I know I have rented some cars in my time where it took me a couple minutes to figure out how to open the gas cap and that generally leaves a bad taste.
On every vehicle's gas cap, you should use your hands for removal, even though they're sweaty and your lips are parched.
While you can go on at length about having a network that's electronic, private, and secure, there is still some potential influence that a disgruntled employee (for example) could offer.
While there would obviously be a higher cost, having more than one network that you'd swipe your card through would be a fairly simple validation; have democrats run one and republicans run another. On the other hand, you'd perhaps need an odd number in case of ties, so have independents run a third.
To Promote Progress, I would suggest that, for every IP (trademark or patent if not also copyright) registered, within x amount of time and every y time thereafter a similar IP type be required registered.
For example, if someone had a patent for item A, within 10 years they'd have to patent another item B to keep A active, and within five more years a third item C to keep A active, and within five more years items D and E for A and B respectively. Failure to successfully provide another IP submission would cause a registered IP item of their choice to expire; noncommunication would default to their oldest registration.
On various Slashdot postings I've seen comments requiring more money for keeping registrations alive, but something like the above would be much easier on the FSF. And it would be more sensible for AbandonWare.
Better yet, have a standard set of boilerplate contract clauses maintained by the Federal Government. Things with Insert blah blah here for custom phrases. Number them. Make them easily accessible.
Then present your contracts with a list of numbers, plus spelled out paragraphs for anything that doesn't exactly match.
Funny, I thought that this was what the UCITA would provide. Oh well, so much for living up to its name.
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Wrong! cc's was at 6:29p and MrKai's higher rated redundant posting was a full two hours later at 8:34p. Just not fair.
Rather than use www.vb.com, I decided to use www.premierservices.com (216.71.167.241), the spammer with a T-1 referred to in today's earlier spamming article. I've tried 127.0.0.1 but since I don't have an httpd running in NT it just times out.
Suppose there was a class of patents that had a different period. It might be possible to change the wording on your patent such that it could be classified as a different class as well (a hybrid), thus earning the longer period.
Of course, there's the immediate argument that in any such case the shorter period should prevail, but that is likely to encounter much debate.
And for those who don't have VRML, here's are GIFs of a spinning buckyball and a flying buckyball (look out!). (Note: some artistic licensing here, but these buckyballs are all just theoretical anyway, right?)
If you buy a TiVo, it would probably behoove you to get a 30 hour unit with a 30 day price compare guarantee. Some stores (Outpost.com, tweeter.com, HiFi Buys) have already intermittently dropped the price to $399 then returned it to $699. With the Sony 30 hour unit coming out next month (see Sony news brief and pictures) for $399, you're almost guaranteed to get a price refund bigger than your tax refund! For more info, simply skim through the AVS Forum section on TiVo looking for 399.
Title VI - Patent and Trademark Office This takes up about half of the actual bill. Since I'm not totally familiar with the current structure of the PTO, this could either be a lot of re-wording, or (more likely) a complete restructuring of the office itself. Note that this seems to only apply to the PTO office/organization. It doesn't have anything to do with the types of patents issued, but how they do their day-to-day business, how they evaluate their staff, and pick their work force.
In Trudel's main(?) HR 1907 page, under THE MAIN THING TO REMEMBER, he complains about Title VI. The specific part that he mentions is Section 2(b)(6) on page 62. This paragraph says:
(6) may, when the Director determines that it is practicable, efficient, and cost-effective to do so, use, with the consent of the United States and the agency, government, or international organization concerned, the services, records, facilities, or personnel of any State or local government agency or instrumentality or foreign government or international organization to perform functions on its behalf;
If the "consent of the United States" became easily obtainable, I can see how this could be seen as a potential loss of sovereignty (although perhaps many non-US people would be arguably better at checking) but I don't see why he specifically points to Japan; a search thru the text of HR1907 for "japan" yields no hits.
The earlier issue(s) he mentions can be found in Section 3(a) on pages 65-68:
(1)... 'Director'... shall be appointed by the President...
(5) REMOVAL.--The Director may be removed from office by the President.
I believe that Federal Judges are less easily removed but there's more than one of them.
ZDNet has a newsburst and article on this subject (split-second accurate universal time), although the article states that they are geared toward GMT instead of UTC.
On Saturday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British government will throw their support behind a new initiative designed to create a universal time standard for global electronic commerce -- Greenwich Electronic Time or GeT. But GeT faces competition from at least two other timekeeping initiatives.
One other initiative in the article is GNT (Greenwich Net Time). I don't see the third initiative mentioned; the Swatch Internet Time system, from what I understand, isn't designed for synchronization.
Wouldn't buying the DVD and saying something like this be better?
"I'm here solely because I want to play this DVD on Linux. But the DVD CCA wants to take that ability away from me, and if they succeed I won't likely be patronizing your store anymore."
Isn't an active message better than a passive message?
DVDs provide high quality images, such as motion pictures, digitally formatted on a convenient
5-inch disc that is resistant to wear and damage and allows for many attractive consumer features not presently available in other video formats. DVD video discs containing data comprising motion pictures in encrypted form can be played either on special purpose machines (?DVD Players?) or personal computers (?PCs?) equipped with DVD drives. Encryption is necessary to prevent copying of the copyrighted material on the DVD. In order that the copyrighted motion picture can be played, either form of player device requires implementation of the CSS algorithm and ?master keys? to carry out the decryption of the data stored on the disc. The implementation that provides this decryption function is developed by the licensees of DVD CCA using the detailed specifications which is provided by DVD CCA to such licensees.
and wondered about the non-metric (thus certainly non-ISO) language there. A 5-inch DVD-ROM won't even fit into my Toshiba notebook's drive! A quick Google search for dvd diameter shows the standard diameter to be 120mm, not 5 inches. Indeed, the third link (as of a few minutes ago) was to Compaq's DVD-ROM and had 4.7 inches right in the summary, no additional clicking required for the non-DVD-owning public! On my calculator, 120/25.4 is about 4.7244 which is closer to 4.5 than 5.0.
Would bringing a "live" DVD drive to the courthouse help, I wonder? (No, I'm not volunteering, I'll be in Washington state that day.)
MCI WorldCom is the nation's second biggest long-distance company and one of the world's biggest operators of the networks that make up the Internet, but has no wireless calling business.
Yet another article that claims that MCI WorldCom doesn't do wireless. But what about http://wireless.mci.com/ ? Admittedly, they use the word "reseller" up front, does that not count? I know they exist because my crazy roommate has service with them on a Motorola 3000. (When her phone isn't on, I do get an AirTouch error.)
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On every vehicle's gas cap, you should use your hands for removal, even though they're sweaty and your lips are parched.
While there would obviously be a higher cost, having more than one network that you'd swipe your card through would be a fairly simple validation; have democrats run one and republicans run another. On the other hand, you'd perhaps need an odd number in case of ties, so have independents run a third.
Would this be too expensive?
I think you missed the word "hang".
For example, if someone had a patent for item A, within 10 years they'd have to patent another item B to keep A active, and within five more years a third item C to keep A active, and within five more years items D and E for A and B respectively. Failure to successfully provide another IP submission would cause a registered IP item of their choice to expire; noncommunication would default to their oldest registration.
On various Slashdot postings I've seen comments requiring more money for keeping registrations alive, but something like the above would be much easier on the FSF. And it would be more sensible for AbandonWare.
http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~sbhs/department/scienc e/sanchez/box_kite.htm (near the bottom)
The middle cube arguably doesn't exist.
Do they accept COD?
Then present your contracts with a list of numbers, plus spelled out paragraphs for anything that doesn't exactly match.
Funny, I thought that this was what the UCITA would provide. Oh well, so much for living up to its name.
If I had some Karma to give...
Rather than use www.vb.com, I decided to use www.premierservices.com (216.71.167.241), the spammer with a T-1 referred to in today's earlier spamming article. I've tried 127.0.0.1 but since I don't have an httpd running in NT it just times out.
Something like this was mentioned already in a CNN article back in November, so I don't think I'll be going to hell now.
Of course, there's the immediate argument that in any such case the shorter period should prevail, but that is likely to encounter much debate.
(I just searched on both "cyber patrol" and "cyberpatrol" and got no hits on their nonsubscriber section.)
Even better than the above, Lego Buckyballs are new this year! (And you thought you'd need to resort to K'nex for a properly rendered buckyball!)
And for those who don't have VRML, here's are GIFs of a spinning buckyball and a flying buckyball (look out!). (Note: some artistic licensing here, but these buckyballs are all just theoretical anyway, right?)
(And don't forget about the DirecTV rebate!)
In Trudel's main(?) HR 1907 page, under THE MAIN THING TO REMEMBER, he complains about Title VI. The specific part that he mentions is Section 2(b)(6) on page 62. This paragraph says:
If the "consent of the United States" became easily obtainable, I can see how this could be seen as a potential loss of sovereignty (although perhaps many non-US people would be arguably better at checking) but I don't see why he specifically points to Japan; a search thru the text of HR1907 for "japan" yields no hits.
The earlier issue(s) he mentions can be found in Section 3(a) on pages 65-68:
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... 'Director' ... shall be appointed by the President ... - (5) REMOVAL.--The Director may be removed from office by the President.
I believe that Federal Judges are less easily removed but there's more than one of them.Isn't an active message better than a passive message?
and wondered about the non-metric (thus certainly non-ISO) language there. A 5-inch DVD-ROM won't even fit into my Toshiba notebook's drive! A quick Google search for dvd diameter shows the standard diameter to be 120mm, not 5 inches. Indeed, the third link (as of a few minutes ago) was to Compaq's DVD-ROM and had 4.7 inches right in the summary, no additional clicking required for the non-DVD-owning public! On my calculator, 120/25.4 is about 4.7244 which is closer to 4.5 than 5.0.
Would bringing a "live" DVD drive to the courthouse help, I wonder? (No, I'm not volunteering, I'll be in Washington state that day.)
You did enter 75MHz so it must've been a typo.
Yet another article that claims that MCI WorldCom doesn't do wireless. But what about http://wireless.mci.com/ ? Admittedly, they use the word "reseller" up front, does that not count? I know they exist because my crazy roommate has service with them on a Motorola 3000. (When her phone isn't on, I do get an AirTouch error.)