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Comment Re:Finally Intellegent IP... (Score 1) 169

by Qybix (#39639527) Attached to: Proposed Chinese Copyright Changes Would Encourage Re-Use

That is very possible.

I am by no means saying definitively that they were not in legal hangaring since they first posted their rfc's (or whatever they call them). Just that from the average Canadian; I saw none of that...

I blame media outlets that shape what news they will allow the public to know about...

Qybix

Comment Re:Finally Intellegent IP... (Score 1) 169

by Qybix (#39627107) Attached to: Proposed Chinese Copyright Changes Would Encourage Re-Use

I see the CSIRO thing as a completely valid case; from what we saw here in Canada, CSIRO did exactly what you say they didn't. We see nothing, nothing, wait... nope nothing, nothing, nothing, PAY ME OR DIE! Where the (place of no return) did that come from!?!

As a Canadian, I see no reason why any company from any country shouldn't be able to make a profit from it's inventions... For a time... After that - it's public domain time and the writing's on the wall to innovate again or DIE... It's the big time out there now, people. Get your big kid pull ups on. If you want to get ahead, you have to out innovate the entire planet now, not just your neighbor. Intellectual Property rights were a cudgel to help foster local monopolies, but in this day and age monopolies just can't exist anymore - not that they were ever a good idea. The guy from Winnipeg has the same right to copy your innovation as the guy in Bombay.

And that's exactly the way I like it.

Qybix

Comment Finally Intellegent IP... (Score 4, Insightful) 169

by Qybix (#39609577) Attached to: Proposed Chinese Copyright Changes Would Encourage Re-Use

I so wish 3 months was the standard for all IP. Imagine all the good it would do!

If obscure companies had no way of showing up years later and demanding payment for ideas they helped write the initial specs for but never put any effort into.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/2011245/australian-wifi-inventors-win-us-legal-battle

If you could sing "Happy Birthday" on tv without getting sued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

If movie compression algorithms could be implemented on hardware based on what works best, not who's gouging the least or who's pet project it is.

The definition of IP is to intentionally HURT the end users of your own products as well as your competitors by maintaining a monopoly, retaining ownership even when sold, and requiring licensing long after the usefulness of such is insane.

I think it's high time to get rid of IP permanently.

Qybix

Comment Something to think about.... (Score 2) 665

by Qybix (#35560364) Attached to: Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS?

A couple of years ago, I saw a comparison of Apache/Red Had vs. IIS/Windows that left a lot of people scratching their heads. The central test of the comparison was a comparison of a couple of hundred clients trying to read the same files from the server at the same time. Anyone that knows networking basics would know that 100 clients trying to create http sessions over tcp/ip would each require the files to be spooled to them one at a time and the maximum through put of the 10baseT network they were using would be 10Mbps / (8 data bits + 1 stop bit) = 1.111MB/s which is exactly what the Red Hat server maintained. The windows server magically transported 100MB/s over the same wires! How could this be?!? My thoughts about this have always been that IIS was not using http over tcp/ip, it was using http over udp. That meant that all 100 clients could be added to a multicast group and receive the files at the same time. This does mean that you could never attain the same throughput over https, though, because each session would be forced to be separated.

Just a quick thought..
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Scientists Find Tears Are the Anti-Viagra 207

Posted by samzenpus from the blood-hound-gang-is-wrong dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The male test subjects didn't know what they were smelling, they were just given little vials of clear liquid and told to sniff. But when those vials contained a woman's tears (collected while she watched a sad movie), the men rated pictures of women's faces as less sexually attractive, and their saliva contained less testosterone. Is this proof that humans make and respond to pheromones? The researcher behind the study doesn't use that controversial word, but he says his findings do prove that tears contain meaningful chemical messages."
Open Source

Linux 2.6.37 Released 135

Posted by samzenpus from the new-and-improved dept.
diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."
Input Devices

Kinect Creators To Make PC Controller 96

Posted by Soulskill from the platform-agnostic-arm-flailing dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "PrimeSense, the privately held Israeli company that licensed core Kinect technology to Microsoft, is teaming up with PC and peripheral maker Asus to create a similar device for the PC that can be used for browsing multimedia content and accessing the Internet and social networks — basically, the main things consumers use their PCs for. Last month, a Korean game developer claimed that Microsoft was working on a version of Kinect for the PC, but Microsoft hasn't confirmed any such plans."
Microsoft

Microsoft Research Takes On Go 175

Posted by Soulskill from the narrowing-the-possibilities dept.
mikejuk writes "Microsoft Research has used F# and AI to implement a consumer-quality game of Go — arguably the most difficult two-person game to implement. They have used an interesting approach to the problem of playing the game, which is a pragmatic cross between tree search with pruning and machine learning to spot moves with a 'good shape.' The whole lot has been packaged into an XNA-based game with a story."
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Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Posted by samzenpus from the a-jetwing-and-a-prayer dept.
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
Businesses

EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

Posted by Soulskill from the say-goodnight-folks dept.
lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."

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