Ok. after having read the same five replies over and over. I'd like to bring up a few points that someone else has probably already said, but I just missed it.
1) The entire cast of user friendly are losers. That's what's so funny. Sure, the phone support guy can laugh at the clueless users, but they can't ask someone out for a date unless they're in a chat room. None of them have lives or even decent clothes. The manager is devious and clueless at the same time. They're all convinced Linux is best (oh god, they're slashdot moderators) but then fight over WHICH linux is best. One of them is even a Slashdot "first poster".
2) If you don't find it funny, read something else. There's a lot of strips I don't find funny for one reason or another. Sometimes the strips seem cruel to me. I won't miss Charlie Brown having the ball pulled away from him repeatedly. Maybe that just hit's too close to home. On the other hand, Thelma the sperm burping gutter slut from the Dysfunctional Family Circus always made me laugh. I miss it dearly. We all have things we find funny.
3) Humor is Tragedy. If you didn't get that in high school then watch TV for another 30 hours this week and pay attention. The basic plot for a comedy is for something so terrible to happen that it becomes funny. There will always be people who don't like it, often because the problem hits too close to home. On the other hand, I noticed that when I had stressed out too much certain dark films became funny. Brazil can be funny or horrible depending on my job.
4) We really need moderation on these news articles. I really think this one, if it had been a response could have quickly been moderated down to -1, troll. Something I'd like to see in slashdot 5.0 is the creation of an "uber message board" where anyone with a Karma rating of 25 or more (the score:2 posters) can suggest an article, and there would be people chosen to become article moderators (with articles ending up in the usual +5 to -1 range). This would allow us to go through articles based on ratings the same way we can go through responses. Or would it be better to build that as a competing alternative to slashdot?
Not to repeat myself but I'm still voting for Mark Pauline.
You want open source? You can look at his creations in VRML, watch them being built, and see them tested. You can learn from his mistakes and see how his creations evolved.
1st place and important link of the day: Anything made by Ronco. The pocket fisherman, inside the shell egg scrambler, the list goes on and on. This is gadget heaven.
Erector setswith motor: to heck with Mindstorms. I was building destructor the robot with this thing when I could barely walk. That was a concept ahead of it's time. Here's a great quote: "The first artificial heart constructed at Yale was powered by an Erector Set motor."
The remote control: Let's face it. We still don't need the dang thing and we couldn't live without it. It fits the definition perfectly.
who? Mark Pauline: Head of Survival Research Laboratories and fundrasing manager for the etoy projects. His projects have been an inspiration to hardware and software hackers alike, blowing away anything you can make with a lego mindstorm. (You try shooting two-by-fours at a high rate of speed with legos...)
Mark Pauline is the Bob Geldorf of cool technology projects. Where would we be without him pushing the limits?
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What I fixed: All my dang Javascripts that were coded to receive 00, not 100. What I broke: After finding out that IE was returning 2000 instead of 100 on some date calls I just got ticked and changed everything to 2000 + date%100 (now making everything Y3K noncompliant).
What surprised me: I have yet to hear of an incident of embedded chip failure. Yeah, our code had problems, worldtimeclock and microsoft.com both had minor date problems, and I had to fix a bunch of Visa/MC software at work, but with everyone screaming about possible embedded code in microchips potentially having problems I haven't heard a peep yet. I wonder if it will come out that some cars have a problem with their fuel mixture or checkup reminders? Hmmm. Odd.
All that aside, my stove died, but that didn't appear to be y2k related. Just lousy manufacturing.
Man gives up. Admits he'll never get laid. Sewer problem causes back up. Man stays in home anyway. How to roach bomb without leaving your home! Man gains over 100 lbs on Domino's Pizza. Wishes he had been allowed to go to the gym. Doctor makes house call! Film at 11. (alternate) Doctor still refuses to make house call. Building condemned. Man vows revenge on unknown hacker who ordered 100 boxes of termites and had them delivered to his house. Local Escort Delivery Agency records record profits. Man discovers that car insurance rates get jacked up when you cancel your car insurance. Local Cable TV ups man's rate to $1000/month. "Come in and complain if you don't like it." says company exec. Man jailed for refusing to serve on jury. UPS refuses further delivery until occupant showers. Neighbors sue over local eyesore. Man hasn't cut grass in months.
If you're going to display a 2 digit year, keep displaying that same dang two digit year! Every script I looked at checked (if year greater than 97 or so cent=cent+1). NO ONE (including me) coded = fourdigityear =1900 + year (which is all I had to do.)
I work for First Data Corportation, the world's largest secondary credit card processor. The last thing we want is to even give the concept that there might be a chance of anything going wrong.
When you see an e-commerce site go offline for y2k, ask yourself this: "If after this much warning, they don't trust their security or computers, why should you give them your credit card number?"
Wanna buy a big french clock? It's good for 999 days.
Apparently they're enjoying the situation and getting ready to launch an online game. There's a lot of really enjoyable things in this article. It brought a smile to my face to see the chaos that they have planned. A new web site, games, a music CD. I'm liking it!
Actually, cross platform binaries are very easy to create.
All that is required is to have a small compiler written for each system for a common language. Normally this wouldn't be done simply because each platform has it's language(s) of choice. However, currently each platform does have an interpreter for a common language, Java. Because of this, it does not strike me as impossible that the concept of creating a Java compiler (java bytecode to machine code) for each machine would be that far off.
There are applications that this will not work with well. Applications that traditionally require massive speed and driver tweaking (Quake IV) will probably still be written in languages that let you do just that. However, it is possible to believe, especially with the current state of Microsoft, that word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and other home and office programs could be written in Java.
The payoff for doing so is large. Java programs can be created with less effort than similar C++ programs. Even when compiled they will not be as fast or as small as a well written C++ program, but let's face it, bloatware is common, speed is no longer an issue for these types of programs, and portability is a BIG selling point. When you can decrease your time to market and increase your target market you're making a good business decision.
I fully believe that the future is good for a powerful open source Java set of Office tools. (Spreadsheet, database, word processor)
I only fear someone else will be hired to do it, instead of me. I could use a better job.
Have fast net access, Omaha, NE for example has a lot of cable modems. Have a good sized convention center. Without it you cant attract things like the Worldcon or any of the computer expos. Have good colleges, including science and liberal arts. Geeks need schools, and when we're not learning cryptography we're learning egyptology. Don't skip on the science or the arts. Realize that having a liberal police department and a liberal political system may become political realities. Geeks tend not to run with the herd. That skate punk the cops are harassing may be a lead analyst for one of your local corps. Watch your parks and recs. Geeks like skateparks and disc golf courses just as much, if not more, than traditional sports. Forget the curfews. Make sure there's at least a taco bell open at 3 am. It's better if there's a pizza place that takes internet orders. Watch your taxes. We make money, serious money, and we hate losing it to the government. We know you want us for our money, so play that game carefully. We're much more likely to consider taxes an investment and want a good return on it than most citizens. Watch your P.R. We're better connected than you think we are. We know B.S. and have a tendancy to want to find the "truth" out. Normals don't get as nosy as geeks on a rampage.
Most importantly, make sure you really want us. We may be serious income for a city, but we're also a headache. If you want our cash without being willing to seriously cater to us, then forget it. On the other hand, if you really cater to us, we'll hand over our money in the form of taxes without much worry.
At this rate, ETOYS will be worthless soon enough. How low does it have to fall before it simply ceases to exist in it's current form? In this age of internet stocks being so highly valued how can ETOYS not realize the damage this has caused them? How can they be so blind?
Perhaps they have forgotten that we talk to each other. Perhaps they have forgotten that we can hear all sides of the stories. perhaps they have forgotten that we could have been their market and their investors had they not done this.
My plans over the next few months involve tring to figure out Slash and see how hard it would be to get another news/discussion group (poetry not geeks) going. The plans were to put Redhat on a cheap new machine in my workroom and get to work but this strikes me as a good (and cheaper) alternative. Is anyone else out there planning on fiddling with Slash?
Before you think we've won, Here's a quote from ETOY that may make you rethink yesterday's news. "EToys is willing to drop the lawsuit if etoy corporation allows eToys some control over the content of the etoy site." Protest net has a good overview of the situation.
Apparently the possibility still exists of ETOY taking the legal battle to ETOYS. The war is definately not over.
So far my favorite lines at work are: "If there's a lot of problems we'll page you." (Great, you don't trust our software but you trust the paging companies.) and "If the building has no power there will be security people at the dorr to check your bages and let you in." (Obviously they think Windows NT is just as useful without power...)
Word is ABC & CNN are just doing minute by minute broadcasts. Man, I wish I was still hacking, wouldn't you love to be able to change those screens!
The main problems with java have been speed (or lack thereof) and portability (the fact that many people do not want it).
Let's look at any discussion of frames, graphics, the Opera Browser, or other aspect of web design. People code for their perceived top 95% (Netscape & IE 5.0+ running on Windows). We're used to everyone who uses Opera, Linus, Mac, or NoFrames just getting the shaft. We don't like and and we protest, but we are no longer surprised.
Java is only accepted as a serious application choice when there is a need to run on more (not all) machine types. (Let's be real, if you claim Java is viewed by everyone you've just screwed over those Lynx users on dumb terminals. They're still out there.)
With the new processors coming out (Alpha vs Intel) it will be interesting to see if the compiler market supports both processors equally. If they do not it will either mean a death for one of the processors or an increased demand for Java.
Currently, in my opinion, the forgotten market of choice would be education. Since schools and universities tend to have a wide spectrum of machine types available and since speed is not normally a factor in educational software, then Java fit's the bill perfectly.
Currently I'm working on two alife (artificial life) applets. Java is fast enough for alife (where speed is desireable) on Windows and portable enough that I can be sure other people will be able to use and study these applets. If I was to do this work in C, it would make a decent thesis, but it would be limited to people who A: like to download unknown.exe files, and b: like to read college papers. (Wait. that would be nobody...)
All I see is that ETOYS has offered to drop it's suit if ETOY drops theirs. I have seen nothing that says ETOY has any intention of dropping their suit. Now if I were ETOYS, would I drop my suits?
Ok. I'm sorry, but in an odd bit of silliness I found the cluetrain today. Some of what they have to say applies to such a frightening degree that I felt compelled to repeat it.
"There are no secrets. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. And whether the news is good or bad, they tell everyone. "
"Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them. "
Companies need to come down from their Ivory Towers and talk to the people with whom they hope to create relationships."
"Public Relations does not relate to the public. Companies are deeply afraid of their markets."
"By speaking in language that is distant, uninviting, arrogant, they build walls to keep markets at bay. "
"Companies make a religion of security, but this is largely a red herring. Most are protecting less against competitors than against their own market and workforce. "
"Paranoia kills conversation. That's its point. But lack of open conversation kills companies. "
"As markets, as workers, we wonder why you're not listening. You seem to be speaking a different language. "
"Maybe you're impressing your investors. Maybe you're impressing Wall Street. You're not impressing us."
"If you don't impress us, your investors are going to take a bath. Don't they understand this? If they did, they wouldn't let you talk that way."
"We have better things to do than worry about whether you'll change in time to get our business. Business is only a part of our lives. It seems to be all of yours. Think about it: who needs whom?"
Step in line for that DOS attack. It seems like it's been tried and failed. (Funny, you just don't here people complaining about bandwith limitations anymore...)
Since the U.S. Government (what? We're not the entire world?) is only dealing with Internet sales, I don't see the state governments getting in an uproar. Your local supplier won't change.
On the other hand, this simply gives the FDA some new powers. Since traditionally, the FDA doesn't do a lot, it really doesn't change much. For example, anything your local GNC probably sells, the FDA can't and won't investigate. (It's not a medicine or a food.) For example, here's their stance on homeopathic medicines: "FDA regulates homeopathic drugs in several significantly different ways from other drugs. Manufacturers of homeopathic drugs are deferred from submitting new drug applications to FDA. Their products are exempt from good manufacturing practice requirements related to expiration dating and from finished product testing for identity and strength. Homeopathic drugs in solid oral dosage form must have an imprint that identifies the manufacturer and indicates that the drug is homeopathic. The imprint on conventional products, unless specifically exempt, must identify the active ingredient and dosage strength as well as the manufacturer."
In short, they don't care unless it's a food, cosmetic, or medicine. Now personally, when I order a few grams of coke, I want coke, not baking soda. At least now I have the FDA to complain to!
(Think about it. If they sent you Premarin instead of antibiotics you'd want someone to complain to.)
How about some actual information. The first outfit, the one that looks like a fat palmtop, was created by Thad Starner who started the Wearables group at M.I.T. (unfortunately the really good wearables links at M.I.T. appear to be gone.)
Once you fight your way past the bimbos and the crowd shot (is that Bill Gates?), some of the technical wear looks very functional. Check out the funding: "Carnegie Mellon devices funded and supported by: The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, Sandbox Advanced Development, DARPA, and The Telxon Corporation." Nice cash flow there.
Ok. Granted the Hands Free Poultry Inspection System should be in a copy of Skin Two but take a look at that audience. These people do not get laid often enough
What depressed me the most was the complete lack of any links to the hardware in question (even most of my searches came up empty.)
I guess the term "Vaporware for the Vapid to Wear" finally applies.
When coding a neural network of that sort how would you get it to "defend" itself without possibly blocking legit traffic? In every case that I've seen an adaptive network in action, it makes mistakes (huge blunderous ones) before it finally get's things right. The best ones are run in multiple instances with an outside "judge" determining which were the better actions. Running this as a live system with no constraints sounds like folly to me, and without constraints I don't see a method for it to prevent security breaches. Could you please go into greater deatil on what you're proposing or link to a web site about the project?
So why don't we patent it? After all, it is possible to get a patent on a procedure, such as windowing, that has been in existance long before you claim to have invented it.
Since we are not suppossed to know how this is done we can claim that there is no legitmate way we could have found this as an example of prior art.
Slashdot Mirror
1) The entire cast of user friendly are losers. That's what's so funny. Sure, the phone support guy can laugh at the clueless users, but they can't ask someone out for a date unless they're in a chat room. None of them have lives or even decent clothes. The manager is devious and clueless at the same time. They're all convinced Linux is best (oh god, they're slashdot moderators) but then fight over WHICH linux is best. One of them is even a Slashdot "first poster".
2) If you don't find it funny, read something else. There's a lot of strips I don't find funny for one reason or another. Sometimes the strips seem cruel to me. I won't miss Charlie Brown having the ball pulled away from him repeatedly. Maybe that just hit's too close to home. On the other hand, Thelma the sperm burping gutter slut from the Dysfunctional Family Circus always made me laugh. I miss it dearly. We all have things we find funny.
3) Humor is Tragedy. If you didn't get that in high school then watch TV for another 30 hours this week and pay attention. The basic plot for a comedy is for something so terrible to happen that it becomes funny. There will always be people who don't like it, often because the problem hits too close to home. On the other hand, I noticed that when I had stressed out too much certain dark films became funny. Brazil can be funny or horrible depending on my job.
4) We really need moderation on these news articles. I really think this one, if it had been a response could have quickly been moderated down to -1, troll. Something I'd like to see in slashdot 5.0 is the creation of an "uber message board" where anyone with a Karma rating of 25 or more (the score:2 posters) can suggest an article, and there would be people chosen to become article moderators (with articles ending up in the usual +5 to -1 range). This would allow us to go through articles based on ratings the same way we can go through responses. Or would it be better to build that as a competing alternative to slashdot?
You want open source? You can look at his creations in VRML, watch them being built, and see them tested. You can learn from his mistakes and see how his creations evolved.
Open source doesn't have to mean software.
Erector sets with motor: to heck with Mindstorms. I was building destructor the robot with this thing when I could barely walk. That was a concept ahead of it's time.
Here's a great quote: "The first artificial heart constructed at Yale was powered by an Erector Set motor."
The remote control: Let's face it. We still don't need the dang thing and we couldn't live without it. It fits the definition perfectly.
Mark Pauline: Head of Survival Research Laboratories and fundrasing manager for the etoy projects. His projects have been an inspiration to hardware and software hackers alike, blowing away anything you can make with a lego mindstorm. (You try shooting two-by-fours at a high rate of speed with legos...)
Mark Pauline is the Bob Geldorf of cool technology projects. Where would we be without him pushing the limits?
By the way. Toywar is up and running
What I broke: After finding out that IE was returning 2000 instead of 100 on some date calls I just got ticked and changed everything to 2000 + date%100 (now making everything Y3K noncompliant).
What surprised me: I have yet to hear of an incident of embedded chip failure. Yeah, our code had problems, worldtimeclock and microsoft.com both had minor date problems, and I had to fix a bunch of Visa/MC software at work, but with everyone screaming about possible embedded code in microchips potentially having problems I haven't heard a peep yet. I wonder if it will come out that some cars have a problem with their fuel mixture or checkup reminders? Hmmm. Odd.
All that aside, my stove died, but that didn't appear to be y2k related. Just lousy manufacturing.
Man gives up. Admits he'll never get laid.
Sewer problem causes back up. Man stays in home anyway.
How to roach bomb without leaving your home!
Man gains over 100 lbs on Domino's Pizza. Wishes he had been allowed to go to the gym.
Doctor makes house call! Film at 11.
(alternate) Doctor still refuses to make house call. Building condemned.
Man vows revenge on unknown hacker who ordered 100 boxes of termites and had them delivered to his house.
Local Escort Delivery Agency records record profits.
Man discovers that car insurance rates get jacked up when you cancel your car insurance.
Local Cable TV ups man's rate to $1000/month. "Come in and complain if you don't like it." says company exec.
Man jailed for refusing to serve on jury.
UPS refuses further delivery until occupant showers.
Neighbors sue over local eyesore. Man hasn't cut grass in months.
argh... Thank god these were my personal pages.
TOYWAR, etoy's new site is up! See it to see why you should see it!
When you see an e-commerce site go offline for y2k, ask yourself this: "If after this much warning, they don't trust their security or computers, why should you give them your credit card number?"
Wanna buy a big french clock? It's good for 999 days.
I'd LOVE to have one of those for our Y2K party!
Apparently they're enjoying the situation and getting ready to launch an online game. There's a lot of really enjoyable things in this article. It brought a smile to my face to see the chaos that they have planned. A new web site, games, a music CD. I'm liking it!
All that is required is to have a small compiler written for each system for a common language. Normally this wouldn't be done simply because each platform has it's language(s) of choice.
However, currently each platform does have an interpreter for a common language, Java. Because of this, it does not strike me as impossible that the concept of creating a Java compiler (java bytecode to machine code) for each machine would be that far off.
There are applications that this will not work with well. Applications that traditionally require massive speed and driver tweaking (Quake IV) will probably still be written in languages that let you do just that. However, it is possible to believe, especially with the current state of Microsoft, that word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and other home and office programs could be written in Java.
The payoff for doing so is large. Java programs can be created with less effort than similar C++ programs. Even when compiled they will not be as fast or as small as a well written C++ program, but let's face it, bloatware is common, speed is no longer an issue for these types of programs, and portability is a BIG selling point. When you can decrease your time to market and increase your target market you're making a good business decision.
I fully believe that the future is good for a powerful open source Java set of Office tools. (Spreadsheet, database, word processor)
I only fear someone else will be hired to do it, instead of me. I could use a better job.
Have a good sized convention center. Without it you cant attract things like the Worldcon or any of the computer expos.
Have good colleges, including science and liberal arts. Geeks need schools, and when we're not learning cryptography we're learning egyptology. Don't skip on the science or the arts.
Realize that having a liberal police department and a liberal political system may become political realities. Geeks tend not to run with the herd. That skate punk the cops are harassing may be a lead analyst for one of your local corps.
Watch your parks and recs. Geeks like skateparks and disc golf courses just as much, if not more, than traditional sports.
Forget the curfews. Make sure there's at least a taco bell open at 3 am. It's better if there's a pizza place that takes internet orders.
Watch your taxes. We make money, serious money, and we hate losing it to the government. We know you want us for our money, so play that game carefully. We're much more likely to consider taxes an investment and want a good return on it than most citizens.
Watch your P.R. We're better connected than you think we are. We know B.S. and have a tendancy to want to find the "truth" out. Normals don't get as nosy as geeks on a rampage.
Most importantly, make sure you really want us. We may be serious income for a city, but we're also a headache. If you want our cash without being willing to seriously cater to us, then forget it. On the other hand, if you really cater to us, we'll hand over our money in the form of taxes without much worry.
Protest.net's overview of this mess
RTMarks's etoy page
ETOYS stock value in the past month accoring to Alta Vista
A better stock picture from yahoo.
At this rate, ETOYS will be worthless soon enough. How low does it have to fall before it simply ceases to exist in it's current form? In this age of internet stocks being so highly valued how can ETOYS not realize the damage this has caused them? How can they be so blind?
Perhaps they have forgotten that we talk to each other. Perhaps they have forgotten that we can hear all sides of the stories. perhaps they have forgotten that we could have been their market and their investors had they not done this.
Perhaps they're just blind.
My plans over the next few months involve tring to figure out Slash and see how hard it would be to get another news/discussion group (poetry not geeks) going. The plans were to put Redhat on a cheap new machine in my workroom and get to work but this strikes me as a good (and cheaper) alternative. Is anyone else out there planning on fiddling with Slash?
Apparently the possibility still exists of ETOY taking the legal battle to ETOYS. The war is definately not over.
Did it work?
So far my favorite lines at work are: "If there's a lot of problems we'll page you." (Great, you don't trust our software but you trust the paging companies.) and "If the building has no power there will be security people at the dorr to check your bages and let you in." (Obviously they think Windows NT is just as useful without power...)
Word is ABC & CNN are just doing minute by minute broadcasts. Man, I wish I was still hacking, wouldn't you love to be able to change those screens!
Let's look at any discussion of frames, graphics, the Opera Browser, or other aspect of web design. People code for their perceived top 95% (Netscape & IE 5.0+ running on Windows). We're used to everyone who uses Opera, Linus, Mac, or NoFrames just getting the shaft. We don't like and and we protest, but we are no longer surprised.
Java is only accepted as a serious application choice when there is a need to run on more (not all) machine types. (Let's be real, if you claim Java is viewed by everyone you've just screwed over those Lynx users on dumb terminals. They're still out there.)
With the new processors coming out (Alpha vs Intel) it will be interesting to see if the compiler market supports both processors equally. If they do not it will either mean a death for one of the processors or an increased demand for Java.
Currently, in my opinion, the forgotten market of choice would be education. Since schools and universities tend to have a wide spectrum of machine types available and since speed is not normally a factor in educational software, then Java fit's the bill perfectly.
Currently I'm working on two alife (artificial life) applets. Java is fast enough for alife (where speed is desireable) on Windows and portable enough that I can be sure other people will be able to use and study these applets. If I was to do this work in C, it would make a decent thesis, but it would be limited to people who A: like to download unknown .exe files, and b: like to read college papers. (Wait. that would be nobody...)
I have seen nothing that says ETOY has any intention of dropping their suit.
Now if I were ETOYS, would I drop my suits?
I dunno. Maybe just my pants.
"There are no secrets. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. And whether the news is good or bad, they tell everyone. "
"Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them. "
Companies need to come down from their Ivory Towers and talk to the people with whom they hope to create relationships."
"Public Relations does not relate to the public. Companies are deeply afraid of their markets."
"By speaking in language that is distant, uninviting, arrogant, they build walls to keep markets at bay. "
"Companies make a religion of security, but this is largely a red herring. Most are protecting less against competitors than against their own market and workforce. "
"Paranoia kills conversation. That's its point. But lack of open conversation kills companies. "
"As markets, as workers, we wonder why you're not listening. You seem to be speaking a different language. "
"Maybe you're impressing your investors. Maybe you're impressing Wall Street. You're not impressing us."
"If you don't impress us, your investors are going to take a bath. Don't they understand this? If they did, they wouldn't let you talk that way."
"We have better things to do than worry about whether you'll change in time to get our business. Business is only a part of our lives. It seems to be all of yours. Think about it: who needs whom?"
You're a braver man than I am Gunga Din.
Step in line for that DOS attack. It seems like it's been tried and failed. (Funny, you just don't here people complaining about bandwith limitations anymore...)
On the other hand, this simply gives the FDA some new powers. Since traditionally, the FDA doesn't do a lot, it really doesn't change much. For example, anything your local GNC probably sells, the FDA can't and won't investigate. (It's not a medicine or a food.) For example, here's their stance on homeopathic medicines: "FDA regulates homeopathic drugs in several significantly different ways from other drugs. Manufacturers of homeopathic drugs are deferred from submitting new drug applications to FDA. Their products are exempt from good manufacturing practice requirements related to expiration dating and from finished product testing for identity and strength. Homeopathic drugs in solid oral dosage form must have an imprint that identifies the manufacturer and indicates that the drug is homeopathic. The imprint on conventional products, unless specifically exempt, must identify the active ingredient and dosage strength as well as the manufacturer."
In short, they don't care unless it's a food, cosmetic, or medicine.
Now personally, when I order a few grams of coke, I want coke, not baking soda. At least now I have the FDA to complain to!
(Think about it. If they sent you Premarin instead of antibiotics you'd want someone to complain to.)
Once you fight your way past the bimbos and the crowd shot (is that Bill Gates?), some of the technical wear looks very functional. Check out the funding: "Carnegie Mellon devices funded and supported by: The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, Sandbox Advanced Development, DARPA, and The Telxon Corporation." Nice cash flow there.
Ok. Granted the Hands Free Poultry Inspection System should be in a copy of Skin Two but take a look at that audience. These people do not get laid often enough
What depressed me the most was the complete lack of any links to the hardware in question (even most of my searches came up empty.)
I guess the term "Vaporware for the Vapid to Wear" finally applies.
When coding a neural network of that sort how would you get it to "defend" itself without possibly blocking legit traffic?
In every case that I've seen an adaptive network in action, it makes mistakes (huge blunderous ones) before it finally get's things right. The best ones are run in multiple instances with an outside "judge" determining which were the better actions.
Running this as a live system with no constraints sounds like folly to me, and without constraints I don't see a method for it to prevent security breaches.
Could you please go into greater deatil on what you're proposing or link to a web site about the project?
So why don't we patent it? After all, it is possible to get a patent on a procedure, such as windowing, that has been in existance long before you claim to have invented it.
Since we are not suppossed to know how this is done we can claim that there is no legitmate way we could have found this as an example of prior art.
Then, one we have the patent we can sue them!
I love America.