The people I've met with DUI records wouldn't give two shits about the stigma. They are usually the ones who complain about getting singled out and hassled when there is "way worse crime going on". The only deterrent for them is the loss of license and the money it costs. DUI is a huge hassle.
Sure you can. Voltage regulators aren't just resistors any more. You divide the 12v @ 1 amp into 1v @ 1amp at 12 different spots. More or less. Think of it like TDMA, if that helps. Switching voltage regulators are super efficient. And even if there isn't an efficiency gain in the VRM, they will likely be one since the processor will be operating at tighter voltage tolerances. The VRM will be closer to the load and be able to react to load shifts quicker, meaning the processor spends less time slightly over-volted. (If the processor needs 1.2 volts or it crashes, an external regulator might have to have a setpoint of 1.3 volts so it never goes under. But that means it wastes a lot of wattage on heat. If it can instead have a 1.225 setpoint, you are saving power that would normally be shed as heat.
No, the judges were not deciding whether the seeds were under patent or not. The farmer's defense had nothing to do with that. He used an affirmative defense, which means that he stipulated that they were under patent. His defense was that patent or not, once he bought them he had the right to do what he did.
I agree, but I'm not sure they can do that. They can really only answer the specific questions in front of them. Far as I know, nobody tried to say the patent was invalid. Instead, the farmer said it doesn't matter. Patent or not, the seeds were his to use as he saw fit. The patentability of a seed wasn't in dispute in this case, so they can't just say it is. They decide law, not facts.
Roundup is a potent herbicide. It would be like almost drowning successive generations of mice. They are not going to develop the ability to breathe water no matter how long you try. Roundup Ready crops are genetically engineered from some other DNA spliced in that would never naturally get into the gene pool, and that is the only mechanism by which plants are Roundup resistant. Half-killing a plant with Roundup doesn't make it stronger, it just means you didn't get enough on the plant.
Libertarians are split on the issue. A purist stance is that IP/patents were government creations; literally a monarch giving a buddy a monopoly on some industry or market. So as a government creation, it is not a natural right of man like property. (Sort of the same mindset as "you can't call it stealing if there is nothing tangible to take!" It can't be property if you can't hold it, see it or feel it. You can own a book, but not the ideas in it.) I personally think this idea is backwards, but I can see where they are coming from. Where the more Objectivist types see IP as an obvious property right. Property rights grow out of efforts at improvement, and time spent designing a building or writing a book is no less valuable than time spent improving real estate.
Seriously. You buy a gun from someone, hang onto it until you need to murder someone, and then throw it in the ocean. Problem solved. No need to buy a 3D printer. If you are really desperate, smash them in the head with a rock and throw it back into the quarry.
Yes, exactly. The CAFE ratings aren't meant to tell you what your personal MPG is going to be, they are meant to tell you how cars of a specific model year compare to each other. If you do 10% better in one car, you'll probably also do 10% better in the other one.
When you are calculating the average of ratios (miles per gallon) and the denominator is the thing that changes, you have to use the geometric mean. If they used liters per 100km, then they would use the regular average.
Going underground is easy (ish) to do when a community is being built up from scratch, but putting it into a place where there is existing infrastructure is a nightmare.
that's how some comcast phone adapters do it. There is a SLA battery right in the cable modem. I'm not sure how long it lasts, but at least long enough to call the power company and report the outage.
I believe that's the theory. They seem like magic because they don't emit light and actually suck light in, but that they are exothermic in the long term via Hawking Radiation. IE, they eat galaxies and shit Hawking radiation. So as the supply of nearby galaxies runs out, they eventually shit themselves into not being a black hole anymore.
I'm guessing the goal is to use more or less comoddity hardware. Why build an ASIC when you can solder some broadcom chips to a backplane and do all the fancy shit in software?
I think it's two things. One, Blackberry is not "cool". It seemed to be for like one summer when all the celebrities were carrying around Bold 9000s, but besides that, the Blackberry is more tool and less of a toy. So people who want toys hate them. Secondly, for the longest time, Blackberries were old/cheap/broken pieces of shit people got through their work. So everyone hated them because they were reminders of their job sucking.
The tiny buttons work fine. Our fingers are much more sensitive than a touchscreen. Or something like that. When you hit a touch "key" you are just mashing a circle and the OS has to best-guess which letter you meant. When you type in a BB keyboard, your fingertips can feel the ridges of the different keys and your brain can figure out where to direct the pressure to hit the right one.
Some people have less pointy fingers than others, and I suspect that's where the preference lies. Pointy fingers can use touch keyboards much easier than less-pointy ones.
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The vast majority of drunk driving fatalities are themselves and their passengers.
The people I've met with DUI records wouldn't give two shits about the stigma. They are usually the ones who complain about getting singled out and hassled when there is "way worse crime going on". The only deterrent for them is the loss of license and the money it costs. DUI is a huge hassle.
Some of the pentium 4 chips dissipated over 100 watts. I think they know how to move heat off of silicon.
Sure you can. Voltage regulators aren't just resistors any more. You divide the 12v @ 1 amp into 1v @ 1amp at 12 different spots. More or less. Think of it like TDMA, if that helps. Switching voltage regulators are super efficient. And even if there isn't an efficiency gain in the VRM, they will likely be one since the processor will be operating at tighter voltage tolerances. The VRM will be closer to the load and be able to react to load shifts quicker, meaning the processor spends less time slightly over-volted. (If the processor needs 1.2 volts or it crashes, an external regulator might have to have a setpoint of 1.3 volts so it never goes under. But that means it wastes a lot of wattage on heat. If it can instead have a 1.225 setpoint, you are saving power that would normally be shed as heat.
No, the judges were not deciding whether the seeds were under patent or not. The farmer's defense had nothing to do with that. He used an affirmative defense, which means that he stipulated that they were under patent. His defense was that patent or not, once he bought them he had the right to do what he did.
So by that logic, if you happen to stumble upon the plates used to print currency, you have a free hand to print your own money?
We don't want the courts to be deciding cases based on who the parties to the cases are, only on the facts.
I agree, but I'm not sure they can do that. They can really only answer the specific questions in front of them. Far as I know, nobody tried to say the patent was invalid. Instead, the farmer said it doesn't matter. Patent or not, the seeds were his to use as he saw fit. The patentability of a seed wasn't in dispute in this case, so they can't just say it is. They decide law, not facts.
It also proves that the patented seeds are valuable. Non RR seeds would have been killed by his method of farming.
Roundup is a potent herbicide. It would be like almost drowning successive generations of mice. They are not going to develop the ability to breathe water no matter how long you try. Roundup Ready crops are genetically engineered from some other DNA spliced in that would never naturally get into the gene pool, and that is the only mechanism by which plants are Roundup resistant. Half-killing a plant with Roundup doesn't make it stronger, it just means you didn't get enough on the plant.
Libertarians are split on the issue. A purist stance is that IP/patents were government creations; literally a monarch giving a buddy a monopoly on some industry or market. So as a government creation, it is not a natural right of man like property. (Sort of the same mindset as "you can't call it stealing if there is nothing tangible to take!" It can't be property if you can't hold it, see it or feel it. You can own a book, but not the ideas in it.) I personally think this idea is backwards, but I can see where they are coming from. Where the more Objectivist types see IP as an obvious property right. Property rights grow out of efforts at improvement, and time spent designing a building or writing a book is no less valuable than time spent improving real estate.
I wonder what the farmer would have done if none of the seed was Roundup Ready?
Seriously. You buy a gun from someone, hang onto it until you need to murder someone, and then throw it in the ocean. Problem solved. No need to buy a 3D printer. If you are really desperate, smash them in the head with a rock and throw it back into the quarry.
Yes, exactly. The CAFE ratings aren't meant to tell you what your personal MPG is going to be, they are meant to tell you how cars of a specific model year compare to each other. If you do 10% better in one car, you'll probably also do 10% better in the other one.
When you are calculating the average of ratios (miles per gallon) and the denominator is the thing that changes, you have to use the geometric mean. If they used liters per 100km, then they would use the regular average.
Going underground is easy (ish) to do when a community is being built up from scratch, but putting it into a place where there is existing infrastructure is a nightmare.
POTS goes virtual the moment it leaves the voice switch it is terminated into. At least in any modern phone system.
that's how some comcast phone adapters do it. There is a SLA battery right in the cable modem. I'm not sure how long it lasts, but at least long enough to call the power company and report the outage.
And yet, the Boston guys were identified by having a lot of video cameras around and being able to sift through it. Schneier is an idiot.
Why not just have a "show password" button like they do for WPA passkeys? You can type the pwd, and then click the button to verify. Problem solved.
I believe that's the theory. They seem like magic because they don't emit light and actually suck light in, but that they are exothermic in the long term via Hawking Radiation. IE, they eat galaxies and shit Hawking radiation. So as the supply of nearby galaxies runs out, they eventually shit themselves into not being a black hole anymore.
I'm guessing the goal is to use more or less comoddity hardware. Why build an ASIC when you can solder some broadcom chips to a backplane and do all the fancy shit in software?
I think it's two things. One, Blackberry is not "cool". It seemed to be for like one summer when all the celebrities were carrying around Bold 9000s, but besides that, the Blackberry is more tool and less of a toy. So people who want toys hate them. Secondly, for the longest time, Blackberries were old/cheap/broken pieces of shit people got through their work. So everyone hated them because they were reminders of their job sucking.
The tiny buttons work fine. Our fingers are much more sensitive than a touchscreen. Or something like that. When you hit a touch "key" you are just mashing a circle and the OS has to best-guess which letter you meant. When you type in a BB keyboard, your fingertips can feel the ridges of the different keys and your brain can figure out where to direct the pressure to hit the right one.
Some people have less pointy fingers than others, and I suspect that's where the preference lies. Pointy fingers can use touch keyboards much easier than less-pointy ones.
There are two versions. One is a "Torch" style all touch, the other is a "Bold" style with a real BB keyboard.