You can't confiscate them but you can track them if you know the history of some of the bitcoins in their possession. Problem is that there's nothing stopping someone from passing those bitcoins through a thousand anonymous parties connecting over Tor then trading them with others for other bitcoins before cashing them out or exchanging them for something.
he examiners are supposed to be at least familiar with the area. of ordinary skill in the art as it were.
if they cannot understand a patent then how could they build what it describes. so if they cannot understand it then it's not meeting the goal of patents: ie disclosing how something works.
I think that everyone should learn to code. Not because it will make them a programmer. Not because it will enable them to estimate how long something will take, not least because experienced programmers are legendarily bad at doing that anyway. Everyone should learn to program because programming makes the modern world go round, and it's good for everyone to have at least an inkling of what that involves.
We teach a lot of kids chemistry, without any expectation that they will invent a new compound that will change the world. We teach a lot of kids physics, without any expectation that they'll make a significant contribution to subatomic particle research. We teach most kids to do creative writing and poetry, without expecting the vast majority of them to produce fiction or poetry of publishable quality. I don't see why we wouldn't teach programming alongside all those other topics that most students never master and never "need".
One argument for teaching a lot of academic subjects widely is that the skills you learn along the way have wider application than the topic itself. And it seems to me that this argument holds at least as well for programming as for, say, pure math. As programmers keep saying, programming is about analysis, structure, models... is there really no application whatsoever for those skills outside of hardcore programming? Does no-one ever wish that their managers had a better grasp of "system"? Yes, of course, you can acquire these skills in other places. But the thing about programming, pretty much from the outset, is that your pious beliefs about system will stop your code from performing correctly unless those beliefs are reasonably accurate. I sometimes tell people that I do executable philisophy - it's all about logic, but, unlike the philosopher, my logic has to work.
No, a bit of Python won't enable people to produce estimates for projects. But it may enable managers to understand why writing code once to do something that needs doing often is often a good plan (and, also, why it sometimes isn't). It may enable managers to understand why "Can we just change this one assumption" at the end of a project may involve restarting the entire project.
Yes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But the little knowledge is out there already on the TV station of your choice. I don't even like Python that much, but I'd still much rather deal with erroneous assumptions based on a bit of Python experience than deal with erroneous assumptions based on watching Mission Impossible and NCIS.
not always but when it's a government crash weapons program the odds aren't good.
That some of that crap is left over from the Manhattan project.
My solution: give them fish and fruits and vegetables.
Please, go ahead. Oh. wait. you're not actually going to *do* that. you'd just like to.
I can just imagine you sitting on a balcony watching starving people: "they don't have bread? Let them eat cake"
Yes that would be a nice solution for everyone in the world to get a mixed and balanced diet.
But your lot have been too incompetent to pull that off for the last century.
You've been failing hard and other people have been suffering for your failure.
If you're even a half way decent human being don't stand in the way of other trying to solve a problem hurting hundreds of thousands of people when you can't solve it yourself.
no. it isn't.
you've been lied to.
There was a famous case where a farmer in such a position sprayed his crops with roundup to select the ones which had picked up the roundup resistant gene then grew his next crop from those that survived thinking he was being really smart and pulling one over on monsanto. The courts threw the book at him for taking the piss and sided with monsanto.
Farmers who by pure chance end up with a few plants with monsantos crops genes are fine. You tend to hear half the story on sites like naturalnews.
You only care about people in your own country?
You sound like a *lovely* person.
http://www.goldenrice.org/Content4-Info/info.php
"In developing countries 500,000 people, mainly children, become blind every year, 50% of whom die within a year of becoming blind. Nearly nine million children die of malnutrion every year. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) severely affects their immune system, hence it is involved in many of these children's deaths in the guise of multiple diseases."
"The major micronutrient deficiencies in the world are iron, zinc, and vitamin A. VAD is prevalent among the poor who depend mainly on rice for their daily energy uptake, because rice grains do not contain any Î-carotene (provitamin A), which our body could in turn convert into vitamin A. Dependence on rice as the predominant food source, therefore, necessarily leads to VAD, which has the most severe effects on children and pregnant women. For the 400 million rice-consuming poor the medical consequences are severe: impaired vision, all the way to irreversible blindness, impaired epithelial integrity, exposing the affected individuals to infections, reduced immune response, impaired haematopoiesis (blood cell formation) and impaired skeletal growth, among other debilitating afflictions. Rice containing provitamin A could substantially alleviate the problem."
your point?
in most countries there's some way that the government can nerf specific copyrights and patents if it really wants to as well.
compulsory mechanical license is a thing in a lot of countries too for certain types of copyright
No. really no.
the meaning I gave is the meaning used in plant breeding. Hybrid wheat doesn't have to be sterile.
What are you talking about?
GM crops are no more tendency to spontaneous horizontal transfer than any other crops.
>let genes hop all around to other usefull plants or other food plants.
You mean some humans carefully select a section of DNA, study it in detail and then insert it into something else.
Gene food?
it's exactly as much their right as the right to be free from crops which have been "polluted" by breeding for specific traits.
Sure, you could engineer an animal who's every breath is agony.
But that's not a disaster.
There's a difference between a disaster and a merely poor outcome.
No
The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially the offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties, species, or races.
There's no requirement that it be sterile.
You can create a hybrid of 2 strains of crop which each have traits you like. Killer bees were hybrids of african honey bees and domestic honey bees.
no. no they're not.
http://www.fera.defra.gov.uk/plants/plantVarieties/plantbreedersRights/
Plant Breeders' Rights offers legal protection for the investment plant breeders make in breeding and developing new varieties. This service is open to breeders of any species of plant; agricultural, horticultural and ornamental.
Breeders can choose whether or not to apply for plant breeders' rights, which enable them to charge royalties for protected varieties. Royalties provide a means for breeding companies to fund their work.
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/get-the-right-ip/plant-breeders-rights/
A PBR is legally enforceable and gives you, the owner, exclusive rights to commercially use it, sell it, direct the production, sale and distribution of it, and receive royalties from the sale of plants.
100 years?
You realise you're in the same camp as the crazy anti wifi people now right?
we also don't have 100 years data on computers, cell phones, wifi, plastics, (most)vaccines, antibiotics or , well anything else developed since World War 1.
We already have decades of data and pretty much all of it is saying it's fine.
Your computer account is overdrawn. Please see Big Brother.
