Neither one of those are super-enforceable. Unique names in sound and spelling are worthy of a truly enforceable trademark.
These trademarks are not unique in as much they ram two common words together. I know it's done "all of the time" but that doesn't mean they are perfectly defensible.
Trademarks like this are commonly used to drown your smaller competitors in legal bills by filing infringement claim after infringement claim. Nothing else.
You would be wrong about that. The same jail the media conglomerates would like to keep you in confounds all DVR dev's. That's why an IR Blaster is important. It takes care of all that for you. Yeah, there's some compromises to piping in the video from the back of the cable box, but I just want to watch it at a convenient time so a little down-scaling doesn't bother me one bit.
And if HDMI becomes the standard Most of you have only yourselves to blame for this because the vast majority are gladly buying into HDMI. VGA works good, digital-out works best. And guess what? No drm!!
Why is it, when there are more important issues, this ONE, probably a lesser issue, gets all the "controversy" air-time?
Some reported facts and anecdotes:
As told to velonews, air pollution builds-up because Bejing sits on the edge of the Gobi desert. A good rain is required to clear the air that's trapped in Bejing. http://www.velonews.com/article/81199
As a former competitive cyclist living in Los Angeles, I can tell you from experience, you feel the pollution later, not really during the event.
What *would* affect most outdoor performances more than pollution is the heat/humidity combination.
Finally, the last olympics had major heat issues for road cyclists, so each location has issues. Smog is not a major one for Bejing.
Except the banks refuse to pay for the infrastructure upgrade, cost of the cards and more all before the first card arrives in the mail. Meanwhile, much of the world has moved to EMV.
It's very important to understand how much money Visa makes in fraud situations. The merchant eats the total sales price and another ~$30. They also benefit on the front-end by offering identity theft services. Fraud is a big money-maker for the banks.
Buying from the place that makes better things cheaper To the grandparent "better" IS locally made clothes. Shoe-horning your version of "better" onto his some kind of falacy.
And hand made clothes? Seriously? All of your clothes are made by hand anyway. Just not in the U.S. Grow up.
How this all relates back to complaints about Visa, this really is just the tip of the iceberg of abuse for them. Most of the abuse is on the merchant side. I guess they are running out of ways to screw the merchants.
Based on the article, you made a wrong assumption regarding distributing public keys or any kind of PKI system. If it was cloned so easily, then it's a dumb chip card that carries some data, but that's about it. That's *totally* different than a card capable of real PKI.
Cloning a passport chip is not a problem. It's a sensational article, but it's not a problem for anyone involved in the project.
I would add that there is are important reasons for the media jumping on the slave word.
1. Talk about an attention grabber! Slaves in the U.S.!!! There is such a thing as being prosecuted for indentured servitude and it happens in the U.S. But those stories are not headling fodder for cultural reasons.
2. Americans **love** to bash away at Unions because they are particularly infatuated with viewing themselves as modern-day Spartan-like warriors. American workers are quite happy living without access to health care or a very healthy environment among a long list of things they gladly do without.
3. "Slave" sets up discussions about class in the U.S. and Americans refuse to discuss class or compare their _general_ socio-economic condition.
I'm one of those older guys who worked a Union job long ago so I at least remember the upside/downside.
1. It's important to remember that there are MANY productive, efficient unions. Much of the real-money jobs in the entertainment industry are unionized and that doesn't seem to harm anyone but the producers who, magically seem to make bazillions of dollars anyway. The docks in the U.S. are unionized and that doesn't meaningfully increase your freight costs. Most of your public safety personnel are unionized...
2. I for one think it's possible to tear down the old-fashioned union and focus instead as a negotiating block of super-effective workers. As we get older we are certainly more efficient and as long as we keep the skill set fresh, we are worth the extra pay. The super-worker block negotiates wages with the employer perfectly capable of keeping an open shop and fire/hire at will. The super-effective worker pays the organization for labor representation and ideally the organization offers employment insurance and other services that are better bought as a group.
Buggers up absolutely everything discussed. Let's look closer....
Making the design emotional. There is very little emotion to evoke if, like most projects, you are using canned widgets. This is where paper prototyping makes up for the limits of your widget/gui set.
Understand people's needs outside of your company-approved usability testing guides. If you have such a thing in your organization chances are excellent innovation is pretty much crushed like an ant anyway.
Make the whole system coherent, not just patch new interfaces throughout product holes With what resources? Getting a new GUI into an annual release cycle is.... unlikely, especially if it is design by committee. I'm being charitable phrasing it like that.
When design is great, and product is relevant, market success is a given This is such a poisonous statement, so much so I don't know where to begin. It just has to be **GOOD ENOUGH.** Combine ruthless sales tactics, aggressive litigation against your direct competitors, and a huge advertising/promotion budget with a good-enough product and you'll probably have a winner.
You would be right if the TSA *and their subcontractors* had to comply with DOD specifications.
AFAIK, the TSA is under the DHS, which has no reason to report or comply with DOD specs. This is a link to a pdf of the U.S. Gov org chart. http://bensguide.gpo.gov/files/gov_chart.pdf
Off topic: It seems to me, instead of using the law enforcement infrastructure we have, the current administration ignored all of it, created their own "new" law enforcement and get to ignore most law enforcement precedent by claiming the DHS is "new" and has no precedence history.
What was that info doing on a laptop? That in itself is very suspicious. There's **lots** more of this data around in the wild. This is standard operating procedure in most identity management contracts.
Nobody should have a full list of the "approved people" outside of an database where each access is logged. And still they do. Why? Mostly because there's no reason why not. There are no consequences for doing it this way. In fact, that's a pretty cheap way of running the whole process at an airport.
Please tell me that there is going to either be prison time No way. What's the crime? You clearly fail to comprehend that failure falls on the individual's shoulders. It's that way by design and it works great for everyone except the individual.
huge *personal* fine What's the crime? Clearly you have *no idea* what role corporations play in sheilding liabilities.
firing the person who left it there No one is getting fired. No one is getting a bad review. There are no consequences. Some dust will fly, but that's dying down by the end of the week.
"Yes, this is cost effective and proper. Storing the data on a laptop that requires a username and password to get to the desktop is cost effective an proper. There. Does that make you feel better?
We need to have people at board level think twice about storing our data so shockingly badly. Who's going to be in charge of that? You certainly won't do anything about it beyond your post. So the system works great.
When are you and the idiots modding you insightful wake up?
Having worked the contractor side of Identity projects, I promise you the story as provided in the summary is the working norm.
Unsecured computers in the field with live identity information? Check.
Multiple copies of identity information floating around? Check.
Many **totally** unaware employees in the field with private data? Check.
Many **totally** unaware employees at the contractor's office passing private data? Check.
It boggles my mind anyone would believe it's better than that. The contractor suffers no consequences and the burden falls on the individual.
Which, is why the rules, regs, and standards for handling private information is ***perfectly*** designed in the U.S. Not that any of you would get off your collective asses and do anything to change it.
First of all, most of you *worrying* this issue have gone back to work and will do nothing else about it. Nothing.
Second, based on the responses to the summary, I only see a few people who actually have some experience crossing borders. The rest of you need to unplug the cable TV, turn off the PC and do something else. Like travel, or get involved in a political issue like this one....
Third, the wisest travellers among us use the laptop like a thin client. Mail? Web-based or something else, definitely not POP. Media? MPD is nice. Any national interest can have my laptop because they'll find nothing. Now before you jump to the conclusion that I'm relying on "I've got nothing to hide" I'm not.
As other posts have mentioned, the RIAA members control distribution to broadcast media and sales channels. As such, their last interest is concert sales.
Moreover, here are some tools that might land you in jail. Go for it!!! The fundamental problem being it's not their skin on the line. It reminds me of the long-ago rush to build feature-complete hospitals in developing nations that would stand empty because they couldn't afford the film for the x-ray machine, couldn't afford/find/train skilled workers, etc.
Like building feature-complete hospitals in developing nations, this project is a **total** waste of resources. Sure, they can feel good "sticking it to the man" that can't reach them, but when the feel-good moments are over, the net contribution is zero.
Grow a pair and do something for others that puts your skin on the line.
1. One has to give some credit to Miguel for thinking big and at least attempting to do it. The way he's doing it is perilous and I can see why some in the OSS crowd fault the guy. The odds are working against him. Strongly so.
2. He's convinced Novell this is something to spend/make money with. He's got a 40-person head count and it is totally unclear to me how Novell ***makes money**** on this to support such a large dev team. If they turned themselves into a 40-person contract dev group, I don't see customers clamoring for a dual-platform solution.
Even if his projects are widely adopted, there's no way I can see that Novell can make money at it. Which still makes Novell operating in run-off mode until the last netware(?) customer quits.
I want murderers to spend the rest of their lives horribly and end horribly
You conveniently ignore the fact that the law-enforcement system wrongly incarcerates many people, murderers included. We'll ignore your distopian ideal until they fix that glaring issue.
Given the overall tone of your post, may I suggest making some changes in your life to introduce a bit more positive attitude?
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A very good summary of Trademark abuse.
Neither one of those are super-enforceable. Unique names in sound and spelling are worthy of a truly enforceable trademark.
These trademarks are not unique in as much they ram two common words together. I know it's done "all of the time" but that doesn't mean they are perfectly defensible.
Trademarks like this are commonly used to drown your smaller competitors in legal bills by filing infringement claim after infringement claim. Nothing else.
MythTV is growing increasingly irrelevant
You would be wrong about that. The same jail the media conglomerates would like to keep you in confounds all DVR dev's. That's why an IR Blaster is important. It takes care of all that for you. Yeah, there's some compromises to piping in the video from the back of the cable box, but I just want to watch it at a convenient time so a little down-scaling doesn't bother me one bit.
And if HDMI becomes the standard
Most of you have only yourselves to blame for this because the vast majority are gladly buying into HDMI. VGA works good, digital-out works best. And guess what? No drm!!
Why is it, when there are more important issues, this ONE, probably a lesser issue, gets all the "controversy" air-time?
Some reported facts and anecdotes:
As told to velonews, air pollution builds-up because Bejing sits on the edge of the Gobi desert. A good rain is required to clear the air that's trapped in Bejing. http://www.velonews.com/article/81199
As a former competitive cyclist living in Los Angeles, I can tell you from experience, you feel the pollution later, not really during the event.
What *would* affect most outdoor performances more than pollution is the heat/humidity combination.
Finally, the last olympics had major heat issues for road cyclists, so each location has issues. Smog is not a major one for Bejing.
Except the banks refuse to pay for the infrastructure upgrade, cost of the cards and more all before the first card arrives in the mail. Meanwhile, much of the world has moved to EMV.
It's very important to understand how much money Visa makes in fraud situations. The merchant eats the total sales price and another ~$30. They also benefit on the front-end by offering identity theft services. Fraud is a big money-maker for the banks.
The dark side is that the card networks are pushing this so that they can move fraud liability from the merchants to the consumers.
I'm guessing that they want to collect more from consumers and slow down the increase in penalty rates the merchants with fraudulent transactions.
Buying from the place that makes better things cheaper
To the grandparent "better" IS locally made clothes. Shoe-horning your version of "better" onto his some kind of falacy.
And hand made clothes? Seriously?
All of your clothes are made by hand anyway. Just not in the U.S. Grow up.
How this all relates back to complaints about Visa, this really is just the tip of the iceberg of abuse for them. Most of the abuse is on the merchant side. I guess they are running out of ways to screw the merchants.
Based on the article, you made a wrong assumption regarding distributing public keys or any kind of PKI system. If it was cloned so easily, then it's a dumb chip card that carries some data, but that's about it. That's *totally* different than a card capable of real PKI.
Cloning a passport chip is not a problem. It's a sensational article, but it's not a problem for anyone involved in the project.
Well said.
I would add that there is are important reasons for the media jumping on the slave word.
1. Talk about an attention grabber! Slaves in the U.S.!!! There is such a thing as being prosecuted for indentured servitude and it happens in the U.S. But those stories are not headling fodder for cultural reasons.
2. Americans **love** to bash away at Unions because they are particularly infatuated with viewing themselves as modern-day Spartan-like warriors. American workers are quite happy living without access to health care or a very healthy environment among a long list of things they gladly do without.
3. "Slave" sets up discussions about class in the U.S. and Americans refuse to discuss class or compare their _general_ socio-economic condition.
And when you open that bed and breakfast, your guests tell you what to do... Fewer holidays, longer hours, but worth it for many.
I'm one of those older guys who worked a Union job long ago so I at least remember the upside/downside.
1. It's important to remember that there are MANY productive, efficient unions. Much of the real-money jobs in the entertainment industry are unionized and that doesn't seem to harm anyone but the producers who, magically seem to make bazillions of dollars anyway. The docks in the U.S. are unionized and that doesn't meaningfully increase your freight costs. Most of your public safety personnel are unionized...
2. I for one think it's possible to tear down the old-fashioned union and focus instead as a negotiating block of super-effective workers. As we get older we are certainly more efficient and as long as we keep the skill set fresh, we are worth the extra pay. The super-worker block negotiates wages with the employer perfectly capable of keeping an open shop and fire/hire at will. The super-effective worker pays the organization for labor representation and ideally the organization offers employment insurance and other services that are better bought as a group.
It's far from perfect, but I think it's a start.
Buggers up absolutely everything discussed. Let's look closer....
Making the design emotional.
There is very little emotion to evoke if, like most projects, you are using canned widgets. This is where paper prototyping makes up for the limits of your widget/gui set.
Understand people's needs outside of your company-approved usability testing guides.
If you have such a thing in your organization chances are excellent innovation is pretty much crushed like an ant anyway.
Make the whole system coherent, not just patch new interfaces throughout product holes
With what resources? Getting a new GUI into an annual release cycle is.... unlikely, especially if it is design by committee. I'm being charitable phrasing it like that.
When design is great, and product is relevant, market success is a given
This is such a poisonous statement, so much so I don't know where to begin. It just has to be **GOOD ENOUGH.** Combine ruthless sales tactics, aggressive litigation against your direct competitors, and a huge advertising/promotion budget with a good-enough product and you'll probably have a winner.
You would be right if the TSA *and their subcontractors* had to comply with DOD specifications.
AFAIK, the TSA is under the DHS, which has no reason to report or comply with DOD specs. This is a link to a pdf of the U.S. Gov org chart. http://bensguide.gpo.gov/files/gov_chart.pdf
Off topic:
It seems to me, instead of using the law enforcement infrastructure we have, the current administration ignored all of it, created their own "new" law enforcement and get to ignore most law enforcement precedent by claiming the DHS is "new" and has no precedence history.
What was that info doing on a laptop? That in itself is very suspicious.
There's **lots** more of this data around in the wild. This is standard operating procedure in most identity management contracts.
Nobody should have a full list of the "approved people" outside of an database where each access is logged.
And still they do. Why? Mostly because there's no reason why not. There are no consequences for doing it this way. In fact, that's a pretty cheap way of running the whole process at an airport.
Please tell me that there is going to either be prison time
No way. What's the crime? You clearly fail to comprehend that failure falls on the individual's shoulders. It's that way by design and it works great for everyone except the individual.
huge *personal* fine
What's the crime? Clearly you have *no idea* what role corporations play in sheilding liabilities.
firing the person who left it there
No one is getting fired. No one is getting a bad review. There are no consequences. Some dust will fly, but that's dying down by the end of the week.
"Yes, this is cost effective and proper.
Storing the data on a laptop that requires a username and password to get to the desktop is cost effective an proper. There. Does that make you feel better?
We need to have people at board level think twice about storing our data so shockingly badly.
Who's going to be in charge of that? You certainly won't do anything about it beyond your post. So the system works great.
When are you and the idiots modding you insightful wake up?
Having worked the contractor side of Identity projects, I promise you the story as provided in the summary is the working norm.
Unsecured computers in the field with live identity information? Check.
Multiple copies of identity information floating around? Check.
Many **totally** unaware employees in the field with private data? Check.
Many **totally** unaware employees at the contractor's office passing private data? Check.
It boggles my mind anyone would believe it's better than that. The contractor suffers no consequences and the burden falls on the individual.
Which, is why the rules, regs, and standards for handling private information is ***perfectly*** designed in the U.S. Not that any of you would get off your collective asses and do anything to change it.
Concise, well written.
First of all, most of you *worrying* this issue have gone back to work and will do nothing else about it. Nothing.
Second, based on the responses to the summary, I only see a few people who actually have some experience crossing borders. The rest of you need to unplug the cable TV, turn off the PC and do something else. Like travel, or get involved in a political issue like this one....
Third, the wisest travellers among us use the laptop like a thin client. Mail? Web-based or something else, definitely not POP. Media? MPD is nice. Any national interest can have my laptop because they'll find nothing. Now before you jump to the conclusion that I'm relying on "I've got nothing to hide" I'm not.
This is practical advice. Take it.
FTFA: "As Fusion is shaping up right, we should expect the chip be become the first half-node CPU (between 45 and 32 nm)"
As other posts have mentioned, the RIAA members control distribution to broadcast media and sales channels. As such, their last interest is concert sales.
Well said.
I posted a similar thought earlier only it used more words. Yours is better.
I for one would be very interested in that list.
Well said.
Moreover, here are some tools that might land you in jail. Go for it!!! The fundamental problem being it's not their skin on the line. It reminds me of the long-ago rush to build feature-complete hospitals in developing nations that would stand empty because they couldn't afford the film for the x-ray machine, couldn't afford/find/train skilled workers, etc.
Like building feature-complete hospitals in developing nations, this project is a **total** waste of resources. Sure, they can feel good "sticking it to the man" that can't reach them, but when the feel-good moments are over, the net contribution is zero.
Grow a pair and do something for others that puts your skin on the line.
1. One has to give some credit to Miguel for thinking big and at least attempting to do it. The way he's doing it is perilous and I can see why some in the OSS crowd fault the guy. The odds are working against him. Strongly so.
2. He's convinced Novell this is something to spend/make money with. He's got a 40-person head count and it is totally unclear to me how Novell ***makes money**** on this to support such a large dev team. If they turned themselves into a 40-person contract dev group, I don't see customers clamoring for a dual-platform solution.
Even if his projects are widely adopted, there's no way I can see that Novell can make money at it. Which still makes Novell operating in run-off mode until the last netware(?) customer quits.
I want murderers to spend the rest of their lives horribly and end horribly
You conveniently ignore the fact that the law-enforcement system wrongly incarcerates many people, murderers included. We'll ignore your distopian ideal until they fix that glaring issue.
Given the overall tone of your post, may I suggest making some changes in your life to introduce a bit more positive attitude?