It really seems now that the Big Game Hunt in town is Patent Barter. Having world class patent attorneys, is more important to a company's long term tech strategy, than having world class researchers.
You can come up with something brilliant, truly innovative on the tech front, but be devastated on the patent front. Thus, rendering your research worthless.
Actually, the state of science is in the state it always is . . . unknown. That is why we need scientists to at least be able to chip away at some pieces of the Grand Puzzle.
Oh, come on. This is just a form of cockfighting thinly shrouded in a veil of "scientific experiment." The scientists just really want to watch and bet on the fights. Wait until the PETA folks hear about this!
It there a PETR for robots, cruelly forced into combat with vicious snakes, to entertain bloodthirsty humans?
Mine is better, because it goes up to 11D. Across the 8th Dimension. Most only go up to 10D.
"You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same. No, no, no, don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to. "
. . . then you can just go live there if a catastrophic event destroys your original house. You'll be all set, right down to the stuff in your fridge from the night before. You can even switch living between the two houses, if you like.
The difficult part of this solution, is convincing your wife that the other woman in the other house, is just a copy of her . . . and not another woman in your life.
Every Slashdot technical solution must include rsync. And SSH tunnels.
Encrypt any important data that you don't want to lose, and keep it close to crazy terrorist rants in plain text files. With all the government snooping going on, in the interests of our security, the government will secretly make backup copies of it for you. Their experts will try to decrypt it, and be baffled by the message hidden in your wedding video.
In case of a disk crash, just ask the government politely to give you a backup copy of your data. They will kindly oblige.
Or at least, that would be a nice way to hack it. Keep everybody off the route you want to take, by having Google tell everyone else to avoid it. Google reports for your route: Bumper to bumper traffic jams, overturned tractor trailers, oil slicks, zombie attacks, etc.
Now would someone, or a lot of someones, purposely disguise themselves to look like the targets individuals in the fives cities? And romp around all day in public? Nah, couldn't happen.
The volume of false positives will be amusing at least.
"There he is! Right next to Elvis, flipping burgers! With Angelina Jolie's leg!"
A XXX telecommunications equipment company has sold YYY's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show.
These days, it's surveillance systems, all the way down.
. . . so I'll just keep all the rest of them when I am dead, just out of spite, thanks.
Are there any religious or cultural issues, that discourage folks in different countries from donating organs? Is there any ranking of organ donating cultures?
Well, we would need plenty of cheap electricity to power all those super superconducting super devices. I guess the DOA Superconducting Super Collider might have a second chance.
It sounds like the board game "Monopoly" needs an update. Who cares about hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place? Own the most patents, and charge the highest licensing fees, and you win!
"I have one word of advice for you, son, Patents! Not plastics, Patents!"
Folks in countries with high value-add or sales taxes revert to the dawn of civilization practice of just trading goods and services, with no monetary transaction. That way, there is no transaction to tax. Whether it is legal or not, is another matter. But a good way to avoid traceable digital transactions.
Money washers will be able to provide plenty of other tips.
. . . new exciting Apple products seem to get lost in bars, grabbed by Hollywood stars and tossed through Windows(tm) or face similar more dreadful fates . . .
. . . Microsoft is just concerned about their potential loss of property/capital . . .
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It really seems now that the Big Game Hunt in town is Patent Barter. Having world class patent attorneys, is more important to a company's long term tech strategy, than having world class researchers.
You can come up with something brilliant, truly innovative on the tech front, but be devastated on the patent front. Thus, rendering your research worthless.
Tech patent attorneys. This decade's Arms Race.
Then you can pack more gamblers inside, than it appears outside. The dream of every casino owner.
And if the house starts to lose big time . . . just skip back in time, to before the bets were placed.
. . . the state of Society, less so . . .
Actually, the state of science is in the state it always is . . . unknown. That is why we need scientists to at least be able to chip away at some pieces of the Grand Puzzle.
If I am not going to survive, I won't be around to care if my data does or not.
That's the good thing about living in a democracy . . . stop whining and get out in the next election and vote for somebody else, instead!
Now, when, is the next election for the House of Lords . . . ?
Oh, hmmm . . . well, how do you get rid of a member of the House of Lords? Can they be expelled by the Queen, or something like that?
. . . like being a Senator or a Congressman or the President . . .
Please, please . . . do not compare the profession of astronaut with that of a politician.
Not even in an abstract analogy.
I mean, the US astronauts have enough problems, with their space program being outspaced and all . . .
Oh, come on. This is just a form of cockfighting thinly shrouded in a veil of "scientific experiment." The scientists just really want to watch and bet on the fights. Wait until the PETA folks hear about this!
It there a PETR for robots, cruelly forced into combat with vicious snakes, to entertain bloodthirsty humans?
Mine is better, because it goes up to 11D. Across the 8th Dimension. Most only go up to 10D.
"You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same. No, no, no, don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to. "
The USAF is looking around for a new bomb big enough to bust those wacky Iranian Nuclear Factory Bunkers. Maybe an Asteroid might be up to the job.
You would just need to catch it, and toss it in the right direction. This shouldn't be a problem for the current state of technology.
Probably.
. . . then you can just go live there if a catastrophic event destroys your original house. You'll be all set, right down to the stuff in your fridge from the night before. You can even switch living between the two houses, if you like.
The difficult part of this solution, is convincing your wife that the other woman in the other house, is just a copy of her . . . and not another woman in your life.
Every Slashdot technical solution must include rsync. And SSH tunnels.
Encrypt any important data that you don't want to lose, and keep it close to crazy terrorist rants in plain text files. With all the government snooping going on, in the interests of our security, the government will secretly make backup copies of it for you. Their experts will try to decrypt it, and be baffled by the message hidden in your wedding video.
In case of a disk crash, just ask the government politely to give you a backup copy of your data. They will kindly oblige.
Probably.
Or at least, that would be a nice way to hack it. Keep everybody off the route you want to take, by having Google tell everyone else to avoid it. Google reports for your route: Bumper to bumper traffic jams, overturned tractor trailers, oil slicks, zombie attacks, etc.
And you'll have an open road.
No one would be able to smugly post, "Citation?", after each rumor! Or post a Wikipedia link with an article to the contrary.
The Internet has always been a collection of unfounded rumors. Ever since Al Gore did not claim to not have invented not a non-significant part of it.
I mean, like, the answer is right there in the summary:
now officials are trying to end fraud, which was rampant after the military dictatorship ended.
So, ironically, it seems that Brazil had a better democracy under a dictatorship.
Plus, any real South American country should have a military dictatorship anyway. There's just something missing without one.
Now would someone, or a lot of someones, purposely disguise themselves to look like the targets individuals in the fives cities? And romp around all day in public? Nah, couldn't happen.
The volume of false positives will be amusing at least.
"There he is! Right next to Elvis, flipping burgers! With Angelina Jolie's leg!"
A XXX telecommunications equipment company has sold YYY's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show.
These days, it's surveillance systems, all the way down.
Everywhere.
. . . so I'll just keep all the rest of them when I am dead, just out of spite, thanks.
Are there any religious or cultural issues, that discourage folks in different countries from donating organs? Is there any ranking of organ donating cultures?
Well, we would need plenty of cheap electricity to power all those super superconducting super devices. I guess the DOA Superconducting Super Collider might have a second chance.
. . . so throw in some exposure to Guns and Steel, and your children should be all set for life.
Note that in the case of Guns, polarity is important. Exposure to the wrong side of the Gun may have the exact opposite effect.
It sounds like the board game "Monopoly" needs an update. Who cares about hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place? Own the most patents, and charge the highest licensing fees, and you win!
"I have one word of advice for you, son, Patents! Not plastics, Patents!"
As far as I know
Yep, and some folks would like to keep it that way, that you don't know . . .
Folks in countries with high value-add or sales taxes revert to the dawn of civilization practice of just trading goods and services, with no monetary transaction. That way, there is no transaction to tax. Whether it is legal or not, is another matter. But a good way to avoid traceable digital transactions.
Money washers will be able to provide plenty of other tips.
. . . and the equator Gnome had sweated off those extra grams . . .
. . . new exciting Apple products seem to get lost in bars, grabbed by Hollywood stars and tossed through Windows(tm) or face similar more dreadful fates . . .
. . . Microsoft is just concerned about their potential loss of property/capital . . .
" . . . well, instead of a Mammoth Metal Mole, we could build this Giant Wooden Rabbit . . . "