In defending the previously disclosed program, Bush insisted that the NSA was focused exclusively on international calls. "In other words," Bush explained, "one end of the communication must be outside the United States."
Yeh, sure. And, then, given the speed of communications today, just route the call to a satellite or to Puerto Rico or Cuba or Japan or South America and the call is suddenly having "one end of the communication... outside...", sort of like dragging node lines on a protocol analyzer. Or, for certain people, delay their call by increasing the number of rings, which is because theri call is routing through Costa Rica or BOlivia... to satisfy legal requirements to look legit in court...
Hmmm slash image word: "nonzero" I s'ppose this will NEVER be a non-zero sum game...
And, (supposing this is not a TheOnion article) what happens if the new batch of counterfeit DVDs get made with unusually high levels of arsenic or cyanides in the plastic? (Setting up the dogs for death or early cancer... if they can GET cancer.) (I am not advocating cruelty to animals, but such as tactic MIGHT make the movie industry find new ways of distributing media, fix their lopsided global pricing schemes, and other onerous restrictions.)
We have more news of domestic surveillance, AND more news that MOST parents supervise the games purchases of their children.
So, tracking and reigning in sexual predators is most likely a cover story. In maybe 20 years we'll find the US domestic/global spying apparatus is mega times that of size and sophistication of that of China. Hell, the NSA probably now has or has been using the capability to substitute not only written text in real time, but spoken WORD as well. Imagine being undermined or discredited or set up for demise by the capabilities they choose to use.
May be unrelated; E3 could just be on a mission to protect their positions on ratings and games sales.
OOOPPSS!!! Korea herself didn't invade Japan in 1281 and 1284. It was the Mongols who enlisted/conscripted the Koreans, and it was in 1274 and 1281.
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If you are in IT, management, or just plain interested in Asian Affairs with emphasis on China, Japan, and Korea, you *might* find these 3 very compelling, haunting, and more. For those interested, check out these:
-Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History, by Bruce Cumings, cpyrt 2005 and 1997
-North Korea The Struggle Against American Power, by Tim Beal, cpryt 2005
- China * Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, by Ted C. Fishman, 2005 & 2006
And, if you're an Asian expat (or not) to the US, you might want to check out Daughter of the Yellow River: An Inspirational Journey from Deprived Child During China's Cultural Revolution to Successful Global Entrepreneur, by Diana Lu, 2006
(China * Inc mentioned my own former employer of years ago, specifically talking about how cheap VCD players put downward pricing and upward quality pressures the US DVD industry. And, in that chapter, he tells how China averted the "expense" of the DVD licensing.)
There are more, but these 4 I selected recently and they are HARD to set down.
Here is a small quote from the section/chapter:
"Players that hit American stores for $30 left China for $20. With chip sets costing between $7 and $10, and license fees, when they were paid, costing roughly the smae, not much room was left for profit. How aggressive have the Chinese been at slashing prices? On average, the profit on a DVD player exported out of Guangdong, where seventeen of twenty Chinese machines are made, has sunk to a single dollar."
He goes on to talk about in 2003 that China supported the EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disk)...
Well, to a small extent, I have. I've been thinking the USS San Francisco didn't hit a sea mount in Guam... It's a 'plausible denial' cover story. She probably rammed something, or, was probing someone's waters and a mine punched her in the snout. But, then... we haven't heard of any inexplicable undersea explosions... (remember those times the US snooped a lot in then-Soviet waters. I wish countries would grow the balls to mine their waters with influence mines (not to kill) but to imperil a sub such that it is exposed in the act. If it DOES sink, tho, then that'll be a matter or poor/ineffective damage control efforts or poor design...)
(Re-coats tin-foil hat with poly-duraloy/cobalt layers...)
Anybody with points to spare? Post-grant oppositions need more viability here.
I don't know what kind of vacuum/entry machine the USPTO has, but they DESPERATELY need some access to those image-searching progrmas that can look at a part and determine in HOW MANY OTHER PRODUCTS that similar shape was submitted. Then, separately, scan for the FUNCTION, then for the END RESULT or TARGET.
The USPTO needs to abolish slithery, slick-ass, artful description of what is being claimed, described, saved, or such. These lame-assed, defensive, obtuse, and devious types of filings not only dramatically increase the workload of the paid patent researchers, but it mind-numbingly raises the cost for entrepreneurs who ought NOT have to (if they don't WANT to) rely upon patent attorneys.
I know how to use a simple database, like Approach. If I use a few non-letter characters before, after, or before and after a single letter, a phrase, or such, I can find something in a text field. The USPTO search, while functional, makes me feel it has a toy front end to whet the appetite of the casual searcher, who then quickly is submerged in 2,658 to 4 millions of pointless, unrelated replies. It's almosts as if HR Block's former IRS employees lobbied the IRS to make filing just painful enough that self-filers relent and go to a paid preparer, just to keep their cottage industry alive. That's how I feel the USPTO search page is functioning. I could be wrong, but that's how I FEEL based on my pedestrian and semi-serious searches on a few single words and a few phrases. It's disillusioning and heartbreaking. It makes me feel steamrolled and that I MUST rely on a patent attorney. If I could JUST FIND all the relevant stuff and one by one single them out on my own, I could then use the approved esoteric verbiage to cherry pick the limitations, permissions, and restrictions I feel comfortable with.
WHY can't the filing be like a recipe? Or like a buffet?
- Do you want restrictive licensing? - In what state are you filing? - Are you seeking global or local protection or a hybrid of the two? - Are you the ONLY person legally entitled to make decisions about this patent if it is successfully awarded/assigned to you? - Please examine and pick from one or more of the following loose, strong, and highly-restrictive types of language you wish to structure your patent in the event searchers wish to license or purchase rights to or ownership of your patent:
- blah - blah - blah
I HOPE that is in the works with this new interface.
I HOPE post-grant reviews and nullifications can be automated to quickly whack and suspend illegally or ineptly or dubiously granted patents. It would (well, maybe it would) be NICE if many of these patents conflicts could be shunted over to the various business schools, sort of like using the professors AND students to anonymously rate and recommend or revoke conflicting patents that should not have been granted.
This could sort of be like a Patent Corps to augment the USPTO. BUT, it MUST be anonymous so that corporations that would normally hire these law and patent grads will not be able to slam them with punative hire rejections. A non-camera, hooded, non-diebold kiosk JUST might work, especially if the citizen reviewer enters the booth hooded, latex-gloved, and wearing a DNA-containing bunny suit to make identification nearly impossible (they'd ALL have to be suited up, put into a dark room where even UV tracking won't work, and then when the last review is punched in, the group is shuffled around in the dark before allowed to leave the review room. That would SEROUSLY screw up any tracking efforts.
Just some off-ideas.... I don't think they've been patented, so I reserve the right to repeat this text anyPLACe, anyTIME, even if you patent it. I've got the copyright, and the law is (as of this writing) on MY SIDE!
What *I* wish this would change is the price of patenting by individuals. I have ideas, but they are in a piece of a larger project. The smaller details *IN* the larger project could get snapped up and patented, even though I have a copyright on them merely by including them in the larger work.
Moreover, I intend to not only claim copyright on the specific, small number of smaller items, I will have meticulously blueprinted them and simultaneously published them with the larger work.
In **MY** mind, having the copyright on, say a new chair or desk or tool, should (as long as no PRIOR ART or prior patent/copyright exists) allow myself or any same-scenario poor inventor to retroactively lay claim, enjoin/prohibit the copyright infringer or proto-patent infringer from using or gaining from abusing the copyright material I publish.
Why is this a problem for me? Well, I'm **POOR**. I don't know nor have any trust-based relationship with sponsors, investors, or any copyright/patent attorneys. Moreover, I intensely loath the idea of selling or allowing "co-ownership" of **MY** ideas. I'll be perfectly willing to offer limited, non-exclusive licensing, but that is because I am LOATH to the idea of losing control of my stuff to some foot-loose/punches-pulling legalese and slick contracts.
USPTO, Please reduce the pricing further for people who are poor, unemployed, and the declared assignee of the patent being filed. Please allow us to repay the cost of the patent search and filing and annual maintenance fee through the royalties earned. Please refine the search engineso INDIVIDUALS with a 12th -grade degree cna patent ON THEIR OWN. Please, create a patent filing engine tht walks the applicant through thte process and offeres them canned, nearly-ironclad USPTO-certified patent language.
Oh, wait, I must be dreaming... ********** WHY is this fucking slash dialog entry page taking me down to typo-matic of ONE SECOND per letter/character????!!!!
"But I guess when you keep the rural poor in ignorance, you can pretty much run the country any way you please, even though they outnumber you."
Do you know this?:
"China has between 100-160 cities with populations of 1 million or more (America by contrast has **9**, while Eastern and Western Europe combined have 36.)."
[emphasis my own]
Did you know that in the past 20 years:
"Estimates of the number of people who have left for teh cities to find work range from 90 to 300 million, numbers that even near the low end match the entire workforce of th eUnited States. Move up in the range and the number tops the U.S. and European workforces combined.. By 2010, nearly half of all Chinese will live in urban areas, some of them urban metropolises with populations of a million-plus that didn't even exist a few years earlier."...because the government allows them to leave?
They no longer need houkous (work permit/family history card) to travel into Beijing and other large cities.
I suspect that as these migrating people will eventually overwhelm the monitoring system, or, if the "sanitizing work" is even-handed or not out or whack, then over time China *just* might emerge from the need to censor itself. Imagine what would happen in the US if it were true (I don't disbelieve, either) that an internal organ of the US assassinated Kennedy. Now, someone publishes it and the domestic security organs don't stop it. Can you IMAGINE the hysteria and insurrection that could erupt?
But, in China it doesn't even to be something like that. People need food, shelter, work, inspiration. They have protests and riots almost EVER DAY there. It's embarrassing, and could disrupt or spook business investment. So,, for the time being, they feel the need to control the public flow to information.
===== Now, for a stinger:
For the resource jammers: Oh,,
so sad... SOMEbody out there doesn't like me. Every time I log on and go past 4 or 6 lines of reply, my browser starts to crawl. Either it's Slashdot trying to deter me, or it's a government organ keystroking so badly that they're slowing down Konqueror, or it's a library/file problem related specifically to Konqueror. But, I suspect it's that I've become "radioactive" on slashdot... I get to incisive, too deep, and too much for the readership. Well, if that isn't a form of member censorship... (if/. is behind it, that is...) or government censorship (if "they are watching me" is true...)
In either case at what point does tampering with my local machine become tantamount an act of war? Bring it on...
Purportedly, in THIS country, I can write the following and SUPPOSEDLY not fear being rounded up by officials...
(All this rant is (in some way/to some degree, but not 100% directly or precisely) in response to your excerpting a few of my previous statements. I'll expound/expand upon some things.. not that I am trying to "seriously underestimate the attention span of the average Slashdot reader", someone posted in another thread to another poster who had a pages-long comment....)
Please, please PLEASE, Wake UP. What the HELL have we 'merkuns got? A cadge/cabal bunch of imperios who want to impress upon the world THEIR VIEW of WORLD ORDER. A prez who invokes or exhorts "God" being his co-pilot/advisor. (As far as **III*** say, until/unless "God" shows up, we have NO proof one way or another; we need to LIVE as if we are good and right, but SOME things MUST be left to "God", IFFF God exists. SOME things that don't involve nation-nation war must be between "the person and the God of their choice"- say, abortion, self-mutilation, weird worships, licensed, CONTROLLED, medically-monitored ADULT-LEVEL prostitution without fear of PERSECUTION or PROSECUTION-- as long as they don't excessively burden-- I'm SURE we all know a bunch of people who lack the luck or social skills to arrive at enjoyable, consensual, fruitful sexual release with another human, but unfortunately there are the abusers and there are the churches that impose their political wills on local government )...) A nation run by a rootin tootin murderin' (seems so at a distance) former governer who GLEEFULLY, zestfully put his chop (signature) on the execution orders for people, a man whose state had police evidence locker with roofs such poor condition that rain-damaged/destroyed evidence condemned people to death or unnecessary jail/prison terms. A man whose FAMILY is so knee-deep with despots and wealthy types around the world the he can steal elections, kick ass, and snap his finger and people such as myself (doing an expected duty to speak up) could fucking vanish or look like we committed suicide, or be slapped with false charges just to be made examples of.
Native Americans lost this nation-- It was THEIRS. Yet, tho we don't rever columbus so much, there STILL is the legacy of drugged/alcoholic Natives, corrupt reservations and gambling casinos that can only get back SOMEthing only because some pieces of US law allow or tolerate a quasi-Native American State -- maybe out of some strand of guilt. This nation dropped not ONE but TWO nukes on land when they could have called up the Emperor and said, "Get near the coast for a demonstration; respect it or we'll bring out more." (And, yeh, for those who claim the US only HAD 2 or 3 with not backup nukes, this would be ONE helluva poker bluff to pull, but it WOULD have saved some what? 80,000 lives?) And, this country went to civil war NOT to free slaves, but to prevent the damned place from tearing itself apart in the first place. But, half a country FOUGHT to subjugate a flesh and blood people, enslave them (yep, I'm aware that my ancestors SOLD Africans into slavery, the enslaved being the conquered tribal enemies or the undesired...), and dare to fly a repressive flag EVEN TO THIS DAY.
PH got bombed to snub the US' nose. Unfortunately for the "master planners" in Tokyo, it didn't work out. They didn't hit the right targets, didn't do a LOT. That's fortunate, since the world would be worse off had it fallen to tyranny and martial philosophy that was egged ON by snobby cooing elitist in the US who ENCOURAGED Japan to do what it did. THAT is criminal, praising a nation's leaders (Mind you, I am NOT talking about the CIVILIAN POPULACE population-- I'm debasing "LEADERS of NUMEROUS countries".. I've been to Japan, and other parts of Asian and I WANT THEM TO live peacefully as well as WREST BACK "their region" -- And, believe it or not, so does the US, at least in politispeak-- until it runs out of enemies and places to sell weapons to...). The US got lucky throug
Well, I don't know about Mandrake (then, in Dec 2004-Feb 2005) or Mandriva (now) having or not having an office in Tokyo, but I DID see Red Hat's office in the Roppongi Hills area (in the shadow of the elevated freeway/highway), near Segafredo restaurant. Another vantage point is that it is near ABC (Aoyama Book Center) store.
At what point could China consider this an act of war?
Suppose China uses its wide snooping infrastructure to log who's circumventing, who's funding them, and (aside from the citizens of China who want knowledge for information and not for overthrow purposes) who's benefitting from this (namely, the US government), then suddenly and capriciously says: "You, you, and you... you're the assholes behind this; effective IMMEDIATELY, your permit to conduct business here is revoked. You have one WEEK to pack up and get OUT. Not just you, but the FIRST FIVE levels of any subsidiaries and first THREE extensions of business partners. If you can't get your hardware out, then auction it off. Oh, and leave the buildings intact. You can't leave until we've inspected them for bombs, sabotage, or similar Saddam-shoots-the-horse-rather-than-returning-it-a live tactic..."
Personally, I am disappointed that coarse, harsh, and such penetrative domestic means are used against the population. But, you've GOT to see it China's way: They've been FUCKED WITH by the west (US and Europeans) as far back as 580 years: Opium, colonialization, subjugation, exploitation and more. I dare say that had not Commodore Peary showed up with some politicians' writ: "You will do business with us OR ELSE", Japan might not have had yet another reason to sprawl all over and do what it did to much of Asia. (However, how many people know that Korea actually invaded Japan, not once, but at least TWICE, in 1281 and 1284? Memories of a nation can span hundreds of years, and paranoid countries can be wary and vengeful, even if it takes 641 years to effect vengeance...).
But, I also feel that forcibly punching through and digging under a countries virtual customs borders to be tantamount to waging a stateless if not de facto war against various organs of a government.
Now, don't get me wrong: I do realize that China has a effective (how effective I don't know...) apparatus which is aiming computer resources at various governments around the world. It in itself is not a nice act, but unless and until anyone PROVES that China is actively knocking off US power grids or using proxies to do so, then PLEASE don't pull punches and equate military-military/government-to-government probes and studies to commercial/private venture proxy wars in the name of "democracy". (OTOH, how many have heard that the US CIA pressure on Vietnam to root out Communists was so intense that the VN actually rounded up and murdered some 1,800 innocent (and maybe a few dozen bona fide anti-US types) people PER MONTH for a few years? Talk about BAD KARMA. Obviouisly, that pressure is immensely worse than funding a business-to-government action like rending firewalls, but it's an historical wound many prefer to leave salved over...)
Whatever you think of China, Communism, oppression, and other things, look at your own back yards, too. Virtually EVERY country has bones in the closet and enough bad karma to warrant an occasional kick in the gut, smack in the face, or public humiliation, and the US is CERTAINLY not immune, not matter HOW MUCH "contribution" it makes internationally. NO country makes contributions without first scheming and then codifying a "hook-in-your-ass-to-control-you" tactic. IOW, NOTHING IS DONE FOR FREE.
I DON'T like censorship (unless it is to prevent a DIRE, GENUINE release of REAL/EXISTING national secrets, not some trumped up bullshit charges or to prevent embarassment...) or oppression (unless it's being carried out by publicly-routed corrupt politicians or power mongers), but I don't condone rambunctious or strategized abuse of the values of a country. The Chinese deal with their cultural, their local issues their OWN way. It may take another 25 years, but at SOME point, China's government of today will be somewhat if not a great degree different from what it is today. The US and its friends just need to quit being control freaks and have to accept that it IS NOT RIGHT for a junior land of some 325M to dictate or monk
Fortunately it won't be street legal to DRIVE. Maybe to PARK, but not to DRIVE on the public streets. But, if it is in motion and then is parked... and seen by an angry German couple, then...
I'm sure they won't be saying farfegnugen, but if they ram his jet, they MIGHT hail, "FUKENGROOVEN!"
If they kick the shit out of his car, they can say, "We gave it das BOOT!"
(I lay periodic claim to those ounces of German blood in my veins...as I lay claim to the Ethiopian, French, Spanish, Native American, and any other lines in me to say that... Now, isn't THAT fukengrooven?!)
As for prerecorded and live audio radio transmissions, such as on talk shows or call-in shows, this would be GREAT for the ones tired of being slapped with fines across all their networks by the FCC when someone utters, "F*ck you, a$$holes" or maybe even "FOOK YOU".
Although the stations have and generally use time delay (maybe 6 seconds), which also confuses the hell out of listeners and the very callers when the callers have the radio on in the background (and makes for some laughs for me...), sometimes the conversation can get so heated that the screeners listen in too much instead of punching that masker button. OOPS!
But, I wonder how much the FCC will weigh in on the potential loss of revenue. Might mess up that little cottage thing...
I'm surprised the FOSS hasn't made up or offered one of these.
QUICK, Anti-Patent against a Defensive Patent! FOSS, Make one of these and DONATE it to the government, or to the radio stations. Might curry favor to both side nicely.
Show the government and the multimedia content moguls that the nerds ARE also HUMANS after all... (for those who couldn't tell...)
that a LOT of people are such sheep. Imagine if so many Yahoo! users DESPISED ms to the point that they ditched their Yahoo! accounts and switched to Google or another provider.
That's EXACTLY what ***I*** will do. I never had a Hotmail account, but I probably WOULD have had I heard of them before they got bought. I'd had have dumped it, too, once ms put their hands on it.
Do YOU know anyone who more or less feels this way?
(And, if they ARE doing this tactic to drive down Yahoo!s pricing, then the DOJ (yeh, fat dream) ought to nail ms not only in the ass, but it the brain, too.)
But, this makes me wonder what Hu Jintao and bad bill had to talk about. Maybe nothing was ever said. Maybe gates already had in his head to penetrate China by jackbooting or buying or one way or another taking over Yahoo! globally to get into China-- the world's BIGGEST internet market waiting to be tapped. I wonder if China is going to let gates do that and let him get away with it.
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In defending the previously disclosed program, Bush insisted that the NSA was focused exclusively on international calls. "In other words," Bush explained, "one end of the communication must be outside the United States."
Yeh, sure. And, then, given the speed of communications today, just route the call to a satellite or to Puerto Rico or Cuba or Japan or South America and the call is suddenly having "one end of the communication... outside...", sort of like dragging node lines on a protocol analyzer. Or, for certain people, delay their call by increasing the number of rings, which is because theri call is routing through Costa Rica or BOlivia... to satisfy legal requirements to look legit in court...
Hmmm slash image word: "nonzero" I s'ppose this will NEVER be a non-zero sum game...
And, (supposing this is not a TheOnion article) what happens if the new batch of counterfeit DVDs get made with unusually high levels of arsenic or cyanides in the plastic? (Setting up the dogs for death or early cancer... if they can GET cancer.) (I am not advocating cruelty to animals, but such as tactic MIGHT make the movie industry find new ways of distributing media, fix their lopsided global pricing schemes, and other onerous restrictions.)
We have more news of domestic surveillance, AND more news that MOST parents supervise the games purchases of their children.
o rld/purchases20060510
o day/nsahasmassivedatabaseofamericansphonecalls;_yl t=Aj2ro.hLIS7JFyP0fyvkZ._B4FkB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW 9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
So, tracking and reigning in sexual predators is most likely a cover story. In maybe 20 years we'll find the US domestic/global spying apparatus is mega times that of size and sophistication of that of China. Hell, the NSA probably now has or has been using the capability to substitute not only written text in real
time, but spoken WORD as well. Imagine being undermined or discredited or set up for demise by the capabilities they choose to use.
May be unrelated; E3 could just be on a mission to protect their positions on ratings and games sales.
E3: Study shows majority of parents oversee game purchases
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20060510/tc_macw
Check this:
NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060511/ts_usat
Ahh... sort of supports what I said above:
"The NSA's domestic program, as described by sources, is far more expansive than what the White House has acknowledged. L"
foreign and domestic...
2 85136
Now, let's see China open up HER apparatus to tear down US censor blocks. Then, we'll see how soon the US declares THAT an act of war...
See my:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185169&cid=15
OOOPPSS!!! Korea herself didn't invade Japan in 1281 and 1284. It was the Mongols who enlisted/conscripted the Koreans, and it was in 1274 and 1281.
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If you are in IT, management, or just plain interested in Asian Affairs with emphasis on China, Japan, and Korea, you *might* find these 3 very compelling, haunting, and more. For those interested, check out these:
-Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History, by Bruce Cumings, cpyrt 2005 and 1997
-North Korea The Struggle Against American Power, by Tim Beal, cpryt 2005
- China * Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, by Ted C. Fishman, 2005 & 2006
And, if you're an Asian expat (or not) to the US, you might want to check out Daughter of the Yellow River: An Inspirational Journey from Deprived Child During China's Cultural Revolution to Successful Global Entrepreneur, by Diana Lu, 2006
(China * Inc mentioned my own former employer of years ago, specifically talking about how cheap VCD players put downward pricing and upward quality pressures the US DVD industry. And, in that chapter, he tells how China averted the "expense" of the DVD licensing.)
There are more, but these 4 I selected recently and they are HARD to set down.
Here is a small quote from the section/chapter:
"Players that hit American stores for $30 left China for $20. With chip sets costing between $7 and $10, and license fees, when they were paid, costing roughly the smae, not much room was left for profit. How aggressive have the Chinese been at slashing prices? On average, the profit on a DVD player exported out of Guangdong, where seventeen of twenty Chinese machines are made, has sunk to a single dollar."
He goes on to talk about in 2003 that China supported the EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disk)...
Nahh... that's too much like minimee...
This is FUNNY as hell!
"KWaaaaaa Kwa-kaaaaa-kaaaaa"
"Think undersea big."
Well, to a small extent, I have. I've been thinking the USS San Francisco didn't hit a sea mount in Guam... It's a 'plausible denial' cover story. She probably rammed something, or, was probing someone's waters and a mine punched her in the snout. But, then... we haven't heard of any inexplicable undersea explosions... (remember those times the US snooped a lot in then-Soviet waters. I wish countries would grow the balls to mine their waters with influence mines (not to kill) but to imperil a sub such that it is exposed in the act. If it DOES sink, tho, then that'll be a matter or poor/ineffective damage control efforts or poor design...)
(Re-coats tin-foil hat with poly-duraloy/cobalt layers...)
Anybody with points to spare? Post-grant oppositions need more viability here.
I don't know what kind of vacuum/entry machine the USPTO has, but they DESPERATELY need some access to those image-searching progrmas that can look at a part and determine in HOW MANY OTHER PRODUCTS that similar shape was submitted. Then, separately, scan for the FUNCTION, then for the END RESULT or TARGET.
The USPTO needs to abolish slithery, slick-ass, artful description of what is being claimed, described, saved, or such. These lame-assed, defensive, obtuse, and devious types of filings not only dramatically increase the workload of the paid patent researchers, but it mind-numbingly raises the cost for entrepreneurs who ought NOT have to (if they don't WANT to) rely upon patent attorneys.
I know how to use a simple database, like Approach. If I use a few non-letter characters before, after, or before and after a single letter, a phrase, or such, I can find something in a text field. The USPTO search, while functional, makes me feel it has a toy front end to whet the appetite of the casual searcher, who then quickly is submerged in 2,658 to 4 millions of pointless, unrelated replies. It's almosts as if HR Block's former IRS employees lobbied the IRS to make filing just painful enough that self-filers relent and go to a paid preparer, just to keep their cottage industry alive. That's how I feel the USPTO search page is functioning. I could be wrong, but that's how I FEEL based on my pedestrian and semi-serious searches on a few single words and a few phrases. It's disillusioning and heartbreaking. It makes me feel steamrolled and that I MUST rely on a patent attorney. If I could JUST FIND all the relevant stuff and one by one single them out on my own, I could then use the approved esoteric verbiage to cherry pick the limitations, permissions, and restrictions I feel comfortable with.
WHY can't the filing be like a recipe? Or like a buffet?
- Do you want restrictive licensing?
- In what state are you filing?
- Are you seeking global or local protection or a hybrid of the two?
- Are you the ONLY person legally entitled to make decisions about this patent if it is successfully awarded/assigned to you?
- Please examine and pick from one or more of the following loose, strong, and highly-restrictive types of language you wish to structure your patent in the event searchers wish to license or purchase rights to or ownership of your patent:
- blah
- blah
- blah
I HOPE that is in the works with this new interface.
I HOPE post-grant reviews and nullifications can be automated to quickly whack and suspend illegally or ineptly or dubiously granted patents. It would (well, maybe it would) be NICE if many of these patents conflicts could be shunted over to the various business schools, sort of like using the professors AND students to anonymously rate and recommend or revoke conflicting patents that should not have been granted.
This could sort of be like a Patent Corps to augment the USPTO. BUT, it MUST be anonymous so that corporations that would normally hire these law and patent grads will not be able to slam them with punative hire rejections. A non-camera, hooded, non-diebold kiosk JUST might work, especially if the citizen reviewer enters the booth hooded, latex-gloved, and wearing a DNA-containing bunny suit to make identification nearly impossible (they'd ALL have to be suited up, put into a dark room where even UV tracking won't work, and then when the last review is punched in, the group is shuffled around in the dark before allowed to leave the review room. That would SEROUSLY screw up any tracking efforts.
Just some off-ideas.... I don't think they've been patented, so I reserve the right to repeat this text anyPLACe, anyTIME, even if you patent it. I've got the copyright, and the law is (as of this writing) on MY SIDE!
What *I* wish this would change is the price of patenting by individuals. I have ideas, but they are in a piece of a larger project. The smaller details *IN* the larger project could get snapped up and patented, even though I have a copyright on them merely by including them in the larger work.
Moreover, I intend to not only claim copyright on the specific, small number of smaller items, I will have meticulously blueprinted them and simultaneously published them with the larger work.
In **MY** mind, having the copyright on, say a new chair or desk or tool, should (as long as no PRIOR ART or prior patent/copyright exists) allow myself or any same-scenario poor inventor to retroactively lay claim, enjoin/prohibit the copyright infringer or proto-patent infringer from using or gaining from abusing the copyright material I publish.
Why is this a problem for me? Well, I'm **POOR**. I don't know nor have any trust-based relationship with sponsors, investors, or any copyright/patent attorneys. Moreover, I intensely loath the idea of selling or allowing "co-ownership" of **MY** ideas. I'll be perfectly willing to offer limited, non-exclusive licensing, but that is because I am LOATH to the idea of losing control of my stuff to some foot-loose/punches-pulling legalese and slick contracts.
USPTO, Please reduce the pricing further for people who are poor, unemployed, and the declared assignee of the patent being filed. Please allow us to repay the cost of the patent search and filing and annual maintenance fee through the royalties earned. Please refine the search engineso INDIVIDUALS with a 12th -grade degree cna patent ON THEIR OWN. Please, create a patent filing engine tht walks the applicant through thte process and offeres them canned, nearly-ironclad USPTO-certified patent language.
Oh, wait, I must be dreaming...
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WHY is this fucking slash dialog entry page taking me down to typo-matic of ONE SECOND per letter/character????!!!!
"But I guess when you keep the rural poor in ignorance, you can pretty much run the country any way you please, even though they outnumber you."
...because the government allows them to leave?
/. is behind it, that is...) or government censorship (if "they are watching me" is true...)
Do you know this?:
"China has between 100-160 cities with populations of 1 million or more (America by contrast has **9**, while Eastern and Western Europe combined have 36.)."
[emphasis my own]
Did you know that in the past 20 years:
"Estimates of the number of people who have left for teh cities to find work range from 90 to 300 million, numbers that even near the low end match the entire workforce of th eUnited States. Move up in the range and the number tops the U.S. and European workforces combined.. By 2010, nearly half of all Chinese will live in urban areas, some of them urban metropolises with populations of a million-plus that didn't even exist a few years earlier."
They no longer need houkous (work permit/family history card) to travel into Beijing and other large cities.
I suspect that as these migrating people will eventually overwhelm the monitoring system, or, if the "sanitizing work" is even-handed or not out or whack, then over time China *just* might emerge from the need to censor itself. Imagine what would happen in the US if it were true (I don't disbelieve, either) that an internal organ of the US assassinated Kennedy. Now, someone publishes it and the domestic security organs don't stop it. Can you IMAGINE the hysteria and insurrection that could erupt?
But, in China it doesn't even to be something like that. People need food, shelter, work, inspiration. They have protests and riots almost EVER DAY there. It's embarrassing, and could disrupt or spook business investment. So,, for the time being, they feel the need to control the public flow to information.
===== Now, for a stinger:
For the resource jammers:
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so sad... SOMEbody out there doesn't like me. Every time I log on and go past 4 or 6 lines of reply, my browser starts to crawl. Either it's Slashdot trying to deter me, or it's a government organ keystroking so badly that they're slowing down Konqueror, or it's a library/file problem related specifically to Konqueror. But, I suspect it's that I've become "radioactive" on slashdot... I get to incisive, too deep, and too much for the readership. Well, if that isn't a form of member censorship... (if
In either case at what point does tampering with my local machine become tantamount an act of war? Bring it on...
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C'mon MAN/WOMAN!
Purportedly, in THIS country, I can write the following and SUPPOSEDLY not fear being rounded up by officials...
(All this rant is (in some way/to some degree, but not 100% directly or precisely) in response to your excerpting a few of my previous statements. I'll expound/expand upon some things.. not that I am trying to "seriously underestimate the attention span of the average Slashdot reader", someone posted in another thread to another poster who had a pages-long comment....)
Please, please PLEASE, Wake UP. What the HELL have we 'merkuns got? A cadge/cabal bunch of imperios who want to impress upon the world THEIR VIEW of WORLD ORDER. A prez who invokes or exhorts "God" being his co-pilot/advisor. (As far as **III*** say, until/unless "God" shows up, we have NO proof one way or another; we need to LIVE as if we are good and right, but SOME things MUST be left to "God", IFFF God exists. SOME things that don't involve nation-nation war must be between "the person and the God of their choice"- say, abortion, self-mutilation, weird worships, licensed, CONTROLLED, medically-monitored ADULT-LEVEL prostitution without fear of PERSECUTION or PROSECUTION-- as long as they don't excessively burden-- I'm SURE we all know a bunch of people who lack the luck or social skills to arrive at enjoyable, consensual, fruitful sexual release with another human, but unfortunately there are the abusers and there are the churches that impose their political wills on local government )...) A nation run by a rootin tootin murderin' (seems so at a distance) former governer who GLEEFULLY, zestfully put his chop (signature) on the execution orders for people, a man whose state had police evidence locker with roofs such poor condition that rain-damaged/destroyed evidence condemned people to death or unnecessary jail/prison terms. A man whose FAMILY is so knee-deep with despots and wealthy types around the world the he can steal elections, kick ass, and snap his finger and people such as myself (doing an expected duty to speak up) could fucking vanish or look like we committed suicide, or be slapped with false charges just to be made examples of.
Native Americans lost this nation-- It was THEIRS. Yet, tho we don't rever columbus so much, there STILL is the legacy of drugged/alcoholic Natives, corrupt reservations and gambling casinos that can only get back SOMEthing only because some pieces of US law allow or tolerate a quasi-Native American State -- maybe out of some strand of guilt. This nation dropped not ONE but TWO nukes on land when they could have called up the Emperor and said, "Get near the coast for a demonstration; respect it or we'll bring out more." (And, yeh, for those who claim the US only HAD 2 or 3 with not backup nukes, this would be ONE helluva poker bluff to pull, but it WOULD have saved some what? 80,000 lives?) And, this country went to civil war NOT to free slaves, but to prevent the damned place from tearing itself apart in the first place. But, half a country FOUGHT to subjugate a flesh and blood people, enslave them (yep, I'm aware that my ancestors SOLD Africans into slavery, the enslaved being the conquered tribal enemies or the undesired...), and dare to fly a repressive flag EVEN TO THIS DAY.
PH got bombed to snub the US' nose. Unfortunately for the "master planners" in Tokyo, it didn't work out. They didn't hit the right targets, didn't do a LOT. That's fortunate, since the world would be worse off had it fallen to tyranny and martial philosophy that was egged ON by snobby cooing elitist in the US who ENCOURAGED Japan to do what it did. THAT is criminal, praising a nation's leaders (Mind you, I am NOT talking about the CIVILIAN POPULACE population-- I'm debasing "LEADERS of NUMEROUS countries".. I've been to Japan, and other parts of Asian and I WANT THEM TO live peacefully as well as WREST BACK "their region" -- And, believe it or not, so does the US, at least in politispeak-- until it runs out of enemies and places to sell weapons to...). The US got lucky throug
My first thought was... "windoze"... Maybe Linux needs to do more screaming... get more attention...
(heheh... slash image word: "harmony"... LOL!!!)
Well, I don't know about Mandrake (then, in Dec 2004-Feb 2005) or Mandriva (now) having or not having an office in Tokyo, but I DID see Red Hat's office in the Roppongi Hills area (in the shadow of the elevated freeway/highway), near Segafredo restaurant. Another vantage point is that it is near ABC (Aoyama Book Center) store.
It CERTAINLY helps to have a local office.
At what point could China consider this an act of war?
Suppose China uses its wide snooping infrastructure to log who's circumventing, who's funding them, and (aside from the citizens of China who want knowledge for information and not for overthrow purposes) who's benefitting from this (namely, the US government), then suddenly and capriciously says: "You, you, and you... you're the assholes behind this; effective IMMEDIATELY, your permit to conduct business here is revoked. You have one WEEK to pack up and get OUT. Not just you, but the FIRST FIVE levels of any subsidiaries and first THREE extensions of business partners. If you can't get your hardware out, then auction it off. Oh, and leave the buildings intact. You can't leave until we've inspected them for bombs, sabotage, or similar Saddam-shoots-the-horse-rather-than-returning-it-a live tactic..."
Personally, I am disappointed that coarse, harsh, and such penetrative domestic means are used against the population. But, you've GOT to see it China's way: They've been FUCKED WITH by the west (US and Europeans) as far back as 580 years: Opium, colonialization, subjugation, exploitation and more. I dare say that had not Commodore Peary showed up with some politicians' writ: "You will do business with us OR ELSE", Japan might not have had yet another reason to sprawl all over and do what it did to much of Asia. (However, how many people know that Korea actually invaded Japan, not once, but at least TWICE, in 1281 and 1284? Memories of a nation can span hundreds of years, and paranoid countries can be wary and vengeful, even if it takes 641 years to effect vengeance...).
But, I also feel that forcibly punching through and digging under a countries virtual customs borders to be tantamount to waging a stateless if not de facto war against various organs of a government.
Now, don't get me wrong: I do realize that China has a effective (how effective I don't know...) apparatus which is aiming computer resources at various governments around the world. It in itself is not a nice act, but unless and until anyone PROVES that China is actively knocking off US power grids or using proxies to do so, then PLEASE don't pull punches and equate military-military/government-to-government probes and studies to commercial/private venture proxy wars in the name of "democracy". (OTOH, how many have heard that the US CIA pressure on Vietnam to root out Communists was so intense that the VN actually rounded up and murdered some 1,800 innocent (and maybe a few dozen bona fide anti-US types) people PER MONTH for a few years? Talk about BAD KARMA. Obviouisly, that pressure is immensely worse than funding a business-to-government action like rending firewalls, but it's an historical wound many prefer to leave salved over...)
Whatever you think of China, Communism, oppression, and other things, look at your own back yards, too. Virtually EVERY country has bones in the closet and enough bad karma to warrant an occasional kick in the gut, smack in the face, or public humiliation, and the US is CERTAINLY not immune, not matter HOW MUCH "contribution" it makes internationally. NO country makes contributions without first scheming and then codifying a "hook-in-your-ass-to-control-you" tactic. IOW, NOTHING IS DONE FOR FREE.
I DON'T like censorship (unless it is to prevent a DIRE, GENUINE release of REAL/EXISTING national secrets, not some trumped up bullshit charges or to prevent embarassment...) or oppression (unless it's being carried out by publicly-routed corrupt politicians or power mongers), but I don't condone rambunctious or strategized abuse of the values of a country. The Chinese deal with their cultural, their local issues their OWN way. It may take another 25 years, but at SOME point, China's government of today will be somewhat if not a great degree different from what it is today. The US and its friends just need to quit being control freaks and have to accept that it IS NOT RIGHT for a junior land of some 325M to dictate or monk
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an anneuroid or a hemorrhism. Or, just a volcanic hemorrhoid...
It's a good thing that kind of thing doesn't follow a heavy night of drinking or too much cake and sausage and soda pop...
A boat-load of boot. (Hmmm, that pun was really bad...)
Fortunately it won't be street legal to DRIVE. Maybe to PARK, but not to DRIVE on the public streets. But, if it is in motion and then is parked... and seen by an angry German couple, then...
I'm sure they won't be saying farfegnugen, but if they ram his jet, they MIGHT hail, "FUKENGROOVEN!"
If they kick the shit out of his car, they can say, "We gave it das BOOT!"
(I lay periodic claim to those ounces of German blood in my veins...as I lay claim to the Ethiopian, French, Spanish, Native American, and any other lines in me to say that... Now, isn't THAT fukengrooven?!)
"Anger" is just a letter and a LOT of steam away from "Danger".
As for prerecorded and live audio radio transmissions, such as on talk shows or call-in shows, this would be GREAT for the ones tired of being slapped with fines across all their networks by the FCC when someone utters, "F*ck you, a$$holes" or maybe even "FOOK YOU".
Although the stations have and generally use time delay (maybe 6 seconds), which also confuses the hell out of listeners and the very callers when the callers have the radio on in the background (and makes for some laughs for me...), sometimes the conversation can get so heated that the screeners listen in too much instead of punching that masker button. OOPS!
But, I wonder how much the FCC will weigh in on the potential loss of revenue. Might mess up that little cottage thing...
I'm surprised the FOSS hasn't made up or offered one of these.
QUICK, Anti-Patent against a Defensive Patent! FOSS, Make one of these and DONATE it to the government, or to the radio stations. Might curry favor to both side nicely.
Show the government and the multimedia content moguls that the nerds ARE also HUMANS after all... (for those who couldn't tell...)
Like, "That technology is a futhermucking, dot-gamm shiesse of pit, SIR!"
You aren't so muckin' fuch. Why don't you go in your jack yard and back off?
Censor THAT!
that a LOT of people are such sheep. Imagine if so many Yahoo! users DESPISED ms to the point that they ditched their Yahoo! accounts and switched to Google or another provider.
That's EXACTLY what ***I*** will do. I never had a Hotmail account, but I probably WOULD have had I heard of them before they got bought. I'd had have dumped it, too, once ms put their hands on it.
Do YOU know anyone who more or less feels this way?
(And, if they ARE doing this tactic to drive down Yahoo!s pricing, then the DOJ (yeh, fat dream) ought to nail ms not only in the ass, but it the brain, too.)
But, this makes me wonder what Hu Jintao and bad bill had to talk about. Maybe nothing was ever said. Maybe gates already had in his head to penetrate China by jackbooting or buying or one way or another taking over Yahoo! globally to get into China-- the world's BIGGEST internet market waiting to be tapped. I wonder if China is going to let gates do that and let him get away with it.
Oh, must've been thinking RHINESTONES instead of runes and stones...
Now... imagine Liberache with a time machine...