The TSA is responsible for screening baggage, not the airlines.
It stands to reason that if they consider someone such a threat that they're going to assault and detain them, they should also ensure that the person's baggage is not loaded onto the plane. It's not a matter of convenience for the suspect, it's common-sense security of the sort that the TSA is theoretically interested in.
Interesting. It appears that Tim is either a born-and-bred cop-hater (as is commonly said by his opponents here) or such an unabashed police advocate that they should pay him. Because there can, of course, be nothing in between those extremes.
I think what Aaron Walkhouse is saying is that the patent system we now have grew out of an effort to stop the hoarding of knowledge. Before patents, advances and inventions were often kept completely secret -- in some cases, entire secret societies grew out of that tendency. This was, in the long run, terrible for society at large.
Patents have their own set of significant problems, but the idea is that they reduce the larger problem of eternal secrecy. Between the two, I'd much rather have patents than secrets.
That said, I do think that patent law in the US in the past couple of decades has degraded to the point where increasingly patent law does more damage than good. But I argue that's a reason to fight for better patent law, it's not a reason to reject the notion of patents entirely.
If you put up a website that anyone can browse to, you have little control or right to control what anyone does with the information they find there (I'm ignoring IP law here,because it isn't special to visiting web sites).
It doesn't really matter what your terms of service say if you have no realistic means to enforce them other than trying to sue people.
If you want to truly restrict what people can do with what they find at your site, then make your site membership-only. That way you can "eject" those who don't abide by your terms.
"By saying it's overdue, he's implying that it IS important to somehow get a woman and/or African American into the position, just for the sake of doing that."
No, he's not. He's simply saying that it's long overdue that gender and race are no longer considered to be qualifications as important as they used to be.
Which is a good thing.
I take his implication as the opposite of your interpretation.
It's a matter of contract law rather than copyright law. If you abide by the terms of the contract (such as CC), but the other party engaged in fraud without your knowledge, then you are not legally liable.
You would still have to stop using the image (or obtain a legitimate license) once you learned the facts, though.
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"I'm arguing that if someone over there does wish to care about the decisions made, they should do as it is their business - since it is impacting them."
Ahh, I understand now, and I agree. I thought that you were making a different argument entirely.
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I guess it comes down to what you mean by "it's my business".
The implication is that because there is some amount of impact on me, that gives me some say in whatever it is that's happening. I don't think that automatically follows.
Take the Brexit thing, for example. It is undeniable that it will impact everyone to some degree or another. But I don't think that changes the fact that what England does is entirely England's business. The rest of us have to handle the fallout in whatever means we can, but it doesn't give us a say in the underlying question.
The problem here doesn't seem to be that he gave his number to the press. Someone having your number doesn't make it any easier to accidentally text them.
The problem is more likely that he had the this reporter in his phonebook or recent call history.
"The only similarity is that they both work with a GUI."
My reading of the patent is that it entirely covers the UI, not the actual virtualization. I'm no patent attorney, but the entire patent looks pretty weak to me.
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How other countries may or may not have handled it is irrelevant.
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It stands to reason that if they consider someone such a threat that they're going to assault and detain them, they should also ensure that the person's baggage is not loaded onto the plane. It's not a matter of convenience for the suspect, it's common-sense security of the sort that the TSA is theoretically interested in.
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Interesting. It appears that Tim is either a born-and-bred cop-hater (as is commonly said by his opponents here) or such an unabashed police advocate that they should pay him. Because there can, of course, be nothing in between those extremes.
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Other names
Emily (means "rival")
Mara/Molly (means "bitter")
Persephone (means "bringing death")
Sloane (means "raider")
Huxley ("inhospitable place")
Jacob/James ("supplanter")
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Patents have their own set of significant problems, but the idea is that they reduce the larger problem of eternal secrecy. Between the two, I'd much rather have patents than secrets.
That said, I do think that patent law in the US in the past couple of decades has degraded to the point where increasingly patent law does more damage than good. But I argue that's a reason to fight for better patent law, it's not a reason to reject the notion of patents entirely.
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Re: My house, my rules?
It doesn't really matter what your terms of service say if you have no realistic means to enforce them other than trying to sue people.
If you want to truly restrict what people can do with what they find at your site, then make your site membership-only. That way you can "eject" those who don't abide by your terms.
It seems pretty simple to me.
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Re: That's not really twisting anything
No, he's not. He's simply saying that it's long overdue that gender and race are no longer considered to be qualifications as important as they used to be.
Which is a good thing.
I take his implication as the opposite of your interpretation.
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You would still have to stop using the image (or obtain a legitimate license) once you learned the facts, though.
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I even know people whose paychecks are issued 90 days after their wages were earned.
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Ahh, I understand now, and I agree. I thought that you were making a different argument entirely.
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The implication is that because there is some amount of impact on me, that gives me some say in whatever it is that's happening. I don't think that automatically follows.
Take the Brexit thing, for example. It is undeniable that it will impact everyone to some degree or another. But I don't think that changes the fact that what England does is entirely England's business. The rest of us have to handle the fallout in whatever means we can, but it doesn't give us a say in the underlying question.
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The problem is more likely that he had the this reporter in his phonebook or recent call history.
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It's the Vietnam argument for security
It was transparent bullshit then, and it's transparent bullshit now.
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My reading of the patent is that it entirely covers the UI, not the actual virtualization. I'm no patent attorney, but the entire patent looks pretty weak to me.
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