You seem to be oblivious to the distributed dead-man switch of internet data release/publication.
I die. I forget to log into any one of many "magic" accounts out there, or something. A script in several places on the net times out, and lets the cat out of the bag on Usenet.
ask for *WAY* more than it would take to kill you professionally. *WE* of technologically endowed brain, beyond good and evil are the masters here.
aliebrah got all stupid before posting by assuming that because the Times article mentioned the Internet and the web that visa.com's web server must be implicated somehow. How do we know this guy wasn't war-dialing for modem pool numbers (no Internet involved, just the POTS PSTN)?
I'm from Chicago where they used to say "If your mother tells you something CHECK IT OUT!" Shame on you for magnifying the noise!
Rather than just adding the promiscuous nntp relay hosts to a deny list, they should slap the owner of the host IP with penalties. Lack of abuse policy aside: the nice athome users get the shaft when a few lusers abuse their Internet membership. Athome has an obligation to their well-behaved users. What is not accounted for here is the general distrust and dislike for anyone coming from athome. As far as the rest of the net is concerned they suck until they prove themselves worthy. How many admins have put @home in their killfiles for how long before the UDP threat? It should not have gone this far, and Athome has not sufficiently apologised or changed their policy direction.
This does not appear to threaten our genetic identities with patents.
Think twice; type once.
Patents cover processes that can be expressed as instructions. If someone says a device is patented this actually means the process of creating that device is patented.
Think of this as patenting a function.
Certain genes and
a target genetic sequence
are the inputs. You can't patent the inputs: patent law covers the *way* you bring them together. For Example: (cat flames>/dev/null)If I take the RTFM gene from Linus Torvalds, and I point out the spot where I can splice the gene into anyone's DNA then I *may* be able to patent the process of making you all RTFM. I would NOT have a patent on your genes (before or after you get a clue) or the RTFM gene sequence itself.
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You seem to be oblivious to the distributed dead-man switch of internet data release/publication.
I die. I forget to log into any one of many "magic" accounts out there, or something. A script in several places on the net times out, and lets the cat out of the bag on Usenet.
ask for *WAY* more than it would take to kill you professionally. *WE* of technologically endowed brain, beyond good and evil are the masters here.
aliebrah got all stupid before posting by assuming that because the Times article mentioned the Internet and the web that visa.com's web server must be implicated somehow. How do we know this guy wasn't war-dialing for modem pool numbers (no Internet involved, just the POTS PSTN)?
I'm from Chicago where they used to say "If your mother tells you something CHECK IT OUT!" Shame on you for magnifying the noise!
Rather than just adding the promiscuous nntp relay hosts to a deny list, they should slap the owner of the host IP with penalties. Lack of abuse policy aside: the nice athome users get the shaft when a few lusers abuse their Internet membership. Athome has an obligation to their well-behaved users. What is not accounted for here is the general distrust and dislike for anyone coming from athome. As far as the rest of the net is concerned they suck until they prove themselves worthy. How many admins have put @home in their killfiles for how long before the UDP threat? It should not have gone this far, and Athome has not sufficiently apologised or changed their policy direction.
Think twice; type once.
Patents cover processes that can be expressed as instructions. If someone says a device is patented this actually means the process of creating that device is patented.
Think of this as patenting a function.
- Certain genes and
- a target genetic sequence
are the inputs. You can't patent the inputs: patent law covers the *way* you bring them together. For Example: (cat flames>/dev/null)If I take the RTFM gene from Linus Torvalds, and I point out the spot where I can splice the gene into anyone's DNA then I *may* be able to patent the process of making you all RTFM. I would NOT have a patent on your genes (before or after you get a clue) or the RTFM gene sequence itself.