Fortunately, 2,000 lb, 55,000 gauss crossbows are not in vogue. But, I would not be surprised if an ad ran as:
"Blowdarts are making a fashionable return. If you're afraid of missing your mark, get the deluxe 1-blow-tube-5-barrel model. A little collateral damage is nothing if you get your mark. Yours for the low low introductory price of $99.99! It's not just PRICE, it's PERCENTAGE, BABY!"
But, serously... or, umm, seriously...
I recently read somewhere that knifing/slashing assaults were on a dramatic increase in England/Britain/UK. I forgot the causes (maybe the oppressive heat, economic issues, and gang ingenuity?)
The growing knife crime and knife culture in the UK - summary report.... A 19 year old man was stabbed to death on a train in Cumbria's Lake District,...
"Black information Link: He said: There has been an increase [in knife carrying]. "Its getting out of control, people will just stab anyone. I think its about defending yourself..."
"The human brain is like an enormous fish -- it is flat and slimy and has gills through which it can see." -- Monty Python ----- But, in the autopsy theatre, when removing the brain from a skull, it is thick and contiguous and resembles cold oatmeal when being skimmed out of the cooking pot... (read that somewhere in a guidebook for authors writing realist medical scenes/autopsies...)
We'll know THAT when a reanimated enbalmed/entombed brainiac in the box is able to hurl chairs via telekinesis. Now THAT'S thinking inside and outside the box...
Braniac (I'm gonna fuckin' KILL the board of directors for putting my brain around these ex-plants....)
To borrow from a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition.... There are times when dignity and a paper sack ARE worth more than the paper sack.
(It's just really too bad the industry at LARGE didn't support/contract/sponsor (at a higher level if any support did exist) or buy winternals and sysinternals as independent auditor and agent to hold fire to ms' toes. Too bad the EU didn't see this coming... maybe they could have collectively bought up the two to prevent any future ms shenanigans...)
Why isn't there a SUPERPLUSGOOD for clean, crisp comments this one vadim_t posted. That pair of examples could summarize the best of all the best comments on this thread.
But, yeh, if it IS provable that the guy indeed notified ms, then, with their EIGHT BILLION or more per year in R&D or whatEVER the hell it is they throw around that money on, they OUGHT to be forced to keep pace. If Open Source can do it with pennies and sweat, then ms should NOT be allowed to let its customers be shafted.
Letting ms take its sweet time to issue fixes and patches is like watching a stream of front-end shovel-equipped highway cleaner trucks whiz by a set of 18-wheeler wheels and tires on the road with the lugs FACING UP. (I happened to run one over and because my U-Haul was overweight, the lugs hit the truck's transmission oil drain pan. Fortunately for me said the U-Haul guys, as had I NOT hit that wheel in the Sacto area and IF I tried to wend my way up the mountains going into Oregon, I'd have lost power on the incline and the gas-powered truck would likely have sputtered and rolled backwards with my car in tow, spilling all my goods, clogging up the lanes and would likely have gotten me billed for a whole truck lost as well as the clean up for snarling traffic for dozens if not over 100 miles. SO, in MY analogy, losing $1400 for repair and getting a DIESEL truck in exchange saved my ass BIG time. YOUR MILEAGE may vary with my analogy...)
You can bet your almost-frozen ass the neither the military NOR the government (of the USA) want to see Iraq-bound-and-wounded soldiers being preserved after being rended into pieces because they were building city-sized oil-draining fortresses in the middle of Iraq.
It won't be like UniSols (from Universal Soldier), but it could be worse. Such soldiers might not be on the recipient list to replace their missing organs or limbs. Even if suspended and reanimated/revived, they still might suffer tissue rejection unless the donate their own stems and other cells PRIOR to shipping out and IF science and government have the skill and the will to store their donor's own spares back home for reattachment/reintegration.
Another moral/ethical/morale issue is this: if soldiers fighthing for CORRUPT (death-deserving) officials can be put into suspended animation for repair and return home, what's to stop the return leg from becoming a return-to-the-front route. After all, not ALL soldiers wounded or maimed will survive or be repairable, so replacements might, as usual, come from the walking-wounded pool until they, too, are too shattered and too over-re-built to fight anymore. Then, they won't be allowed to RETURN home because they'll be a political and security nightmare for such governments to deal with.
Maybe the years-ago Jet Li movie and those two Trek episodes in which drugged purpose-built soldiers topple their uncouth governments are not so far ahead in the future afterall....
Well, the meat still cannot locomote. It's worse off than plants still rooted to the ground.
But, imagine giving criminals (and wrongfully accused/evidence-stacked-against-them) "suspended sentences". You can "suspend them in animation" as well as suspend the verdicts leading to their sentences. Their sentence (punishment rightly or wrongly) AND the sentences (words) could be suspended from a string, or placed on a cryo-ice shelf in their flask.
Probably the GOOD thing is that the belatedly wrongfully-sentenced could be exonerated with maybe a little frostbite and some time lost.
But, would such a sentence count for "time served with good behavior"? I suspect that those in suspended in animation or those in suspended animation cannot "exhibit good behavior" while in a frozen state. They cannot "behave" in any manner when they are immobilized in a flask.
Imagine, tho, no conjugal visits, not even for a "quick-pick-me-up" or a "quick-warm-me-up". Sex after a 150-year hiatus might be a heart-stopper, or even a heart-breaker.
And, imagine if the suspended are placed in chambers in which loudspeakers proclaim, in reeducation manner, "you will be good, you will be good, you will be good..." I guess the only way to find out is to freeze some objective scientists for about 2 years and wake them up and debrief them. Ask them if they remember hearing anything, feeling their toes or ass tickled, their skin pinched, their being put in a multi-axial spin/gymball for 2 weeks, being subjected to swift temperature changes/gradients... and if the flask is in a giant rubber ball with self-sustaining apparati, whether or not they remember being used as pool balls on a huge parking lot...
Hate to burst your Big Bob's bubble (overstretch your reality...), but what about all the zinging missile hazards already impacting the REST of the surrounding interior? I guess your idea works out if it is intended that the PEOPLE become the ultimate (and final) sealant/quick seal to preserve the station until the relief (but distressed) replacement crew arrives.
If BSG (II) has anything to say, these replacements might be their past selves reliving their prior roles. That would REALLY suck: being sucked and blown for eternity through a hole too small to survive... just a "passing" thought...
(I guess they could have launched a bunch of Stretch Armstrongs or Real Dolls up there and zinged the inflatable to check the quick-seal effect of Stretch and Reallette. ) If they BOTH werk, then the REAL DEALS will be STRETCHED to the limits...
Maybe it'll have self-sealing features, like run-flat tires. I imagine the PEOPLE inside wont' like being werked-flattened, tho.
In the mean time, maybe NASA, DARPA, and the US Army should figure a way to compact the powersupply for the planned 2008 airport deflector shields and protect the future shuttle missions (assuming NASA has the budget and permission to keep flying shuttle missions...)
You're missing the point. Suppose that the State (state AND federal) government/s decide they are in league with MA. Now, suppose the act of locking the phone is "impeding with Justice/execution of state security laws". Now, the student can be suspended, or worse.
Now, when will this happen to police officers, paramedics, state and federal contractors?
Were I a parent or guardian, not only would my charge/ward/child keep their phone locked, they'd have it holstered in a combination-access belt that would be so difficult to remove that the school would give up or be charged with assault. Or, the clothing would be the phone- in which case removing it or attempting to access a data port would lead to nearly disrobing or excessively touching the kid. And, no, I'd NOT allow the school to order my kid to swap garments.
Even worse of an implication is that if schools can rifle through student's phones and they DO find something interesting, what next? Do they have the right to archive that information? Call contacts in the lists? Turn it over to the police? Then what? Do the police have powers to start their own virtual "Friendster/Copster" of students? If Blast-a-chussets starts this slippery slope, then every state could do it or be ordered to. This could be a backdoor attempt by this wicked administration to angle in on youth and catalog them from cradle to grave.
Maybe Colon won't be the ONLY only to end up swollen. If he can use common dictionary attacks and gain access to the data the director-level is privileged to, then I wonder if the director and the other (figurative) "assholes" will be swollen, too after the auditors' auditory beating/trouncing.
True Patent reform would start with forcing them to COMPLETELY open the database. IBM and Oracle need to drop the hatchets, fund raiding of the USPTO database, and making searches MUCH, MUCH easier than ever before. The classification and group system needs to be tweaked, and a better search (Google, anyone?) needs to be grafted onto the existing data until the magic solution is arrived at. That database ought to belong to the PEOPLE for inspection and bypassing purposes. As it is, it is a pseudo-cloaked minefield, where those with resources to mine it effectively can avoid being blown up (litigated to death) in the first two years, can litigate the hell out of the weaker legit inventors, or can obstruct or deter would-be patent seekers..
Searching the USPTO database as an individual without time and money, and without a government-approved template to rapidly and CHEAPLY file a patent iare the two biggest hurdles to small people (such as myself) from even wanting to participate in the patent process. It is kind of unctuous, contemptible, and continues to serve a thriving cottage ^^^ increasingly-pro-litigious industry that bristles at the idea of small people doing their own patents ien masse. Of ALL countries, the USA is too goddamn litigious -- BECAUSE of greed and because of the existing backlog, besides priorities of patent trolls.
Ultimately, patents need to be rethough. the world is increasingly becoming CROWDED, and at some point, patents WILL just be IN THE WAY of progress. Patent trolls need to be hung out to dry.
The current world of development will give way to lack of tolerance. As more developers and hobbyists push tools to their limits and come up with TRULY innovative and stunning applications (desktop OR web-based, or even a combo of the two), the courts will entertain and bring on nothing short of a revolution, insurrection, or outright contract jobs against those who'd interfere with the little man trying to make a living.
At some point, permitting rampant patent filing by too many large companies or a few predatory startups (you know the type we're thinking about) will be akin to allowing the patent holders of the hammer to seek royalties from users of the hammer, even though it's beyond the scope of the hammer maker.
I'm developing things, and I DARE SAY that NO court will enjoy, preclude, disrupt, or make illegal my use of old technology to revamp the image of even older or even newer tools that DON'T Serve my needs. I'm using closed-source applications to prototype something I've been developing over 4 years and which I will eventually release to Open Source. If ti takes off, a LOT of "turf owners" will be pissed. Too bad.
I'm NOT going to THROW IT AWAY just to placate some greedy f*ck of a corp or individual. I need to make a living, and do it in a non-theft way. If I parallel the incumbents, too bad. We've got up to 500 types of combs, knives, forks, tooth brushes, automobile tires, screw divers, TV sets, DVD and VCD players, word processors, databases, digital art applications, music players EACH.
Newer, independently-thinking types in college now or to be born will NOT tolerate some corp-friendly court or country to simply say, "Ahh, well, our job is not to interpret the law but to enforce it. Your only choices are to shelve your idea/s, or sell it to them, or pay them royalties, even though you invented or modified it years before they filed and even though they got tipped off to your activities and our-resourced you before you could even file. That's the way it works..."
Imagine tooth-driving (like war driving) in which the assailants deliver ultrasonics to their victims. In a few weeks old Charlie will have fangs, or Tennessee Tuxedo choppers. "What's sa matter Charlie? Choppers comin' loose" will be a revived funny denture commercial..
I wonder if the technology can be used to regrow the vestige human tail bone. Office ergonomics will revive a whole new bone of contention...
Call it "Ultra-teethe". Now, unsuspecting people (who cannot afford to have ultrasonic clandestine assault detectors (CADS)) can be made to tease out Klingon-like teeth. Even the cheek bones can be modified ultrasonically, giving rise to a whole new designer makeup market. Turn your enemies into lookalikes from the 1970's The Island or the 1970's Cornelius from Planet of the Apes. The ultra-deluxe package permits government to "brand" prison inmates, but those who move too much will be subject to indeterminate, random regrowth, such as one leg or a rib being longer than normal. Even the skull can be adapted. This could be a "true shape of things to come".
Slashdot Mirror
Fortunately, 2,000 lb, 55,000 gauss crossbows are not in vogue. But, I would not be surprised if an ad ran as:
... A 19 year old man was stabbed to death on a train in Cumbria's Lake District, ...
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..."
"Blowdarts are making a fashionable return. If you're afraid of missing your mark, get the deluxe 1-blow-tube-5-barrel model. A little collateral damage is nothing if you get your mark. Yours for the low low introductory price of $99.99! It's not just PRICE, it's PERCENTAGE, BABY!"
But, serously... or, umm, seriously...
I recently read somewhere that knifing/slashing assaults were on a dramatic increase in England/Britain/UK. I forgot the causes (maybe the oppressive heat, economic issues, and gang ingenuity?)
But, see these relevant URLs:
BBC NEWS | UK | Man arrested over street stabbing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5032686.stm
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Knife Crime Facts / Knife Culture in the UK
The growing knife crime and knife culture in the UK - summary report.
www.insight-security.com/facts-knife-crime-stats.
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"Black information Link:
He said: There has been an increase [in knife carrying]. "Its getting out of control, people will just stab anyone. I think its about defending yourself
www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=4561&grp=12
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Resource Information & Links, Firearms
http://www.foxven.com/firearms.html
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Slash word image: anodes...
I suppose if you want the Public Image Limited edition.....
Hopefully, the RFID is not cracked or hacked to become a controlling access point.
Imagine the rib-cage expander turning into a rib-cracker, or a circular saw becoming a hacker.
Hmmm, slash image word/word image: concept....
"The human brain is like an enormous fish -- it is flat and slimy and has gills through which it can see." -- Monty Python
-----
But, in the autopsy theatre, when removing the brain from a skull, it is thick and contiguous and resembles cold oatmeal when being skimmed out of the cooking pot... (read that somewhere in a guidebook for authors writing realist medical scenes/autopsies...)
We'll know THAT when a reanimated enbalmed/entombed brainiac in the box is able to hurl chairs via telekinesis. Now THAT'S thinking inside and outside the box...
Braniac (I'm gonna fuckin' KILL the board of directors for putting my brain around these ex-plants....)
Would holes in the box lead to a real "brain drain"?
Could these brains be taught followance?
We could learn how to spend that time learning how to dream of electric sheep that dream of electric humans that dream to learn....
Otherwise, losing out to the main brain would be all in vain.
(OK, that was Baaaaaahhhhdddd)
Shit, for a moment I thought this was about harvesting the brains of organ donors.
BTW, what would be better: Series or Parallel links for the gray matter?
How would the "juices be kept flowing" in such an arrangement?
How would FLOPS of gray matter be calculated in a meaningful (err, umm, (thoughtful") way?
What happens if a dyslexic or autistic brain is linked in that collective?
What happens if a murderous or anorexic or bulimic brain or two are in the mix?
Copper top or zinc?
Plasma links or liquid crystalline entity links?
(hehehe, slash image word: "contents")
of patent applications filings...
I suspect ms is looking to treasure hunt a handful of patents... what's their filing count now?
1,800? 2,250? 3,157 a year the past few years?
To borrow from a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition.... There are times when dignity and a paper sack ARE worth more than the paper sack.
(It's just really too bad the industry at LARGE didn't support/contract/sponsor (at a higher level if any support did exist) or buy winternals and sysinternals as independent auditor and agent to hold fire to ms' toes. Too bad the EU didn't see this coming... maybe they could have collectively bought up the two to prevent any future ms shenanigans...)
Q. Why is Microsoft acquiring Winternals and Sysinternals?
To assimilate.
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Or,
"To INNOvate"...
Assimilation over Innovation... THAT is the ORDER of things.... At least the Jem'Hadar might put it that way...
Next up, ms drones on the hunt for Ketracel Ahite
Wait... acquisitions ARE the Ketracel White...
(heheh... slash image word is: "pinhead")
Why isn't there a SUPERPLUSGOOD for clean, crisp comments this one vadim_t posted. That pair of examples could summarize the best of all the best comments on this thread.
But, yeh, if it IS provable that the guy indeed notified ms, then, with their EIGHT BILLION or more per year in R&D or whatEVER the hell it is they throw around that money on, they OUGHT to be forced to keep pace. If Open Source can do it with pennies and sweat, then ms should NOT be allowed to let its customers be shafted.
Letting ms take its sweet time to issue fixes and patches is like watching a stream of front-end shovel-equipped highway cleaner trucks whiz by a set of 18-wheeler wheels and tires on the road with the lugs FACING UP. (I happened to run one over and because my U-Haul was overweight, the lugs hit the truck's transmission oil drain pan. Fortunately for me said the U-Haul guys, as had I NOT hit that wheel in the Sacto area and IF I tried to wend my way up the mountains going into Oregon, I'd have lost power on the incline and the gas-powered truck would likely have sputtered and rolled backwards with my car in tow, spilling all my goods, clogging up the lanes and would likely have gotten me billed for a whole truck lost as well as the clean up for snarling traffic for dozens if not over 100 miles. SO, in MY analogy, losing $1400 for repair and getting a DIESEL truck in exchange saved my ass BIG time. YOUR MILEAGE may vary with my analogy...)
You can bet your almost-frozen ass the neither the military NOR the government (of the USA) want to see Iraq-bound-and-wounded soldiers being preserved after being rended into pieces because they were building city-sized oil-draining fortresses in the middle of Iraq.
It won't be like UniSols (from Universal Soldier), but it could be worse. Such soldiers might not be on the recipient list to replace their missing organs or limbs. Even if suspended and reanimated/revived, they still might suffer tissue rejection unless the donate their own stems and other cells PRIOR to shipping out and IF science and government have the skill and the will to store their donor's own spares back home for reattachment/reintegration.
Another moral/ethical/morale issue is this: if soldiers fighthing for CORRUPT (death-deserving) officials can be put into suspended animation for repair and return home, what's to stop the return leg from becoming a return-to-the-front route. After all, not ALL soldiers wounded or maimed will survive or be repairable, so replacements might, as usual, come from the walking-wounded pool until they, too, are too shattered and too over-re-built to fight anymore. Then, they won't be allowed to RETURN home because they'll be a political and security nightmare for such governments to deal with.
Maybe the years-ago Jet Li movie and those two Trek episodes in which drugged purpose-built soldiers topple their uncouth governments are not so far ahead in the future afterall....
Well, the meat still cannot locomote. It's worse off than plants still rooted to the ground.
But, imagine giving criminals (and wrongfully accused/evidence-stacked-against-them) "suspended sentences". You can "suspend them in animation" as well as suspend the verdicts leading to their sentences. Their sentence (punishment rightly or wrongly) AND the sentences (words) could be suspended from a string, or placed on a cryo-ice shelf in their flask.
Probably the GOOD thing is that the belatedly wrongfully-sentenced could be exonerated with maybe a little frostbite and some time lost.
But, would such a sentence count for "time served with good behavior"? I suspect that those in suspended in animation or those in suspended animation cannot "exhibit good behavior" while in a frozen state. They cannot "behave" in any manner when they are immobilized in a flask.
Imagine, tho, no conjugal visits, not even for a "quick-pick-me-up" or a "quick-warm-me-up". Sex after a 150-year hiatus might be a heart-stopper, or even a heart-breaker.
And, imagine if the suspended are placed in chambers in which loudspeakers proclaim, in reeducation manner, "you will be good, you will be good, you will be good..." I guess the only way to find out is to freeze some objective scientists for about 2 years and wake them up and debrief them. Ask them if they remember hearing anything, feeling their toes or ass tickled, their skin pinched, their being put in a multi-axial spin/gymball for 2 weeks, being subjected to swift temperature changes/gradients... and if the flask is in a giant rubber ball with self-sustaining apparati, whether or not they remember being used as pool balls on a huge parking lot...
7 more shoes to go? (as in huge octopus?)
If each BSOD has its own spectacular-crash-personality (SCP), then would that make windoze a TRUE Hydra Head Monster (HHM)?
Hate to burst your Big Bob's bubble (overstretch your reality...), but what about all the zinging missile hazards already impacting the REST of the surrounding interior? I guess your idea works out if it is intended that the PEOPLE become the ultimate (and final) sealant/quick seal to preserve the station until the relief (but distressed) replacement crew arrives.
If BSG (II) has anything to say, these replacements might be their past selves reliving their prior roles. That would REALLY suck: being sucked and blown for eternity through a hole too small to survive... just a "passing" thought...
(I guess they could have launched a bunch of Stretch Armstrongs or Real Dolls up there and zinged the inflatable to check the quick-seal effect of Stretch and Reallette. ) If they BOTH werk, then the REAL DEALS will be STRETCHED to the limits...
Maybe it'll have self-sealing features, like run-flat tires. I imagine the PEOPLE inside wont' like being werked-flattened, tho.
2 59.shtml
In the mean time, maybe NASA, DARPA, and the US Army should figure a way to compact the powersupply for the planned 2008 airport deflector shields and protect the future shuttle missions (assuming NASA has the budget and permission to keep flying shuttle missions...)
Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/07/13/0038
But, I wonder if the run-flat/orbit-flat station could be misshapened to look like Dr. Evil's Mr Bobs Restaurant station....
You're missing the point. Suppose that the State (state AND federal) government/s decide they are in league with MA. Now, suppose the act of locking the phone is "impeding with Justice/execution of state security laws". Now, the student can be suspended, or worse.
Now, when will this happen to police officers, paramedics, state and federal contractors?
Were I a parent or guardian, not only would my charge/ward/child keep their phone locked, they'd have it holstered in a combination-access belt that would be so difficult to remove that the school would give up or be charged with assault. Or, the clothing would be the phone- in which case removing it or attempting to access a data port would lead to nearly disrobing or excessively touching the kid. And, no, I'd NOT allow the school to order my kid to swap garments.
Even worse of an implication is that if schools can rifle through student's phones and they DO find something interesting, what next? Do they have the right to archive that information? Call contacts in the lists? Turn it over to the police? Then what? Do the police have powers to start their own virtual "Friendster/Copster" of students? If Blast-a-chussets starts this slippery slope, then every state could do it or be ordered to. This could be a backdoor attempt by this wicked administration to angle in on youth and catalog them from cradle to grave.
Colon?
Maybe Colon won't be the ONLY only to end up swollen. If he can use common dictionary attacks and gain access to the data the director-level is privileged to, then I wonder if the director and the other (figurative) "assholes" will be swollen, too after the auditors' auditory beating/trouncing.
(slash image word: sermon)
and MEAN Prairie Home Companion...
Slash word image: fondling... (really, I took a ksnapshot of it, too...)
INtroducing PACMINE, the Pacman-like windows-controlled landmines. These mines gobble up the enemy mines and then pursue the friendlies...
The enema of mine enemy is mine mine.
The enemy of mine enemy is mine enema.
True Patent reform would start with forcing them to COMPLETELY open the database. IBM and Oracle need to drop the hatchets, fund raiding of the USPTO database, and making searches MUCH, MUCH easier than ever before. The classification and group system needs to be tweaked, and a better search (Google, anyone?) needs to be grafted onto the existing data until the magic solution is arrived at. That database ought to belong to the PEOPLE for inspection and bypassing purposes. As it is, it is a pseudo-cloaked minefield, where those with resources to mine it effectively can avoid being blown up (litigated to death) in the first two years, can litigate the hell out of the weaker legit inventors, or can obstruct or deter would-be patent seekers..
Searching the USPTO database as an individual without time and money, and without a government-approved template to rapidly and CHEAPLY file a patent iare the two biggest hurdles to small people (such as myself) from even wanting to participate in the patent process. It is kind of unctuous, contemptible, and continues to serve a thriving cottage ^^^ increasingly-pro-litigious industry that bristles at the idea of small people doing their own patents ien masse. Of ALL countries, the USA is too goddamn litigious -- BECAUSE of greed and because of the existing backlog, besides priorities of patent trolls.
Ultimately, patents need to be rethough. the world is increasingly becoming CROWDED, and at some point, patents WILL just be IN THE WAY of progress. Patent trolls need to be hung out to dry.
The current world of development will give way to lack of tolerance. As more developers and hobbyists push tools to their limits and come up with TRULY innovative and stunning applications (desktop OR web-based, or even a combo of the two), the courts will entertain and bring on nothing short of a revolution, insurrection, or outright contract jobs against those who'd interfere with the little man trying to make a living.
At some point, permitting rampant patent filing by too many large companies or a few predatory startups (you know the type we're thinking about) will be akin to allowing the patent holders of the hammer to seek royalties from users of the hammer, even though it's beyond the scope of the hammer maker.
I'm developing things, and I DARE SAY that NO court will enjoy, preclude, disrupt, or make illegal my use of old technology to revamp the image of even older or even newer tools that DON'T Serve my needs. I'm using closed-source applications to prototype something I've been developing over 4 years and which I will eventually release to Open Source. If ti takes off, a LOT of "turf owners" will be pissed. Too bad.
I'm NOT going to THROW IT AWAY just to placate some greedy f*ck of a corp or individual. I need to make a living, and do it in a non-theft way. If I parallel the incumbents, too bad. We've got up to 500 types of combs, knives, forks, tooth brushes, automobile tires, screw divers, TV sets, DVD and VCD players, word processors, databases, digital art applications, music players EACH.
Newer, independently-thinking types in college now or to be born will NOT tolerate some corp-friendly court or country to simply say, "Ahh, well, our job is not to interpret the law but to enforce it. Your only choices are to shelve your idea/s, or sell it to them, or pay them royalties, even though you invented or modified it years before they filed and even though they got tipped off to your activities and our-resourced you before you could even file. That's the way it works..."
BRING IT ON!
Slash image word: reputes
this technology becomes "long in the tooth"?
Imagine tooth-driving (like war driving) in which the assailants deliver ultrasonics to their victims. In a few weeks old Charlie will have fangs, or Tennessee Tuxedo choppers. "What's sa matter Charlie? Choppers comin' loose" will be a revived funny denture commercial..
I wonder if the technology can be used to regrow the vestige human tail bone. Office ergonomics will revive a whole new bone of contention...
Call it "Ultra-teethe". Now, unsuspecting people (who cannot afford to have ultrasonic clandestine assault detectors (CADS)) can be made to tease out Klingon-like teeth. Even the cheek bones can be modified ultrasonically, giving rise to a whole new designer makeup market. Turn your enemies into lookalikes from the 1970's The Island or the 1970's Cornelius from Planet of the Apes. The ultra-deluxe package permits government to "brand" prison inmates, but those who move too much will be subject to indeterminate, random regrowth, such as one leg or a rib being longer than normal. Even the skull can be adapted. This could be a "true shape of things to come".