I should not have to patrol the internet to make sure my copyrights are not being violated
Why not? They're YOUR copyrights. It's your responsibility to ensure they're being protected since you're the only party that can file suit against infringers. It's not my responsibility to make sure you're being protected, nor is it Google's.
I can think immediately of the counter-argument: "If you can't do it properly, please don't do it until you can."
We're sorry, but you cannot post this until it has been properly vetted by the Italian government. Your reply will now be redacted until the proper authorities can verify your post does not violate anyone else's rights or privacy. . . . In fact it would be likely, in your example, that of this discussion would likely be happening because Taco would still swamped under posts that say 'Why isn't this in idle?'
The same goes for any other message board, forum or community site that has visitor interaction. Imagine trying to filter Facebook or Twitter. You say free speech would not be harmed? I'm at a loss to understand how you could believe that.
What stops there from being, say, 86 actual cases, but they only speak out about 43...hence pick the most or least damning incidents, whichever spins things the best way?
I'm honestly curious about this part: "Also, even if they do make a product this time, does that really excuse killing the products of other companies via patents on things they haven't actually built or sold?" Like?
This isn't NTP (so far.) IV designs stuff. They built a prototype in this case. They haven't gone to litigation. It's a think tank that's working outside of a mega-corp's normal RAND department.
Is it possible that, *gasp*, this company is actually trying to do good? Or do we just apply the 'patent troll' to any company that doesn't make tangible product? (BTW, ARM doesn't make the chips that go in the devices that use them. Does that make them a patent troll too?)
But we can't just put IV in the same boat as NTP; while both are in the business of acquiring patents, IV puts the effort into developing technology as well which this prototype demonstrates.
IMO, this is part of what the patent system is for. Sure, instead of the individual inventor working out of a basement it's a well funded think tank licencing out their design, but the end result is the same: the patents fund their research while the fobbers make profit off the tangible product.
They develop chip designs and then licence them out to other companies. But they don't make the chips themselves.
Explain to me how it's ok for ARM to licence out technology they develop, hold the rights to but do not produce, while it's not ok for IV to follow the same model.
So we have a conflict of definition here... IV actually makes product. Ok, they don't have the scale or facilities to mass produce things to the public. So what? nVidia doesn't make graphics cards, they just licence out their GPUs. ARM doesn't make product, they just licence out their chip designs.
Seems to me IV is a business of RAND rather than physical product.
FTFA: The breakthrough relied on understanding how the technology that guides the precision of laser printing could be combined with the image-detecting charge-coupled devices, or C.C.D.’s, used in digital cameras and powerful image processing software.
My problem with the drill isn't so much the touch factor (vibration)...it's the secondary factors, like the smell and the noise. Those can't be addressed with technique on the part of the driller.
And speaking of global warming, isn't this this coldest winter on record?
Hmm...any unusual weather patterns? So. Cal was having an unusually cold winter. But conversely Alaska was unusually warm. Were, say, Iceland or Greenland having unusual highs?
Yeah, sadly that part requires research instead of ZOMG ITS COLD!!
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As Spirit has shown, a patch of ground that a person could stride over can lodge a rover in it permanently.
Now, did we have just bad luck with the soft ground, or did we have exceptional luck the rest of the time?
Plus, the moon is slightly less likely to have the dust devils that have been graciously dusting off the panels.
If only Harrod's wasn't destroyed we could've gotten an ebony conical bath to try that with.
Or how do you make long term plans when your mission objectives change from administration to administration?
I should not have to patrol the internet to make sure my copyrights are not being violated
Why not? They're YOUR copyrights. It's your responsibility to ensure they're being protected since you're the only party that can file suit against infringers. It's not my responsibility to make sure you're being protected, nor is it Google's.
Err, that's "this discussion would likely NOT be happening..." in paragraph 2.
I can think immediately of the counter-argument: "If you can't do it properly, please don't do it until you can."
We're sorry, but you cannot post this until it has been properly vetted by the Italian government. Your reply will now be redacted until the proper authorities can verify your post does not violate anyone else's rights or privacy.
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In fact it would be likely, in your example, that of this discussion would likely be happening because Taco would still swamped under posts that say 'Why isn't this in idle?'
The same goes for any other message board, forum or community site that has visitor interaction. Imagine trying to filter Facebook or Twitter. You say free speech would not be harmed? I'm at a loss to understand how you could believe that.
Well, what should be in place is if the laptop goes off campus, the family needs to pay a security deposit in advance.
What stops there from being, say, 86 actual cases, but they only speak out about 43...hence pick the most or least damning incidents, whichever spins things the best way?
Yeah, just mentally replace it with either 'open the shutters' or 'uncover the windows'.
Looks more like the front of a Tie Fighter
Or a can of peanut brittle with those compressed snakes
I'm a bigger fan of when he said Aaron Fornarino doesn't exist...and then a paper ran a story on this 'non-existant' guy.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/mike-meet-aaron-he-lives-500m-from-your-office/story-e6frea6u-1225826082741
Now...if it was Mr Fornarino who slipped the letter, we're in the clear, cause he doesn't exist!
FWIW, the bikers did indeed barbecue and eat a cat.
Which is in direct contradiction with the article that says:
He was later forced to apologise. The animal was not a cat, the incident happened at another location and bikies weren't involved.
So...what am I supposed to make of this?
They've designed more than just a skeeter zapper.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=tr10&id=22114
I'm honestly curious about this part: "Also, even if they do make a product this time, does that really excuse killing the products of other companies via patents on things they haven't actually built or sold?" Like?
This isn't NTP (so far.) IV designs stuff. They built a prototype in this case. They haven't gone to litigation. It's a think tank that's working outside of a mega-corp's normal RAND department.
Is it possible that, *gasp*, this company is actually trying to do good? Or do we just apply the 'patent troll' to any company that doesn't make tangible product? (BTW, ARM doesn't make the chips that go in the devices that use them. Does that make them a patent troll too?)
Ahh, I get your point now.
But we can't just put IV in the same boat as NTP; while both are in the business of acquiring patents, IV puts the effort into developing technology as well which this prototype demonstrates.
IMO, this is part of what the patent system is for. Sure, instead of the individual inventor working out of a basement it's a well funded think tank licencing out their design, but the end result is the same: the patents fund their research while the fobbers make profit off the tangible product.
Looks like their products still rely on the IP licencing.
Without the licencing, there wouldn't be any need for the secondary market.
Why not? ARM has exactly the same business model.
They develop chip designs and then licence them out to other companies. But they don't make the chips themselves.
Explain to me how it's ok for ARM to licence out technology they develop, hold the rights to but do not produce, while it's not ok for IV to follow the same model.
Does ARM actually produce the chips that go into the devices that use them?
No. They licence them out to Samsung, Nokia, Conextant. Why is it ok for ARM to licence out their technology and not IV?
Name one product that ARM makes.
Patent trolls do not make things or have the desire to make things.
IV developed and showed off a working skeeter zapper prototype. Plus they have developed other technologies (Read the wiki on IV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures )
So we have a conflict of definition here... IV actually makes product. Ok, they don't have the scale or facilities to mass produce things to the public. So what? nVidia doesn't make graphics cards, they just licence out their GPUs. ARM doesn't make product, they just licence out their chip designs.
Seems to me IV is a business of RAND rather than physical product.
FTFA: The breakthrough relied on understanding how the technology that guides the precision of laser printing could be combined with the image-detecting charge-coupled devices, or C.C.D.’s, used in digital cameras and powerful image processing software.
Not exactly good marketing to link a product who's first review is a 1/5 star.
My problem with the drill isn't so much the touch factor (vibration)...it's the secondary factors, like the smell and the noise. Those can't be addressed with technique on the part of the driller.
Nobody is saying that climate change isn't happening.
Citation needed.
And speaking of global warming, isn't this this coldest winter on record?
Hmm...any unusual weather patterns? So. Cal was having an unusually cold winter. But conversely Alaska was unusually warm. Were, say, Iceland or Greenland having unusual highs?
Yeah, sadly that part requires research instead of ZOMG ITS COLD!!