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Make the links to the site vanish. Everywhere. Ever. Especially search engines should exclude the site from its searches. Remove it from directories, portals, private pages... Let's see how long a site nobody links to can exist...
Everytime YOU put glue on paper, nobody cares. But if you see "Wow, these pieces of paper are really useful" and then try to sell them, well, that wasn't your idea...
Nowadays there are thousands of companies that produce PostIt-alikes but still 3M is the power. The idea by itself wasn't worth $10. But the guy certainly deserves right to test it in real life and try to profit from it, starting small and if it's successful, getting to the top - not staying forgotten and poor while the huge corporations profit from his idea. The problem is nowadays he would most likely make his first million, then sell the business for ten times that and the patent would just protect profit of lazy assholes, not of the inventor.
1) okay. Just force this through the patent lobby. 2) No effect. One guy to watch over the corporate database and re-submit all the patents when they are about to expire. IMO not "nominal" but "increasing" fee would be reasonable. Discard all the useless patents and pay up really A LOT to hold the profitable ones. If the patent is bringing you $1bln/year, paying $1mln to keep it for the last 5 years out of the 20 shouldn't be a problem. If you can't make profit out of it, isn't it high time to let the others try? 3) Unenforceable, too many possible loopholes. (like, behind-the-scenes contract "allow us to violate your patent for $100.000 without starting a lawsuit against us, and sue anyone else who violates it")
I think something else could be helpful: "protective fee". After pretty short period, say, 2 years, each patent is free to open to the public for anyone who is willing to pay you 500x what you pay for yearly patent protection. Is it it worth to you $1mln? Pay $2000 and you will get $1mln if someone thinks it's worth that much. Want to make sure nobody gets it? Pay $1bln and nobody will pay $200bln to get it. This way a huge company would be able to maintain a portfolio of 10-15 patents, and people willing to innovate would be able to get over such obstacles and inventors would still get a right prize for their work.
One thing that made me wonder... Enter "vioxx" or "malpractice", click the paid ads. What you get is about 2/3 of the pages are no real info, just more google ads, many of them directing the sites to each other. They must pay for the adwords. They get paid for click through on their ad-worded "banner only" pages. But I find it hard to believe they get paid for clicks on Google ads on their pages, than they pay for their ads on Google and in others' ads. Or is the Google profit margin small enough to finance them from the remaining 1/3 clicks to actual pages without Google ads? Or is Google paying them with own loss?
I don't think the "lever" should be bigger. The companies could overblow the time a lot. Say, they provide proof that origins of the idea appeared 20 years ago (and they were working on design ever since), and the "lever" is 100. 2000 years of patent protection? Thanks, no. If it was logarithmic scale, then okay, say, quadrupling the expenses doubles the protection time.
IMHO other counter-measures should be taken: 1) Easier to invalidate a patent. A bounty system for prior art (some of the application money go towards the eventual bounty), and simplification of invalidating/denying a patent just by showing the prior art, no lenghty lawsuits. 2) Short period to implement the patent. Like, depending on degree of complexity, up to 5 years. So, first actual "real life" implementations must happen within that time or the patent expiers really fast. If you don't plan to innovate using the new invention, leave it to others. No submarine patents. 3) "commonwealth invalidation". Patents covering technologies/products being defined in standards by official bodies or (i.e. plugins - HTML specs) or being in mainstream use and produced by multitude of world industries (i.e. aspirin) get invalidated. Patent holders may be paid a token fee for the invention, i.e. the cost of inventing it x5 or x10, money coming from special tax on these products.
There's a small problem with that. What about the "Blinding Flash of Obvious Truth"? Take post-it notes. The guy was working on a new type of super-glue. Only his invention appeared to be a total failure. The glue was barely capable to hold a piece of paper. But he had enough brains to apply it to a piece of paper and sell that. Investment in the new type of glue: maybe $50. Time: one evening. Profit: "3M is an $18 billion diversified technology company with leading positions in consumer and office"
The new system would protect the invention for 3 weeks, or until it gives $2000 (whichever comes first).
Some patents are too dumb nowadays. But sometimes really simple inventions are worth billions.
I wonder how seriously would DMCA apply then:) I mean, 90% of users of Morrowind used the NoCD crack. Including great most of owners of the official, legal CD. Simply the CD check mechanism was so crappy that it created really serious overhead. The game with the crack, not checking for CD, ran about 30% faster.
Definitely the "solemn purpose to circumvent copy protection" wasn't there.
1) Another choice. Maybe a headache for developers who want to support them ALL, but possibly another choice for customers or those who want to support ONE database - Not sure why this one would be better, but why would it be worse? A different set of features may JUST fit your niche. 2) Competition against proprietary. More open source solutions, less proprietary solutions. Another backstab to MSSQL:) 3) Open source = box of ideas. Port whatever Sun database has cool in its code base to other free databases, make them better. 4) Easier portability to other databases for proprietary software. If something uses SunDB and nothing else, having SunDB source you can easily write glue to make that thing run i.e. on PostgreSQL 5) "Do we need"... and does SUN need another not-quite-competitive piece of proprietary software? What is better, dump it or release as Open Source? 6) Open Source replaces negative competition with cooperation. There probably will be quite a bit current Open Source database developers can learn from Sun developers - and vice versa. And since it's no longer a trade sectret, the exchange is possible. Help? Why not? 7) The Name. Having such a name as SUN behind this thing, customers who would otherwise never trust the "bunch of hippies" who write Free Software may adopt it. And then more of Open Source. 8) Is it worse than others? Who knows what will the benchmarks show... 9) Another move towards OS - another example, another encouragement for others to open up their proprietary products. 10) Don't look the gift horse in the mouth.
Pull-down menus, status in upper right, drive icons on desktop, clean hypertext black on white help text, simple, clean folder view... haven't you seen that somewhere? I know I did. On Amiga.
Fingerprints are unique. That's about all. They aren't "granted" to be unique but certainly they are more unique than md5sum:) The problem is, they can be copied. Current systems can't tell flesh apart from silicon or such. The readers can be easily fooled with copies of somebody's fingerprints. And you can't replace your compromised set of fingerprints with a new one... So, no. they aren't reliable.
Actually, forging a fingerprint will eventually be easier than forging a credit card. Pick it using traditional "police" methods. Scan, edit, removing noise, dust etc. (not sure if you don't need to make negative. But it's trivial.) Print on transparency. Using photopaint like in making PCBs, etch in copper. Using the copper as stencil, pour a little silicone glue. When the result is nearly dry, push with your finger to paste it on top of your own. Go shopping.
Faster, cheaper, easier... And once you see your credit card is compromised, you cancel it and go get a new one. And what about fingerprints?
News story about the poor bankrupt grocery... "The store also used to report 0% of such transactions being fraudulent before the story was posted to Slashdot. Then the number of frauds by using "stolen fingerprints" skyrocketed."
On the other hand, there's way too many brands of coffee. I go to a supermarket and I stand in front of a shelf with coffee for 7 hours, unable to decide. In the morning I go to a resturant to have my morning coffee, they hand me a menu, and I see 15 different brands. Before I choose one, they excuse me, they are closing and it's evening. I even planned switching to tea because of that problem, but once I entered a chineese tea shop and nearly died from dehydration.
My friend says "Why don't you just pick one at random, or try a bit of each to decide on your favourite, or read some reviews to pick one that appeals to you best?" but if I did, what kind of moron clueless coffee drinker would they take me for?
I'm really curious what the license limitations are. That is - can I use it for commercial purposes? Can I modify / reverse engineer it? Can I redistribute it?
Hehe, this guy is really talented. He disguised the stuff:) Sodium chloride is just to allow the current flow. The real power is Water! How? Oxygen does the cutting. Hydrogen gets emitted into the air, mixing with air oxygen, creating high explosive in your room:)
Actually, O2 isn't emitted. Even before connecting into 2-atom particle, still as O- the extremely reactive ions oxidize the steel, providing a lot to the etching process. But H2 still goes up and likely boom.
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Actually, that's what they _want_. W they _need_ to find a different job and don't waste others' nerves by their 1337 pr0gramming skillz.
Make the links to the site vanish. Everywhere. Ever. Especially search engines should exclude the site from its searches. Remove it from directories, portals, private pages...
Let's see how long a site nobody links to can exist...
Everytime YOU put glue on paper, nobody cares. But if you see "Wow, these pieces of paper are really useful" and then try to sell them, well, that wasn't your idea...
Because people are willing to pay as much for it?
Nowadays there are thousands of companies that produce PostIt-alikes but still 3M is the power. The idea by itself wasn't worth $10. But the guy certainly deserves right to test it in real life and try to profit from it, starting small and if it's successful, getting to the top - not staying forgotten and poor while the huge corporations profit from his idea. The problem is nowadays he would most likely make his first million, then sell the business for ten times that and the patent would just protect profit of lazy assholes, not of the inventor.
1) okay. Just force this through the patent lobby.
2) No effect. One guy to watch over the corporate database and re-submit all the patents when they are about to expire. IMO not "nominal" but "increasing" fee would be reasonable. Discard all the useless patents and pay up really A LOT to hold the profitable ones. If the patent is bringing you $1bln/year, paying $1mln to keep it for the last 5 years out of the 20 shouldn't be a problem. If you can't make profit out of it, isn't it high time to let the others try?
3) Unenforceable, too many possible loopholes. (like, behind-the-scenes contract "allow us to violate your patent for $100.000 without starting a lawsuit against us, and sue anyone else who violates it")
I think something else could be helpful: "protective fee". After pretty short period, say, 2 years, each patent is free to open to the public for anyone who is willing to pay you 500x what you pay for yearly patent protection. Is it it worth to you $1mln? Pay $2000 and you will get $1mln if someone thinks it's worth that much. Want to make sure nobody gets it? Pay $1bln and nobody will pay $200bln to get it. This way a huge company would be able to maintain a portfolio of 10-15 patents, and people willing to innovate would be able to get over such obstacles and inventors would still get a right prize for their work.
One thing that made me wonder...
Enter "vioxx" or "malpractice", click the paid ads. What you get is about 2/3 of the pages are no real info, just more google ads, many of them directing the sites to each other.
They must pay for the adwords. They get paid for click through on their ad-worded "banner only" pages. But I find it hard to believe they get paid for clicks on Google ads on their pages, than they pay for their ads on Google and in others' ads. Or is the Google profit margin small enough to finance them from the remaining 1/3 clicks to actual pages without Google ads? Or is Google paying them with own loss?
He DID get my click :)
I don't think the "lever" should be bigger. The companies could overblow the time a lot. Say, they provide proof that origins of the idea appeared 20 years ago (and they were working on design ever since), and the "lever" is 100. 2000 years of patent protection? Thanks, no. If it was logarithmic scale, then okay, say, quadrupling the expenses doubles the protection time.
IMHO other counter-measures should be taken:
1) Easier to invalidate a patent. A bounty system for prior art (some of the application money go towards the eventual bounty), and simplification of invalidating/denying a patent just by showing the prior art, no lenghty lawsuits.
2) Short period to implement the patent. Like, depending on degree of complexity, up to 5 years. So, first actual "real life" implementations must happen within that time or the patent expiers really fast. If you don't plan to innovate using the new invention, leave it to others. No submarine patents.
3) "commonwealth invalidation". Patents covering technologies/products being defined in standards by official bodies or (i.e. plugins - HTML specs) or being in mainstream use and produced by multitude of world industries (i.e. aspirin) get invalidated. Patent holders may be paid a token fee for the invention, i.e. the cost of inventing it x5 or x10, money coming from special tax on these products.
There's a small problem with that. What about the "Blinding Flash of Obvious Truth"?
Take post-it notes.
The guy was working on a new type of super-glue. Only his invention appeared to be a total failure. The glue was barely capable to hold a piece of paper. But he had enough brains to apply it to a piece of paper and sell that.
Investment in the new type of glue: maybe $50.
Time: one evening.
Profit: "3M is an $18 billion diversified technology company with leading positions in consumer and office"
The new system would protect the invention for 3 weeks, or until it gives $2000 (whichever comes first).
Some patents are too dumb nowadays. But sometimes really simple inventions are worth billions.
Screw /. for destroying the link
Let's wait till tomorrow... seems the stockmarket hasn't caught up yet :)
I wonder how seriously would DMCA apply then :)
I mean, 90% of users of Morrowind used the NoCD crack. Including great most of owners of the official, legal CD. Simply the CD check mechanism was so crappy that it created really serious overhead. The game with the crack, not checking for CD, ran about 30% faster.
Definitely the "solemn purpose to circumvent copy protection" wasn't there.
1) Another choice. Maybe a headache for developers who want to support them ALL, but possibly another choice for customers or those who want to support ONE database - Not sure why this one would be better, but why would it be worse? A different set of features may JUST fit your niche. :)
2) Competition against proprietary. More open source solutions, less proprietary solutions. Another backstab to MSSQL
3) Open source = box of ideas. Port whatever Sun database has cool in its code base to other free databases, make them better.
4) Easier portability to other databases for proprietary software. If something uses SunDB and nothing else, having SunDB source you can easily write glue to make that thing run i.e. on PostgreSQL
5) "Do we need"... and does SUN need another not-quite-competitive piece of proprietary software? What is better, dump it or release as Open Source?
6) Open Source replaces negative competition with cooperation. There probably will be quite a bit current Open Source database developers can learn from Sun developers - and vice versa. And since it's no longer a trade sectret, the exchange is possible. Help? Why not?
7) The Name. Having such a name as SUN behind this thing, customers who would otherwise never trust the "bunch of hippies" who write Free Software may adopt it. And then more of Open Source.
8) Is it worse than others? Who knows what will the benchmarks show...
9) Another move towards OS - another example, another encouragement for others to open up their proprietary products.
10) Don't look the gift horse in the mouth.
Pull-down menus, status in upper right, drive icons on desktop, clean hypertext black on white help text, simple, clean folder view... haven't you seen that somewhere?
I know I did.
On Amiga.
Fingerprints are unique. That's about all. They aren't "granted" to be unique but certainly they are more unique than md5sum :)
The problem is, they can be copied. Current systems can't tell flesh apart from silicon or such. The readers can be easily fooled with copies of somebody's fingerprints. And you can't replace your compromised set of fingerprints with a new one...
So, no. they aren't reliable.
Actually, forging a fingerprint will eventually be easier than forging a credit card.
Pick it using traditional "police" methods.
Scan, edit, removing noise, dust etc.
(not sure if you don't need to make negative. But it's trivial.)
Print on transparency.
Using photopaint like in making PCBs, etch in copper.
Using the copper as stencil, pour a little silicone glue.
When the result is nearly dry, push with your finger to paste it on top of your own.
Go shopping.
Faster, cheaper, easier...
And once you see your credit card is compromised, you cancel it and go get a new one. And what about fingerprints?
News story about the poor bankrupt grocery...
"The store also used to report 0% of such transactions being fraudulent before the story was posted to Slashdot. Then the number of frauds by using "stolen fingerprints" skyrocketed."
So your suggestion is actually to... create yet another distro?
Because I don't see the current ones going away that easily...
"virii" is not - and has never been - a word.
So isn't "warez", "hax0r", "pr0n" or "ownorz" - in English.
That's a common leetspeek, or 13375P33K as they put it.
duh.
On the other hand, there's way too many brands of coffee. I go to a supermarket and I stand in front of a shelf with coffee for 7 hours, unable to decide. In the morning I go to a resturant to have my morning coffee, they hand me a menu, and I see 15 different brands. Before I choose one, they excuse me, they are closing and it's evening. I even planned switching to tea because of that problem, but once I entered a chineese tea shop and nearly died from dehydration.
My friend says "Why don't you just pick one at random, or try a bit of each to decide on your favourite, or read some reviews to pick one that appeals to you best?" but if I did, what kind of moron clueless coffee drinker would they take me for?
I'm really curious what the license limitations are. That is - can I use it for commercial purposes? Can I modify / reverse engineer it? Can I redistribute it?
Links instead of Lynx?
And probably OpenBSD instead of Solaris?
They woudn't send the Police. They would nuke your house from the orbit.
Hehe, this guy is really talented. He disguised the stuff :) :)
Sodium chloride is just to allow the current flow. The real power is Water!
How?
Oxygen does the cutting. Hydrogen gets emitted into the air, mixing with air oxygen, creating high explosive in your room
Enough for "reputation to uphold"?
Actually, O2 isn't emitted. Even before connecting into 2-atom particle, still as O- the extremely reactive ions oxidize the steel, providing a lot to the etching process.
But H2 still goes up and likely boom.