that USTPO is only re-examinating this patent by request of Microsoft and its allies. From the article:
On the second front, Microsoft's allies in the software industry last fall persuaded the Patent Office to initiate a re-examination of the patent on the grounds that it was awarded improperly.
It's not that USTPO has realized that it has been granting bogus software patents, nor does it plan to change its attitude toward them.
After all, we all know that Microsoft is right now a big patent filler and that USTPO is paid by patent aplication.
But the idea of the interview is not that people is willing to work together for the commong good. The idea is that people is actually doing what is better for them, and by doing that, they are uncounciusly working for the common good - ie: P2P networks.
"It may also be opened to foreign companies, on payment of royalties for patented information."
Can genome information be patented? I know GMOs have been patented, but I didn't know about this. I rather think that this information should be treated as trade secrets, or with NDAs.
Could someone confirm this? Is genome information pantentable, or are we just being victims of clueless journalism?
In the country I live in (Costa Rica) there are many varieties of coffee; which are grown in many parts of the country, with diferent climates and altitudes.
Coffee from low and warm lands tends to be of lesser quality. The best coffee grown here (I think) is from "La Zona de Los Santos", which is a high land.
This is in a small country like Costa Rica. Bigger producers like Brazil should have more varieties; so there is no such a thing as the brazilian coffee or the columbian coffee.
"Laziness is a virtue. The wheelbarrow was invented by someone who was too lazy to carry things; writing was invented by someone who was too lazy to memorize; Perl was invented by someone who was too lazy to get the job done without inventing a whole new computer language"
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A real garage hacker writes his own OS;)
Really, except from devices requiring LAN connectivity, I don't see the point of using a whole OS, like Linux. For most simple applications, which embeded systems are targeted at, you just write the application code (in ASM, C or whatever) and that's just what the microcontroller runs. No need for a separate OS. The app becomes its own OS.
The SCO Group (SCOX) sues both Silicon Graphics and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for copyright infrigment of their UNIX Intellectual Property.
Just FYI, some of these convertes simply don't work with some serial devices, like some PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers, used in Industrial Automation).
Now that laptops don't come with the RS-232 port anymore, it's becoming a problem to service this equipment. And I am talking about expensive systems and equipment, that you don't upgrade as often as your dekstop PC, and if you do upgrade them, you actually have to change your application, which makes it even more costly.
I don't like dinosaur hardware on the PCs anymore, like floppy disks, but I think RS232 has its place and some folks in the industry wouldn't like it to be killed it so soon.
International experts met Wednesday in Paris to tackle the tricky task of fighting anti IP, anti corporate and communist propaganda on the Internet.
Sites like slahsdot.org promote the use of mild language and hate feelings to our fundamental institutions: Global Corporations. Also, they use that language and feelings to things like DRM, Trusted Computing, and IP protection scheemes; the bastions of our secure society.
It is easy to find supporters of this cancer called "GPL", which is a communist method for distributing questionable software, written by terrorist hackers.
As you said it, the impression that the U.S. is superior in every way is false and I didn't imply it in my post.
However, you can't deny that countries like Brazil have serious problems in several areas: poverty, health, safety, debt, etc.
Whealth may be not well distributed in the US, but I think most of the poorest people in America live better than people in the brazilian "favelas"
Not that I think that the U.S. is the "role model" to imitate; but despite its questionable goverment and its international policy for the last century, it ceirtanly has better life standards than those countries.
You can't make your country a developed one by importing overrated and overprized propietary technology.
By the way, the brazilian goverment is also doing a good job negotiating FTAA (ALCA), not like most other countries in Latin America, which are desesperatly yielding to "free trade" agreements with the US, which only benefit big bussines and make more restrictive IP regulation, like the DMCA, software patents and extensive pharma patents for their countries.
The goverment of America is for american corporations, and no one else. They fund campaigns, they pay for bribes.
By the way, most corporations are nationless; they are global entities with bussines units in each country. Even some corporations that have
their headquartes in the U.S. are registered in Bahamas or Grand Cayman, so all their profits go there, paying no taxes.
And for those corporations becoming wholly indian in both name and law... that won't happen. Read first paragraph of this post to see why.
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On the second front, Microsoft's allies in the software industry last fall persuaded the Patent Office to initiate a re-examination of the patent on the grounds that it was awarded improperly.
It's not that USTPO has realized that it has been granting bogus software patents, nor does it plan to change its attitude toward them.
After all, we all know that Microsoft is right now a big patent filler and that USTPO is paid by patent aplication.
But the idea of the interview is not that people is willing to work together for the commong good. The idea is that people is actually doing what is better for them, and by doing that, they are uncounciusly working for the common good - ie: P2P networks.
Actually it depends on who you are. If you are the 1337 h4ck0r, then low TC0 is a good thing.
"It may also be opened to foreign companies, on payment of royalties for patented information."
Can genome information be patented? I know GMOs have been patented, but I didn't know about this. I rather think that this information should be treated as trade secrets, or with NDAs.
Could someone confirm this? Is genome information pantentable, or are we just being victims of clueless journalism?
In the country I live in (Costa Rica) there are many varieties of coffee; which are grown in many parts of the country, with diferent climates and altitudes.
Coffee from low and warm lands tends to be of lesser quality. The best coffee grown here (I think) is from "La Zona de Los Santos", which is a high land.
This is in a small country like Costa Rica. Bigger producers like Brazil should have more varieties; so there is no such a thing as the brazilian coffee or the columbian coffee.
Like /.ers would actually read the articles.
"Laziness is a virtue. The wheelbarrow was invented by someone who was too lazy to carry things; writing was invented by someone who was too lazy to memorize; Perl was invented by someone who was too lazy to get the job done without inventing a whole new computer language"
go to the wapalised Slashdot and bookmark
A new word to my vocabulary.
I think WAP is a very cool and convenient technology, it's the best thing since sliced bread and it lets me
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Unless your product is litigation based on BS
A real garage hacker writes his own OS ;)
Really, except from devices requiring LAN connectivity, I don't see the point of using a whole OS, like Linux. For most simple applications, which embeded systems are targeted at, you just write the application code (in ASM, C or whatever) and that's just what the microcontroller runs. No need for a separate OS. The app becomes its own OS.
Darl, is that you?
That depends. If you have a cell phone + broadband, and you don't have issues with TiVo or alarm, POTS is not really needed.
is how I feel when it's been days since I slept well and stay awake only because of cofee.
The SCO Group (SCOX) sues both Silicon Graphics and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for copyright infrigment of their UNIX Intellectual Property.
Why poor people remain poor?
Because they don't invest.
And why don't they invest?
Because they don't save.
And why don't they save?
Because they are poor!
Just FYI, some of these convertes simply don't work with some serial devices, like some PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers, used in Industrial Automation).
Now that laptops don't come with the RS-232 port anymore, it's becoming a problem to service this equipment. And I am talking about expensive systems and equipment, that you don't upgrade as often as your dekstop PC, and if you do upgrade them, you actually have to change your application, which makes it even more costly.
I don't like dinosaur hardware on the PCs anymore, like floppy disks, but I think RS232 has its place and some folks in the industry wouldn't like it to be killed it so soon.
Sites like slahsdot.org promote the use of mild language and hate feelings to our fundamental institutions: Global Corporations. Also, they use that language and feelings to things like DRM, Trusted Computing, and IP protection scheemes; the bastions of our secure society.
It is easy to find supporters of this cancer called "GPL", which is a communist method for distributing questionable software, written by terrorist hackers.
My tower/crt costs me at least $25+ per month at home.
Jesus! I knew electricity wasn't cheap in California, but I didn't know it was THAT expensive
3 stories about Microsoft or someone related to MS?
Come on editors, there has to be better material!
Soybean meat
I heard it was 50% ground beef, 50% soybean, but I am not sure
As you said it, the impression that the U.S. is superior in every way is false and I didn't imply it in my post.
However, you can't deny that countries like Brazil have serious problems in several areas: poverty, health, safety, debt, etc.
Whealth may be not well distributed in the US, but I think most of the poorest people in America live better than people in the brazilian "favelas"
Not that I think that the U.S. is the "role model" to imitate; but despite its questionable goverment and its international policy for the last century, it ceirtanly has better life standards than those countries.
Finally, 3rd world countries are getting it!
Free / Open Source software is the way to go.
You can't make your country a developed one by importing overrated and overprized propietary technology.
By the way, the brazilian goverment is also doing a good job negotiating FTAA (ALCA), not like most other countries in Latin America, which are desesperatly yielding to "free trade" agreements with the US, which only benefit big bussines and make more restrictive IP regulation, like the DMCA, software patents and extensive pharma patents for their countries.
At Windows XP installation, when you are prompted to type the PC name and description, Windows shows "kitchen's computer" as example.
/. but come on! geeknes has a limit!
What kind of wakco would have a PC in the kitchen?
I know this is
By the way, most corporations are nationless; they are global entities with bussines units in each country. Even some corporations that have their headquartes in the U.S. are registered in Bahamas or Grand Cayman, so all their profits go there, paying no taxes.
And for those corporations becoming wholly indian in both name and law... that won't happen. Read first paragraph of this post to see why.