The most likely scenario involves the sales side seeing their stream of Yen dry up and demanding the restoration of service from their engineering group. Rinse, repeat hourly since the geeks pulled the plug with an ever increasingly rabid sales department demanding their blood.
I would agree that there are merits to replacing the commerce clause with language expanding the role of the federal government. However, aside from the fact that no state will willingly cede part let alone complete authority of self-determinacy there are problems with any type of consolidation of power. Chief among them is the increased difficulty in challenging said authority when you disagree.
A strong central government is un-American, states' rights are enshrined in the constitution. That's not going to change regardless of how much sense it does or does not make.
That is part of the story, but there is a larger "war on Internet sales" that the states are waging against e-commerce in general. Amazon (sp. Bezos) just happens to be the outspoken figurehead for the other side of this issue.
I'm totally out of my depth on this (so please forgive my ignorance...) but perhaps if I'm understanding properly we've already got a start on rectifying THz radiation.
It's not the platform, it's a combination of device capabilities and provider reluctance. Movies don't come cheap in terms of bandwidth and most carriers are caught in a combination of NIMBY and underinvestment in capacity.
Don't ever have children. Ever. I can just imagine you talking to your two year old now...
Little Girl: Daddy I did it! I went to the bathroom all by myself!
You: So? People have been going to the bathroom by themselves since the beginning of time. All you did was reproduce the work that countless billions have done before you. I swear you must be stupid or something because it took you two years to figure it out.
Part of the project requirements was that these students were to conduct their research with the assistance of a mentor. In Zhang's case his mentor was his sponsor, a researcher at the lab. Had she been the one to do the work and make the discovery I'm confident she'd be inclined to take the credit and collect the cash.
Oh come now, their project was first rate. They scraped a cow hide to get a gelatin protein which they then placed in ice cream to get smaller than usual crystals. They have no idea how it works but the ice cream is smoother which will of course means greater consumption of frozen desert products. This in turn increases the incident of obesity and secondary health problems such as diabetes, coronary artery disease etc.. Naturally they will come out ahead of Zhang since Cystic Fibrosis is a backwater disease and makes little money relative to the treatment of the health problems plaguing fat people.
The problem isn't simply "software" patents. It's patents in general. Software patents were segregated out mostly as a legal strategy but the same fouling of innovation applies to the physical world as well.
That doesn't solve "damages" for past use. They're not interested in eliminating competition--the original worthless/misguided purpose of patents. They're interested in fleecing anyone that happens over the bridge they're lying in wait under.
Consider micro ATX and smaller form factors or a notebook for that matter. It's perfectly possible to have a reliable, powerful platform in a tiny form factor. The problem is simply in trying to build them too cheap with low grade components and underrated power supplies, and insufficient cooling. Modern consoles are typically sold cheaper than their cost to make, if they can minimize the loss they will.
Sony was not at fault then? My insurance company should pay me for my stolen car even though I left the doors unlock, the key in the ignition? I can sue the driver of the car that ran me over because I chose to dart out onto a busy interstate highway?
There is culpability here because the actors at play chose to either consciously or otherwise conduct themselves in a manner that disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk (or possibly worse, a certain and unjustifiable risk) such that the material element (the crime) will result from their conduct. The disregard of this risk involves a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the actor's situation. The question is what degree of culpability they have. If they knowingly disregard these risks (such as Sony) they have a greater culpability than if they unknowingly disregard these risks (which may be the girl, but I was assuming a reasonable actor). If it was common practice for ordinary girls to run naked around prisons, or companies to take no consideration for network security then this would be different. This however, is not the common practice which makes these actors culpable.
Anonymous is a meme, just as the Laughing Man was a meme. Sure Anonymous may have groups that act in an organized fashion rather than individuals, however they are still just components that independently identify with and operate under the meme. The outward manifestation of this is as a hive mind or swarm intelligence. Individual units operating under a meme which produce in aggregate an emergent intelligence that operates as if but with out a centralized governance. This is the Laughing Man, this is Anonymous.
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The most likely scenario involves the sales side seeing their stream of Yen dry up and demanding the restoration of service from their engineering group. Rinse, repeat hourly since the geeks pulled the plug with an ever increasingly rabid sales department demanding their blood.
I would agree that there are merits to replacing the commerce clause with language expanding the role of the federal government. However, aside from the fact that no state will willingly cede part let alone complete authority of self-determinacy there are problems with any type of consolidation of power. Chief among them is the increased difficulty in challenging said authority when you disagree.
A strong central government is un-American, states' rights are enshrined in the constitution. That's not going to change regardless of how much sense it does or does not make.
That is part of the story, but there is a larger "war on Internet sales" that the states are waging against e-commerce in general. Amazon (sp. Bezos) just happens to be the outspoken figurehead for the other side of this issue.
It's worse than that. Counties and municipalities often opt to have their own sales tax levied in addition to the state tax.
How about close the corporate tax holes that permit the bean counter to shift profits overseas to avoid U.S. taxation.
I'm totally out of my depth on this (so please forgive my ignorance...) but perhaps if I'm understanding properly we've already got a start on rectifying THz radiation.
... cryptologist Bill Binney was found dead today in his New York apartment the victim of an apparent accident.
$25M (est.) which is three orders of magnitude closer than the value of this medical device technology relative to the payout.
It's not the platform, it's a combination of device capabilities and provider reluctance. Movies don't come cheap in terms of bandwidth and most carriers are caught in a combination of NIMBY and underinvestment in capacity.
No and for the same reasons: politics.
Don't ever have children. Ever. I can just imagine you talking to your two year old now...
Part of the project requirements was that these students were to conduct their research with the assistance of a mentor. In Zhang's case his mentor was his sponsor, a researcher at the lab. Had she been the one to do the work and make the discovery I'm confident she'd be inclined to take the credit and collect the cash.
Oh come now, their project was first rate. They scraped a cow hide to get a gelatin protein which they then placed in ice cream to get smaller than usual crystals. They have no idea how it works but the ice cream is smoother which will of course means greater consumption of frozen desert products. This in turn increases the incident of obesity and secondary health problems such as diabetes, coronary artery disease etc.. Naturally they will come out ahead of Zhang since Cystic Fibrosis is a backwater disease and makes little money relative to the treatment of the health problems plaguing fat people.
That's depressingly plausible...
The problem isn't simply "software" patents. It's patents in general. Software patents were segregated out mostly as a legal strategy but the same fouling of innovation applies to the physical world as well.
That doesn't solve "damages" for past use. They're not interested in eliminating competition--the original worthless/misguided purpose of patents. They're interested in fleecing anyone that happens over the bridge they're lying in wait under.
... but that seems almost as silly as a Security Consulting firm that doesn't test their own website for security holes.
I thought that was standard practice...
"Thanks for the warning now lets get back to the real issues... How are shareholder forecasts locking for next quarter?"
So that's how those water powered cars work! I knew there was something fishy about those...
There are plenty of geeks working on that right now...
Consider micro ATX and smaller form factors or a notebook for that matter. It's perfectly possible to have a reliable, powerful platform in a tiny form factor. The problem is simply in trying to build them too cheap with low grade components and underrated power supplies, and insufficient cooling. Modern consoles are typically sold cheaper than their cost to make, if they can minimize the loss they will.
Sony was not at fault then? My insurance company should pay me for my stolen car even though I left the doors unlock, the key in the ignition? I can sue the driver of the car that ran me over because I chose to dart out onto a busy interstate highway?
There is culpability here because the actors at play chose to either consciously or otherwise conduct themselves in a manner that disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk (or possibly worse, a certain and unjustifiable risk) such that the material element (the crime) will result from their conduct. The disregard of this risk involves a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the actor's situation. The question is what degree of culpability they have. If they knowingly disregard these risks (such as Sony) they have a greater culpability than if they unknowingly disregard these risks (which may be the girl, but I was assuming a reasonable actor). If it was common practice for ordinary girls to run naked around prisons, or companies to take no consideration for network security then this would be different. This however, is not the common practice which makes these actors culpable.
Anonymous is a meme, just as the Laughing Man was a meme. Sure Anonymous may have groups that act in an organized fashion rather than individuals, however they are still just components that independently identify with and operate under the meme. The outward manifestation of this is as a hive mind or swarm intelligence. Individual units operating under a meme which produce in aggregate an emergent intelligence that operates as if but with out a centralized governance. This is the Laughing Man, this is Anonymous.
Actually they are pointing fingers at "Anonymous" the meme as a way to deflect, distract, and punish all a the same time.