Of course google is better in patent research than the patent office.
Because a) they are pretty good at search b) they have an interest to really find prior art
I don't care what clueless congresspeople infer from that. Last time I heard there's a load of them that don't care about science, and believe in things like "backdoors only law enforcements can use", "global warming is not produced by human actions" and "intelligent design is a valable theory".
Well, it would be rather ironic, if the breach at OPM had happened through a vulnerability which was known to the NSA or CIA, but which hadn't been disclosed because they had wanted it to use for attacks/surveillance purposes.
Anyway, it will only be a question of time until exactly this scenario will happen.
Because you can either have security, or surveillance.
Re: Sorry to disturb Teamchaos's prejudices but....
The opposite of conservative is progressive, and the opposite of liberal is authoritorian.
And "liberal" is not a word that applies to any of the US governments in the last decades. And I'm also not sure "conservative" does.
The only thing you can say is "more liberal than", or "more conservative than". Like "Bush Senior was more liberal than Bush Junior or Obama". Or "Bush Senior and Obama are more conservative than Bush Junior".
In the broader spectrum, Obama and Bush Jr. are of course extremely authoritarian.
Contrary to popular belief, the origin of "boarding agents" does not come from "waterboarding", although we can understand with todays practice that people might get this idea.
Correct is of course that this comes from the boarding of ships and ransacking and pillaging them, sometimes also known as "customs".
No, the Stasi (STAatsSIcherheit, State Security) was dedicated on spying smearing and identifying people the DDR regime didn't like.
You've mixed it up with the Gestapo (GEheime STAatsPOlizei, Secret State Police), which was dedicated at spying, smearing and identifying people the Nazi regime didn't like.
Oh, and both not only did this, they also abducted and murdered people (with the Gestapo murdering tens of thousands of people).
And no, obviously the whole world didn't learn history.
The trouble with Germanys current "anti-nazi" legislation is, that it's mostly a "anti-nazi-symbol" legislation.
They should know better, but german politicians are currently trying to re-enact the GESTAPO (yes, they're not alone, most countries are trying to do exactly that), while depictions of the Hakenkreuz get investigated by the police, even if in a anti-nazi or historical context.
What I really don't understand is how this FBI guy could even _mention_ the idea of banning crypto. I totally understand that some fuckwit like Cameron (like his predecessor Fox who likes to play into the hands of tyrants and features the same spine) is babbling somesuch nonsense.
But I'd actually expect the head of the FBI to at least get informed by its own department that this is a very bad idea, and prevented from making himself the laughing stock of security and law-enforcement professionals.
Since the bright guys at the FBI couldn't manage to keep their boss from blathering such nonsense, and couldn't have him removed immediately after he did it, I can only surmise that a) he's either convinced it's really a good idea, which put him on par with people that think the odds of winning in russian roulette are quite good, or b) he knows exactly how bad this is and supresses any sane voice within the FBI, because he's actually craving for the next Führer.
Henlons razor states that you should never attribute malice for things that can adequately explained by stupidity, so I must assume Mr. Comey is not a fascist, but instead must conclude that he is is just utterly, abysmally, stupid.
Please stop confusing this "Open Game License" to anything other than a trademark-license. In that context, the only thing it allows you is to state it's using the FATE system.
You could use the FATE system (or any other system), without agreeing to this, because game rules are not subject to copyright, but then you probably could not state it on your product.
Indeed, people are doing this: http://www.jdrp.fr/jdr/basic-199.html -- In fact (this french rpg) BaSIC has exactly the same rules as Chaosiums BRP. But it doesn't really say so..
The capacity for "publishing" works is actually still limited, because you need things like "editing". Of course, as soon that's done, and an ebook is made, there's nothing to keep it from being around forever, with "storage"- and "delivery"-costs near zero.
In the end, an ebook still costs around 50'000-100'000 credits to make, but there's no (printing-, storage-, delivery-) cost associated per piece.
Since the author gets around 10-15%, a book that sells for 15 credits gets the author 2 credits, another 2 credits might be needed for editing, leaving 11 credits for the rest. Now you know why an ebook should cost 5 credits instead of 15.
If a book for 15 credits sells 25'000 times for the author to get a decent return, it just might be he could sell 3 times that much if it cost 5 credits -- and get five times as much money, as the editor doesn't get a cut. After all, after buying a book for 5 credits, the customer would have 10 credits to spare, for which he could buy 2 other books..
Do we as a culture and society want secure communications or should everything be open to surveillance?
And please note, that:
- "open to surveillance" means "open to surveillance by everybody", including foreign secret services and criminals.
and
- "open to surveillance" also means "everything open to surveillance", including things like the secret services themselves, the army, and things like nuclear power plants.
It's just an incredibly stupid idea, even from the point of view of national security.
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Re:
Which tells me that there seems to be a market insufficiently served by cabs...
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Re: STOP!
Because
a) they are pretty good at search
b) they have an interest to really find prior art
I don't care what clueless congresspeople infer from that.
Last time I heard there's a load of them that don't care about science, and believe in things like "backdoors only law enforcements can use", "global warming is not produced by human actions" and "intelligent design is a valable theory".
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Plugs
http://blog.huwi.ch/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/wpid-Photo-01.08.2011-08266.jpg
Yes, that's between every pair of seats.
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Re: Now they're at war with journalists too?
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Re: Re:
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Hoarding Zero-Day Exploits
Anyway, it will only be a question of time until exactly this scenario will happen.
Because you can either have security, or surveillance.
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Re: Sorry to disturb Teamchaos's prejudices but....
And "liberal" is not a word that applies to any of the US governments in the last decades. And I'm also not sure "conservative" does.
The only thing you can say is "more liberal than", or "more conservative than". Like "Bush Senior was more liberal than Bush Junior or Obama". Or "Bush Senior and Obama are more conservative than Bush Junior".
In the broader spectrum, Obama and Bush Jr. are of course extremely authoritarian.
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boarding agents: etymology
Correct is of course that this comes from the boarding of ships and ransacking and pillaging them, sometimes also known as "customs".
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Re:
Because the problem is, that the one that really should be investigated for treason is the BND (germanys secret service), which spied for the NSA.
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Re:
You've mixed it up with the Gestapo (GEheime STAatsPOlizei, Secret State Police), which was dedicated at spying, smearing and identifying people the Nazi regime didn't like.
Oh, and both not only did this, they also abducted and murdered people (with the Gestapo murdering tens of thousands of people).
And no, obviously the whole world didn't learn history.
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Re:
I can't distinguish them on their policies.
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Re: There is no tradeoff
There is no tradeoff. Privacy is paramount to security; and the enemy of security is surveillance.
"Either we build our communications infrastructure for surveillance, or we build it for security." -- Bruce Schneier
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More concerned about symbols than deeds
They should know better, but german politicians are currently trying to re-enact the GESTAPO (yes, they're not alone, most countries are trying to do exactly that), while depictions of the Hakenkreuz get investigated by the police, even if in a anti-nazi or historical context.
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Co mey stupid or what?
But I'd actually expect the head of the FBI to at least get informed by its own department that this is a very bad idea, and prevented from making himself the laughing stock of security and law-enforcement professionals.
Since the bright guys at the FBI couldn't manage to keep their boss from blathering such nonsense, and couldn't have him removed immediately after he did it, I can only surmise that a) he's either convinced it's really a good idea, which put him on par with people that think the odds of winning in russian roulette are quite good, or b) he knows exactly how bad this is and supresses any sane voice within the FBI, because he's actually craving for the next Führer.
Henlons razor states that you should never attribute malice for things that can adequately explained by stupidity, so I must assume Mr. Comey is not a fascist, but instead must conclude that he is is just utterly, abysmally, stupid.
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Re: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
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Re: Re: Re:
Please stop confusing this "Open Game License" to anything other than a trademark-license. In that context, the only thing it allows you is to state it's using the FATE system.
You could use the FATE system (or any other system), without agreeing to this, because game rules are not subject to copyright, but then you probably could not state it on your product.
Indeed, people are doing this: http://www.jdrp.fr/jdr/basic-199.html -- In fact (this french rpg) BaSIC has exactly the same rules as Chaosiums BRP. But it doesn't really say so..
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Not Copyright, Trademark
- The images used might actually constitute copyright infringement. They also might be transformative use.
- The text clearly is the work of the author, so there cannot be any copyright infringement there.
- The rules are actually NOT copyrightable in the first place, so it doesn't matter that he uses the fate system.
- For the rule-system, there's a trademark agreement, called the "Open Game License". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Game_License to which he adheres.
- What obviously remains is a trademark infringement towards the "Mass Effect" (and related words) trademark.
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Re:
The capacity for "publishing" works is actually still limited, because you need things like "editing". Of course, as soon that's done, and an ebook is made, there's nothing to keep it from being around forever, with "storage"- and "delivery"-costs near zero.
In the end, an ebook still costs around 50'000-100'000 credits to make, but there's no (printing-, storage-, delivery-) cost associated per piece.
Since the author gets around 10-15%, a book that sells for 15 credits gets the author 2 credits, another 2 credits might be needed for editing, leaving 11 credits for the rest. Now you know why an ebook should cost 5 credits instead of 15.
If a book for 15 credits sells 25'000 times for the author to get a decent return, it just might be he could sell 3 times that much if it cost 5 credits -- and get five times as much money, as the editor doesn't get a cut. After all, after buying a book for 5 credits, the customer would have 10 credits to spare, for which he could buy 2 other books..
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Re: Re: Defining "terrorists"
I'd guess he doesn't realise this.
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Re: Going Dark?
And please note, that:
- "open to surveillance" means "open to surveillance by everybody", including foreign secret services and criminals.
and
- "open to surveillance" also means "everything open to surveillance", including things like the secret services themselves, the army, and things like nuclear power plants.
It's just an incredibly stupid idea, even from the point of view of national security.
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