Here's a clue for all of you that posted so far: The abstract of a patent is not the patent, and means diddly-squat in court. It's the CLAIMS that are important (how many times does this need to be repeated here?). In fact, abstracts are NOT supposed to describe the exact material that the patent claims as an invention, but to describe generally the area of the patent.
Here's the second clue: the patent has one independent claim (claim 1), and all other claims are specificly narrowed cases of claim 1. Here's claim 1:
1. A digital notification and response system, comprising:
a. an administrator interface for preparing and transmitting a message from an administrator to at least one user contact device;
b. a dynamic information database for storing the message, wherein the dynamic information database comprises;
i. user contact data comprising:
1. user contact device information; and
2. user selected priority information that indicates a contact order for the user contact device;
ii. user selected grouping information comprising:
1. at least one group associated with each user contact device; and
2. a priority order for contacting each user contact device within the group;
iii. response data comprising:
1. user response information that indicates individual user contact devices have received the message; and
2. response information that indicates when insufficient user contact device information exists to contact the user contact devices;
wherein the administrator initiates distribution of the message using the grouping information, priority information, and the priority order, and wherein the message is transmitted through at least two industry standard gateways simultaneously, wherein the two industry standard gateways are selected from the group consisting of: a SMTP gateway a SIP, an H.323, an ISDN gateway, a PSTN gateway, a softswitch, and combinations thereof, wherein the message is received by the at least one user contact device, and the at least one user contact device transmits a response through the industry standard gateways to the dynamic information database.
Now, to interpret the meaning of the claims, it is necessary to read the specification, to see if the terms used have special definitions. Studying the exemplary embodiments described in the specification may also be informative (or not, depending).
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
Maybe, maybe not. It detects traces of a variety of substances. To provide an alcohol-like test would require a quantitative measurement, rather than just a detection of the presence of a substance in trace amounts. It would also require a legally sanctioned limit for the measured quantity for driving.
More likely, it will be used as another means of persecuting people who do no harm to others. There is no incentive to develop it further into a quantitative test, since merely the presence of traces is enough to condemn someone. False positives are just as good as real ones for whipping up public hysteria.
On a side note, the alcohol test is not ideal either. What is needed is both an alcohol level measurement and an impairment test (reflexes, coordination). I recall the "touch your nose" and "walk the white line" tests, which, together with clarity/slurring of speech, gave a reasonable indication of whether someone was in good enough shape to drive. If you fail the impairment test, you're not fit to drive, even if stone cold sober, and you hand over the keys. If you fail both the alcohol level test and the impairment test, you're busted for DUI. If you pass the impairment test, but fail the alcohol level test, you should receive a caution, and maybe hand over the keys for a few hours.
But the price, the price...
My presbyopia is such that I just do without spectacles for close work, and don monofocals for driving, etc. I have bifocals, but they irritate me to no end. If adaptive focus spectacles are reasonably-priced (no more than double the cost of good coated bifocals), then I'll be first in line.
Some GPL software is patent encumbered. IBM, for example, donated some of their patents for Open Source projects.
So it's patented, but probably unencumbered, then.
Hint: "encumbered" means restricted or blocked or limited. If the patent license is consistent with the FOSS license requirements (for example the GPL requires no restrictions on right to distribute modified versions, etc.), then the fact that some part of it is patented does not mean it's encumbered from the FOSS point of view.
Proprietary software is usually copyright-encumbered - your license may not allow copying it, and may not even give access to the source code. Many FOSS licenses also make restrictions - when you modify, you may not remove the names of previous contributors, for instance. Does this mean we should refer to BSD or GPL code as being "copyright-encumbered"?
Article contains the terms "ATM Machine" and "PIN Number". Read at your own risk.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode? It's in machines all around us, a key protocol in many WANs.
Person In Need? Well, there are always arguments about these numbers.
But it sounds like an interesting juxtaposition of topics; perhaps I should read TFA.
Ah, so then Duke Nuke'em should have been a black, homosexual, vegetarian, married female eskimo.
You left out differently-abled, orphan, whistle-blower, and rape-survivor.
And homosexual married transgender might qualify for an even better job in Ottawa.
In order to correct this clearly unfair distribution, I'll keep posing as a female 18 years old cheerleader in games, chats and everywhere.
I only hope my efforts will be recognized by future generations...
That kind-of depends on what pictures/videos you provide in your personal profile...
I get selected for the extra questions and extra search EVERY TIME I pass through an airport in the US. I'm ethnically west/north European (fair skin, light brown hair, etc.) with as anglo a name as you can imagine, and no bizarre features or clothing. Doesn't seem to matter whether I'm flying business or economy, short haul or transatlantic; I get the attention every time.
Most likely, it's my beard that triggers this "random" selection, even though the beard fairly short and neatly trimmed.
Actually, in most areas you can get on that list for "indecent exposure", which is what the cops charge you with if you get caught taking a wizz in an alley after a night of drinking.
What would the cops charge you with if you pissed in your pants instead? Littering?
It's quite simple, when i drink standard milk i get horrible stomach cramps and other nasty digestive effects. When I drink organic milk (NOT SOY) I have none of that.
By the term "standard milk", do you mean homogenized milk? Homogenization breaks the suspended particles (typically fats with proteins) into much smaller sizes, greatly increasing the surface area presented per gram of solids. If you have a sensitivity to some substance in the suspended solids of cow-milk (e.g. a particular protein, sugar, or fat), then homogenization is likely to exacerbate your reaction to it. This effect will occur whether the milk is organic or not, but since organic milk is likely to be unhomogenized, it may appear to be an organic vs non-organic issue.
I also speak from personal experience. I can consume reasonable quantities of whole milk, but can tolerate only small quantities of homogenized milk before digestive problems occur.
So why was he so good with it? Punch cards are quaint from my perspective but I wouldn't know where to start with them.
Think of it as in-depth engineering. Some of us can handle WIMPy interfaces and languages (AJAX should be a swear word), but still be proficient with earlier generations of technology. I've used vast quantities of punched cards (mostly FORTRAN-66 garnished with IBM JCL), and miles of paper tape (yay PDP-8/e). And if you're really interested, I can send and receive both Morse and semaphore - the real kind of semaphore where you hold flags in your hands. Never learned much beyond basics in smoke signals, however.
Why was a spy satellite taking snaps of the ice classified?
Just normal military paranoia.
Actually, submarines provide one strong motivation in this category. Areas of thin ice can be used for surfacing (useful for some operations). Knowing the extent and local thickness of ice above them is useful information for sub commanders.
Certain pattern recognition methods can be used to infer the presence and path of submarines below ice. You don't necessarily want to show pictures with such interesting items to just anybody. Also, you might be reluctant to reveal what quality of imaging you have, because the other side then gets some idea of what you can infer from the images.
Luxury.
I was admin for a PDP-8/e in the 70's, with a whopping 4K of core, in which we could compile programs written in DEC FOCAL. Booting the beast was an unsavoury exercise which decorum prevents me from describing...
Well, APL was my first programming language. Along with Fortran-66, that is. APL was much easier, however, because it was done at a teletype terminal and used stored workspaces, and its primitives corresponded to useful processing operations. One line of APL could do the work of a lot of lines of Fortran - often hundreds. Fortran involved boxes of punched cards which were run as overnight batches, unless a card jammed or got torn in the reader. The probability of a card reader screw-up approached unity if the number of cards exceeded a whole box (2000); this determined the practical maximum size for a program.
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The day Fox start reporting actual NEWS is the day Satan goes to work in a snowplow.
According to Dante's Inferno, Satan is frozen in the ice-bound ninth circle of hell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Ninth_Circle
Here's the second clue: the patent has one independent claim (claim 1), and all other claims are specificly narrowed cases of claim 1. Here's claim 1:
1. A digital notification and response system, comprising:
a. an administrator interface for preparing and transmitting a message from an administrator to at least one user contact device;
b. a dynamic information database for storing the message, wherein the dynamic information database comprises;
i. user contact data comprising:
1. user contact device information; and
2. user selected priority information that indicates a contact order for the user contact device;
ii. user selected grouping information comprising:
1. at least one group associated with each user contact device; and
2. a priority order for contacting each user contact device within the group;
iii. response data comprising:
1. user response information that indicates individual user contact devices have received the message; and
2. response information that indicates when insufficient user contact device information exists to contact the user contact devices;
wherein the administrator initiates distribution of the message using the grouping information, priority information, and the priority order, and wherein the message is transmitted through at least two industry standard gateways simultaneously, wherein the two industry standard gateways are selected from the group consisting of: a SMTP gateway a SIP, an H.323, an ISDN gateway, a PSTN gateway, a softswitch, and combinations thereof, wherein the message is received by the at least one user contact device, and the at least one user contact device transmits a response through the industry standard gateways to the dynamic information database.
Now, to interpret the meaning of the claims, it is necessary to read the specification, to see if the terms used have special definitions. Studying the exemplary embodiments described in the specification may also be informative (or not, depending).
Throw in trackpoint and I'd buy one.
The original keyboard clit. It's what your finger was made to play with...
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
Maybe, maybe not. It detects traces of a variety of substances. To provide an alcohol-like test would require a quantitative measurement, rather than just a detection of the presence of a substance in trace amounts. It would also require a legally sanctioned limit for the measured quantity for driving.
More likely, it will be used as another means of persecuting people who do no harm to others. There is no incentive to develop it further into a quantitative test, since merely the presence of traces is enough to condemn someone. False positives are just as good as real ones for whipping up public hysteria.
On a side note, the alcohol test is not ideal either. What is needed is both an alcohol level measurement and an impairment test (reflexes, coordination). I recall the "touch your nose" and "walk the white line" tests, which, together with clarity/slurring of speech, gave a reasonable indication of whether someone was in good enough shape to drive. If you fail the impairment test, you're not fit to drive, even if stone cold sober, and you hand over the keys. If you fail both the alcohol level test and the impairment test, you're busted for DUI. If you pass the impairment test, but fail the alcohol level test, you should receive a caution, and maybe hand over the keys for a few hours.
But the price, the price...
My presbyopia is such that I just do without spectacles for close work, and don monofocals for driving, etc. I have bifocals, but they irritate me to no end. If adaptive focus spectacles are reasonably-priced (no more than double the cost of good coated bifocals), then I'll be first in line.
don't forget the pr0n!
I don't think he had to recuse himself from those parts of the board meetings.
Some GPL software is patent encumbered. IBM, for example, donated some of their patents for Open Source projects.
So it's patented, but probably unencumbered, then.
Hint: "encumbered" means restricted or blocked or limited. If the patent license is consistent with the FOSS license requirements (for example the GPL requires no restrictions on right to distribute modified versions, etc.), then the fact that some part of it is patented does not mean it's encumbered from the FOSS point of view.
Proprietary software is usually copyright-encumbered - your license may not allow copying it, and may not even give access to the source code. Many FOSS licenses also make restrictions - when you modify, you may not remove the names of previous contributors, for instance. Does this mean we should refer to BSD or GPL code as being "copyright-encumbered"?
It's an appalling screw-up: when they explode, there isn't supposed to be any survivor, or evidence.
Now, why can't we borrow CDs and DVDs from the library also?
Article contains the terms "ATM Machine" and "PIN Number". Read at your own risk.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode? It's in machines all around us, a key protocol in many WANs.
Person In Need? Well, there are always arguments about these numbers.
But it sounds like an interesting juxtaposition of topics; perhaps I should read TFA.
would have said "Scientists baffled". Especially by mundane events.
Ah, so then Duke Nuke'em should have been a black, homosexual, vegetarian, married female eskimo.
You left out differently-abled, orphan, whistle-blower, and rape-survivor.
And homosexual married transgender might qualify for an even better job in Ottawa.
In order to correct this clearly unfair distribution, I'll keep posing as a female 18 years old cheerleader in games, chats and everywhere.
I only hope my efforts will be recognized by future generations...
That kind-of depends on what pictures/videos you provide in your personal profile...
I get selected for the extra questions and extra search EVERY TIME I pass through an airport in the US. I'm ethnically west/north European (fair skin, light brown hair, etc.) with as anglo a name as you can imagine, and no bizarre features or clothing. Doesn't seem to matter whether I'm flying business or economy, short haul or transatlantic; I get the attention every time.
Most likely, it's my beard that triggers this "random" selection, even though the beard fairly short and neatly trimmed.
That's because Adobe can't code shit.
But they can and they do!
For a very long period of time, it looks as if entertainment value was put way above scientific rigor
And we have recently returned to that dark age.
Actually, in most areas you can get on that list for "indecent exposure", which is what the cops charge you with if you get caught taking a wizz in an alley after a night of drinking.
What would the cops charge you with if you pissed in your pants instead? Littering?
It's quite simple, when i drink standard milk i get horrible stomach cramps and other nasty digestive effects. When I drink organic milk (NOT SOY) I have none of that.
By the term "standard milk", do you mean homogenized milk? Homogenization breaks the suspended particles (typically fats with proteins) into much smaller sizes, greatly increasing the surface area presented per gram of solids. If you have a sensitivity to some substance in the suspended solids of cow-milk (e.g. a particular protein, sugar, or fat), then homogenization is likely to exacerbate your reaction to it. This effect will occur whether the milk is organic or not, but since organic milk is likely to be unhomogenized, it may appear to be an organic vs non-organic issue.
I also speak from personal experience. I can consume reasonable quantities of whole milk, but can tolerate only small quantities of homogenized milk before digestive problems occur.
OK, here's seven hundred million lines of source code. Come back when you've solved the halting problem.
Power switch. Halts that sucker every time.
Which name are they going with?
Bendover.
They'll deliver a personalized bendover search, if you like/want that sort of thing.
Cobbling together 2 inferior technologies doesn't give you a superior one.
But it gives a subSUPREME technology! It worked for subPRIME, didn't it?
A "keyboard"... how quaint.
So why was he so good with it? Punch cards are quaint from my perspective but I wouldn't know where to start with them.
Think of it as in-depth engineering. Some of us can handle WIMPy interfaces and languages (AJAX should be a swear word), but still be proficient with earlier generations of technology. I've used vast quantities of punched cards (mostly FORTRAN-66 garnished with IBM JCL), and miles of paper tape (yay PDP-8/e). And if you're really interested, I can send and receive both Morse and semaphore - the real kind of semaphore where you hold flags in your hands. Never learned much beyond basics in smoke signals, however.
Why was a spy satellite taking snaps of the ice classified?
Just normal military paranoia.
Actually, submarines provide one strong motivation in this category. Areas of thin ice can be used for surfacing (useful for some operations). Knowing the extent and local thickness of ice above them is useful information for sub commanders.
Certain pattern recognition methods can be used to infer the presence and path of submarines below ice. You don't necessarily want to show pictures with such interesting items to just anybody. Also, you might be reluctant to reveal what quality of imaging you have, because the other side then gets some idea of what you can infer from the images.
Univac 9200 (32K memory, yes that's 'K')
Luxury.
I was admin for a PDP-8/e in the 70's, with a whopping 4K of core, in which we could compile programs written in DEC FOCAL. Booting the beast was an unsavoury exercise which decorum prevents me from describing...
Well, APL was my first programming language. Along with Fortran-66, that is. APL was much easier, however, because it was done at a teletype terminal and used stored workspaces, and its primitives corresponded to useful processing operations. One line of APL could do the work of a lot of lines of Fortran - often hundreds. Fortran involved boxes of punched cards which were run as overnight batches, unless a card jammed or got torn in the reader. The probability of a card reader screw-up approached unity if the number of cards exceeded a whole box (2000); this determined the practical maximum size for a program.