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Re:Patent withdrawn? by lanswitch · 2009-08-12 01:53 · Score: 3, Informative · on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word

looks like a typo you made in the patent number. Check out http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5787449.html for the full text.

Patent withdrawn? by zerosumgame · 2009-08-12 01:09 · Score: 2, Interesting · on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word

So what does t mean that the patent in question has been withdrawn? http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5787499.html

Re:Bullshit by vlm · 2009-07-27 08:57 · Score: 1 · on Company Claims Potential Magnification In Bio Fuel Production

Dang it! Surprise!

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7135308.html

Process for the production of ethanol from algae
United States Patent 7135308

Abstract:
The present invention describes a process for the production of ethanol by harvesting starch-accumulating filament-forming or colony-forming algae to form a biomass, initiating cellular decay of the biomass in a dark and anaerobic environment, fermenting the biomass in the presence of a yeast, and the isolating the ethanol produced. The present invention further relates to processing of the biomass remaining after ethanol production to recovering biodiesel starting materials and/or generation of heat and carbon dioxide via combustion.

Re:I would probably do the same thing by ToasterMonkey · 2009-07-26 20:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Security Certificate Warnings Don't Work

I call BS. Have you ever done this? Do you know how many different CA lists are on your computer? Things are intentionally more difficult than they need to be.

This is a good solution. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2008/0010448.html

like you said - you work on a lab intranet. You're the one responsible for setting it up properly.

Screw you buddy. The problem is having to deal with a third party trust system for a fucking LAB (read: exclusively first party) environment.

Re:From Mark Cuban? Take it with a grain of salt by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-06 06:34 · Score: 0 · on If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free

One small example: you know those three-sided 24 second clocks on top of the backboards in the NBA now?

Yea, that's such a dramatic jump in logic and reasoning from the matside wrestling scoreboard. That alone doesn't make him much more relevant.

How about regular mail? by Sqreater · 2009-06-17 03:50 · Score: 1, Interesting · on NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing

I offer these comments in the spirit of participating in a robust public discussion about a current issue of public concern: privacy before goverment secrecy. Don't blame me for being an American. Further, no insight is based on inside information, of which I have none.

NSA might be (probably is) archiving the outside of every piece of mail being processed through the United States Postal Service today. This would NOT be done by the USPS, which legitimately uses the info to route mail, then discards it normally. The data would be siphoned off and stored elsewhere in my opinion. The only place with the desire and the capacity would be the NSA. This may be legal under current law as law enforcement already can record the cover of your mail. But I'm not a lawyer. Imagine, storing two-hundred billion images a year in grayscale! Imagine if they could data mine that massive database! It could be worth billions to commercial interests nationwide. Imagine if they could kick in your door in the middle of the night because of a pattern in your received mail.

"The arbitrated result is sent back to DIOSS 1 . If the image was read successfully and a ZIP+4 delivery point identified, DIOSS 1 sends a signal to image server 8 instructing it to discard or archive the grayscale image saved for that mail piece. Information obtained from the image data, typically a header including destination information and a copy of the binary image data, is transmitted to a storage and transfer processor (STP) 4 . In the majority of cases, image data for mail pieces will be resolved and a sorting decision made at DIOSS 1 , and a POSTNET bar code label will be printed on the mail piece in DIOSS 1 in real time. The ability to archive the grayscale image may become increasingly important for forensic reasons in the event of a bio-terrorist attack. According to a further aspect of the invention, all of the sorter machines used by the USPS forward their archived image data (binary, grayscale/color, or both) to a central database which stores the image for a period of time, along with identifying information (destination address or ID number), the date and time of processing, and the identity and location of the sorting machine that handled the mail piece. This data, extremely large in volume, would be saved for a period of time before being discarded, anywhere from several days, a month, or a year or more depending on storage capacity available. Law enforcement officials working on a case wherein contaminated letters were sent through the mail could thereby determine accurately where the mail piece was processed so that decontamination can be carried out and any patterns of mailing used by the perpetrator can be analyzed.(my emphasis)

From here: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7145093.html

Some things just aren't meant to fly. by MrClever · 2009-06-07 15:29 · Score: 3, Informative · on Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains

Not to mention many forms of freight cannot be carried by air at all, and others have extreme restrictions on the amounts that can be carried in a single air consignment. As IATA say, "some things just aren't meant to fly" - like pyrotechnic security attache cases for example (sorry Mr. Bond, you'll have to send that by road/rail/boat).

Re:Speckle? by PacoBell · 2009-06-03 11:33 · Score: 1 · on A Widescreen Laser Projector In Your Pocket

Maybe they've dealt with this?

They have.

Re:Can somebody explain how it works? by PacoBell · 2009-06-03 11:05 · Score: 1 · on A Widescreen Laser Projector In Your Pocket

Another reason for the slightly unfocused beam might be to reduce speckle. Highly collimated light tends to produce a more noticeable speckle pattern. Here's the salient Microvision's patent.

Can't it power itself in winter? by lpq · 2009-05-29 07:04 · Score: 1 · on Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter

With all it's magnets and electricity usage, you can't convince me they are anywhere near efficient enough to NOT generate loads of waste heat. In the winter -- especially during those '22 days', when electricity is at a premium, I suspect it has a good deal to due with those being the shortest and among the coldest days of winter. That means during the time of highest electrical cost, they are also likely to have the coldest outdoor temperatures.

There is a high amount of power going into the facility. The magnets can't take much power after they are energized, given they are being held at super-cool temperatures and are designed to function as 100% efficient super-conducting magnets -- then all of the power must be going into ... what? Varying the magnetic flux to accelerate the particles (which will generate heat), and running cooling compressors (which could have been designed to take advantage of cooler outdoor temperatures to decrease cooling load requirements, but I suspect not) takes some power but would generate heat as a by-product.

Then there are the beams -- very high energy cost beams that are colliding with each other. Except for parts of the beams which convert into matter, which sounds negligible, with most of the research going into analyzing the decay products of temporarily created particles, then all that energy must generate ALOT of heat. In the coldest months of winter, not only should they be able to use that waste heat to heat the non-refrigerated, human-inhabited parts of the facility, (reducing heating load), most importantly -- that waste heat combined with the outdoor temperatures that are among the lowest of the winter, should provide ideal conditions for electrical generation through Sterling engines. It seems that the colder it is outside, the better the conditions for turning their waste heat into [re]usable electricity via Sterling

Combined with the possibility of increased cooling operating efficiency in winter (less cooling requirements, if they designed their cooling system s to take advantage of lower outdoor temperatures to start from as a base for cold-air to refrigerate, or help to bring in cold-outdoor air to help insulate cold-areas, their winder electrical load could drop by some fraction, reducing electrical usage during peak-cold times, thus further dropping their electrical load and lowering their winter electric bill.

While the majority of power goes energizing the magnets, they should be very efficient, as the operate at absolute zero are are near 100% efficiency). However , the 'end' work is 'smashing' of particles together and watching decay patterns. Unless I am gravely mistaken, virtually none, or a nearly insignificant percentage of that collision results in the creation of matter (that would act as a very large energy sump).

Given those conditions, it is likely that about 95% or more of the energy used would be radiated out (after decay) as VERY hot "waste heat" -- with each beam having the excess heat to be able to drill 30cm holes in copper (that's alot of excess heat!!!).

Such high heat with the extra frigid temperatures outside should enable optimal power generation from numerous heat-differential engines that convert heat-differences into mechanical energy.

Peltier devices have potential for high efficiency as they skip a mechanical -> generator step) (Peltier Guide.
Mechanical devices such as those describe by the original (free-public domain), patented Stirling engine, US Patent 3995429, (a href="http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6804171/claims.html">US Patent 6804171, (OR), possibly, low-cost, licensable patents Method Accession# 01A0878780),

Heck Why not.... by gabrieltss · 2009-05-26 05:18 · Score: 3, Interesting · on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation

Heck a lawyer patented the method for swinging on a swing
Why not IBM patenting something stupid like this! Maybe enough of these will bring the patenet system into reform or it's destruction...

Ref:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6368227
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination

Re:Has to be better than my other stock picks. by Jah-Wren+Ryel · 2009-04-23 13:34 · Score: 1 · on AMD Overclocks New Phenom II X4 To 7 GHz

What you linked to does not support your claim.
In fact, it 100% validates the explanation which I wrote.
Thanks for linking to though, I was too lazy to dig up the proof.

The post refers to an int called __intel_cpu_indicator that intel used as a bitfield. The user "Eponymous Cowboy" demonstrates that he sets certain bits in the int and that causes the code to use the version of memcpy() hand-coded for a Pentium 4.

If you read Intel's patent filing here they break out the bitfield at the time of filing:

The compiler then generates multiple assembly code processor tests corresponding to the dispatch construct, step 390 . These multiple tests access an intel_cpu_indicator variable to identify the processor type. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the intel_cpu_indicator is a bit vector which encodes the processor type. The bit vectors and their corresponding processor types according to one embodiment of the present invention are illustrated in Table II below. Alternate embodiments can include a lesser or greater number of bits.
TABLE II Bit Vector Processor Type 00000000000000000000000000000001 generic 00000000000000000000000000000010 Pentium® processor 00000000000000000000000000000100 Pentium® Pro processor 00000000000000000000000000001000 Pentium® processor with MMX(TM) technology 00000000000000000000000000010000 Pentium® II processor 00000000000000000000000000100000 Pentium® III processor

Re:Sounds interesting. by leenks · 2009-03-24 11:42 · Score: 1 · on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7

Really?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.html

Re:Bias against big firms? Wanna see overly by davidsyes · 2009-03-24 05:04 · Score: 1 · on Court Says USPTO Can Change Patent Rules

broad, nebulous, all-inclusive-for-them/all-deprivation-for-others patent?

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4594817.html

http://www.wikipatents.com/4594817.html,

then, compare to:

http://www.yesicanusechopsticks.com/thesequel/capsule/

It's high time that even decades-old patents be overhauled... We have innumerable types of pens, tables, chairs, automobiles, book shelves, sofas, scanner and printer devices, cabinets, trash cans, shoes, refrigerators... Is anyone out there sitting on proof that there is a cartel collecting royalties on THOSE items or numerous others?

It's not as if a bunk bed is as seminal as a special pain-free needle/injector for patients to self-administer multiple times a day, and not as if it is as significant as wiper blades or the Botts Dots, or special alloys...

But, for big companies to possibly preempt smaller firms and individuals from obtaining patents on "disruptive" technology or other things, the only defense left is to immediately and constantly diffuse/dissseminate information and details on every step along the way, with anciliary information to work around and back toward the patent. This will teach the big bastards they are NOT going to be allowed to hem in tech and non-tech patents for themselves, their leashpullers, and those that otherwise bow to them.

Re:While we're on the subject of remotes by SpookyFish · 2009-03-22 11:07 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered

Too late: (and these are just a few examples)

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5598143.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6879254.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6404349/description.html

Interestingly, prior art to all 3 of those patents exists as many TVs and VCRs from Phillips/Magnavox had this feature built in as far back as 1993: http://www.magnavox.com/index.cfm?event=about

Sony also included it in a few TV models back in 2001.

I suspect it has not seen more widespread adoption because of battery life and penny-pinching in a cutthroat market.

Re:While we're on the subject of remotes by SpookyFish · 2009-03-22 11:07 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered

Too late: (and these are just a few examples)

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5598143.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6879254.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6404349/description.html

Interestingly, prior art to all 3 of those patents exists as many TVs and VCRs from Phillips/Magnavox had this feature built in as far back as 1993: http://www.magnavox.com/index.cfm?event=about

Sony also included it in a few TV models back in 2001.

I suspect it has not seen more widespread adoption because of battery life and penny-pinching in a cutthroat market.

intel patent the exploit/fix by yupa · 2009-03-19 09:43 · Score: 1 · on Intel CPU Privilege Escalation Exploit

>What does surprise me though is that Intel has made such an obvious
>mistake in their design.

The funny part is that they patent the exploit and fix some years ago : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2008/0209578.html

Laser guided bullets by LunarEffect · 2009-02-14 00:59 · Score: 1 · on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor

This is...impressive, but unfortunately, the laser-guided bullet has also been invented. The spotter points a laser beam at the target while all the sniper has to do is fire a bullet. The bullet then changed its direction towards the laser point. Try dodging that =)

Article.
Patent.

Re:Simplw Solution by nabsltd · 2009-02-08 05:08 · Score: 1 · on DAM Pops Energy Star's Bubble

Although some TVs 30 years ago turned off completely, you have to go back considerably farther to get to the point where every TV was completely off when the switch was off.

It was 1971 when RCA patented "instant on" for TVs.

Re:Ethics by blue_goddess · 2009-01-28 10:59 · Score: 3, Informative · on Radio Controlled Cyborg Insects At MEMS 2009

Next we try to poke into a mouse, cat, dog,...

Actually in 2002 humans were able to control rat by stimulating specific parts of its brain, similary to this bug. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_rat

There is also a US patent on this: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5791294.html

Re: Ethics by EmbeddedJanitor · 2009-01-28 10:10 · Score: 1 · on Radio Controlled Cyborg Insects At MEMS 2009

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5791294.html

Patents! by troll8901 · 2009-01-14 06:34 · Score: 1 · on A Cheap, Distributed Zero-Day Defense?

I'm pretty sure we can modify some existing patents to apply to distributed firewalls.

US Patent Application 20080250497: Statistical method and system for network anomaly detection

"Whatever concept a person can think of, there will be a patent either active, being applied, or being prepared to include new concept." -- Troll

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There's also some other related studies.

Modular Strategies for Internetwork Monitoring, which "addresses the longstanding and difficult problem of detecting and classifying spatially distributed network anomalies from multiple monitoring sites on the Internet".

Re: turning the odometer back by FranklinWebber · 2008-12-30 13:23 · Score: 1 · on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

>No, that is just an urban legend.
>Even Ferris fell for that once...

No, it's not just an urban legend, but you need to consider cars more than 30 or so years old. I don't know if the Ferrari in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" would be old enough.

When I was quite young, in the early 60s, my father drove the family Karmann Ghia in reverse partway home, in order to show me an odometer reading of 55,555.

A quick web search turned up this page:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3667671.html

which indicates that patents for one-way odometers were being issued in 1970.

Already done? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-20 21:02 · Score: 1, Informative · on How To See In 3D On Your iPhone

3D in phone is already done, right?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7209269.html