Actually, this makes them infinitely compatible, since the iPhones rely on the magnetic signature of other devices to recognize them, possibly even without interaction from those devices. Passive recognition, in essence.
I can give the Samsung (or any other party's) lawyers some ammo: prior art. A low-cost data interface using the magnetometer to extract data from a variable magnetic field. The granted patent covers this process almost verbatim, more than one and a half years after its first (published) development.
Regulating it in advance would provide a stable legal background for off-world resource exploitation. Currently, besides technological problems, the biggest hurdle the space mining industry is facing is the unclear/poorly defined legal standing of outer space, and even more importantly, the resources extracted, namely whether they inherit the "common domain of mankind" status of outer space, which would make it impossible to turn a profit, since all nations could potentially demand an equal share.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
And one has a vested interest in remaining under the radar of Chinese law enforcement. Or any other country's law enforcement, for that matter, especially a foreign country's.
Given the short range and low bandwidth (424 kilobits/s) of NFC technology, this is more of an esoteric attack than a practical one. I think I'd notice someone shadowing me with a hand at my pocket to connect to my Nexus S via its NFC chip and pull data from it... Still, it's a show of force (and vulnerabilities).
At the very least, that part is true. The basic aim of any politician is, and should be, to get into power, amass as much power as they can, and keep it. Which is all well in an ideal (emphasis) democracy, since power comes from the people, and the better off the general populace is, the better off politicians are, and the more likely they are to be kept in power.
I think you're looking for a man-portable version of Metal Storm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hlj4EbdsE). That, or a bullet-based version of that area-effect attack from Deus Ex: Human Evolution...
As I said, I'm not a programmer by trade, but source code itself isn't affected by "scheduling differences", is it? I thought the appropriate compiler would take care of that when compiling the executable.
This compiler could include the most important libraries that are needed for OS functions, with and it might not even have to deal with device-native libraries, given that they are already abstracted by the operating system. From there on, the programmer could include all platform-specific versions of the core libraries, and the compilers at the end-point would simply ignore the dependencies from the wrong OSs (sort of like the pragma flags of C/C++, I guess?). At least, that's how I view it, speaking as a layman...
And as long as the proper libraries/headers/whatnot are supplied, how is a program written in, say, C/C++ for Windows different from one written in the same language for Linux?
[IANAP] Ideally, the most important libraries would be supplied with the OS, and you would only need the hardware-specific ones (which should already be on the system, since you're using the hardware), so that the same source code would compile the same way across all platforms, no code changes needed. [/IANAP]
To put it another way, I was thinking of printing assault rifles, not pistols. I know they're trying to print the whole thing out of plastic, that's what I think won't work due to plastic being too weak (structurally) for the task at hand.
3D printing kind of implies plastic extrusion these days. But if you have a way of printing solid metal (and not laser-sintering it), please, by all means, do contribute!
The problem with the current paraboloid bullets is that they are long (to accommodate more mass for a higher impulse). This causes the drag force to act behind the center of mass, and this is what tumbles the bullet eventually. When spun, the bullet stabilizes itself against drag effects to a degree, much like a thrown football.
If the aim is to shoot, we can stick to rubber bands. I think the aim here is to have a workable gun: accurate within reasonable limits (say, 75-100 meters), and lethal, or the very least, damaging. A tumbling bullet is not accurate, and likely slows down enough to be non-lethal even.
If these criteria are not met, I see absolutely no point in a printable gun. If they are, they can be a great tool for national defense militias: a network of such printers could churn out these low-grade weapons quickly and cheaply, arming militias and citizens to kill their attackers and likely take their weapon. In a sense, it could be an evolved, more usable version of the Liberator, that can potentially double as a backup weapon even after its initial use.
Agreed. If the plastic firing pin can trigger the primer, the overpressure doesn't blow the chamber and the breech apart, and the rifling doesn't transition to smoothbore after the first round, it might be worth it. But you need stronger plastics for that, and that may be past the printer's ability to liquefy and print.
To be honest, in today's society and with the current medical tech, our biological evolution has almost ground to a standstill: medicine can enable even those with the most malicious mutations to stay alive and strength and reaction speed no longer increase our chances of getting laid since they're not survival traits any more. Survival traits are now more social than physical, and as such, can be learned.
Yes, but not disputing the forum itself. In your analogy, I'd equate the internet with the forum, not with the government (after all, the internet is the means for dispute, not the subject), with internet fora being subsets.
As he goes on, he goes from anti-Google to griping against "insultingly simple websites", which make up an increasing percentage of the internet in his opinion (reading between the lines). At least that's the impression I get from the rant, hence taking it to be against the internet in general.
It has an OTP you're required to save before completing the process (ten keys), and the mobile app doesn't require a data connection to my knowledge, after the initial pairing.
Yet it seems you're very happy to use the internet, whose death you so crave, to voice your opinion and grief about the internet you use to give voice to your opinion. Seeing the contradiction?
[First sentence is deliberately self-referential and obfuscated]
Wasn't it ruled that natural genetic sequences can't be patented, only the specific modifications biotech companies implement? And where ever did you get that stem cells are patentable, they're not even an idea to be patented. There was that case about the HeLa-line, but in that case, it was ruled that since the cells were considered medical waste, it was the hospital's responsibility to see to their disposal as they see fit, granting ownership over the cells, and their descendants (since they are identical to the mother cells).
So now it will languish because of a seriously bad rep, even before it's released, and developers will keep developing for desktop architectures (for what it'll be worth), because they expect low tablet/phone market penetration. This means they won't take the time and effort to make their apps cross-compatible (has anyone developed a cross-platform Metro app already? Is it a lot of work to make the jump between the two architectures?), there will still be few tablet-compatible apps, and the problem still won't be solved, unless Microsoft intervenes actively by developing native tablet or cross-platform apps, that are equal in capabilities between the two platforms (so no crippled tablet versions).
Trackpads usually move the mouse pointer on screen, so they can be considered mice. Unless you divide them up into active zones with no visual feedback on zone limits and functions, which means you just poke it in places, and hope you hit the button/zone you're trying to hit. All this while trying to scale and map the screen onto the touchpad: for many people, this might be a healthy mental exercise, but for those with not such a good sense of spatial reasoning, it'll be a reason to hunt down Ballmer and bludgeon him over the head with their laptops.
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Actually, this makes them infinitely compatible, since the iPhones rely on the magnetic signature of other devices to recognize them, possibly even without interaction from those devices. Passive recognition, in essence.
I can give the Samsung (or any other party's) lawyers some ammo: prior art. A low-cost data interface using the magnetometer to extract data from a variable magnetic field. The granted patent covers this process almost verbatim, more than one and a half years after its first (published) development.
Regulating it in advance would provide a stable legal background for off-world resource exploitation. Currently, besides technological problems, the biggest hurdle the space mining industry is facing is the unclear/poorly defined legal standing of outer space, and even more importantly, the resources extracted, namely whether they inherit the "common domain of mankind" status of outer space, which would make it impossible to turn a profit, since all nations could potentially demand an equal share.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
And one has a vested interest in remaining under the radar of Chinese law enforcement. Or any other country's law enforcement, for that matter, especially a foreign country's.
Given the short range and low bandwidth (424 kilobits/s) of NFC technology, this is more of an esoteric attack than a practical one. I think I'd notice someone shadowing me with a hand at my pocket to connect to my Nexus S via its NFC chip and pull data from it...
Still, it's a show of force (and vulnerabilities).
Both sides want power, and job security.
At the very least, that part is true. The basic aim of any politician is, and should be, to get into power, amass as much power as they can, and keep it. Which is all well in an ideal (emphasis) democracy, since power comes from the people, and the better off the general populace is, the better off politicians are, and the more likely they are to be kept in power.
I think you're looking for a man-portable version of Metal Storm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hlj4EbdsE). That, or a bullet-based version of that area-effect attack from Deus Ex: Human Evolution...
As I said, I'm not a programmer by trade, but source code itself isn't affected by "scheduling differences", is it? I thought the appropriate compiler would take care of that when compiling the executable.
This compiler could include the most important libraries that are needed for OS functions, with and it might not even have to deal with device-native libraries, given that they are already abstracted by the operating system. From there on, the programmer could include all platform-specific versions of the core libraries, and the compilers at the end-point would simply ignore the dependencies from the wrong OSs (sort of like the pragma flags of C/C++, I guess?). At least, that's how I view it, speaking as a layman...
And as long as the proper libraries/headers/whatnot are supplied, how is a program written in, say, C/C++ for Windows different from one written in the same language for Linux?
[IANAP] Ideally, the most important libraries would be supplied with the OS, and you would only need the hardware-specific ones (which should already be on the system, since you're using the hardware), so that the same source code would compile the same way across all platforms, no code changes needed. [/IANAP]
To put it another way, I was thinking of printing assault rifles, not pistols. I know they're trying to print the whole thing out of plastic, that's what I think won't work due to plastic being too weak (structurally) for the task at hand.
Point taken, gradual steps. In my defense, I was viewing this in light of the printed AR-15 lower receiver, and thinking of ways to go from there.
3D printing kind of implies plastic extrusion these days. But if you have a way of printing solid metal (and not laser-sintering it), please, by all means, do contribute!
The problem with the current paraboloid bullets is that they are long (to accommodate more mass for a higher impulse). This causes the drag force to act behind the center of mass, and this is what tumbles the bullet eventually. When spun, the bullet stabilizes itself against drag effects to a degree, much like a thrown football.
If the aim is to shoot, we can stick to rubber bands. I think the aim here is to have a workable gun: accurate within reasonable limits (say, 75-100 meters), and lethal, or the very least, damaging. A tumbling bullet is not accurate, and likely slows down enough to be non-lethal even.
If these criteria are not met, I see absolutely no point in a printable gun. If they are, they can be a great tool for national defense militias: a network of such printers could churn out these low-grade weapons quickly and cheaply, arming militias and citizens to kill their attackers and likely take their weapon. In a sense, it could be an evolved, more usable version of the Liberator, that can potentially double as a backup weapon even after its initial use.
Agreed. If the plastic firing pin can trigger the primer, the overpressure doesn't blow the chamber and the breech apart, and the rifling doesn't transition to smoothbore after the first round, it might be worth it. But you need stronger plastics for that, and that may be past the printer's ability to liquefy and print.
To be honest, in today's society and with the current medical tech, our biological evolution has almost ground to a standstill: medicine can enable even those with the most malicious mutations to stay alive and strength and reaction speed no longer increase our chances of getting laid since they're not survival traits any more. Survival traits are now more social than physical, and as such, can be learned.
Yes, but not disputing the forum itself. In your analogy, I'd equate the internet with the forum, not with the government (after all, the internet is the means for dispute, not the subject), with internet fora being subsets.
As he goes on, he goes from anti-Google to griping against "insultingly simple websites", which make up an increasing percentage of the internet in his opinion (reading between the lines). At least that's the impression I get from the rant, hence taking it to be against the internet in general.
When will the web die? Will it be soon? Please tell me it will be soon!
QED.
It has an OTP you're required to save before completing the process (ten keys), and the mobile app doesn't require a data connection to my knowledge, after the initial pairing.
Yet it seems you're very happy to use the internet, whose death you so crave, to voice your opinion and grief about the internet you use to give voice to your opinion.
Seeing the contradiction?
[First sentence is deliberately self-referential and obfuscated]
"...as long as it doesn't threaten our bottom line."
That's kind of a given, though. Fat lot of good "epic shit" will do if it bankrupts the company...
Wasn't it ruled that natural genetic sequences can't be patented, only the specific modifications biotech companies implement? And where ever did you get that stem cells are patentable, they're not even an idea to be patented. There was that case about the HeLa-line, but in that case, it was ruled that since the cells were considered medical waste, it was the hospital's responsibility to see to their disposal as they see fit, granting ownership over the cells, and their descendants (since they are identical to the mother cells).
So now it will languish because of a seriously bad rep, even before it's released, and developers will keep developing for desktop architectures (for what it'll be worth), because they expect low tablet/phone market penetration. This means they won't take the time and effort to make their apps cross-compatible (has anyone developed a cross-platform Metro app already? Is it a lot of work to make the jump between the two architectures?), there will still be few tablet-compatible apps, and the problem still won't be solved, unless Microsoft intervenes actively by developing native tablet or cross-platform apps, that are equal in capabilities between the two platforms (so no crippled tablet versions).
Trackpads usually move the mouse pointer on screen, so they can be considered mice. Unless you divide them up into active zones with no visual feedback on zone limits and functions, which means you just poke it in places, and hope you hit the button/zone you're trying to hit. All this while trying to scale and map the screen onto the touchpad: for many people, this might be a healthy mental exercise, but for those with not such a good sense of spatial reasoning, it'll be a reason to hunt down Ballmer and bludgeon him over the head with their laptops.