I remember when call records were the property of the calling/called parties. Not the phone company. There was a statement in the customer agreement to the effect that the telephone company would access these records for the purpose of billing and resolving technical problems. Otherwise, they had a fiduciary duty to protect it on my behalf. I think this changed around 1996 with some fine print in a telecom bill. Now they are the property of the phone company. And the phone company doesn't really give a shit about my privacy.
Lets put the law back the way it was. Or, if these records are property of the phone company and they are willing to sell them, then I and my friends at various foreign intelligence agencies should be free to buy them*. Including the call records of US NOC agents and the dummy businesses they contact. With a bit of link analysis, foreign intelligence can unravel the structure of many of our covert operations.
*Oh yeah. They already sell this info to whoever will pay.
If you're Intel or AMD you probably have people doing competitor research
Patent holding companies don't have the expertise to do this reverse engineering. They typically rely upon legitimate licensees (Intel, AMD) to do it and inform them that the patent needs to be defended. Once the patent has licensees and generates a stream of royalties, it has a known value and will attract lawyers to take the case on contingency. So why don't you sell/license your patent directly to Intel and others?
There are a lot of worthless 'blocking patents' generated that are nothing more than obvious engineering solutions to problems. But given a large enough portfolio of them, an IP holding company can extract payments from companies that can't afford to work through all the blocked options. Typically, these patents have no value to a company until they need to buy their way out of a dead end. So there isn't a potential royalty revenue stream giving them value and making them defensible on their own.
If invent something I talk to a bunch of IP holding companies and see who'd pay most for the IP. I sell it to them, they collect royalties from anyone infringing.
Already I see a missing step here. Ideally, the holding companies would offer licenses to manufacturers and negotiate royalties first. Before anyone infringes on the patent. Skipping over this step and going directly to waiting to trap an infringer suggests that these are the blocking patents I referred to.
but you don't have money for lawyers to collect royalty fees.
I just thought of this new thing called a contingency fee. Where a law firm agrees to defend your position in return for a piece of the potential award. Woo hoo! I'm off to the patent office!
Intellectual Ventures (ad other IP holding companies) are more about securitizing IP. So it can be traded. And when nations' tax authorities finally wake up and realize that this IP is moving across borders* without the documentation required of other negotiable assets, the party will be over.
*Like Apple Cupertino to Apple Ireland and then to Apple Jersey, Channel Islands.
Article I, Section 8 is a blank check to Congress.
Strange. Because it clearly states "by securing for limited Times". That doesn't sound like a blank check to me. Also, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" sounds like a condition in that any law or regulation that can be shown to hamper "Progress" could be thrown out by the Supreme Court.
But culture varies from company to company. I did a short stint* for an outfit that liked to hire people with engineering degrees from midwest colleges. Where they were the first generation to have gone beyond high school (or possibly even completing it). People from blue collar and agricultural backgrounds that were easily impressed by making a few dollars an hour more than their parents did steering a plow.
*I wasn't a very good fit culturally. My people came from a background of Harvard medical and MIT graduates.
"Customer". Not "employer". You will be hired on contract to do the actual work. The person who will take credit for it is a member of the CEO's alma mater, plays golf at the executives' country club (but knows who to lose to) and has an expectation of a lifetime comfy position.
It may be happening regardless. But keep working the analysis on the comments. In particular, anything that might identify their source.
IANAL, but this kind of misrepresentation could be grounds for charges under Section 1001, Title 18 USC. A friendlier future administration might pursue charges.
It appears that the crims are poking around looking for files named 'wallet.dat' or some variation thereof. Their next step would be to decrypt the data file. So just leave a bunch of random content wallet.dat files lying around and tie up their processing power.
a robot that cleans - vaccuums, sweeps, dusts, mops
Mom. Is that you?
When I was a kid, I acquired one of those hotel door hanger signs that said, "Housekeeping. Please make up my room." And hung it on my doorknob. My mother drew the line at that one.
Slashdot Mirror
"Send your resume in Word format."
Which version?
they "accidentally" capture 10,000 records
So they charge one person with a major crime and 9,999 with aggravated mopery with intent to gawk.
I remember when call records were the property of the calling/called parties. Not the phone company. There was a statement in the customer agreement to the effect that the telephone company would access these records for the purpose of billing and resolving technical problems. Otherwise, they had a fiduciary duty to protect it on my behalf. I think this changed around 1996 with some fine print in a telecom bill. Now they are the property of the phone company. And the phone company doesn't really give a shit about my privacy.
Lets put the law back the way it was. Or, if these records are property of the phone company and they are willing to sell them, then I and my friends at various foreign intelligence agencies should be free to buy them*. Including the call records of US NOC agents and the dummy businesses they contact. With a bit of link analysis, foreign intelligence can unravel the structure of many of our covert operations.
*Oh yeah. They already sell this info to whoever will pay.
Much more now that they built Bitcoin mining into it.
If you're Intel or AMD you probably have people doing competitor research
Patent holding companies don't have the expertise to do this reverse engineering. They typically rely upon legitimate licensees (Intel, AMD) to do it and inform them that the patent needs to be defended. Once the patent has licensees and generates a stream of royalties, it has a known value and will attract lawyers to take the case on contingency. So why don't you sell/license your patent directly to Intel and others?
There are a lot of worthless 'blocking patents' generated that are nothing more than obvious engineering solutions to problems. But given a large enough portfolio of them, an IP holding company can extract payments from companies that can't afford to work through all the blocked options. Typically, these patents have no value to a company until they need to buy their way out of a dead end. So there isn't a potential royalty revenue stream giving them value and making them defensible on their own.
If invent something I talk to a bunch of IP holding companies and see who'd pay most for the IP. I sell it to them, they collect royalties from anyone infringing.
Already I see a missing step here. Ideally, the holding companies would offer licenses to manufacturers and negotiate royalties first. Before anyone infringes on the patent. Skipping over this step and going directly to waiting to trap an infringer suggests that these are the blocking patents I referred to.
but you don't have money for lawyers to collect royalty fees.
I just thought of this new thing called a contingency fee. Where a law firm agrees to defend your position in return for a piece of the potential award. Woo hoo! I'm off to the patent office!
Intellectual Ventures (ad other IP holding companies) are more about securitizing IP. So it can be traded. And when nations' tax authorities finally wake up and realize that this IP is moving across borders* without the documentation required of other negotiable assets, the party will be over.
*Like Apple Cupertino to Apple Ireland and then to Apple Jersey, Channel Islands.
Article I, Section 8 is a blank check to Congress.
Strange. Because it clearly states "by securing for limited Times". That doesn't sound like a blank check to me. Also, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" sounds like a condition in that any law or regulation that can be shown to hamper "Progress" could be thrown out by the Supreme Court.
Because they expire after a prescribed time. The only real property I've ever seen disappear slid into the Skagit River recently.
And if they are real property, then pay up that property tax.
teenagers perform better when waking up later.
Everybody does if they stay up to watch Last Call with Carson Daily.
Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
The person knows they have to get up, arrive on time
Sadly, no longer part of a high school curriculum. The trend today is to let the teenagers sleep in because "Muh biological clock."
Don't want any of the unwashed getting in, eww.
This.
But culture varies from company to company. I did a short stint* for an outfit that liked to hire people with engineering degrees from midwest colleges. Where they were the first generation to have gone beyond high school (or possibly even completing it). People from blue collar and agricultural backgrounds that were easily impressed by making a few dollars an hour more than their parents did steering a plow.
*I wasn't a very good fit culturally. My people came from a background of Harvard medical and MIT graduates.
All my customers care about
"Customer". Not "employer". You will be hired on contract to do the actual work. The person who will take credit for it is a member of the CEO's alma mater, plays golf at the executives' country club (but knows who to lose to) and has an expectation of a lifetime comfy position.
It may be happening regardless. But keep working the analysis on the comments. In particular, anything that might identify their source.
IANAL, but this kind of misrepresentation could be grounds for charges under Section 1001, Title 18 USC. A friendlier future administration might pursue charges.
1. Bankrupt the producers.
Pardon me while I do my part to put these bastards out of business.
It appears that the crims are poking around looking for files named 'wallet.dat' or some variation thereof. Their next step would be to decrypt the data file. So just leave a bunch of random content wallet.dat files lying around and tie up their processing power.
It was nice while it lasted.
Thanks, Ajit.
a robot that cleans - vaccuums, sweeps, dusts, mops
Mom. Is that you?
When I was a kid, I acquired one of those hotel door hanger signs that said, "Housekeeping. Please make up my room." And hung it on my doorknob. My mother drew the line at that one.
Because every time the EU Parliament opens, we never know what we'll be getting either.
a punishment for inflicting damage on the Internet.
The Net interprets Ajit Pai as damage and routes around him.
[Apologies to John Gilmore.]
However, such "weapon" should never be used or it will get used again
This, exactly.
Absent some sort of regulations prohibiting such use of course. We could write these regulations. And call them something like ...
.... net neutrality.
they don't stay neutral
I think that's the whole point.