This isn't patent law. It's not a search for prior art. If the movie wasn't made by either of these women or staring either of these women as the 'geek girl' this is irrelevant.
I wonder if either of them will actually have established valid use rights under this dispute. Geekgirl would almost surely be descriptive and as such would need to prove secondary meaning under the American system. Even assuming that the AU system would have issued a trademark registration to the first girl, it's only a priority date for intent to use. She needs to actually produce a good or service and it's going to be interesting if they say some blog posts are a good or service are enough to establish this use. What will likely happen is the second will fold like a cheap suit despite the fact that she would win if she had competent counsel.
Because this has worked so well for the multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industr... oh wait. Nope. Your logic fails. Yes, there may be a shred of truth to your logic, but the only thing you state as likely that would actually come true is that there would be far more of it. Something we don't need.
I am not in any way against legal porn, and actually think it's a bit too regulated as it is.
Child porn will generally get you in trouble in just about every western jurisdiction. This is not news. This was not just a singular administrative action born in the middle of the night. This started over a year ago and was the culmination of a legal proceeding where they apparently proved that this entity was actively recruiting nefarious clients to host child porn and other illegal activities.
This one smacks more of sensationalist summary writing than of government censorship or unconstitutional takings.
I wonder how the seating configurations are for these planes. There is no scale provided so you wonder what they are calculating on, is it fuel per mile per passenger? Anything else would be irrelevant.
Agreed.
Perhaps this just shows that the information super highway doesn't run on ethanol. Also, due to the insane technology tariffs and taxes in place (see: ps2 still costing $800 USD) some countries are significantly behind the electronics/internet technology curve.
Brazil has less than 40% internet penetration (72M Users vs. 190M people) despite being the largest economy in South America and the tenth largest economy in the world. (USA is at about 75% internet penetration, 230M users vs 310M people, same sources)
You're missing the non-technical costs. That is there isn't nearly the same IP rights in a cd player (actually by now they are all but gone) but music still has life of the author+70 to contend with.
Additionally things get even more expensive in today's market with samples/covers/remixes and the big production costs. An old school singer/songwriter rock/folk album can be produced for next to nothing. On the other hand a rap/pop album can be 10-100 times this in production costs by the time the recording costs, producer fees, and applicable license fees have been paid.
Trust me, I think that album prices are way higher than appropriate or sustainable and this is definitely a step in the right direction, but your analysis is missing the true IP costs involved (which if you weren't aware was the real cost of a CD.)
But even if they 'brick' the Camry. They aren't going to replace his ~$20k automobile entirely simply because an onboard system got a bad update. They will spend the money to replace those internal components. This isn't a $200 hard disk or smart phone. It's a car. It's designed to have almost all of it's components replaced without redoing the whole damn car. That's why your engine isn't welded into the frame, and it's not because the average user is replacing their engine on day to day basis.
But the internet is provided through a contract with Verizon Wireless, the $49.99Million/mo 'Unlimited' plan includes 100Mb of data 25k/25k transfer speeds and 1 email account.
I can't believe it took this far to get someone to point out this logical hole. US security wasn't breached. The guy was flying into the US from the Netherlands... where they are already using these scanners.
Why is it that we need to beef up American security if it isn't American Security that failed. Security theater doesn't actually make us safer, in actuality it likely makes us less safe by assuming its working.
They keep successfully bombing us every day... with poor logic.
It's all about finding the point at which moving to IPv6 makes sense. Why would anyone develop commercially for IPv6 right now. There is no reason to, virtually nothing supports it. It creates a critical mass problem in that no one wants to make things for IP6 so no one uses IP6 because no one makes... It will take a government or similar authoritative body to mandate a change over. Otherwise, prepare to have this debate again in 2020, 2030 and so on.
Also it might be worth sticking in an editorial comment in the front page mentioning the dozens of companies with/8 blocks that don't need them (or deserve them).
I don't really care about this from the tinfoil hat perspective. If it's safe, and doesn't harm the fruit than I too will welcome our laser etched overlords with open arms.
Don't for one minute, however, think that this is a greener solution. Last I checked, lasers take energy, and lots of it, to make their innards work. I have never bit into a sticker, nor do I really care about the minuscule space they take up in landfills or however you chose to dispose of them. This is a counter productive solution from a green perspective. And really, where outside of a grocery store produce section do you see more than the occasional fruit label laying on the ground?
Also if you were really friendly composting tree huggers, you wouldn't be buying your produce from a megamart, you'd be eating locally grown produce you purchase directly from the farmer (sans sticker).
This summary is so laden with buzzwords and catch phrases that it's very likely that the above comments are right in that it's just an economic bailout to government contractors.
Most American High schools of any size have or can summon police officers to the school in pretty short order. I don't care how old school you are, the schools never used deadly force to enforce the rules we are talking about here.
How is this relevant though? We aren't talking about beating up the children and taking their phones. We are talking about confiscaiting the phone. Easy ramifications without physical violence include:
Confiscation
Detention
Suspension
Expulsion
Phones weren't allowed in my school, I got one with about 3 months to go before the end of senior year. If it rang in school it would have been confiscated. This is not corporal punishment and so discussing these lawsuits related to it is off-topic and unnecessary. How did you get to 5 pts for that?
I completely acknowledge that raid failure is fairly time independent. It could fail on day 0 or it could never fail (this is why backups are a good idea no matter the disk architecture). It's entirely based on a series of pseudo-random and inevitable events. On a large enough sample though, it takes a while to get to 50% failures.
Consumer drives have about a 5% annual failure rate. http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
That card will take less than 2 days to rebuild a drive. If you are reasonably vigilant about replacing failed drives, it will last a VERY long time. Raid 6 will have significantly lower failure rates still.
I wrote a utility a few months back to model this for work
Based on: A Raid 5 Array Consisting of 12 drives, and a hot spare(for auto-rebuilds)
a Failure Rate of : 0.013698630136986% or 5% annually
a rebuild time of 3 days per drive failure
and a maximum array life of 50
For 100 Trials the Average Life Was: 47.831616438356 years
Shortest life of the array was 4.9506849315068 years
Longest life of the array was 50 years
Average disk failures per year were: 0.58747753248553
Number of arrays never failed 93
Number of arrays died before 5 years 1
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This isn't patent law. It's not a search for prior art. If the movie wasn't made by either of these women or staring either of these women as the 'geek girl' this is irrelevant.
I wonder if either of them will actually have established valid use rights under this dispute. Geekgirl would almost surely be descriptive and as such would need to prove secondary meaning under the American system. Even assuming that the AU system would have issued a trademark registration to the first girl, it's only a priority date for intent to use. She needs to actually produce a good or service and it's going to be interesting if they say some blog posts are a good or service are enough to establish this use. What will likely happen is the second will fold like a cheap suit despite the fact that she would win if she had competent counsel.
Because this has worked so well for the multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industr... oh wait. Nope. Your logic fails. Yes, there may be a shred of truth to your logic, but the only thing you state as likely that would actually come true is that there would be far more of it. Something we don't need.
I am not in any way against legal porn, and actually think it's a bit too regulated as it is.
Found 'em.
Child porn will generally get you in trouble in just about every western jurisdiction. This is not news. This was not just a singular administrative action born in the middle of the night. This started over a year ago and was the culmination of a legal proceeding where they apparently proved that this entity was actively recruiting nefarious clients to host child porn and other illegal activities.
This one smacks more of sensationalist summary writing than of government censorship or unconstitutional takings.
I wonder how the seating configurations are for these planes. There is no scale provided so you wonder what they are calculating on, is it fuel per mile per passenger? Anything else would be irrelevant.
Agreed.
Perhaps this just shows that the information super highway doesn't run on ethanol. Also, due to the insane technology tariffs and taxes in place (see: ps2 still costing $800 USD) some countries are significantly behind the electronics/internet technology curve.
Brazil has less than 40% internet penetration (72M Users vs. 190M people) despite being the largest economy in South America and the tenth largest economy in the world. (USA is at about 75% internet penetration, 230M users vs 310M people, same sources)
You're missing the non-technical costs. That is there isn't nearly the same IP rights in a cd player (actually by now they are all but gone) but music still has life of the author+70 to contend with.
Additionally things get even more expensive in today's market with samples/covers/remixes and the big production costs. An old school singer/songwriter rock/folk album can be produced for next to nothing. On the other hand a rap/pop album can be 10-100 times this in production costs by the time the recording costs, producer fees, and applicable license fees have been paid.
Trust me, I think that album prices are way higher than appropriate or sustainable and this is definitely a step in the right direction, but your analysis is missing the true IP costs involved (which if you weren't aware was the real cost of a CD.)
It doesn't mean anything until we get request comparison numbers and there is more than one exemption for FOIA. What about the others?
The most dangerous phrase ever uttered by society "There ought to be a law..." and I'm a lawyer. This shit is just out of hand.
It's a good thing George Carlin is dead, cause this would kill him. I just keep replaying his stand up bit in my head.
Daintywoman: Think of the children! Think of the children! Think of th...
George: Fuck the Children! (And this is Mr. Conductor Talking)
But even if they 'brick' the Camry. They aren't going to replace his ~$20k automobile entirely simply because an onboard system got a bad update. They will spend the money to replace those internal components. This isn't a $200 hard disk or smart phone. It's a car. It's designed to have almost all of it's components replaced without redoing the whole damn car. That's why your engine isn't welded into the frame, and it's not because the average user is replacing their engine on day to day basis.
But the internet is provided through a contract with Verizon Wireless, the $49.99Million/mo 'Unlimited' plan includes 100Mb of data 25k/25k transfer speeds and 1 email account.
I can't believe it took this far to get someone to point out this logical hole. US security wasn't breached. The guy was flying into the US from the Netherlands... where they are already using these scanners.
Why is it that we need to beef up American security if it isn't American Security that failed. Security theater doesn't actually make us safer, in actuality it likely makes us less safe by assuming its working.
They keep successfully bombing us every day... with poor logic.
It's all about finding the point at which moving to IPv6 makes sense. Why would anyone develop commercially for IPv6 right now. There is no reason to, virtually nothing supports it. It creates a critical mass problem in that no one wants to make things for IP6 so no one uses IP6 because no one makes... It will take a government or similar authoritative body to mandate a change over. Otherwise, prepare to have this debate again in 2020, 2030 and so on.
/8 blocks that don't need them (or deserve them).
Also it might be worth sticking in an editorial comment in the front page mentioning the dozens of companies with
I don't really care about this from the tinfoil hat perspective. If it's safe, and doesn't harm the fruit than I too will welcome our laser etched overlords with open arms.
Don't for one minute, however, think that this is a greener solution. Last I checked, lasers take energy, and lots of it, to make their innards work. I have never bit into a sticker, nor do I really care about the minuscule space they take up in landfills or however you chose to dispose of them. This is a counter productive solution from a green perspective. And really, where outside of a grocery store produce section do you see more than the occasional fruit label laying on the ground?
Also if you were really friendly composting tree huggers, you wouldn't be buying your produce from a megamart, you'd be eating locally grown produce you purchase directly from the farmer (sans sticker).
Tough day to be Garmin or TomTom, Wall Street is surely impressed with Droid's free GPS functionality. Garmin and TomTom are each down 15%+ today! http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/the-game-has-changed/
How does one manufacture a design?
This summary is so laden with buzzwords and catch phrases that it's very likely that the above comments are right in that it's just an economic bailout to government contractors.
It should blink, flash and rotate through colors - this is what this tag was made for!
Most American High schools of any size have or can summon police officers to the school in pretty short order. I don't care how old school you are, the schools never used deadly force to enforce the rules we are talking about here.
Phones weren't allowed in my school, I got one with about 3 months to go before the end of senior year. If it rang in school it would have been confiscated. This is not corporal punishment and so discussing these lawsuits related to it is off-topic and unnecessary. How did you get to 5 pts for that?
The UCC which is where the statute of frauds is based upon (not wikipedia) covers the sale of goods AND SERVICES.
Fonts are specifically exempt from copyright.
Statute of frauds my good man. Over $5,000 - no contract without writing.
Lawyer's in the clear for the $1m - still may be disbarred though.
I completely acknowledge that raid failure is fairly time independent. It could fail on day 0 or it could never fail (this is why backups are a good idea no matter the disk architecture). It's entirely based on a series of pseudo-random and inevitable events. On a large enough sample though, it takes a while to get to 50% failures.
MTBF is decades.
Consumer drives have about a 5% annual failure rate. http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
That card will take less than 2 days to rebuild a drive. If you are reasonably vigilant about replacing failed drives, it will last a VERY long time. Raid 6 will have significantly lower failure rates still.
I wrote a utility a few months back to model this for work
Based on: A Raid 5 Array Consisting of 12 drives, and a hot spare(for auto-rebuilds)
a Failure Rate of : 0.013698630136986% or 5% annually
a rebuild time of 3 days per drive failure and a maximum array life of 50
For 100 Trials the Average Life Was:
47.831616438356 years
Shortest life of the array was 4.9506849315068 years
Longest life of the array was 50 years
Average disk failures per year were: 0.58747753248553
Number of arrays never failed 93
Number of arrays died before 5 years 1