Apple is the exception. They refuse to license their patents, and also refuse to pay people for the patents they use.
[citation needed]
And no, I own an Android phone, so don't go there.
I agree with you that FRAND doesn't mean that you have to charge everyone the same amount to use the patents you contributed to a standard. If someone doesn't bring any patents to the table, they should be charged more than someone else who did contribute.
What got Samsung last time was that the patents they tried to use against Apple were considered to have been paid for by the IC manufacturers who incorporated the use of those patents into their ICs. That's commonplace and allows IC manufacturers to sell to customers without those hundred or thousands of customers to each have to pay for those patents individually. Sadly, I suspect these LTE patents are the same type and their claims won't be upheld.
There was a case in Dallas some years ago like this. The guy worked as a window installer. He moved somewhere in the North East. Some years later, the national fingerprint database went on-line and the local cops started running fingerprints that had been gathered at crime scenes through the system. The guy had been in the military, so his records were in the database and matched prints found in a burglary. The detectives working the case didn't care that there was a perfectly good explanation for his prints being at the scene. He ended up going back to Dallas, interrupting his family's lives until he could get it resolved. A plea bargain counts as a win; they didn't care if he was guilty or not.
Larry Niven wrote about this. He also talked about what kind of society would develop depending on whether or not you needed a transmitter and receiver, or just a transmitter, issues with conservation of energy, distance limits and so on. Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation.
On the contrary, even though I didn't agree with several things Romney had to say, what I saw in this article was, for many of the questions, Romney presenting a detailed (almost tl;dr) outline of specific things he felt his administration should accomplish. Compared to Obama, I thought Romney came across as a little bit more prepared and purposeful.
On the contrary, Romney's answers, like the response to the first question, seemed generic; i.e. here's how we're going to fix the economy. Nothing in that answer explained what was specifically being done that would promote innovation. This is more of an indictment of Romny's campaign staff--too lazy to look for any statement from him that shows how he supports a specific issue. Don't mistake length of answer for quality.
Uncapped service, wired or wireless, is less prone to an ISP trying to block competing services. That's assuming they don't throttle or otherwise mess with packets originating from a competitor's service. In your case, wherever you get your latest episode of Warehouse13.
Net Neutrality does not apply to home/business LANs. AFAIK, no NN legislation has every tried to include LANs. If you want to talk about ISP's traffic, there is the issue that it cost them more for packets routed from outside of their network versus internal. That's why some of those ISPs are working with companies like Netflix to mirror the data, so that they can route the data to their customers at a lower cost to the ISP.
Keep in mind that this example applies more to wired networks than wireless, which is what the OP is about. The principle is the same: NN is not about treating all packets the same. It is about keeping businesses from unfairly limiting competition for the various services that depend upon the network.
Wireless networks suffer from congestion a lot more than wired networks. I don't think it's unreasonable for carriers to want to throttle traffic on wireless mediums to ensure mr tethered torrenter isnt destroying everyone else's connection.
Keep in mind that on wired or wireless networks, Net Neutrality is NOT treating all packets the same. VoIP and Video are among those applications that are time sensitive. You need to apply QoS to prioritize that type of traffic. Where NN comes in would be something like this: Say your ISP charges $50/month for internet, and limits you to 250Gb per month. Instead of subscribing to their TV service, you want to use Netflix or Hulu. Under this scenario, their data limit may keep you from using Netflix as much as you'd like. OTOH, they don't charge against you cap to use their TV service. Oh, but you can buy additional data for, say, $10/10Gb more. What they're doing is making sure that the additional data charges are so expensive that it's cheaper to buy their TV service, keeping out competition.
It's OK to throttle traffic on congested networks to make sure that everyone has access, but it's another to use data limits to keep out competition for other services.
I think you over-estimate the intelligence of these people, even with clear evidence like you propose. Do you think the lady filing a lawsuit because she thinks smart-meters are going to give her cancer or something would turn around in the face of clear evidence that the meters are no more harmful than any other electronic device in her house? Fat chance of that happening.
Maybe some parents have informed themselves on the subject, but my impression is that most of these anti-vaccine people don't want their kids to get any vaccines. The MMR vaccine has been around a long time and doesn't fit the concerns about fast-tracked new vaccines, but that doesn't stop the anti-everything crowd from avoiding it. I haven't heard of any recent vaccines that would fit your description of fast-tracking, being required for school attendance. It's true Rick Perry tried that awhile back in Texas with the HPV vaccine, but I haven't heard of any other big dust-ups that that type of move would typically cause.
Chicken Pox vaccine? Fuck that, it used to be a right of passage. Sure, if you don't get it as a child you should be vaccinated because getting it as an adult can be terrible.
Getting Chicken Pox makes you are at risk to get Shingles later in life. Outbreaks of Shingles are suppose to be extremely painful. IIRC, in rare cases, depending upon what part of your body it affects, it can cause blindness or death.
Maybe you could institute a similar policy in the USA. If the nut heads don't want to vaccinate their kids, they should home school them.
Really? Unvaccinated kids will still end up around others who, due to medical conditions or such, cannot be vaccinated. Also, do you really want the same idiots who think not getting vaccinations is a good idea to home school their kids? Sorry, but people who put their own kids as well as others at risk are stupid, self-centered jerks.
In LEO it'll be below the geomagnetic fields, which is where a good bit of the Earth's protection from radiation is at. More likely, it'll fry any electronics from the temperature extremes due to uneven heating/passive thermal radiation in near vacuum.
No, if you're in a low enough orbit, atmospheric drag will de-orbit any satellite within some reasonable period of time; years or decades. The ISS and the previous space station both periodically does/did correction burns to return them to their target altitude. At the other end of the scale, IIRC, the moon is so far out that it actually gains enough energy from the Earth to move away several inches per year. The Earth's rotation slows as a result of this. Atmospheric drag near geosynchronous orbit or further out is negligible.
At the last place I worked, a silicon valley company, we replaced virtually all of the CRTs with LCDs within one year's time. The CEO decided that the savings from the lower electrical consumption would quickly pay back the initial outlay. Radiation concerns, real or imagined, had nothing to do with the decision.
TFA was poorly done. It can be broken down as Global war, pandemics, wide-scale crop failure (Famine), and Global Catastrophe (extrasolar non-cometary impacts, Krakatoa+ volcanic eruptions, etc. Overpopulation by itself isn't a problem; it makes the first three worse: War over land disputes, pandemics spreading faster due to population density and air travel, and more mouths to feed leaves less margin in world-wide crop reserves.
As a side note, I find it funny that religion is commented on as a possible cause of world-wide war. China is, by many measures, one of the least religious countries in the world. Their saber rattling over disputed land ownership, at least to me, makes them the most likely catalysis of the next major conflict.
What you mean is that infrastructure is so costly that most companies won't build if another company has already built-out an area. Because there are multiple ISPs, even with decreasing overlap, it will count as competition as far a government regulators are concerned. It's still a monopoly if you only have one choice.
Living is terminal. In the grand scheme of things, pyrethroids are pretty low risk for humans and, dispensed properly, should be low impact for wildlife and beneficial insects.
Nothing in the article seems to indicate why prepaid phones would be any different than the others. Apparently in this case the suspect was using a prepaid phone, but it seems that any phone that has GPS tracking enabled could be tracked by the government legally, based upon the court's decision.
I use to occasionally decap 'plastic' ICs, which are typically molded using an epoxy based compound. We always used fuming nitric to open those. We used a dropper to put the heated nitric on the top of the package, the goal being to have the pins intact and the device functional afterwards. Not real safe unless you have the proper equipment and know what you are doing. Later we had commercial equipment that did pretty much the same thing.
I suspect the rosin used in the link only works on some types of non-epoxy based plastics.
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Apple is the exception. They refuse to license their patents, and also refuse to pay people for the patents they use.
[citation needed]
And no, I own an Android phone, so don't go there.
I agree with you that FRAND doesn't mean that you have to charge everyone the same amount to use the patents you contributed to a standard. If someone doesn't bring any patents to the table, they should be charged more than someone else who did contribute.
What got Samsung last time was that the patents they tried to use against Apple were considered to have been paid for by the IC manufacturers who incorporated the use of those patents into their ICs. That's commonplace and allows IC manufacturers to sell to customers without those hundred or thousands of customers to each have to pay for those patents individually. Sadly, I suspect these LTE patents are the same type and their claims won't be upheld.
There was a case in Dallas some years ago like this. The guy worked as a window installer. He moved somewhere in the North East. Some years later, the national fingerprint database went on-line and the local cops started running fingerprints that had been gathered at crime scenes through the system. The guy had been in the military, so his records were in the database and matched prints found in a burglary. The detectives working the case didn't care that there was a perfectly good explanation for his prints being at the scene. He ended up going back to Dallas, interrupting his family's lives until he could get it resolved. A plea bargain counts as a win; they didn't care if he was guilty or not.
Larry Niven wrote about this. He also talked about what kind of society would develop depending on whether or not you needed a transmitter and receiver, or just a transmitter, issues with conservation of energy, distance limits and so on. Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation.
On the contrary, even though I didn't agree with several things Romney had to say, what I saw in this article was, for many of the questions, Romney presenting a detailed (almost tl;dr) outline of specific things he felt his administration should accomplish. Compared to Obama, I thought Romney came across as a little bit more prepared and purposeful.
On the contrary, Romney's answers, like the response to the first question, seemed generic; i.e. here's how we're going to fix the economy. Nothing in that answer explained what was specifically being done that would promote innovation. This is more of an indictment of Romny's campaign staff--too lazy to look for any statement from him that shows how he supports a specific issue. Don't mistake length of answer for quality.
Who needs transparent aluminum when you've got transparent, bulletproof wood?
Women might be impressed with bulletproof wood, but transparent?
My bad; 250GB.
Uncapped service, wired or wireless, is less prone to an ISP trying to block competing services. That's assuming they don't throttle or otherwise mess with packets originating from a competitor's service. In your case, wherever you get your latest episode of Warehouse13.
Net Neutrality does not apply to home/business LANs. AFAIK, no NN legislation has every tried to include LANs. If you want to talk about ISP's traffic, there is the issue that it cost them more for packets routed from outside of their network versus internal. That's why some of those ISPs are working with companies like Netflix to mirror the data, so that they can route the data to their customers at a lower cost to the ISP.
Keep in mind that this example applies more to wired networks than wireless, which is what the OP is about. The principle is the same: NN is not about treating all packets the same. It is about keeping businesses from unfairly limiting competition for the various services that depend upon the network.
Wireless networks suffer from congestion a lot more than wired networks. I don't think it's unreasonable for carriers to want to throttle traffic on wireless mediums to ensure mr tethered torrenter isnt destroying everyone else's connection.
Keep in mind that on wired or wireless networks, Net Neutrality is NOT treating all packets the same. VoIP and Video are among those applications that are time sensitive. You need to apply QoS to prioritize that type of traffic. Where NN comes in would be something like this: Say your ISP charges $50/month for internet, and limits you to 250Gb per month. Instead of subscribing to their TV service, you want to use Netflix or Hulu. Under this scenario, their data limit may keep you from using Netflix as much as you'd like. OTOH, they don't charge against you cap to use their TV service. Oh, but you can buy additional data for, say, $10/10Gb more. What they're doing is making sure that the additional data charges are so expensive that it's cheaper to buy their TV service, keeping out competition.
It's OK to throttle traffic on congested networks to make sure that everyone has access, but it's another to use data limits to keep out competition for other services.
That, along with a roll of duct tape, some WD-40, a screwdriver and a hammer will get you pretty far in this world.
I wonder how many of those items might be in 50 Shades of Grey?
Propaganda; n. Any material which proposes to sway a reader to form a conclusion that conflicts with your own.
+1 Hilarious!
I agree, downloading a photo that's 17 years old is not illegal.
I think you over-estimate the intelligence of these people, even with clear evidence like you propose. Do you think the lady filing a lawsuit because she thinks smart-meters are going to give her cancer or something would turn around in the face of clear evidence that the meters are no more harmful than any other electronic device in her house? Fat chance of that happening.
Maybe some parents have informed themselves on the subject, but my impression is that most of these anti-vaccine people don't want their kids to get any vaccines. The MMR vaccine has been around a long time and doesn't fit the concerns about fast-tracked new vaccines, but that doesn't stop the anti-everything crowd from avoiding it. I haven't heard of any recent vaccines that would fit your description of fast-tracking, being required for school attendance. It's true Rick Perry tried that awhile back in Texas with the HPV vaccine, but I haven't heard of any other big dust-ups that that type of move would typically cause.
Chicken Pox vaccine? Fuck that, it used to be a right of passage. Sure, if you don't get it as a child you should be vaccinated because getting it as an adult can be terrible.
Getting Chicken Pox makes you are at risk to get Shingles later in life. Outbreaks of Shingles are suppose to be extremely painful. IIRC, in rare cases, depending upon what part of your body it affects, it can cause blindness or death.
Maybe you could institute a similar policy in the USA. If the nut heads don't want to vaccinate their kids, they should home school them.
Really? Unvaccinated kids will still end up around others who, due to medical conditions or such, cannot be vaccinated. Also, do you really want the same idiots who think not getting vaccinations is a good idea to home school their kids? Sorry, but people who put their own kids as well as others at risk are stupid, self-centered jerks.
In LEO it'll be below the geomagnetic fields, which is where a good bit of the Earth's protection from radiation is at. More likely, it'll fry any electronics from the temperature extremes due to uneven heating/passive thermal radiation in near vacuum.
No, if you're in a low enough orbit, atmospheric drag will de-orbit any satellite within some reasonable period of time; years or decades. The ISS and the previous space station both periodically does/did correction burns to return them to their target altitude. At the other end of the scale, IIRC, the moon is so far out that it actually gains enough energy from the Earth to move away several inches per year. The Earth's rotation slows as a result of this. Atmospheric drag near geosynchronous orbit or further out is negligible.
At the last place I worked, a silicon valley company, we replaced virtually all of the CRTs with LCDs within one year's time. The CEO decided that the savings from the lower electrical consumption would quickly pay back the initial outlay. Radiation concerns, real or imagined, had nothing to do with the decision.
TFA was poorly done. It can be broken down as Global war, pandemics, wide-scale crop failure (Famine), and Global Catastrophe (extrasolar non-cometary impacts, Krakatoa+ volcanic eruptions, etc. Overpopulation by itself isn't a problem; it makes the first three worse: War over land disputes, pandemics spreading faster due to population density and air travel, and more mouths to feed leaves less margin in world-wide crop reserves.
As a side note, I find it funny that religion is commented on as a possible cause of world-wide war. China is, by many measures, one of the least religious countries in the world. Their saber rattling over disputed land ownership, at least to me, makes them the most likely catalysis of the next major conflict.
What you mean is that infrastructure is so costly that most companies won't build if another company has already built-out an area. Because there are multiple ISPs, even with decreasing overlap, it will count as competition as far a government regulators are concerned. It's still a monopoly if you only have one choice.
Well, there are degrees of safety, and what they are using for the mosquitoes are synthetic pyrethroids. These break down quickly, and are sprayed at night to minimize the effect on beneficial insects like bees, which stay in their hives at night. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/What-is-Duet-Adulticide-Aerial-Spraying-West-Nile-Virus-166325486.html
Living is terminal. In the grand scheme of things, pyrethroids are pretty low risk for humans and, dispensed properly, should be low impact for wildlife and beneficial insects.
Nothing in the article seems to indicate why prepaid phones would be any different than the others. Apparently in this case the suspect was using a prepaid phone, but it seems that any phone that has GPS tracking enabled could be tracked by the government legally, based upon the court's decision.
I'm an ME, so I don't know much about reverse engineering electronics. maybe this will help? http://s3cu14r.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/boiling-chips-in-tree-sap/
I use to occasionally decap 'plastic' ICs, which are typically molded using an epoxy based compound. We always used fuming nitric to open those. We used a dropper to put the heated nitric on the top of the package, the goal being to have the pins intact and the device functional afterwards. Not real safe unless you have the proper equipment and know what you are doing. Later we had commercial equipment that did pretty much the same thing.
I suspect the rosin used in the link only works on some types of non-epoxy based plastics.
You can get banned from slashdot?
[citation needed]
I was wrong. You don't get banned from /., they just make you moderate.
Took long enough to ban MyCleanPC.
Oops, I used the keyword "MyCleanPC," will my account be banned next?