There wasn't really any "measurable" financial gain, but the system was amazing and was more efficent. How do you measure the financial gain of Office Software, or a DBMS? That's basically what we were up against. It really helped out, but calculating it's actual value wasn't worth it to us.
We were considering patenting it and selling the product, but they ended up deciding not to do either. They may in the future, but haven't yet.
Yes, but that's exactly what they want. They want to be told exactly what it is they can't ask for after their patent is too broad, and why, that way they go back a second time, and just don't include the things that they aren't allowed to have, and they get a massive IP.
The system I designed didn't directly provide financial gain. It was a cool system, and it did so efficiently, but it just kept track of servers in a datacenter mostly. It was designed to expand very nicely (read: not possible in the older system) into other systems, but the only measurable financial gain from the system is that it now only takes 2 developers to maintain rather than 8.
(oh, you showed up at 0, is your karma negative?)
I think it partially has to do with the money. I was working at a educational instution, and I created a very complicated system to keep track of a lot of things, and a couple of the things we did were cool, and we were thinking about patenting it, but the cost associated with filing a patent was too expensive.
If we had a really broad patent where we could patent the entire world then it would have been worth it.
In my talkings with one IP laywer he basically said he works under the following mindset:
Ask for the world in your patent. They will narrow it for you saying what you can and can't have. If they grant your patent on the first time it wasn't broad enough, and you aren't worth your salt as a patent lawyer.
That's the way patent laywers think these days, they try to patent the whole world. I think its a flaw of the system, becuase these broad ones get passed with way too much. More than they deserve.
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Tell you to write content that's actually interesting to humans.
"A very closely monitored network of domains" is SEO lying too.
did it ever occur to you that this network of domains could actually be content that's actually interesting to humans. There are SEO companies, that produce gobs and gobs of interesting content and get customers because they have a good pagerank?
I'm currently the lead developer at a company. I'm in charge of all the projects. I spend a few of minutes each day, seeing what it is people spend all of their time doing.
On a number of occasions, I find people doing some meinal task, that a shell script could do just fine. Or, if the task is a little more complicated than that, I ask them how much they spend doing that. In a few of those cases, they spend a couple hours a day working on something that could be automated with a program that would take me a couple of hours to write (given the existing tools I've access to). So I write it for them, and save them tonz of time.
Because I do this, A couple of my programs have been labeled names like "MagicWand" by the employees. People think of me rather highly in the office.
I work for an SEO company, and we hear about all the sneaky tricks, but it isn't all that hard to be optimized while not pulling sneaky attacks. Google has a very complicated algorithm that take a lot of things into effect. The reason that they rank pages that have certain characteristics, is because those pages can actually be good, they don't have to be sneaky. A very closely monitored network of domains, can get a very high page rank. One need not revert to sneaky tactics to do well.
Hmm, interesting, if I'm flamebait, what does that make you.
And you're saying you'd live in a country where rampant killing sprees are legal, because there's more "freedom" at the cost of your personal saftey? are you a loony?
We all trade freedom for safety, the correct question is how much is too much. My tolerance happens to be a little higher than yours, I'd like to live, who's the moron?
must attend high school somewhere. Right?
Yeah, they have to attend somewhere, but it doesn't have to be some border school where the kids learned ESL, and can't get into college because they are immigrants.
I love wikipedia. I basically use it as my default search. Unless I think that the question I have is non encyclopedic. acronymfinder for acronyms, babelfish for translations, imdb for movies, and well, for everything else I use google. It has integrated everything else I need.
Yes it is subjectable to googlebombing and similar ilk (I should know, I work for a SEO company), but its *way* easier to "hack" Yahoo, MSN, Altavista and others. Googleboming is much harder (and therefore more reliable) than the others.
I think, due to the./ effect, they've tried to make some of their php pages static but, they missed. Take a look at
Their products page
In any case, its a CVS thing.
Note the index.php then the ----- later;)
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Okay, Let's eliminate the FBI, CIA, NSA and other popular TLAs, just because Benjamin Franklin lived 299 years ago. Just remember that he didn't love the Constitution, because of its faults. But that "I agree to this Constitution with all its faults" (Ben Franklin @ the Constitutitional convention). Times have changed, I think we need the FBI, CIA, NSA and that the world is in a better place. If anyone, Ben Franklin was open to change, and would realize that it might be something we need. He may not have liked a large government back then, "but I am not sure I shall never approve them"
My problem with this.
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Personally, I don't have a problem with the security thing. It's just for the police, and I personally don't have anything to hide from them. If it makes our country safer, sure, but the bulleted list in the article is a bunch of good points. Some of which I highlight below:
Your request to the FCC said that broadband and VoIP companies may raise prices to "recover their CALEA implementation costs from their customers." How do you square higher prices with President Bush's speech in March calling for "affordable broadband" for all Americans?
Congress gave telephone companies $500 million to buy new equipment to comply with CALEA. Why should Internet companies not receive the same treatment? Is it because Verizon, SBC and the other former Bells have well-connected lobbying outposts in Washington, D.C.--but Vonage, 8x8 and other VoIP start-ups do not?
Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer a secure form of encryption, and I'd want to be sure that only the authorities have such access (like via the ISP directly?), but I'm not opposed to wiretaps, I'm just looking for equity and consistency.
In my Physics class we were required to make a robot (simple was okay, it was part of the electroincs portion). We hacked a pez dispenser. No, we didn't put an MP3 player, but we took one of those electronic pez dispensers, and added a faster dispensing mechanism and it became a pez gun that shot the pez all the way across the room and left welts in those it hit. Those pez were prolly traveling at about 150 ft/s.
Maybe, but that might also require that you include PDAs, portable music devices, handheld video game consoles...
They really do mean portable computers I think.
I do love my HP48g though.
They make no mention of modern laptops and their current capapbilities. They mention Mac Laptops, and jump straight into the newfangled devices that aren't laptops (a la tablet PCs...), but they make no mention of current "desktop replacements."
Sidestep the ISP blocking?
I make a request to a banned IP, the ISP blocks it. It's not software, its not hardware. The minor user has no way of disabling it (short of some social engineering, I hope your voice doesn't crack over the phone)
How many 10 year olds (or 20 year olds) can hack a remote computer to act as proxy? Cuz that's the way around it.
Hey, you two anoncowards, you each need to read each other's posts. No, it won't be password protected because its requested to the ISP, they track it.
Yes, there are religious ISPs all over the place (but only some of them really have lots of options. Dial-up just isn't good enough for some)
The problem is that kids these days, can hack through any software, so an ISP solution would be great. Really how hard is it to (if user is in list X, don't allow them to make requests to sites in list Y). It isn't that much work.
"requires a service provider to prevent certain access to Internet material harmful to minors, if requested by the consumer;"
If requested by the consumer. If you want to surf porn, you still can. What's the problem here?
It's just like having people choose whether or not they want to have those kinds of things filtered.
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Yeah, I've had to, on several occasions, go to the library to look up articles that just didn't feel right.
That was stupid, why didn't they just steal the XBox 360 and get fired for that. That would have been smarter.
There wasn't really any "measurable" financial gain, but the system was amazing and was more efficent. How do you measure the financial gain of Office Software, or a DBMS? That's basically what we were up against. It really helped out, but calculating it's actual value wasn't worth it to us. We were considering patenting it and selling the product, but they ended up deciding not to do either. They may in the future, but haven't yet.
Yes, but that's exactly what they want. They want to be told exactly what it is they can't ask for after their patent is too broad, and why, that way they go back a second time, and just don't include the things that they aren't allowed to have, and they get a massive IP.
The system I designed didn't directly provide financial gain. It was a cool system, and it did so efficiently, but it just kept track of servers in a datacenter mostly. It was designed to expand very nicely (read: not possible in the older system) into other systems, but the only measurable financial gain from the system is that it now only takes 2 developers to maintain rather than 8. (oh, you showed up at 0, is your karma negative?)
I think it partially has to do with the money. I was working at a educational instution, and I created a very complicated system to keep track of a lot of things, and a couple of the things we did were cool, and we were thinking about patenting it, but the cost associated with filing a patent was too expensive. If we had a really broad patent where we could patent the entire world then it would have been worth it. In my talkings with one IP laywer he basically said he works under the following mindset: Ask for the world in your patent. They will narrow it for you saying what you can and can't have. If they grant your patent on the first time it wasn't broad enough, and you aren't worth your salt as a patent lawyer. That's the way patent laywers think these days, they try to patent the whole world. I think its a flaw of the system, becuase these broad ones get passed with way too much. More than they deserve.
Good ole Slashdot posing thinkgeek twice. Not funny anymore.
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Tell you to write content that's actually interesting to humans. "A very closely monitored network of domains" is SEO lying too. did it ever occur to you that this network of domains could actually be content that's actually interesting to humans. There are SEO companies, that produce gobs and gobs of interesting content and get customers because they have a good pagerank?
I'm currently the lead developer at a company. I'm in charge of all the projects. I spend a few of minutes each day, seeing what it is people spend all of their time doing. On a number of occasions, I find people doing some meinal task, that a shell script could do just fine. Or, if the task is a little more complicated than that, I ask them how much they spend doing that. In a few of those cases, they spend a couple hours a day working on something that could be automated with a program that would take me a couple of hours to write (given the existing tools I've access to). So I write it for them, and save them tonz of time. Because I do this, A couple of my programs have been labeled names like "MagicWand" by the employees. People think of me rather highly in the office.
I work for an SEO company, and we hear about all the sneaky tricks, but it isn't all that hard to be optimized while not pulling sneaky attacks. Google has a very complicated algorithm that take a lot of things into effect. The reason that they rank pages that have certain characteristics, is because those pages can actually be good, they don't have to be sneaky. A very closely monitored network of domains, can get a very high page rank. One need not revert to sneaky tactics to do well.
Hmm, interesting, if I'm flamebait, what does that make you. And you're saying you'd live in a country where rampant killing sprees are legal, because there's more "freedom" at the cost of your personal saftey? are you a loony? We all trade freedom for safety, the correct question is how much is too much. My tolerance happens to be a little higher than yours, I'd like to live, who's the moron?
must attend high school somewhere. Right? Yeah, they have to attend somewhere, but it doesn't have to be some border school where the kids learned ESL, and can't get into college because they are immigrants.
I love wikipedia. I basically use it as my default search. Unless I think that the question I have is non encyclopedic. acronymfinder for acronyms, babelfish for translations, imdb for movies, and well, for everything else I use google. It has integrated everything else I need. Yes it is subjectable to googlebombing and similar ilk (I should know, I work for a SEO company), but its *way* easier to "hack" Yahoo, MSN, Altavista and others. Googleboming is much harder (and therefore more reliable) than the others.
I think, due to the ./ effect, they've tried to make some of their php pages static but, they missed. Take a look at
Their products page
In any case, its a CVS thing.
Note the index.php then the ----- later ;)
Okay, Let's eliminate the FBI, CIA, NSA and other popular TLAs, just because Benjamin Franklin lived 299 years ago. Just remember that he didn't love the Constitution, because of its faults. But that "I agree to this Constitution with all its faults" (Ben Franklin @ the Constitutitional convention). Times have changed, I think we need the FBI, CIA, NSA and that the world is in a better place. If anyone, Ben Franklin was open to change, and would realize that it might be something we need. He may not have liked a large government back then, "but I am not sure I shall never approve them"
Personally, I don't have a problem with the security thing. It's just for the police, and I personally don't have anything to hide from them. If it makes our country safer, sure, but the bulleted list in the article is a bunch of good points. Some of which I highlight below: Your request to the FCC said that broadband and VoIP companies may raise prices to "recover their CALEA implementation costs from their customers." How do you square higher prices with President Bush's speech in March calling for "affordable broadband" for all Americans? Congress gave telephone companies $500 million to buy new equipment to comply with CALEA. Why should Internet companies not receive the same treatment? Is it because Verizon, SBC and the other former Bells have well-connected lobbying outposts in Washington, D.C.--but Vonage, 8x8 and other VoIP start-ups do not? Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer a secure form of encryption, and I'd want to be sure that only the authorities have such access (like via the ISP directly?), but I'm not opposed to wiretaps, I'm just looking for equity and consistency.
In my Physics class we were required to make a robot (simple was okay, it was part of the electroincs portion). We hacked a pez dispenser. No, we didn't put an MP3 player, but we took one of those electronic pez dispensers, and added a faster dispensing mechanism and it became a pez gun that shot the pez all the way across the room and left welts in those it hit. Those pez were prolly traveling at about 150 ft/s.
Maybe, but that might also require that you include PDAs, portable music devices, handheld video game consoles... They really do mean portable computers I think. I do love my HP48g though.
They make no mention of modern laptops and their current capapbilities. They mention Mac Laptops, and jump straight into the newfangled devices that aren't laptops (a la tablet PCs...), but they make no mention of current "desktop replacements."
Stupid HTML that ignores white space. It looks kinda cool in the source of the page.
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Sidestep the ISP blocking? I make a request to a banned IP, the ISP blocks it. It's not software, its not hardware. The minor user has no way of disabling it (short of some social engineering, I hope your voice doesn't crack over the phone) How many 10 year olds (or 20 year olds) can hack a remote computer to act as proxy? Cuz that's the way around it.
Hey, you two anoncowards, you each need to read each other's posts. No, it won't be password protected because its requested to the ISP, they track it. Yes, there are religious ISPs all over the place (but only some of them really have lots of options. Dial-up just isn't good enough for some) The problem is that kids these days, can hack through any software, so an ISP solution would be great. Really how hard is it to (if user is in list X, don't allow them to make requests to sites in list Y). It isn't that much work.
"requires a service provider to prevent certain access to Internet material harmful to minors, if requested by the consumer;" If requested by the consumer. If you want to surf porn, you still can. What's the problem here? It's just like having people choose whether or not they want to have those kinds of things filtered.