The real issue here is lack of police action. If the police wanted too and put the required resources into it. they could get all the evidence, conduct a full investigation and track down and apprehend the criminal involved.
They of course don't do it. because it is too much effort for too petty a crime and basically screw you. So adjustment needs to made with where police focus their efforts. Which is more important speeding fines or house break ins or, which is more important non-violent drug users or house break ins.
So why are you getting a dog and a gun when instead you should be harassing your local city to force the police to shift focus. Basically the police are meant to be your dog and gun, they are trained, they are paid, get the doughnut sucking, getting more obese by the year, off their fat asses and pursuing crimes that result in victims.
The real issue is why take a cheap and nasty shortcut with the most fundamental issue of any democracy the election. Why go electronic with an issue that is meant to be of the people, by the people and for the people. The hardest system to cheap on any scale is a manual system, where representatives from all parties are at the election stations, where the votes are manually counted at the election stations, and then the results sent through by multiple routes to the vote tally centre (each representative can send the count from each election station to the party at the tally centre).
Voting was never meant to be electronic, it is manual event, a celebration of democracy and, part of the role of government is to get the public involved in the election process. Every time electronic voting comes up, it is becoming pretty obvious it is all about those that make the machines, the rich and greedy, electronically stealing elections.
Hold all elections on a Saturday or make it a public holiday to ensure plenty of volunteers from all political parties are available to monitor the election process. Allow charities to hold bake and hot dog etc. sales at election stations, getting more people involved. Video monitor all election stations, especially the point where people are checked off the election rolls (trying to stop all cheating is much easier when people who do it know they will get caught).
You just got sucker trapped by anonymous coward and paid to mod marketdroids. Statement us absolutely pointless and meaningless.
I installed windows vista original first issue disk and it was the slowest most disgusting piece of crap imaginable, hell, it took three whole days to complete the install. First it patched (several times) and the it decided it need a whole support pack, after that it patched (several times), then it decided it needed another whole support pack, then it patched (several times again). In first three days fresh install it was the absolute worst operating system I have ever used (yes this is your fault M$ why vista patch have to be so bloody slow I will never understand). On top of that, your guessed it, it didn't install one of the correct drivers they all had to be up dated. After that it wasn't too bad.
In a commercial administrative environment with a limited range of applications, free open source software, as the base with some commercial software on top is going to win, end of story.
Let's just stop the how bug my country is argument right in it's tracks by pointing out the blinding obvious. My country is to big for broadband and to prove it we have none of the following many times of magnitude more expensive services, no public bitumen roads, no sewerage service, no storm water service, no water service and no mains power grid. WHAT, you have all these far, far more expensive services, than obviously you can afford the far, far cheaper fibre optic to the home service.
What comcast is offering is a content distribution monopoly, want to distribute your content on their network than you are going to have to pay them a, tah dah, "PUBLISHING" fee as a percentage of your income. Your game, your video, your music, not any bloody more, to distribute it on their network they are now demanding a percentage ownership of that content and demanding their cut for you to sell it.
This has nothing to do with security. It is a straight up sickening greed play. Computer game companies are going after childrens lollipop money by nickel and dime them with downloadable content, making them pay to keep up with their peers. Permanent connection, permanent sales line, permanent monitoring what sells, what doesn't sell all targeted at minors. Some really sick stuff. Want to win, they keep paying and paying and paying and paying, ad nauseum, all targeted at minors. Just think of adult corporate executives sitting in their office snorting up cocaine thinking of ways to scam more money out of children for bigger and bigger bonuses.
Which is the underlying reality of internet security. If it absolutely doesn't need to be connected to the internet than don't bloody connect it to the internet. If it is going to save a thousand dollars a year to connect to the internet but cost ten thousand dollars to 'maybe' secure it, then don't connect it to the internet.
When it comes to security, the internet should not be any different than reality. What would you do to secure your actual physical computer system, would you require every person on the planet continuously (incorporate an auto-taze neck collar to disable them of they do anything suspicious) because of that one person who grabs a brick throws it through you office window and yanks your file server right off your desk.
The rich simply shift all the personal income into a corporation that they own, they also shift all their personal assets homes, cars, yachts into that corporation.
So now they get to yuck it up at the idiot middle class who pay full personal rate tax whilst the rich who can shift all the income into corporations pay less.
Here's the word of the day 'franked'. Fully franked dividends are dividends paid by corporations to their owners (the people who should actually be getting the money corporations make) which have been taxed. The reciever of that dividend can then take the tax paid as a deduction against their income if their rate of tax is lower.
Ah ha but of course the lying shit head multi-millionaire with their corrupt paid of politicians will leave everything in corporations, one 'private' corporation paying another 'private' corporation, all cheating on tax deductions and now what's left is charged at a less than salaried middle class rate. So why don't honest governments reduce corporate tax rates because it is a bull shit lie.
Solar energy subsidise are meant to reduce energy imports, reduce pollution in cities, promote a technology by generating larger volumes of production (as volume of production increases so cost's per unit decreases), so kick start an industry to self sufficiency.
So what is better pouring billions upon billions into armaments and munitions, only to throw them away or destroy or spending hundreds of millions on improving infrastructure, in this energy generation infrastructure.
No, it'll be some dumb schmuck who has no idea about computer security, whose computer gets taken over to launch a series of attacks and once the attacks are finished all traces are cleaned up, leaving nothing but a trail to the victim, the victim here being the person accused of hacking who now can no longer prove the innocence.
Now of course if it is a law enforcement type who is meant to be upholding these laws, it will be kind of funny, for every one else and of course everyone has heard about tens of thousands of computers on bot nets, seriously disturbing.
The thing to keep in mind with computer misuse is the crime doesn't just stop there. There is always something more to charge the person with, credit card fraud for example. The computer hacks do not occur in isolation somehow saying that a person who hacks a banks computer and steals 10 million dollars will only go to jail for two years for computer hacking is ludicrous they will also be penalised for the theft. Same with any other kind of damage, if real actual damage did occur, than they will get charged with that damage.
You can not really charge someone for making a company wake up to how insecure their computer system is and going into paranoia overdrive and being ripped off by computer security experts (in the majority of cases drips under pressure trying to scam clients into spending hundreds or even thousands of times more than they need to).
The more accurate statement is specific Apple advertising for a product they are selling is inaccurate.
The point to be careful about, is every single ad must be accurate, not just the web site targeted at Australian users, no just major press releases, not just a particular mailing drop, but every ad via every source, be it television, radio, letter box drop, magazine and, newspaper.
Penalties should be applied for all corporate deceit. For the ACCC to initiate a case generally all that is required is a sufficient number of complaints and evidence.
Point of correction. Whilst this is true in most of the civilised world in some US states corrupt legislators via criminally applied campaign donations screwed over the consumer at the behest of corporate interests made post purchase End User Licence Agreements legal. Which flies in the face of the cost to the consumer to make the purchase and effort required to view the post purchase contract alteration (this cost should also be legally refunded plus the effort required to purchase an alternate not including the cost of the product).
Give it a rest, everyone is an asshole when they are drunk. So phone access when drunk, should it be tackled as seriously as car access when drunk. Drunk is legally defined as being unable to make rational judgements, with regards to the car, the break the premise of being unable to make rational judgement because you planned to take the car with you drinking.
Should the same be applied to a mobile phone. Clearly not, should a tweet be any worse than shouting something offensive at the match itself, logically not. So the thinking that should have gone through the police officers mind and the judges mind is, equivalence to a drunken yob at a football match shouting the same thing nothing less and absolutely nothing more.
Drunken use of technology, your drunk, bloody deny everything, "I DO NOT REMEMBER" stamp that in your mind, do not lie, do not make excuses, push the burden of proof upon the police. Have your lawyer challenge evidence, from twitters security and accurately legal attribution of comments with regard to warranty accuracy of attribution to the tune of a million dollars. Your lawyer should force the court to prove that it was you as an individual that made that post, not a twitter account, not a network connection and not a phone, especially where prison is the consequence.
Reality here, idiot incriminated himself, lied to the police and got a bad lawyer. 'I can't remember doing that is the only thing you should even think of saying to the police' force the burden of proof upon them.
Smart phones pass codes are easy to crack for a reason, whiny users who forget their pass code. So it's all pretty much like having a lock on your front door with a window right next to it.
To tighten up security, the phone should simply log access attempts with an optional setting to inform the telco of a hack attempt (too many unsuccessful pass code attempts) and the telco to the inform the user.
Now the real question here is will the US launch an extradition attempt for software blatantly designed to do two criminal things DMCA break a method of protection and break a computer network security device. Not too forget pursuing all those who bought the software, accessories after the fact.
I always felt this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKwk1ko6ceQ was the closet match for Rupert Murdoch. Just picture him screaming from the other side of the TV screen via the Fox not-news network. Just so damn creepily accurate. Pretending to be on your side, as he peddles nothing but fear and hate, all the while scheming to steal your sole in the guise of the religious right.
Not just the appearance by the whole package, the psychopathic preacher peddling redemption but instead leading you to damnation and hell on earth.
I don't see anything particularly wrong with your comment, you shouldn't denigrate yourself like that. It is only a forum, people come here to read and express their opinion, for fun.
I know the marketdroid trolls get paid but then speeling, punctation, gamma, werd abuss are they're butt fuck, for the rest of us, sometimes we proof read and sometimes we don't, the sky wont fall, the world wont cease and it's always more fun to annoy the crap out of grammar, spelling and punctuation nazis than it is to proof read.
So it would seem that spinning electronic stuff in a toy environment is always going to be problematic.
Maybe M$ is holding off on Xbox until such time as storage media and content distribution media all go solid state. Waiting for flash drives to hit a better price point.
Everything can be on the thumb drive, game content and saved games, don't need a large internal data storage device, a relatively small one will do.
No hard drives or optical drives substantially reduce console footprint and simplify the console. It certainly does seem like a good time to hold off on a game console until the shift to SSD drives gains further momentum. (especially when M$ lost the hi-definition optical drive wars and Sony it's competitor won, pushing the shift to solid state media hurts Sony and thus helps M$)
Is it really his name, does he own that name, is that name unique or is that name shared with many others. Whilst a person uses that name, it can not be said that they own that name unless that name is truly unique.
Your name is not accepted for legal reasons as your sole identifier, in fact your name, your date of birth, your address are all required to minimally to legally identify you, further add in your appearance, fingerprints and now DNA for full identification.
The person in question needs to sue his previous employer for unreasonable dismissal or change their name. The problem they have is with a similarly named person who acts in a criminal fashion, such is life. If your parents try to name you Adolf Hitler you need new parents, if you get stuck with that name and want to become a politician in Germany you're screwed and changing your name would be a necessity.
So accurately the only patents that should apply is upon the equipment used to uncover the nature and function of genes, which of course they already are.
If you pay for it but it's in the contract are they 'free' to monitor your every internet reaction. See the way you react to adds, which generate a positive reaction and which do not. Conduct experiments trialling different styles of adds to see which more effectively manipulate your choices. Test to see if targeting influential people in your life can get them to motivate your decisions. See which lies are the most effective in tricky you about the veracity of adds. See if exposure to actions on the web can influence your choices. See if distortions about your actions on the web can influence your choice. Conduct continual experiments and trials whilst you are connected to the internet upon an automated basis. Target you whole family in a similar fashion especially minors. Target you with automated forum responses to question and challenge your beliefs. Target you social connections with automated responses designed to manipulate your choices. Use your image and voice in product recommendations for free. Use all content you have generated for free. Create man in the middle distortions in your social contacts.
Are you 'free' to harangue your local representatives to enact legislation to ban all that activity. The legislate the only personal data that companies are allowed to keep is what is required for account keeping purposes. That when this data is no longer required for account keeping purposes it is destroyed. That companies are permanently banned from collating and data mining personal data. That 100% truth is required in all advertising regardless of delivery method and that all false product associations are banned.
Before the reform, once prior art was submitted more often than not the patent claim was dropped. Since patent reform, this is no longer happening, the whole process is now being drawn out through the court because the plaintiff has a legal claim on the patent now by being the first to patent.
Surely you should have noticed this subtle but substantial shift in patent claims and litigation.
Shiny surfaces do not radiate heat well, they reflect heat. Dark surfaces radiate heat, the nature of light generated indicates the real surface area of an object at the molecular level.
The perverse reality is there is no real profitable way to use superconductors. Superconductors save energy, save costs hence as a technology it is to be bitterly opposed by the insanely rich and greedy.
Cheap energy is an anathema to greed. The cheaper the energy, the less psychopaths are able to exclude others from accessing the benefits. In psychopathic capitalism it is all about exclusion, owning beach front to deny others access to the beach, owning all sources of production to deny wealth to others and, owning politicians to deny others access to democracy. Ostentatious egotistic posing (driven by psychopathy and narcissism) only has impact when the majority are forced to live in poverty.
The first use of superconductors is in cheap energy, cheap energy is the enemy of psychopathic exclusivity, so what will happen?
Facebook seems useful to those who are less technically aware. Rather than getting to know a range of applications email, forums, instant messaging or using a range of web sites and completely unaware of the privacy and exploitation issues, just simply use Facebook to communicate with family and friends. They will also push no using family and friends to join.
It's the simple use of a communications medium for the technologically simple, this combined with a mobile phone is pretty much all they understand and all they need. 'It is the way of things', the technologically limited will only use technology that is easily and simply accessible (they will then spend hours on end tweaking and pressing buttons et al thinking how bright they are, rather than how they are being manipulated by sick and perverted doctorates in psychology).
It was a corporate reform of patents driven by patent lawyers. All a smoke screen to get in, who patents first wins. If it hasn't been patented yet, patent it, bugger prior art, bugger existing use and, bugger obviousness.
One rule and one rule only, if it hasn't been patented yet, patent it and then fight it out in court, guess who wins, go on guess (Uncle Tom Obama is one and around 50% of Federal politicians are one).
Lawyers making more God damned work and God damned profits for lawyers. Patent reform, millions of dollars poured into the pockets of lawyers based around legislation written by lawyers.
Birds fly, planes fly, even the pilots can be said to be flying, passengers your just cargo, you are being flown you are not doing the flying.
Personally sitting in a aluminium death tube, stuck for hours on end, with no way of getting off (apart from some deeply insane ways), is about the absolute worst waste of work or holiday time. Driving eight hours or screwing around for four hours (taxi to airport, wasting time in airport, insanely boring uncomfortable flight, wasting time in airport, taxi to where ever you are going), I prefer driving.
Start after normal breakfast, leave after 9:00am (completely miss peak traffic) drive till around 1:00pm, you'll be hungry pick a nice spot to enjoy a meal and an hour break, drive till around 5:00pm, stop and enjoy a nice dinner rest around an hour (again missing peak traffic), drive a couple of more hours and your either where you want to go or you stop for the night around 8:00pm plenty of time to chill from the drive enjoy a late snack before going to sleep.
Either that or get a private cabin on a train and enjoy the dining car at your leisure.
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The real issue here is lack of police action. If the police wanted too and put the required resources into it. they could get all the evidence, conduct a full investigation and track down and apprehend the criminal involved.
They of course don't do it. because it is too much effort for too petty a crime and basically screw you. So adjustment needs to made with where police focus their efforts. Which is more important speeding fines or house break ins or, which is more important non-violent drug users or house break ins.
So why are you getting a dog and a gun when instead you should be harassing your local city to force the police to shift focus. Basically the police are meant to be your dog and gun, they are trained, they are paid, get the doughnut sucking, getting more obese by the year, off their fat asses and pursuing crimes that result in victims.
The real issue is why take a cheap and nasty shortcut with the most fundamental issue of any democracy the election. Why go electronic with an issue that is meant to be of the people, by the people and for the people. The hardest system to cheap on any scale is a manual system, where representatives from all parties are at the election stations, where the votes are manually counted at the election stations, and then the results sent through by multiple routes to the vote tally centre (each representative can send the count from each election station to the party at the tally centre).
Voting was never meant to be electronic, it is manual event, a celebration of democracy and, part of the role of government is to get the public involved in the election process. Every time electronic voting comes up, it is becoming pretty obvious it is all about those that make the machines, the rich and greedy, electronically stealing elections.
Hold all elections on a Saturday or make it a public holiday to ensure plenty of volunteers from all political parties are available to monitor the election process. Allow charities to hold bake and hot dog etc. sales at election stations, getting more people involved. Video monitor all election stations, especially the point where people are checked off the election rolls (trying to stop all cheating is much easier when people who do it know they will get caught).
Here read and learn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_imputation and if you don't get it, well, tough luck for you.
You just got sucker trapped by anonymous coward and paid to mod marketdroids. Statement us absolutely pointless and meaningless.
I installed windows vista original first issue disk and it was the slowest most disgusting piece of crap imaginable, hell, it took three whole days to complete the install. First it patched (several times) and the it decided it need a whole support pack, after that it patched (several times), then it decided it needed another whole support pack, then it patched (several times again). In first three days fresh install it was the absolute worst operating system I have ever used (yes this is your fault M$ why vista patch have to be so bloody slow I will never understand). On top of that, your guessed it, it didn't install one of the correct drivers they all had to be up dated. After that it wasn't too bad.
In a commercial administrative environment with a limited range of applications, free open source software, as the base with some commercial software on top is going to win, end of story.
Let's just stop the how bug my country is argument right in it's tracks by pointing out the blinding obvious. My country is to big for broadband and to prove it we have none of the following many times of magnitude more expensive services, no public bitumen roads, no sewerage service, no storm water service, no water service and no mains power grid. WHAT, you have all these far, far more expensive services, than obviously you can afford the far, far cheaper fibre optic to the home service.
What comcast is offering is a content distribution monopoly, want to distribute your content on their network than you are going to have to pay them a, tah dah, "PUBLISHING" fee as a percentage of your income. Your game, your video, your music, not any bloody more, to distribute it on their network they are now demanding a percentage ownership of that content and demanding their cut for you to sell it.
This has nothing to do with security. It is a straight up sickening greed play. Computer game companies are going after childrens lollipop money by nickel and dime them with downloadable content, making them pay to keep up with their peers. Permanent connection, permanent sales line, permanent monitoring what sells, what doesn't sell all targeted at minors. Some really sick stuff. Want to win, they keep paying and paying and paying and paying, ad nauseum, all targeted at minors. Just think of adult corporate executives sitting in their office snorting up cocaine thinking of ways to scam more money out of children for bigger and bigger bonuses.
Which is the underlying reality of internet security. If it absolutely doesn't need to be connected to the internet than don't bloody connect it to the internet. If it is going to save a thousand dollars a year to connect to the internet but cost ten thousand dollars to 'maybe' secure it, then don't connect it to the internet.
When it comes to security, the internet should not be any different than reality. What would you do to secure your actual physical computer system, would you require every person on the planet continuously (incorporate an auto-taze neck collar to disable them of they do anything suspicious) because of that one person who grabs a brick throws it through you office window and yanks your file server right off your desk.
Corporate tax rate drops are a delusional lie.
The rich simply shift all the personal income into a corporation that they own, they also shift all their personal assets homes, cars, yachts into that corporation.
So now they get to yuck it up at the idiot middle class who pay full personal rate tax whilst the rich who can shift all the income into corporations pay less.
Here's the word of the day 'franked'. Fully franked dividends are dividends paid by corporations to their owners (the people who should actually be getting the money corporations make) which have been taxed. The reciever of that dividend can then take the tax paid as a deduction against their income if their rate of tax is lower.
Ah ha but of course the lying shit head multi-millionaire with their corrupt paid of politicians will leave everything in corporations, one 'private' corporation paying another 'private' corporation, all cheating on tax deductions and now what's left is charged at a less than salaried middle class rate. So why don't honest governments reduce corporate tax rates because it is a bull shit lie.
Solar energy subsidise are meant to reduce energy imports, reduce pollution in cities, promote a technology by generating larger volumes of production (as volume of production increases so cost's per unit decreases), so kick start an industry to self sufficiency.
So what is better pouring billions upon billions into armaments and munitions, only to throw them away or destroy or spending hundreds of millions on improving infrastructure, in this energy generation infrastructure.
No, it'll be some dumb schmuck who has no idea about computer security, whose computer gets taken over to launch a series of attacks and once the attacks are finished all traces are cleaned up, leaving nothing but a trail to the victim, the victim here being the person accused of hacking who now can no longer prove the innocence.
Now of course if it is a law enforcement type who is meant to be upholding these laws, it will be kind of funny, for every one else and of course everyone has heard about tens of thousands of computers on bot nets, seriously disturbing.
The thing to keep in mind with computer misuse is the crime doesn't just stop there. There is always something more to charge the person with, credit card fraud for example. The computer hacks do not occur in isolation somehow saying that a person who hacks a banks computer and steals 10 million dollars will only go to jail for two years for computer hacking is ludicrous they will also be penalised for the theft. Same with any other kind of damage, if real actual damage did occur, than they will get charged with that damage.
You can not really charge someone for making a company wake up to how insecure their computer system is and going into paranoia overdrive and being ripped off by computer security experts (in the majority of cases drips under pressure trying to scam clients into spending hundreds or even thousands of times more than they need to).
The more accurate statement is specific Apple advertising for a product they are selling is inaccurate.
The point to be careful about, is every single ad must be accurate, not just the web site targeted at Australian users, no just major press releases, not just a particular mailing drop, but every ad via every source, be it television, radio, letter box drop, magazine and, newspaper.
Penalties should be applied for all corporate deceit. For the ACCC to initiate a case generally all that is required is a sufficient number of complaints and evidence.
Point of correction. Whilst this is true in most of the civilised world in some US states corrupt legislators via criminally applied campaign donations screwed over the consumer at the behest of corporate interests made post purchase End User Licence Agreements legal. Which flies in the face of the cost to the consumer to make the purchase and effort required to view the post purchase contract alteration (this cost should also be legally refunded plus the effort required to purchase an alternate not including the cost of the product).
Give it a rest, everyone is an asshole when they are drunk. So phone access when drunk, should it be tackled as seriously as car access when drunk. Drunk is legally defined as being unable to make rational judgements, with regards to the car, the break the premise of being unable to make rational judgement because you planned to take the car with you drinking.
Should the same be applied to a mobile phone. Clearly not, should a tweet be any worse than shouting something offensive at the match itself, logically not. So the thinking that should have gone through the police officers mind and the judges mind is, equivalence to a drunken yob at a football match shouting the same thing nothing less and absolutely nothing more.
Drunken use of technology, your drunk, bloody deny everything, "I DO NOT REMEMBER" stamp that in your mind, do not lie, do not make excuses, push the burden of proof upon the police. Have your lawyer challenge evidence, from twitters security and accurately legal attribution of comments with regard to warranty accuracy of attribution to the tune of a million dollars. Your lawyer should force the court to prove that it was you as an individual that made that post, not a twitter account, not a network connection and not a phone, especially where prison is the consequence.
Reality here, idiot incriminated himself, lied to the police and got a bad lawyer. 'I can't remember doing that is the only thing you should even think of saying to the police' force the burden of proof upon them.
Smart phones pass codes are easy to crack for a reason, whiny users who forget their pass code. So it's all pretty much like having a lock on your front door with a window right next to it.
To tighten up security, the phone should simply log access attempts with an optional setting to inform the telco of a hack attempt (too many unsuccessful pass code attempts) and the telco to the inform the user.
Now the real question here is will the US launch an extradition attempt for software blatantly designed to do two criminal things DMCA break a method of protection and break a computer network security device. Not too forget pursuing all those who bought the software, accessories after the fact.
I always felt this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKwk1ko6ceQ was the closet match for Rupert Murdoch. Just picture him screaming from the other side of the TV screen via the Fox not-news network. Just so damn creepily accurate. Pretending to be on your side, as he peddles nothing but fear and hate, all the while scheming to steal your sole in the guise of the religious right.
Not just the appearance by the whole package, the psychopathic preacher peddling redemption but instead leading you to damnation and hell on earth.
I don't see anything particularly wrong with your comment, you shouldn't denigrate yourself like that. It is only a forum, people come here to read and express their opinion, for fun. I know the marketdroid trolls get paid but then speeling, punctation, gamma, werd abuss are they're butt fuck, for the rest of us, sometimes we proof read and sometimes we don't, the sky wont fall, the world wont cease and it's always more fun to annoy the crap out of grammar, spelling and punctuation nazis than it is to proof read.
So it would seem that spinning electronic stuff in a toy environment is always going to be problematic.
Maybe M$ is holding off on Xbox until such time as storage media and content distribution media all go solid state. Waiting for flash drives to hit a better price point.
Everything can be on the thumb drive, game content and saved games, don't need a large internal data storage device, a relatively small one will do.
No hard drives or optical drives substantially reduce console footprint and simplify the console. It certainly does seem like a good time to hold off on a game console until the shift to SSD drives gains further momentum. (especially when M$ lost the hi-definition optical drive wars and Sony it's competitor won, pushing the shift to solid state media hurts Sony and thus helps M$)
Is it really his name, does he own that name, is that name unique or is that name shared with many others. Whilst a person uses that name, it can not be said that they own that name unless that name is truly unique.
Your name is not accepted for legal reasons as your sole identifier, in fact your name, your date of birth, your address are all required to minimally to legally identify you, further add in your appearance, fingerprints and now DNA for full identification.
The person in question needs to sue his previous employer for unreasonable dismissal or change their name. The problem they have is with a similarly named person who acts in a criminal fashion, such is life. If your parents try to name you Adolf Hitler you need new parents, if you get stuck with that name and want to become a politician in Germany you're screwed and changing your name would be a necessity.
So accurately the only patents that should apply is upon the equipment used to uncover the nature and function of genes, which of course they already are.
If you pay for it but it's in the contract are they 'free' to monitor your every internet reaction. See the way you react to adds, which generate a positive reaction and which do not. Conduct experiments trialling different styles of adds to see which more effectively manipulate your choices. Test to see if targeting influential people in your life can get them to motivate your decisions. See which lies are the most effective in tricky you about the veracity of adds. See if exposure to actions on the web can influence your choices. See if distortions about your actions on the web can influence your choice. Conduct continual experiments and trials whilst you are connected to the internet upon an automated basis. Target you whole family in a similar fashion especially minors. Target you with automated forum responses to question and challenge your beliefs. Target you social connections with automated responses designed to manipulate your choices. Use your image and voice in product recommendations for free. Use all content you have generated for free. Create man in the middle distortions in your social contacts.
Are you 'free' to harangue your local representatives to enact legislation to ban all that activity. The legislate the only personal data that companies are allowed to keep is what is required for account keeping purposes. That when this data is no longer required for account keeping purposes it is destroyed. That companies are permanently banned from collating and data mining personal data. That 100% truth is required in all advertising regardless of delivery method and that all false product associations are banned.
Before the reform, once prior art was submitted more often than not the patent claim was dropped. Since patent reform, this is no longer happening, the whole process is now being drawn out through the court because the plaintiff has a legal claim on the patent now by being the first to patent.
Surely you should have noticed this subtle but substantial shift in patent claims and litigation.
Shiny surfaces do not radiate heat well, they reflect heat. Dark surfaces radiate heat, the nature of light generated indicates the real surface area of an object at the molecular level.
The perverse reality is there is no real profitable way to use superconductors. Superconductors save energy, save costs hence as a technology it is to be bitterly opposed by the insanely rich and greedy.
Cheap energy is an anathema to greed. The cheaper the energy, the less psychopaths are able to exclude others from accessing the benefits. In psychopathic capitalism it is all about exclusion, owning beach front to deny others access to the beach, owning all sources of production to deny wealth to others and, owning politicians to deny others access to democracy. Ostentatious egotistic posing (driven by psychopathy and narcissism) only has impact when the majority are forced to live in poverty.
The first use of superconductors is in cheap energy, cheap energy is the enemy of psychopathic exclusivity, so what will happen?
Facebook seems useful to those who are less technically aware. Rather than getting to know a range of applications email, forums, instant messaging or using a range of web sites and completely unaware of the privacy and exploitation issues, just simply use Facebook to communicate with family and friends. They will also push no using family and friends to join.
It's the simple use of a communications medium for the technologically simple, this combined with a mobile phone is pretty much all they understand and all they need. 'It is the way of things', the technologically limited will only use technology that is easily and simply accessible (they will then spend hours on end tweaking and pressing buttons et al thinking how bright they are, rather than how they are being manipulated by sick and perverted doctorates in psychology).
It was a corporate reform of patents driven by patent lawyers. All a smoke screen to get in, who patents first wins. If it hasn't been patented yet, patent it, bugger prior art, bugger existing use and, bugger obviousness.
One rule and one rule only, if it hasn't been patented yet, patent it and then fight it out in court, guess who wins, go on guess (Uncle Tom Obama is one and around 50% of Federal politicians are one).
Lawyers making more God damned work and God damned profits for lawyers. Patent reform, millions of dollars poured into the pockets of lawyers based around legislation written by lawyers.
Birds fly, planes fly, even the pilots can be said to be flying, passengers your just cargo, you are being flown you are not doing the flying.
Personally sitting in a aluminium death tube, stuck for hours on end, with no way of getting off (apart from some deeply insane ways), is about the absolute worst waste of work or holiday time. Driving eight hours or screwing around for four hours (taxi to airport, wasting time in airport, insanely boring uncomfortable flight, wasting time in airport, taxi to where ever you are going), I prefer driving.
Start after normal breakfast, leave after 9:00am (completely miss peak traffic) drive till around 1:00pm, you'll be hungry pick a nice spot to enjoy a meal and an hour break, drive till around 5:00pm, stop and enjoy a nice dinner rest around an hour (again missing peak traffic), drive a couple of more hours and your either where you want to go or you stop for the night around 8:00pm plenty of time to chill from the drive enjoy a late snack before going to sleep.
Either that or get a private cabin on a train and enjoy the dining car at your leisure.
Congratulations, you are a big fucking idiot.