Intel agrees to 72-hour deadline technology firms aim to end free access to their goods
Intel, the chip making giant, has agreed to block patented CPUs from its site, following a fresh legal ruling. A federal judge has given Intel 72 hours to block the processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology.
The deadline operates from the moment anti-fun agents present Intel with lists of processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology they want banned.
"Intel will follow the District Court's order," said Hank Barry, chief executive of Intel.
"Even before the court entered the order, we began making efforts to comply with what we believed to be the dictates of the Ninth Circuit's ruling," he added.
A spokeswoman for the Intergraph said lawyers for the trade group had received the long-awaited injunction late on Monday night in the US.
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel"
A Intel fan
The ruling is another victory for the anti-fun agents who have been in legal battle with Intel since December 1999.
They object to their CPUs being freely passed online in little static-charged plastic drug deal baggies between the 50 million Intel users.
"We are gratified the District Court acted so promptly in issuing its injunction requiring Intel to remove infringing works from its system," said Hilary Rosen, president of the Intergraph.
Dismayed fans
Fans of Intel, however, have expressed their dismay at the latest ruling.
"I don't know why people would believe for a second that the CPUs industry is losing money because of Intel," said one fan, using the name "Scorpio 65".
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel... I can promise I won't be buying as much bloatware if Intel shuts down, because I won't be able to load or run anything."
Fans also said they would be turning to other chip makers on the internet, such as AMD, Cyrix and Transmeta.
Identifying chips
However, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel also ruled that major CPUs producers must help Intel comply by making "a substantial effort" to identify chips that are being transmitted through the chip-swapping service.
Mr Barry added that court rejected the technology brokers's argument that Intel was inherently illegal.
He called for the technology brokers to share with Intel the burden of complying.
Although there are as yet no details of what punishment might be imposed if the deadline were missed, the most likely would see Intel forced to close down.
Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University, said he sees the decision as "the beginning of the end for Intel, at least for Intel as a beacon of hope in the free world."
Industry doubts on filter
Intel said it had started blocking users from two million CPUs chips late on Sunday.
Industry sources said that amounted to barring only 1,000 or fewer patented processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology on an online directory in which billions of such chips were traded monthly.
And some Intel users were reported to be already finding ways round the blocking mechanism.
On its website, Intel said the process of screening out chip names, clock speeds and L2 cache sizes would not be easy.
"It has involved a significant investment of time and resources," a statement said.
"However, we believe it is superior to shutting the service down and disbanding the community during the transition period to the new membership-based service."
Intel made its pledge to block access to patented material on Friday when it was in court fighting for its life.
anti-fun scepticism
Several major anti-fun agents had sued Intel for encouraging and facilitating patent infringements.
They had asked the judge to issue an injunction that would ban the service from operating unless it could block fargs of patented CPUs.
It was believed that this would effectively bring Intel's life to an end because the service had said it did not have the software to filter out such processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology. Consequently, Intel's sudden promise was met with much scepticism.
"They've been telling the courts they can't do this. All of a sudden, they figured it out," said Robert Schwartz, a lawyer who has previously represented Warner Studios in similar cases.
Imminent injunction
Judge Patel had previously issued an injunction that would have effectively closed down Intel, but had been asked by a higher court to reconsider the case after Intel appealed against her decision.
"I've been stealing ram sticks like crazy"
Intel user
Intel wants to transform its website into a subscription service, where people pay to farg CPUs.
To make this a success, it needs to retain its loyal users, and this cannot be done if it closes down.
Widely watched
The legal battle with Intel is being closely watched because of its implications for CPUs, books, wheels, fire and other technology being distributed via the internet.
However, Intel's efforts appear to have won over at least one of its potential rivals.
Media and technology giant Vivendi Universal seemed to warm on Monday to the idea of joining Intel's planned subscription service with German media giant Bertelsmann, saying it could consider jumping on board over the next few months.
Intel agrees to 72-hour deadline technology firms aim to end free access to their goods
Intel, the chip making giant, has agreed to block patented CPUs from its site, following a fresh legal ruling. A federal judge has given Intel 72 hours to block the processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology.
The deadline operates from the moment anti-fun agents present Intel with lists of processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology they want banned.
"Intel will follow the District Court's order," said Hank Barry, chief executive of Intel.
"Even before the court entered the order, we began making efforts to comply with what we believed to be the dictates of the Ninth Circuit's ruling," he added.
A spokeswoman for the Intergraph said lawyers for the trade group had received the long-awaited injunction late on Monday night in the US.
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel"
-An Intel fan
The ruling is another victory for the anti-fun agents who have been in legal battle with Intel since December 1999.
They object to their CPUs being freely passed online in little static-charged plastic drug deal baggies between the 50 million Intel users.
"We are gratified the District Court acted so promptly in issuing its injunction requiring Intel to remove infringing works from its system," said Hilary Rosen, president of the Intergraph.
Dismayed fans
Fans of Intel, however, have expressed their dismay at the latest ruling.
"I don't know why people would believe for a second that the CPUs industry is losing money because of Intel," said one fan, using the name "Scorpio 65".
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel... I can promise I won't be buying as much bloatware if Intel shuts down, because I won't be able to load or run anything."
Fans also said they would be turning to other chip makers on the internet, such as AMD, Cyrix and Transmeta.
Identifying chips
However, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel also ruled that major CPUs producers must help Intel comply by making "a substantial effort" to identify chips that are being transmitted through the chip-swapping service.
Mr Barry added that court rejected the technology brokers's argument that Intel was inherently illegal.
He called for the technology brokers to share with Intel the burden of complying.
Although there are as yet no details of what punishment might be imposed if the deadline were missed, the most likely would see Intel forced to close down.
Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University, said he sees the decision as "the beginning of the end for Intel, at least for Intel as a beacon of hope in the free world."
Industry doubts on filter
Intel said it had started blocking users from two million CPUs chips late on Sunday.
Industry sources said that amounted to barring only 1,000 or fewer patented processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology on an online directory in which billions of such chips were traded monthly.
And some Intel users were reported to be already finding ways round the blocking mechanism.
On its website, Intel said the process of screening out chip names, clock speeds and L2 cache sizes would not be easy.
"It has involved a significant investment of time and resources," a statement said.
"However, we believe it is superior to shutting the service down and disbanding the community during the transition period to the new membership-based service."
Intel made its pledge to block access to patented material on Friday when it was in court fighting for its life.
anti-fun scepticism
Several major anti-fun agents had sued Intel for encouraging and facilitating patent infringements.
They had asked the judge to issue an injunction that would ban the service from operating unless it could block fargs of patented CPUs.
It was believed that this would effectively bring Intel's life to an end because the service had said it did not have the software to filter out such processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology. Consequently, Intel's sudden promise was met with much scepticism.
"They've been telling the courts they can't do this. All of a sudden, they figured it out," said Robert Schwartz, a lawyer who has previously represented Warner Studios in similar cases.
Imminent injunction
Judge Patel had previously issued an injunction that would have effectively closed down Intel, but had been asked by a higher court to reconsider the case after Intel appealed against her decision.
"I've been stealing ram sticks like crazy"
-Intel user
Intel wants to transform its website into a subscription service, where people pay to farg CPUs.
To make this a success, it needs to retain its loyal users, and this cannot be done if it closes down.
Widely watched
The legal battle with Intel is being closely watched because of its implications for CPUs, books, wheels, fire and other technology being distributed via the internet.
However, Intel's efforts appear to have won over at least one of its potential rivals.
Media and technology giant Vivendi Universal seemed to warm on Monday to the idea of joining Intel's planned subscription service with German media giant Bertelsmann, saying it could consider jumping on board over the next few months.
IIRC, jupiter and saturn both have trace water in their atmosphere. If these extrasolar planets (with masses similar to our gas giants) have no water, they must have something different going on. Is their star too young? not enough impacts from the right comets? Or is it just that if we were that far from jupiter the water content would be too small to detect?
Could this be the latest expression of what the selfish gene?
consider this: just burn your genome to cd, and lable the disk(s) "Microsoft paladium crack" and give them to an asian cd pirate and you suddenly have thousands of copies of your genome out there in the world.
It's the cheapest way to clone your genome, and no toilet training, or college educating required.
Last year, Jay Brockman and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana sent out packets with carefully crafted checksums such that only the packet with the checksum which solved their mathematical problem returned an ack packet.
this kind of distributed brute force search could be useful in the huge search spaces of ai.
Furthermore, instead of a single computer pretending it is a neural network, a different application of distributed parasitic computing could allow a network of computers to be tricked into having each computer spend a few clock cycles pretending it is a neuron.
Would you support the development future network protocols which encourage these kind of facilities?
try ripping out the microdisplays from a Tek gear spectre http://www.tekgear.com/product.cfm?sku=0066 and wiring its camera and illumination system to your brain. Look out La Forge, you've got company!
heck, you could even get one of those spectres for free on the evaluation program...
No reason why you cant have it: just watch out for all those warring minatures
Re:Gotta disagree with ya there, Bob...
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imagine the ultimate system: solid state flash SCSI drives, evaporative cooler, overclocked top of the line CPU. Overclocked system bus. the most fast ram that money can buy. Aluminium case. Top of the line graphics card. Hell, I'd ever throw in a tek-gear spectre headmounted display or a big super high res flat screen, a kick ass sound card and a 300 w five point speaker system to run the dvd drives off.
Now what do you do with this kind of power?
Actually not much specifically. I guess it's all about just having something with higher stats than everyone else.
Somebody mod this up! A peaceful use for this technology (since it is said to be able to voice synth and communicate with normal air traffic controlers) would be to make cheap fed ex deliveries to places all over the world. They could be sent to their destinations with a single mouse click, unload 3000 pounds of goods and refuel and take off again, since there's no pilot fatigue.
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I wonder if the world acclaimed octopus smart proximity card ticketing system suffers from the identiy theft problem which you so fear. anyone here used it?
Maybe not you, but your kids if you doped them up in the embryonic state or before.
Bear in mind that changing your genetic makeup after it's been copied billions of times in almost every cell in your body would be like going through all newspapers printed on a given day and trying to change a few words in an article on page 3. There are a lot of safeguards in the human body to prevent mutations in somatic cells (and Cancer!). We might have a hope of growing extra limbs if we could unlock the limb regeneration capability which mexican walking fish have, but right now all we get is scar tissue.
you will notice that systemax sells both PCs and servers. I would think that the statement means that the operating systems on the PCs is Genuine Microsoft Windows, and the operating system on the iMass is Linux, with a few changes like switching telnet off as default.
when you can figure out how to help yourself. Maybe the whole reason behind the chinese space programme is because they realise that they're running out of land faster than anyone else. If they had the ability to ship people to another/planet/ then things might be a little easier on the long run.
Kinda like the british overpopulation problem in the late 1700s, leading to all that empire land grabbing.
since this is using organic light emitting DIODES, does this mean that they can be wired back to back to create spray on transistors? Ultracheap custom chips... just gotta figure out how to solder onto paper.
Good idea, but you'll need something set up to illuminate the viewscreen with, yet not allow any visible light to leak out the sides and give away your position.
I totally agree. Also public libraries around here run a windows net. How much is that costing me in licences that could have gone to other public services?
http://rand.pratt.edu/~takemura/articles/1023991.h tml
This may be a little off topic but I remember that some doctors were using olestra to treat dioxin poisoning. You eat olestra, and the concentration gradient causes the fat soluble poison to leech out into your excrement. That's what I call a good hack.
Actually you can now use a lot of non-biologically significant markers like Fluroescent Green Protein which makes things glow green under light. Safe to eat, and if the bacteria get a hold of it they'll just be easier to see.
I like that idea. By measuring the voltage off each finger you could also get gesture recognition. Better make sure noone's patented a way to stop sharp pieces of pezo ceramic coming through to your fingers in the event of a failure tho.
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I wrote a similar idea in a short story a while ago. You modify some hair follicles (easily transplanted) to have melanin production supressed by stress hormones. As you get more stressed, your hair lightens, blonds have more fun and then the negative feedback loop has you stabilise at an attractive brown. I called it SmartHair.
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Intel agrees to 72-hour deadline
r ch _6_2001.htm
technology firms aim to end free access to their goods
Intel, the chip making giant, has agreed to block patented CPUs from its site, following a fresh legal ruling.
A federal judge has given Intel 72 hours to block the processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology.
The deadline operates from the moment anti-fun agents present Intel with lists of processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology they want banned.
"Intel will follow the District Court's order," said Hank Barry, chief executive of Intel.
"Even before the court entered the order, we began making efforts to comply with what we believed to be the dictates of the Ninth Circuit's ruling," he added.
A spokeswoman for the Intergraph said lawyers for the trade group had received the long-awaited injunction late on Monday night in the US.
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel"
A Intel fan
The ruling is another victory for the anti-fun agents who have been in legal battle with Intel since December 1999.
They object to their CPUs being freely passed online in little static-charged plastic drug deal baggies between the 50 million Intel users.
"We are gratified the District Court acted so promptly in issuing its injunction requiring Intel to remove infringing works from its system," said Hilary Rosen, president of the Intergraph.
Dismayed fans
Fans of Intel, however, have expressed their dismay at the latest ruling.
"I don't know why people would believe for a second that the CPUs industry is losing money because of Intel," said one fan, using the name "Scorpio 65".
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel... I can promise I won't be buying as much bloatware if Intel shuts down, because I won't be able to load or run anything."
Fans also said they would be turning to other chip makers on the internet, such as AMD, Cyrix and Transmeta.
Identifying chips
However, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel also ruled that major CPUs producers must help Intel comply by making "a substantial effort" to identify chips that are being transmitted through the chip-swapping service.
Mr Barry added that court rejected the technology brokers's argument that Intel was inherently illegal.
He called for the technology brokers to share with Intel the burden of complying.
Although there are as yet no details of what punishment might be imposed if the deadline were missed, the most likely would see Intel forced to close down.
Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University, said he sees the decision as "the beginning of the end for Intel, at least for Intel as a beacon of hope in the free world."
Industry doubts on filter
Intel said it had started blocking users from two million CPUs chips late on Sunday.
Industry sources said that amounted to barring only 1,000 or fewer patented processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology on an online directory in which billions of such chips were traded monthly.
And some Intel users were reported to be already finding ways round the blocking mechanism.
On its website, Intel said the process of screening out chip names, clock speeds and L2 cache sizes would not be easy.
"It has involved a significant investment of time and resources," a statement said.
"However, we believe it is superior to shutting the service down and disbanding the community during the transition period to the new membership-based service."
Intel made its pledge to block access to patented material on Friday when it was in court fighting for its life.
anti-fun scepticism
Several major anti-fun agents had sued Intel for encouraging and facilitating patent infringements.
They had asked the judge to issue an injunction that would ban the service from operating unless it could block fargs of patented CPUs.
It was believed that this would effectively bring Intel's life to an end because the service had said it did not have the software to filter out such processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology. Consequently, Intel's sudden promise was met with much scepticism.
"They've been telling the courts they can't do this. All of a sudden, they figured it out," said Robert Schwartz, a lawyer who has previously represented Warner Studios in similar cases.
Imminent injunction
Judge Patel had previously issued an injunction that would have effectively closed down Intel, but had been asked by a higher court to reconsider the case after Intel appealed against her decision.
"I've been stealing ram sticks like crazy"
Intel user
Intel wants to transform its website into a subscription service, where people pay to farg CPUs.
To make this a success, it needs to retain its loyal users, and this cannot be done if it closes down.
Widely watched
The legal battle with Intel is being closely watched because of its implications for CPUs, books, wheels, fire and other technology being distributed via the internet.
However, Intel's efforts appear to have won over at least one of its potential rivals.
Media and technology giant Vivendi Universal seemed to warm on Monday to the idea of joining Intel's planned subscription service with German media giant Bertelsmann, saying it could consider jumping on board over the next few months.
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/quotes/BBC_Ma
Intel agrees to 72-hour deadline
r ch _6_2001.htm
technology firms aim to end free access to their goods
Intel, the chip making giant, has agreed to block patented CPUs from its site, following a fresh legal ruling.
A federal judge has given Intel 72 hours to block the processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology.
The deadline operates from the moment anti-fun agents present Intel with lists of processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology they want banned.
"Intel will follow the District Court's order," said Hank Barry, chief executive of Intel.
"Even before the court entered the order, we began making efforts to comply with what we believed to be the dictates of the Ninth Circuit's ruling," he added.
A spokeswoman for the Intergraph said lawyers for the trade group had received the long-awaited injunction late on Monday night in the US.
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel"
-An Intel fan
The ruling is another victory for the anti-fun agents who have been in legal battle with Intel since December 1999.
They object to their CPUs being freely passed online in little static-charged plastic drug deal baggies between the 50 million Intel users.
"We are gratified the District Court acted so promptly in issuing its injunction requiring Intel to remove infringing works from its system," said Hilary Rosen, president of the Intergraph.
Dismayed fans
Fans of Intel, however, have expressed their dismay at the latest ruling.
"I don't know why people would believe for a second that the CPUs industry is losing money because of Intel," said one fan, using the name "Scorpio 65".
"I have never bought so much bloatware in my life since I started using Intel... I can promise I won't be buying as much bloatware if Intel shuts down, because I won't be able to load or run anything."
Fans also said they would be turning to other chip makers on the internet, such as AMD, Cyrix and Transmeta.
Identifying chips
However, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel also ruled that major CPUs producers must help Intel comply by making "a substantial effort" to identify chips that are being transmitted through the chip-swapping service.
Mr Barry added that court rejected the technology brokers's argument that Intel was inherently illegal.
He called for the technology brokers to share with Intel the burden of complying.
Although there are as yet no details of what punishment might be imposed if the deadline were missed, the most likely would see Intel forced to close down.
Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University, said he sees the decision as "the beginning of the end for Intel, at least for Intel as a beacon of hope in the free world."
Industry doubts on filter
Intel said it had started blocking users from two million CPUs chips late on Sunday.
Industry sources said that amounted to barring only 1,000 or fewer patented processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology on an online directory in which billions of such chips were traded monthly.
And some Intel users were reported to be already finding ways round the blocking mechanism.
On its website, Intel said the process of screening out chip names, clock speeds and L2 cache sizes would not be easy.
"It has involved a significant investment of time and resources," a statement said.
"However, we believe it is superior to shutting the service down and disbanding the community during the transition period to the new membership-based service."
Intel made its pledge to block access to patented material on Friday when it was in court fighting for its life.
anti-fun scepticism
Several major anti-fun agents had sued Intel for encouraging and facilitating patent infringements.
They had asked the judge to issue an injunction that would ban the service from operating unless it could block fargs of patented CPUs.
It was believed that this would effectively bring Intel's life to an end because the service had said it did not have the software to filter out such processors containing patented "paralell instruction computing" technology. Consequently, Intel's sudden promise was met with much scepticism.
"They've been telling the courts they can't do this. All of a sudden, they figured it out," said Robert Schwartz, a lawyer who has previously represented Warner Studios in similar cases.
Imminent injunction
Judge Patel had previously issued an injunction that would have effectively closed down Intel, but had been asked by a higher court to reconsider the case after Intel appealed against her decision.
"I've been stealing ram sticks like crazy"
-Intel user
Intel wants to transform its website into a subscription service, where people pay to farg CPUs.
To make this a success, it needs to retain its loyal users, and this cannot be done if it closes down.
Widely watched
The legal battle with Intel is being closely watched because of its implications for CPUs, books, wheels, fire and other technology being distributed via the internet.
However, Intel's efforts appear to have won over at least one of its potential rivals.
Media and technology giant Vivendi Universal seemed to warm on Monday to the idea of joining Intel's planned subscription service with German media giant Bertelsmann, saying it could consider jumping on board over the next few months.
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/quotes/BBC_Ma
It seems that intel has learned a lesson the chinese already knew with regards to making sure you really own your ip portfolio.
Or it could be proof that even the best lawyers can occasionally miss something embarrassing in a patent search.
All your karma whore posts are belong to timothy!
IIRC, jupiter and saturn both have trace water in their atmosphere. If these extrasolar planets (with masses similar to our gas giants) have no water, they must have something different going on. Is their star too young? not enough impacts from the right comets? Or is it just that if we were that far from jupiter the water content would be too small to detect?
Could this be the latest expression of what the selfish gene?
consider this: just burn your genome to cd, and lable the disk(s) "Microsoft paladium crack" and give them to an asian cd pirate and you suddenly have thousands of copies of your genome out there in the world.
It's the cheapest way to clone your genome, and no toilet training, or college educating required.
Dear Dr Cerf
Last year, Jay Brockman and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana sent out packets with carefully crafted checksums such that only the packet with the checksum which solved their mathematical problem returned an ack packet.
article here
this kind of distributed brute force search could be useful in the huge search spaces of ai.
Furthermore, instead of a single computer pretending it is a neural network, a different application of distributed parasitic computing could allow a network of computers to be tricked into having each computer spend a few clock cycles pretending it is a neuron.
Would you support the development future network protocols which encourage these kind of facilities?
Thanks
try ripping out the microdisplays from a Tek gear spectre http://www.tekgear.com/product.cfm?sku=0066 and wiring its camera and illumination system to your brain. Look out La Forge, you've got company!
heck, you could even get one of those spectres for free on the evaluation program...
No reason why you cant have it: just watch out for all those warring minatures
imagine the ultimate system: solid state flash SCSI drives, evaporative cooler, overclocked top of the line CPU. Overclocked system bus. the most fast ram that money can buy. Aluminium case. Top of the line graphics card. Hell, I'd ever throw in a tek-gear spectre headmounted display or a big super high res flat screen, a kick ass sound card and a 300 w five point speaker system to run the dvd drives off.
Now what do you do with this kind of power?
Actually not much specifically. I guess it's all about just having something with higher stats than everyone else.
Somebody mod this up! A peaceful use for this technology (since it is said to be able to voice synth and communicate with normal air traffic controlers) would be to make cheap fed ex deliveries to places all over the world. They could be sent to their destinations with a single mouse click, unload 3000 pounds of goods and refuel and take off again, since there's no pilot fatigue.
try the foresight exchange to make money off your predictions.
http://www.citybus.com.hk/english/octopus.htm
I wonder if the world acclaimed octopus smart proximity card ticketing system suffers from the identiy theft problem which you so fear. anyone here used it?
Maybe not you, but your kids if you doped them up in the embryonic state or before.
Bear in mind that changing your genetic makeup after it's been copied billions of times in almost every cell in your body would be like going through all newspapers printed on a given day and trying to change a few words in an article on page 3. There are a lot of safeguards in the human body to prevent mutations in somatic cells (and Cancer!). We might have a hope of growing extra limbs if we could unlock the limb regeneration capability which mexican walking fish have, but right now all we get is scar tissue.
you will notice that systemax sells both PCs and servers. I would think that the statement means that the operating systems on the PCs is Genuine Microsoft Windows, and the operating system on the iMass is Linux, with a few changes like switching telnet off as default.
when you can figure out how to help yourself. Maybe the whole reason behind the chinese space programme is because they realise that they're running out of land faster than anyone else. If they had the ability to ship people to another /planet/ then things might be a little easier on the long run.
Kinda like the british overpopulation problem in the late 1700s, leading to all that empire land grabbing.
since this is using organic light emitting DIODES, does this mean that they can be wired back to back to create spray on transistors? Ultracheap custom chips... just gotta figure out how to solder onto paper.
Good idea, but you'll need something set up to illuminate the viewscreen with, yet not allow any visible light to leak out the sides and give away your position.
I totally agree. Also public libraries around here run a windows net. How much is that costing me in licences that could have gone to other public services?
http://rand.pratt.edu/~takemura/articles/1023991.h tml
This may be a little off topic but I remember that some doctors were using olestra to treat dioxin poisoning. You eat olestra, and the concentration gradient causes the fat soluble poison to leech out into your excrement.
That's what I call a good hack.
Actually you can now use a lot of non-biologically significant markers like Fluroescent Green Protein which makes things glow green under light. Safe to eat, and if the bacteria get a hold of it they'll just be easier to see.
This may be a little off topic, but has anyone built their own pc104 laptop replacement here?
I like that idea. By measuring the voltage off each finger you could also get gesture recognition. Better make sure noone's patented a way to stop sharp pieces of pezo ceramic coming through to your fingers in the event of a failure tho.
Then you want to go to the english portion of http://www.powerskip.de
I wrote a similar idea in a short story a while ago. You modify some hair follicles (easily transplanted) to have melanin production supressed by stress hormones. As you get more stressed, your hair lightens, blonds have more fun and then the negative feedback loop has you stabilise at an attractive brown. I called it SmartHair.