Power grab, economic coupling (i.e. like in Europe, where if Greece or Italy has a shitty day the whole European economy collapses), and the moral impetus to force what you think is good for people on more people--both by having Federal power over many small states and by having a massive fucking continent to support your military power.
Political ideals are an infectious disease. Democracy spreads like a plague, as does capitalism. So did socialism and its ilk, and fascism to a lesser extent (Italy, Germany, circa 1940). People think their ideals are right for everyone, and they feel it's their duty to pound those ideals onto everyone.
For example: Japan doesn't have an open market for 13 year old porn anymore: Europe and the North Americas decided you should be 18 to be in porn, and quietly pressured Japan to raise the lower limit on their porn industry--the Japanese, at the time, considered post-pubescent, sexually mature people as... well... sexually mature, and fair game. Putting this through your own lens, I'm sure you get that feeling of mild panic inside, the one that tells you something *must* be done to stop this sort of thing: we can't have middle school girls in porn! Well, with a half a continent as your military and trade embargo power, you can stop whatever you want and force your righteous values on countries as far away as Japan.
That's the point. The bigger and stronger we are, the more we can shape the world. That's why we have the UN. That's why the EU exists. The UN pushes human rights, economic policies, war policies, and so on. The EU tells all the countries in Europe what they're allowed to tax and how businesses are allowed to behave, and so on. If we decide that Poland's health care system isn't up to EU standards, we can force them to be more like Germany under the threat of invading their country, sanctioning their trade, or administratively fining their government into the poor house.
Wait until I push a proper UBI system through in America. That'll be a hell of a battle, but it's worth it: I've worked out all the right parameters to create a self-stabilizing system that solves poverty. People will be like, "Let's do this in Africa!", except most of the African countries are incredibly poor, and a UBI wouldn't work at all, and what many of those states need is Feudalism. Capitalism comes at a high cost--you keep 9% or less of your productivity, versus 25%-70% in Feudalism--but brings high amounts of flexibility and personal freedom. But we liken serfs to slaves--which is a baffling leap of logic, considering serfs arguably had better rights than we have in America in practice--and don't care about economics so much as forcing a system to fit an image we like.
It's a password and keyfile combo. It's roughly the security of a password, with the added complexity that someone has to think there's a key file, think it's on the computer in clear text, and go trying shit with the password to compel you to decrypt it.
If nobody has started doing X in a certain way, you have one of two situations. Either that method is novel and non-obvious, or that method is of no value. Either way, I don't have a real problem with patenting it.
If your method is well-known and you patent it in a new venue, you are fucking retarded. A process is still the same process on a computer, so you can't patent it unless it's a completely new process that hasn't been used for that purpose before. If you calculate the back-of-a-napkin math people use to find oil ON A COMPUTER, and try to patent the hundred-year-old algorithm ON A COMPUTER, you're still trying to patent a hundred-year-old algorithm used for prospecting for oil for the purpose of prospecting for oil. It's been done, everybody does it this way, this isn't novel, and fuck off.
You only need to avoid 256 IVs for that key scheduling algorithm weakness. The layout is very well-known, and it's only important for repeated use of the same key: SSL doesn't suffer from this, as it generates a random key for each session; WEP does, as it uses a permanent pre-shared key for all sessions, initialized with each packet.
By contrast, AES lets you eliminate 2 bits from its cryptographic brute force space just by being AES. It's also vulnerable to other attacks in fewer rounds implementations, but those attacks are not relevant because AES specifies 9 rounds at 128 bit and 14 at 256 bit. You can crack Rijindael 256-bit with 5 rounds, but that's not AES.
Wasn't a joke. The programmers here have no PM. General manager is like, "Do we need 3 people working on this?" "Wasn't this supposed to be done 3 weeks ago?" We have shit to do, and other departments tell us they have hardware and licenses that are available, so we allocate those resources... then, when we get to needing them, they're gone. Or nobody knows if they're gone, but they're not sure if they're available.
Proper project management would fix this shit. Work performance data would allow proper scheduling. A list of peoples' competencies, skills, and work availability would help us allocate human resources effectively, or send people to training to improve their value to the business. Better requirements gathering and stakeholder management would get our projects to complete quickly, instead of stalling on other departments. Proper procurement management would keep resources from vanishing when we need them, somehow magically allocated to something else without telling anyone.
I live in a black suburb (it's cheap) with poor people, 3 blocks down from a Jewish white suburb. The black suburb is full of trash, broken down cars, town homes with no yards, rental properties, liquor stores, and copious gang and firearms violence--all the amenities of a poor, black ghetto. The white suburb is made up of large single-family homes, huge yards, separated residential and commercial zones, and clean, well-maintained roads--because the city sends more road work out there so the people they collect the most taxes from don't leave.
There's also a poor white ghetto out east. Muscle cars, double-wide trailers, booze, slutty girls, drugs, and people occasionally get hit with a pipe wrench. These white folk aren't like those white folk, or like those black folk.
People identify culturally by geographic area, by surrounding interests, and by race and smaller cliques (IT people, security people, bouncers, car people, martial artists, etc.). Putting any critical mass of people together will develop a unique culture. We have plenty of black doctors and lawyers, probably as a result of racial tension: black people get out of slavery, they either become angry, miserable, violent sub-humans or they become philosophers who want to work for the greater good. Time goes on, and black people get rights, but they still get treated like shit. The racial tensions still exist today, and it creates the same forces: they either become angry, miserable, violent sub-humans or they become philosophers who want to do something in the world.
White people, by contrast, are largely just coasting. Racial tensions to us are mostly in the form of black people getting angry at us for saying something stupid. Nobody has told us white folk that the black man is keeping us down. We aren't living under the world's first black president. No white man in history has ever given a speech about how, one day, his children might be allowed to go to school and learn to read and write like all them black children. There is a lot less pessimism, and we just find it natural that everything we want should be at our fingertips.
Trying to cross that barrier is easy for a white man, but a black man has to get over all this shit that basically makes him feel like the world's holding him back. The ones that can push by that naturally have more energy--more optimism--and reach for higher goals. Lots of white folk can't imagine being a doctor or a lawyer or a physicist, but can imagine being a computer programmer or some other mundane job that sounds meaningful but also doesn't sound too hard.
It's just culture. Humans recognize patterns; the most disruptive effect of this is recognizing patterns in human appearance. If we were all white, we would start recognizing round-faced humans separately from square-jawed humans.
Many software patents are valid and novel. Software is a description of an algorithm to do a thing. Some software patents are well-known algorithms implemented on a computer, which has no standing; others are brand new algorithms, which are mathematical processes people have discovered to accomplish tasks.
Many compression algorithms use new techniques to achieve better results, especially with lossy encoding. The original JPEG algorithm used a Discrete Cosine Transform to change color into a precision-driven space, which you could then simply cut precision away from and compress more readily. The transformation of color intensity values per pixel to a more general mapping using the same space but able to approximate was novel. AAC uses an audio technique which biases a PRNG to produce something perceptually similar to the original even though it's technically noise, another novel technique.
These are no different than using a screw, but in a car engine, in the exhaust stream, as a turbine to drive a forced air aspirator. At the time, the concept of using a turbine to power forced air induction from the waste heat of the engine was novel (exhaust stream would have no pressure if you chilled it to intake temperature). Hell, an integrated circuit is just a PCB, but built out of etched substrate.
They all do that. These studies look at job postings and say, "Ah, you will get this job only if you have the BS Degree!" I have that job with no degree.
They also fail to account for time spent in school not working, versus career development by experience. After 4 years of entry work, you're nearly on par with a degree-holding entrant in most fields. Extremely specialized fields--paralegal, medical--excepted; engineering does have entry jobs, and they send you to school if they want to advance you. For the most part, 8 years of experience puts you beyond a college degree and 4 years.
The point is you're renting time, space, and equipment.
Look, it's this simple: bits of data are zeros and ones, right? The bytes, the gigabytes, they're made of bits, which are zero and one. It's the same bits of data.
Now, you can either walk your ass all the way over here, rent an apartment, rent a DVR, plug into the shared line from the antenna that goes into all 6 units in the building, and get these bits; or you can pay someone else who already has that space set up to rent their DVR and give you access to the same bits. In both cases, you're renting space, you're renting equipment, and you're receiving legal broadcasts for personal use.
The lawyers want to argue that renting space and equipment in this way gets you green bits, and renting it in that way gets you blue bits, and that you're only legally allowed to have green bits. I can understand if the landlord is making a copy of the broadcast and the retransmitting it to people who want it, since he's taking from the air and then redistributing; but the landlord is providing you access to equipment for your own personal use, with a fancy interface, by which you can say, "Schedule a recording of this in the future," and then transport that recording that you made to yourself.
Because the landlord provided you better access to the equipment--not a library of shit to download, but access to a programmable recording timer on a VCR--the bits are now blue, and the landlord is in trouble. It's like the UN getting all pissy at you for selling the Iraqis a nuclear bomb, and telling you you have to sell them the plutonium, the C4, the casing, the detonation mechanism, and a 15 minute instructional DVD on assembly of the nuclear payload. THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A NUKE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES.
The short of this ruling is the destruction of wealth. Rather than providing a valuable service, the court has ruled that you must ignore comparative advantage and expend excess labor and money to rent all the pieces and put them together yourself TO PRODUCE THE SAME RESULT. The court didn't rule that you have to pay NBC more money to get NBC programming; it ruled that you have to pay everyone else more money to get NBC programming.
The result is less congestion, and the ends justify the means. Other methods to combat congestion are to have the same damn thing happen, except by the state.
It makes the system more FIFO: rather than driving around the block and coming back to find the guy who JUST GOT THERE got lucky--he's been in the system 3 seconds, you've been driving around 3 minutes--you immediately go directly to a spot. That means you spend less time driving around unnecessarily, and don't traverse as much road space across time.
With high enough saturation, people leave the road more quickly. If an additional driver appears every 2 minutes, and a driver takes 4 minutes to park, then after 1 hour you have 15 drivers on the road. If it takes a driver 1 minute to park, then after an hour you have 2 drivers on the road. Because parking spots are scarce, this delays congestion rather than eliminating it; it increases the speed of traversal when congestion begins to set in (more graceful failure), which would extend the amount of congestion tolerable by providing further additional information quickly (i.e. I've circled the block 4 times in 5 minutes, rather than 4 times in 20 minutes; I'm satisfied that there are no parking spaces here, and will start going further out or seeking other options).
At particularly high saturation, the application provides information used in decision making: people will decide there are probably not many parking spaces available and immediately default to other options. They may do this before leaving, electing for a 20 minute light rail ride rather than a 15 minute drive (I've done this, and even gone on bicycle).
All systems involving rational decision making work best with more available information.
When they added complexity requirements, I used Tamper to change my password to something they wouldn't allow. It worked; then they fixed the hole and forced me to change the password 3 weeks later.
The rule set comes from somewhere. Even the legislative branch has rules to follow regarding what laws they can bring into existence. The court is wholly able to resolve conflicts in law by ejecting stupid laws which fail to correct other laws, for example a law commanding taxation on a tax-exempt account would have that taxation eliminated (and potentially the entire law, if the law was nonsense with the stricken section removed) unless it specifically amended the blocking law.
In America, there is a higher law governing the rule of law. The Supreme Court is the only court authorized to address that. Each State also has their own constitution, which provides their State Supreme Court the power to decide if a law is faulty and should be excepted or wholly stricken.
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Power grab, economic coupling (i.e. like in Europe, where if Greece or Italy has a shitty day the whole European economy collapses), and the moral impetus to force what you think is good for people on more people--both by having Federal power over many small states and by having a massive fucking continent to support your military power.
Political ideals are an infectious disease. Democracy spreads like a plague, as does capitalism. So did socialism and its ilk, and fascism to a lesser extent (Italy, Germany, circa 1940). People think their ideals are right for everyone, and they feel it's their duty to pound those ideals onto everyone.
For example: Japan doesn't have an open market for 13 year old porn anymore: Europe and the North Americas decided you should be 18 to be in porn, and quietly pressured Japan to raise the lower limit on their porn industry--the Japanese, at the time, considered post-pubescent, sexually mature people as... well... sexually mature, and fair game. Putting this through your own lens, I'm sure you get that feeling of mild panic inside, the one that tells you something *must* be done to stop this sort of thing: we can't have middle school girls in porn! Well, with a half a continent as your military and trade embargo power, you can stop whatever you want and force your righteous values on countries as far away as Japan.
That's the point. The bigger and stronger we are, the more we can shape the world. That's why we have the UN. That's why the EU exists. The UN pushes human rights, economic policies, war policies, and so on. The EU tells all the countries in Europe what they're allowed to tax and how businesses are allowed to behave, and so on. If we decide that Poland's health care system isn't up to EU standards, we can force them to be more like Germany under the threat of invading their country, sanctioning their trade, or administratively fining their government into the poor house.
Wait until I push a proper UBI system through in America. That'll be a hell of a battle, but it's worth it: I've worked out all the right parameters to create a self-stabilizing system that solves poverty. People will be like, "Let's do this in Africa!", except most of the African countries are incredibly poor, and a UBI wouldn't work at all, and what many of those states need is Feudalism. Capitalism comes at a high cost--you keep 9% or less of your productivity, versus 25%-70% in Feudalism--but brings high amounts of flexibility and personal freedom. But we liken serfs to slaves--which is a baffling leap of logic, considering serfs arguably had better rights than we have in America in practice--and don't care about economics so much as forcing a system to fit an image we like.
It's a password and keyfile combo. It's roughly the security of a password, with the added complexity that someone has to think there's a key file, think it's on the computer in clear text, and go trying shit with the password to compel you to decrypt it.
Your signature contains the name of a fifth dimensional being.
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If nobody has started doing X in a certain way, you have one of two situations. Either that method is novel and non-obvious, or that method is of no value. Either way, I don't have a real problem with patenting it.
If your method is well-known and you patent it in a new venue, you are fucking retarded. A process is still the same process on a computer, so you can't patent it unless it's a completely new process that hasn't been used for that purpose before. If you calculate the back-of-a-napkin math people use to find oil ON A COMPUTER, and try to patent the hundred-year-old algorithm ON A COMPUTER, you're still trying to patent a hundred-year-old algorithm used for prospecting for oil for the purpose of prospecting for oil. It's been done, everybody does it this way, this isn't novel, and fuck off.
You only need to avoid 256 IVs for that key scheduling algorithm weakness. The layout is very well-known, and it's only important for repeated use of the same key: SSL doesn't suffer from this, as it generates a random key for each session; WEP does, as it uses a permanent pre-shared key for all sessions, initialized with each packet.
By contrast, AES lets you eliminate 2 bits from its cryptographic brute force space just by being AES. It's also vulnerable to other attacks in fewer rounds implementations, but those attacks are not relevant because AES specifies 9 rounds at 128 bit and 14 at 256 bit. You can crack Rijindael 256-bit with 5 rounds, but that's not AES.
RC4 is math. It's either broken or not-broken. You can't go half way.
By comparison, we've already broken AES.
Wasn't a joke. The programmers here have no PM. General manager is like, "Do we need 3 people working on this?" "Wasn't this supposed to be done 3 weeks ago?" We have shit to do, and other departments tell us they have hardware and licenses that are available, so we allocate those resources... then, when we get to needing them, they're gone. Or nobody knows if they're gone, but they're not sure if they're available.
Proper project management would fix this shit. Work performance data would allow proper scheduling. A list of peoples' competencies, skills, and work availability would help us allocate human resources effectively, or send people to training to improve their value to the business. Better requirements gathering and stakeholder management would get our projects to complete quickly, instead of stalling on other departments. Proper procurement management would keep resources from vanishing when we need them, somehow magically allocated to something else without telling anyone.
This place is clownshoes.
Not really.
I live in a black suburb (it's cheap) with poor people, 3 blocks down from a Jewish white suburb. The black suburb is full of trash, broken down cars, town homes with no yards, rental properties, liquor stores, and copious gang and firearms violence--all the amenities of a poor, black ghetto. The white suburb is made up of large single-family homes, huge yards, separated residential and commercial zones, and clean, well-maintained roads--because the city sends more road work out there so the people they collect the most taxes from don't leave.
There's also a poor white ghetto out east. Muscle cars, double-wide trailers, booze, slutty girls, drugs, and people occasionally get hit with a pipe wrench. These white folk aren't like those white folk, or like those black folk.
People identify culturally by geographic area, by surrounding interests, and by race and smaller cliques (IT people, security people, bouncers, car people, martial artists, etc.). Putting any critical mass of people together will develop a unique culture. We have plenty of black doctors and lawyers, probably as a result of racial tension: black people get out of slavery, they either become angry, miserable, violent sub-humans or they become philosophers who want to work for the greater good. Time goes on, and black people get rights, but they still get treated like shit. The racial tensions still exist today, and it creates the same forces: they either become angry, miserable, violent sub-humans or they become philosophers who want to do something in the world.
White people, by contrast, are largely just coasting. Racial tensions to us are mostly in the form of black people getting angry at us for saying something stupid. Nobody has told us white folk that the black man is keeping us down. We aren't living under the world's first black president. No white man in history has ever given a speech about how, one day, his children might be allowed to go to school and learn to read and write like all them black children. There is a lot less pessimism, and we just find it natural that everything we want should be at our fingertips.
Trying to cross that barrier is easy for a white man, but a black man has to get over all this shit that basically makes him feel like the world's holding him back. The ones that can push by that naturally have more energy--more optimism--and reach for higher goals. Lots of white folk can't imagine being a doctor or a lawyer or a physicist, but can imagine being a computer programmer or some other mundane job that sounds meaningful but also doesn't sound too hard.
It's just culture. Humans recognize patterns; the most disruptive effect of this is recognizing patterns in human appearance. If we were all white, we would start recognizing round-faced humans separately from square-jawed humans.
Many software patents are valid and novel. Software is a description of an algorithm to do a thing. Some software patents are well-known algorithms implemented on a computer, which has no standing; others are brand new algorithms, which are mathematical processes people have discovered to accomplish tasks.
Many compression algorithms use new techniques to achieve better results, especially with lossy encoding. The original JPEG algorithm used a Discrete Cosine Transform to change color into a precision-driven space, which you could then simply cut precision away from and compress more readily. The transformation of color intensity values per pixel to a more general mapping using the same space but able to approximate was novel. AAC uses an audio technique which biases a PRNG to produce something perceptually similar to the original even though it's technically noise, another novel technique.
These are no different than using a screw, but in a car engine, in the exhaust stream, as a turbine to drive a forced air aspirator. At the time, the concept of using a turbine to power forced air induction from the waste heat of the engine was novel (exhaust stream would have no pressure if you chilled it to intake temperature). Hell, an integrated circuit is just a PCB, but built out of etched substrate.
Why? RC4 is a high-quality stream cipher that has never been broken.
Reasonable parking times are on the order of 3-5 hours.
In other words, he's going to turn tornados into EL15 supertornados.
Move up to Project Management. Learn both Waterfall and Agile. You may find that fulfilling, as you'll actually be doing something useful.
Philosophy is actually a strong degree. It's liberal arts that doesn't make it.
They all do that. These studies look at job postings and say, "Ah, you will get this job only if you have the BS Degree!" I have that job with no degree.
They also fail to account for time spent in school not working, versus career development by experience. After 4 years of entry work, you're nearly on par with a degree-holding entrant in most fields. Extremely specialized fields--paralegal, medical--excepted; engineering does have entry jobs, and they send you to school if they want to advance you. For the most part, 8 years of experience puts you beyond a college degree and 4 years.
The point is you're renting time, space, and equipment.
Look, it's this simple: bits of data are zeros and ones, right? The bytes, the gigabytes, they're made of bits, which are zero and one. It's the same bits of data.
Now, you can either walk your ass all the way over here, rent an apartment, rent a DVR, plug into the shared line from the antenna that goes into all 6 units in the building, and get these bits; or you can pay someone else who already has that space set up to rent their DVR and give you access to the same bits. In both cases, you're renting space, you're renting equipment, and you're receiving legal broadcasts for personal use.
The lawyers want to argue that renting space and equipment in this way gets you green bits, and renting it in that way gets you blue bits, and that you're only legally allowed to have green bits. I can understand if the landlord is making a copy of the broadcast and the retransmitting it to people who want it, since he's taking from the air and then redistributing; but the landlord is providing you access to equipment for your own personal use, with a fancy interface, by which you can say, "Schedule a recording of this in the future," and then transport that recording that you made to yourself.
Because the landlord provided you better access to the equipment--not a library of shit to download, but access to a programmable recording timer on a VCR--the bits are now blue, and the landlord is in trouble. It's like the UN getting all pissy at you for selling the Iraqis a nuclear bomb, and telling you you have to sell them the plutonium, the C4, the casing, the detonation mechanism, and a 15 minute instructional DVD on assembly of the nuclear payload. THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A NUKE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES.
The short of this ruling is the destruction of wealth. Rather than providing a valuable service, the court has ruled that you must ignore comparative advantage and expend excess labor and money to rent all the pieces and put them together yourself TO PRODUCE THE SAME RESULT. The court didn't rule that you have to pay NBC more money to get NBC programming; it ruled that you have to pay everyone else more money to get NBC programming.
You have obviously never ridden the light rail on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturdays during beisboll season.
Short parking time limits would be a huge problem. People don't come downtown to shop for 20 minutes.
The result is less congestion, and the ends justify the means. Other methods to combat congestion are to have the same damn thing happen, except by the state.
I don't recall a circuit court ever actually invalidating a law.
It makes the system more FIFO: rather than driving around the block and coming back to find the guy who JUST GOT THERE got lucky--he's been in the system 3 seconds, you've been driving around 3 minutes--you immediately go directly to a spot. That means you spend less time driving around unnecessarily, and don't traverse as much road space across time.
With high enough saturation, people leave the road more quickly. If an additional driver appears every 2 minutes, and a driver takes 4 minutes to park, then after 1 hour you have 15 drivers on the road. If it takes a driver 1 minute to park, then after an hour you have 2 drivers on the road. Because parking spots are scarce, this delays congestion rather than eliminating it; it increases the speed of traversal when congestion begins to set in (more graceful failure), which would extend the amount of congestion tolerable by providing further additional information quickly (i.e. I've circled the block 4 times in 5 minutes, rather than 4 times in 20 minutes; I'm satisfied that there are no parking spaces here, and will start going further out or seeking other options).
At particularly high saturation, the application provides information used in decision making: people will decide there are probably not many parking spaces available and immediately default to other options. They may do this before leaving, electing for a 20 minute light rail ride rather than a 15 minute drive (I've done this, and even gone on bicycle).
All systems involving rational decision making work best with more available information.
Default is drive around with imperfect information. Solution is gain additional information and drive directly to a parking spot.
When they added complexity requirements, I used Tamper to change my password to something they wouldn't allow. It worked; then they fixed the hole and forced me to change the password 3 weeks later.
The rule set comes from somewhere. Even the legislative branch has rules to follow regarding what laws they can bring into existence. The court is wholly able to resolve conflicts in law by ejecting stupid laws which fail to correct other laws, for example a law commanding taxation on a tax-exempt account would have that taxation eliminated (and potentially the entire law, if the law was nonsense with the stricken section removed) unless it specifically amended the blocking law.
In America, there is a higher law governing the rule of law. The Supreme Court is the only court authorized to address that. Each State also has their own constitution, which provides their State Supreme Court the power to decide if a law is faulty and should be excepted or wholly stricken.