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offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Michael Mann, infamous for his climate "hockey stick" graph, has been ordered to pay over $530,000 in legal fees after spending over a decade trying ? and failing ? to silence National Review through a lawsuit.
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In an age where technology promises efficiency, Shane McEvoy's recent encounter with an NHS booking service chatbot paints a very different picture of inefficiency and frustration that is symptomatic of deeper issues.
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offsite link Cooking the Books: Why You Just Can?t Trust the Annual Bestseller Lists Anymore Sun Jan 12, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
The New York Times Bestseller list is "pure propaganda", says Elon Musk. The newspaper even admitted in court it is "editorial content", not factual. But what about the Sunday Times version? Steven Tucker investigates.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 12, 2025 01:23 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Top Journal: Scientists Should Be More, Not Less, Political Sat Jan 11, 2025 17:00 | Noah Carl
Science, nominally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, is at it again. In November, they published an editorial saying that scientists need to be even more political than they already are.
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EU patent examiners to strike

category international | consumer issues | other press author Tuesday May 09, 2006 21:10author by R. Isible Report this post to the editors

Protesting pressure of exploding number of patents

Patent examiners in the EU are holding a one-day strike in Munich, Deutschland in order to protest their inability to handle an increasing flood of patent applications and the pressure being put on them to cursorily accept these patents.

Patents are increasingly used in ways that many argue are divergent from their original intent: to provide a period of protection and reward for inventors. Patents, it is argued, have come to be used as a method for companies to put each other out of business by using their finances to acquire questionable patents from a system that was not designed to cope with a huge volume of requests.

Further, patents are being applied for on subjects that are very close to algorithms (which are not supposed to be patentable), most notoriously in the case of Amazon's "one-click shopping cart".

Companies are also attempting to acquire hidden portfolios of patents on obscure methods (which are not easily researchable unless one has a vast amount of money to hire patent lawyers to examine the bulging databases). These patents are then used to take expensive court cases against rival businesses at sensitive times with the aim of driving down stock prices by causing investor unease.

In one of the most prominent cases, SCO Unix (a vendor of one of the traditional Unices), has taken court cases against a multiplicty of GNU/Linux developers and contributors including IBM.

In an attempt to fight back against this the Open Invention Network has created a pool of patents owned by companies like IBM, Sun, Novell, Red Hat, which will be used in counter-suits against any attack on one of the members contributing their patents to the pool. It is hoped that this move will protect the various GNU/Linux distributions against frivolous attacks by malign businesses and free up an environment for innovation and competition.

Open Innovation Network: http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/
EFF Patent Busting Project: http://www.eff.org/patent/
FSF Patent absurdity: http://www.fsf.org/news/patent-article.html
EU attempting to introduce software patents: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1911950,00.asp

Nature's article on the European Patent Office strike:

Related Link: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060501/full/060501-11.html
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