Good GPS location is so very important.
Some idiot was sold a bill of bunk that tower
location was sufficient.
Tower location is not sufficient. I have had
cause to call 911 from a non GPS phone and they cannot get even close
and further they cannot even lookup the address
of a company when you can see the big logo
on the building. Big as in Google even.
Heck I could see a fire station flag 400 yards away
and they could not look that up either.
The good news is that the poor guy I found laying
in the middle of the street in a pile like a discarded
trash bag atop his bent bicycle was OK.
location, location, location; they send the same equipment no mater what you say.
...Work in law enforcement, national security, or for a politician? Want someone you want searched but can't get the probable cause for a warrant? No worries, wait for them to fly, search 'em at the border and find something suspicious.. now you can search the rest of their property.
I just think the bit about work for a politician justified the initial Watergate. It is withing 30 miles of the border.
Here, in the USA, "a little bit" means 100 miles (160.9 kilometers) inside the border... 2 out of 3 Americans live within 100 miles of the border; No, it does not matter if you have crossed the border or not....your constitutional rights are null and void in this zone.
Argh, the entire state of Rhode Island?
The size of Rhode Island is 1,545 sq miles or 4,000 sq km. Rhode Island is 37 miles (60 km) wide. The length is 48 miles (or 77 km). The capital is
I am constantly miffed by annoying tests that interrupt programs. Now a test will go nuts
in movies, school, church and gosh knows what
and at what hour.
If it is going to be important the alert for say
a tornado MUST be loud as heck. But how the
heck can the phone tell a test from a real alarm.
so the FBI is watching them..how is this news for nerds or news for that matter? what's the relevance of this story? An FBI agent goes to work. that's it?
We could make a serious attempt to squash this by placing a couple drops of blood on a couple post cards and sending it to the library of congress with a copyright notice for the DNA contained on the card.
In many ways a copyright can trump a patent. And thanks to Mickey it can last a long long time.
Also you can patent specific implementations and methodologies. It's entirely possible and likely that other email synchronization systems can be employed that don't run afoul of Microsoft's patents.
The how can be patented for example a valve that uses Teflon as a gasket
can be patented. The same mechanical design that uses rubber or polyethylene
would not infringe. Teflon gasket valves were in fact patented for use
with liquid oxygen and as a resealable valve enabled rocket motors that
could be shut down and restarted.
So valve+teflon+liquidO2 could be (and was) patented. Interestingly enough
the properties of Teflon were classified at that time (c1950) and only those
with a need to know knew. If the properties were public then the application
might have been seen to be obvious and unpatentable.
Getting hit over the head with a bag of bad patents is just bad.
It is just days to the elections in the US. Make some noise
and let all the folk on the ballots know. Patent law is law
and can be changed and improved.
What is going on now is akin to drug cartel law. Law outside
of the law hidden behind the veil of contract law. Drug cartels defend
their turf by intimidation and lawless abuse. The portfolios of
the major patent players are so complex and interconnected by
agreement that even the players cannot untangle the mess.
One key provision of the current law is that it protects you as you
produce your product with the method of the patent. Without
using the patent in a product the patent should be ruled abandoned
and void. i.e. squash patent trolls.
Same for drug patents. If the drug is not in production (say small market)
then the patent should expire become void and a boutique/ niche market source could
surface.
It should be noted that the millions are being spent through agencies. Think tobacco and
watch "Mad Men.
The marketing engines are spending money on marketing to preserver their business.
How does one out market many marketing organizations that are intent on preserving themselves? Like you cannot hire a marketing group without funding the marketing group.
What is it that the UCSD p-System documentation says about recursion?
...snip... For example, Amazon is based in the state of Washington, the item is provided via a third party vendor in Mississippi, its shipped from a warehouse in Kansas to an address in NYC - which state has the right to collect sales tax? This issue has been perplexing congress from a long time now, there os no easy answer, and by congresses inaction there may never be an answer - we may remain in limbo for a long time (which is of course great for consumers).
This complex issue may find some resolution in a national sales tax which would line
the coffers of the fed and then be redistributed in a fair and equatable way.
More and more federal money is collected by the fed and then redistributed to
the states. Federal tire and gas tax are examples intended to build
and maintain highway (rubber tire) commerce. Income tax, estate taxes
and fees (collected at national parks for example).
As I fly and click buy on my Kindle who knows what IP address is used
and delivered to when I purchase a book. Or as the Nook switches
from proxy server to proxy server.
The taxes are paid by the customers, not by the sellers. As the customers reside (and purchase) in the state, they must pay.
I don't think this part of it was ever an issue. The problem is that states now want Amazon to collect that tax, effectively making it a tax on them, rather than the customers.
Since Amazon has no presence the state cannot force them to do work on their behalf without compensation.
I suspect ongoing compensation would be on the order of 6-18% perhaps with a one time payment
that was much larger for the initial work. Since Amazon internal cost is unknown and the cost of
services is set by the seller where the buyer can decline to buy this sounds like a net loss
service for the state.
The money much of which is from multi national
companies where normal Tax does not reach gets spent here on US air and cable networks. It then trickles down and fertilizes the masses.
The big concern is that the trickle down does not burn yellow spots in the lawn or turn white socks yellow.
Folks just need to make it clear to voters to vote where the honest information is (fat chance).
99.9 uptime... but does your ISP give you that.
Uptime is a function of ALL the links and all the other cruft. And is this 99.9 in your business hours -- are you giving 2/3 of the day to them for free because you would never know that had a hiccup.
How reliable is your VPN.... ?
Better get OpenOffice images downloaded before
Oracle tinkers and breaks it.
Six bucks a month.... and in a year
you will have spent $72. When home
and student edition costs like $124
for three users.
The gift that takes and takes...
I cannot tell you how many times my girlfriend
cusses, sputters and tosses things because the
WiFi link took a ClomcastTurn2Xinity.... and dropped the link and had to start over.
But watch a video of the old style Japanese making of Tamahagane.
The trick is to use the black magnetic sand that you can get from streams in northern New Jersey.
Not the bog iron ore that was mined in the 1700's.
When we run out the world will not break. The internet
will stop growing for a while.
There will be those that have ipv4 addresses and those that do not.
Those on the outside and having only ipv6 connectivity will be limited by
the rate of adoption on the client side. There will be glitches as ipv6
traffic traverses ipv4 links and gateways.
How is a hotel different from a family sharing an internet connection? Like even when the kids
and their friends sit down at the dinner table and study.
There are a couple issues stated but one of them
involves sending spam. Since most spam is sent from compromised it seems to me that the purveyors of fragile operating systems need to have their feet held to the fire.
Some purveyors charge much more for a software update than they charged the OEM to install the
fragile OS in the first place.
Obsolescence is not a license to extort more fees.
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Good GPS location is so very important. Some idiot was sold a bill of bunk that tower location was sufficient.
Tower location is not sufficient. I have had cause to call 911 from a non GPS phone and they cannot get even close and further they cannot even lookup the address of a company when you can see the big logo on the building. Big as in Google even.
Heck I could see a fire station flag 400 yards away and they could not look that up either.
The good news is that the poor guy I found laying in the middle of the street in a pile like a discarded trash bag atop his bent bicycle was OK.
location, location, location; they send the same equipment no mater what you say.
I just think the bit about work for a politician justified the initial Watergate. It is withing 30 miles of the border.
Here, in the USA, "a little bit" means 100 miles (160.9 kilometers) inside the border... 2 out of 3 Americans live within 100 miles of the border; No, it does not matter if you have crossed the border or not ....your constitutional rights are null and void in this zone.
Argh, the entire state of Rhode Island?
The size of Rhode Island is 1,545 sq miles or 4,000 sq km. Rhode Island is 37 miles (60 km) wide. The length is 48 miles (or 77 km). The capital is
I am constantly miffed by annoying tests that interrupt programs. Now a test will go nuts in movies, school, church and gosh knows what and at what hour.
If it is going to be important the alert for say a tornado MUST be loud as heck. But how the heck can the phone tell a test from a real alarm.
so the FBI is watching them..how is this news for nerds or news for that matter? what's the relevance of this story? An FBI agent goes to work. that's it?
Exactly. Aren't we ALL being watched now?
But we are being watched....
So how does this risk and the total population risk of the now way too common total body scanners compare?
I should skip the rant on total body scans or optional groping of children or my hair will fall out.
Awww, now i cannot patent my own genome, and sue the world for infringing on my *Original* genetic composition..... ...snip...
RkR
Patent no. But Copyright is another option. As a minimum -- a work of art the product of the Mom and Dad working late into the night..
We could make a serious attempt to squash this by placing a couple drops of blood on a couple post cards and sending it to the library of congress with a copyright notice for the DNA contained on the card.
In many ways a copyright can trump a patent. And thanks to Mickey it can last a long long time.
In theory, yes. But in practice you can patent the "what" and not just the "how"
The how can be patented for example a valve that uses Teflon as a gasket can be patented. The same mechanical design that uses rubber or polyethylene would not infringe. Teflon gasket valves were in fact patented for use with liquid oxygen and as a resealable valve enabled rocket motors that could be shut down and restarted.
So valve+teflon+liquidO2 could be (and was) patented. Interestingly enough the properties of Teflon were classified at that time (c1950) and only those with a need to know knew. If the properties were public then the application might have been seen to be obvious and unpatentable.
Getting hit over the head with a bag of bad patents is just bad.
It is just days to the elections in the US. Make some noise and let all the folk on the ballots know. Patent law is law and can be changed and improved.
What is going on now is akin to drug cartel law. Law outside of the law hidden behind the veil of contract law. Drug cartels defend their turf by intimidation and lawless abuse. The portfolios of the major patent players are so complex and interconnected by agreement that even the players cannot untangle the mess.
One key provision of the current law is that it protects you as you produce your product with the method of the patent. Without using the patent in a product the patent should be ruled abandoned and void. i.e. squash patent trolls.
Same for drug patents. If the drug is not in production (say small market) then the patent should expire become void and a boutique/ niche market source could surface.
i.e. the browser may without your intent or knowledge prefetch data that you never see.
And spam bots and more could hide URLs to such a site not unlike one pixel display of images and more. Perhaps hidden in a CSS.
It should be noted that the millions are being spent through agencies. Think tobacco and watch "Mad Men.
The marketing engines are spending money on marketing to preserver their business.
How does one out market many marketing organizations that are intent on preserving themselves? Like you cannot hire a marketing group without funding the marketing group.
What is it that the UCSD p-System documentation says about recursion?
This complex issue may find some resolution in a national sales tax which would line the coffers of the fed and then be redistributed in a fair and equatable way.
More and more federal money is collected by the fed and then redistributed to the states. Federal tire and gas tax are examples intended to build and maintain highway (rubber tire) commerce. Income tax, estate taxes and fees (collected at national parks for example).
Now where is that tongue in cheek emotocons?
As I fly and click buy on my Kindle who knows what IP address is used and delivered to when I purchase a book. Or as the Nook switches from proxy server to proxy server.
The taxes are paid by the customers, not by the sellers. As the customers reside (and purchase) in the state, they must pay.
I don't think this part of it was ever an issue. The problem is that states now want Amazon to collect that tax, effectively making it a tax on them, rather than the customers.
Since Amazon has no presence the state cannot force them to do work on their behalf without compensation.
I suspect ongoing compensation would be on the order of 6-18% perhaps with a one time payment that was much larger for the initial work. Since Amazon internal cost is unknown and the cost of services is set by the seller where the buyer can decline to buy this sounds like a net loss service for the state.
But this is a stimulus plan at its best.
The money much of which is from multi national companies where normal Tax does not reach gets spent here on US air and cable networks. It then trickles down and fertilizes the masses.
The big concern is that the trickle down does not burn yellow spots in the lawn or turn white socks yellow.
Folks just need to make it clear to voters to vote where the honest information is (fat chance).
While brown nasty and gross snuff may be popular for a related reason.
"Nicotine has a bitter taste and a sharp odour."
I get all my adapters at RS. Why should an international standard remove this small but profitable market from one small Company.
99.9 uptime... but does your ISP give you that. Uptime is a function of ALL the links and all the other cruft. And is this 99.9 in your business hours -- are you giving 2/3 of the day to them for free because you would never know that had a hiccup.
How reliable is your VPN.... ?
Better get OpenOffice images downloaded before Oracle tinkers and breaks it.
Six bucks a month.... and in a year you will have spent $72. When home and student edition costs like $124 for three users.
The gift that takes and takes...
I cannot tell you how many times my girlfriend cusses, sputters and tosses things because the WiFi link took a ClomcastTurn2Xinity.... and dropped the link and had to start over.
And he is a ward of the state. Parental rules apply....
But watch a video of the old style Japanese making of Tamahagane. The trick is to use the black magnetic sand that you can get from streams in northern New Jersey. Not the bog iron ore that was mined in the 1700's.
When we run out the world will not break. The internet will stop growing for a while.
There will be those that have ipv4 addresses and those that do not.
Those on the outside and having only ipv6 connectivity will be limited by the rate of adoption on the client side. There will be glitches as ipv6 traffic traverses ipv4 links and gateways.
Black widow silk was considered the ideal material for cross hairs on telescopes. The difference from silk to Darwins bark spider silk is astounding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tensile_strength
How is a hotel different from a family sharing an internet connection? Like even when the kids and their friends sit down at the dinner table and study.
There are a couple issues stated but one of them involves sending spam. Since most spam is sent from compromised it seems to me that the purveyors of fragile operating systems need to have their feet held to the fire.
Some purveyors charge much more for a software update than they charged the OEM to install the fragile OS in the first place.
Obsolescence is not a license to extort more fees.