Actually, the government did experiment with them in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The experiment was a failure, because anyone with a card was waved through the checkpoint. IIRC Lembit Opik has brought this up in the current debate.
A British citizen is not legally required to present a passport to enter or leave the United Kingdom. Of course, the carrier may wish to check that you have one so that they can be confident you'll be permitted to enter your destination country.
80% of us have passports. Although it may partly be due to living in the south-east and studying lots of languages, I'd been to three foreign countries on school trips by the time I was 16.
Maybe this will kill Tony Blair's "We have to have biometric ID cards first so that we can create the de facto standards" argument. Or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part.
From the article: "If Granny's into trannies, and doesn't want her grandkids to know, she should be able to download without fear," says Taylor Banks, project leader.
This is why co-workers and I have been working on Fappix - The Pornnoisseur Distro.
My fascination with the segue from Granny's love of outdated radios to porn is fighting with my desire not to know.
102(a) "known or used" this has long been held to be interpreted as "public" knowledge and/or use
I can find references which talk of the existence of exceptions, although without clearly identifying them. E.g.
In some very rare cases, even if a first inventor never files a patent application, and publication of the first invention only occurs after a second inventor's application is filed, and the second inventor had no knowledge of the first inventors work before it was published, the first inventor's invention will be prior art to the second inventor if steps have already.(sic) The proof problems in this kind of case are difficult but there have been a few patents successfully challenged on this basis.
(I presume that should read "already been taken").
Either way, it appears that the security lecturer who said that "What matters is the wording of the law, which should be understandable if you can read a C program" was optimistic, and I withdraw my assertion in the grandparent post.
There was actually prior art for RSA, but the USPTO didn't see it because GCHQ (the UK equivalent of NSA) didn't like their researchers publishing in academic journals.
Oh, and this was filed in the U.S. but approved by a European patent office so I don't think it's fair for this judge to bash only us Yanks.
He seems to have been talking about law rather than practice. The EPO seems to be breaking the law, but it would take determination and money to bring that before the relevant court(s), if it's even possible. (IANAL, and I can't be bothered to wade through the treaties to establish jurisdiction and procedures).
You don't have to agree to a license in order to use most GPL software.
Depends on the jurisdiction. When you execute a program you create a copy of it in memory. Under some jurisdictions (e.g. English law AIUI) that requires a licence from the copyright holder.
And the no-follow thing seems awkward to me. It seems like i'm saying a URL is not worthy. Now sometimes that may be true, but where's the line? If i think your vanity domain name is ugly because I hate orange? Scammers? It's a spectrum of judgement that i'd prefer to simply ignore.
A Boolean has two values. You can ignore the spectrum of judgement by not no-following any, as at present, or you can ignore it by no-following all.
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My memory was faulty: it was in fact Patrick Mercer rather than Lembit Opik. Hansard.
Actually, the government did experiment with them in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The experiment was a failure, because anyone with a card was waved through the checkpoint. IIRC Lembit Opik has brought this up in the current debate.
Where's the "-1, Missed the joke" mod when you need it?
A British citizen is not legally required to present a passport to enter or leave the United Kingdom. Of course, the carrier may wish to check that you have one so that they can be confident you'll be permitted to enter your destination country.
80% of us have passports. Although it may partly be due to living in the south-east and studying lots of languages, I'd been to three foreign countries on school trips by the time I was 16.
Sounds painful. I know I wouldn't want chicks trying to dig RFID chips out of my biceps.
Sun introduced class data sharing between VMs in Java 1.5.
Maybe this will kill Tony Blair's "We have to have biometric ID cards first so that we can create the de facto standards" argument. Or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part.
Source: Devon Record Office
Surely XHTML 1.0 allows you to avoid writing the title twice by simply defining an internal entity?
If the remote control can turn it on, it is in standby mode.
Looks like Futurama to me.
It's a trick question: giving someone something falls outwith the scope of contract law, because there isn't consideration.
Either way, it appears that the security lecturer who said that "What matters is the wording of the law, which should be understandable if you can read a C program" was optimistic, and I withdraw my assertion in the grandparent post.
That's incorrect under current US patent law.
There was actually prior art for RSA, but the USPTO didn't see it because GCHQ (the UK equivalent of NSA) didn't like their researchers publishing in academic journals.
Are you sure? I just skimmed the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 ( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1997/19973032.htm ) and the Copyright and Rights in Databases (Amendment) Regulations 2003 ( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20032501.htm ) and didn't notice anything to that effect.
Please tell me you missed the reference to Father Ted in the summary, rather than that you find Mrs Doyle sexy.
Not quite true, or the episode wouldn't be titled "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse".
It's funny because it deliberately manipulates chronology to make its point.