> which is ripping off rival pharmaceutical companies?
No, actually, as posted elsewhere here, most of this tribe's income comes from a casino which is legal because of its special legal status.
You can just think of this as the tribe letting these patent owners bet at a really high stakes table, the Federal court system.
(Yes, I realize that gambling income is also not your idea of "the Native Way of Life", but on the other hand, the "non-Native Way of Life" has mostly made "the Native Way of Life" a practical impossibility, so this is the weird result.)
Court cases are often named by "X vs. Y" where X is the name of the plaintiff and Y the name of the defendant. In this case, it was shortened to solely "X" which is "Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe" in this case.
And yes, usually the quotation marks are omitted. See, for example, the article in Wikipedia:
We more or less agree. You jump on my use of "represented" but I merely meant that periodically publishing the draft text during negotiations enables indirect representation via
> speak to your elected Senator if you have issues.
(OK, it's probably not "Senator" but some other politician or political appointee; and I believe other indirect means like public protest could also be effective) during the negotiations, and it will be more likely that the final text will be more palatable/beneficial to the public.
If you only punish the "originators", then a perfect defense is "I heard it from [insert worst enemy here]". I don't see a viable strategy for law enforcement here.
As posted elsewhere here, it seems this is mainly the Indian government trying to gloss over the problem that they do not manage to make remote areas safe and lawful, and child abductions / human trafficking is a big problem there.
Great. We get world peace for the price of a "War on Infringers Of All Those Anti-societal Treaty Terms"?
Can't we just have the best of both worlds?
Well, IMHO, the first step would be to stop negotiating all of those treaties in anti-democratic secrecy. I don't care if the communications of negotiations between the countries would be kept secret, but really, publish the current working draft terms periodically so that society can also be represented. The theory that a nation's government represents the interests of its citizens perfectly has been proven wrong, over and over, with various recent treaty negotiations being good evidence.
It is both tech and culture. there will always be people willing to put the lives of others at risk for "fun". This is just india's version of SWATTING. as gravewax pointed out you don't need to break encryption to provide tracability, you can do that without ever breaching the encryption or security of the message itself and without the company ever needing to see or store a single piece of information from the message.
gravewax's solution for this problem is about as useful as Ray Ozzie's to a different one, unfortunately.
They both "solve" technical problems while leaving the much harder societal/human ones unsolved.
Interesting information, but did you read the linked article? The project's ultimate goal is simulating all of the cells, and the post you replied to claims they are 30% of the way there.
I understand that licenses come in various versions, but really, calling a license "outdated" seems to me to be a loaded term. Unless some kind of legislative change somehow made offering the old licenses illegal, or changed the interpretation of their terms, they are still perfectly as valid as they were when they were adopted.
It's just PR-speak to sugarcoat/whitewash a management decision. What bugs me more than usual here, though, is the collateral damage from the mis-education of the public, who in general already don't understand IP-related stuff. (Imagining Linus Torvalds' reaction to receiving an email requesting that he issues a GPLv3 license for the kernel "because the old license is outdated and invalid".)
> Google stated that Viacom itself had "hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site".
Quote from Zahavah Levine, Chief Counsel, YouTube
> As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later > to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.
You should read the whole article, it's an eye-opener.
My understanding is that you have it backwards. Even if the judicial system of Austria doesn't thow this out before reaching the highest court in Austria, because Austria is part of the EU it could be appealed to the EU courts as contradicting the EU "E-commerce Directive" (possibly identical with the "Act" which was cited in the post).
IIRC, Germany and Spain both handed decisions to Google that Google News needed to pay for the "snippets" and all Google did was either shut down the service (Spain) or only show snippets for publishers which explicitly gave them a free license (Germany).
> The damn micro mirrors in the DLP chip are moving parts, they aren't going to last forever.
Don't apply macroscopic intuition on a scale where it doesn't work. The reason the mirrors on a DLP stop working is that the lubricant gas eventually fails to stop the mirror from adhering to the mechanical stop it contacts. The intuition you are applying is that the failure is caused by breakage, but the hinge segment of a DLP mirror is close enough to the scale of atoms and constructed from a special alloy so that the breakage due to metal fatigue that macroscopic parts exhibit does not happen.
Another example: the DNA in your cells is moving all the time, winding and unwinding, and it doesn't break because it's a "moving part".
> but EarthSea was one of the first books I can recall reading
For some reason, the library of my primary school had a copy of "The Tombs of Atuan" (just that, not the whole EarthSea series) on the shelf. Yes, I certainly still remember reading that as an impressionable young child (maybe I was nine?).
Even though the experience creeped me out for life, I did eventually read a lot of her books, including the original EarthSea trilogy. My personal favorite is "The Lathe of Heaven".
Someone has cited an multi-thousand dollar cost per siren to fix the broken system which used unencrypted radio and touch tone signalling.
I'm sure that it is possible to set up a Raspberry Pi to authenticate the received touch tones in a way similar to the two-factor authentication fobs, at a much reduced cost, no? Or am I missing something?
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Just because a new company's business looks good or interesting, it doesn't mean that they will succeed. In fact, most of them will fail.
Evolution at work (or rather, at business).
Possibly. But I'd bet that more of their survivors will know what to do when there is no electricity, food delivery, etc.
OTOH, the lack of a government telling them what to do might be much more traumatic to them compared to us.
I'd prefer not to find out via experience, either way.
> which is ripping off rival pharmaceutical companies?
No, actually, as posted elsewhere here, most of this tribe's income comes from a casino which is legal because of its special legal status.
You can just think of this as the tribe letting these patent owners bet at a really high stakes table, the Federal court system.
(Yes, I realize that gambling income is also not your idea of "the Native Way of Life", but on the other hand, the "non-Native Way of Life" has mostly made "the Native Way of Life" a practical impossibility, so this is the weird result.)
Court cases are often named by "X vs. Y" where X is the name of the plaintiff and Y the name of the defendant. In this case, it was shortened to solely "X" which is "Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe" in this case.
And yes, usually the quotation marks are omitted. See, for example, the article in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Their casino isn't bad, as casinos go. Was only there on the off season, though.
But diversifying into taking money for no reason from patent trolls --- I'm all for it!
We more or less agree. You jump on my use of "represented" but I merely meant that periodically publishing the draft text during negotiations enables indirect representation via
> speak to your elected Senator if you have issues.
(OK, it's probably not "Senator" but some other politician or political appointee; and I believe other indirect means like public protest could also be effective) during the negotiations, and it will be more likely that the final text will be more palatable/beneficial to the public.
If you only punish the "originators", then a perfect defense is "I heard it from [insert worst enemy here]". I don't see a viable strategy for law enforcement here.
As posted elsewhere here, it seems this is mainly the Indian government trying to gloss over the problem that they do not manage to make remote areas safe and lawful, and child abductions / human trafficking is a big problem there.
Great. We get world peace for the price of a "War on Infringers Of All Those Anti-societal Treaty Terms"?
Can't we just have the best of both worlds?
Well, IMHO, the first step would be to stop negotiating all of those treaties in anti-democratic secrecy. I don't care if the communications of negotiations between the countries would be kept secret, but really, publish the current working draft terms periodically so that society can also be represented. The theory that a nation's government represents the interests of its citizens perfectly has been proven wrong, over and over, with various recent treaty negotiations being good evidence.
It is both tech and culture. there will always be people willing to put the lives of others at risk for "fun". This is just india's version of SWATTING. as gravewax pointed out you don't need to break encryption to provide tracability, you can do that without ever breaching the encryption or security of the message itself and without the company ever needing to see or store a single piece of information from the message.
gravewax's solution for this problem is about as useful as Ray Ozzie's to a different one, unfortunately.
They both "solve" technical problems while leaving the much harder societal/human ones unsolved.
And if that would work, then spam would not exist today. See URL https://craphound.com/spamsolu... ; A lot of us still remember...
> All WhatsApp need to do is attach unique identifiers to messages when created so that when forwarded they can be traced back to the source
Never heard of copy/paste, eh? Wow, this really, really reminds me of the "solution to spam" wars... Yes, I'm that old...
> accountability is the only thing that stops some people.
States the AC who claims (or other ACs claim here) that putting the accountability on murderous villagers doesn't stop them.
> the only real option
You (or other ACs) keep posting this. Unfortunately, I think it does mean what you think it means.
That doesn't mean it's correct, however. No matter how many mod points you or your supporters have.
> Certainly hasn't worked in the UK or the US, perhaps there are other better education systems somewhere?
For humanities sake, I certainly hope so.
> the only way
Citation needed. This whole thing is like the flame wars over "the solution to spam".
I have a different "solution". Hold the policeman of the village "accountable", instead.
Interesting, however that this is modded up. WTF?
Interesting information, but did you read the linked article? The project's ultimate goal is simulating all of the cells, and the post you replied to claims they are 30% of the way there.
BTW, C. Elegans only has 50 glial cells.
> message posted from my iphoneMLXVII
Good to know that sometime in the future, Apple will upgrade its software to help its users post properly on Slashdot...
I understand that licenses come in various versions, but really, calling a license "outdated" seems to me to be a loaded term. Unless some kind of legislative change somehow made offering the old licenses illegal, or changed the interpretation of their terms, they are still perfectly as valid as they were when they were adopted.
It's just PR-speak to sugarcoat/whitewash a management decision. What bugs me more than usual here, though, is the collateral damage from the mis-education of the public, who in general already don't understand IP-related stuff. (Imagining Linus Torvalds' reaction to receiving an email requesting that he issues a GPLv3 license for the kernel "because the old license is outdated and invalid".)
The post you are replying to may be thinking about what was discovered during
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
I summarize:
> Google stated that Viacom itself had "hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site".
Quote from Zahavah Levine, Chief Counsel, YouTube
> As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later
> to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.
You should read the whole article, it's an eye-opener.
My understanding is that you have it backwards. Even if the judicial system of Austria doesn't thow this out before reaching the highest court in Austria, because Austria is part of the EU it could be appealed to the EU courts as contradicting the EU "E-commerce Directive" (possibly identical with the "Act" which was cited in the post).
IIRC, Germany and Spain both handed decisions to Google that Google News needed to pay for the "snippets" and all Google did was either shut down the service (Spain) or only show snippets for publishers which explicitly gave them a free license (Germany).
Frankly, I doubt that this has much chance of surviving the whole process including appeals.
And even if it does, all that would happen would be geoblocking of Austria by YouTube.
The source is supposedly in a different repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/o...
See: https://github.com/Microsoft/P...
OTOH, by not reading the repo README, you are supporting a long /. tradition, bravo!
> The damn micro mirrors in the DLP chip are moving parts, they aren't going to last forever.
Don't apply macroscopic intuition on a scale where it doesn't work. The reason the mirrors on a DLP stop working is that the lubricant gas eventually fails to stop the mirror from adhering to the mechanical stop it contacts. The intuition you are applying is that the failure is caused by breakage, but the hinge segment of a DLP mirror is close enough to the scale of atoms and constructed from a special alloy so that the breakage due to metal fatigue that macroscopic parts exhibit does not happen.
Another example: the DNA in your cells is moving all the time, winding and unwinding, and it doesn't break because it's a "moving part".
There is a lot of wisdom in what Dijkstra said. A similar problem, not from computer science but rather neuroscience, has been discussed by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
My big problem with this, however, is: when you (or others) say
> They do not understand nor comprehend.
or
> They're not intelligent.
what exactly do you mean? How can I test your statements?
> but EarthSea was one of the first books I can recall reading
For some reason, the library of my primary school had a copy of "The Tombs of Atuan" (just that, not the whole EarthSea series) on the shelf. Yes, I certainly still remember reading that as an impressionable young child (maybe I was nine?).
Even though the experience creeped me out for life, I did eventually read a lot of her books, including the original EarthSea trilogy. My personal favorite is "The Lathe of Heaven".
Someone has cited an multi-thousand dollar cost per siren to fix the broken system which used unencrypted radio and touch tone signalling.
I'm sure that it is possible to set up a Raspberry Pi to authenticate the received touch tones in a way similar to the two-factor authentication fobs, at a much reduced cost, no? Or am I missing something?