and-search/).
However that is not the question addressed here, note the "unless you're being reported for an offense" in the above link as in the current situation. PACE(G) p.222 refers to this wherein it says a caution must be given that failing to provide ID info when charged means detention is likely; but I'm not sure from whence the general power comes.
There are non-arrest, non-terrorism, situations where you're obliged to provide identity details. Such as: under S165 of the Road Traffic Act (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1988/ukpga_19880052_en_14); under S50 of Police Reform Act 2002 when being anti-social; S43B of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 when being issued a penalty notice; etc..
In Scotland S13(1A) of Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995 requires identity information be divulged even by "suspects and potential witnesses".
Britain is rapidly approaching a police state if it isn't already there, which is precisely why I left a couple of years ago.
Absolute nonsense. But then you wouldn't know that if you don't live there.
As the AC says in the sibling reply, you're wrong.
And in particular you have to provide your full legal name and your place of abode when asked otherwise you're committing an offence.
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma_dalai_lama.html displays all images identically in links2 using the svgalib driver, but it doesn't scale them so it would whether it has the bug or not.
They are going to get wupped for sure. Which is going to mean that the folks in the class action are going to get lots of money and the resources available for education in this district are going to be severely depleted.
The gain for those in the suit will be a short term financial affirmation that they screwed money out of a school that was trying to protect assets for the benefit of the pupils and overstepped the mark. Possibly one/some staff member(s) acted illegally too.
The loss will be in the education of, depending on the award, all pupils in the district.
Another great day for justice?
Where I am the school has a duty of care to it's pupils and a responsibility to educate said pupils.
If things outside the school are putting the pupil at risk the school (by law) needs to take action, eg reporting abuse to the police, calling social care professionals in, etc..
If things outside the school are putting the child in a position that is preventing the school from performing their role as an educator, eg alcohol/substance/drug abuse or even just late nights, then the school should take action to resolve the situation with the child and parents.
If you wish to use a school for education then you can't deny them a place in your child's life. If not then you are required to ensure your child is getting a proper education elsewhere.
Just because nobody seems to have mentioned. Okular the default kde4 document viewer allows you to annotate any doc it opens, stick post-its on things and add marker highlighting. Presumably this also links in with the document search system which includes tagging via the dolphin file manager. The bit it doesn't appear to do is collaboration but it certainly seems that they're taking it that direction if indeed it isn't just a feature I've not found. Don't really know much about it.
There are plenty of commercial support options for enterprise/corporate/small business FOSS software, see Sun Microsystems, [...]
I probably wouldn't bother with Sun, try Oracle instead.
Were you going for a funny there? If you use the spreadsheet as a Base database you can perform SQL operations on it. You can even create a form for data entry if you want to. You think OOo Calc doesn't have filtering?
[...] and is intuitive.
I don't know about the rest of your comment but this tends to suggest you're biased. Different people find different interfaces more or less intuitive. Microsoft operating systems for most are more _familiar_ which trumps intuitiveness for initial use.
Software should adapt to my business, my business shouldn't have to adapt to the software.
It's somewhere in between. Upgraded to MS Word with the ribbon UI? Then your business just adapted to the software.
Now, it's easy to say "Well it's open source! Just hire some programmers to write the functionality you need." However...
I think I'd put it out to tender before I considered starting a software development shop.
For your Final Cut Pro I'll counter with Blender, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#Use_in_the_media_industry, admittedly you're going to win that one, but it shows that an in house development isn't always wrong and that OSS can make inroads even into the movie industry. The biggest thing with Apple software use for design is surely that it is taught in design colleges and so the breadth of talent that can use such apps instinctively is far greater than those that can easily adapt to something like Blender say.
We should always compare IT costs vs doing the work manually.
IT != computers.
Or at least that's what I was taught in school back at the start of the 90s. Non-computer options should be considered where appropriate but when changing the system you compare with your current implementation not with a manual version (that may not even be possible).
> "declaring that Mary is not a virgin is technically a criminal offence in Ireland"
Citation please.
I simply can't believe you're naive enough to think that all makers of shock sites put headers up to allow the likes of netnanny to stop you surfing there by accident. You're not really a moron are you?
> My sites are all now built for HTML5 and every attempt is made to stay standards-compliant.
HTML5 is not yet a standard, it's not even a Recommendation yet it is still being drafted. Strictly speaking your sites are not standards compliant.
How much money would you devote to supporting IE6?
As little as possible.
In the UK we have the disability discrimination act (DDA) which means that any business must make appropriate effort (depending on size, income, etc.) to accommodate the disabled. This means supporting braille and audio browsers (JAWS, etc.) for nearly every business. Simply test in IE6 to see if informational content can be viewed at all and use a minimal stylesheet to provide the text - that actually doesn't take long and on the whole you'd just be sending the same version as you'd put to a screenreader.
Smaller SMEs that absolutely can't afford an extra hour of dev time are excused IMO.
And then finally they'll get the bright idea to implement software that recognizes whether it's upside down and only print out the ones that are right-side up!
They can't implement that software because a method for doing that has already been patented!
That patent application is an A1, it has been filed but not examined.
In the UK at least it would be mere application of a computer their is no added technical effect. There's a general principle that just doing something known with a computer is not a novel application of technology.
The first claim is excessively broad and there's no way that would be granted. Perhaps looking at just the i's and T's would be novel. Is it inventive? Not sure about the prior art so I couldn't say. If it were granted (as say claim 11) then as long as you looked at the top line of text and not just the selected chars you would bypass the patent.
Before the USPTO (at least this was true a few years ago) one has to inform them of the closest prior art you know about. This application can't have reached that stage yet as ABBYY certainly know about most of the art in this field.
I'm guessing as part of the receipt process, these are legal docs after all, the incoming facsimile pages are immediately stamped and barcoded automatically. Then you have a problem, you can't tamper with the docs and remove the stamp as this is a legal notation of receipt. You can't modify the incoming doc and then stamp it as unaltered from that received as that would be a minor fraud.
When you digitise and rotate so the docs are readable onscreen the tagging and barcodes are now misplaced - print a header page and it can no longer be automatically checked for barcodes/ receipt stamps without checking in 2 places and processing further. Moreover the space in the forms for the stamping is not being used and instead the stamp is probably covering informational parts of the doc.
The alternative is to handle incoming faxes manually. If someone chooses to file their document or amendments by fax and their patent is a few hundred pages long then this is going to be a pretty silly thing to do manually, especially as the manual stamping of the docs is going to need to be checked and will require more machine processing to read than if it had been automated in the first place.
Seems reasonable.
So your argument is that whilst MPEG LA are going to screw everyone over and demand money to license their codec we should continue and use it but just not pay them.
Nothing wrong with that argument provided you can get it embodied in the law that people/companies are immune to prosecution for non payment of license fees wrt the relevant patents.
Unisys did collect money on LZW use in GIF if they'd not been bothered about PR they could have collected far more extensively.
HTML4 has been with us since 1997. There's not much reason to think that HTML5 will be around for less than 6 years.
Semantics. This is just one of the tricks one uses in writing patent applications. The method is performed using software (or possibly hard coded in a special chip) on a computer.
Device support for Theora does suck. And for me, that's the deal breaker.
[Bad?] car analogy: There are less mechanics that can properly service a Skoda than a Ford. If you give away Skoda's to everyone on the internet then very shortly you'll find that the after "sales" market and the support services for Skoda soon outstrip those for Ford (at least in quantity!). Indeed you'll find that modders develop optimisations too.