As I understand it, a typical Bonobo makes the horniest human look like a monk. They fuck practically their entire waking lives. They have almost no sexual taboos -- a female won't have sex with her offspring, but that's about it. A human who wanders into their camps will be propositioned immediately and often..
I often wonder if the lack of knowledge about them (it's not so long since researchers stopped calling them "pygmy chimps" and started regarding them as a separate species) comes from sheer embarrassment.
Jane Goodall enjoys a good visit weekends.
It depends. I know of one company who was informed by their competition that a fired employee was trying to, uh, promote themselves by explaining what data he had available for them. The reason they did this was because otherwise they would risk HUGE settlement costs after wards. Just not worth the risk.
Thank you for a great example of an extenuating circumstance.
Your actions will get around to other companies.
FTFY
Not necessarily. A lot of companies are too concerned about lawsuits to say anything other than job title and start/end dates. They blacklist you at their company, of course, but there's not a lot of interest in informing other companies; just risk with no real upside, prudent policy generally shun references.
Uhm, that sounds like a flawed argument. Because this discussion touches on the work of computer scientists as well. Can't they have a say when their work is being affected by derailed legislation?
It is like saying to environmental activists: sorry but you have no degree in nuclear physics, so please shut up.
PS: What I do agree on, is that slashdot seems to endlessly keep its focus on the validity of patents, instead of looking for solutions, and finding a road to get to that solution. But that would require social engineering, which is too boring, I guess.
I understand what you're saying, but I think your argument breaks down on a technicality. This article is more about the ramifications of a specific patent, before a lawsuit is filed or a laptop actually stopped at customs (like the recent, unfortunate HTC problems). Your 'environmental activists' analogy doesn't quite work here.. To my mind, this is more like if the environmental activists were scrutinizing specific scientific research papers or deciding their merit based on how the studies were performed. Not qualified. It's a lawyer's job to actually forecast whether a specific patent is going to trigger lawsuits or cause industry to alter its course. That's what people's comments have centered around.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
