AFAIK, there have been two infamous false-positive cases in recent years. These are just the ones we hear about as they are the most egregious. Despite all the other contrary evidence, the DNA 'matches' led the inquiry and resulted in the investigation and arrest of individuals who could not possibly have been involved in the crimes. It is a major concern that the compelling evidence of innocence (like being 200 miles away at the time of the crime) will take a back-seat to the supposedly infallible "DNA match".
There are reports that 1 in 8 DNA records on the database are incorrectly filed.
It's an American fad that spread to Europe because of the novelty factor. A nice juicy ham is the traditional Christmas dish for most of Nothern Europe.
You don't mention your jurisdiction but the broad answer is no. More details would need to be known to establish if there was any legal conflict, e.g. passing-off, but clearly there is a registered trade mark system and there are domain names. While they may give rise to conflict on occasion one does not replace the other.
Just to point out that at the bottom of the notice is written; "CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, and the CUPS logo are the trademark property of Apple Inc.".
I'm glad that someone else thinks this. He didn't 'invent' in any sense that would get a patent - it was an obvious combination of existing ideas. Gopher/WAIS, for example, were independent, contemporaneous developments but were clearly going to develop into something like the WWW. Oh and SGML was created in the 70's too.
The BBC paper isn't rubbish. The Slashdot summary mangles things as usual so you need to go to the original source (dated December 2006 incidently). Even the paper itself says that this isn't news.
The same frequency is used for two transmissions at but at different polarizations. So the noise floor is not raised to the levels that you might suggest (although originally orthogonal, reflections and refraction will cause some problems). Theoretically there are two independent channels and experimentally it works.
Ever hear of the TRIPS agreement? Every country that signed it is obliged to implement DMCA-type legislation. That was in 1996 and it's a done deal folks. If you want to fix it, you'll have to get your country to pull out of the agreement.
This is complete nonsense written by someone that is clearly clueless and forwarded by an editor that is equally clueless. This is a FreeType library setting for compiling programs (not ClearType!). It is the same for every Linux distribution as it is the default setting for the development library. It has never been enabled by default.
Moral rights are traditionally part of IP law. Your distinction is not so clear cut either - moral rights may include (depending on the applicable law) the right not to have a work included with others where it might be demeaned, for example. So you cannot permit copies arbitrarily and still assert all your moral rights. They are closely linked.
It's taxi drivers with the brains, not slashdot 'editors'. They are happy to recycle old news to garner advertising. We'll be hearing about man's first steps on the moon any day now.
More correctly, organic molecules are not necessarily 'organic matter'. The report does not say it is 'organic matter' - some idiot in the reporting chain just doesn't know the difference. This is one reason why Slashdot should cite the original article rather than second or third hand rubbish.
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AFAIK, there have been two infamous false-positive cases in recent years. These are just the ones we hear about as they are the most egregious. Despite all the other contrary evidence, the DNA 'matches' led the inquiry and resulted in the investigation and arrest of individuals who could not possibly have been involved in the crimes. It is a major concern that the compelling evidence of innocence (like being 200 miles away at the time of the crime) will take a back-seat to the supposedly infallible "DNA match".
There are reports that 1 in 8 DNA records on the database are incorrectly filed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=519568&in_page_id=1965
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/28/ukcrime.forensicscience
Of course life on Mars is going to look remote, Mars is over 200 million km away!
It isn't DRM and and it is barely worthy of notice.
It's an American fad that spread to Europe because of the novelty factor. A nice juicy ham is the traditional Christmas dish for most of Nothern Europe.
You don't mention your jurisdiction but the broad answer is no. More details would need to be known to establish if there was any legal conflict, e.g. passing-off, but clearly there is a registered trade mark system and there are domain names. While they may give rise to conflict on occasion one does not replace the other.
Meteor's don't impact anything but meteorites do. Perhaps confusingly they leave a meteor crater.
Just to point out that at the bottom of the notice is written; "CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, and the CUPS logo are the trademark property of Apple Inc.".
I'm glad that someone else thinks this. He didn't 'invent' in any sense that would get a patent - it was an obvious combination of existing ideas. Gopher/WAIS, for example, were independent, contemporaneous developments but were clearly going to develop into something like the WWW. Oh and SGML was created in the 70's too.
Anyone that truly understands voting knows that open source buys NOTHING as far as the integrity of the election is concerned.
The voice of reason. Pity it is anonymous.
Correct. Nothing has been decoded or 'decyphered'. It has been sequenced or transcribed.
News stories with DNA are always encumbered with misleading inappropriate terms.
You must be new around here.
Welcome to Slashdot!
The BBC paper isn't rubbish. The Slashdot summary mangles things as usual so you need to go to the original source (dated December 2006 incidently). Even the paper itself says that this isn't news. The same frequency is used for two transmissions at but at different polarizations. So the noise floor is not raised to the levels that you might suggest (although originally orthogonal, reflections and refraction will cause some problems). Theoretically there are two independent channels and experimentally it works.
Ever hear of the TRIPS agreement? Every country that signed it is obliged to implement DMCA-type legislation. That was in 1996 and it's a done deal folks. If you want to fix it, you'll have to get your country to pull out of the agreement.
Why all the fuss about a story that is 3 years old?
Oh, this is Slashdot. News is never old, just forgotten.
This is complete nonsense written by someone that is clearly clueless and forwarded by an editor that is equally clueless. This is a FreeType library setting for compiling programs (not ClearType!). It is the same for every Linux distribution as it is the default setting for the development library. It has never been enabled by default.
Moral rights are traditionally part of IP law. Your distinction is not so clear cut either - moral rights may include (depending on the applicable law) the right not to have a work included with others where it might be demeaned, for example. So you cannot permit copies arbitrarily and still assert all your moral rights. They are closely linked.
It's only March. There'll be an inventor of the internal combustion engine along shortly.
More like the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
While they're at it they could check to see if we're related to renegade Roman soldiers.
Yup and was about to post the same thing :-)
A similar study was conducted about 10 years ago, if not more. Slashdot! News for amnesiacs. Stuff that mattered long ago.
It's taxi drivers with the brains, not slashdot 'editors'. They are happy to recycle old news to garner advertising. We'll be hearing about man's first steps on the moon any day now.
More correctly, organic molecules are not necessarily 'organic matter'. The report does not say it is 'organic matter' - some idiot in the reporting chain just doesn't know the difference. This is one reason why Slashdot should cite the original article rather than second or third hand rubbish.