This is going to cause a major re-architecting of the Internet infrastructure. It's going to cost the ISPs a fortune to implement, which they're going to pass along to us.
And there is zero utility in having CALEA compliance on the Internet.
I think part of the problem here is the way Bill Gates has appropriated the word innovation.
By his using it as a mantra, most average people have come to believe that Microsoft actually does innovate. They're unaware that almost everything is prior art, or that the patenting of software is a relatively new phenomenon; nor the inherent dangers in allowing 17 year exclusive protection in a field which relies on incremental, evolutionary changes, rather than "big bang" discoveries like the drug companies.
I know what you mean. Until you've spent a full day with the marketroids in a knock-down-drag-out over whether we'll de-feature or double the manufactured cost by switching from a 4K PROM to an 8K PROM, you can't know what the fuss is all about.
When was the last time you heard the word "elegant" used referring to a program?
But I gotta admit, I love the type safety and bang/line and the built-ins I get from languages like Java.
>We don't dictate who should become President of France or Prime Minister of Australia. No one outside of America should have a say in who leads America.
Oh come on. We've unilaterally invaded two different countries in the last four years because "we" didn't care for who was running them.
That was Hizzonor 1.0; we're talking about Hizzonor 2.0 here.
Two Chicago precinct captains are going through the cemetary, writing down names. One of them comes to a headstone that's worn and faded, so he starts to rub it to make it out. The other one says "Forget that one, there's plenty more here". The first one says "No, this guys got just as much a right to vote as everyone else!"
I love this city.
Isn't this the very heart and soul of the original Dennis Ritchie/ATT "Oh yeah, by the way, you could do this in software, if you wanted to" very very first ever software patent??? You know, from back in the days when patents applied to physical objects?
Isn't this the very thing that started us down this particular slippery slope in the first place?
If Newton lived today, he wouldn't be allowed to "stand on the shoulders of giants"; the court-ordered gag rule in the ongoing multi-year, multi-billion lira patent/copyright/contract/FUD lawsuit between Galileo(TM) Inc and Copernicus(R) Corp would prevent him from making any public statements regarding Gravitational(C)(TM)(R) effects.
Of course, Newton should have spent his life and fortune in IP litigation with Leibniz...
Me, I'm working on my "A Method Of Preparing Comestible Substances Utilizing Rapid Oxygenation Of Hydrocarbon-Rich Materials" USPTO application...
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Windows attention span isn't that long.
Theesa suck big time.
And there is zero utility in having CALEA compliance on the Internet.
How long does it take it to run an infinite loop?
Nah. It's all them hamburgers that make women's butts look big.
Here's a situation where none of us has RTFA.
By his using it as a mantra, most average people have come to believe that Microsoft actually does innovate. They're unaware that almost everything is prior art, or that the patenting of software is a relatively new phenomenon; nor the inherent dangers in allowing 17 year exclusive protection in a field which relies on incremental, evolutionary changes, rather than "big bang" discoveries like the drug companies.
I'm on level 5 right now, in a maze of twisty little cubicles.
When was the last time you heard the word "elegant" used referring to a program?
But I gotta admit, I love the type safety and bang/line and the built-ins I get from languages like Java.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's circuit switched...
Oh come on. We've unilaterally invaded two different countries in the last four years because "we" didn't care for who was running them.
And this time next year, it'll be Syria.
Who???
It's the only way to be sure.
That was Hizzonor 1.0; we're talking about Hizzonor 2.0 here.
Two Chicago precinct captains are going through the cemetary, writing down names.
One of them comes to a headstone that's worn and faded, so he starts to rub it to make it out.
The other one says "Forget that one, there's plenty more here".
The first one says "No, this guys got just as much a right to vote as everyone else!"
I love this city.
If there had been a 10-year long "Newton vs. Leibniz" patent lawsuit?
What if one of them had gotten a patent?
Isn't this the very heart and soul of the original Dennis Ritchie/ATT "Oh yeah, by the way, you could do this in software, if you wanted to" very very first ever software patent??? You know, from back in the days when patents applied to physical objects?
Isn't this the very thing that started us down this particular slippery slope in the first place?
If Newton lived today, he wouldn't be allowed to "stand on the shoulders of giants"; the court-ordered gag rule in the ongoing multi-year, multi-billion lira patent/copyright/contract/FUD lawsuit between Galileo(TM) Inc and Copernicus(R) Corp would prevent him from making any public statements regarding Gravitational(C)(TM)(R) effects.
Of course, Newton should have spent his life and fortune in IP litigation with Leibniz...
Me, I'm working on my "A Method Of Preparing Comestible Substances Utilizing Rapid Oxygenation Of Hydrocarbon-Rich Materials" USPTO application...
They just misread it.
He was on the no-DRIVE list.
Sympathectomy?? Too easy. Insert favorite Republican joke here.
What do they do about the screaming and running away?