192kHz 24-bit audio, or DSD streams, exceed the hearing limits of most people
It exceeds the hearing limits of all people. Anyone saying otherwise is either an audiophool or the recording, mastering, or playback has been botched in someway that dramatically reduces the quality of the audio.
This is really just a more refined version of the Timex Datalink system. There was even a serial port driven LED accessory for use on notebooks and platforms where the screen flickering CRT video driver wasn't an option.
I'm sure they got a shiny new patent out of it any way since they've made the huge innovation of using a camera rather than a photocell.
Wish I had mod points for this. This is exactly what the EFF has been needing to further their argument.
It's also a boneheaded thing for the feds to act on since you would have to be a pretty incompetent terrorist to need to conduct a web search on something so readily available as a backpack regardless of what other "suspicious" searches you have performed. Chalk another one up for the thick headed pea brains looking to justify their outsized egos and overreach of power.
As it happens, that is also what the asteroid mining people want NASA to demonstrate, as that fits their view of how asteroid mining will be done
Which raises the question of why taxpayer money is being poured into R&D that should be handled by the private sector itself. This is a move past NASA's mission of doing basic science and exploration toward a fancy make-work program.
BCD is no better than fixed point binary in this instance. The banking industry relies on it because we use decimalized currency and it eliminates some types of errors to carry out all computations in decimal. For simulation inputs you're no better off than if you use a plain binary encoded number.
It's not like you can't convert *TeX to some other format that can be reviewed by your colleagues. You know like PDF or *gasp* pain text. Then you just take their notes and use them to revise your thesis. Problem solved.
Ford's implementation of OBD-1 was easy to access in the engine compartment and had a low-speed mode where codes could be read on a multimeter by counting pulses. No government intervention was needed to get them to do that.
He should submit a snarky OpEd to the NY Times (or better yet The Register) detailing the hoops US citizens have to jump through to get information from their government. If sufficiently well written he would stand a good chance of getting published. As a now bona fide journalist, he could be granted the remaining information for further publication.
The entire purpose of trademark protection is to prevent shady outfits from selling inferior or dangerous products under a competitor's brand. It is what allows you to confidently buy BrandX pharmaceutical and know that it wasn't prepared in a trailer home drug lab. So yes it is valuable to society to criminalize such activity.
Most sensitive to what? A high fat, high calorie diet maybe. Salt, however, is NOT causative agent of heart disease. Your body naturally regulates sodium levels and readily excretes what it doesn't need. It's what we've been doing since our ancestors were swimming in the sea. The anti-salt movement is all about scaremongering and not about rational science.
Proprietary software which can be used for free with very reasonable size and device limitations. Plus if you don't like the GUI you can always run the traditional command line tools to build a bitstream if you want.
The issue, as always with government services, is funding.
The issue is that the USPTO is 100% funded by application and maintenance fees so they have a conflict of interest in regards to denying new patents. Fewer active patents means fewer patents to renew and less revenue for the USPTO. The whole reason why they allow software patents in the first place is because the USPTO saw what a gold mine they would be for their agency. It took an act of Congress to get them to change their system, making it possible for Ask Patents to exist.
Why do you think eBay bought them? It helped connect Skype and PayPal accounts together. There is really no other logical reason why an auction / wire transfer service would be interested in video chat.
It's more relevant for mobile providers who have to carry traffic from millions of smartphones each running multiple apps pinging various servers for updates every minute or so.
It is still possible to maintain a bootable system *and* encrypt your data on a separate volume that isn't mounted by default. That won't protect snooping on unencrypted data in places like/var unless you go the extra length to overlay new mount points when an authorized user logs in but it is workable. With this arrangement you can have a reasonably locked down system that is still able to phone home.
It was released by an academic researcher. It wouldn't be considered valid for career advancement unless he demonstrated his hardon for Lisp like everyone else in the department.
What will happen is that advertisers will implement systems to collect data with cooperation from site operators to eliminate the need for 3rd party cookies.
Using NoScript helps reduce the amount of profiling information you leak. Granted, the fact that javascript is disabled is also a distinguishing itentifier but it plugs up more holes than it creates.
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192kHz 24-bit audio, or DSD streams, exceed the hearing limits of most people
It exceeds the hearing limits of all people. Anyone saying otherwise is either an audiophool or the recording, mastering, or playback has been botched in someway that dramatically reduces the quality of the audio.
This is really just a more refined version of the Timex Datalink system. There was even a serial port driven LED accessory for use on notebooks and platforms where the screen flickering CRT video driver wasn't an option.
I'm sure they got a shiny new patent out of it any way since they've made the huge innovation of using a camera rather than a photocell.
NFC ICs cost $1 in large quantities. Apple is just being lazy.
Wish I had mod points for this. This is exactly what the EFF has been needing to further their argument.
It's also a boneheaded thing for the feds to act on since you would have to be a pretty incompetent terrorist to need to conduct a web search on something so readily available as a backpack regardless of what other "suspicious" searches you have performed. Chalk another one up for the thick headed pea brains looking to justify their outsized egos and overreach of power.
As it happens, that is also what the asteroid mining people want NASA to demonstrate, as that fits their view of how asteroid mining will be done
Which raises the question of why taxpayer money is being poured into R&D that should be handled by the private sector itself. This is a move past NASA's mission of doing basic science and exploration toward a fancy make-work program.
BCD is no better than fixed point binary in this instance. The banking industry relies on it because we use decimalized currency and it eliminates some types of errors to carry out all computations in decimal. For simulation inputs you're no better off than if you use a plain binary encoded number.
It's not like you can't convert *TeX to some other format that can be reviewed by your colleagues. You know like PDF or *gasp* pain text. Then you just take their notes and use them to revise your thesis. Problem solved.
Ford's implementation of OBD-1 was easy to access in the engine compartment and had a low-speed mode where codes could be read on a multimeter by counting pulses. No government intervention was needed to get them to do that.
He should submit a snarky OpEd to the NY Times (or better yet The Register) detailing the hoops US citizens have to jump through to get information from their government. If sufficiently well written he would stand a good chance of getting published. As a now bona fide journalist, he could be granted the remaining information for further publication.
The entire purpose of trademark protection is to prevent shady outfits from selling inferior or dangerous products under a competitor's brand. It is what allows you to confidently buy BrandX pharmaceutical and know that it wasn't prepared in a trailer home drug lab. So yes it is valuable to society to criminalize such activity.
Most sensitive to what? A high fat, high calorie diet maybe. Salt, however, is NOT causative agent of heart disease. Your body naturally regulates sodium levels and readily excretes what it doesn't need. It's what we've been doing since our ancestors were swimming in the sea. The anti-salt movement is all about scaremongering and not about rational science.
Proprietary software which can be used for free with very reasonable size and device limitations. Plus if you don't like the GUI you can always run the traditional command line tools to build a bitstream if you want.
The issue, as always with government services, is funding.
The issue is that the USPTO is 100% funded by application and maintenance fees so they have a conflict of interest in regards to denying new patents. Fewer active patents means fewer patents to renew and less revenue for the USPTO. The whole reason why they allow software patents in the first place is because the USPTO saw what a gold mine they would be for their agency. It took an act of Congress to get them to change their system, making it possible for Ask Patents to exist.
Sounds like someone's due for a promotion.
It seems like this is reinventing the wheel when we already have consumer NAS devices supporting Samba and NFS.
I would say the system is broken if it was possible to get a vanity plate bearing a number already in use.
Why do you think eBay bought them? It helped connect Skype and PayPal accounts together. There is really no other logical reason why an auction / wire transfer service would be interested in video chat.
These are the people who think that Win95 was the apex of UI design. Leave them to their retro revelry.
It's more relevant for mobile providers who have to carry traffic from millions of smartphones each running multiple apps pinging various servers for updates every minute or so.
It is still possible to maintain a bootable system *and* encrypt your data on a separate volume that isn't mounted by default. That won't protect snooping on unencrypted data in places like /var unless you go the extra length to overlay new mount points when an authorized user logs in but it is workable. With this arrangement you can have a reasonably locked down system that is still able to phone home.
The AGPL in question is actually AGPL3 (implemented using the GPL3 extension mechanism). AGPL is a derivative of GPL2.
It was released by an academic researcher. It wouldn't be considered valid for career advancement unless he demonstrated his hardon for Lisp like everyone else in the department.
What will happen is that advertisers will implement systems to collect data with cooperation from site operators to eliminate the need for 3rd party cookies.
Using NoScript helps reduce the amount of profiling information you leak. Granted, the fact that javascript is disabled is also a distinguishing itentifier but it plugs up more holes than it creates.
With Firefox you can make the cache stay in RAM with the following about:config settings:
browser.cache.memory.enable =True
browser.cache.disk.enable = False
browser.cache.memory.capacity = 512000 (or whatever you prefer)
The alternative for all browsers is to put the disk cache on a RAM drive.