If the "acts" of a claimed process manipulate only numbers, abstract
concepts or ideas, or signals representing any of the foregoing, the
acts are not being applied to appropriate subject matter. Thus, a
process consisting solely of mathematical operations, i.e., converting
one set of numbers into another set of numbers, does not manipulate
appropriate subject matter and thus cannot constitute a statutory
process.
The fact is, you have no clue as to what you are talking about, and need to spend a little time doing some reading.
I think you need to do some reading. What the fuck does encryption do?? It changes one set of numbers into another!!
Read about discrete sets and mapping. MOD n fields, etc.. Then you might understand that *ALL* encryption is *MATH*. And the patented implementation is nothing more but translated stuff directly from math-speak to computer-speak. THERE IS NO INVENTION IN THE FREAKING TRANSLATION!!!
2.4.x branch was forked at 2.4.15 (I think). Since we are not even near 2.6.15, I don't see a big deal. 2.6.x will continue to include new drivers and some modifications to the core layers. But it will not become unstable!
2.7.x will be there, probably by second half of 2005. Probably at the time where 2.6 gets to 15th or so patch level.
Sigh. People *really* don't understand patents at all. If you actually go and do some reading (I know that a streach) you would find out that a patent covers an IMPLEMENTATION, not an idea.
*Anyone* with an little bit of math education (you know, something beyond first year university) can read the "cryptic mathematical papers" (I'm sure you will describe it as such). The Implementation is virtually the same as the math paper describing it! Sure, there will be some simplifications, but it is still math.
There is no difference between
let A=Z
let x be the supplied number
let w be 1e-10
if there exists y in A s.t. |y-x|<w, then x is also in our new set A' (aka, fuzzy integers)
and
bool isFuzzyInt( double a )
{
double w = 1e-10;
int b = (int)a;
if( a - b < 0.5 ) return a - b < w;
return b - a < w-1;
}
What is the difference? You can patent the later!!!
As to your comment, well, encryption algorithms, compression algorithms, search algorithms, etc... are all *math* that is *suppose to be* implemented on a computer. Since you can't patent math, you patent the math on a computer and then you claim you "invented" something.
In many cases the patent system (in case of software) does nothing but allows the work of mathematicians to be plagiarized (hmm, I meant patented). If software patents are to be allowed, then mathematical methods must be patentable as well.
If so, will there be an OSX/Linux/*BSD/Solaris driver?
Seriously, I think they will have all of that in hardware that you buy. You will probably just get a regular ethernet gateway. So if you have drivers for your NIC, you will probably be able to use the service. Hell, they don't want people hacking their satellite now, right? So they cannot have *anything* on the computer end.
The latency *has* to be at least 500ms (light speed constraint and all:).
Depends whether you class high-speed as only meaning high bandwidth, as I'd expect ping times to be slow on such a service.
Well, daahhh!!!! For the signal to get from Earth-Satellite-ISP-InternetSite-ISP-Satellite-Ear th will be about a second.
To be in geostationary orbit, you need to get to 36,000km above the earth. Since lightspeed is 300,000km/s and you need to travel the Satellite-Earch route 4 times (you to internet and then internet to you), that means the total distance is at least ~144,000km. So that's about 0.5s right there.
The rest of the delay is in preperation and organization of huge packets you want to send to the satellite. Thus the net delay has to be at least 500ms (to ISP) and probably arround 750mb-1000ms. You cannot go faster than 500ms!
For those that don't know, most of Canada has average population density of less than 1 person per sq. km. This satellite is going to bring internet to everyone, including those spending the summer at the cottage (could be 100s of km from other people and phone lines). This connection could even provide VoIP, though latency might be noticable (better than no phone though!)
Oh well, Canada again pioneering the way of the *non-military* satellites (first commercial geostationary communication satellite was by Telesat Canada as well:)
For cities, like Toronto, this will do absolutely nothing since they already have a few MBps though DSL/Cable.
Has there actually been lawsuits to test the validity of a patent on an algorithm?
Hmm, the entire GIF thing is one. Then there are a whole slew of encryption algorithms (which are part of Mathematics! - can't patent math? lol!). How about MS being sued over incorporating things into IE!! And then there is the 1-click Amazon *#$*s.
There are A LOT of examples. Software patents are patents of human thought. Now all we need is to patent the method by which neurons transmit data to other neurons!!!
Exploit yes, root exploit, no, not unless the user is running as an Administrator.
Good one. You can't even run some MS developer software without root (hmm, Administrator) privileges! (eg. eVC++ 4.0). And let's not even start about non-MS software (eg, games). Using a MS box without administrative priv. is like having a car with no engine - nothing works!
Hell, when Administrative priv. are required, what does Windows software do? It pops up, "You have to be running as an Administrator to...". It doesn't even ask you for Admin. password to complete its function. You just have to relogin. And thanks to the great "multi user capabilities", you have to log out of your current session first.
Running the OS as a non-Admin is like trying to run with pains-ticks up your ass. And then running as an Admin seems not much better (see story)!!
PS. I think MS's "Run As..." needs an extra 's'. At least 'su' works!!
As for the geothermal theory, if it was the cause of this under-ice lake, then the convection current would have eventually blended the two basins.
Geothermal heat is NOT uniform. That's why you have Yellowstone with its geysers, other places have volcanoes and in some nothing important. An area the size of a continent will have many different hot spots and cold spots, separated by dozens or hundreds of kilometers. There could be hundreds of "little" lakes:)
That map is interesting but this one is even more interesting. It is the total fallout for the US, by county, over the entire continental atmospheric testing period
Sit in front of your computers, decry 'international law' but you fail to see the reasons as to 'why' it fails, bah.
International law exists, to some extent. It fails because no one is enforcing it. There are no penalties if a state fails to enforce international law. No rewards for enforcing it.
The point is not about international law, but about how international law comes to be. The point is about the international government. Today, it only exists in the form of the UN. George Bush said that the UN has failed and that it is up to him to "free Iraq". Why did he not try to fix the UN? Why try to fix a little coutry and leave the international "government" irrelevent?? Because most people on the UN don't give a shit about it (including Bush). Corruption is not the reason why it fails. Corruption is the result of a broken fundation. The UN was founded to prevent WW3 between independent states, nothing more. Today, we expect it to be more, but the foundation is too weak for that. UN can't even make binding rulings!
What the world needs is a much bigger investment in the world govn't than we have today. We need to start to move closer to what the EU is now. Not signing up all coutries, just the ones that respect human rights, freedom of expression, etc.
I hope it will not take WW3 to build a world gov't (federal gov't, for example). We will probably not survive it.
Now, I would like to get to the points you raised (as they apply to member coutries of a world gov't),
1) respect their people. Agreed. In Canada we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Something like this has to be part of any world constitution.
2) have a binding constitution. This is the single biggest reason why the UN is failing. No responsibilities. No obligations.
3) have a system of government that is subservient to the people. Dup. of #1
4) have an media system which is private. s/private/free/. Media does not have to be private to be free. And private media does not mean it is free:). Of course #1 must allow anyone to become/create private media.
Anyway, the corruption at the UN is the result of expecting it to do more than it was designed to do. The UN was not designed to be the world gov't, just a gathering place.
The positive thing is that throughout history communication networks determined the size of the government. The Internet is only a few years old. Give it a decade or so, and I'm sure the UN will either reform or collapse.;) Interresting times.
I don't care, but the UN is working very hard to fulfill GW's statement, that they are irrelevent. They COULD be very powerful and effective, but the individual players (and yes, often us as well) are too busy with their own little power trips and rip offs.
UN is only as powerful as the security council allows it to be. Until the member countries put more stake into UN (like a constitution) and throw offending coutries off of the council or the UN, then the UN will fail. The UN doesn't even have an army or a mandate wht to do with coutries that do not comply with resolutions (like Iraq or North Korea)!!! It is about time that the UN took a more central role in the world govn't. Until that happens, the world government is made up of the multinational corporations (Microsoft, IBM, GM, ING, Honda, RBC, etc.. etc..).
The problem problem with the statistics is that they do not deal with "Linux, the kernel", or "Apache, the web server", or ISS or whatever. They just state that there is a percent of all apps on these platforms that is broken. Well, hello???!!
The problem with Windows is that it is impossible to micromanage the OS. Under Linux, you can do that quite easily (I hope most distributions, though I'm a Debian user myself). Frankly, a hole in Postgres or wftpd or telnetd does not affect me, yet it can be part of Secunia statistics. A similar hole in IE can affect a lot more people, even if they use a different browser because IE cannot be removed.
You cannot compare the pure number of holes in Red Hat's distribution and MS core OS. It's like comparing countries to cities! There is a lot more in one than the other.
Damn... Now I have to rewrite my BIOS, and HD firmware, monitor firmware (so I will not need the tinfoil hat anymore), CD drive firmware... Oh man!! That's it, going back to my Lucy Mac!
I like to keep my bank balance as small as possible. Why keep it in a checking account?
Oh yes, I forgot about the huge interest rates these days! Unless you have > $10,000 cash, it doesn't really matter. And if you have >$10,000 cash, well, put it in at least some bonds or something:) Heck, better than some savings account.
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What XML? I don't see any XML in the spf1 records.
If the "acts" of a claimed process manipulate only numbers, abstract concepts or ideas, or signals representing any of the foregoing, the acts are not being applied to appropriate subject matter. Thus, a process consisting solely of mathematical operations, i.e., converting one set of numbers into another set of numbers, does not manipulate appropriate subject matter and thus cannot constitute a statutory process.
The fact is, you have no clue as to what you are talking about, and need to spend a little time doing some reading.
I think you need to do some reading. What the fuck does encryption do?? It changes one set of numbers into another!!
Read about discrete sets and mapping. MOD n fields, etc.. Then you might understand that *ALL* encryption is *MATH*. And the patented implementation is nothing more but translated stuff directly from math-speak to computer-speak. THERE IS NO INVENTION IN THE FREAKING TRANSLATION!!!
But you will insist that it is.. lol.
2.7.x will be there, probably by second half of 2005. Probably at the time where 2.6 gets to 15th or so patch level.
For QOS on your gateway, just use a simple hub/switch and a small Linux machine. Then read the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO.
Amazon sues Barnes&Noble over 1-click
*Anyone* with an little bit of math education (you know, something beyond first year university) can read the "cryptic mathematical papers" (I'm sure you will describe it as such). The Implementation is virtually the same as the math paper describing it! Sure, there will be some simplifications, but it is still math.
There is no difference between
let A=Z
let x be the supplied number
let w be 1e-10
if there exists y in A s.t. |y-x|<w, then x is also in our new set A' (aka, fuzzy integers)
and
bool isFuzzyInt( double a )
{
double w = 1e-10;
int b = (int)a;
if( a - b < 0.5 ) return a - b < w;
return b - a < w-1;
}
What is the difference? You can patent the later!!!
As to your comment, well, encryption algorithms, compression algorithms, search algorithms, etc... are all *math* that is *suppose to be* implemented on a computer. Since you can't patent math, you patent the math on a computer and then you claim you "invented" something.
In many cases the patent system (in case of software) does nothing but allows the work of mathematicians to be plagiarized (hmm, I meant patented). If software patents are to be allowed, then mathematical methods must be patentable as well.
Seriously, I think they will have all of that in hardware that you buy. You will probably just get a regular ethernet gateway. So if you have drivers for your NIC, you will probably be able to use the service. Hell, they don't want people hacking their satellite now, right? So they cannot have *anything* on the computer end.
The latency *has* to be at least 500ms (light speed constraint and all :).
Well, daahhh!!!! For the signal to get from Earth-Satellite-ISP-InternetSite-ISP-Satellite-Ear th will be about a second.
To be in geostationary orbit, you need to get to 36,000km above the earth. Since lightspeed is 300,000km/s and you need to travel the Satellite-Earch route 4 times (you to internet and then internet to you), that means the total distance is at least ~144,000km. So that's about 0.5s right there.
The rest of the delay is in preperation and organization of huge packets you want to send to the satellite. Thus the net delay has to be at least 500ms (to ISP) and probably arround 750mb-1000ms. You cannot go faster than 500ms!
Oh well, Canada again pioneering the way of the *non-military* satellites (first commercial geostationary communication satellite was by Telesat Canada as well :)
For cities, like Toronto, this will do absolutely nothing since they already have a few MBps though DSL/Cable.
Its classical division by zero trolling.
Hmm, the entire GIF thing is one. Then there are a whole slew of encryption algorithms (which are part of Mathematics! - can't patent math? lol!). How about MS being sued over incorporating things into IE!! And then there is the 1-click Amazon *#$*s.
There are A LOT of examples. Software patents are patents of human thought. Now all we need is to patent the method by which neurons transmit data to other neurons!!!
When its outsourced, most of it is in "Copy/Paste" development cycle!
Good one. You can't even run some MS developer software without root (hmm, Administrator) privileges! (eg. eVC++ 4.0). And let's not even start about non-MS software (eg, games). Using a MS box without administrative priv. is like having a car with no engine - nothing works!
Hell, when Administrative priv. are required, what does Windows software do? It pops up, "You have to be running as an Administrator to ...". It doesn't even ask you for Admin. password to complete its function. You just have to relogin. And thanks to the great "multi user capabilities", you have to log out of your current session first.
Running the OS as a non-Admin is like trying to run with pains-ticks up your ass. And then running as an Admin seems not much better (see story)!!
PS. I think MS's "Run As..." needs an extra 's'. At least 'su' works!!
Geothermal heat is NOT uniform. That's why you have Yellowstone with its geysers, other places have volcanoes and in some nothing important. An area the size of a continent will have many different hot spots and cold spots, separated by dozens or hundreds of kilometers. There could be hundreds of "little" lakes :)
Blah.. Looks like Canada got a lot of the crap. :(
You lower total transmission loss (basically 0 though superconductor), and increas maximum power transmission per cable.
And *how* does this differ from e-mail SPAM? Who is paying for that? The recipient!!!
Ahh... Just thinking of the days when you couldn't patent an idea or a formula.
I guess the patent office of today is not the patent office of the 1930s, eh?
Time to put on my aluminum (shiny side out!!) burka!!
International law exists, to some extent. It fails because no one is enforcing it. There are no penalties if a state fails to enforce international law. No rewards for enforcing it.
The point is not about international law, but about how international law comes to be. The point is about the international government. Today, it only exists in the form of the UN. George Bush said that the UN has failed and that it is up to him to "free Iraq". Why did he not try to fix the UN? Why try to fix a little coutry and leave the international "government" irrelevent?? Because most people on the UN don't give a shit about it (including Bush). Corruption is not the reason why it fails. Corruption is the result of a broken fundation. The UN was founded to prevent WW3 between independent states, nothing more. Today, we expect it to be more, but the foundation is too weak for that. UN can't even make binding rulings!
What the world needs is a much bigger investment in the world govn't than we have today. We need to start to move closer to what the EU is now. Not signing up all coutries, just the ones that respect human rights, freedom of expression, etc.
I hope it will not take WW3 to build a world gov't (federal gov't, for example). We will probably not survive it.
Now, I would like to get to the points you raised (as they apply to member coutries of a world gov't),
1) respect their people.
Agreed. In Canada we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Something like this has to be part of any world constitution.
2) have a binding constitution.
This is the single biggest reason why the UN is failing. No responsibilities. No obligations.
3) have a system of government that is subservient to the people.
Dup. of #1
4) have an media system which is private. :). Of course #1 must allow anyone to become/create private media.
s/private/free/. Media does not have to be private to be free. And private media does not mean it is free
Anyway, the corruption at the UN is the result of expecting it to do more than it was designed to do. The UN was not designed to be the world gov't, just a gathering place.
The positive thing is that throughout history communication networks determined the size of the government. The Internet is only a few years old. Give it a decade or so, and I'm sure the UN will either reform or collapse. ;) Interresting times.
UN is only as powerful as the security council allows it to be. Until the member countries put more stake into UN (like a constitution) and throw offending coutries off of the council or the UN, then the UN will fail. The UN doesn't even have an army or a mandate wht to do with coutries that do not comply with resolutions (like Iraq or North Korea)!!! It is about time that the UN took a more central role in the world govn't. Until that happens, the world government is made up of the multinational corporations (Microsoft, IBM, GM, ING, Honda, RBC, etc.. etc..).
The problem with Windows is that it is impossible to micromanage the OS. Under Linux, you can do that quite easily (I hope most distributions, though I'm a Debian user myself). Frankly, a hole in Postgres or wftpd or telnetd does not affect me, yet it can be part of Secunia statistics. A similar hole in IE can affect a lot more people, even if they use a different browser because IE cannot be removed.
You cannot compare the pure number of holes in Red Hat's distribution and MS core OS. It's like comparing countries to cities! There is a lot more in one than the other.
/boot/kernel init=/bin/bah ....[wait here]
bash# passwd
New UNIX password: .. Takes a minute or so...
Damn... Now I have to rewrite my BIOS, and HD firmware, monitor firmware (so I will not need the tinfoil hat anymore), CD drive firmware... Oh man!! That's it, going back to my Lucy Mac!
Oh yes, I forgot about the huge interest rates these days! Unless you have > $10,000 cash, it doesn't really matter. And if you have >$10,000 cash, well, put it in at least some bonds or something :) Heck, better than some savings account.