Either he's a liar, or the European Patent Office is illegally granting software patents.
It's actually the latter, and illegally granting unenforceable patents (in the hopes actually, that the pressure will be on to change the legislation; and to make a good buck in between) is what we call "fraud".
Sadly, there is nobody who has jurisdiction over the EPO, so this fraud has been going on for the last 20 years..
And what exactly makes the FBI have these domains in the first place? It's not like they've won any judgement or even proved they were used for criminal activities. It does actually more look like some illegal scam on the side of the FBI.
Did the DOJ ever hear about the foundations of the State of Law, namely the separation of power?
Well, separation of power says THE FUCKING DOJ DOES NOT MAKE LAWS, not even propose! And if they're trying they're trying to subvert democracy itself. I'd call such an action treasonous and at least enough to fire all involved people within the DOJ immediately, with a ban of ever working in the DOJ again.
This shitty generation could die already and leave us alone. Trouble is, it's not "that generation" that's responsible for the trouble. I'm actually meeting total luddites, technical idiots, nincompoops that have no idea about what's even mathematically possible, and they're all younger than me. And a lot more authoritarian.
My generation is those that were teenagers when the Berlin wall fell. Apparently there's both an older generation of fuckwits that wants these walls again, like Trump, but also a younger one that's okay with them.
Yes, and he got it completely backwards: But smartphone encryption, one of the great public safety challenges of our time, remains almost entirely self-regulated. Encryption is the safety-measure here, it protects billions of people from identity theft, stalking, fraud and other crimes.
If you want to increase security and safety, you need to outlaw non-encrypted phones and any kind of law-enforcement access or other backdoor.
Yes, exactly what came to my mind. "What kind of looney tune is that Cyrus Vance character? Who in his right mind asks some Indiana PI legislator about mathematics?".
Re: I don't know, but I do know that Hillary would be worse
Hillary will finish what Obama started and put this country in the toilet. He didn't start it, whatever it was. Bush Jr. started it. Obama is doing exactly the same as Bush Jr., only worse.
Hell, Obama and Bush Jr. are making Bush Senior, Clinton and Reagan look good.
Of course, I don't really know whether they would pull an Obama as soon as they took office and reverted their positions by 180 degrees, but at least their positions aren't fascist and mercantilist crap from the get-go.
These days, young adult fiction is full of the stuff. That's because just about all the politicians try to ruin their respective countries by turning them into thoroughly oppressive dystopias.
Yes, we range the second-lowest when it comes to violent crimes (despite of having lots of guns; long guns however) but we also do something that must be terrifying for US Americans: We swear. A Lot. In public. On stages. In TV. On the fucking Internet. Everywhere.
Yes, that's precisely what is happening. There are still thousands of songs whose copyright is claimed fraudulently by people (or more likely: companies).
Books too, just do a google book search for an author that died before 1900.
Ah, no. The German version use the same melody, the lyrics are "Zum Geburtstag viel Glück, zum Geburtstag viel Glück, zum Geburtstag liebe ... Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!".
That's so close to the English lyrics I wouldn't even give a copyright on it, because it's not original enough. And I've also heard it in French and Italian. Same there.
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Re: Software
It's actually the latter, and illegally granting unenforceable patents (in the hopes actually, that the pressure will be on to change the legislation; and to make a good buck in between) is what we call "fraud".
Sadly, there is nobody who has jurisdiction over the EPO, so this fraud has been going on for the last 20 years..
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justification, well, like "judge ordered it"?
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State of Law
Well, separation of power says THE FUCKING DOJ DOES NOT MAKE LAWS, not even propose! And if they're trying they're trying to subvert democracy itself. I'd call such an action treasonous and at least enough to fire all involved people within the DOJ immediately, with a ban of ever working in the DOJ again.
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Trouble is, it's not "that generation" that's responsible for the trouble. I'm actually meeting total luddites, technical idiots, nincompoops that have no idea about what's even mathematically possible, and they're all younger than me. And a lot more authoritarian.
My generation is those that were teenagers when the Berlin wall fell. Apparently there's both an older generation of fuckwits that wants these walls again, like Trump, but also a younger one that's okay with them.
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Re:
But smartphone encryption, one of the great public safety
challenges of our time, remains almost entirely self-regulated.
Encryption is the safety-measure here, it protects billions of people from identity theft, stalking, fraud and other crimes.
If you want to increase security and safety, you need to outlaw non-encrypted phones and any kind of law-enforcement access or other backdoor.
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Indiana Pi Legislators
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You're probably right, although I think Winston Churchill was quite good -- but only in wartime. He was terrible otherwise.
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Re: I don't know, but I do know that Hillary would be worse
He didn't start it, whatever it was. Bush Jr. started it. Obama is doing exactly the same as Bush Jr., only worse.
Hell, Obama and Bush Jr. are making Bush Senior, Clinton and Reagan look good.
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Re: Re: Nether canidate is worth a pile of beans
Of course, I don't really know whether they would pull an Obama as soon as they took office and reverted their positions by 180 degrees, but at least their positions aren't fascist and mercantilist crap from the get-go.
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Re: Cautionary fiction
That's because just about all the politicians try to ruin their respective countries by turning them into thoroughly oppressive dystopias.
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Swearing foreigners
Yes, we range the second-lowest when it comes to violent crimes (despite of having lots of guns; long guns however) but we also do something that must be terrifying for US Americans: We swear. A Lot. In public. On stages. In TV. On the fucking Internet. Everywhere.
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Books too, just do a google book search for an author that died before 1900.
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That's so close to the English lyrics I wouldn't even give a copyright on it, because it's not original enough. And I've also heard it in French and Italian. Same there.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well....
And I don't give a rats ass about the Quran or the Bible. But burning books is something you just don't do.
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Re: Texit Tangent
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Re:
It's more like carpet bombing than pills. TPP will lay waste to swathes of art and culture.
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It's called Mercantilism
Yeah, and we do that by instituting protectionist laws around the world. That is mercantilism by any other name.
And it won't help at home of course, because those "higher paying jobs" will be "lawyers", and not much else.
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MacOS and Linux Support
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/05/15/oculus-rift-drops-mac-and-linux-targets-windows-pcs-only/
T his was a big "fuck you" in my direction, so I'm going to vote with my boots.
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FBI logic
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