Interesting article – most of these problems and more were solved in TimeKeeper years ago. But the most interesting part is the enormous engineering effort required to kind of get PTP to work.
Patent Reform modest proposal.
Companies over a certain size should be required to show that they have evaluated a patent claim from a small entity in good faith. That is, if they get a claim that they are infringing, they should be required to
Paying for music
Streaming services rely on a weird conceit, but it’s not a new one. Like record labels, these companies can’t exist—they literally have no product—without musicians. Yet hardly any musicians are pleased with the advent of digital streaming, and understandably so—they