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i would not give an excessive weight to the wording "patent claims" in Q1. In Q1 and in Q2, the wording is limited to "claims" [00:32] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal on claim interpretation confirmed (G1/24) - The IPKat [00:32] schestowitz[TR2] "I see no reason why A. 69 should not also be applied for consideration of patentability - it can work both ways. If the specification says "gathered" includes "spirally wound" then for a claim reciting "gathered", spirally wound prior art is anticipatory. Likewise, if the specification states that "gathered" means "drawn together with a draw string", this is the meaning of "ga [00:32] schestowitz[TR2] thered" in the claim." [00:33] schestowitz[TR2] "The President has spoken:
"To ensure the proper functioning of the EPO and for legal certainty, the President of the EPO has decided that proceedings before the examining and opposition divisions should continue".
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Does the phrase "should continue [00:33] schestowitz[TR2] " indicate that proceedings will continue even if a party makes a request for a stay of proceedings and the outcome of those proceedings depends entirely upon the answers to the questions referred in G 1/24?

It certainly seems that the Notice from the President is intended to serve as an edict, with Examining and Oppositions Divisions forbidden from contravening the rule that it sets out. However, if that is [00:33] schestowitz[TR2] the case, then the President is essentially instructing all Examining and Oppositions Divisions to commit substantial procedural violations in cases where, by rights, a stay of proceedings should be imposed (upon the request of a party)." [00:33] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://www.epo.org/en/legal/official-journal/notice-european-patent-office-dated-1-july-2024-concerning-continuation-examination-and-opposition
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Webinar: "Countering climate disinformation: strengthening global citizenship education and media literacy"
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This webinar will focus on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) as a potent tool to foster climate action. Against the backdrop of mis/disinformation, promoting critical thinking as well as data and information literacy are key to ensuring citizens can access and evaluate the information they receive through the media.
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Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files | Samuel Henrique (samueloph)
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wcurl is the solution for those who just need to download files without having to remember curl's parameters for things like automatically naming the files.
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Managed PostgreSQL service provider Tembo raises $14M
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Tembo Data Systems Inc., operator of a PostgreSQL managed service, today said it closed a $14 million Series A funding round that brings its total financing to $20.5 million.
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The company says its developer-focused, meaning it wants to simplify the task of installing and managing PostgreSQL as well as the more than 200 extensions in its ecosystem. Tembos strategy is to make as many extensions as possible available using a package manager and registry it built called Trunk.
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Ladybird Is a New Browser Initiative Backed up by $1M
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The web is a cornerstone of modern civilization. However, despite its open nature, the financial backbone of the webs most popular browsers is predominantly tied to advertising revenues from tech giants like Google.
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For good or bad, this financial dependency can lead to compromises in user privacy and a lack of diversity in browser technology. Major browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Opera are based on Googles Chromium project, highlighting the pervasive influence of a single companys technology.
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At the same time, Apple gets billions of dollars to set Google as the default search engine on Safari, while Firefox also makes hundreds of millions annually through a similar arrangement.
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Linux Mint 22 beta sprinkles Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu
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This means more of Mint's accessories must diverge from their upstream GNOME bases. So now there's a new tool to configure online accounts, based on the older Gtk3-based libgoa tool, called rather confusingly, we feel GNOME Online Accounts GTK. This works with Cinnamon, Xfce, MATE, and the Budgie desktop. Mint 22 also reverts to the older, Gtk3-based versions of the Celluloid movie [16:36] schestowitz[TR2] player, as well as GNOME Calculator, Simple Scan, the Baobab disk usage analyzer, System Monitor, GNOME Calendar, File Roller, and Zenity. Also, as described in the May blog post, there's a new Software Manager, which opens much faster. Installation of unofficial Flatpak packages is now disabled by default, and if you enable it, unofficial packages are clearly highlighted. Given the recent problems with fake apps in Ubuntu's Snap [16:36] schestowitz[TR2] store, this problem looks likely to grow.
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Keychain Development Update: Yubikey Support
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Following my latest post about Keychain, here is a new development update. Yubikey and Key Files are now supported, which allows you to requires a YubiKey to open a password database but also to save it.
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Linux Kernel Panic QR Codes: Nerdy Or Awesome?
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If youre nerdy like me, tell me if this one is familiar to you. You make a tweak to your machinedesktop or laptop, and during the boot process, theres a kernel panic.
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Its an experience Im definitely familiar with when it comes to Hackintoshing. Often, error messages would fly by so fast that I would have to take my phone, record the screen, and then frame-by-frame, uncover the error. Absolute pain, but honestly kind of exciting for the right kind of nerd.
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But it makes life a challenge for actually trying to figure out whats wrong with your computer, especially if the error is extremely technical because you made some sort of hardware or software change that borked the whole thing.
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[16:41] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-tedium.co | Linux Kernel Panic QR Codes: Nerdy Or Awesome? ● Jul 05 [18:17] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:38] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:40] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@j9gt2haw74jrk.irc) has joined #techbytes [18:51] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 05 [19:47] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [19:47] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@j9gt2haw74jrk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 05 [22:04] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@g2xqzhfejbyq2.irc) has joined #techbytes [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tlzDg4P [22:12] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tlzDg4P ) [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] " [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] Spot On comment ! [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] IBM executives need to cut deep and hard into top heavy management organizations like F&O, Consulting etc. The mainframe era is not going to last forever and cannot sustain the faltering IBM ecosystem. Currently, there is nothing but a failing strategy in place lead by AK. [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+7/-0) [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1gee+1tlzDg4P [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] +10 [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] Watson senior and Jr managed IBM with a 10-1 employee to manager ratio. Its what the US army used during WW2 and they emulated that. When Gerstner came on board IBM in the 1990s it was down to 6-1. He promptly cut excess headcount (60k over 18 months) and moved the manager to employee ratio back to 15-1. Today IBM is running at 6.5 employees to 1 manager. Looks like its time for a haircut. IBM has always been over managed [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] which results in its almost 2X overhead cost vs its nearest competitors. Being over managed when you are the only game in town is an affordable executive perk/luxury. Being over managed when you are struggling to survive is a fault of the executive team, and shouldnt be tolerated. During hard times executives get paid big bucks to make the corporate entity efficient and focused. AK its time to step up, or step off. You have a [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] head count problem that is causing inefficiency and lack of focus. GET to WORK [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] 8 hours ago by Anonymous [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] | 10 reactions (+10/-0) [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1rrf+1tlzDg4P [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] IBM gave out too many band D's a few years ago. Especially sales managers who were just that. Managed a small team of people. It was sales trying to catch up with consulting promotions. [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] 9 hours ago by Anonymous [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] | 5 reactions (+4/-1) [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1dsd+1tlzDg4P [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] +7 [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] Interesting that youve heard about promotions. Im in the US and the band reductions have happened to people I know personally. The blanket promotion ban may just be in my BU which Im not sharing here. Good to know its not IBM wide. [22:12] schestowitz[TR2] " [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tmYWHdB [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] " [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] Unfortunately IBM rejects won't even have the option 'cause McDonald jobs will be overtaken by AI: ouch!!! [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] 8 hours ago by Anonymous [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+3/-1) [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @kwc+1tmYWHdB [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] +11 [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] Nickel And Dime is everywhere getting sued for her pathetic HR failures.....was she ever any good ? It's time to replace her with someone from the S**thole called India and save a bundle of cash for the upcoming bonfire. [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] 12 hours ago by Anonymous [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] | 11 reactions (+11/-0) [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @hom+1tmYWHdB [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] +8 [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] "The only jobs the dinosaurs ex-IBMers will be able to get are McDonalds type jobs." [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] sadly, the d-mb young come from low standard quota schools and loser foreign countries who wouldn't know abstraction if it slapped them in the face [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] one of the reasons the US is in serious decline [22:13] schestowitz[TR2] " [22:13] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tmYWHdB ) [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tj8pwX5 [22:14] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tj8pwX5 ) [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] " Have you considered a job with IBM marketing ? They love new meaningless terms and words for the non-existent IBM ad campaigns. And JA loves to fire employees as soon as they start work. It's his vision of how Marketing should be run with a skeleton crew. [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] 10 hours ago by Anonymous [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] | 6 reactions (+6/-0) [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @3fea+1tj8pwX5 [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] +6 [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] @3gwj+1tj8pwX5 [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] but, but, but, AK and the Indian Leadership say that AI sounds so much s-xier in the IBM ads they plan to introduce in India in the next century. If AK says that and it's on the Internet, then it must be true. [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] 12 hours ago by Anonymous [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] | 6 reactions (+6/-0) [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @3vee+1tj8pwX5 [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] +5 [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] 'AI is already a race to the bottom' [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] what is AI - it is just a fancy name to get d-mb investor money [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] a buzzword [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] please use terms like reinforcement learning, regression, principal component analysis, ... [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] 14 hours ago by Anonymous [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] | 5 reactions (+5/-0) [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @3gwj+1tj8pwX5 [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] +7 [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] remains to be seen if AI or quantum computing will be viable at all [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] AI is already a race to the bottom. [22:14] schestowitz[TR2] Quantum may or may not happen. 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