Even if copyright infringement is made a criminal offence (it's not right now as far as I know), to complex reality we live in means still the owner has to take some actions to sue the infringer.
might want to check on that, but the big FBI warning that came up on last nights DVD said 5 years in jail or $250K fine for copyright infringement.... I don't believe that they give jailtime for civil suits.
High RFI crystals grown on a continuous Low RFI acrylic fiber - more flexible than current glass and a crapload easier to do than gas depositing low RFI glass inside a high RFI glass tube & collapsing it without inclusions.
Titinate/Titinol*MeOH solution stablized with acid can be used to make clear holograms in a continuous rollform process, no reason it can't be tweaked to work on a fiber instead.
The big downside is it's [blink][font size=+2K]VERY moisture sensative during the coating process - 2% humidity change in the environment can crash the batch. But then again that's not a problem when you are working in a clean room.
--chemistry note - as the MeOH & acid evaporate, you get a crystal wavefront forming on the substrate with a RFI that varies depending on the exact composition of the solution.
One of the reasons I formulated my anarcho-capitalist belief system is based on finding that supply and demand really does set prices in the long haul, even if government and industry tries to manipulate prices in the short run.
If you want proof of that - National Geographic was doing a series on ancient Rome... In relationship to the price of a loaf of bread, the average cost of sexual favors from prostitutes hasn't changed between the 1st century BC and modern times.
More worthless information to surprise people with later.
What happens if you only like non-standard deviations?
Would that make them deviant deviations?
You might have to move this thread to someplace on the XXX TLD if it keeps going.
Oh that's right, a XXX TLD would legitimize the $12B porn industry.
USAK, USAL, USAR,...USVT.....
Check on the formal usage of the *.US domain. A fully qualified namespace was supposed to be:
service.name.city.state.US
I looked into it about 4 years ago when I wanted to do a personal domain but I really didn't want people to be able to drive into town & ask where I lived if they didn't like what I had to say.
The problem with software patents is not that patenting is ill-suited but rather that discovery of prior art and laziness by the PTO have resulted in questionable patents being issued. Even this isn't a problem, because when challenged and scrutinized those patents that are bad are discarded and those that are good are upheld. The problem lies in the cost to litigate this - essentially ensuring that the "little guy" must bow to the pressures of the multi-national corporation.
The problem is that most solutions that are obvious and derivative to people within a specialized community are insanely convoluted and novel to people even a step or 2 outside that community. As someone else just pointed out, NTP's patent can be interpreted to cover almost all Server/Client communication, yet it was granted AND upheld in the first round of legal action.
IANAL/A but I remember hearing/reading it averages about US$500,000 to invalidate the most obvious and stupid patent if it's contested.
I do agree that the time limit on patents is much more appropriate, but remember, the darn mouse just got the limits on copywrite protection extended. You think that if M$'s patent on pissing on customers was about to expire they wouldn't get it extended somehow?
A remote code execution flaw in IE executes code with the users rights, and therefore gets access to what the user has access too.
I beg to differ a bit here, I have to clean out my son't win2K system every 2-3 weeks because the free game sites he goes to keep installing spyware as admin.
Nice that the software removal tools don't have access from a restricted account to remove the spyware, but IE can install it for you just for saying yes I want to run active X and play the game.
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Even if copyright infringement is made a criminal offence (it's not right now as far as I know), to complex reality we live in means still the owner has to take some actions to sue the infringer.
might want to check on that, but the big FBI warning that came up on last nights DVD said 5 years in jail or $250K fine for copyright infringement.... I don't believe that they give jailtime for civil suits.
High RFI crystals grown on a continuous Low RFI acrylic fiber - more flexible than current glass and a crapload easier to do than gas depositing low RFI glass inside a high RFI glass tube & collapsing it without inclusions.
Titinate/Titinol*MeOH solution stablized with acid can be used to make clear holograms in a continuous rollform process, no reason it can't be tweaked to work on a fiber instead.
The big downside is it's [blink][font size=+2K]VERY moisture sensative during the coating process - 2% humidity change in the environment can crash the batch. But then again that's not a problem when you are working in a clean room.
--chemistry note - as the MeOH & acid evaporate, you get a crystal wavefront forming on the substrate with a RFI that varies depending on the exact composition of the solution.
One of the reasons I formulated my anarcho-capitalist belief system is based on finding that supply and demand really does set prices in the long haul, even if government and industry tries to manipulate prices in the short run.
If you want proof of that - National Geographic was doing a series on ancient Rome... In relationship to the price of a loaf of bread, the average cost of sexual favors from prostitutes hasn't changed between the 1st century BC and modern times.
More worthless information to surprise people with later.
What happens if you only like non-standard deviations?
Would that make them deviant deviations?
You might have to move this thread to someplace on the XXX TLD if it keeps going.
Oh that's right, a XXX TLD would legitimize the $12B porn industry.
If President Clinton can be impeached for an affair, what makes Bush immune from impeachment for lying and spying?
Two words:
Republican Congress
USAK, USAL, USAR,...USVT .....
Check on the formal usage of the *.US domain. A fully qualified namespace was supposed to be:
service.name.city.state.US
I looked into it about 4 years ago when I wanted to do a personal domain but I really didn't want people to be able to drive into town & ask where I lived if they didn't like what I had to say.
The problem with software patents is not that patenting is ill-suited but rather that discovery of prior art and laziness by the PTO have resulted in questionable patents being issued. Even this isn't a problem, because when challenged and scrutinized those patents that are bad are discarded and those that are good are upheld. The problem lies in the cost to litigate this - essentially ensuring that the "little guy" must bow to the pressures of the multi-national corporation.
The problem is that most solutions that are obvious and derivative to people within a specialized community are insanely convoluted and novel to people even a step or 2 outside that community. As someone else just pointed out, NTP's patent can be interpreted to cover almost all Server/Client communication, yet it was granted AND upheld in the first round of legal action.
IANAL/A but I remember hearing/reading it averages about US$500,000 to invalidate the most obvious and stupid patent if it's contested.
I do agree that the time limit on patents is much more appropriate, but remember, the darn mouse just got the limits on copywrite protection extended. You think that if M$'s patent on pissing on customers was about to expire they wouldn't get it extended somehow?
A remote code execution flaw in IE executes code with the users rights, and therefore gets access to what the user has access too. I beg to differ a bit here, I have to clean out my son't win2K system every 2-3 weeks because the free game sites he goes to keep installing spyware as admin. Nice that the software removal tools don't have access from a restricted account to remove the spyware, but IE can install it for you just for saying yes I want to run active X and play the game.