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2011: A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 604 people and injuring more than 4,000.
2002: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 850 theater-goers hostage. The terrorists demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War. After a two-and-a-half day siege, Russian Spetsnaz forces pumped an unknown chemical agent (thought to be fentanyl, or 3-methylfentanyl), into the building's ventilation system and raided it. In the resulting fray, 39 of the attackers were killed by Russian forces, along with at least 129 of the hostages. All but a few of the hostages who died during the siege were killed by the toxic substance pumped into the theater to subdue the militants, causing a backlash against the government, especially for refusing to reveal the type of gas used in the assault.
2001: Apple announces the iPod. The first version of the portable media player, which featured a mechanical scroll wheel and came in 5gb and 10gb versions, went on sale Nov. 10, 2001.
1998: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement, known as the Wye River Memorandum. The agreement was brokered by the United States at the Aspen Institute Wye River Conference Centers near Wye River, Maryland. Although Israel withdrew from all territory it was required to transfer to the Palestinian Authority within the timetable called for, the agreement fell apart when Israel felt it was not seeing reciprocal steps being taken by the Palestinian Authority.
1995: In Houston, Texas, a jury convicts Yolanda Saldivar of the murder of Tejano music singer Selena (pictured). Three days later, she would be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
1993: Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays becomes only the second player to end the World Series with a home run, hitting a game-winning three-run homer against the Philadelphia Phillies in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6.
1987: The U.S. Senate rejects Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination by a vote of 42-58. Bork (seen here in 1987 with President Ronald Reagan), a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, faced strong opposition by civil and women's rights groups concerned with his stated desire to roll back civil rights and his opposition to the right of the federal government to impose standards of voting fairness upon the states. The vacant seat on the court eventually went to Judge Anthony Kennedy, who was unanimously approved by the Senate.
1983: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut are hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon was also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1978: Musician Maybelle Carter, best known as a member of The Carter Family musical act and the mother of June Carter Cash, dies of respiratory complications and Parkinson's disease at age 69 in Nashville.
1976: Actor Ryan Reynolds, best known for roles in movies such as "Blade: Trinity," "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "Green Lantern," "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" and "The Proposal," is born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
1973: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1972: Operation Linebacker, a U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive invasion of South Vietnam across the Demilitarized Zone, ends after five months.
1965: Author Augusten Burroughs, best known for his bestselling memoir "Running with Scissors," is born in Pittsburgh.
1962: Football player Doug Flutie, who first rose to prominence during his collegiate career at Boston College, where he won the Heisman Trophy and the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award in 1984, is born in Manchester, Maryland. His Hail Mary touchdown pass in a game against the University of Miami on Nov. 23, 1984, is considered among the greatest moments in college football and American sports history. He went on to play professionally in the United States Football League, the National Football League, and the Canadian Football League, where he won three Grey Cup titles. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
1959: Director Sam Raimi, best known for directing the "Evil Dead" movie series, "Darkman," "A Simple Plan," "Drag Me to Hell" and the trilogy of "Spider-Man" films starring Tobey Maguire, is born in Royal Oak, Michigan.
1959: Alfred Matthew Yankovic, better known as the pop music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic, is born in Downey, California.
1958: An underground earthquake traps 174 coal miners at Springhill, Nova Scotia, in the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By Nov. 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1958: Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak wins the Nobel Prize for Literature for writing "Dr. Zhivago." The citation credits Pasternak's contribution to Russian lyric poetry and for his role in "continuing the great Russian epic tradition." He was eventually forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction.
1958: The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in the Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story "La flute à six schtroumpfs" ("The Flute with Six Holes") by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
1957: Christian Dior, the fashion designer who founded Christian Dior S.A., dies of a heart attack at age 52 in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy.
1956: Country singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam, who has charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and sold more than 25 million records, is born in Pikeville, Kentucky.
1954: Film director Ang Lee, best known for such movies as "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Brokeback Mountain" and "Life of Pi," is born in Chaochou, Pingtung, Taiwan. He won Academy Awards for Best Director for both "Brokeback Mountain" and "Life of Pi" and was also nominated for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," which also won him the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
1950: Singer and actor Al Jolson, who was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer in the 1930s and is best remembered as the star in the first full-length talking movie, 1927's "The Jazz Singer," dies of a massive heart attack at the age of 64 in San Francisco.
1944: The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, begins in the Philippines during World War II. The battle, which proved to be a decisive defeat for Japan, is also notable as the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks.
1942: All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Among the victims was award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger (left), whose best known songs included "Thanks for the Memory," "Love in Bloom" and "Blue Hawaii."
1942: Writer Michael Crichton, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction and thriller genres, including "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain" and "Disclosure," is born in Chicago. He died of throat cancer at age 66 on Nov. 5, 2008.
1941: "Dumbo," the fourth animated Disney movie, premieres in theaters. The movie proved to be the most financially successful Disney film of the 1940s, earning $1.6 million during its original run compared to its $950,000 production cost. "Dumbo" won the Academy Award for Original Music Score and one of its songs, "Baby Mine," was nominated for Best Original Song.
1940: Soccer star Pelé, regarded as one of the best players of all time, is born under the birth name Edison Arantes do Nascimento in Tres Corações, Brazil.
1939: Author Zane Grey, best known for his Western adventure novels and stories, including his best-selling book, 1912's "Riders of the Purple Sage," dies of heart failure at the age of 67 in Altadena, California.
1936: Director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman, best known for directing movies such as "The Right Stuff," "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," "Henry & June" and "Rising Sun," is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1925: Johnny Carson, best known for the 30 years he spent as host of "The Tonight Show," is born in Corning, Iowa. He died of respiratory failure arising from emphysema at the age of 79 on Jan. 23, 2005.
1915: In New York City, 25,000 to 33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1911: Italian pilot Capt. Carlo Piazza takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Italo-Turkish War, marking the first time an aircraft was used in war.
1906: Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an experimental airplane known as the "14-bis" in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France. The aircraft flew for more than 200 feet at an altitude of about 10 feet.
1869: John Heisman, a college football coach for 36 years and one of the greatest innovators of the game, is born Cleveland, Ohio. Heisman left coaching to become director of the Downtown Athletic Club of New York City. Beginning in 1935, the club annually awarded a trophy, known since 1936 as the Heisman Trophy, to the top college football player.
1814: Surgeon Joseph Carpue performs the first modern plastic surgery at the Duke of York's Hospital in Chelsea, England, using a technique created in India several centuries earlier. Carpue used a flaps of skin taken from the forehead to operate on a British military officer who had lost his nose to the toxic effects of mercury treatments and another whose nose was mutilated by a sword.
1812: Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris in his place. The coup attempt was quickly suppressed and Malet would be executed by a firing squad on Oct. 29, 1812.
42 B.C.: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Marcus Junius Brutus' army in the Second Battle of Philippi. The battle was the final battle in the Wars of the Second Triumvirate, a Roman civil war that Antony and Octavian had declared to avenge Julius Caesar's murder at the hands of assassins Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Brutus committed suicide after losing the battle, 20 days after Cassius had done the same.
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Creating easy-to-use customer documents
Järvenpää, Marjut
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Publication type: Diplomityö
Issue date: 1998-12-09
University: Tampereen teknillinen korkeakoulu
Faculty: Automaatiotekniikan osasto
Department: Turvallisuustekniikan laitos
The purpose of this thesis was to design a new customer documentation concept for the Customer Documentation department of the Fixed Access Systems division of Nokia Telecommunications. Received feedback, results of several brainstorming sessions, and interviews were used as basis for designing the new customer documentation concept. Usability issues and theories were studied in technical communications literature.The basic requirements for the new customer documentation concept were that documents must be easy to access, attractive, easy to read, short and concise, and task-oriented.According to technical communications literature, clarity of information, together with access and organisation of information are important factors of usability. However, the only way to measure quality and usability of an information product is usability testing.Customer documentation is moving towards using new electronic medias. Developing paper documentation is still feasible: complex information is still preferably read on paper, not on screen, and always some information is needed on paper.The result of the thesis is a new, easy to access, concise, and task-oriented document structure. How usable is it? That is left to be seen in the first real usability tests or field trials.The new documentation structure presented in this report also harmonises documentation of several NTC product lines. This is another small step towards the goal of communicating the idea of one Nokia to the customer.
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Climbing Frames Group - Your Play Equipment Specialists
The Climbing Frames Group is the biggest independent online retailer for wooden climbing frames, and the wholly owned retail division of Selwood Products Limited, the climbing frame and wooden outdoor toy manufacturer. The Climbing Frames Group grew from just one website in the UK, throughout Europe and into a global network of local specialist stores. These local online stores offer helpful, knowledgeable advice, fast home delivery and guaranteed best prices on a huge range of wooden climbing frames, swing sets and children's garden play equipment.
We are dedicated specialists in wooden play equipment including swings and slides. Our Selwood Climbing Frames are specifically designed and manufactured for children aged 3-10 years old, and for residential garden use. Our range includes a selection of climbing frames suitable for smaller gardens and budgets, right through to our most premium playsets for those who're looking for the crème de la crème of play equipment! Our sets are all designed and tested to EN-71 and ASTM safety testing standards, and the wood used is from sustainable sources.
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Lockport wrestlers win
Lockport got the last victories it needed from its last two wrestlers and defeated Kenmore West, 40-36, to clinch a share of the Niagara Frontier League wrestling championship with Lewiston-Porter.
The Lions were down going 36-31 going into the last two bouts.
"We we had to win both matches and it didn't matter how and both our kids stepped up," said Lockport coach Joe Scapelitti.
Section VI champion Anthony Orefice, wrestling up a class, won a decision at 126 pounds over Paul Bavisotto, 6-1. Vince Eberhart then won in a fall in the 132 pound match over Dan Militello in 3:10 to wrap up the win.
"We knew going in it was going to be close, Scapelliti said. "Everybody did their part. It was a collective effort by our kids. A total team win."
Lockport is 15-3 overall and finished 6-1 in NFL, same as Lew-Port.
Tonawanda tops Holland
Tonawanda's three-guard defense stymied Holland in the first half and the Warriors went on to a 47-39 girls basketball victory Wednesday night in a battle of teams with unbeaten records in ECIC IV.
"We held them to 12 points in the first half. That was our goal to play good defense and push it up the floor," said Tonawanda coach Jay Hall.|
The Warriors played a 3-2 zone with three quick guards shadowing Holland's Schmidt sisters, who are deadly outside shooters.
Olivia Schmidt had 20 points, below her average, while her sister Abby had four.
"We knew she [Olivia] was going to score. We wanted to hold her under her 23 point average. Our guards followed the Schmidt guards all over outside.
Joanna McCarthy had 20 points for Tonawanda to go with nine rebounds. Alanna Herne had nine assists.
"She's our playmaker. She threads the needle. She really is a great passer," said Hall."
Wilson wins N-O showdown
Wilson pulled away in the second quarter with some deadly outside shooting and went on to a 56-28 romp over Newfane in a battle of unbeaten Niagara-Orleans League girls basketball teams.
Wilson was ranked sixth among small schools and Newfane 10th in The Buffalo News girls basketball poll this week.
"From the second quarter on we were able get into our transition game," said Wilson coach Brian Baker.
"Jamie Curtis had seven points in that quarter including a couple of threes and Emily Lasher had five points in the second quarter. They really sparked us."
Newfane was held to single digits in each quarter and had no scorer in double figures. Katie Shaw had eight points to lead the Panthers.
Besides her 12 points, Curtis had 10 assists and six steals. Lasher had 10 rebounds and a game-high 18 points for Wilson.


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Sunport passenger traffic falls nearly 20 percent
New numbers show that New Mexico's largest airport saw a 19.4-percent dip in passenger traffic from 2007 to 2012.
The Albuquerque International Sunport also has seen a steep decline in the number of daily departures and has lost non-stop service to a dozen destinations since 2008.
In addition, year-to-date passenger numbers are 12.1 percent lower than the same period in 2012, the kind of drop officials say hasn't been seen since the aftermath of Sept. 11.
City Aviation Director Jim Hinde says the department is forecasting continued decline at the Sunport until 2016.
The news comes as JetBlue is scheduled to debut in Albuquerque next month, giving travelers a daily, nonstop flight between Albuquerque and New York City.
Information from: Albuquerque Journal
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|Structure of the Complete 70S Ribosome at 3.7 Å Resolution
Ribosomes are RNA-based protein factories found in all living cells, responsible for translating the genetic information encoded in messenger RNA (mRNA) into proteins. The first x-ray structures of the complete 70S ribosome were determined in 1999 at 7.8 Å and in 2001 at 5.5 Å, using diffraction data collected at ALS Beamline 5.0.2. These structures showed how the ribosomal RNA and the more than 50 ribosomal proteins are organized to form the structure of the complete ribosome, and the positions of the mRNA and transfer RNAs (tRNAs) in the ribosome. Now, using data collected at ALS Beamline 12.3.1, researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have solved the structure of a Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome functional complex at 3.7 Å resolution. Due to the large cell dimensions of ribosome crystals, they give weak diffraction, and spots are crowded close together in the diffraction patterns. Consequently, the high-flux beams, sensitive large-area detectors, and well-focused, compact beam cross sections available at the ALS all played a crucial role in this work. Research in this area may lead to novel antibiotics targeting bacterial ribosomes that have developed resistance to current drugs.
The improved structure resolution allows construction of the first all-atom model of a ribosome functional complex containing its mRNA and tRNA substrates. This provided two kinds of information crucial to the understanding of the protein synthesis mechanism: (1) details of molecular interactions between the ribosome and its substrate RNAs, and (2) ways in which the structures of both the ribosome and the tRNAs are altered by their functional interactions.
During protein synthesis, the genetic code is used to translate the sequence of nucleotides in a mRNA into the sequence of amino acids in the protein. Groups of three nucleotides (codons) in the mRNA are read by base pairing with a complementary three-nucleotide sequence of nucleotides (anticodon) in the tRNAs, which carry the growing protein chain during synthesis. There are three binding sites for tRNA in the ribosome, called the A (aminoacyl), P (peptidyl) and E (exit) sites. In the crystals that were used for the structure determination, tRNAPhe was bound to the P site and noncognate endogenous tRNA to the E site of the ribosome, in addition to a 10-nucleotide mRNA fragment. The tRNA is bound most tightly to the ribosomal P site, which is responsible for maintaining the translational reading frame of the mRNA and for holding the growing protein chain in the ribosome via the peptidyl-tRNA. The structure reveals a high density of contacts between the tRNA and ribosomal RNA bases and backbone, as well as ribosomal proteins, explaining the high affinity of the P site for tRNA. Catalysis of peptide bond formation takes place on the 50S subunit by a ribosomal activity called peptidyl transferase. In the new structure, an intriguing structural rearrangement is observed in the peptidyl transferase center.
In the course of protein synthesis, tRNAs move through the ribosome, coupled to movement of mRNA like an assembly line, in a process called translocation. Translocation of tRNA from the P to the E site is crucial for the energetics of this process, and requires that the terminal nucleotide A76 of tRNA is deacylated—i.e., no longer contains a bound protein chain, which is its chemical state following peptide bond formation. The new structure explains this requirement, showing that binding of tRNA to the E site requires hydrogen bonding between the ribose moiety of A76 and C2394 of 23S rRNA; the presence of a peptidyl, aminoacyl, or even a methyl group bound to the terminal ribose would thus prevent these interactions.
Future ribosome structure studies that include functional states may eventually lead to an atomic-resolution 3D "movie"—the ultimate description of the molecular mechanism of protein synthesis.
Research conducted by A. Korostelev, S. Trakhanov, M. Laurberg, and H.F. Noller (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Research funding: National Institutes of Health and the Agouron Institute. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES).
Publication about this research: A. Korostelev, S. Trakhanov, M. Laurberg and H. Noller, "Crystal structure of a 70S ribosome-tRNA complex reveals functional interactions and rearrangements," Cell 126, 1065–1077 (2006).


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Using Technology to Extend Classroom Learning
I try to really incorporate into my class that I don't want my class to just exist between 8 a.m. and 8:45, and when the bell rings, it's over. Through a lot of different Web 2.0 tools and technology I've tried to find ways that I can extend what we do in the classroom.
About five years ago I started doing something called a StudyCast. As we get ready for a test, I'll sit down with a laptop; I use a free program called Audacity, where I can edit audio. Basically, I do a 15-minute review of what's going to be on the test. I talk about an example that we did in class or a term, and refresh their memory a little about a person or an event or a concept.
I record that as an MP3 file, and I put it on the school server, then our web page. My students can go home, and through the Internet, they can listen to it. I also make it available through iTunes so they can download it for free, just like a podcast, and they can put it on their own personal MP3 player. [For] students who don't have Internet access, I can burn it to a CD for them.
It's been amazing; it takes me about 20 minutes to create a StudyCast, then that 20 minutes becomes a study guide that students can listen to countless times.
Among the greatest beneficiaries of this are special education students. They can listen to it two times, three times, four times. I've got parents who listen to it with their students, and it helps them review for the test together. I've had students who say they listen to it when they're walking their dog, they're on the bus, they're doing chores—all different kinds of experiences. So my 20 minutes has now been multiplied into hundreds of different types of opportunities for them to learn.
We also do video chats on different occasions. We've talked to authors in their home about a book that we've read in class. We've done different types of live conferencing and interviews with them, using free tools that are available through gmail [and] Skype.
We've done blogs. We'll read a book in class, a historical novel, and we've had classes from California, Illinois, New Jersey, join us in that discussion because they're reading the exact same book. I do a blog called "Speaking of History." I've been able to make connections with a lot of different classrooms, so they join us. We also have an author joining us for about a four-week period.
Imagine being an eighth-grader and reading a book about an historical topic. Then you can ask the author a question and the author responds the same day. We have parents read it; we've had the principal read it at the same time.
The blog is like this virtual space where we have all these different students, parents, administrators making comments, then asking questions of the author. When was the last time you had 500 people in a book club be able to respond to each other? We've had grandparents in a different state read the book along with their grandchildren.
I'm a father of two young girls. I've got a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old, and we read bedtime stories all the time. But you don't read to your kids when they get into junior high, so I've tried to get the parents to read the book along with their student. I've had so many dads say, "Hey, this is great because I used to read to my daughter when she was 5, but this is giving me the opportunity to read with her now, as she's a 13- or 14-year-old." I've had parents discuss the book with their kids at dinnertime, then come up with a question they want to ask the author. They go to the blog at home, type in a question, and the next day the author has responded to them.
Those are some experiences that don't happen between 8 and 8:45.
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With U.S. stock indexes rising and the economy showing signs of life, business jet buyers seem to be returning to the market. Much like horses at the start of a race, they appear to be champing at the bit, waiting impatiently for the starting gate to open.
April 20, 2012
February 1, 2012
In these days of sluggish economic recovery and historically low interest rates, the biggest competition for those offering business jet financing is a four-letter word: cash. Those who still have the resources to buy aircraft often prefer to pay cash rather than finance, for the simple reason that they now have few other attractive places to put their money.
February 1, 2012
The last few years haven't held much in the way of surprises for the used-jet market and I suspect 2012 won't, either.
December 8, 2011
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has produced a guide to getting reimbursed for flight expenses.
December 1, 2011
Considering what 2011 served up in terms of worldwide calamity–from government overthrows to devastating natural disasters to a global debt crisis–it's a wonder anyone had the confidence and wherewithal to buy a corporate jet. Yet the year saw a continuation of 2010's resurgence of buyer activity. This mild but sustained trend is providing a sense of relief for many sellers.
November 17, 2011
Third-quarter pretax earnings at Berkshire Hathaway's "other services" division, which includes FlightSafety International and NetJets, climbed 15 percent from the same quarter last year, to $281 million.
November 15, 2011
Sports fans panicked a couple of years ago when the Department of Transportation, the FAA's parent organization, ordered a charter service run by Air Canada to cancel sports-team flights in the U.S.
October 1, 2011
If the super computers that some blame for Wall Street's recent wild swings were used to trade aircraft, it's likely they would be programmed to buy right now. But aircraft purchases and sales still occur the old-fashioned way, which can involve deal-stalling high emotions and conflicting personalities.
October 1, 2011
One of the first things you hear about when you begin using business aviation in the U.S. is the mysterious but important distinction between Part 91 and Part 135 operations. Many people still think about the difference in simplistic terms: Part 91–good; Part 135–bad. The facts are considerably more complicated.
August 1, 2011
Activity in the preowned market continues unabated, yet at a measured pace. In fact, inventory levels are now about where they were in October 2008 (and climbing for almost a year), when the calamity on Wall Street reverberated around the globe and dealt a devastating and unprecedented blow to the new and used aircraft business.
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Monday's Altoona City Council meeting to hear and approve staff comments on a consultant's Act 47 recovery plan was practically a roast - minus the humor.
Working from a 27-page list, city officials panned the plan for recommendations they said were based on incorrect assumptions; that contradicted staff advice; that resulted from failure to consult with staff or failure to visit the city; that showed ignorance of the city's optional plan form of government; or that called for changes the city has already made.
"It's a lot of cookie-cutter recommendations from other plans," Councilman Dave Butterbaugh said.
"It sounds like they took a lot of ideas and incorporated them and threw them against the wall to see what sticks," said Bob Gutshall, chairman of the city Planning Commission, who was a member of the audience.
Planning Director Lee Slusser took the consultant to task for not including ideas that the city should explore.
The consultant could have avoided the problem by sharing a draft before going public, City Manager Joe Weakland said.
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Recovery plan
Altoona City Council will meet at 7 p.m. today at Council Chambers to introduce the 2013 budget and millage ordinance and the ordinance that includes an increase in earned income tax, all of which take account of proposed provisions in the city's Act 47 recovery plan.
The city's Act 47 consultant will hold a public hearing on the Act 47 recovery plan at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of the Devorris Downtown Center. Anyone can speak. City officials don't think the consultant will incorporate criticisms from city officials outlined Monday.
Still, there are good ideas in the plan, Mayor Bill Schirf said.
He didn't immediately come up with specifics, citing the enormity of the 326-page document.
The consultant could probably have reduced that 326 pages to about 30, at less expense to taxpayers, Gutshall said.
The consultant - Stevens & Lee - earned $673,000 from the state for the work, which it began in June.
Among recommendations that city officials don't like:
- The fire department should take over ambulance services from AMED in the city.
It would require up to $2.9 million in startup capital, would cost more, because of higher wages and better benefits and would happen at a time when EMS reimbursements are falling, according to the city.
- The city should pay for items under $50,000, like police vehicles, from the general fund, not through capital borrowing, because it's not fitting to be paying off items for longer than their useful life.
- The city should eliminate incentive payments for workers who reject city health coverage. The shift of workers into the plan would far more than offset the savings, according to the city. "No duh," Councilman Mark Geis said. "That would be false economy."
- The city should stop collecting per capita and occupational and flat-rate occupational taxes, because the cost of collection is high and the taxes are a nuisance to payers. The Altoona Area School District would simply resume collecting them, and they're not costly to collect, because the Blair County Tax Collection Bureau and city workers already on staff do it, Weakland said.
Among ideas the consultant should have recommended that the city explore include: going to a single trash hauler, changing the management setup at the Altoona Water Authority and changing the way the city handles its parks, recreational programming, sidewalks and streetscapes, Slusser said.
The city may be doing all the right things in those areas, but it would be good to check them out, he said.
Officials planned to email the comments to the consultant today and present them formally at a public hearing on the recovery plan Wednesday.
Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.


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State police made three drunken driving arrests on New Year's Day, during what was otherwise a mostly quiet day for local police agencies.
Buffalo resident Anthony L. Watson, 34, was stopped by Trooper James Krawczyk at 11 a.m. for driving 94 mph on the Kensington Expressway in the city, where the speed limit is 55 mph, state police said. A field sobriety test found him intoxicated and his license had 24 active suspensions on it, so he was taken to the Boston barracks, where he refused a breath test.
Watson was charged with felony driving while intoxicated, because of a prior DWI conviction in 2007, and with aggravated unlicensed operation. He also faced two active bench warrants for vehicle and traffic charges and one involving a charge in Buffalo of criminal possession of stolen property, troopers said.
Ninety minutes earlier, Mitchell W. Gefaller, 18, of Orchard Park, was charged with DWI after Trooper Eric Sauers saw his car strike a guide rail on the west side of Route 219 in Ashford. He registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.09 percent, troopers said.
Trooper Michael Ballow reported stopping Mark A. Haen, 43, of Williamsville, at 5:45 p.m. for speeding on Shimerville Road in Clarence. A subsequent breath test at the Clarence barracks recorded a blood-alcohol content of 0.12 percent. Haen will appear on a DWI charge Jan. 22 in Clarence Town Court.


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Security flaw discovered on Samsung Galaxy devices, (kind of) allows lock screen bypassing
0. phoneArena 04 Mar 2013, 07:31 posted on
Although the following vulnerability is not likely to expose any sensitive data stored on one's smartphone, its a flaw that must be brought to people's attention. It has been discovered that the Samsung Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III, and perhaps other of the maker's recent Android smartphones running version 4.1.2 of the OS are affected by a glitch that exposes their home screens for a fraction of a second even if the device is protected by a PIN or pattern...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I will admit, it has happened ONCE, and that's because I was running Pandora, updating apps, and have Power Saving Mode on (idk why) but hasn't happened ever since. I just tried this on my GS3 and it didn't work.
11. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13018; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Security needs vast improvement.
20. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I know in iOS 6. Tell Apple to fix that ASAP.
21. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
to be honest, i think apple ios will remain the most secure os for a long time and its easy to push in more, quicker security updates on ios
forget about android not being secure, even we don't know how many things we do on our devices to make them even more insecure, especially with the custom builds(rooting)
i am not talking about this minor issue(samsung's lock screen bypassing) , i am talking about android in general........we don't know about the future, but today android is more vulnerable
23. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I'd have to give BB credit. Blackberry is probably in my book the most secure.
27. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13018; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Certainly not financially secure.
36. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
bb is vulnerable today, bb10 can be affected sooner or later
ios and android are more popular and have a lot of apps, we can talk about bb if it remains as secure even after getting more apps and attention
and the playbook can run malicious android apps as well
25. hiBreed (Posts: 90; Member since: 29 May 2012)
Are u high on crack? Since when did ios become the most secure os. Blackberry would remain the most secure os, even if they had a 1 month holiday
34. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
bb pin to pin messages are insecure......every hacker is saying that bb is vulnerable, don't talk about the age old useless bb phones, look at the latest ones.....they are vulnerable today, anything could happen if bb becomes more popular and gets more attention(especially hacker's attention) like ios and android....we don't even know what will happen if they get hundreds of thousands of apps like ios and android
talk about bb10,not about the useless older versions..... how can you say that its secure, you can say that after giving it sometime
talking about older versions, bb playbook ran android apps and games.....even the ones that were malicious
35. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
wait for a couple of years, you will understand who is right and who is crack.....don't talk about what happened in the past when they had no attention, no proper OS like bb10
and bb services don't even work sometimes....
there were times when people like you said that mac os x was really very secure, what happened today?
apple offers great security to ios, jailbreaking the phones is becoming harder and harder day by day, they are hiring many hackers, their hard work on ios is evident..there are almost a million apps and none of them have malware, even the ones that crept in were thrown away
26. ZeroCide (Posts: 773; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
Your comments need vast improvemant too.
22. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
is it working when you are on wifi and when you are on power saving mode?
just try it and tell me.........and are you using the international version?
24. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
T-mobile Galaxy S3. I tried again. It works, but it only shows the homescreen for 1/16 of a second which really isn't an issue to me. All I have is the weather widget, camera, gmail, etc. and that's it.
This little flaw doesn't affect me at all and don't care about it. Now getting to my text messages and such, that's a different story lol.
37. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
you are right, its not a serious problem.....and thank you for the info
2. hung2900 (Posts: 956; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
Did Apple patent security lock flaws?
9. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13018; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Apple has nothing to do with the article.
18. tedkord (Posts: 11691; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Sure they do. They're your motivation for posting in every Android article. They're your motivation for life, spreading the gospel of Apple.
33. nicholassss (Posts: 368; Member since: 10 May 2012)
plus wasnt there news about a similar issue with iOS 6?
3. ama3654 (Posts: 295; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
Just go to settings, lockscreen and use password(High Security), problem solved!
12. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13018; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
That doesn't solve anything.
17. procopiojose (Posts: 132; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
nothing can be accessed from your phone anyway.. people can live with it.. once the lock screen get activated, any window behind it is closed..
4. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3767; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
iOS 6.1.1 The pioneer of lock screen bypassing.
14. nlbates66 (Posts: 328; Member since: 15 Aug 2012)
wasn't it more like iOS 2.1 or iOS 4.1 that had the original glitch on iOS?
5. GALAXY-STORM (Posts: 328; Member since: 13 Oct 2012)
Great idea, Just in case if i forget the pattern combination. Thanks
6. omarr (banned) (Posts: 149; Member since: 15 Sep 2012)
Apple will sue them I am sure
7. spideyhead256 (Posts: 148; Member since: 05 Nov 2012)
Let the samsung flaming,and the down votes,COMMENCE! =P
8. thachlel (Posts: 75; Member since: 20 Apr 2012)
FYI, set pin security is still the same as pattern! 4.1.2
10. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
*eats popcorn*
13. KParks23 (Posts: 618; Member since: 13 Oct 2010)
This woks as described just tried it not really a big deal as it only shows ur home screen for a split second but still should not happen
15. amozhi (Posts: 130; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
Nope it is not happening on my S3 (international version)
16. procopiojose (Posts: 132; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
simple window transition delay.. you cannot do much since after the screen is locked, anything behind is closed or minimize by the os.. direct call via widget.. haha.. yeah someone who wants to peek on your phone will definitely do that..
19. drnggaj33 (Posts: 127; Member since: 29 Feb 2012)
just wipeout the phone to go pass lock screen lol ;)
28. _PHug_ (Posts: 444; Member since: 11 Oct 2011)
You have to be really bored to find things like this but it could be used for your benefit.
Set the call widget to dial 911, so when the thief tries to do this the cops can find them through the GPS
29. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Security flaw in Samsung Galaxy devices...(sort of)
That says it all....lol.
I just tried on my Maxx HD. I dont have that ICE contacts icon. I cant even do T9 dialing. Thats when you dial by the letters on the keypad. I am running 4.1.1 tho.
Its a flaw...but I hope ppl watch the...entire....clip...before comparing it to the iOS 6 flaw...thanks. But...just like with the iOS flaw....contacts....one could do a lil social engineering if you can place a call. So this isnt good either.
30. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Then when I tried to call my home phone, it said Failed!! Only emergency numbers can be called.
31. Jack58221 (Posts: 153; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
Lol, I just set a lock pattern and all that to test this on my s3... not only does it work, but I could open my assistant app and talk to it from the lock screen then. could set alarms, sent a text, place a call and have it read upcoming events on my calendar.
32. Jack58221 (Posts: 153; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
just tried it on a friend s3 and could open assistant too, but his turned off after the greeting and would not let him do anything. only difference I know of its that I use go launcher, but I don't see how a launcher could effect that.
38. BailRentzias (Posts: 42; Member since: 12 Apr 2016)
Here is an easy way to unlock pattern lock for Samsung Galaxy phones, and no data loss


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Patents hinder free and open source software, all forms of information technology
Abolishing patents: Too soon or too late?
"Patents are here to stay." This is the sort of statement that makes me uneasy. I guess in the 17th century the common wisdom was "slavery is here to stay." In the 18th century giving voting rights to women seemed absurd and foreseeing open borders between France and German was crazy talk in 1945. At a certain point, fortunately, those things changed for the better. Is it time to change the common wisdom on patents as well? Is the time ripe—will it ever be?—to utter the frightening word abolition? I do not have the privilege to know the answer, but I regard the question as a legitimate one. According to some patent experts, however, questioning the very existence of patents seems blasphemous.
Patents have a strong appeal to many. Those who have a large patent portfolio, for instance. Lawyers and patent attorneys do not seem particularly eager to see their careers end either. The same can be said for patent offices. The list is rather long. I must confess, I myself make part of my living consulting on patent-related transactions, so I have a stake weighing against abolition. All the same, it would be unfair to just say it is only a conflict of interest. It is also, perhaps chiefly, a cultural bias. We know what we have, but we don't really know what we don't have. The system has worked well for so many years, why should it be abolished? Can't it be just reformed? And if abolished, to be replaced with what? Horror vacui! Again, common wisdom.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that all patents should be abolished tomorrow unconditionally. Of course we should apply an old saying: "Primum non nocere." (First, don't do damage). Keep a conservative approach, prefer freedom of enterprise over restriction and exploitation of others' work. Instead, incidentally, there is a strong and unbelievable push toward ever increasing patent protection, monopolies, new forms of "intellectual property", even without any trace of evidence, or even an attempt to gather any, that such changes are beneficial. Europe and database rights should be an example of this wrongful attitude. But having said that, I have no one-size-fits-all solution to the issue at hand, although all evidence points in one direction: abolition.
But patent abolition does not appear in any legislative agenda, with some exceptions, like New Zealand (although prohibition to patent software is apparently being watered down to match the current situation in Europe). If you dare—as I dared—to put it on the discussion table, asking, "Why do we have patents, wouldn't we be better off without?", then you are labeled as an Utopian at best, implying you are a fool and are attacking property as well as the free market. Pas du tout!
Patents are a relatively recent creation conceived as a means to a goal. I therefore consider it a legitimate proposition to ask if the goal (spurring innovation by providing incentives, via a monopolistic prize, to research and development) is best served with patents and whether the cost is too high.
Some say this is just wishful thinking. Even if they concede that questioning patents is a legitimate activity, it is just a philosophical one to them. A very competent and brilliant Free Software colleague, in order to reject the evocation of a future abolition of patents, and in particular of the so-called software patents, used a very evocative Scottish proverb: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Meaning, of course, it is not going to happen.
Are we sure?
Only three or four years ago, it was commonly thought that the patent system in technology was capable of self-regulation. Some characterized the process (as did I, but with different conclusions) as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), a situation where balance is reached similar to the balance of forces during the Cold War. But MAD doesn't work for Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs), or as they are often referred, for patent trolls. Good, they say, get rid of trolls and the system is fixed. Not quite so, sorry.
MAD works only when two opposing forces are equally and mutually threatened, which does not apply in many cases, beside the patent trolls example. What is more troublesome is even when in theory there are two big players with dozens of patents, MAD has not worked well. The last two years have shown that, at least in the smartphone industry, MAD did not provide sufficient incentives to stay out of the courthouses. Indeed everybody has sued everybody else almost everywhere.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg, we can't count how many businesses are disrupted by the threat of impending patent litigations, in a system where the mere chance of litigating a patent lawsuit is frequently not an option for the long tail where innovation mostly occurs. Patents are there more to preserve the existing technology than to spur new technology to come around. This is by design, and has always been so, but now technology moves at a faster pace and the contradiction is more evident.
Everybody sees that the system is not working, it creates problems, it destroys value, it provides incentives not to innovate, but to litigate. Most of the time such litigation is engaged by someone who would otherwise be disrupted by more efficient competition. Economic studies are stacking up showing how the economy of patents is completely astray, especially in the Information Technology field. The evidence that at least some kind of radical reformation is required is so abundant that even hitherto unsuspected sources, for instance free market, School of Chicago thinkers like Gary Becker and Richard Posner, are speaking up, calling for excluding certain fields of technology from patenting. These include fields where investment is slim and rewards are huge, making software patents the best example where this should occur. The curtain of silence is being lifted. Some of the patents issued, such as those on software and on graphical user interfaces, are receiving a lot of attention reaching the front pages of the news. Even the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office seems to be taking a U-turn on the rubber stamping some patents of a kind that formerly had a very easy way forward.
Finally, one cannot underestimate the fact that Free Software (or open source) is really having a huge impact in the new paradigm shifts, including the rise of social networks and cloud computing. Patents and Free Software are antonyms. Recently Richard Stallman provided an easy operative way to overcome the problem of defining what a software patent is, which is all in all consistent with my own litmus test: it's a software patent when you infringe it by distributing software. It may be a rough, blunt rule, but it provides the bulk of what we need to surgically remove software patents if we want to preserve most of the systemcar. Free Software provides a clear case for abolition and its main proponent provides a clear rule to deliver it and preserve the system. But Free Software is just one aspect, albeit a major driver, to the shift that is occurring now.
We are experiencing the dawn of a new era in technology (especially in the software), massively moving from scarcity to abundance of digital goods, akin to the big discontinuities that happened in history, of the same order of magnitude as moving from hunting and collecting to farming, or from non-industrialized, hand crafted, to industrialized, automated production of goods.
Newcomers, disruptors, have this in common: they want to get rid of the existing system, by removing the tools that preserve the status quo, for which the poster child is the patent system. Unsurprisingly, today's disruptors are en masse speaking against software patents. This ranges from Amazon—certainly not shy on patenting, but having in Jeff Bezos someone who calls at least for huge and swift reform—to Google, Twitter, Facebook, Rackspace, Red Hat, and many others, who hold a stance against software patents with various degrees of radicalism, putting it in black ink.
Digital rights activists, scholars, public opinion and (perhaps the majority of) economic interests are getting closer, inching towards abolitionist positions. It is happening now. How fast is hard to say, but the direction is—at least to me—clear.
Call me a fool, but I believe we are about to see some beggars riding a lot of odd horses in a short while.
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Patents should be completely abolished. If you want to know what will happen, look at those countries which didn't have patents (before Americans thought they owned the world). Their economies thrived. Anyone who thinks patents are necessary does not believe in free enterprise.
BTW, those hexagons in your diagram should be octagons, like a stop sign. Oh, wait, that's probably patented.
"The system has worked well for so many years, why should it be abolished?"
I spent more years in the software industry before software patents were invented than after software patents were invented. When the only intellectual property law which applied to software was copyright the legal system worked well in regards to software. It was only after software became patentable as well as copyrightable that the legal system became a hazard to the software industry. So that quote about not abolishing a well working system applies to the transition from copyright only to both copyright and patents. It does not apply to the impending transition to copyright only.
Steve Stites
Yes, I understand that. I have heard that argument seriously put forward by corporations who favor software patents so I put in my two cents worth.
Steve Stites
For a start: (a) even the playing field by imposing "user pays";
and (b) reinstate the requirements for a best-practice working implementation.
Whenever you allow something, but only under certain circumstances, the lawyers always win. Because you simply shift the legal burden from one place to another. You don't remove the burden at all. Sorry, but your suggestions will only make the status quo worse. The one who can afford the best lawyers wins.
Oh man, you should see the heat I get for saying Patents should be abolished.
As if I was trying to nuke the human race back to the stone age!
I'm not convince that patent should be completely abolished, but
the expiration date is definitely too long. Have all patents to be
3-5 year. In other words, the person who thought of an unique idea
have a 3-5 years head start, but not a monopoly.
Sorry but you just demonstrated one of the biggest problems with patents. Patents do not protect an idea. Patent law states that ideas can not be patented. Only the implementation of an idea can be patented. If someone else comes up with a better implementation, they can patent it. However, nowadays, if you try to patent an improvement, you will be sued for patent infringement. That's why patent law cannot be fixed. An fix is temporary. It's only a matter of time become some lawyer uses patent law to protect ideas and gets a judge to agree. As long as patent law of any type exists, ideas will be frozen and innovation killed.
But efficiency of a market is not the only argument to be made. Social equity is another argument. Walmart is a *very* efficient market. It also busts unions and some of its workers have recently gone on strike anyways. It serves up poisoned pet food fairly regularly due to their supplier relations in China. Large corporations with big portfolios, small inventers trying to keep larger outfits from ripping them off, and patent trolls are all part of the patent market. They are not all equivalent cases and equity to small patent inventors needs to be considered.
True, but unless you can show that there's more money to be made without it, no politician is going to get rid of it.
Carlo, You apply wrong patent regimes. The European regime protected this kind of innovation, whereas the US makes no demand of originality, it assumes that the all novelty originates in the US. You have to separate between before and after 1986 and the changes made in the US in 1980 to 1990.
Maybe because I have argued this in court with very competent lawyers. The US refused all IPR protected under the patent regime that covered the rest of the world. They "invented" software patents and expanded US laws, and then forced the EU to accept their new regime, so that MS would "license" their OS in Europe. Afterall millions had signed individually on that they would honour the US regime. Read the development and discussions in 1980 to 1990.
The patents law are different because of US trade laws and precedence that you fail to discuss. You also fail to discuss the historic difference. You have a world where e.g. all telecommunication is govern by standards, but where the US has elected to not comply with these standards. The iPhone may be considered a huge commercial success, based on GSM where the FCC has with trade laws, subsidy of US proprietary technology - CDMA has been award all the suitable radio frequencies, while GSM use the DECT radio frequency in the US - to provide coverage for its marketshare. The HLR that Logica was penalised for was at the time of the banning not allowed into the US. So, you have to look at US Trade Laws, because these are often used to enforce compliancy to US IPR / patent regime - "if you violate, you will be denied access for all what you sell to the US". That is the basis for contesting the US patent. If you are certain that the US president will be on the line and demand that you still can deliver and sell you accept to be raped and plundered.
"Everybody sees that the system is not working, it creates problems, it destroys value, it provides incentives not to innovate, but to litigate." Wow, that's quite an assumption... or can you cite that? Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't see why a company "owes" you the software that it spent so much money to develop. If you choose to release your software under an open source license then that's your choice... who are you to take that choice from someone else?
(Sorry, I didn't mean to wrap "owes" in quotes.)
Patent law states that software can not be patented. All software patents are illegal. The decision has already been made.
Patent law states that algorithms can not be patented. Alan Turing and John von Neumann proved that all software is algorithms. All software patents are illegal.
Personal property rights are a cornerstone of a free society. If you abolish patent law, what form of protection do you propose to replace it? I don't claim to be an expert, but isn't a patent a company's version of a deed or title?
Ideas are not personal property. Ideas cannot be patented; patent law states this. (They also cannot be copyrighted; copyright law states this too). Patent laws states that patents are a special privilege, not part of free enterprise. Patents exists only because patent law allows them. There are not and never were considered part of the natural world or any economic model. Abolishing patents will only return free enterprise to its natural state. They do not need to be replaced.
No, implemented right it protects investments and promotes innovation. Wrongfully implemented it protect thievery and abuse of power. The US system is not based on protecting the innovation and enable those who invents things and systems - ways of doing things. It servers only to protect the big and powerful and their rape and pillage on the way. See how Apple seeks to protect their market, claiming that they "invented" round corners. See how MS has taken code (including from me and the company I used to work with). Patents should not relate to "power", just innovation. Ask the US Patent office to assist when violation is detected to assist in helping the victim that has been copied, not their powerful violator that makes a "portfolio of IPR". Another example is RIM's "push email" that had to be dropped, because a considerable European company had provided the service for 10 years before RIM was formed. The problem was that this was now big enough to litigate until RIM had exhausted all assets. But they have not rules a penny in compensation, that would have wiped out the copy-cat company. If they have granted protection, the patent office should ensure that all licensing fees collected should be seized and paid to the one that was violated - plundered. It should not care that the US companies then will default or the country of and company size of the inventor.
The Bern / European convention protects source code at the same way as an author is protected from plagiarism. This is easier to prove and is based on proving the originality of the work. That means you cannot publish "The Emperor's New Clothes" with black covers and an Apple logo and be protected.
The problem with the patent system is that it's unstable. Either it goes to one extreme where it's nothing but a piece of paper you can hang on the wall next to your diploma, or it goes to the other where patent trolls are the only one to profit. Since it is a special monopoly granted by the government, it's best to get rid of it and let free enterprise determine the market.
So, you're not really suggesting we abolish patents, just remove software from it's context to be covered under copyright laws, correct? Your editorial reads as though you believe ALL patents are unjust (at least to me).
The patent laws were made to provide compensation to the innovator. When it is turned against the notion of innovation, to control market power, it should be removed. Simple because we need a free market, where the best technology can be chosen and used when making new things.
Weird ideas should not be allowed "patented", only things that you can show that you have made (past tense) and without using ideas taken from others. and then the penalty should be that if you lied to the patent office about the originality, and "Mr. Jones of Littlewood, Somewhere" can show that he had the same idea years ago, asked for funding from the large US companies and was denied this, then he should now be awarded all licensing fee collected - every penny. If he is dead and gone after years of hardship, let them pay his estate.
Software is in most these days, it is not that simple. A transmission made with cogs and moving parts would be patented, but a transmission that us a microprocessor to control the movement of the cogs to optimise transmission cannot. With Copyright you have to make the thing that is protected from being copied, with trademark, you have to make and submit what is to be protected.
Your first sentence reflects a common.misconception. The purpose of a patent is not to provide compensation for the inventor, it is to get him to disclose his invention rather than keep it as a trade secret. The compensation is only supposed to be an inducement to get the inventor to disclose. Read my post of January 16.
Wm. F. Bos, P. E.
Actually, patent law says nothing about compensation. It says the patent holder has exclusive right to market the invention or process and may sue any who also try to market the invention or process. Compensation of any type is not mentioned.
It would be interesting to know what they went through when first writing the patent laws to achieve that.
The Wright Brothers were never able to enforce their patents on the airplane. Orville went broke trying to. This probably was because they used wing warping to enable a coordinated turn and Glen Curtis very quickly came up with the aileron to do the same thing. I don't know if he ever tried to patent it. If he did, no one payed any attention to it.
Henry Ford had to go to court and prove that there was no valid patent on the automobile before he could sell his.
In order to make the patent system work for you, you have to com from a wealthy family of lawyers like bill gates. The small inventor doesn't have a chance
The patent system is just plain counter productive. It stifles the growth of technology. We would be better off without it.
Among the properties that I feel a reformed patent system should have are:
1) Only individuals could hold patents
2) They could not assign them
3) They could not issue exclusive licenses
4) They should have a short life.
5) Full disclosure should be required
This is not likely to happen.
Wm. F. Bos P. E.
My understanding of the purpose of a patent is to encourage the inventor to disclose his invention, so that others can see what it is. This gives them the opportunity to invent an even better item to serve the purpose. The quid pro quo is the monopoly for a limited period of time. The problem is that we are not getting the "quid" for the "pro quo". The inventor is getting very generous terms for his monopoly. but the disclosure is sketchy at best. My understanding is that the publication of source code is not even required for software patents. Further more, the life of these things has been extended to the point where they can hardly be considered a limited period of time. The result is that the original philosophy has been violated, and the original purpose is not being served. In the case of software it would be best if software patents and copyrights were just brought to an end. This is demonstrated by the success of the Open Source software development projects. There just is no good reason for software patents and copyrights. they just get in the way of the advancement of technology.
Bill Bos
The US Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate authors' and inventors' stuff for a "limited time." (Article 1. Section 8). Obviously, the founders wanted to encourage innovation. There should be protections for software - especially if a large company can prove a patent was infringed on by either stealing the source code and "refactoring" it for their own profit; or otherwise reverse engineering the executable code for their profit. Given today's technology, that is easy to do. I know I would be pissed if I invested years and billions of dollars in developing a software guidance system for the cruise missile only to have it stolen by China and given to Iran and North Korea. Congress, however, bottom line, can do what they want, constitutionally.
The US patent regimes exists and applies to North Korea in that any violator of US Patent law is denied trading in countries that honour these.
Carlo, the main problem is that US Trade laws are written in a way that allows US companies to copy, steal and pillage foreign companies. They elected to ignore the Bern Convention and has a trading law that states that all innovation originates in the US.
Read rationale behind penalising a British company: Logica, for providing a system that was banned in the US: GSM to Cuba - as a violation of US trade embargo.
If you need an example of copy of concept and code from a European company for commercial exploitation without any compensation by the US company, ask me and I will show you the MS "Access"... before MS was formed.
This is a very unfortunate article. It is very much the skinny end of the tail of the bell curve.
It completely ignores the purpose of patents in general, which is very much for the public good. It is a trade-off between increasing technical information, and improving an inventor's chances of bringing a new product to market. How on earth you could miss this?
Compare patents to mutually assured (nuclear) destruction? That's just asinine. Patents don't work generally? Maybe in your cozy bedroom, but not outside of it.
By muddying the issues, you have done harm to our aim of making software unpatentable. Please, don't go away mad.
The problem is that European patents have always been strong, with a huge demand on the applicant to prove innovation - that what is patented is new and not just a modification of what other have done.
Then comes the US patent regime, that first denied to accept the European patents under the Bern accord. So, they made their own regime where high school drop-outs were set to approve US patent application. With a US trade law that determines that all innovation is done in the US, no search was ever demanded by the applicants to prove the innovation. So e.g. most of Microsoft's "patents" are notions learned in Europe, and applied for by Microsoft. E.g. Microsoft Access is a copy of what I and some others made, and among others demonstrated to Microsoft - even the name is ours. Object-oriented programming is European, so I wonder how much of US IPR is left once we make claims. I agree that the old regime is better than what we have today, where it is fully possible to paint a stick of 100cm pink and call it a "pink meter" and patent it. I see no novelty in the curvature of the buttons, how to stop scrolling - as long as it stops at the end. If you invent a new system, with no copying of ideas published by others, claim copyright and license the use, but beware that others may make claim of that you have copied their ideas - here you need the lawyers. Let us sue the Americans for copying and see whet they do with their "patent laws".
The US companies have invented their own patent regime that was designed to protect US companies. The rest of the world have no use of this regime and have been violated for years. The Americans elected to set aside European patents, it is time to set things straight.
I agree that patents will become less and less of a focus as tech development accelerates, as more value is had from micro businesses servicing long tail customers and as innovation becomes a more collaborative and open process.
Innovation is often seen in small creative outfits who move fast, respond to the market before most other businesses do and often collaborate or co develop with others naturally due to their size and capacity. What they don't normally do is wait months for paperwork to get sorted out or sink their life savings into legal fees and patents. UK GVA in the creative industries is at around £72bn I wonder how much of that is from patented material?
Also, it isn't usually the first (and normally patented) idea that has the best potential to be commercially successful, the second and third attempt by competitors has often solved problems not ironed out by the initial model. Through the patenting model, surely that progress is stunted.
i would say that the patent system is certainly appropriate in some circumstances, but not all, and certainly *never* for software. i used to work in the semiconductor industry, and by the time i left in 1997, the cost to build a new fabrication facility from scratch was slightly over U.S.$1 billion. a research facility was smaller, but had similar costs, because the equipment was either bleeding-edge or manually assembled by a team of researchers (because the necessary equipment did not yet exist), either of which is incredibly expensive. patents protect such massive investments, because without them, it's both quicker and cheaper to copy the work of somebody else, leaving the guy who did the heavy lifting of original research (both basic and process development) all the costs and far fewer of the rewards.
patents were meant to improve society by promoting innovation; the inventor was to describe in detail his covered invention, and in return, Government (society) would grant him a monopoly, a financial incentive to disclose *in detail* the construction and operation of the invention (so that a practitioner of the art could duplicate the invention). when the patent expired, the inventor would have recouped his development costs and established his business; society would benefit because competitors would then be free to use the information in the patent, lowering consumer costs through competition. when entry costs are great, patents work very well (although the system can still be gamed), but software is different than physical devices and processes. with U.S.$10000, i can get a smoking hot computer and use it to develop amazing tools (given the talent to write software, of course). for the same amount of money, i can make a 10% (or less) down payment on a patent search that is virtually guaranteed to be completely ineffective at protecting me from patent litigation from established players or patent trolls, never mind the cost of a computer. which is the better investment from the perspective of society?
i should be prevented from *copying* the work of others, but if i develop something on my own, i should be allowed to do with it whatever i want, from selling it without disclosing the source code to putting it into the public domain. there is an existing business model that fits this situation which has been in place for well over 100 years; it's called copyright. furthermore, copyright was successfully used by the original developers of computers and software for four decades. the copyright system has already been proven to work.
finally, anybody - layman or lawyer - who knows anything about software patents knows that businesses hold them to countersue those who sue them, or to sue potential competitors to drive up their costs, not for actual protection for innovation. software patents in *any* form are not the way to promote innovation!
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The 9 Worst Things Comic Books Have Ever Done to Wolverine
Wolverine is proof that everyone loves Canadians, even when they're surly murderers. His only powers are always carrying knives and repeatedly coming back from things that should have killed him. That's not a superhero, that's a horror movie villain.
Under that striped jumper Freddy Kreuger was ripped.
The Wolverine is his most unexpected resurrection yet. X-Men Origins: Wolverine proved that making Wolverine the sole star of a superhero movie was about is enjoyable as making Wolverine pick your nose. With similar effects on your intelligence. But that's not even nearly the worst thing that's happened to the skunk bear.
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Neither is being named after an animal called the "skunk bear."
#9. Being Torn in Half (For Three Years)
Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk asked the question, "Who would win in a fight?" because apparently some people who didn't know the answer was "Duh" and "Who'll clean all the liquid Canadian off Hulk's feet?"
The fashion police are powerless against those color combinations
Wolverine is dispatched to Tibet to assassinate the Hulk, because pissing that guy off is always such a brilliant idea. The problem with adamantium bones is that unless you have carbon monofilament ligaments, your limbs are just harder sticks people can rip off and beat you with. Coating your vertebrae with an unbreakable metal does nothing but turn your spinal cord into a shiny bead necklace.
Hulk show nipples, get bead necklaces OR ELSE!
After Hulk throws him away like the world's hairiest Christmas cracker, Wolverine smells his own legs at the top of the mountain and started climbing to retrieve them. We often see climbing Tibetan mountains as a quest for attainment, but it's not meant to be attaining the potential to tap dance. Then the series was struck by delays, because producing monthly comics is apparently very difficult for a billion-dollar company that's been doing only that as their primary occupation for 70 years. These interruptions left a bisected Wolverine trailing intestines for three years.
As if masturbating wasn't difficult enough for him before.
It was an excruciatingly long story, suddenly and unsatisfyingly resolved by unrelated factors. But it was written by the guy behind Lost so we should have expected that.
#8. Vulcan Neck Pinch
Marvel was printing fan-fiction long before 50 Shades Of Grey triggered an entire new generation of Tumblrs about Harry Potter's wand and Hot Rod's exhaust port. They printed Star Trek/X-Men in 1996, four years before Patrick Stewart would have made that the most amazing identical twins-mistaken identity comedy in history.
"I'm sensing ... that Counselor Troi is the worst goddamn psychic in the entire galaxy."
Paramount Comics was a licensing deal that would allow movies to become comics and was such a bad idea that doing the exact opposite would instantly make both companies billions of dollars. It started when the X-Men were transported by an alien penis ship through a rift in space time.
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Seriously, that's how an artist says he thinks this story is screwing two universes.
The story revolves around the resurrection of Gary Mitchell by the disembodied spirit of Professor X's son, Proteus, because a two-issue crossover with a completely new property is no reason not to indulge in endless continuity. This was late '90s X-Men. They're not allowed to piss in the woods without tying at least three other epic urine arcs.
The stowaways are almost immediately found by Spock, because he is the ice-coldest motherboardfucker in space. He's so cool that when Paramount destroyed his entire universe, he was the only thing they kept. And when he calmy requested that the stowaways come with him to WOLVERINE ATTACK!
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The last time something yellow and black was taken out so contemptuously with two fingers, you were squeezing a spot.
Spock drops Logan like a particularly illogical piece of trash. The Enterprise wouldn't see someone switched off so quickly again until Commander Data arrived. Wolverine recovers a moment later and attacks again, because doing the same thing over and over is Wolverine's entire deal, and spends the rest of the episode reduced to growling.
The best bit is the end, where the combined forces of the Enterprise and X-Men must pour all their powers into destroying the possessed Mitchell.
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Wolverine seems unphased that even the navigator has a gun that renders him obsolete.
Even Checkov and Sulu are pouring pure destruction into the target, while Wolverine is reduced to helpfully pointing out the incandescent god-being set on fire by every kind of energy in two fictional universes. In case anyone missed it. Possibly while growling. When you're outputting less damage than Mr. "Oh My," it might be time to start carrying a gun.
#7. (Not Really) Fighting Lobo
Lobo was designed as a brutal parody of Wolverine's violent stupidity and ended up becoming sincerely popular. And now you know why comic writers sometimes just stick a cape on an element and go to the pub. A chain-smoking, beer-swilling, ever-healing indestructible asshole, his only hobbies were riding an awesome bike, shooting everyone, and then stabbing the bits he missed. He was a true ideal for his target audience: an un-wedgiable hero whose lunch money could never be stolen.
And who apparently has vagina dentata.
The 1996 DC vs Marvel series was a showcase of everything those imagination powerhouses were famous for: pitting the greatest heroes in fiction against each other and failing to deliver on that awesome premise. The Wolverine vs. Lobo fight should have been the ultimate battle of slicing skill, a deathmatch Iron Chef where the special ingredient was each other. Instead, it was the worst wasted opportunity since someone asked a genie to get him a regular lamp.
The two near-immortal warriors fell behind a bar together, it went quiet, and then Wolverine came out for a smoke. Your ultimate badass blade battle should not be indistinguishable from tender loving in a period drama too delicate to show boning. This, in a comic specially designed to be nothing but fight sequences. Someone decided we wanted five full pages of fight for Robin vs. Jubilee, but intimate romance between the burly stabbers.
Even more embarrassingly, Lobo's loss was later explained as Professor X paying the mercenary to take a fall to protect Wolverine's precious feelings. Not that the world's most insightful psychic understands that the tough guy pose covers more insecurity than the Leaning Tower of Pisa's Rooftop Ming Vase collection.
#6. Australian Wolverine
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men was released in 1989 and looked like it had been kept it in storage for 15 years, first. It was the last stand of the Stan Lee "standing around and talking at each other" era of X-Men cartoons.
"Listen, bub, I'm just sayin' we should all get chairs to sit through this many monologues."
Never mind faithfulness to the character, they didn't even get Wolverine's hemisphere right. He had an Australian accent in the same way he had overgrown fingernails -- horrific abominations created by those who made him and who would pay for their mistake. This was the last cartoon ever made in that universe: It single-handedly did what Galactus couldn't.
#5. Fighting Magneto
We've covered this before, and we'll cover it again, because Wolverine attacking Magneto will remain the stupidest thing done by anyone in comics until a character works out how to start fires in the real world.
When everyone kept talking about how this guy could dominate metal, did Logan think that meant wicked guitar?
I understand that heroes are meant to take on impossible odds, but not when the bad guy can turn you into a game of Operation just by thinking about it.


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