You have a fair point. However, the police is being paid by the public and show no initiative as an organization to act this way as well. That's two ways it has to come from. The third is the government that is chosen and paid for by the corporatio^Wpublic. They don't show any initiative to change the current status quo as well. Until then, it's best to assume that talking to the police makes you a criminal, whether you committed a crime or not. Maybe we should start thinking about a different way to fund government and police. That could be the only solution to this in the long run.
Would it surprise you if the government already uses such "apps" and cops on the street had it in their patrol cars? Sure, tin foil hat alert, but when some creep uses it to smooth talk women and there's public outcry, why let cops, or robbers (burglars can also get all this info on you, including how far from your home you are) get away with it? It's about time people started understanding what privacy is about and this app does just that.
I'm all for a few more iterations of this, just so the public gets aware of what is really done with all their information.
What do the treaties between NZ and the USA say about this? It was a summary judgement, since the American company failed to defend itself entirely, but it just might be enough reason for a US judge to allow confiscation of all assets of the company that ignored the patent.
But at least in most of this world, governments have no laws prohibiting them to own patents. However, there are some treaties like in the EU, where local governments aren't allowed to make a profit out of any commercial activity, without paying taxes over said profit. This is merely to insure a level playing field where commercial companies get fair competition. In summary, there is no real reason why governments shouldn't own patents, just as long as it's not unfair competition to commercial entities.
It's not just about content creators. I wonder where Adobe will think the money will come from once they kill flash. PDF is a dead format with all the proprietary e-books and alternative software for them. PostScript is more or less the same with every printer supporting PCL these days better than PostScript. The content editing suites is the only thing left I can think of. I really have my doubts there will be more money to be made with totally focusing on that?
Which good non-proprietary codecs with a wide acceptance are out there? Don't say HTML5, because that's only a container, not a codec. The codecs currently supported in HTML5 are all proprietary as far as I know.
Transparency does not mean it will allow anything even remotely close to a clear picture to be transmitted through. Ever tried looking through scotchtape? That's what's on the camera in my work laptop (employer provided, no admin rights).
It's all spent in military departments, according to TFA. I really doubt the community will see much back from this investment in the form of better open source tooling, since a lot of it will be used to deal with military secret stuff, no doubt.
Also, given the amount of black ops money spent there and the "regular budget", this is nothing. The F22 project alone has budget overruns that make this look like pocket change.
At least they didn't bother if their presidential candidates weren't born on Roman soil. Isn't it illegal to ask a presidential candidate about this as well, if it's illegal to ask a job applicant for these details?
Europe doesn't have a constitution, it's not even a nation or anything like that. There was an attempt at a European constitution, but it was voted down in referendums in several countries in the EU.
You are forgetting you essentially have a very large radioactive building, even if you take the fuel rods out and (re)use them somewhere else. Either encapsulate the building in a thick layer of concrete where it is now, or take it apart with extreme costs to prevent dust escaping. You then have an enormous mount of radioactive building waste. Yes, most of the radioactivity levels will be relatively low, but they would be too high to just dispose of the rubble in a normal way.
The cost would be in either disposing of the rubble, having manned guards and maintenance crews for the building for centuries or a lot of deconstruction and reconstruction to replace the outer structure with an impenetrable concrete shell. Not disposing of the fuel rods, that is relatively cheap compared to what's left after that.
You should visit Amsterdam. $10 an hour is "normal" there for government owned parking spaces which are, incidentally, 97% or so of the available parking spaces. Never underestimate the power of free market once the government gets into it. They get to decide who gets to build parking spaces in their buildings and there are never enough allowed if you want the building permit to be given.
Will still be using cash, even when forced to use a foreign currency or plain gold. Maybe the "official economy" will become cashless, but unless you can make a direct barter deal, some form of currency will still be used to exchange goods or services.
There have always been alternative ways to study or get good at something, next to a formal school. Home schooling is a common and not unpopular way of educating children in the USA, for instance.
The reason you go to university is because you learn to do a lot of things like team work, social skills, negotiating, working in projects, dealing with supervisors without having to wear a uniform and all that.
Every time you pass a milestone at university, people will know your skill level, even if it's not directly tailored to a "real job". There is some form of warranty in hiring someone that doesn't have a lot of on the job experience, but does have a degree with good grades at a well established institute. Those don't give out degrees to people that aren't up to the standards they advertize with and why they can and will ask more money for from their students. As long as your contribution as a teacher is valuable enough to those extra things, there will be a university wanting to pay your salary for that.
Isn't an american citizen free to travel through the USA without being held at checkpoints by some part of the USA constitution? I'm not a citizen, nor do I live in the USA, but this is something that I understand is (or at least should be) in the USA constitution. Having to travel through a checkpoint every day does violate that.
It's not about ozone. However unhealthy ozone may be if you inhale it, it's easily dealt with. It's about micro-particles containing cancerous substances. As anybody in the toner-industry can tell you, it's incredibly unhealthy to breath in toner dust. Laser printers come with a plethora of particle filters (at least the professional ones do) so you can actually use them in an office without being exposed to levels of danger anywhere near the average tobacco smoking addict or worse. As long as the proper procedure is followed when doing maintenance and exchanging toner, you don't get a lot of exposure, but if you shoot up the toner particles so fine that they become air born, there may be a whole new problem. It's already proven that micro particles from diesel engines, brake pads and tires near roads are very bad for your health, regardless of the carcinogenic qualities of said particles.
Once you start blasting significant amounts of micro size particles containing known carcinogenics in to the air of the average office, you'll be in major trouble as a manufacturer. This means that a laser-unprinter would probably have to have a very elaborate filtering system set up and special (think asbestos style) removal crews come to do service and maintenance on them.
How many pieces of paper would still look good after the toner would be blasted off? Finger prints, coffee stains and creases would probably still be visible. I doubt you could recycle more than 25% or so of all printed paper. Even worse, for quite a lot of paper it wouldn't be obvious that it doesn't look good enough for re-use until after you've un-printed it.
Civilization is based on the principle that you take somebody else's effort and use it, improve it and teach your children about it. If humans wouldn't copy each others behavior and products, we'd still be "sitting in trees eating bananas". Copyright was "invented" to protect the small man against big corporations getting off with the brink of the money of what their effort was. It took less than 100 years for corporations to find a way to bend that concept to their benefit and essentially screw the small man out of almost all of the money. For every millionaire music artist, there are thousands that ended up paying more to the record company than making their record cost in the first place. For every millionaire music artist, there are at least three millionaire music industry executives. Try finding funding for a movie that won't make the movie industries millions for certain. It's not about how much it will make the actors or the people making the movie, or if there might be a profit in it at all, or even the artistic value of the movie. It's about profit for big record companies, that will all go to people that won't need to work a day of their life anymore and still not be hungry, needy or poor.
Maybe, just maybe, there is virtue in copyrighting medication, but that industry tends to be mostly focused on erection pills and symptom suppression, not on curing important diseases.
Never tell your MO. You have just described the guy that hacked my employers systems. The only way you know how they did that, is if you were that guy. Busted!
It's about time that the Internet cut it's ties with a government that has shown to have no respect for it's International character. If I had a vote, I'd vote for both ICANN and IANA to be distributed over several well informed, democratic countries that have no real political or economical ties to each other, or to single large other countries. Sure, it's hard to find those, you may have to compromise, but anything is better than to have a corpocracy rule the Internet by yanking domains and deciding what TLDs are allowed.
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You have a fair point. However, the police is being paid by the public and show no initiative as an organization to act this way as well. That's two ways it has to come from. The third is the government that is chosen and paid for by the corporatio^Wpublic. They don't show any initiative to change the current status quo as well. Until then, it's best to assume that talking to the police makes you a criminal, whether you committed a crime or not. Maybe we should start thinking about a different way to fund government and police. That could be the only solution to this in the long run.
Would it surprise you if the government already uses such "apps" and cops on the street had it in their patrol cars? Sure, tin foil hat alert, but when some creep uses it to smooth talk women and there's public outcry, why let cops, or robbers (burglars can also get all this info on you, including how far from your home you are) get away with it? It's about time people started understanding what privacy is about and this app does just that.
I'm all for a few more iterations of this, just so the public gets aware of what is really done with all their information.
What do the treaties between NZ and the USA say about this? It was a summary judgement, since the American company failed to defend itself entirely, but it just might be enough reason for a US judge to allow confiscation of all assets of the company that ignored the patent.
But at least in most of this world, governments have no laws prohibiting them to own patents. However, there are some treaties like in the EU, where local governments aren't allowed to make a profit out of any commercial activity, without paying taxes over said profit. This is merely to insure a level playing field where commercial companies get fair competition. In summary, there is no real reason why governments shouldn't own patents, just as long as it's not unfair competition to commercial entities.
From what I understand, the founders have not done jail time but are fugitives, with a price on their head and all that.
It's not just about content creators. I wonder where Adobe will think the money will come from once they kill flash. PDF is a dead format with all the proprietary e-books and alternative software for them. PostScript is more or less the same with every printer supporting PCL these days better than PostScript. The content editing suites is the only thing left I can think of. I really have my doubts there will be more money to be made with totally focusing on that?
Which good non-proprietary codecs with a wide acceptance are out there? Don't say HTML5, because that's only a container, not a codec. The codecs currently supported in HTML5 are all proprietary as far as I know.
Most of these modern TVs have linux on them, but don't come with shell access and complete kernel sources....
Transparency does not mean it will allow anything even remotely close to a clear picture to be transmitted through. Ever tried looking through scotchtape? That's what's on the camera in my work laptop (employer provided, no admin rights).
It's all spent in military departments, according to TFA. I really doubt the community will see much back from this investment in the form of better open source tooling, since a lot of it will be used to deal with military secret stuff, no doubt.
Also, given the amount of black ops money spent there and the "regular budget", this is nothing. The F22 project alone has budget overruns that make this look like pocket change.
At least they didn't bother if their presidential candidates weren't born on Roman soil. Isn't it illegal to ask a presidential candidate about this as well, if it's illegal to ask a job applicant for these details?
That's nothing, in Alabama you'd be burned at the stake for witchcraft and electrickery.
Europe doesn't have a constitution, it's not even a nation or anything like that. There was an attempt at a European constitution, but it was voted down in referendums in several countries in the EU.
There is, but you get it in coupons for a cake store.
If all the five targets look just like Guy Fawkes.
You are forgetting you essentially have a very large radioactive building, even if you take the fuel rods out and (re)use them somewhere else. Either encapsulate the building in a thick layer of concrete where it is now, or take it apart with extreme costs to prevent dust escaping. You then have an enormous mount of radioactive building waste. Yes, most of the radioactivity levels will be relatively low, but they would be too high to just dispose of the rubble in a normal way.
The cost would be in either disposing of the rubble, having manned guards and maintenance crews for the building for centuries or a lot of deconstruction and reconstruction to replace the outer structure with an impenetrable concrete shell. Not disposing of the fuel rods, that is relatively cheap compared to what's left after that.
You should visit Amsterdam. $10 an hour is "normal" there for government owned parking spaces which are, incidentally, 97% or so of the available parking spaces. Never underestimate the power of free market once the government gets into it. They get to decide who gets to build parking spaces in their buildings and there are never enough allowed if you want the building permit to be given.
Will still be using cash, even when forced to use a foreign currency or plain gold. Maybe the "official economy" will become cashless, but unless you can make a direct barter deal, some form of currency will still be used to exchange goods or services.
There have always been alternative ways to study or get good at something, next to a formal school. Home schooling is a common and not unpopular way of educating children in the USA, for instance.
The reason you go to university is because you learn to do a lot of things like team work, social skills, negotiating, working in projects, dealing with supervisors without having to wear a uniform and all that.
Every time you pass a milestone at university, people will know your skill level, even if it's not directly tailored to a "real job". There is some form of warranty in hiring someone that doesn't have a lot of on the job experience, but does have a degree with good grades at a well established institute. Those don't give out degrees to people that aren't up to the standards they advertize with and why they can and will ask more money for from their students. As long as your contribution as a teacher is valuable enough to those extra things, there will be a university wanting to pay your salary for that.
Q. Tarantino. Now *that* would be a road trip, though I doubt you'd need a road.
Isn't an american citizen free to travel through the USA without being held at checkpoints by some part of the USA constitution? I'm not a citizen, nor do I live in the USA, but this is something that I understand is (or at least should be) in the USA constitution. Having to travel through a checkpoint every day does violate that.
It's not about ozone. However unhealthy ozone may be if you inhale it, it's easily dealt with. It's about micro-particles containing cancerous substances. As anybody in the toner-industry can tell you, it's incredibly unhealthy to breath in toner dust. Laser printers come with a plethora of particle filters (at least the professional ones do) so you can actually use them in an office without being exposed to levels of danger anywhere near the average tobacco smoking addict or worse. As long as the proper procedure is followed when doing maintenance and exchanging toner, you don't get a lot of exposure, but if you shoot up the toner particles so fine that they become air born, there may be a whole new problem. It's already proven that micro particles from diesel engines, brake pads and tires near roads are very bad for your health, regardless of the carcinogenic qualities of said particles.
Once you start blasting significant amounts of micro size particles containing known carcinogenics in to the air of the average office, you'll be in major trouble as a manufacturer. This means that a laser-unprinter would probably have to have a very elaborate filtering system set up and special (think asbestos style) removal crews come to do service and maintenance on them.
How many pieces of paper would still look good after the toner would be blasted off? Finger prints, coffee stains and creases would probably still be visible. I doubt you could recycle more than 25% or so of all printed paper. Even worse, for quite a lot of paper it wouldn't be obvious that it doesn't look good enough for re-use until after you've un-printed it.
Civilization is based on the principle that you take somebody else's effort and use it, improve it and teach your children about it. If humans wouldn't copy each others behavior and products, we'd still be "sitting in trees eating bananas". Copyright was "invented" to protect the small man against big corporations getting off with the brink of the money of what their effort was. It took less than 100 years for corporations to find a way to bend that concept to their benefit and essentially screw the small man out of almost all of the money. For every millionaire music artist, there are thousands that ended up paying more to the record company than making their record cost in the first place. For every millionaire music artist, there are at least three millionaire music industry executives. Try finding funding for a movie that won't make the movie industries millions for certain. It's not about how much it will make the actors or the people making the movie, or if there might be a profit in it at all, or even the artistic value of the movie. It's about profit for big record companies, that will all go to people that won't need to work a day of their life anymore and still not be hungry, needy or poor.
Maybe, just maybe, there is virtue in copyrighting medication, but that industry tends to be mostly focused on erection pills and symptom suppression, not on curing important diseases.
Never tell your MO. You have just described the guy that hacked my employers systems. The only way you know how they did that, is if you were that guy. Busted!
It's about time that the Internet cut it's ties with a government that has shown to have no respect for it's International character. If I had a vote, I'd vote for both ICANN and IANA to be distributed over several well informed, democratic countries that have no real political or economical ties to each other, or to single large other countries. Sure, it's hard to find those, you may have to compromise, but anything is better than to have a corpocracy rule the Internet by yanking domains and deciding what TLDs are allowed.