Spectroscopic analysis of waste products to determine the health of the depositor. There has been some serious R&D on home healthcare monitoring system that analyze waste products
I wouldn't describe it as prior art, per se, but every endurance athlete in the world knows how to extract basic health/hydration information from the colour / consistency of urine.
PS : If you get into the "consistency" bit, you're in big, big trouble.
it's unlikey that those inside the US have a problem either.
But there's enough uncertainty for this to be Adobe's cited reason for not doing it. Remember, DVD Jon cracked CSS to make his Linux system interoperate with commercial DVDs, but he still got severely dragged over the coals before being exonerated.
Re:vectorization very rarely works
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BTW... a language like Fortran, that doesn't have pointers at all
Fortran 90/95 has pointers, just not in the C-like "It's an address of a chunk of memory" kinda way. Basically, they're pointers done properly, specifically designed to be limited in scope (they can only point at something declared to be a TARGET, for example) and they contain enough extra information to faciliate exactly the sort of opimisation you're talking about.
Sure, that's pretty common in some fields (Biotech, for example). But 300+ authors? 3000? How many authors would you say the Linux kernel has?
If the change history shows that the grad student did all the work, maybe they will actually get the credit they deserve?
Well, that does presuppose that check-ins correspond to workload. And remember, if a supervisor has the original idea and devises the techniques to answer some question, and the grad student does all the grunt work, who's to say that the grad student deserves the credit? In that scenario (not universal, but not uncommon) he's replaceable in a way the supervisor isn't.
One problem with an Open Source approach to modifying academic papers, is that the original author has a strong interest in maintaining sole authorship : for better or worse, their future appointments pretty much depend on publication history.
Now that's ironic. Tridge's actions are what caused BK to revoke the license. If he had done nothing, then we'd all still be happily using BK.
Or so Larry McVoy claims. It is, of course, completely coincidental that this slight against BitKeeper came precisely at the time when Larry felt he didn't need the free advertising anymore.
They're an engineering company. They make motors, bearing, compressors and the like. This is simultaneously i) a publicity stunt for themselves ii) an attempt to improve the standing of engineering (and engineers) as a profession.
Is it news when some random company decides to award someone famous?
They should be more clear otherwise it sounds like a recipe for disaster.
They are. In fact, much of it is legalese to make precisely the distinction you're making. Never assume the ambivalence and poor writing in a slashdot summary is an accurate representation of the original source.
They are similar questions, and I think they both have similar answers -- IMHO it depends where you choose to draw the line, because there's no natural border.
Yeah, I know. But that's google's translate service for you. Sadly, my own French was learned at school, and they didn't tend to focus on how to throw a well-crafted insult.
I sort of agree with you, with one massive proviso:
What's the non-obvious novel invention here? Answer (as far as I can tell): there isn't one. It's an IP land-grab that's an attempt to to gain a 20 year monopoly on computer-facilitated Emergency Service response.
Why can't distributions be secure out of the box ?
Essentially, there's a trade off to be made between security and ease of use (for example, a hardened distro won't let users mount filesystems, let alone do it automagically. Desktop distros consider automounting CD's and USB sticks to be de rigeur.).
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PS : If you get into the "consistency" bit, you're in big, big trouble.
Fortunately, outside the Land Of The Free(tm), anyone can access Nikon's encrypted data with a simple GNU/Linux application
Holy Moley? Did the give authorship to everyone in the lab? Strewth.
One problem with an Open Source approach to modifying academic papers, is that the original author has a strong interest in maintaining sole authorship : for better or worse, their future appointments pretty much depend on publication history.
Reverse engineering BitKeeper for fun and profit
i) a publicity stunt for themselves
ii) an attempt to improve the standing of engineering (and engineers) as a profession.Apparently so.
Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it's used to bind the universe together.
Yeah, I know. But that's google's translate service for you. Sadly, my own French was learned at school, and they didn't tend to focus on how to throw a well-crafted insult.
"I propose to consider the question, `Can machines think?'" -- Alan Turing
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra.
I sort of agree with you, with one massive proviso:
What's the non-obvious novel invention here? Answer (as far as I can tell): there isn't one. It's an IP land-grab that's an attempt to to gain a 20 year monopoly on computer-facilitated Emergency Service response.
Most distributions try to steer a happy medium. Some sacrifice security for simplicity. Others (like Bastille) take the opposite tack.
... but if I were starting a Linux security project, I'd name it after a prison which was difficult to escape from, rather than one famous for being stormed by about 1,000 upset Frenchmen.
More worrying is that Somerset County Cricket Club is further down that list...
Because you had to know the address of the chipshop to get that URL.
Google found on the basis of "Find a chippy near my house."
Damn. Mine isn't on. Imagine suggesting I need to go all the way to Silverdale for a fish supper.
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World leader in search engine technology, my ass.