Either the US would have to remove itself as a signatory to certain international treaties, or it would have to put a lot of pressure on other countries to get the treaties changed. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS
AFAICT, any country which isn't a member of WIPO is a good candidate. WIPO only has about 180 members, so there are a few non-members. OTOH in many countries you can still be sued for infringement for downloading copyrighted material without a licence.
Why? A baseball bat or a knife are both effective for threatening people at close range, and getting hold of a gun isn't necessarily easy. "Professional" muggers may have guns, but casual muggers in most parts of the UK still use knives.
You seem too focused on this one scenerio of an armed attacker holding up one person in isolation.
A crowd isn't the best situation for a mugging - too many witnesses. In a crowd, pick-pocketing is the way forward.
(And another reason crypto is often published is it's so hard to get right, people need to check each other's work. So publishing to some extent is a sanity check that you didn't do something stupid.)
There's also the "Publish or die" aspect of academic security research.
I'd have said the main weakness was that they've already released the iPod interface - do US patent laws really permit you to make something public and then patent it?
It gives me comfort to know that I'm not subject to the arbitrary rule of a body that one, I have not elected
That's an interesting position. AFAIA the US is the only country where the judiciary (at least at the lower levels) is directly elected for fixed terms. I know that if someone tried to bring it in here (UK) I'd be against it, because I'd rather the judiciary were independent of politics. Given the role of the jury as a limit on the judiciary, what would you say are the main points in favour of an elected judiciary?
Are you saying that forests don't exist outside the US and Australia? That would seem to be the implication, because those are the only areas where forest fires occur naturally.
Java programs larger than "Hello World" have about a 25% chance of running on a default Linux system.
Personally, I think that sentence makes your post deserving of -1 Flamebait. The reason Java programs fail to run on a Linux system is that they were written by idiots who assume that
new File("c:\\");
will work on any machine. I've only had one serious issue with getting Java programs to run on Windows, OS X and Linux, and that is that there's no documented way of changing the default file encoding. I added an item to coding standards saying that file encodings must be specified for all file I/O and the problem went away. The GUI will also want testing to make sure it looks reasonable, but that's not a failure-to-run issue.
What about an e-mail coming from a Trojan running on a machine in Kansas?
(BTW grandparent didn't miss the point - they were commenting on great-grandparent's blanket statement "Most users only receive email from within the US and one or two other countries", which should have been expressed "Most users only receive email from within their own country and one or two other countries").
Individuals? They're not corporations, networks, schools or NPOs. And you can't just dump the existing country TLDs, because too many people have domains in them.
"For the purposes of this Act, the author of a work is the person who creates it."
on the grounds that no-one creates information. My point, which I admit I could have expressed better, is that the "work" is not merely the information or idea. Consider a straightforward newspaper article - reporting on an item of news rather than an opinion piece, with no analysis. The information which the journalist discovered has been expressed in idiom appropriate to the readers of the paper, the facts have been arranged, and the result is a work protected by copyright legislation. The journalist (or, more realistically, his paper) can't sue another journalist who publishes an article containing the same information, but can sue another journalist who copies the article rather than write their own.
Your point about independent discovery is also irrelevant. If two people should happen to create identical works independently, they are each the author of the work they produced, and each can license it as they choose. Either is at liberty to sue the other for copyright infringement, but to win their case they have to persuade the jury both that they wrote the article and that the defendant copied it from them rather than producing it independently.
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Either the US would have to remove itself as a signatory to certain international treaties, or it would have to put a lot of pressure on other countries to get the treaties changed. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS
AFAICT, any country which isn't a member of WIPO is a good candidate. WIPO only has about 180 members, so there are a few non-members. OTOH in many countries you can still be sued for infringement for downloading copyrighted material without a licence.
No, he's saying that in a decade you won't be the only person using it.
Nah - they're just trying to reduce the load on their support staff.
It is for the companies with call centres in the area, to whom I'm sure we all extend our sympathy.
I'd have said the main weakness was that they've already released the iPod interface - do US patent laws really permit you to make something public and then patent it?
"Well, if it wasn't for George Washington, you'd be speaking English"
I know a Canadian or two who refer to the USA as "South British Columbia".
Are you saying that forests don't exist outside the US and Australia? That would seem to be the implication, because those are the only areas where forest fires occur naturally.
Like the American queuing in Cheddar Gorge who was heard to say "They make real Cheddar where I come from"?
I'm sure the EU will accept equivalent value in something like gold or stocks - although probably not Win98 licences.
Class of 2002 means you graduated in the summer of 2002?
Mac users are very parochial about the UI. I don't mind using X to run useful apps like Unison, but most would.
(BTW grandparent didn't miss the point - they were commenting on great-grandparent's blanket statement "Most users only receive email from within the US and one or two other countries", which should have been expressed "Most users only receive email from within their own country and one or two other countries").
Individuals? They're not corporations, networks, schools or NPOs. And you can't just dump the existing country TLDs, because too many people have domains in them.
That's already possible. I haven't noticed that spam is dead.
(Source for 16" x 8").
Your point about independent discovery is also irrelevant. If two people should happen to create identical works independently, they are each the author of the work they produced, and each can license it as they choose. Either is at liberty to sue the other for copyright infringement, but to win their case they have to persuade the jury both that they wrote the article and that the defendant copied it from them rather than producing it independently.