Tell Congress: Don't Allow The Return Of The Worst Patents 2023
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The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, would throw out Supreme Court rules that limit patents on abstract ideas. If PERA passes, it will open the floodgates for far more vague and overbroad software patents. It will even allow for a type of patent on human genes that the Supreme Court rightly disallowed in 2013. No one should be allowed to take an abstract idea, add generic computer language, and get a patent. And we should never see patents on the genes that naturally occur in human bodies. But if PERA passes, that’s exactly what will happen.
    • @fubo
      16•1 year ago

      “TCP/IP” is conventionally used to indicate the whole protocol suite; including UDP, ICMP and sometimes even ARP.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Technically the parent protocol is IP.

        In all my years I have never heard someone suggest that TCP is a catch all term.

        • @[email protected]English
          5•1 year ago

          I’ve seen many references to TCP/IP as meaning IP + everything-on-top, usually when talking about other networking technologies like UUnet, OSI, etc. Also as the TCP/IP stack, usually meaning the (Free)BSD networking code used in other systems.

        • @fubo
          3•1 year ago

          It’s not that TCP is a catch-all term, but “TCP/IP” is often used that way.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

          The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria. The foundational protocols in the suite are the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and the Internet Protocol (IP).

          For that matter, the classic networking text by Douglas Comer is Internetworking with TCP/IP and it does cover UDP, ICMP, ARP, DHCP, DNS, etc.

    • @grayman
      3•1 year ago

      Psh. UDP isn’t used at any scale anymore. /s