The reason I use SMS and hope to use for a LONG time are the following: 1) No data plan needed. This means I am not tempted to go online all the time. So I just used a pre-payed card. Last top-up was 28/02 for 25 EUR. Still 15 EUR available 2) I can use it with the many people who do not have a smart phone. It just works. 3) Smart messaging. This means if I want to chit-chat, I SMS them where we can meet, we meet, have a few drinks and have an actual personal relationship. 4) Because it costs the other person to send something back, they don't send useless messages and most of the time just a message where we can meet.
And if smsing is not an option, you could, you know, use the device to, well telephone the other person and speak to them.
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Well, the point is not to find the real copyright owner. The idea is to NOT find the copyright owner. "due diligence" means a lot of things if you have enough money to pay lawyers. Shouting "Anybody here knows who this belongs to?" from behind your desk might be enough (again IF you have the right amount to pay lawyers. Don't try this if you are not a company.)
if they think that putting a sprinkler on a tripod is patent-worthy
What about a tripod under a sprinkler? What if I call it a "self standing three-legged device". What if I call it an iSprinkler? What if I add 'on the Internet'? Still no?
Why are they against me? This is the greatest invention since my previous invention (that they also rejected):Pre-cut baked dough.
I get tons of job offers and the only algorithm they seem to be using is that I at some point in the past was looking for a job. By pure chance one will fit me, I am sure.
There is no expectation of privacy in public spaces
There is where I live. The fact that you do not know what the big deal is, is the big deal. Remember how they got to Big Brother? Not by going to war. They got there because people were not interested in their privacy.
Or to quote from yet somewhere else: "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."
This is great if it works for you. e.g. bhj648_+shlasdot.org as password for this site and bX3hj648_+google.com for google. You can extend it to your work place. This will work great for you. Now let us add some reality to it.
When I look at where I work, most people need only two passwords. I have told them again and again that it is easier if they have the same password for both.
This worked for a while, but then things changed. One password needed to be at least 10 and the other only 8 characters. You would just add two characters and be done with it. What I do is to take the month and year, add a 4 letter word and for the 10 letter password add ++. So now I have a password this month like 0413Foad and 0413Foad++. I change the password on the 1st of the month. Never had a failed password due to forgetting it.
Yet even this simple method will not work for the majority of people. They do not see password as a way to security. They see it as a way to hinder them to do their job.
So passwords and security are a social issue. When you only look at the technical part of it, you will fail.
First IT people should start with not needing to change my password every month. That will make me select a safer one, because I can remember it. The fact that people write down their passwords is not the fault of those people. It is the fault of the ones making the security for not taking the human into account.
And here I am just talking about 2 passwords at work. Add complexity for the rest of all your logins, passwords and pincodes.
It is not a lack of imagination. It is a lack of need. Compare it too woodworking. I could easily buy the tools to make a table. I would just need some time to learn how to use those tools. It will then be more to my specifications and be cheaper. However when I have that table, I do not need another table.
I could start making tables just because I have the skill, or I could start making tables for others and make it a profession. Yet others will tell me to make a chair and anything else which comes to "if all you have is a hammer..."
OTOH I can just buy a table (even from IKEA it is not carpeting) and use the time it took to learn is to do something else.
So while many people enjoy woodworking as a hobby, it is still a niche market compared to production. You could do this for any object.
So yes, you like making toys for your granddaughter. I like to go to the store and buy her a toy and spend the time playing with that toy and her (and the box the toy came in) that you spend making the toy.
The artists are seldom the content creators. The content creators are seldom the copyright owners.
And if people stop doing it for the money, then those who do it out of passion will take over. That is not a bad thing. That is a good thing, Then you get people who are interested in the the thing they produce and not in their bank account.
Oh and then you have the "standing on the shoulders of giants" thing going on. When somebody uses something you created it feels great. Most of the time this is knowledge. However it can be software code or music or things you know how to do. Sharing that is a great thing.
Apparently you are all about the money. Do not forget to charge your kids when they want to learn to ride a bike. That way they pay you for your knowledge and you can even charge them when they ride their bike as THAT is what DRM is all about.
Before this was posted, we had a conversation over the phone: http://ifaketext.com/img/7qdwtaen.jpg (The name of the sight might hint to the authentic nature of the phone conversation)
My experience is if you have all women and add one man, you have a lot of problems. If you have all men and add one women, you have a serious improvement.
People still need to do tests to see when a glue breaks and it breaks at different moments. That is just a simple cable that was made by a factory under reasonably controlled circumstances with a specifically know amount of glue with many known parameters.
And you want to know when it happens with many unknown parameters and a vastly huge area? Nope. Not possible.
I did not sign anything. Luckily I live in Belgium where clicking 'I agree' is not a form of contract and phones are still sold unlocked by law without any operator linked to it.
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The reason I use SMS and hope to use for a LONG time are the following:
1) No data plan needed. This means I am not tempted to go online all the time. So I just used a pre-payed card. Last top-up was 28/02 for 25 EUR. Still 15 EUR available
2) I can use it with the many people who do not have a smart phone. It just works.
3) Smart messaging. This means if I want to chit-chat, I SMS them where we can meet, we meet, have a few drinks and have an actual personal relationship.
4) Because it costs the other person to send something back, they don't send useless messages and most of the time just a message where we can meet.
And if smsing is not an option, you could, you know, use the device to, well telephone the other person and speak to them.
Well, the point is not to find the real copyright owner. The idea is to NOT find the copyright owner. "due diligence" means a lot of things if you have enough money to pay lawyers.
Shouting "Anybody here knows who this belongs to?" from behind your desk might be enough (again IF you have the right amount to pay lawyers. Don't try this if you are not a company.)
So it is more like Encyclopædia Galactica then it is like a Hitchhikers Guide.
I am now waiting for the first person win this 'unbeatable' game. Somebody will figure it out. To figure it out is a whole new level of challenge.
What about a tripod under a sprinkler? What if I call it a "self standing three-legged device". What if I call it an iSprinkler? What if I add 'on the Internet'? Still no?
Why are they against me? This is the greatest invention since my previous invention (that they also rejected):Pre-cut baked dough.
He is the only one who reacted to the spam?
I get tons of job offers and the only algorithm they seem to be using is that I at some point in the past was looking for a job. By pure chance one will fit me, I am sure.
There is where I live. The fact that you do not know what the big deal is, is the big deal.
Remember how they got to Big Brother? Not by going to war. They got there because people were not interested in their privacy.
Or to quote from yet somewhere else: "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."
This is great if it works for you. e.g. bhj648_+shlasdot.org as password for this site and bX3hj648_+google.com for google.
You can extend it to your work place.
This will work great for you. Now let us add some reality to it.
When I look at where I work, most people need only two passwords. I have told them again and again that it is easier if they have the same password for both.
This worked for a while, but then things changed. One password needed to be at least 10 and the other only 8 characters. You would just add two characters and be done with it.
What I do is to take the month and year, add a 4 letter word and for the 10 letter password add ++. So now I have a password this month like 0413Foad and 0413Foad++. I change the password on the 1st of the month. Never had a failed password due to forgetting it.
Yet even this simple method will not work for the majority of people. They do not see password as a way to security. They see it as a way to hinder them to do their job.
So passwords and security are a social issue. When you only look at the technical part of it, you will fail.
First IT people should start with not needing to change my password every month. That will make me select a safer one, because I can remember it. The fact that people write down their passwords is not the fault of those people. It is the fault of the ones making the security for not taking the human into account.
And here I am just talking about 2 passwords at work. Add complexity for the rest of all your logins, passwords and pincodes.
It is not a lack of imagination. It is a lack of need. Compare it too woodworking. I could easily buy the tools to make a table. I would just need some time to learn how to use those tools. It will then be more to my specifications and be cheaper. However when I have that table, I do not need another table.
I could start making tables just because I have the skill, or I could start making tables for others and make it a profession. Yet others will tell me to make a chair and anything else which comes to "if all you have is a hammer ..."
OTOH I can just buy a table (even from IKEA it is not carpeting) and use the time it took to learn is to do something else.
So while many people enjoy woodworking as a hobby, it is still a niche market compared to production. You could do this for any object.
So yes, you like making toys for your granddaughter. I like to go to the store and buy her a toy and spend the time playing with that toy and her (and the box the toy came in) that you spend making the toy.
The artists are seldom the content creators. The content creators are seldom the copyright owners.
And if people stop doing it for the money, then those who do it out of passion will take over. That is not a bad thing. That is a good thing, Then you get people who are interested in the the thing they produce and not in their bank account.
Oh and then you have the "standing on the shoulders of giants" thing going on. When somebody uses something you created it feels great. Most of the time this is knowledge. However it can be software code or music or things you know how to do. Sharing that is a great thing.
Apparently you are all about the money. Do not forget to charge your kids when they want to learn to ride a bike. That way they pay you for your knowledge and you can even charge them when they ride their bike as THAT is what DRM is all about.
Before this was posted, we had a conversation over the phone:
http://ifaketext.com/img/7qdwtaen.jpg (The name of the sight might hint to the authentic nature of the phone conversation)
Oh yeah, many already make fantasy mandatory. Sorry.
Just because it is legal doe not mean it is just.
It should not just be a terrible way to treat a customer, it should be illegal.
They already do. They are called employers.
Look at the positive side. If the defense does not get the papers, they can't sue and win.
My experience is if you have all women and add one man, you have a lot of problems. If you have all men and add one women, you have a serious improvement.
I like the 'if guilty' part. I am sure the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay also like that and would welcome it.
I know off topic, but not completely.
That is how the TSA profiles people too. They somehow also add the color brown.
Perhaps he comes from London and learned NOT to run, because they might shoot him.
They will not stop violating your rights with the data they have already.
If they want to patent the idea, here is some previous art
I do the same. I bet I won't sleep with Megan Fox this year.
Well. If the Lima Bean Ban did not work, and it clearly did not, perhaps the US should invade Peru or any other South American country.
You don't have to commit a crime to be convicted.
Way to many parameters.
People still need to do tests to see when a glue breaks and it breaks at different moments. That is just a simple cable that was made by a factory under reasonably controlled circumstances with a specifically know amount of glue with many known parameters.
And you want to know when it happens with many unknown parameters and a vastly huge area? Nope. Not possible.
I did not sign anything. Luckily I live in Belgium where clicking 'I agree' is not a form of contract and phones are still sold unlocked by law without any operator linked to it.