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ScuttleMonkey
from the why-so-serious dept.
A user writes "Ars Technica writes about the recent work on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, and reveals that while the public does not have access to the text of the agreement, a handful of lawyers representing Big Content and numerous companies and organizations do. 'Turns out that... ACTA will include a section on Internet "enforcement procedures" after all. And how many people have had input on these procedures? Forty-two. ... Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) found out in September that the US Trade Representative's office had actually been secretly canvassing opinions on the Internet section of the agreement from 42 people, all of whom had signed a nondisclosure agreement before being shown the ACTA draft text.'"
My phone has a SIM card. If I take that out, I can't use it as a phone. If I have a map file saved to the phone, I can still use it as a GPS. Is it still a phone if the SIM is out?
... would cause more heat. That white roof is designed to reduce the amount of heat produced. When they added black to the roof, it just caused the roof to be inefficient. Looks like greenpeace is trying to increase the amount of carbon produced by air conditioning.
But then, if they used their own computers, they might think the observer told them to go to a website, so it should be safe. There is really no true way to test this, other than infecting computers with a trojan.
No... That would target insecure individuals who don't know any better...
In the united states, there is a grace period, "one year from the date of first public use, sale, offer for sale, or publication". And if you get it notarized, you can prove that you had the idea first. Finding a notary shouldn't be a problem, because, AFAIK, most banks offer a notary for free to customers.
http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-cant-afford-patent-now-what.html