It still will need to pass the hurdle of "obviousness" under KSR, which basically lays down a standard of using commonly known components in accordance with known techniques and getting the predictable result is highly likely to be "obvious" and thus fail patentability.
What I found interesting in this case is that the courts have told the patent attorneys in this case that the Bilski ruling actually means what it says, and that trying to game their way around it will result in summary execution of thier case.
It's a virtual invention and gets no protection. Patents after Bilski pretty much have to be tied to a particular machine or change something in meat-space.
Some of the copy-protection schemes are also designed to try and kill the secondary ("used games") market off by locking out copies from being reactivated.
The mindset of some of these companies is that a game (or other software) has to generate revenue for them each time it changes hands. In other words, they refuse to accept the "first sale doctrine" at all.
Buying one copy and distributing multiple copies to others is piracy. Uninstalling the thing and giving the disk and key to someone else is not.
It really depends on why the app is slow enough to require a performance boost.
There are times when more hardware doesn't improve performance much. For example, a database application that has queries requiring a page lock will be inherently slow, and simply rewriting the query can result in a 100X performance boost.
I've done that one a lot recently. Even multiplying the number of servers by 10X would have still been much more costly than the few hours it took to track down the bottleneck.
It's not to cause crashes, just to make drivers swerve so that they can be pulled over and ticketed or searched for that 0.00001 microgram of coke on every dollar bill in circulation.
No swerve, no probable cause. Means the ter'ists can just run rampant and kill us all./sarcasm
A waveguide is far more efficient of a transmission line than coax or any other wireline can hope to achieve. If he's found a way to build a waveguide (or reasonable fascimile thereof) by clever geometry, it could be very efficient.
The 20th Amendment lays out the process, though it may be argued that it's been modified by the 25th. However, the 25th doesn't specifically mention President-elect and VP-elect situations at all, only sitting officials.
Basically, in such a hypothetical situation, Congress gets to pick the successors, with a 2/3 vote probably being required.
You can increase your reliability by renting rack space in a data center and putting up your own "backup box" that essentially mirrors a "backup box" at your home/business location. Use something like DRBD (over a VPN connection) to keep the disks in sync, and secure the everloving hell out of the remote box.
It's still not perfect, but does get you around the "house burns down" type of data loss, and you can still periodically replace the "local" and "remote" boxes/drives as time goes by.
The downside is that colocation hosting isn't free, but every "9" you add to the reliability of your backups is going to multiply your cost in a non-linear fashion.
Riots in the streets and utter mayhem can result from too much "control". The EU is already straining and fraying at the edges as enough anti-globalist, anarchist, and nationalist pressures are attempted to be pushed aside foo far and too fast.
Those who attempt to control everything often end up controlling nothing at all.
I can't see such an arrangement actually imparting enough force on the Earth as to slow the rotational rate much at all. The effects of the moon's gravity on oceans (thus causing tides) would be many orders of magnitude greater.
Maybe it would be of concern over billions of years, but the Sun itself won't last that long.
It would certainly cause a blast effect as it burned/vaporized and sent a shock wave through the air, but it certainly wouldn't travel very far at all.
Actually, even tungsten carbide at 100,000 mph would not last long, and air drag would slow what was left in pretty short order, unless it was a truly massive piece of material.
I guess under this precedent they'll have to indict and convict Groenig himself and everyone who worked on the recent "The Simpsons" movie for his depiction of Bart skateboarding naked through town?
This sure sounds like one really steep and slippery slope.
Stereoscopic imaging is an attempt to recreate the world from the perspective of a person looking upon it. To do so, it must present to both eyes at all times a pattern of light the same as those eyes would see if placed in the "world" that the scene is portraying.
The human eye/brain combination rejects any scene presented to it that is not:
1. Aligned vertically 2. Has excessive horizontal variation 3. Contains parts of images "cut off" such that a normal observer would not see.
What happens when a bad focusing moment happens is that both cameras aren't in or out of focus at the same time by the same amount. This causes the human brain to enter an "exception" condition that is actually somewhat painful. The same thing happens with a bad dissolve/fade/mix - it presents the eye/brain combination with a pattern of information it simply was not designed to handle.
3D is different enough from the familiar 2D imaging to require different, and generally more restrained, techniques in shooting and editing. Where one can "get away" with rapid scene and perspective changes in 2D (think music videos here) the same in 3D will actually cause physical discomfort to the person watching the resultant production.
Actually, my thinking is that rather than just tossing more cores at the problems, we should be looking at making the hardware adapt itself to the problem to be solved. IE: instead of just crunching "instructions" on data, we need hardware that effectively rewires itself to the problem at hand.
Something like an FPGA integrated into the archetecture with huge gate/interconnect counts plus some "normal" cores may be a better approach. Done well, loops can be unrolled and executed in one clock cycle, entire memories can be created on-chip and then destroyed when no longer needed, etc.
Of course, this would require changing some programming techniques around, and require compilers far more advanced than we currently have available. Still, it should be at least a semi-achievable technology.
I'd say that you have it exactly backwards - the protection journalists have is the protection everyone's supposed to have.
Journalism is made possible by freedom of press and speech, freedom of speech and press are not made possible by journalism. Nobody should ever be stripped of "journalistic protections" - although outright provable and malicious libel and slander should be punishable via civil suit.
The last thing any of us should ever want is a controlled press that is a cartel of, by, and for the "elites".
The regulation that makes sense to me is that the companies should choose whether to be a "retail" provider that connects to end-users (ie: traffic sources and sinks), or "wholesale" companies that only provide transit. But no company should be both.
Perhaps one regulation is that any "retail" provider should be required to provide no-charge peering links to any other "retail" provider?
Or split the market such that they expicitly can't peer, and must all use "wholesale" (transit) networks for all inter-provider links.
Or simply make a provider who cuts a transit/peering link liable for any losses incurred by all end-users affected?
I run fail2ban on every Internet-facing machine that I set up and/or manage. The policy I use is that 5 failed logins results in an iptables ban from any access to the box for 24 hours.
But let's not kid ourselves either - asshats have been trying with some success to limit, destroy, and overturn explicit provisions in the Constitution for many years.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The 4th specifies the groundwork for it, and the Supreme Court has ruled that it exists.
Also, the wiretaps can be a violation of the 1st as well, because they could chill protected speech.
I'd say one good definition of "epic fail" (as they love to say on Digg) is to have an argument beaten, crunched, and steam-rollered by three Bill of Rights amendments.
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It still will need to pass the hurdle of "obviousness" under KSR, which basically lays down a standard of using commonly known components in accordance with known techniques and getting the predictable result is highly likely to be "obvious" and thus fail patentability.
What I found interesting in this case is that the courts have told the patent attorneys in this case that the Bilski ruling actually means what it says, and that trying to game their way around it will result in summary execution of thier case.
The rules have fundamentally changed.
It's a virtual invention and gets no protection. Patents after Bilski pretty much have to be tied to a particular machine or change something in meat-space.
Some of the copy-protection schemes are also designed to try and kill the secondary ("used games") market off by locking out copies from being reactivated.
The mindset of some of these companies is that a game (or other software) has to generate revenue for them each time it changes hands. In other words, they refuse to accept the "first sale doctrine" at all.
Buying one copy and distributing multiple copies to others is piracy. Uninstalling the thing and giving the disk and key to someone else is not.
It all boils down to greed and control, really.
It really depends on why the app is slow enough to require a performance boost.
There are times when more hardware doesn't improve performance much. For example, a database application that has queries requiring a page lock will be inherently slow, and simply rewriting the query can result in a 100X performance boost.
I've done that one a lot recently. Even multiplying the number of servers by 10X would have still been much more costly than the few hours it took to track down the bottleneck.
Dammit Man, you gave away the plan!
It's not to cause crashes, just to make drivers swerve so that they can be pulled over and ticketed or searched for that 0.00001 microgram of coke on every dollar bill in circulation.
No swerve, no probable cause. Means the ter'ists can just run rampant and kill us all. /sarcasm
A waveguide is far more efficient of a transmission line than coax or any other wireline can hope to achieve. If he's found a way to build a waveguide (or reasonable fascimile thereof) by clever geometry, it could be very efficient.
Actually, a Tesla coil works on very similar principles, and the power coupling in them is very efficient.
The best guess I have is that they probably won't care about it at best, or they will just be somewhat annoyed by the noise.
Now, if it were something like Two-Fin Shakur or even Mariah Carp we might get a scientifically valid result.
There is an even easier solution: refuse to accept orders billed or shipped in NYS at all.
The 20th Amendment lays out the process, though it may be argued that it's been modified by the 25th. However, the 25th doesn't specifically mention President-elect and VP-elect situations at all, only sitting officials.
Basically, in such a hypothetical situation, Congress gets to pick the successors, with a 2/3 vote probably being required.
You can increase your reliability by renting rack space in a data center and putting up your own "backup box" that essentially mirrors a "backup box" at your home/business location. Use something like DRBD (over a VPN connection) to keep the disks in sync, and secure the everloving hell out of the remote box.
It's still not perfect, but does get you around the "house burns down" type of data loss, and you can still periodically replace the "local" and "remote" boxes/drives as time goes by.
The downside is that colocation hosting isn't free, but every "9" you add to the reliability of your backups is going to multiply your cost in a non-linear fashion.
You can have reliability or low cost - pick one.
Riots in the streets and utter mayhem can result from too much "control". The EU is already straining and fraying at the edges as enough anti-globalist, anarchist, and nationalist pressures are attempted to be pushed aside foo far and too fast.
Those who attempt to control everything often end up controlling nothing at all.
The Earth's mass is about 5.9736×10^24 kg. That is a LOT of mass to try to accelerate or decelerate. In other words, "it isn't happening".
I can't see such an arrangement actually imparting enough force on the Earth as to slow the rotational rate much at all. The effects of the moon's gravity on oceans (thus causing tides) would be many orders of magnitude greater.
Maybe it would be of concern over billions of years, but the Sun itself won't last that long.
It would certainly cause a blast effect as it burned/vaporized and sent a shock wave through the air, but it certainly wouldn't travel very far at all.
Actually, even tungsten carbide at 100,000 mph would not last long, and air drag would slow what was left in pretty short order, unless it was a truly massive piece of material.
I guess under this precedent they'll have to indict and convict Groenig himself and everyone who worked on the recent "The Simpsons" movie for his depiction of Bart skateboarding naked through town?
This sure sounds like one really steep and slippery slope.
Quick Explanation:
It causes visual dissonance if done poorly.
Technical Explanation:
Stereoscopic imaging is an attempt to recreate the world from the perspective of a person looking upon it. To do so, it must present to both eyes at all times a pattern of light the same as those eyes would see if placed in the "world" that the scene is portraying.
The human eye/brain combination rejects any scene presented to it that is not:
1. Aligned vertically
2. Has excessive horizontal variation
3. Contains parts of images "cut off" such that a normal observer would not see.
What happens when a bad focusing moment happens is that both cameras aren't in or out of focus at the same time by the same amount. This causes the human brain to enter an "exception" condition that is actually somewhat painful. The same thing happens with a bad dissolve/fade/mix - it presents the eye/brain combination with a pattern of information it simply was not designed to handle.
3D is different enough from the familiar 2D imaging to require different, and generally more restrained, techniques in shooting and editing. Where one can "get away" with rapid scene and perspective changes in 2D (think music videos here) the same in 3D will actually cause physical discomfort to the person watching the resultant production.
Actually, my thinking is that rather than just tossing more cores at the problems, we should be looking at making the hardware adapt itself to the problem to be solved. IE: instead of just crunching "instructions" on data, we need hardware that effectively rewires itself to the problem at hand.
Something like an FPGA integrated into the archetecture with huge gate/interconnect counts plus some "normal" cores may be a better approach. Done well, loops can be unrolled and executed in one clock cycle, entire memories can be created on-chip and then destroyed when no longer needed, etc.
Of course, this would require changing some programming techniques around, and require compilers far more advanced than we currently have available. Still, it should be at least a semi-achievable technology.
I'd say that you have it exactly backwards - the protection journalists have is the protection everyone's supposed to have.
Journalism is made possible by freedom of press and speech, freedom of speech and press are not made possible by journalism. Nobody should ever be stripped of "journalistic protections" - although outright provable and malicious libel and slander should be punishable via civil suit.
The last thing any of us should ever want is a controlled press that is a cartel of, by, and for the "elites".
The regulation that makes sense to me is that the companies should choose whether to be a "retail" provider that connects to end-users (ie: traffic sources and sinks), or "wholesale" companies that only provide transit. But no company should be both.
Perhaps one regulation is that any "retail" provider should be required to provide no-charge peering links to any other "retail" provider?
Or split the market such that they expicitly can't peer, and must all use "wholesale" (transit) networks for all inter-provider links.
Or simply make a provider who cuts a transit/peering link liable for any losses incurred by all end-users affected?
The .45 Auto and .357 SIG are both good, but I'm sticking with the 10mm -- 180 grains at 1300 fps beats anything short or a .41 Magnum ballistics.
I run fail2ban on every Internet-facing machine that I set up and/or manage. The policy I use is that 5 failed logins results in an iptables ban from any access to the box for 24 hours.
I could go for that suggestion.
But let's not kid ourselves either - asshats have been trying with some success to limit, destroy, and overturn explicit provisions in the Constitution for many years.
Those features are there by design. Marketing tells engineering to make it so.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The 4th specifies the groundwork for it, and the Supreme Court has ruled that it exists.
Also, the wiretaps can be a violation of the 1st as well, because they could chill protected speech.
I'd say one good definition of "epic fail" (as they love to say on Digg) is to have an argument beaten, crunched, and steam-rollered by three Bill of Rights amendments.