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  1. Re:Great! on NASA Patents To Be Auctioned · · Score: 1

    Save your money. If your grandma needs it for non-commercial private purposes, she has a right to do all the things described patents anyway.

  2. You wouldn't steal a car, would you? on Online Quiz As a Gateway to P2P · · Score: 1

    You mean, if I could just download one and not get caught. No, I certainly wouldn't MUAHAHA

  3. Re:There should be many applications for this on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    Yes, its a great paint your intercontinental ballistic missiles

  4. Re:Great vaporware application on Quake-Catcher Aims to be Largest Distributed Seismometer Network · · Score: 1

    I definitely don't mind anyone spying on my accelerometer.. How kind of you! Think, if I would also want share my accelerometer, we two could be predicting an earthquake somewhere - right? No, the system would also need to know the exact (GPS) location. Would you be so kind that you'd submit your location to some honest researchers at any given moment - after all you have done nothing wrong, and... have nothing to fear - or have you

    How cute is that, for the benefit of the humanity you will let the terr..quake-catchers to spy your accelerometer.

    Wait, I have another great application for you and all the other law obeying citizens. How about transmitting all your bluetooth handshake contacts to e.g. department of homeland security? With that information the government could build a navigation system for ambulances and fire trucks, informing them of unexpected traffic jams etc. That would certainly save lives and you haven't done anything wrong, so you have nothing to fear - right?
    Hey one more great idea. Why not make carrying such a contact registering device obligatory? That would help discovering terrorist cell contacts, identify lot of rapists, paedophiles, robbers, drug dealers, shoplifters, graffiti painters, demonstrators, Jews, union workers... Why not? You have nothing to fear - or have you?
    Sorry, but I just think all humans should avoid carrying unnecessary spyhardware to the max. Besides even the article says "It wouldn't be as sensitive as traditional networks of seismometers..." Thus, why not let the good geologists to build their freakin seismometers as good as they need to be.
    And about this technology being vaporware or not.
    • people are lazy, they don't even install firefox
    • system requires knowledge about the exact location of accelerometers; again those privacy concerns
    • Traditional seismometer technology can likely produce just as useful predictions
    Yes, vaporware it is. - I can recognize it easily because I (may) have produced some great examples of it myself... e.g. Here is the wonderful...
    Charity Open Source license - much like GPL - but better (companies would need to by annual licenses from Red Cross / Greenpeace / Amnesty International etc.), what happened - nothing - no one ever heard about it - vaporvare - maybe.

    t3d -The world's easiest to learn and most powerful programming language. It's documentation is whole 2-pages. What happened - nothing - no one ever heard about it - vaporvare - maybe.

    Rosetta and Newton trivias - which are teaching for free a dozen languages. And ,in theory, I am the only one teaching all of the world's written languages. What happened - nothing so far - maybe that is vaporware too - maybe.

    See, I know vaporvare quite well, because of my expertise in producing such :]
  5. Great vaporware application on Quake-Catcher Aims to be Largest Distributed Seismometer Network · · Score: 0, Troll

    And no matter if it runs Linux or not, that spyhardware will never prevent or predict an earthquake

  6. Finally some .mobi content on South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal · · Score: 1

    Watching movies on cellular phone is pretty stupid. Watching South Park is pretty idiotic too.
    Watching Idiot episodes of South Park on a cellular phone's stupid tiny screen, a perfect match.

  7. Re:holy cats! the world is changing! on Seagate May Sue if Solid State Disks Get Popular · · Score: 1

    Yes, and there will be no more Seagate for me - ever.
    I refuse to support companies that try to limit my right to choose which technology is good for me.

    Damn, my computer just started to stink.

  8. Idiots, Skype decrypts calls for all authorities! on Skype Encryption Stumps German Police · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Skype is a telecommunications company and for having their teleoperator license required to allow wiretaps for law enforcement purposes - so it works also in USA. Or do you thing that USA would just allow osama bin laden to host conference calls with wannabe terrorists using Skype. In fact Skype clearly admits that they decrypt the calls for all requesting authorities.

    Kurt Sauer, Skype's chief security officer, said there are no "back doors" that could let a government bypass the encryption on a call. At the same time, he said Skype "cooperates fully with all lawful requests from relevant authorities." He would not give particulars on the type of support provided. The german police just wants to install trojan horses for monitoring the germans. If the polizei were really after those encrypted skype calls they would just sue skype, and not be whining their lack of skills in public.
  9. Bender did that kind of thing too... or will do on Robots Assimilate Into Cockroach Society · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, the Futurama - news channel has a full coverage of a similar story.

  10. What CNN tells about anti-Bush demonstrations... on The Kremlin Tightens Its Grip on the Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    nothing... CNN thinks the following US news are enough:

    * Entire school system shuts for superbug scrub
    * Train kills 5-year-old boy
    * Genarlow Wilson freed | 'We want him home' Video
    * Indian tribes expel members
    * Mobile home dwellers ride out fire, wait for help
    * Fatal fetus theft leads to death sentence
    * Mob considered whacking Guiliani Video
    * Feds: Look out for shoe-bombers
    * Commander loses job amid nuclear sub probe

    ...so in the US anti-bush news are just anti-patriotic / anti-american... the only difference between the Russian news control is that Putin started a bit earlier than Bush.


    > Pro-Kremlin bloggers have used their skills to bury news about anti-Kremlin demonstrations:

    ahhh, if some CNN wievers want to learn about recent anti-bush demonstrations, tune into BBC.

  11. Double whistleblowers on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, the war criminal's administration has been asking for highly efficient whistleblowers

  12. Re:Full-Color? on Bridgestone Shows Off Ultra-Thin, Full-Color e-Paper · · Score: 1

    yes

  13. Right man for Right reasons on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 0, Troll

    You'll be a good president
    One more word: Congratulations

  14. nooo, stay away from Nokia's new balloon with maps on EBay Admits To Bad Call On Skype · · Score: 1

    bought yesterday for just $8.1 Billion

  15. Youtube style beating of voters with 8 SIM cards on Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting · · Score: 0, Troll

    Video shows Estonian election officials beating two voters until they choose the right canditade; with all their eight SIM cards. Convincing these voters took just 26 minutes. Estonian style electronic voting is usually performed from the hospital beds.

    Wellcome to E-estonia, also what a nice place it is to spend your holidays

  16. Re:Oddly enough... on How Burmese Dissidents Crack Censorship · · Score: 1

    The Economist and CNN have crystal clear pictures of the protests and the crackdown. Well, if paid enough The Economist and CNN might have crystal clear pictures of military leaders, telling protesters to be terrorists and how well the honorable peoples army is dealing with the situation.
    Check the site of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA. They are the ones who risked their lives by capturing the horrors of life under a Taliban regime. The Economist, CNN and even the US government have been happily transmitting the pictures taken by the RAWA. So, please don't play down the importance of people risking their lives in taking the grainy pictures.


    Oh yes, here is my secret message:
    SHA512 patent buster 26.9.2007.7z
    d2e407a2d1a8d03f1fae6f3f e232f57aea664b3239ecc737 04d9ca1db670791550e1202c ac1a655d6bdb290870606419 366802ab99571f7a00d53d7f 19d2dedd
    SHA256 patent buster 26.9.2007.7z
    97f041fe5abdcfbb09ce3405 0ecb74838dfee4e38781a548 106c13f11cbb154e
  17. Rather blame SCO's love for Microsoft's money on SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing · · Score: 1
    SCO choose to ask Microsoft's money for attacking Linux in court. That path was the irreversible mistake...
    • MS gave SCO money ->keeping the money and not attacking Linus -> Bill angry -> Chapter 11
    • Attacking Linux in court ->company reputation ruined -> sales down -> chapter 11
    • Attacking Linux in court ->big players angry (IBM, Novell& Co.)-> legal costs & rulings -> chapter 11
    Even, winning in court and starting to get money from every corporate Linux install would have ruined SCO's own UNIX business. Linux hackers would probably have taken revenge on SCO's existing UNIX customers and none of the railroad companies, cities or universities would have dared to bind themselves to SCO's products.

    Had SCO used its time and resources for developing new markets and products; e.g. as Sun did with Java. SCO could have had a future, now there is nothing else to blame than the own poor choice of strategy.
  18. Patent Buster (routing phone's energy consumption) on Swedish Company Trials Peer-to-Peer Cellphones · · Score: 1
    To 'the all reading professional': (as described by the patent regulations). I hereby make publicly available, as prior art, the following technology

    TITLE: Method, system and device for improving the energy efficiency within p2p cellular phone systems PROBLEM: In p2p cellular phone systems the limited energy storage capacity within cellular phone batteries can limit the usefulness of such systems system. If the cellular phone users allow their cellular phones to be used in transmitting other users cellular phone calls, the energy stored into the batteries of those transmitting cellular phones would be harmfully consumed during the transmission of other peoples cellular phone calls. The consumption of energy reduces the battery life, forcing the transmitting cellular phone's battery to be needed to be charged more often. In addition, there might be harmful side-effects associated with being extensively exposed to a presence of transmitting cellular phones

    SOLUTION: The innovation presented here, eliminates most of the problems associated with consuming the limited energy from the batteries of those call transmitting cellular phones. In addition, the hereby presented innovation limits the amount of electro-magnetic radiation that the users of p2p cellular phone systems would otherwise be adsorbing.

    According to this invention users of p2p cellular phone system could use for example their old cell phones to act as a private base stations and thereby solve much of the power consumption problem. A single such 'base station' could transmit hundreds of call every day while being permanently 'forgotten' into loading the battery from the wall. If that old cell phone is forgotten to be permanently charged on a roof top, the system has a true private base station. However the other nodes, within the p2p cellular phone system, would need to be informed about those certain 'permanently charging' cellular phone nodes. According to this invention those 'charging nodes' do send a signal to other nodes that distinguishes those 'permanently charging' cellular phones apart from those currently non-charging nodes.

    (PATENT BUSTER) claim:

    A method system and a system device facilitating the energy efficient usage of a p2p cellular phone system, wherein those wireless communication devices that are currently having their batteries electrically charged, using a wall plug or comparable energy sources, can give a specific signal to other wireless nodes, indicating their practically endless resource of electric energy, so that the other wireless nodes could prefer routing the cellular phone calls at least partially through that node with practically endless availability of electric energy. Dear all reading professional, you are served
  19. Japanese prior art patents from 1989 on WordLogic Patented the Predictive Interface · · Score: 3, Informative
    Fongboy found their (likely) patent application. That paper tells they use dictionaries in predicting input text in various computer devices. Well, I found these two 1989 patents with very relevant summaries.

    First patent is using dictionaries in predicting incoming text

    1) SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTION OF SUBJECT ( JP1029972 )
    PURPOSE:To analyze the content of a text based on prediction, by analyzing an inputted text by using the grammatical rule of a targeted language, predicting the subject of the text from a word possible to regulate the subject, and predicting the subject predicted from the largest number of words as the subject of the inputted text. CONSTITUTION:The titled device is provided with a subject dictionary 1 in which the candidate of the subject predicted from each word is registered in every word unit, and a subject indicating word segmentation part 2 which analyzes the inputted text grammatically and extracts the word to become the main constituent of the input text. At a subject selection part 3, the subject dictionary 1 is referred, and when no subject candidate to be predicted exists in every word unit extracted at the subject indicating word segmentation part 2, no operation is performed, and when it exists, it is taken out, and the number of taking out is held at every taken out subject candidate, and when the taking out and the counting of the number of appearance are completed, the subject candidate having the largest number of appearance out of taken out subject candidates is outputted as the subject of the inputted text. In such a way, the subject of a supplied text can be predicted. The second patent uses previous text inputs in helping to predict the incoming text

    2) METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING SUBJECT> ( JP2280272 )
    PURPOSE:To analyze the content of a text based on prediction by holding the set of micro features having the number of times of appearance exceeding a critical value as the present status, and assuming a subject expressed in the partial set of the micro features most neighboring to the above set as the present subject. CONSTITUTION:A recent appearance word meaning storage means 2 stores meaning by the expression of the micro feature of a constant number of words appearing recently, and a critical value filter 3 delivers only the micro feature in which the number of times of appearance of the micro feature existing in the recent appearance word meaning storage means 2 exceeds the critical value to a present status storage means 4. A most neighoring subject selection means 6 compares the set of the micro features held by the present status storage means 4 with the expression of the micro feature corresponding to individual subject in a subject dictionary 5, and outputs the subject having the least common part as the present subject. In such a manner, the content of the text can be analyzed based on the prediction.
    I predict WordLogic's patent application is not viable.
  20. Just a failed shotgun injection attack on Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber · · Score: 1

    Following the success of Bluetooth Sniper Rifle, it was natural that someone would try to bruteforce data into networks with a shotgun.

  21. email signatures used to be a threat 2 net on Will Internet TV Crash the Internet? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    then came other 'threats': napster, gnutella, warez, Online radio, DIVX movies, bittorrent,
    Read my lips: Internet can take it

    As long as there is demand for more bandwidth, there is a cable guy happily selling it.

    Cisco's wish to have their customers buying more transmission hardware
    is comparable with Apple's wish for consumers buying more iPhones.

  22. (spoiler) Evolution aims to recreate me on Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline · · Score: 1

    Perfect beings no longer evolve

  23. Re:How long until it is illegal to possess one? on Encrypted USB Key With TOR, Firefox · · Score: 1

    OSCE.org's fresh report "Governing the Internet," has a partial answer, stating that about two dozen countries practice censorship. And in addition many other countries have adopted needlessly restrictive legislation and government policy.

    For example, in Malaysia government official said this week that laws would be drafted for bloggers and authorities would not hesitate to prosecute those deemed to have insulted Islam. And in Thailand insulting their assaholian King is almost guaranteed to result a jail sentence.

    Oups, did I just call thailands king assaholian? Well sorry about that... (in case TOR does't work as advertised)

  24. Re:So Prove it Already on Wikipedia Infiltrated by Intelligence Agents? · · Score: 1

    Surely Google cache or Archive.org or any of the other search engines have that page from some point in the past, no? How about even a locally cached copy (certainly not tamper proof)? There should an internet hash-bank(s) where applications and people could be sending short cryptographically secure hash digests; for helping to proof some original data being time-coded and non-tampered. Ok, MD5 could be alone broken SHA1 could be wounded but sending multiple hashes sure could prove the existence of original content

    e.g. MD5 36ec2f330ba175cdc1aacbdcb812036c AND 83240670a27ad2bdc2c5a1b36222d3941aaf4bca ?SHA1 AND a2da3cafba3cd23391ad90511b7c7b73fa219492 ?RIPEMD160 AND 64799812b5ee98a4cc1c6484bf8f849e3fee9aa6553393b9d7 873b7f8cac9b825aca648a365aaa5e7037f903d708e19df219 8dfa82b2933b14ac7aa7072101eb ?SHA512
    off cause hashes of these hash-banks should be than published on major printed newspapers, proving the whole hash-bank non-tampered
  25. I think it is on Africa - Offline And Waiting for the Web · · Score: 1

    The power of the Internet can be seen in how much tyrants try to suppress it. Using the Internet people can get informed, organized and find new business opportunities, and ultimately influence those Social, Political, and Agricultural issues.

    Look around, much of the things you see changing around you, are changing because the Internet is stimulating the fields of product development and commercial competition. Why wouldn't the same happen in Africa?