No, they are not. The Constitution states they are for the "progress of science and the useful arts." Your assignment of a negative moniker makes it to be an evil rather than a compromise.
Without patents, nearly no one would have a "first mover" advantage. In reality, big business would steal every new idea of every individual or small company. Most inventions and every work of art is easily copied. Robert Kiyosaki invented the surfer wallet, but because he did not patent it then everyone copied it. It takes a large expense of R&D to get most inventions in production, so if you don't have patent protection you just took on all the expense for some other people to copy you.
Federal law. Since it's an online service, it would require you to affirm your age is greater than 13 in the USA. They might also have requirements, due to content or similar requirements in other countries.
- Free coffee is now a benefit. - Free water is now a benefit. - Free cups, plates, forks, etc. in the breakroom are benefits. - Use of the appliances in the breakroom are benefits. - Free off-street parking or parking validation is a benefit. - Maybe even restroom facilities are benefits.
None of those things are strictly related to performing the job function. Congrats, more revenue streams for the government.
Meanwhile, the employer already paid taxes on those items several times: - Paid sales tax when purchasing them. - Maybe paid income tax on the money used to purchase them (depends on whether they showed a profit) - Paid tax on the electricity to run the appliances and water in the bathroom.
Really? The POSIX standard never included ACLs, so if a *nix system included them early on it was proprietary. I'm certain that VMS had ACLs before UNIX and Windows NT likely did.
The fault on Admin privleges belongs soley to MS as they never did enforce privleges.
They most certainly DID enforce privileges. If they had not, there would have been no need for virtually ever user to be administrator on his local machine. But developers still didn't understand how to code for multi-user systems and still wrote as if they had access to every file and the registry. Microsoft just added a mechanism to notify the user when privileges were being invoked (or required).
No, they're hobbled by the history of applications designed for single-user DOS-based Windows' and the need to maintain compatibility. As we've moved to 64-bit Windows, those hangers-on have fallen away-- not because of any benefit from being 64-bit, but from compatibility being less of a concern.
The existence of patents do not "hamstring the march of human knowledge." I can't speak for everyone, but the fact is that there are a lot of creative people out there who don't create just for the joy of creating, or for altruistic reasons-- they do it for the money. I'm sure that altruism and personal accomplishment are high on the list, but the fact remains that if an invention is beneficial and its development was performed morally, we shouldn't care why it was done. And not having patents available to provide the creator with a REASONABLE period of time in which they can exclusively profit from their invention, there would definitely be fewer creators-- and fewer creations. I can guarantee that NOT having patents would not motivate more creators-- you can always eschew patents entirely and donate your inventions to the public domain as Benjamin Franklin did, or license the rights for free.
I can entertain discussion over how long a patent should be in force-- because in today's world they seem to be a bit lengthy. But I really can't fathom the side of the debate that would be OK with fewer inventions and fewer creators merely because of some perceived immorality or other rhetorical reason.
You're not entitled to accreditation of your creation even though you didn't copy it?
Nope. I know this is a shocking concept in our "everyone gets a trophy" world, but when you work hard and work well, chances are that you're going to get the jump on an idea before someone else does. It's a great personal accomplishment when people happen on great ideas independently-- and maybe worthy of non-monetary accreditation-- but while that may be personally fulfilling it's of no use to the rest of the world that benefits from progress.
Well, that's nothing like how income taxes work in the USA. Besides having the first $X not be taxed, we have the most heavily "progressive" and most unproportional taxation in the world.
No, actually you've just learned the Marxist perversion. I'm pretty sure that my possessions are mine even when no government is involved. If my property is not mine, then neither are my freedom and my life and I will ensure that yours are forfeit if you dare to challenge that. Now go back to your brothers, you disgusting robber.
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No, they are not. The Constitution states they are for the "progress of science and the useful arts." Your assignment of a negative moniker makes it to be an evil rather than a compromise.
Without patents, nearly no one would have a "first mover" advantage. In reality, big business would steal every new idea of every individual or small company. Most inventions and every work of art is easily copied. Robert Kiyosaki invented the surfer wallet, but because he did not patent it then everyone copied it. It takes a large expense of R&D to get most inventions in production, so if you don't have patent protection you just took on all the expense for some other people to copy you.
We need patents.
I inferred that you weren't American. You misinterpreted my sentence.
You clearly don't know anything about Reagan or else you wouldn't group him with W.
Federal law. Since it's an online service, it would require you to affirm your age is greater than 13 in the USA. They might also have requirements, due to content or similar requirements in other countries.
You, like most Americans now, see a revenue problem when we have a spending problem.
Let's just open Pandora's box, shall we?
- Free coffee is now a benefit.
- Free water is now a benefit.
- Free cups, plates, forks, etc. in the breakroom are benefits.
- Use of the appliances in the breakroom are benefits.
- Free off-street parking or parking validation is a benefit.
- Maybe even restroom facilities are benefits.
None of those things are strictly related to performing the job function. Congrats, more revenue streams for the government.
Meanwhile, the employer already paid taxes on those items several times:
- Paid sales tax when purchasing them.
- Maybe paid income tax on the money used to purchase them (depends on whether they showed a profit)
- Paid tax on the electricity to run the appliances and water in the bathroom.
Time lord.
Really? The POSIX standard never included ACLs, so if a *nix system included them early on it was proprietary. I'm certain that VMS had ACLs before UNIX and Windows NT likely did.
They most certainly DID enforce privileges. If they had not, there would have been no need for virtually ever user to be administrator on his local machine. But developers still didn't understand how to code for multi-user systems and still wrote as if they had access to every file and the registry. Microsoft just added a mechanism to notify the user when privileges were being invoked (or required).
No, they're hobbled by the history of applications designed for single-user DOS-based Windows' and the need to maintain compatibility. As we've moved to 64-bit Windows, those hangers-on have fallen away-- not because of any benefit from being 64-bit, but from compatibility being less of a concern.
Because anecdotes beat statistics every time.
You mean this Linux?
QID Sev. Title
121024 V 3 Red Hat Update for krb5 (RHSA-2013... (CVE-2012-1016, RHSA-2...)
121021 V 3 Solaris Multiple Vulnerabili... (CVE-2012-2733, Solari...) [PCI]
121022 V 3 Solaris Multiple Vulnerabili... (CVE-2012-2807, Solari...) [PCI]
195324 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for L... (CVE-2012-4461, USN-16...)
195325 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2013-0743, USN-16...) [PCI]
195326 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2013-0743, USN-16...) [PCI]
195327 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-5668, USN-16...) [PCI]
195319 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-2783, USN-17...) [PCI]
195320 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-0572, USN-17...) [PCI]
195321 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-4429, USN-17...) [PCI]
195322 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2011-3378, USN-16...) [PCI]
195323 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-6075, USN-16...) [PCI]
195318 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for L... (CVE-2013-0176, USN-17...)
121023 V 3 Red Hat Update for pidgin (R... (CVE-2013-0272, RHSA-2...) [PCI]
195279 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for X... (CVE-2013-0241, USN-17...)
156533 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-3955, ELSA-2...)
156531 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2011-2504, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156532 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4450, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156529 V 2 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-0862, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156528 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4508, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156526 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-3411, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156525 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0169, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156524 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0169, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156549 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-3386, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156523 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0169, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156527 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-3411, ELSA-2...)
156522 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0775, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156521 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0775, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156554 V 4 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-5519, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156552 V 4 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0871, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156553 V 4 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0292, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156551 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-5689, ELSA-2...)
156550 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4546, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156519 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-5784, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156520 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-5783, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
195317 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-5656, USN-17...) [PCI]
156557 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-4398, ELSA-2...)
156558 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4530, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156555 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2013-0338, ELSA-2...)
156556 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-5643, ELSA-2...)
156518 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4512, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156530 V 1 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2011-2722, ELSA-2...)
195315 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for P... (CVE-2013-0255, USN-17...)
156547 V 2 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2010-4530, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156548 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2010-4531, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156534 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-1182, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156535 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0219, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156536 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-4517, ELSA-2...)
156537 V 2 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4543, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156538 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2008-0455, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156539 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2011-1398, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156540 V 5 Oracle E
But it wasn't funny.
The existence of patents do not "hamstring the march of human knowledge." I can't speak for everyone, but the fact is that there are a lot of creative people out there who don't create just for the joy of creating, or for altruistic reasons-- they do it for the money. I'm sure that altruism and personal accomplishment are high on the list, but the fact remains that if an invention is beneficial and its development was performed morally, we shouldn't care why it was done. And not having patents available to provide the creator with a REASONABLE period of time in which they can exclusively profit from their invention, there would definitely be fewer creators-- and fewer creations. I can guarantee that NOT having patents would not motivate more creators-- you can always eschew patents entirely and donate your inventions to the public domain as Benjamin Franklin did, or license the rights for free.
I can entertain discussion over how long a patent should be in force-- because in today's world they seem to be a bit lengthy. But I really can't fathom the side of the debate that would be OK with fewer inventions and fewer creators merely because of some perceived immorality or other rhetorical reason.
Nope. I know this is a shocking concept in our "everyone gets a trophy" world, but when you work hard and work well, chances are that you're going to get the jump on an idea before someone else does. It's a great personal accomplishment when people happen on great ideas independently-- and maybe worthy of non-monetary accreditation-- but while that may be personally fulfilling it's of no use to the rest of the world that benefits from progress.
That's the weakest leftist troll I've seen for some time.
Well, that's nothing like how income taxes work in the USA. Besides having the first $X not be taxed, we have the most heavily "progressive" and most unproportional taxation in the world.
No, actually you've just learned the Marxist perversion. I'm pretty sure that my possessions are mine even when no government is involved. If my property is not mine, then neither are my freedom and my life and I will ensure that yours are forfeit if you dare to challenge that. Now go back to your brothers, you disgusting robber.
If all the wealthy are tax-dodging rent-seekers, then all poor are lazy, jealous entitlement-seekers. Isn't it fun creating those straw men?
Is your *nix "tank" one on this list? Mind you, this is just the vulnerabilities from one week. Enjoy!
QID Sev. Title
121024 V 3 Red Hat Update for krb5 (RHSA-2013... (CVE-2012-1016, RHSA-2...)
121021 V 3 Solaris Multiple Vulnerabili... (CVE-2012-2733, Solari...) [PCI]
121022 V 3 Solaris Multiple Vulnerabili... (CVE-2012-2807, Solari...) [PCI]
195324 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for L... (CVE-2012-4461, USN-16...)
195325 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2013-0743, USN-16...) [PCI]
195326 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2013-0743, USN-16...) [PCI]
195327 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-5668, USN-16...) [PCI]
195319 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-2783, USN-17...) [PCI]
195320 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-0572, USN-17...) [PCI]
195321 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-4429, USN-17...) [PCI]
195322 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2011-3378, USN-16...) [PCI]
195323 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-6075, USN-16...) [PCI]
195318 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for L... (CVE-2013-0176, USN-17...)
121023 V 3 Red Hat Update for pidgin (R... (CVE-2013-0272, RHSA-2...) [PCI]
195279 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for X... (CVE-2013-0241, USN-17...)
156533 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-3955, ELSA-2...)
156531 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2011-2504, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156532 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4450, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156529 V 2 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-0862, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156528 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4508, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156526 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-3411, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156525 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0169, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156524 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0169, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156549 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-3386, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156523 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0169, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156527 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-3411, ELSA-2...)
156522 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0775, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156521 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0775, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156554 V 4 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-5519, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156552 V 4 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0871, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156553 V 4 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0292, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156551 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-5689, ELSA-2...)
156550 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4546, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156519 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-5784, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156520 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-5783, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
195317 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification... (CVE-2012-5656, USN-17...) [PCI]
156557 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-4398, ELSA-2...)
156558 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4530, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156555 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2013-0338, ELSA-2...)
156556 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-5643, ELSA-2...)
156518 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4512, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156530 V 1 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2011-2722, ELSA-2...)
195315 V 4 Ubuntu Security Notification for P... (CVE-2013-0255, USN-17...)
156547 V 2 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2010-4530, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156548 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2010-4531, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156534 V 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-1182, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156535 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2013-0219, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156536 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for... (CVE-2012-4517, ELSA-2...)
156537 V 2 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda... (CVE-2012-4543, ELSA-2...) [PCI]
156538 V 3 Oracle Enterprise Linux Upda.
That explains why crazy cat ladies are not necessarily known for their horniness.
Ones wearing body armor or under the influence of certain drugs.
A crafty bacterium could use KWOP as a training simulator.
Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark. A Mickey Mouse movie is a copyrighted work.
We don't need to deal with the Libyans, now that plutonium is available at Rite-Aid.
There's also water involved, and I don't see how much that weighs.