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The answer is that Apple already patented a folding phone and has worldwide exclusive rights to the alloy Liquidmetal that will be used in the hinges of folding phones.

https://patentimages.storage.g...

Can I get a recipe complete with required equipment list for the manufacture of LSD or methamphetamine off the internet too since all information is just so legal now?

Yes, you can. Or would you prefer detailed instructions direct from the U.S. government?

And if you'd like details of how to implement the described process safely on an industrial scale, watch Breaking Bad.

Can I get a recipe complete with required equipment list for the manufacture of LSD or methamphetamine off the internet too since all information is just so legal now?

Yes, you can. Or would you prefer detailed instructions direct from the U.S. government?

The preferred method is:

An alkali metal, preferably sodium, is oxidized with ferric nitrate in liquid ammonia to form the alkali metal amide, e.g. sodium amide. The dry acid H is added and after a few minutes the resulting alkali metal salt is mixed with the desired organic halogen compound R Hal. 2 to 10, preferably 3 to 5 atoms of alkali metal and 2 to mols, preferably 4 to 6 mols of the organic halogen compound are used per mol of acid.

The ammonia may be evaporated a few minutes after addition of the organic halogen compound. To isolate the compound I the reaction mixture is shaken between Water and ether and the aqueous phase filtered through a tale layer. The procedure which is then followed depends on the acid and the organic halogen compound used. The isolation of l-methyl-D-lysergic acid in pure, crystalline form is particularly simple, it being sufficient for the aqueous solution to be brought to a pH value of 4.5 to 5 with acetic acid. Otherwise, the aqueous solution may be evaporated to dryness and methanol poured over the dry residue, the inorganic salts and the small quantity of l-methyl-isolysergic acid present going into solution and the l-methyl-D-lysergic acid remaining undissolved.

HowStuffWorks provides another helpful description. Quick, call the police, because I've posted a mass of not-illegal information right here...

Some day, analog long range multicast technology will allow live video to be broadcast to an _unlimited_ number of devices without any additional load on the server.

This may even happen wirelessly.

Will we see the day? Who knows ...

Here's the patent by Philo T. Farnsworth:

https://patentimages.storage.g...

What about the Ugrinsky design, where it has both blades and channels?

Thanks. I hadn't seen that one.

It looks like a derivative of, perhaps an improvement on, the Benesh ("Sandia Savonius") rotor, which claimed 37% efficiency in the patent, and (if I recall correctly) 39% in later research.

I once calculated that a Benesh rotor of the same diameter as, about 4% taller than the diameter of, a good HAWT, would collect the same amount of wind power. (A VAWT has a rectangular swept area, so for the the same diameter and height as a HAWT it sweeps 4/pi times the area. Of course it's a bunch heavier, so you'd have "fun" erecting a 50-foot tower with one on it.)

If this rotor really does come in about 41% to 46% it's getting into the ballpark of a halfway decent HAWT. And the geometry is even easier to construct than the Benesh / Sandia design.

You have to be careful with ratings on VAWTs, however, if they're derived from wind tunnel tests. As the wind through the turbine in free air is slowed, the stream widens out. If you are testing INSIDE a wind tunnel (and it's not a whole bunch wider than the rotor), the tunnel restricts this spreading, forcing more of the air through the turbine, rather than letting it pass around. This makes the turbine seem much better than it is. In a tunnel with a square or rectangular cross-section the effect is more pronounced for VAWTs with rectangular swept areas than for HAWTs, which sweep a circle, too.

If you look around the web you'll find test setups where the rotor is set up OUTSIDE the end of the tunnel, and somewhat downstream of it, to avoid this problem.

(I note that the page you reference has a classic savonius at 20%, rather than 30%. It looks like another instance of the mislabled graph where the labels for the savonius and the "american multiblade" a.k.a. "patent windmill" were swapped.)

LOL... Look at the clean aerodynamics on the second picture... at 500 MPH!!!

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And then oh boy the sponsors

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He really needs to add Looney Tunes as a sponsor because I believe this was inspired by watching too many cartoons as a child.

LOL... Look at the clean aerodynamics on the second picture... at 500 MPH!!!

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And then oh boy the sponsors

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He really needs to add Looney Tunes as a sponsor because I believe this was inspired by watching too many cartoons as a child.

This graphic paints a different picture. Three days to beat AlphaGo "Lee Sedol"-version, 21 days to beat AlphaGo "Master"-version that beat Ki Jie + 60 top pros, after 40 days AlphaGo "Zero@40" is now crushing the "Master" version by winning 90% of the time. I think that means the journalist got two things intermingled, "Zero@3" only surpassed the "Lee Sedol" version while "Zero@40" wins 100-0 against it. It's done both, but not at once.

Hit the nail on the head. But just one little comment...

I've yet to read a software patent include full source for an implementation of the idea - and nothing less than a working source implementation can count as 'blueprints' for a software program.

You're welcome.

AGM2015: Antineutrino Global Map 2015 in Scientific Reports (Nature).
Google Maps showing neutrino sources.
You can even see the Iranian reactor at Bushehr.

Rather than adding new code to your kernel, why not simply remove new code (whatever breaks without this TSYNC) from your browser? If this code was recently added, it just can't be that difficult to remove.

You are compiling it yourself, aren't you? I certainly do — that's what source code is for. What's the problem?

Cellular networks currently use frequencies between 600 MHz to 3 GHz with the most desirable frequencies under 1 GHz

Mostly because the wavelength and potential range at 600-3000MHz(UHF) is greater than those at 24ghz (SHF).

http://patentimages.storage.go...

Longer wavelength, longer range. Rocket science.

That is when i say automakers are for to conservative. Someone will find something against it. THere are litteraary dozen of inventions where you can engage the brake without the interuption where you move your foot.

And this really has been invented dozens of times, and i bet thos patents are expired by now.

http://www.newscientist.com/da...
http://www.mobility-centres.or... (steering wheel, for people wit disability)
http://patentimages.storage.go...
http://patentimages.storage.go...

And the one thing is that this innovation will not come from the racing community, because that is the rare exception that you really need brakes and accelerator together (sometimes)

I do not see any problem with cruise control... To the rest of the car this will still be a seperate brake and accelerator.

That is when i say automakers are for to conservative. Someone will find something against it. THere are litteraary dozen of inventions where you can engage the brake without the interuption where you move your foot.

And this really has been invented dozens of times, and i bet thos patents are expired by now.

http://www.newscientist.com/da...
http://www.mobility-centres.or... (steering wheel, for people wit disability)
http://patentimages.storage.go...
http://patentimages.storage.go...

And the one thing is that this innovation will not come from the racing community, because that is the rare exception that you really need brakes and accelerator together (sometimes)

I do not see any problem with cruise control... To the rest of the car this will still be a seperate brake and accelerator.

I think you mean the open source release is easy to get from Google. Which I believe was the starting place for CryogenMod.

open source android:
$ curl http://commondatastorage.googl... > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
$ mkdir dev
$ cd dev
$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.c... -b android-4.4.2_r2
$ repo sync ... then it's the normal build steps. export TOP=$(pwd) ; source build/envsetup.sh ; ...

Honestly, I don't have a problem with jQuery. It's Panasonic who doesn't want it.

Your example is invalid though. You'd use Math.sin(). and Math.pow(), which are already included in javascript.

For actual jQuery problems, he could go straight to the jQuery library, and copy&paste the necessary functions. View the not-minified version, so it looks nice.

http://ajax.googleapis.com/aja...

And you can use it. You just have to keep the jQuery license in place, at least where that function is.

https://jquery.org/license/

So something like: /* This function, foo(), is from
  * jQuery JavaScript Library v2.0.3
  * http://jquery.com/
  *
  * Copyright 2005, 2013 jQuery Foundation, Inc. and other contributors
  * Released under the MIT license
  * http://jquery.org/license
  *
  * Date: 2013-07-03T13:30Z
*/

But the average jQuery download per page is amortized across many downloads, making the average smaller than the file size. It's very common to link to, for example, http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js or http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js, which the client is likely to have cached already.

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html, by the way, this never loads completely in firefox. https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?path=Linux_x64/, compare the javascript engine performances and the rendering speeds. chrome is faster. firefox should perform just as good or better.

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html, by the way, this never loads completely in firefox. https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?path=Linux_x64/, compare the javascript engine performances and the rendering speeds. chrome is faster. firefox should perform just as good or better.

This must be yours then?
Bike with wooden wheels.
And I bet you use fish oil for your chain?

https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?shortUrl=http://goo.gl/rIh07 { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "http://goo.gl/rIh07", "longUrl": "http://www.backblaze.com/partner/af3012", "status": "OK" } Trying to sell cloud solutions on Slashdot? You must be new here.

Maybe because you keep linking to third party sites which are about Windows-only builds?

How about next time just linking to the real source?

The source is linked to from the Chrome for Android developer FAQ; see http://code.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/faq.html

The actual tarball is at http://chromium-browser-source.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chrome_android.v0.16.4130.199.tgz and contains ordinary, buildable source code, not binaries.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/leaks/Anti-Counterfeiting%20Trade%20Agreement.pdf
The most important part is Section 5: "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment" at page 15

Google has an API to create one on the fly. Use this base URL and append any URL you want to the end and you've got a QR code.

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=200x200&chl=

Just add a youtube link to the video and viola.

Whats the QR code for that, anyway?

http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chl=http://goatse.xxx/

the military budget it pales in comparison to the amount that is spent on social programs

I'm assuming you're talking about welfare. If so, have you checked your facts recently?

Or are you trying to argue that anything that benefits people (social security, healthcare...) contributes to "paying people to stay home and watch TV"?

Source: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_budget_2011USbf_13bs1n#usgs302

Serves JavaWebStart coders right for relying on third-party, online systems.

In that vein, one can consider what would happen if Google suddenly stopped hosting JQuery: about half of the javascript-using websites in the world would stop working. :)

And they would deserve to die. Who the f* other than the stupidest of all would code their systems depending on google hosting of jquery? That shit (and similar shit) must always be replicated and hosted by the application's environment itself.

Serves JavaWebStart coders right for relying on third-party, online systems.

In that vein, one can consider what would happen if Google suddenly stopped hosting JQuery: about half of the javascript-using websites in the world would stop working. :)

Given that the difficulty increases exponentially you're not going to be making their calculated B$/day for the whole year, so while the quickest to pay of is 70 days if the difficulty increases at the usual rate, you'd probably want to add on another month or two.

For the ones taking nearly half a year to pay off at the current rate, you'll probably spend closer to a year before you'll even break even.

Meeh, both where lame :(

The Dracula castle in Romania:
http://www.wayfaring.info/images/castel_bran_aka_dracula_castle.jpg

Malbork castle in Poland:
http://pictures.polandforall.com/images/malbork-castle-bridge-towers-dansker-high-castle.jpg

Bastille, France:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/images/pixs_bastille.jpg

Svartsjö slott here in Sweden, was wasted being used as a prison :(
http://www.ekero.se/imagemod/AvanEvents/16f73101-570f-4eb5-a4de-084ce249efa2/svartsjo_____resize_s_460_230.gif
http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/17_2.jpg

The castle here in my home town, Örebro:
http://www.paranormal.nu/orebro-01-high.jpg
http://www.lst.se/NR/rdonlyres/FDD91C98-E374-485B-BBBD-EB1100972407/0/slottet3RogerLundberg.jpg
http://img.geocaching.com/cache/1971731f-90fc-4780-aa67-8f13a6dc24e4.jpg
http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1163049.jpg
http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/photos/d/415-4/IMG_2550.jpg
http://www.remains.se/gallery/photo458dba988b2e5.jpg

Kalmar slott, also Sweden:
http://www.svd.se/multimedia/dynamic/00280/kalmarslott_280791b.jpg
http://www.malinken.com/wedding/bilder/kalmarslott.jpg
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1563728-KALMAR_SLOTT_KALMAR-Kalmar.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Kalmar_slott.jpg

The city wall of Visby, also Sweden:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZARBRqLx-r4/SKmM6KTCgTI/AAAAAAAAC3g/gPpbJrmhVxs/s400/Stadsmuren+i+Visby+på+Gotland.jpg
http://www.hagen.web.surftown.se/Visby%20torn%20med%20fanan.jpg
http://www.topcastles.com/images/large/visby.jpg
All: http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/163_4.jpg
http://www.guteinfo.com/scripts/bilder/info/1248.jpg

Not that Scottish tribe shit ;)

Castles are cool :)

Helsingborg:
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2110709-Travel_Picture-Helsingborg.jpg

Yeah, it loads jquery from there:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js

So Google knows that people loaded jquery from the XKCD page. How pernicious.