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  1. Re:Stability Control on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 2

    Some people aren't really familiar with slip angles or trail braking either and the role of weight transfer in terms of taking a corner. Most people on this discussion probably have zero HPDE experience let alone seat time at a local autox/rallyx.

  2. Re:Pinch Me, I Must Be Zooming on Pinch-To-Zoom Apple Patent Rejected By USPTO · · Score: 1

    Duty to disclose is only for art that applicant is aware of or believes is reasonably pertanant to the current application. This is why you see information disclosure statements which may have references cited in other pending cases, but may have nothing to do with the current claimset.

    If applicant searches and finds new art then they should disclose it in a later IDS. Strangely applicants do cite prior art which reads on their claims and may be found by a foreign office, but do not ammend the claims to get around the prior art until a US examiner writes a rejection. This seems counter to the various compact prosection practices that the office and AIPLA advocate and may cost applicant more money.

  3. Re:Yeah. on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    wait, you read d knows all and whiskey's place too?

  4. not an all white jury on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Juror b-29 was described as black/hispanic.

  5. Re:But... *COMPUTERS*! on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 1

    You could make an ak47 pretty easily. Just need some sheet metal for the reciever, a jig and a drill press.

    Making the barrel would be a bit more challenging if you don't have the right tools, but you really only need a machine shop to build pretty much any firearm.

  6. Re:Correlation != Causation on Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog · · Score: 1

    The office gets money for almost every thing the applicant files. They also make additional money off renewals for allowances.

    Strangely not every fee covers the costs of examination.

  7. The patent office has been hiring like crazy on Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog · · Score: 1

    The patent office has been hiring 1,000-1,500+ examiners a year for the past few years. While an increased allowance rate is one factor, when the Office has trippled in size since 2001, its hard to ignore the effects of more examiners.

  8. Re:They're not who you think on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    I've been to china a number of times, and customs and immigration as well as their version of the TSA are all wonderful. Same in Japan too.

  9. Re:Obviously on We Should Be Allowed To Unlock Everything We Own · · Score: 2

    There's short fiction that explored this concept. It played with the idea of fully extening all the rights.... and responsibilities to coprorations that natural persons have.

    For this short story, when they imprisioned corporations, they would not let the executives leave the company for the duration of the sentence, nor could they hire new people either.

    Death sentences for corproations already exist, its called revoking a charter, but it rarely happens.

  10. combat arms on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    Very few in the military are in combat arms. If you join the air force you will hardly ever see a firearm unless you are in the security forces or have to qualify with one. You will more likely be a technician.

    Its not that much different in the navy either.

  11. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    The thing is though, that you generally have 1-2 hours between track sessions, so you conceivably extend that rage considerably.

    Probably still would have to wait a while before you drive home from the track though.

  12. track MPG on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    That doesn't seem all that out of character, I think they had a supercar fuel challenge, and various supecars were geting 3-6MPG on track.

    I know my m3 gets about 9mpg on track, though my previous VW on the track got about 11-12mpg.

  13. Re:Video is mostly factually correct on Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't buddism have more of the moniker relgion of peace?

  14. Rent in the bay area=high salary on The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns · · Score: 1

    Buddy of mine worked as an intern for SGI in the late 90's out in the Bay area. I believe his hourly rate worked out to $75,000 a year, but he made very little money because most of it actually went to rent.

  15. Re:This is why on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Also, when you enlist in the guard, you also enlist in the reserves. Guess who is paying for a sizable amount of NG training?

    The states have militias which are not subject to being called up by the president, they're generally are called SDFs, and a few are armed, but most are not.

  16. Re:leaked huh ? on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    medical errors kill somewhere between 150k-200k people a year depending on which source you cite. google it

  17. Re:Perpetual war on Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act · · Score: 1

    I always thought the economic boom in the late 90's was due to massive corporate infrastructure spending.

  18. Re:The question is wrong! on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    I thought the ozone layer was better due to reduction in CFCs and we don't hear so much about acid rain in the USA. Having spent time in china, their polution is atrocious.

    If we wanted to "solve" the US's energy and carbon issues, we could make signifigant progress if the political will was there, but it will require massive infrastructure spending and at least in the short term, embracing "scary" technologies. I don't think the demand is there at this point.

  19. Re:Can we have a little less bias in the summaries on USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' · · Score: 1

    Trade secrets?

    Of course scientists will still publish their work, but I would imagine that the publication system might change a bit.

  20. This is a design patent! on Apple Patents Page Turn Animation · · Score: 2

    Sounds like the author doesn't understand the difference between a design patent and a utility patent.

  21. prefunding the next 75 years on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Having to pre-fund the next 75 years of retirement benefits, including for those retiree's not yet born makes little sense. Its 11 billion dollar "paper" loss.

  22. changing class=long term time orientation on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    I know quite a few people who have jumped multiple classes, including some of whom I went to school with or socialize with. None the less, here are two from my own family. One thing you will notice is that successful people have a long term time orientation, while those with short term time orientations do not do as well.

    Father's family lost the farm, joined the military, went to a service academy, became an AVP at a fortune 500. Arguably moved from lower prole to upper middle or lower upper.

    Maternal grandfather, worked in steel mills, got an MD, became head of dept at an ivy league medical school. Arguably, moved from lower/mid prole to lower upper.

    Both of them studied hard, did not engage in conspicuous consumer consumption, made the right choices, and had some luck too. The first 3 are a result of long term time orientation.

    I know quite a few immigrants also who came over here penniless and have built up businesses, putting them in upper middle to lower upper based on net worth, but not necessarily social characteristics. Its the same story, avoid consumer consumption, reinvest into their business or personal investments. Even if you are a "wage slave" its perfectly possible to sock away a considerable amount of money if you don't eat out, don't smoke/drink, buy/lease a new car all the time, buy a smaller house, don't do trendy things, or rent out rooms, find a hobby that pays etc. You can then fund your investments or develop capital for a small business. It is interesting to see among professional peers has actual wealth, and who has a bunch of worthless goods.

    Short term time orientation for lower classes, and long term orientation for managerial/professional classes makes sense (with the heriditary upper being a different stroy). If you don't know where your next meal comes from, then you aren't worried about tomorrow, but since few people starve in the USA, when compared to history, short term thinking results in self destructive behaviour. Not wearing condoms, leads to children which take away from the ability to study or run a business. Buying trendy consumer goods, takes away long term capital. Caring about short term social status, effects what trajectory your life gets set on.

    With respect to the article, different ethnic groups may have different genetic differences, but its cultural differences which matter the most. Living in a culture of perpetual poverty may trap one into short term thinking. Living in a culture with high expectations, focuses on long term planning. Living in a culture known for being enterpenural, will result in more entrepenuers. You get the rare person, who may have a different set of goals/values than that of the dominant culture in which they grow up, but most people just do what everyone else does. That's why they don't do markedly better than anyone else.

  23. Re:Seems fairly simple.... on Fox's Attempt To Block Ad-skipping TV Recorder Autohop Fails · · Score: 1

    Commericals are generically detected through:

    switch from stereo to mono
    black frames
    cue tones

  24. Re:TiVo on Fox's Attempt To Block Ad-skipping TV Recorder Autohop Fails · · Score: 1

    Thats why you should have bought a replay tv. IT had all the features you wanted on a Tivo back in the day, 480p, ethernet, internet show transfer, automatic commerical skipping etc.

  25. Re:The problem isn't the medium - it's the title on Newsweek To Go Digital-Only In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I looked at an issue of Newsweek a few weeks back, the page count was much lower than I recall it being back in the 90's.