Where in TFA does it say that the system is that, "dumb"? I figure it'd atleast be smart enough to read the first hundred bytes of the file and check for headers... then again this is WD we're talking about.
Yeah, but something that looks like an interrogation droid on a pogo-stick isn't nearly as cute and cuddly as an android. Besides, this one probably doesn't have to jump around as much to regain its balance.
The analogous study would be more along the lines of, " Does porn make people less inhibitted/more horny?" . Which, I think, would be quite an interesting study.
Not really. Now if they were studying what would happen if the subjects were subjected to unpleasant stimuli like nausea or electric shocks while watching violent images, now that would be interesting.
I think TFA meant it in a more figurative tone. Kinda like how one of those nifty magnetic floating globes, " seemingly defies the laws of physics [because it's apparently unaffected by gravity]" even though its operation is based on well known physical principles you could describe in five minutes.
Am I the only one that just thought of a mosquito net that could stop bullets? Say you're holed up overnight in an old cinderblock house with louvered windows and bars on the doors somewhere the tropics. Now you can kill two birds with one stone keeping out mosquitoes and stray rifle rounds at the same time ensuring a restful and secure night's sleep. If someone hasn't already, I'm so patenting that.
There are several problems with parent's logic. The most important being that society, in the US, at least, has reached a point where social darwinism just doesn't work. People don't die from ignorance, stupidity, or general unfitness for survival anymore. They get injured and debillitated and then the rest of us have to pay for it. Be it the person who decides to walk across the icy patch of sidewalk in front of your place of business and slips, the woman who scalds herself on a cup of extra-hot coffee she ordered from a restaurant that is required by health codes to store it at near boiling, or the child who needs special considerations at school because his parents took a video on youtube to heart and didn't vaccinate him resulting in a case of so childhood illness that left him handicapped the cost is passed on to us, the general public by either higher prices or new taxes.
Netflix is going to dip this afternoon, rebounding in afterhours and early tomorrow when people realize floppy envelopes can be stiffened with minimum capital outlay.
This would be a lot more effective if it targetted workstations and servers. Then whenever a system gets botted the physical owner would bear some responsibility. I can almost hear those security holes slamming shut now...
I'm pretty sure online commerce would come to a screeching halt ( "Oh N003355!! My Pr0n tax $$$s!!!111eleven!", cries the establishment) if the great unwashed masses ever knew that their main, and possibly only, line of defense was safety in numbers.
Making a stand in the primary school system isn't easy to do if you don't have tenure. Even with tenure there's a pretty good chance they'll replace you with the worst possible candidate and shuffle you off into a corner somewhere.
People patent, processes, machines, designs, and plants. According to the US patent office, anyway. One doesn't necessarily have to have a physical representation of what is being patented, that would make a lot of legitemate inventions a lot harder to get protected, just an effective example or description with enough information to determine what is being patented and if it is patentable. What was patented here was the process of visual voicemail, not the idea. Ideas are copyrighted.
I agree that something like this shouldn't be patentable, but, unfortunately, that's up to the patent inspectors to decide, and since there are about twelve of them at the moment it's unlikely they have enough time to do more than skim the abstract before stamping approval.
You have to feel a little bit bad for Hormel. Their 60-odd year old brand name has, through no fault of their own, become inextricably associated with another massive, universally despised, worldwide problem.... There, fixed it for you.
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Lovely sentiment, but that's kind of like saying, "It snowed this weekend because I installed compact flourescent lightbulbs in my house".
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Pointless or not, it's the terms of the license.
Where in TFA does it say that the system is that, "dumb"? I figure it'd atleast be smart enough to read the first hundred bytes of the file and check for headers... then again this is WD we're talking about.
... They should include the source too. Free as in speech, not beer.
I'm not terribly up to date on all the latest goings on in the M$ word, but they didn't start charging for IE, did they?
Yeah, but the repeated cries of, "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" got a bit annoying after a while with that model.
Yeah, but something that looks like an interrogation droid on a pogo-stick isn't nearly as cute and cuddly as an android. Besides, this one probably doesn't have to jump around as much to regain its balance.
The analogous study would be more along the lines of, " Does porn make people less inhibitted/more horny?" . Which, I think, would be quite an interesting study.
Not really. Now if they were studying what would happen if the subjects were subjected to unpleasant stimuli like nausea or electric shocks while watching violent images, now that would be interesting.
I think TFA meant it in a more figurative tone. Kinda like how one of those nifty magnetic floating globes, " seemingly defies the laws of physics [because it's apparently unaffected by gravity]" even though its operation is based on well known physical principles you could describe in five minutes.
Am I the only one that just thought of a mosquito net that could stop bullets? Say you're holed up overnight in an old cinderblock house with louvered windows and bars on the doors somewhere the tropics. Now you can kill two birds with one stone keeping out mosquitoes and stray rifle rounds at the same time ensuring a restful and secure night's sleep. If someone hasn't already, I'm so patenting that.
There are several problems with parent's logic. The most important being that society, in the US, at least, has reached a point where social darwinism just doesn't work. People don't die from ignorance, stupidity, or general unfitness for survival anymore. They get injured and debillitated and then the rest of us have to pay for it. Be it the person who decides to walk across the icy patch of sidewalk in front of your place of business and slips, the woman who scalds herself on a cup of extra-hot coffee she ordered from a restaurant that is required by health codes to store it at near boiling, or the child who needs special considerations at school because his parents took a video on youtube to heart and didn't vaccinate him resulting in a case of so childhood illness that left him handicapped the cost is passed on to us, the general public by either higher prices or new taxes.
Netflix is going to dip this afternoon, rebounding in afterhours and early tomorrow when people realize floppy envelopes can be stiffened with minimum capital outlay.
This would be a lot more effective if it targetted workstations and servers. Then whenever a system gets botted the physical owner would bear some responsibility. I can almost hear those security holes slamming shut now...
I'm pretty sure online commerce would come to a screeching halt ( "Oh N003355!! My Pr0n tax $$$s!!!111eleven!", cries the establishment) if the great unwashed masses ever knew that their main, and possibly only, line of defense was safety in numbers.
Seppuku a.k.a. "Hari Kari" is a japanese tradition.
Making a stand in the primary school system isn't easy to do if you don't have tenure. Even with tenure there's a pretty good chance they'll replace you with the worst possible candidate and shuffle you off into a corner somewhere.
I agree that something like this shouldn't be patentable, but, unfortunately, that's up to the patent inspectors to decide, and since there are about twelve of them at the moment it's unlikely they have enough time to do more than skim the abstract before stamping approval.
Don't worry, we'll get it all back from ticket sales at the Jurrassic Park we'll make cloning these mummified dinosaurs.
When was Greenpeace ever lauded as a bastion of logic?
I wonder if using the term, " Pepsi" to refer to bait-and-switch schemes would fare as well in a court of law.
It's a good way to keep up with your newb acquaintences and friends. Besides, it cuts down on the amount of facebook invites I get.
Maybe, or maybe I should work on polishing up my resume.
Mod parent +2 Optimistic Lovely sentiment, but that's kind of like saying, "It snowed this weekend because I installed compact flourescent lightbulbs in my house".