No, patents don't prevent transfer of knowledge (the license from ARM). They allow the patent owner to prevent someone else from using the knowledge.
35 U.S.C. 271 Infringement of patent.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.
Sort of. What it means is that instead of folks filing for patents on loopholes, thus making it difficult for others to copy that method (and thus at least partially closing them), Congress has gone and made is so that anyone can use any new tax loophole method (keeping them wide open).
It comes from the US law that medical devices and drugs cannot be marketed without FDA clearance. 21 CFR 820 and so on. That takes a lot of time and money.
It also comes from the US hospitals being very conservative when it comes to offering new procedures. Technically doctors can do just about anything. Even use devices and drugs "off label", by passing FDA requirements. But in reality, doctors must get approval from hospital IRB's before doing something experimental. IRB's are conservative, political, and slow. Most docs prefer to just stick with routine stuff.
But if you are rich, you can bypass those safety check and go to another country for experimental procedures using uncleared drugs and devices.
Even worse! The Chinese satellite that got blasted a few years back is now 2317 traceable pieces. If the odds are for 1 piece, then odds are about 75% somebody is going to get thwacked!
ICANN should make a few simple rules (i.e. easy to understand and to code). Good examples could be
{domain}.com OR {domain}.xxx, but not both {domain}.TLD (original list) OR {domain}.(arbitrary TLD), but not both.
These could be used to filter out online registrations. Obviously some sort of exceptions will crop up (playboy.com and playboy.xxx), which could be handled by certifying that the owner of the first registration is filing for the second. Registrars could charge extra for this manual red-tape exception.
I'd reverse that list. Statistics are a core requirement of any Quality Management system. Most companies are so short on people fluent in statistics they end up doing the training in-house. With a more formal statistics education it puts you ahead of all of those people, even if they have seniority.
I would like to nominate one additional algorithm to the list. Very simple, but effective (though not foolproof). The Taste Algorithm. It goes like this:
If it tastes bad, spit it out. If it tastes good, eat more.
It was invented by great grandpappy Eukaryote. And it's served our family well all these many generations.
Google has to be seen as providing Android as a walled garden OS in order to attract phone makers and telecoms. They would love for hackers to add to the capabilities of Android, but ultimately they need vendors to be happy first.
HTC unlocking lets Google continue to provide a single, common platform that vendors can do with as they please, i.e. locking it down. Meanwhile, hackers can unofficially push the limits of the same platform. Popular and useful improvements can be brought back into the trunk. Google gets free R&D.
I fully agree. It's a nonsense article. The evidence he gives of why the US military doesn't get it looks a lot more like evidence that it does ( and takes it seriously).
The point that cyberspace (I shudder to even type that name) is a hodgepodge of technology kludged together well enough to work most of the time, and consequentially extremely fragile, is exactly how it should be viewed. If the military didn't say that, then I'd be afraid.
I'd rather hear more along the lines of the adage: "War is politics by other means." So electronic wars must have political motives. What political objectives can be served by cyber war and how can they be mitigated? Our military hinted at one aspect: Blow up our stuff with telnet, we'll blow up yours with TNT.
You're right, it has the same effect on the balance sheet. So it all gets counted as "savings." Pay down debt or put it in the bank, and the net is how much you've saved (positive of negative).
There is still one thing that the Chinese have not managed to copy: the sandwich. After a few weeks of eating (very good) Chinese food, I start craving a good sandwich. Bread, meat, cheese. Something decent for less than 60 RMB not served like it's French nouveau cuisine. Rumor is there's a Subway (which I'd settle for) near the Great Wall, but that's unconfirmed.
For the love of God, why can't the Chinese start copying delis?
It's perfectly acceptable to combine known elements and get a patent. It's the stitching together that's key. The inventor must still demonstrate it is not obvious to do so. Not always easy, but possible.
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Muppets are Jim Henson Creation(ist)s.
I for one would like to see Elmo experiment with fire.
Sorry, I meant "experimented".
How's this for a worse alternative theory: he's fully aware of reality but thinks he needs to pander to fundamentalists.
No, sorry, that's not worse. At least it would mean he's rational. A lying politician, like all of them, but rational.
No, patents don't prevent transfer of knowledge (the license from ARM). They allow the patent owner to prevent someone else from using the knowledge.
Sort of. What it means is that instead of folks filing for patents on loopholes, thus making it difficult for others to copy that method (and thus at least partially closing them), Congress has gone and made is so that anyone can use any new tax loophole method (keeping them wide open).
Does this also affect the 64 bit version 11? Just curious since they haven't updated it for 2 weeks.
No, it doesn't.
It comes from the US law that medical devices and drugs cannot be marketed without FDA clearance. 21 CFR 820 and so on. That takes a lot of time and money.
It also comes from the US hospitals being very conservative when it comes to offering new procedures. Technically doctors can do just about anything. Even use devices and drugs "off label", by passing FDA requirements. But in reality, doctors must get approval from hospital IRB's before doing something experimental. IRB's are conservative, political, and slow. Most docs prefer to just stick with routine stuff.
But if you are rich, you can bypass those safety check and go to another country for experimental procedures using uncleared drugs and devices.
Even worse! The Chinese satellite that got blasted a few years back is now 2317 traceable pieces. If the odds are for 1 piece, then odds are about 75% somebody is going to get thwacked!
Or maybe not.
ICANN should make a few simple rules (i.e. easy to understand and to code). Good examples could be
{domain}.com OR {domain}.xxx, but not both
{domain}.TLD (original list) OR {domain}.(arbitrary TLD), but not both.
These could be used to filter out online registrations. Obviously some sort of exceptions will crop up (playboy.com and playboy.xxx), which could be handled by certifying that the owner of the first registration is filing for the second. Registrars could charge extra for this manual red-tape exception.
I'd reverse that list. Statistics are a core requirement of any Quality Management system. Most companies are so short on people fluent in statistics they end up doing the training in-house. With a more formal statistics education it puts you ahead of all of those people, even if they have seniority.
in-con-ceiv-a-ble
Adjective: Not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable
Seemed time to nail that one down too.
I had to look it up. Learned they were used for reconnaissance.
Some good pictures here for those who are curious:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=252658
Hey, Street Fighter matters! It just does. Now I wouldn't go with Guile necessarily, but he's good. Blanka was my preferred fighter.
The Hep B vaccine is a series of 3 shots, not just one. Everyone who gets the vaccine is supposed to get 3.
http://www.hepb.org/hepb/vaccine_information.htm
Uh, you do realize this case is about copyright contracts, not patents, right?
I couldn't agree more, unless I marked you +1 Insightful.
Oh well, back to meta-moderating.
I would like to nominate one additional algorithm to the list. Very simple, but effective (though not foolproof). The Taste Algorithm. It goes like this:
If it tastes bad, spit it out.
If it tastes good, eat more.
It was invented by great grandpappy Eukaryote. And it's served our family well all these many generations.
Google has to be seen as providing Android as a walled garden OS in order to attract phone makers and telecoms. They would love for hackers to add to the capabilities of Android, but ultimately they need vendors to be happy first.
HTC unlocking lets Google continue to provide a single, common platform that vendors can do with as they please, i.e. locking it down. Meanwhile, hackers can unofficially push the limits of the same platform. Popular and useful improvements can be brought back into the trunk. Google gets free R&D.
Win - Win
Coincidentally (or likely not), this is the longest my FF8a1 has gone without automatically updating. It's been 4 days. That's news!
FWIW, it's the 64 bit version and has been running rather well. 64 bit flash too.
... give or take 4.5 billion years. Well, more give than take.
I fully agree. It's a nonsense article. The evidence he gives of why the US military doesn't get it looks a lot more like evidence that it does ( and takes it seriously).
The point that cyberspace (I shudder to even type that name) is a hodgepodge of technology kludged together well enough to work most of the time, and consequentially extremely fragile, is exactly how it should be viewed. If the military didn't say that, then I'd be afraid.
I'd rather hear more along the lines of the adage: "War is politics by other means." So electronic wars must have political motives. What political objectives can be served by cyber war and how can they be mitigated? Our military hinted at one aspect: Blow up our stuff with telnet, we'll blow up yours with TNT.
It's not a dumb date to pick because American's don't know the significance, it's a dumb date to pick because the plot was foiled on that date.
You're right, it has the same effect on the balance sheet. So it all gets counted as "savings." Pay down debt or put it in the bank, and the net is how much you've saved (positive of negative).
There is still one thing that the Chinese have not managed to copy: the sandwich. After a few weeks of eating (very good) Chinese food, I start craving a good sandwich. Bread, meat, cheese. Something decent for less than 60 RMB not served like it's French nouveau cuisine. Rumor is there's a Subway (which I'd settle for) near the Great Wall, but that's unconfirmed.
For the love of God, why can't the Chinese start copying delis?
It's perfectly acceptable to combine known elements and get a patent. It's the stitching together that's key. The inventor must still demonstrate it is not obvious to do so. Not always easy, but possible.