throwawaykf

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by throwawaykf 13y ago
"Legal fiction" is the only thing that gives anyone any control over anything, tangible or otherwise. Without various "legal fictions" that society imposes, what's to stop someone stronger, faster, sneakier or smart
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
There is no "artificial scarcity". Original creative works don't drop out of the sky.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
If you think any non-negligible fraction of people infringing copyright are looking for education or inspiration, I have a bridge to sell you.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
I think we've turned a corner too. I see fewer and fewer ridiculous patents. One of the reasons why, I speculate, is the advent of Google search :-)
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Also see "Where to file your patent case" by Mark Lemley.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
You don't need exact data, you just need enough. There's no doubt bad actors in the system, but do they characterize all of them? The papers I read indicate that trolls actually often have "strong" patents, but like you
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
As with all things, it's a mixed bag. See work by Mossoff, Zorina Khan, Petra Moser, etc for historical analysis of how patents influenced invention. It's not all good, but it's not all bad either. Will try to find some refer
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
I thought more like Donald Sutherland. Unfortunately, the jury is very much not in the crypto field. As far as they know, he's just some guy who claimed to invent something, and the plaintiffs are making the most of it. Similarly, asid
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
That's just, like, your opinion man. Me, I prefer to see data. Fortunately, there are a number of studies coming out about patent trolls. Unfortunately, there is no clear consensus. Also, things like the impact of baseless demand lette
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> There is no software alone that you can run on a general purpose computer to cause it to generate thrust, or convert raw steel into an automobile chassis, or help the immune system to fight cancer. And what about the algorithms that
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> Software patent: A patent that can be infringed by executing a software program on a general purpose computer. Ever wonder why all the jurists all over the world have not stumbled upon such a simple and elegant definition? Herein lie
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Naming and shaming won't in the least affect people like Spangenberg: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-on-trial-m...
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
How would you legally define "software patent"? If you figure it out, please let the Supreme Court, the CAFC and the USPTO know, because currently nobody really knows. As for "ammunition", look up the Berkeley Patent Sur
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
I really wish people would realize outlets like BoingBoing, Techdirt and the like are just trolling for rage-views.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
New species are created all the time, such as though cross-breeding.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Interesting you should mention that tendency to "broadcast", because Monsanto engineered their seeds to not do that (see: the "terminator gene") but did not put it into production because of the huge backlash it caused
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
And a lot of people using open source products think so too :-)
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Maybe it's you incorrectly assuming whatever TFA says is true. Or that most of their customers would hold the same viewpoint as you.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Since accusations of "shilling" have been made anyway, check this out: Remember when the Judge made his "Name Your Shills" order in Oracle v Google? Guess what! The author of TFA was named in Google's list of shills
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Eureka! Found it on scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/40735369/Can-Esta-101
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Yes, it does, so I'm not sure how (or if) they addressed that. I'll try to dig up that white paper.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Something along those lines, but they also did something clever with the timing of emitting IR flashes and correlating the received number of photons with those flashes. I really wish I could recall more clearly, but I looked into it around
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Canesta. I looked into their stuff before the Kinect came out. I am no expert in the field, but I thought their time-of-flight sensor is really clever. Basically, the speed of light is too fast to get an accurate ToF measurement within livi
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Another good read on game networking: http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
There is a school of thought that details of an internal network topology should not leak out [1] (ostensibly because obscuring that has security benefits), and so NATs should be used even if each machine can have a unique IP address. Even
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Unfortunately, I don't see NATs going away even after IPv6 gets here.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> Perhaps they just have no one thinking about networked applications besides the Web at the moment. Sadly lack of forward thinking is something that bugs the Windows team a lot I feel. If you found out about the wide range of network
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
I would advise the author not to worry about this. I recently went through a job change, and to enhance my chances, I spruced up my Github profile, and put a link to it at the top of my resume. It's not the most active profile, but all
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> - but not paying isn't the same as stealing. Yes, it is. If you do that with physical items, it's called "shoplifting" :-) You may now argue that taking, say, a loaf of bread deprives somebody of it. But consider
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Hmm, I just tried going to that link in Chrome and Firefox on a MacBook Pro -- Still takes me to an https. Also, doing an "inspect element" on a couple of images on there show me " https://static.licdn.com/...&

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