It's actually easier to crash/hijack a plane that's flown through radio controls than one flown by a pilot. If it's radio controlled, you just have to build a bigger transmitter and aim it at the plane (from a safe distance). At least with a pilot flying it they have to force their way into the cockpit. After September 11, no passengers on the plane will allow the latter to happen.
I actually think you're on to something. How long before we see movies on cartridges that contain flash drives? Think of a SNES-size cartridge that has a movie on it instead of a game. Make it a WORM drive (write once-read many) and you don't have a problem with the limited number of writes flash memory can take.
You realize you've gauranteed a cell phone won't work in your house if you do that, right? As a prospective home-buyer, that is an immediate no-sale point.
Take a variant of the older Slot 1 processor design. Have the processor on one side, and 4 memory slots on the other. It makes the traces between memory and processor almost negligible. Without the traces and slots for memory on the motherboard, they should get smaller and hopefully cost less.
The courts recently ruled that reverse-engineering hardware (Lexmark printer catridges, garage door openers) is legal and the DMCA doesn't apply for purposes of interopability. If you approach the potential case of Real getting sued by Apple about Rhapsody, it's the same concept: reverse engineering software (vs hardware) for purposes of interopability. Should be cut-and-dried, but who knows which way the courts will go.
Why not get a multi-terrabyte raid array? Pricey to get started, but it'll keep your data reasonably safe.
You also could use a tape backup. Any of the results from here could do the trick. At work, we use one of the 200/400GB tape drives for backup and are only using about 10-15% of the space (and that's for a dozen servers). We haven't had to test the lifespan of one of these, but tapes typically have an excellent lifespan compared to hard drives or optical media.
The FCC said that SETI could use this frequency. They did this before cell phones were invented. This RF pollution scenario is EXACTLY like the problems with BPL. BPL kills amatuer radio, cell phones in planes kill radio astronomy.
If the FCC was doing it's job, it wouldn't be a problem. However, I'm betting the FCC will look the other way since the cell phone industry has more money than radio astronomers...
Use "CRM" as your search term. Compiere might fit your needs.
Disclaimer: I've never used it, just ran across it when I was researching something similar to you. For our purposes, a request tracker did what we needed better than a fullblown CRM package.
You missed a big point in not specifying that all patents, trademarks, and copyrights can only be held by natural persons. Such a restriction deftly limits the unfair advantage of potentially immortal corporations.
Excellent point. It's not one I had considered previously. I would change it just a little to allow trademarks to be held by the "potentially immortal corporations", but would keep the only natural persons can hold patents and copyrights. After all, if the Coke logo were held by an individual (not corporation), it would get confusing to see several soft drink products using the Coke logo that were not produced by the Coca-Cola company.
I also would support the possibility of extending copyright 1 time by the author and allowing a work to be out of print for 5 years before it becomes public domain.
Points 3-5 in the patent reworking I want to keep to force patents to come under control and punish those who abuse the patent system. Some patent history: There were 1 million patents issued in the time frame from 1790-1911. Patent number 2 million was issued in 1935. In 1965 patent number 3 million was issued. 1975 saw patent number 4 million. In 1991 number 5 million was issued. source
Agree with parent, but here's how I would rewrite patent law.
Patents are valid for 15 years from date of submission.
Only inventions may be patented (no discoveries, eg. gene sequences).
A max of 100 patents can be issued per year (let's be honest: there aren't more than 100 truely original ideas generated per year).
The cost of applying for a patent increases with the number of patents a company owns. As an example, the first patent might cost $1000, the second $1100, and so forth.
If patent is found to be invalid by the court system (after the patent office issued it) the following takes place:
The worker in the patent office and his/her supervisor and his/her manager will be disciplined for non-performance of duty. 3 such write-ups and they are given a lifetime ban for working for the government either directly or indirectly (as a contractor). Only by pushing the consequences of not holding to the mandate of only issuing valid patents up the chain of command will the patent office be fixed.
20% of the patents owned by that patent holder are immediately revoked and made public domain. The patents chosen for this 20% cut will be the 20% most recent patents (the ones with the most time left before they would expire normally).
The patent holder would be banned for applying for any patents for the next 6 months.
Patents must be submitted with a working implementation.
If a patent is not being used 5 years after date of issue, it is revoked and made public domain (no more companies that hoard patents and sue people that make products).
Patents must be enforced against everyone or they become invalid (just like trademarks).
Copyright law also gets a major rewrite:
Copyright is valid 15 years from date of first publication (as opposed to the current 75 years from date of author's death). There is no valid reason that Mickey Mouse should be more protected than the invention of the telephone. If patents had durations similar to copyright, we never would have developed radio, television, or computers.
Like patents, copyright must be enforced against everyone (like trademarks) or it becomes invalid.
Any work that is out of print or no longer being produced by the copyright holder automatically becomes public domain. This prevents the "orphaned works are no longer available" problem.
By removing all links to Orbitz from other domains, watch them fall in search engine rankings. Orbitz fails to realize they only are high in the search results because other sites link to them. Their current policy indicates they don't want to even show up!
It's a dream exploit for finding users with illegal mp3s or video.
Other than this being completely illegal. This small thing called due process would through any evidence gathered in this manner out. Plus, they themselves would be (probably) committing a federal crime of unauthorized access of a computer system.
NoCatAuth is what you are looking for. Authentication is required before access is granted beyond the local network with all traffic being redirected to a login page that you can specify.
This goes beyond what you're asking for, but certainly will do the trick. Every time the computer is rebooted, it's set to a known configuration with everything that was done previously erased. This option is more powerfull that stopping installation of ChatZilla as it prevents installation of any non-approved software after a reboot. Note that I have never used it personally, just have read a lot of good reviews about it.
The Manhattan Project is not a very good example. Given the information currently available on the internet, it's relatively easy to design a 1st generation nuclear bomb (such as Fat Man or Little Boy). Even the information on how to refine Uranium and Plutonium isn't hard to find. The difficulty for anyone wanting to make a nuke is in getting ahold of the Uranium or Plutonium in the first place. After that, in under a year they'll have a bomb ready for use.
Overall, I agree with you, but for one point. What if the works you are distributing are under a BSD- or (L)GPL-type license where you explicitly are allowed to distrubute them? If this were to pass, you could (possibly) see sourceforge.net go bye-bye.
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Gives a whole new meaning to having money burning a hole in your pocket...
It's actually easier to crash/hijack a plane that's flown through radio controls than one flown by a pilot. If it's radio controlled, you just have to build a bigger transmitter and aim it at the plane (from a safe distance). At least with a pilot flying it they have to force their way into the cockpit. After September 11, no passengers on the plane will allow the latter to happen.
I actually think you're on to something. How long before we see movies on cartridges that contain flash drives? Think of a SNES-size cartridge that has a movie on it instead of a game. Make it a WORM drive (write once-read many) and you don't have a problem with the limited number of writes flash memory can take.
You realize you've gauranteed a cell phone won't work in your house if you do that, right? As a prospective home-buyer, that is an immediate no-sale point.
Anyone want to give odds this legislation gets passed after elections?
Take a variant of the older Slot 1 processor design. Have the processor on one side, and 4 memory slots on the other. It makes the traces between memory and processor almost negligible. Without the traces and slots for memory on the motherboard, they should get smaller and hopefully cost less.
I guess that means monkeys are more intelligent than humans?
Sounds kinda like WebTV...
The courts recently ruled that reverse-engineering hardware (Lexmark printer catridges, garage door openers) is legal and the DMCA doesn't apply for purposes of interopability. If you approach the potential case of Real getting sued by Apple about Rhapsody, it's the same concept: reverse engineering software (vs hardware) for purposes of interopability. Should be cut-and-dried, but who knows which way the courts will go.
Why not get a multi-terrabyte raid array? Pricey to get started, but it'll keep your data reasonably safe.
You also could use a tape backup. Any of the results from here could do the trick. At work, we use one of the 200/400GB tape drives for backup and are only using about 10-15% of the space (and that's for a dozen servers). We haven't had to test the lifespan of one of these, but tapes typically have an excellent lifespan compared to hard drives or optical media.
The FCC said that SETI could use this frequency. They did this before cell phones were invented. This RF pollution scenario is EXACTLY like the problems with BPL. BPL kills amatuer radio, cell phones in planes kill radio astronomy.
If the FCC was doing it's job, it wouldn't be a problem. However, I'm betting the FCC will look the other way since the cell phone industry has more money than radio astronomers...
http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/harry_potter_gob let/hp_gobletoffire_480.mov
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Good hardware detection, GPL.
Use "CRM" as your search term. Compiere might fit your needs.
Disclaimer: I've never used it, just ran across it when I was researching something similar to you. For our purposes, a request tracker did what we needed better than a fullblown CRM package.
I also would support the possibility of extending copyright 1 time by the author and allowing a work to be out of print for 5 years before it becomes public domain.
Points 3-5 in the patent reworking I want to keep to force patents to come under control and punish those who abuse the patent system. Some patent history: There were 1 million patents issued in the time frame from 1790-1911. Patent number 2 million was issued in 1935. In 1965 patent number 3 million was issued. 1975 saw patent number 4 million. In 1991 number 5 million was issued. source
Copyright law also gets a major rewrite:
Please give thoughts or comments!
if (ptr==NULL) is better in my opinion. There is no gaurantee that NULL == 0 for all platforms!
By removing all links to Orbitz from other domains, watch them fall in search engine rankings. Orbitz fails to realize they only are high in the search results because other sites link to them. Their current policy indicates they don't want to even show up!
NoCatAuth is what you are looking for. Authentication is required before access is granted beyond the local network with all traffic being redirected to a login page that you can specify.
So what did you do in response to their claim? Tell them to shove off or cave in?
I would think Solitare causes more lost productivity than Tetris, just because it's bundled with Windows.
This goes beyond what you're asking for, but certainly will do the trick. Every time the computer is rebooted, it's set to a known configuration with everything that was done previously erased. This option is more powerfull that stopping installation of ChatZilla as it prevents installation of any non-approved software after a reboot. Note that I have never used it personally, just have read a lot of good reviews about it.
Deep Freeze home page
The Manhattan Project is not a very good example. Given the information currently available on the internet, it's relatively easy to design a 1st generation nuclear bomb (such as Fat Man or Little Boy). Even the information on how to refine Uranium and Plutonium isn't hard to find. The difficulty for anyone wanting to make a nuke is in getting ahold of the Uranium or Plutonium in the first place. After that, in under a year they'll have a bomb ready for use.
Overall, I agree with you, but for one point. What if the works you are distributing are under a BSD- or (L)GPL-type license where you explicitly are allowed to distrubute them? If this were to pass, you could (possibly) see sourceforge.net go bye-bye.