251–260 of 510 posts
Here are some articles about that: https://www.inquisitr.com/4935898/google-accused-of-trying-t... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/after-patent-office-re...
And a HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751977
Software patents need to be banned. In the interim, employee incentives (ego, bonuses) to being listed as an "inventor" while BigCompany remains the "assignee" could be ameliorated with a "Software Patent Hall of Shame" (SPHS), which would list software engineers complicit in software patents. This would disincentivize software engineers from stealing ideas, from allowing their work to be patented, or from signing ag…
Not just software patents. All patents. What makes software industry so special?
jl;isdif.nvrvu;weo;nsz signed by linkedin.com/in/djordje-vasiljevic
Earlier quoted context omitted.
People don't get to the top by being ethical. They get to the top of the org chart by playing politics. Many of them are practically psychopaths.
It does increasingly feel this way, but I think (hope?) it's selection bias. In other words we hear about the psychopaths because they are newsworthy. We don't generally hear about the average CEO, because they are average and generally follow expected social norms. At least, that's what I hope.
Politics on the other hand works almost always, the person just needs to be apprehensive and adapt to whom they try to please. Its not limited to corporations, plain old state politics and bureaucracy is the same.
Btw minor nitpick - I would expect much more sociopaths than proper psychopaths in top of the pyramid.
IANAL, but 35 U.S. Code § 115 requires that "each individual who is the inventor or a joint inventor of a claimed invention in an application for patent shall execute an oath or declaration" that they believe "himself or herself to be the original inventor or an original joint inventor of a claimed invention in the application," and acknowledging "that any willful false statement made in such declaration or statement…
This. Google should also probably take disciplinary actions.
If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...
So what is neuroscience then
Software patents need to be banned. In the interim, employee incentives (ego, bonuses) to being listed as an "inventor" while BigCompany remains the "assignee" could be ameliorated with a "Software Patent Hall of Shame" (SPHS), which would list software engineers complicit in software patents. This would disincentivize software engineers from stealing ideas, from allowing their work to be patented, or from signing ag…
Not just software patents. All patents. What makes software industry so special?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
computer science is math
engineering is math too, math is eating everything, oh noes! but not really, that's software after all. engineering is applied math, so largely software modeling, whereas CS is theoretical work. abstract problems, pure solutions.
Engineering and science are not math, even though they use math, and engineering is not science, even though it uses science. They are all very different disciplines.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The good news is that very few people are at the top. Most are in the middle, and it's entirely possible to be ethical and in a good middling position.
How can you justify your work in the middle as ethical, if it directly supports a rotten apple at the top? Your life's work turned into a support system for a beast, wonderful!