As TRIPS agreement declares, the term of an issued patent is twenty years from earliest claimed filing date. In the United States, for applications filed prior to June 8, 1995, the patent term is seventeen years from the issue date. For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, the term is twenty years from the earliest claimed filing date. The rules for patents in force and pending at the transition date (June 8, 1995) are significantly more complicated but grant the patentee whichever term is longer.
Do you think the GOP drive to get out the vote among evangelical Christians is intended to neutrally educate people on the issues?
Of course not. But one difference is that when the GOP targets the Religious Right, there isn't deception insofar as claiming that the campaign is about mobilizing a particular target audience. It's obvious that the campaigners are preaching to the choir, so to speak. (Whether there is deception in such rallies otherwise I'll leave an open question;) )
In the Vote or Die campaign, a political agenda is couched as a politically-neutral voter mobilization drive, and that's what I object to. I would object all the same no matter who is funding/staging/attending such a rally.
Now, I have no idea what that rally contained, but I can state as fact that people who didn't attend it like you and me are not authorities on what it's about.
I never claimed to be an authority. In fact, I disclaimed my remark by indicating that the information I was providing was second-hand. Hopefully,/. readers are intelligent enough to take the requisite grain of salt without being prompted to do so.
They're a blatant means for whoever, Republicans in this case, to disenfranchise millions of voters and skew the election.
It's doubtful that there's a conspiracy to get these voting machines to record votes for one candidate over the other. In fact, the article mentions that complaints have rolled in for members of both major parties. But everyone should get out their tin foil hats, just in case.
Refuse to use them.
This is the correct answer. All the rest of those suggestions are criminal acts of vandalism (and probably of election tampering, as well) that ultimately disenfranchise every other person who used the machine before you took a sledge to it.
Except the Vote or Die campaign carries a political agenda along with it. Propaganda and education aren't the same thing.
I didn't attend the Vote or Die rally at my school (mainly because I greatly dislike P. Diddy, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mary J. Blige somewhat), but the reports I've heard indicated that DiCaprio fully admitted his support for Kerry during his speech, and Blige's incoherent ramblings were something to the effect of the war in Iraq being bad because it leads to a cycle of domestic violence. P. Diddy at least spread around the criticism by noting that neither major candidate spent much time politicking to large urban centers.
It is also possible that the feelings people had for their chosen candidate (a sense of connection by Kerry supporters, or a feeling of friendship by Bush supporters) have more to do with the personalities of each candidate as perceived by their supporters. That is, Bush is a more friendly type, so Bush supporters perceive him as being a friend of sorts; Kerry is the "way out" from the current admin for his supporters, so they perceive him with a strong sense of connection.
Another possible alternative link involves the activity in the amygdala when shown a Bush ad including scenes from the September 11 attacks. Rather than being an innate difference between people of political leanings, this could be the result of the two wings of the media either harping on or justifying the use of September 11 imagery in Bush ads. Bush supporters find the imagery of the attack aftermath as connected to Bush to be reassuring, because they feel he is doing the right thing with regards to terrorism; while Kerry supporters find the same imagery to be alarming because the linked imagery of the attacks with Bush provides no reassurance (because they disagree with how Bush has handled terrorism).
The secret service blew it big time and failed to protect the president
The Secret Service failed to protect the President in the same way that it is failing to protect the President now by not keeping him in a top-secret bunker buried three miles below the Earth's surface.
They could protect the President by killing every other person on the face of the planet, too. That'd keep the President safe, almost guaranteed. But just because it would work doesn't mean it would be *necessary*. Given the method of attack - it's suspected that the reason the Pentagon was hit instead of the White House is because the White House is small and the Pentagon is fucking enormous - it's unlikely that terrorists would have been able to find a nondescript elementary school from the air or to find and ram AF1, and agents on the ground were likely more than enough protection against bombers or gunmen.
In this case, however, you never know when a person's wish of death upon the President is just idle chatter or the megalomaniacal ramblings of someone who's a few cards short of a full deck, unless you investigate. The Secret Service did that, and decided fairly quickly that the person was not a threat. The result? The person ends up with an FBI file that will probably prevent them from getting a national security job.
The bottom line is that these electronic voting machines can be, and probably already are, many times more accurate than paper ballots. We know how to make ATMs, we can make them secure, reliable and even easy to use. Why are you so against doing the same thing for voting machines?
I think that's a question best addressed to Diebold.
If Gore really believes that the Internet is a public utility, then he should be going out of his way to file amicus briefs against VeriSign every time he gets the chance.
Unfortunately for SOE, the market for fantasy-based MMOGs is all but saturated currently. The companies making these games are squabbling over each others' former customers to a large degree. Because of the significant cash outlay associated with these games, most players don't maintain more than one or two accounts total (and frequently, those accounts are for the same game, and are used to multibox).
What's more is that MMOGs are unplayable if you don't pay, and the result is that the $50 initial payment for the box game seems like wasted cash if the player decides the game isn't worth it. In this case, the better the beta experience, the better the sales, and from the various reports I've heard, Blizzard has that contest won hands-down.
WoW open beta will also likely begin before EQ2 goes live, and "free" will most definitely distract people from rushing out and buying SOE's latest offering, right up to the point where WoW goes live. An ingenious marketing tactic on Blizzard's part, if they don't drop the ball.
I could be wrong about this, but my guess is that the whole child pron thing is just a bluff. The extortionist already has enough zombie machines to do a DDoS attack, so there's no need to risk a more severe prosecution if caught when a lesser means will do the same job. The additional threat is likely just a kick in the seat of the pants of the target, to make sure the extortionist has their attention.
The implication of this lawsuit is, of course, that there is some justification in international IP treaties, to make terms of copyright equal from one country to another.
Of course, the bad news is that because legislatures around the world are driven by the almighty dollar/pound/yen/euro/whatever, the trend will be for IP treaties to favor the longest term copyright of any of the participating states.
Some time back, I was with Cingular, but I decided their service sucked hardcore and wanted to go with someone else. I decided that AT&T had the best rates and the right coverage area, plus my downstairs neighbor got great reception with his phone. After they screwed up my online order three - count 'em - three times, I decided to cancel my order(s) and go with Sprint. About two days later, the first news reports hit the wire about Cingular buying out AT&T Wireless. Glad I dodged that bullet.
What's even funnier is that now, months later, I still get bills in the mail for $0.00 from AT&T Wireless.
"Franklin Computer, 714 F.2d 1240, and Formula International, 725 F.2d 521, involved copies of Apple's operating system program -- a program whose size and complexity is to the Toner Loading Program what the Sears Tower is to a lamppost."
Also, what's really great about this ruling is that Lexmark effectively shot themselves in the foot. By making the bytecode of the TLP a prerequisite for making an ink cartridge work (through the use of either a checksum or a CRC, it's not entirely clear which), Lexmark itself makes the TLP uncopyrightable in the context of using that bytecode as a key for making the ink cartridge usable. That is, even if the code *could* be written some other way for the purpose of performing the same computations that the TLP does, it only works if the checksum requirement is met, meaning that the code pretty much has to be the way it is. (See pages 11-12 in the ruling.)
A Slashdot editor has created a living "dupe" of cultured rat feces that now controls a TIE fighter flight simulator. Slashdot posters say the article could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic dupes and unmanned editors flown by living computers. Read on for more.
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To quote Wikipedia:
As TRIPS agreement declares, the term of an issued patent is twenty years from earliest claimed filing date. In the United States, for applications filed prior to June 8, 1995, the patent term is seventeen years from the issue date. For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, the term is twenty years from the earliest claimed filing date. The rules for patents in force and pending at the transition date (June 8, 1995) are significantly more complicated but grant the patentee whichever term is longer.
EQ2 goes live: 8 November, for $49.99
WoW open beta begins: 8 November, for free
Coincidence?
Here's the FBI's take on hate crimes. Who knows, maybe Jeff Merkey will read it and learn something.
Do you think the GOP drive to get out the vote among evangelical Christians is intended to neutrally educate people on the issues?
;) )
Of course not. But one difference is that when the GOP targets the Religious Right, there isn't deception insofar as claiming that the campaign is about mobilizing a particular target audience. It's obvious that the campaigners are preaching to the choir, so to speak. (Whether there is deception in such rallies otherwise I'll leave an open question
In the Vote or Die campaign, a political agenda is couched as a politically-neutral voter mobilization drive, and that's what I object to. I would object all the same no matter who is funding/staging/attending such a rally.
Finally, I think when these people said the rally was at school, school was defined as college.
Indeed.
Now, I have no idea what that rally contained, but I can state as fact that people who didn't attend it like you and me are not authorities on what it's about.
/. readers are intelligent enough to take the requisite grain of salt without being prompted to do so.
I never claimed to be an authority. In fact, I disclaimed my remark by indicating that the information I was providing was second-hand. Hopefully,
They're a blatant means for whoever, Republicans in this case, to disenfranchise millions of voters and skew the election.
It's doubtful that there's a conspiracy to get these voting machines to record votes for one candidate over the other. In fact, the article mentions that complaints have rolled in for members of both major parties. But everyone should get out their tin foil hats, just in case.
Refuse to use them.
This is the correct answer. All the rest of those suggestions are criminal acts of vandalism (and probably of election tampering, as well) that ultimately disenfranchise every other person who used the machine before you took a sledge to it.
Except the Vote or Die campaign carries a political agenda along with it. Propaganda and education aren't the same thing.
I didn't attend the Vote or Die rally at my school (mainly because I greatly dislike P. Diddy, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mary J. Blige somewhat), but the reports I've heard indicated that DiCaprio fully admitted his support for Kerry during his speech, and Blige's incoherent ramblings were something to the effect of the war in Iraq being bad because it leads to a cycle of domestic violence. P. Diddy at least spread around the criticism by noting that neither major candidate spent much time politicking to large urban centers.
"You don't want me to vote. You want me to vote for your guy!"
And on another note:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/100702A.html
It is also possible that the feelings people had for their chosen candidate (a sense of connection by Kerry supporters, or a feeling of friendship by Bush supporters) have more to do with the personalities of each candidate as perceived by their supporters. That is, Bush is a more friendly type, so Bush supporters perceive him as being a friend of sorts; Kerry is the "way out" from the current admin for his supporters, so they perceive him with a strong sense of connection.
Another possible alternative link involves the activity in the amygdala when shown a Bush ad including scenes from the September 11 attacks. Rather than being an innate difference between people of political leanings, this could be the result of the two wings of the media either harping on or justifying the use of September 11 imagery in Bush ads. Bush supporters find the imagery of the attack aftermath as connected to Bush to be reassuring, because they feel he is doing the right thing with regards to terrorism; while Kerry supporters find the same imagery to be alarming because the linked imagery of the attacks with Bush provides no reassurance (because they disagree with how Bush has handled terrorism).
Who knows, but 100 cups of coffee causes you to become transcendental as time slows down around you, allowing you to save all your friends from a gigantic spider silk tapestry fire.
For those who don't get the joke: http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v 9i3/kansas.html
The secret service blew it big time and failed to protect the president
The Secret Service failed to protect the President in the same way that it is failing to protect the President now by not keeping him in a top-secret bunker buried three miles below the Earth's surface.
They could protect the President by killing every other person on the face of the planet, too. That'd keep the President safe, almost guaranteed. But just because it would work doesn't mean it would be *necessary*. Given the method of attack - it's suspected that the reason the Pentagon was hit instead of the White House is because the White House is small and the Pentagon is fucking enormous - it's unlikely that terrorists would have been able to find a nondescript elementary school from the air or to find and ram AF1, and agents on the ground were likely more than enough protection against bombers or gunmen.
In this case, however, you never know when a person's wish of death upon the President is just idle chatter or the megalomaniacal ramblings of someone who's a few cards short of a full deck, unless you investigate. The Secret Service did that, and decided fairly quickly that the person was not a threat. The result? The person ends up with an FBI file that will probably prevent them from getting a national security job.
Blow Temps and the Hand Employment Agency are going to have to act fast if they want to make sure they get their new .jobs domain.
The bottom line is that these electronic voting machines can be, and probably already are, many times more accurate than paper ballots. We know how to make ATMs, we can make them secure, reliable and even easy to use. Why are you so against doing the same thing for voting machines?
I think that's a question best addressed to Diebold.
If Gore really believes that the Internet is a public utility, then he should be going out of his way to file amicus briefs against VeriSign every time he gets the chance.
Is it a forged document if there is no physical copy, only a Photoshopped image?
Unfortunately for SOE, the market for fantasy-based MMOGs is all but saturated currently. The companies making these games are squabbling over each others' former customers to a large degree. Because of the significant cash outlay associated with these games, most players don't maintain more than one or two accounts total (and frequently, those accounts are for the same game, and are used to multibox).
What's more is that MMOGs are unplayable if you don't pay, and the result is that the $50 initial payment for the box game seems like wasted cash if the player decides the game isn't worth it. In this case, the better the beta experience, the better the sales, and from the various reports I've heard, Blizzard has that contest won hands-down.
WoW open beta will also likely begin before EQ2 goes live, and "free" will most definitely distract people from rushing out and buying SOE's latest offering, right up to the point where WoW goes live. An ingenious marketing tactic on Blizzard's part, if they don't drop the ball.
I could be wrong about this, but my guess is that the whole child pron thing is just a bluff. The extortionist already has enough zombie machines to do a DDoS attack, so there's no need to risk a more severe prosecution if caught when a lesser means will do the same job. The additional threat is likely just a kick in the seat of the pants of the target, to make sure the extortionist has their attention.
Judging from the uptick this morning, investors either disagree or just don't care.... Long live the Internet bubble!
The implication of this lawsuit is, of course, that there is some justification in international IP treaties, to make terms of copyright equal from one country to another.
Of course, the bad news is that because legislatures around the world are driven by the almighty dollar/pound/yen/euro/whatever, the trend will be for IP treaties to favor the longest term copyright of any of the participating states.
Or maybe "bean salad crunch".
:(
I looked all up and down my grocer's cereal aisle for it, but I couldn't find it!
I did pick up some Archduke Chocula, though.
Some time back, I was with Cingular, but I decided their service sucked hardcore and wanted to go with someone else. I decided that AT&T had the best rates and the right coverage area, plus my downstairs neighbor got great reception with his phone. After they screwed up my online order three - count 'em - three times, I decided to cancel my order(s) and go with Sprint. About two days later, the first news reports hit the wire about Cingular buying out AT&T Wireless. Glad I dodged that bullet.
What's even funnier is that now, months later, I still get bills in the mail for $0.00 from AT&T Wireless.
From the ruling:
"Franklin Computer, 714 F.2d 1240, and Formula International, 725 F.2d 521, involved copies of Apple's operating system program -- a program whose size and complexity is to the Toner Loading Program what the Sears Tower is to a lamppost."
Also, what's really great about this ruling is that Lexmark effectively shot themselves in the foot. By making the bytecode of the TLP a prerequisite for making an ink cartridge work (through the use of either a checksum or a CRC, it's not entirely clear which), Lexmark itself makes the TLP uncopyrightable in the context of using that bytecode as a key for making the ink cartridge usable. That is, even if the code *could* be written some other way for the purpose of performing the same computations that the TLP does, it only works if the checksum requirement is met, meaning that the code pretty much has to be the way it is. (See pages 11-12 in the ruling.)
A Slashdot editor has created a living "dupe" of cultured rat feces that now controls a TIE fighter flight simulator. Slashdot posters say the article could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic dupes and unmanned editors flown by living computers. Read on for more.