So the penalty for speeding is death? After all you risked potentially killing someone. There has to have a sense of balance in punishments. That goes make to English Common law and the code of Hammurabi well before that, and those along with some eastern US Indian tribes customs set the basis for US law. (Except Louisiana where the napoleonic code plays a part too)
I am a believer that penalties should fit the damage incurred and in the case of needing a punishment over that, a rate of punitive damages of a factor of 2 or 3 is just fine. So let's take the figure of 70 cents per song based on the reported Apple cost of the song to distribute it electronically, and then lets give treble damages to make it $2.10 per song downloaded. Then if the RIAA can prove that the individual distributed the song, charge them $2.10 for each time it was downloaded. Of course in order to prove that then you have to equally garner payment from each party, equitably, so the rate per song per individual per incident comes to $1.05. They collect the other $1.05 from the other sharing party that is operating illegally. Of course I think they also have to prove conclusively that each transfer occurred.
AT issue seems to be the lower income strata. A sales tax certainly is unfair. It adversely affects poorer folks. The state gets to decide what is exempt or not exempt, and in the case of Washington State, classed a locally produced high protein nutrition bar as "candy" and taxed it. They set the bar a bit skewed based on lobbying and even punished local general food production plants with a higher business and operating tax that raised food prices. The voters turned those back, and hopefully the state will cut spending! The income tax proposal was also flawed, as in Washington State after 2 years the legislature can amend, revoke, or modify any publicly passed initiative. So the high ceiling set at 200,000 dollars to start and a step up in rate at 500,000 dollars could be amended lower, and considering they taxed bottled water, nutrition bars, and a host of other items recently in order to raise money they've lost through a lower over all economy in the state, they'd be attacking that and amending the amounts lower in two years.
A proper income tax would replace the sales tax and other state taxes including property taxes (have to phase those out gradually) and have a constitutional set limit on the rate, say 5 per cent, and be a flat rate applied to all income. In order to further protect the poor to lower middle income families, set a deduction equal to twice the poverty level, where the poverty level is determined at the national level. That's the only deduction. Although again, you should because people planned on it long term, also phase out a mortgage interest deduction for the primary owner occupied dwelling.
You can do this at the national level at set it at around 20 percent and the Federal budget will have a substantial boost in revenue. So you'd want to include a provision that allows the debt to be paid down faster, and when it is paid off (about 25 years now) you reduce the percentage tax paid. And you can even gradually stop corporate income tax. Why stop corporate income tax you ask? Because the corporations actually use the money to put people to work. The Government hiring someone (paid by taxes) does not increase gross domestic product. A corporation hiring someone does (usually). The economy is not a zero sum game, but a state run economy artificially becomes one. Less government, more growth in the economy. More government, less economic growth as the private sector bows under the pressure of supporting the larger government. Least people object strongly to less taxes from corporations, consider that purely from a revenue perspective, tax anything at 0 percent, no tax revenue, but tax it at 100 per cent and still no revenue. So from a pure perspective of unbounded government manic funding, the tax can't increase to much or they stop getting money. And businesses demand special treatment, lobby government, and so on, and private individuals push the money out of the country. Businesses just open shop elsewhere in the world. But if corporations are not taxed they either pay more out to shareholders (which will be taxed) or they increase operations and employ more people (which will increase the taxes collected from those people). So if the personal income tax operates properly not taxing corporations actually increases the revenue collected.
Concurrent with this you have to also limit the increase in state (or federal) budget to the rate of inflation or rate of increase of individual income, whichever is less. That stops the government from excessively spending any excess as the excess will be temporary in the state case, and should pay down the debt in the federal case.
By the way, to expose the sham of the "protected" social security accounts, consider if the money you've paid in to the social security fund was used to solely purchase US Treasury notes, when the average person reached minimum retirement age they'd be a multi-millionaire. My last rant is that income tax should be an individual tax. No special treatment for married or children. The high deduction just helps lower income folks more, and doesn't penalize overtly single people.
My understanding is that the recipe itself, the list of ingredients, is not copyrightable. Some common sense from old ruling lacking in modern ones. BUT the text describing the method of combining those ingredients, the actual prose descriptions, not the facts involved, are copyrightable. And that wayward publisher should understand that everything they have every put on the web without attribution to the actual copyright owner is able to be in some limited ways a source of litigation against them.
I first thought of implanting a wireless connected display for a map display / GPS with of course time and temp and other environmental info. And optionally things like a nitro/blood gas meter for diving. I have a lot of forearm "display" space just going to waste. Now that it can display things, can they intercept the nerve impulses so I have a "touch" keyboard and graphics cursor / trackpad there too.
Just putting on my shades, 'cuz the futures so bright.
Of course the spy-tech comes to mind too so you can have a cheat sheet / active sit-rep display literally in the palm of your hand. Just make the emitters require special contacts to see.
The mobile carrier can identify the model phone used and stop it if they don't like it. T-Mobile had informal support encouraging people to use the iPhone on their network indirectly by providing any support whatsoever. No help jailbreaking, but certainly giving out the APNs etc. needed to set up the phone.
They have the information to exert the control, this is just a grab to be able to have carte blanche to control all devices on their network. They have no proof that a similar number of alternate smart-phones these folks would have had if they were not iPhones would not have had the same effect. If I were the FCC I think my reply might be along the lines of "We have asked homeland security to look into your network practices if they can be so affected, as homeland security deems communications infrastructure to be of a national security interest. Please spead'em wide, err... cooperate with them in all details."
If you read between the lines what t-mob is asking for is permission to bar phones they didn't sell from their network, thus being able "to charge what the traffic will bear" from consumers. AT&T was broken up over this and the phones freed for purchase from outside sources amid similar dire warnings from Ma Bell over having Dictaphones/answering machines/the lovely Erica Phones (well maybe not the last) purchased privately connected to their phone lines. Get over it Carriers. We have prior incidents in court to set precedence. And if you want full control it comes with consequences for any failures falling in your lap as you risk losing common carrier status.
And, by no means, am I officially competent to make judgements on these matters, even though I have several patents and have been hired to advise people on technical patents such as or in similar fields, (lengthy disclaimer over) to me is seems overly broad. Very much so. BBS systems that expanded their ascii menus (likely in vogue when this was filed in 1990) violated the primary claim, and dozens of ancillary ones. Amateur packet radio software, likewise, would be covered by these claims. That is just two casual pieces, and the menu system used on Apple Macintoshes from 1984 on as well as the prior ASCII menu system of Digital Equipment Corporations POS operating system on the DEC350 series of PDP-11 architecture desktops. WANG word processors would also fit into these claims. This is a bad patent, and I can see why Intellectual Ventures sold it. There is a TON of prior art. And I even used real graphics rollover menus in a space flight simulator for Apollo computers. When this patent was filed, the world wide web was just a thought. It wasn't until after this was filed any actual web communication took place. The net was essentially all ascii all the time before that. So while the owners at the time could have had the forethought to create specific world wide web patents that relied on this patent subsequently, hopefully the didn't, this particular patent is being misapplied. And since it runs for only 3 more years they are just getting settlements from folks that they sue that are less than the anticipated litigation costs most likely.
They don't need to design GPUs to get GPU related patents. And they actually do a lot of RnD in video. But this patent is really really obvious with a ton of prior art. The important date is not the issue date for the patent, but the filing date. I have computer security related patents that were filed in 2000 but have procedural issues because of the USPTO, and needing some of the claims language narrowed, some effort to split the single patent into several patents and so on. The USPTO can be really weird as one in the same group was approved in about 18 months. But the filing date is the date, once granted, you can claim infringement since. You get to go back in history! This is why one of the pieces of patent reform in the US was to start publishing applications 1 year after filed instead of at the time the patent grants so as to help prevent submarine patents, i.e., those that people purposely delay to get greater damage awards by keeping the patents essentially hidden.
Seems to me MSFT is creating a utility patent on a process where they knew the software patent would fail. That is in addition not only to this patents subject matter being obvious to those familiar with the state of the art (hence not most patent examiners, which is why the system is very very broken), but it is old hat to those in the industry having been done for almost 2 decades at this point. Just because the GPU is bigger badder faster down't mean things running on the GPU become re-novelized.
Time to patent running applications on CPUs that have more than 2000 pins on the package. or have more than 81 cores on the CPU. Or have an aggregate flops of better than 1 teraflop on a chip. Or use direct optical connections to the chip. Or running applications on a mobile device in a watertight shell underwater... or... Well you get the idea. I am very much opposed to patenting the same concept doing the exact same thing because of the environment. No novel interface, no novel usage. This is just citing one possible application using a GPU for computes, when there were already many many apps doing this.
No, but providing someone with a unit to calculate (for example) a transformation doesn't mean that you give them an efficient way of computing FFTs. Of course if you give them a general purpose matrix-vector multiplier then it does. In 2004 a graphics card used a fixed function unit, and today it uses a general purpose one. Assumptions about how obvious it is that other applications can be performed don't carry back to previous generations of the hardware.
This is a wide generalization. The requirements for my Digital Equipment Corporation FullVideo Elite card are a 386 AT buss computer, a VGA card with a VESA connector, and Microsoft Windows 3.1or later or DOS 5.0 or later. The general public use for the card was to decode MPEG, but the Digital toolkit for developers was to do general processing or to encode MPEG video. It had a 4 x 4 matrix (16 total) processor section. Touting on the box, Thousands of titles available in a variety of genres from movies to interactive educational titles. And Full Screen, full motion TV like video with 16 bit sound! Oh and your system needed 2megabytes of memory available, and 2 megabytes of free disk space. Most of the materials are copyright 1994, Some 1993, and the Robocop 3D game bundled with it is Copyright 1992, but likely that is just the movie? My SDK has copyrights of 1992 in some headers, but that may be before sale / disclosure to the public. And it uses REALmagic(tm) interactive MPEG technology. SO that Interactive part, that implies something eh. But I used this very board to prototype some stuff for MSFT Research...
Those who forget history are doomed, err... scratch that, blessed to patent it again... and again... and again...
He writes, 'If you have to make significant, identical changes to a bunch of Linux servers, is it easier to log into them one-by-one and run through a GUI or text-menu tool, or write a quick shell script that hits each box and either makes the changes or simply pulls down a few new config files and restarts some services? And it's not just about conservation of effort — it's also about accuracy. If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box. If you're doing them all by hand, you aren't.'
Bad GUI. Should have a checkbox next to each server and a select all/toggle selection action. Then make the change once. It is a way people think and too many GUI front-ends are written by hard core CLI people or others with little GUI design experience. I do advocate a well written backend setup for such tools and then a CLI front-end, a GUI one, and a programmable API that is user friendly (may be the same as the normal backend.)
Each mode has its own uses and its own fans, but in this day and age the GUI has proved useful more than enough. There are bad CLIs to systems as well. Having to use --help or man often is a sign maybe something is wrong.
A fighter would understand, for instance, if an enemy had penetrated the networks and changed coordinates or target times, said Dusty Rhoads, a retired Air Force colonel and former F-117 pilot who recruited the original task force members. "A techie wouldn't have a clue," he said.'
Whereas a techie would know that for the last 3 months they failed to penetrate the network and their target was to access the coordinates or target times... Our To a hammer everything looks like a nail. What we want to do is prevent the successful attacks, not detect a successful attack and the "warriors" don't generally have a clue to distinguish between a spam phishing attack and a coordinated attempt to break security.
Aluminum screen and at the edges folded and hammered in place, and then the windows covered in conductive film. Then bond it all together without allowing some capacitative effect feed through you didn't anticipate. And make sure it is properly grounded. Don't forget the conductive gaskets for opening like the doors and windows... It all gets rather expensive, even "on the cheap"...
Consider allowing a small number of devices that have airplane mode, and taking the device out of airplane mode (or enabling wifi in airplane mode) is visible on screen so the proctor walking up behind folks can note the state, if they know the devices, hence the small number of allowed devices.
But it is easiest to make it a point at the beginning of the class that all the tests will require a non-networkable device. Then no surprise at the end of the quarter/semester when you tell the students the sad news...
As one of those Apple developers that has had his apps pirated at a rate more than 1000 fold the sales rate (by torrent counters) or 100 fold by my site hits for the apps that use some external resources, I jailbreak my phones for three reasons, which are from least important to most important:
testing on jailbroken devices because some issues can arise where my app store released apps dislike jailbroken phones depending on the os version and jailbreak method, I solve these as I have spare time
to have a ready supply of prepaid cards used in test devices of prior generations. Otherwise I pay hundreds a year per device just to have it sit around for testing purposes.
To have a phone with my apps when I travel and use foreign prepaid SIMs. It saves me thousands of dollars each year. No exaggeration here, comparing prepaid rates in Europe and eastern Europe in particular with ATT roaming. ATT solution, pay several dollars per minute and turn off data service; my solution, pay a few pennies a minute, no call origination fee, and also have full data use as well for reasonable rates. For example, in Ukraine I spend about $60 a month for prepaid (and could save more with contract rates if I was there more) My friend spent $150 making no phone calls but just checking email periodically. I used maps, email, made a dozen calls a day, etc.
2) The courts will rule jailbreaking illegal in the long run. It escapes me how the recent ruling was even possible with the DMCA and all, rest assured they will "fix" this again.
The DMCA already included provisions prior to the ruling to allow unlocking cell phones. It hopefully will always allow this as otherwise I will have to pay about $500 a year per phone device to a cell phone company for the devices I use as test devices. And consumers will have less ability to resell devices, and that is not a goal. The viewpoint of the quote seems to believe that corporate interest always wins over consumer interests, which is not always the case; sometimes it does seem like it though.
But... DMCA allowed unlocking before the jailbreaking ruling, and I would hazard that the fact jailbreaking is required to "unofficially" unlock the device weighed heavily on their decision.
Apple and ATT could probably make a stronger point if they "factory unlocked" a phone when it was legally off contract. Until then jailbreaking is likely to remain legal, as well as necessary...
Just so long as I can load my car onto the railcar at some convenient hub, and get myself and 3 passengers carried along with the car to a distant hub near my destination, and at a price cheaper than the cost of just driving there. It is faster than 8-10 hours of driving then sleeping, etc. if the high speed rail goes hub to hub with minimal stops. This is not likely. The localities will lobby to be a stop, that will increase the trip time, and it may "go fast" in theory but it will be like the Soviet era (and now) overnight trains that travel 400 to 500 kilometers and have a huge number of stops in small towns and villages... And in the US we are great at making sure OUR concern (i.e., a stop in our town) is met.
Don't mandate that each device be "accessible". Make an incentive to produce accessible devices. I really don't need a braille display on my iPhone because some people are deaf and blind. Instead make it worth it for Apple to either make or license the technology to make an accessible version of the device. (no need for the retina display!).
Else I will start demanding an LCD display be part of every braille display so I can have it "accessible" to me. They don't want what is extraneous on their devices as it just raises the cost with no benefit. Same for me thanks. Don't burden the whole of society in a really really stupid manner when the overall goal can be achieved in a simpler manner. Incentives for mobile devices or subsidy of them if they are accessible.
I wish that in the upcoming election in the US we can exchange the current capitol hill wags for people who can think. Even if they have noble goals, they need to mandate the social aspects not the technological ones. This is like mandating wheelchair access and alternate controls for every automobile. IDIOTS in our government with the best intentions.
They mandate that CD and DVD cases have built-in radios. Or walking canes. Or that every automobile sized DIN device have one built-in as well as the original car.
And as a consumer I want to see the music labels that benefit from this have a mandated decrease in profit that covers the expense and that money should flow to every equipment manufacturer based on their own costs, so that is Apple or Microsoft decide to put in an FM receiver with all the bells and whistles possible and spend the money to engineer it for highest fidelity and minimal size, then the Music Labels better repay them not only the device cost increase but the R%amp;D cost as well. And it best not affect my device performance as I don't want the blasted thing. In fact the Music Labels better pay ME to have it in my device on an ongoing basis as it sucks resources, even if that is just a miniscule amount of weight and the power to know whether to apply power to that or not.
And just to get this straight, the NAB/RIAA are going to fund listening to music for FREE but prosecute people who privately share music for FREE. Do they also talk to themselves while looking in a mirror?
There is a marker in western Ukraine from a long long ago survey that proclaims that to be the center of Europe. So there is "prior art" to invalidate the Austrian patent.
And it had a marker placed there by the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, the claim of Austria is belied by their own ancestors.
But seriously, how difficult can it be using modern satellite based cartography to determine where the boundary is, once you establish if it is weighted landmass or center of the bordering/enclosing polygon, and what minor islands are included. Unless of course you want to include the entirety of the tectonic plate! So lets have a movement to form a committee to seek funding for a study to determine the precise location and see how many man hours we can waste on this!
By overtly giving access to these governments they can scan for US or European business partners (hopefully RIM limits to the local to that country traffic). This allows them an unfair competitive advantage as they can then direct local companies often state owned or controlled to change bids or marketing approaches. Saudi Arabia this might apply to leveraging better prices from suppliers or from gaining a better advantage in the financial sector, and in India it means they can now cherry pick information related to manufacturing deals to gain advantage over the people looking for competitive bids between India and other outsource manufacturing (and outsource software development).
This is not good. Corporations should strongly consider if RIM is a viable solution at this point.
The extra speed makes it possible to consider moving a server's RAM a few feet from its CPUs to aid cooling and moving memory and computational power to peripherals like laptop docks and monitors.
But remember this tech does not change the speed of light, every foot is still approximately 1 nanosecond (every 30.5 centimeters approximately for the non-USA parts of the world). So each foot adds 2 nanoseconds (As JRRT said, There and back again) which through clever local cache might get down to much less. But the latency is still there regardless of the block size transferred.
Like all weapons, both offensive and defensive, they must be tested to be "battle proven". The usual first targets are "soft targets" that can't fight back. So The US Cybercommand released what the administration says are not critical secret information to Wikileaks via a covert channel. The people responsible for the actual leaks will be not-guilty on some technicality or be found to not be the ones who actually leaked the information. Meanwhile the US CyberCommand will release the wrath and fury of its might on Wikileaks. And have said they will contravene International Law to do so.
The solution is to not go after Wikileaks you government idiot reactionary stooges. Stop the leaks from happening in the first place.
Your tax dollars at work. If you don't like what they are doing vote out every incumbent in the fall. Send a clear message that you are unhappy with the current administrations handling of YOUR country to BOTH sides of the aisle!
Right. Basically what we call "High level programming languages" are not all that high level any longer and the compiler is getting off without doing enough work. The language should be simple and the "hard work" should be done by the compiler figuring out the most effecient way to get done what it is being told to get done.
So you're essentially asking the compiler to distinguish between a P and NP solution to the same problem, as well as the less nasty n versus n^2 etc. variations through analysis of what the programmer wrote and determine an optimal potentially new algorithm for solving the problem. Sort of like not only using a computer program to solve the 4 color map problem, but essentially have it as well write the program that solved it based on a simple description of the problem?
We live in a world where there are complex problems and multiple ways to solve them not all are optimal, and programs to prove programs correct in the general case are not possible, provably not possible. But we expect our compilers which are already rearranging our work at the lowest levels for branch prediction optimizations as well as overlapped operations of current CPUs to now also optimize our logic on the front end, which arguably can only be done to the most limited extent.
Any one can be taught the language to write a program in. But it takes skill to write an efficient program. I took what physicists gave me, and then rewrote it for efficiency and handed the new algorithms back to them. When they said the two were identical they asked why I went to the effort. I said their example was not guaranteed to complete in finite time, mine was. That was a concept they could appreciate and understand...
Sure there are language features in C++ that are a compromise, but they are far more useful than what went before. Sun did object oriented C with a host of macros before C++ was around. The concepts move forward. So if someone has a concept to make a simplified language for programming, cool, great idea. But unless the people programming understand programming they'll still make novice mistakes and write inefficient programs.
Frankly I am surprised C++ has survived this long. But as I am mostly working in Objective-C these days I sometimes miss some of the C++ features I am fondest of. Which illustrates the point that even in programming languages we develop idioms just as in natural languages that we prefer and that mark our work through their patterns as our own.
But the concept of the compiler doing the hard work through a simpler input language overlooks some of the really hard problems in computer science. And unless you can write that compiler in its own language that it processes, you've just hidden the skilled programmers to an even smaller elite group. Because they'll have to be the implementors using the implementation language. Then heaven help you...
Also, anyone who works for Google, will as a matter of either survival or basic mindset, espouse the view that Google's views are the correct ones. Pedigree of the speaker notwithstanding. It is true in all corporate cultures with only rare exceptions. Often we see jobs for corporate evangelist, seldom if ever for official corporate detractors/devil's advocates.
Boeing and Mitre have both trashed my wireless signals to Part 15 devices. And they are primary or secondary on the bands in use. WiFi is an unlicensed interloper of limited power. Confronted by even the sidebands of some transmitters operating in a licensed and legal mode there is no hope. Except. Faraday shields keep all the signal goodness inside in as well as keep the bad juju out. The moral of this story is when you walk through a metal door with metallic gaskets ask your friendly native guide what you're walking through... And I swear some joker at Boeing scans through the 305MHz car alarm unlock sequences when his equipment is otherwise idle. My car unlocks itself about once a month. I'm not the only one in the area hat it happens too either. And remember that like most Part 15 devices the receiver is deaf. A good quality 2.4 or 5GHz receiver will see a pretty solid noise floor from all the WiFi for 1000's of yards or more in urban settings.
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So the penalty for speeding is death? After all you risked potentially killing someone. There has to have a sense of balance in punishments. That goes make to English Common law and the code of Hammurabi well before that, and those along with some eastern US Indian tribes customs set the basis for US law. (Except Louisiana where the napoleonic code plays a part too)
I am a believer that penalties should fit the damage incurred and in the case of needing a punishment over that, a rate of punitive damages of a factor of 2 or 3 is just fine. So let's take the figure of 70 cents per song based on the reported Apple cost of the song to distribute it electronically, and then lets give treble damages to make it $2.10 per song downloaded. Then if the RIAA can prove that the individual distributed the song, charge them $2.10 for each time it was downloaded. Of course in order to prove that then you have to equally garner payment from each party, equitably, so the rate per song per individual per incident comes to $1.05. They collect the other $1.05 from the other sharing party that is operating illegally. Of course I think they also have to prove conclusively that each transfer occurred.
AT issue seems to be the lower income strata. A sales tax certainly is unfair. It adversely affects poorer folks. The state gets to decide what is exempt or not exempt, and in the case of Washington State, classed a locally produced high protein nutrition bar as "candy" and taxed it. They set the bar a bit skewed based on lobbying and even punished local general food production plants with a higher business and operating tax that raised food prices. The voters turned those back, and hopefully the state will cut spending! The income tax proposal was also flawed, as in Washington State after 2 years the legislature can amend, revoke, or modify any publicly passed initiative. So the high ceiling set at 200,000 dollars to start and a step up in rate at 500,000 dollars could be amended lower, and considering they taxed bottled water, nutrition bars, and a host of other items recently in order to raise money they've lost through a lower over all economy in the state, they'd be attacking that and amending the amounts lower in two years.
A proper income tax would replace the sales tax and other state taxes including property taxes (have to phase those out gradually) and have a constitutional set limit on the rate, say 5 per cent, and be a flat rate applied to all income. In order to further protect the poor to lower middle income families, set a deduction equal to twice the poverty level, where the poverty level is determined at the national level. That's the only deduction. Although again, you should because people planned on it long term, also phase out a mortgage interest deduction for the primary owner occupied dwelling.
You can do this at the national level at set it at around 20 percent and the Federal budget will have a substantial boost in revenue. So you'd want to include a provision that allows the debt to be paid down faster, and when it is paid off (about 25 years now) you reduce the percentage tax paid. And you can even gradually stop corporate income tax. Why stop corporate income tax you ask? Because the corporations actually use the money to put people to work. The Government hiring someone (paid by taxes) does not increase gross domestic product. A corporation hiring someone does (usually). The economy is not a zero sum game, but a state run economy artificially becomes one. Less government, more growth in the economy. More government, less economic growth as the private sector bows under the pressure of supporting the larger government. Least people object strongly to less taxes from corporations, consider that purely from a revenue perspective, tax anything at 0 percent, no tax revenue, but tax it at 100 per cent and still no revenue. So from a pure perspective of unbounded government manic funding, the tax can't increase to much or they stop getting money. And businesses demand special treatment, lobby government, and so on, and private individuals push the money out of the country. Businesses just open shop elsewhere in the world. But if corporations are not taxed they either pay more out to shareholders (which will be taxed) or they increase operations and employ more people (which will increase the taxes collected from those people). So if the personal income tax operates properly not taxing corporations actually increases the revenue collected.
Concurrent with this you have to also limit the increase in state (or federal) budget to the rate of inflation or rate of increase of individual income, whichever is less. That stops the government from excessively spending any excess as the excess will be temporary in the state case, and should pay down the debt in the federal case.
By the way, to expose the sham of the "protected" social security accounts, consider if the money you've paid in to the social security fund was used to solely purchase US Treasury notes, when the average person reached minimum retirement age they'd be a multi-millionaire. My last rant is that income tax should be an individual tax. No special treatment for married or children. The high deduction just helps lower income folks more, and doesn't penalize overtly single people.
My understanding is that the recipe itself, the list of ingredients, is not copyrightable. Some common sense from old ruling lacking in modern ones. BUT the text describing the method of combining those ingredients, the actual prose descriptions, not the facts involved, are copyrightable. And that wayward publisher should understand that everything they have every put on the web without attribution to the actual copyright owner is able to be in some limited ways a source of litigation against them.
I first thought of implanting a wireless connected display for a map display / GPS with of course time and temp and other environmental info. And optionally things like a nitro/blood gas meter for diving. I have a lot of forearm "display" space just going to waste. Now that it can display things, can they intercept the nerve impulses so I have a "touch" keyboard and graphics cursor / trackpad there too. Just putting on my shades, 'cuz the futures so bright. Of course the spy-tech comes to mind too so you can have a cheat sheet / active sit-rep display literally in the palm of your hand. Just make the emitters require special contacts to see.
The mobile carrier can identify the model phone used and stop it if they don't like it. T-Mobile had informal support encouraging people to use the iPhone on their network indirectly by providing any support whatsoever. No help jailbreaking, but certainly giving out the APNs etc. needed to set up the phone.
They have the information to exert the control, this is just a grab to be able to have carte blanche to control all devices on their network. They have no proof that a similar number of alternate smart-phones these folks would have had if they were not iPhones would not have had the same effect. If I were the FCC I think my reply might be along the lines of "We have asked homeland security to look into your network practices if they can be so affected, as homeland security deems communications infrastructure to be of a national security interest. Please spead'em wide, err... cooperate with them in all details."
If you read between the lines what t-mob is asking for is permission to bar phones they didn't sell from their network, thus being able "to charge what the traffic will bear" from consumers. AT&T was broken up over this and the phones freed for purchase from outside sources amid similar dire warnings from Ma Bell over having Dictaphones/answering machines/the lovely Erica Phones (well maybe not the last) purchased privately connected to their phone lines. Get over it Carriers. We have prior incidents in court to set precedence. And if you want full control it comes with consequences for any failures falling in your lap as you risk losing common carrier status.
And, by no means, am I officially competent to make judgements on these matters, even though I have several patents and have been hired to advise people on technical patents such as or in similar fields, (lengthy disclaimer over) to me is seems overly broad. Very much so. BBS systems that expanded their ascii menus (likely in vogue when this was filed in 1990) violated the primary claim, and dozens of ancillary ones. Amateur packet radio software, likewise, would be covered by these claims. That is just two casual pieces, and the menu system used on Apple Macintoshes from 1984 on as well as the prior ASCII menu system of Digital Equipment Corporations POS operating system on the DEC350 series of PDP-11 architecture desktops. WANG word processors would also fit into these claims. This is a bad patent, and I can see why Intellectual Ventures sold it. There is a TON of prior art. And I even used real graphics rollover menus in a space flight simulator for Apollo computers. When this patent was filed, the world wide web was just a thought. It wasn't until after this was filed any actual web communication took place. The net was essentially all ascii all the time before that. So while the owners at the time could have had the forethought to create specific world wide web patents that relied on this patent subsequently, hopefully the didn't, this particular patent is being misapplied. And since it runs for only 3 more years they are just getting settlements from folks that they sue that are less than the anticipated litigation costs most likely.
They don't need to design GPUs to get GPU related patents. And they actually do a lot of RnD in video. But this patent is really really obvious with a ton of prior art. The important date is not the issue date for the patent, but the filing date. I have computer security related patents that were filed in 2000 but have procedural issues because of the USPTO, and needing some of the claims language narrowed, some effort to split the single patent into several patents and so on. The USPTO can be really weird as one in the same group was approved in about 18 months. But the filing date is the date, once granted, you can claim infringement since. You get to go back in history! This is why one of the pieces of patent reform in the US was to start publishing applications 1 year after filed instead of at the time the patent grants so as to help prevent submarine patents, i.e., those that people purposely delay to get greater damage awards by keeping the patents essentially hidden.
Seems to me MSFT is creating a utility patent on a process where they knew the software patent would fail. That is in addition not only to this patents subject matter being obvious to those familiar with the state of the art (hence not most patent examiners, which is why the system is very very broken), but it is old hat to those in the industry having been done for almost 2 decades at this point. Just because the GPU is bigger badder faster down't mean things running on the GPU become re-novelized.
... or ... Well you get the idea. I am very much opposed to patenting the same concept doing the exact same thing because of the environment. No novel interface, no novel usage. This is just citing one possible application using a GPU for computes, when there were already many many apps doing this.
Time to patent running applications on CPUs that have more than 2000 pins on the package. or have more than 81 cores on the CPU. Or have an aggregate flops of better than 1 teraflop on a chip. Or use direct optical connections to the chip. Or running applications on a mobile device in a watertight shell underwater
No, but providing someone with a unit to calculate (for example) a transformation doesn't mean that you give them an efficient way of computing FFTs. Of course if you give them a general purpose matrix-vector multiplier then it does. In 2004 a graphics card used a fixed function unit, and today it uses a general purpose one. Assumptions about how obvious it is that other applications can be performed don't carry back to previous generations of the hardware.
This is a wide generalization. The requirements for my Digital Equipment Corporation FullVideo Elite card are a 386 AT buss computer, a VGA card with a VESA connector, and Microsoft Windows 3.1or later or DOS 5.0 or later. The general public use for the card was to decode MPEG, but the Digital toolkit for developers was to do general processing or to encode MPEG video. It had a 4 x 4 matrix (16 total) processor section. Touting on the box, Thousands of titles available in a variety of genres from movies to interactive educational titles. And Full Screen, full motion TV like video with 16 bit sound! Oh and your system needed 2megabytes of memory available, and 2 megabytes of free disk space. Most of the materials are copyright 1994, Some 1993, and the Robocop 3D game bundled with it is Copyright 1992, but likely that is just the movie? My SDK has copyrights of 1992 in some headers, but that may be before sale / disclosure to the public. And it uses REALmagic(tm) interactive MPEG technology. SO that Interactive part, that implies something eh. But I used this very board to prototype some stuff for MSFT Research...
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Those who forget history are doomed, err... scratch that, blessed to patent it again
Bad GUI. Should have a checkbox next to each server and a select all /toggle selection action. Then make the change once. It is a way people think and too many GUI front-ends are written by hard core CLI people or others with little GUI design experience. I do advocate a well written backend setup for such tools and then a CLI front-end, a GUI one, and a programmable API that is user friendly (may be the same as the normal backend.)
Each mode has its own uses and its own fans, but in this day and age the GUI has proved useful more than enough. There are bad CLIs to systems as well. Having to use --help or man often is a sign maybe something is wrong.
Whereas a techie would know that for the last 3 months they failed to penetrate the network and their target was to access the coordinates or target times ... Our To a hammer everything looks like a nail. What we want to do is prevent the successful attacks, not detect a successful attack and the "warriors" don't generally have a clue to distinguish between a spam phishing attack and a coordinated attempt to break security.
"The FUD of war."(tm) Tjp
Aluminum screen and at the edges folded and hammered in place, and then the windows covered in conductive film. Then bond it all together without allowing some capacitative effect feed through you didn't anticipate. And make sure it is properly grounded. Don't forget the conductive gaskets for opening like the doors and windows... It all gets rather expensive, even "on the cheap"... Consider allowing a small number of devices that have airplane mode, and taking the device out of airplane mode (or enabling wifi in airplane mode) is visible on screen so the proctor walking up behind folks can note the state, if they know the devices, hence the small number of allowed devices. But it is easiest to make it a point at the beginning of the class that all the tests will require a non-networkable device. Then no surprise at the end of the quarter/semester when you tell the students the sad news ...
The DMCA already included provisions prior to the ruling to allow unlocking cell phones. It hopefully will always allow this as otherwise I will have to pay about $500 a year per phone device to a cell phone company for the devices I use as test devices. And consumers will have less ability to resell devices, and that is not a goal. The viewpoint of the quote seems to believe that corporate interest always wins over consumer interests, which is not always the case; sometimes it does seem like it though.
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But... DMCA allowed unlocking before the jailbreaking ruling, and I would hazard that the fact jailbreaking is required to "unofficially" unlock the device weighed heavily on their decision.
Apple and ATT could probably make a stronger point if they "factory unlocked" a phone when it was legally off contract. Until then jailbreaking is likely to remain legal, as well as necessary
Have to stock up on agnothre to fight the threads when they come ...
Just so long as I can load my car onto the railcar at some convenient hub, and get myself and 3 passengers carried along with the car to a distant hub near my destination, and at a price cheaper than the cost of just driving there. It is faster than 8-10 hours of driving then sleeping, etc. if the high speed rail goes hub to hub with minimal stops. This is not likely. The localities will lobby to be a stop, that will increase the trip time, and it may "go fast" in theory but it will be like the Soviet era (and now) overnight trains that travel 400 to 500 kilometers and have a huge number of stops in small towns and villages ... And in the US we are great at making sure OUR concern (i.e., a stop in our town) is met.
Don't mandate that each device be "accessible". Make an incentive to produce accessible devices. I really don't need a braille display on my iPhone because some people are deaf and blind. Instead make it worth it for Apple to either make or license the technology to make an accessible version of the device. (no need for the retina display!).
Else I will start demanding an LCD display be part of every braille display so I can have it "accessible" to me. They don't want what is extraneous on their devices as it just raises the cost with no benefit. Same for me thanks. Don't burden the whole of society in a really really stupid manner when the overall goal can be achieved in a simpler manner. Incentives for mobile devices or subsidy of them if they are accessible.
I wish that in the upcoming election in the US we can exchange the current capitol hill wags for people who can think. Even if they have noble goals, they need to mandate the social aspects not the technological ones. This is like mandating wheelchair access and alternate controls for every automobile. IDIOTS in our government with the best intentions.
They mandate that CD and DVD cases have built-in radios. Or walking canes. Or that every automobile sized DIN device have one built-in as well as the original car.
And as a consumer I want to see the music labels that benefit from this have a mandated decrease in profit that covers the expense and that money should flow to every equipment manufacturer based on their own costs, so that is Apple or Microsoft decide to put in an FM receiver with all the bells and whistles possible and spend the money to engineer it for highest fidelity and minimal size, then the Music Labels better repay them not only the device cost increase but the R%amp;D cost as well. And it best not affect my device performance as I don't want the blasted thing. In fact the Music Labels better pay ME to have it in my device on an ongoing basis as it sucks resources, even if that is just a miniscule amount of weight and the power to know whether to apply power to that or not.
And just to get this straight, the NAB/RIAA are going to fund listening to music for FREE but prosecute people who privately share music for FREE. Do they also talk to themselves while looking in a mirror?
There is a marker in western Ukraine from a long long ago survey that proclaims that to be the center of Europe. So there is "prior art" to invalidate the Austrian patent.
And it had a marker placed there by the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, the claim of Austria is belied by their own ancestors.
But seriously, how difficult can it be using modern satellite based cartography to determine where the boundary is, once you establish if it is weighted landmass or center of the bordering/enclosing polygon, and what minor islands are included. Unless of course you want to include the entirety of the tectonic plate! So lets have a movement to form a committee to seek funding for a study to determine the precise location and see how many man hours we can waste on this!
By overtly giving access to these governments they can scan for US or European business partners (hopefully RIM limits to the local to that country traffic). This allows them an unfair competitive advantage as they can then direct local companies often state owned or controlled to change bids or marketing approaches. Saudi Arabia this might apply to leveraging better prices from suppliers or from gaining a better advantage in the financial sector, and in India it means they can now cherry pick information related to manufacturing deals to gain advantage over the people looking for competitive bids between India and other outsource manufacturing (and outsource software development).
This is not good. Corporations should strongly consider if RIM is a viable solution at this point.
But remember this tech does not change the speed of light, every foot is still approximately 1 nanosecond (every 30.5 centimeters approximately for the non-USA parts of the world). So each foot adds 2 nanoseconds (As JRRT said, There and back again) which through clever local cache might get down to much less. But the latency is still there regardless of the block size transferred.
Like all weapons, both offensive and defensive, they must be tested to be "battle proven". The usual first targets are "soft targets" that can't fight back. So The US Cybercommand released what the administration says are not critical secret information to Wikileaks via a covert channel. The people responsible for the actual leaks will be not-guilty on some technicality or be found to not be the ones who actually leaked the information. Meanwhile the US CyberCommand will release the wrath and fury of its might on Wikileaks. And have said they will contravene International Law to do so.
The solution is to not go after Wikileaks you government idiot reactionary stooges. Stop the leaks from happening in the first place.
Your tax dollars at work. If you don't like what they are doing vote out every incumbent in the fall. Send a clear message that you are unhappy with the current administrations handling of YOUR country to BOTH sides of the aisle!
Right. Basically what we call "High level programming languages" are not all that high level any longer and the compiler is getting off without doing enough work. The language should be simple and the "hard work" should be done by the compiler figuring out the most effecient way to get done what it is being told to get done.
So you're essentially asking the compiler to distinguish between a P and NP solution to the same problem, as well as the less nasty n versus n^2 etc. variations through analysis of what the programmer wrote and determine an optimal potentially new algorithm for solving the problem. Sort of like not only using a computer program to solve the 4 color map problem, but essentially have it as well write the program that solved it based on a simple description of the problem?
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We live in a world where there are complex problems and multiple ways to solve them not all are optimal, and programs to prove programs correct in the general case are not possible, provably not possible. But we expect our compilers which are already rearranging our work at the lowest levels for branch prediction optimizations as well as overlapped operations of current CPUs to now also optimize our logic on the front end, which arguably can only be done to the most limited extent.
Any one can be taught the language to write a program in. But it takes skill to write an efficient program. I took what physicists gave me, and then rewrote it for efficiency and handed the new algorithms back to them. When they said the two were identical they asked why I went to the effort. I said their example was not guaranteed to complete in finite time, mine was. That was a concept they could appreciate and understand
Sure there are language features in C++ that are a compromise, but they are far more useful than what went before. Sun did object oriented C with a host of macros before C++ was around. The concepts move forward. So if someone has a concept to make a simplified language for programming, cool, great idea. But unless the people programming understand programming they'll still make novice mistakes and write inefficient programs.
Frankly I am surprised C++ has survived this long. But as I am mostly working in Objective-C these days I sometimes miss some of the C++ features I am fondest of. Which illustrates the point that even in programming languages we develop idioms just as in natural languages that we prefer and that mark our work through their patterns as our own.
But the concept of the compiler doing the hard work through a simpler input language overlooks some of the really hard problems in computer science. And unless you can write that compiler in its own language that it processes, you've just hidden the skilled programmers to an even smaller elite group. Because they'll have to be the implementors using the implementation language. Then heaven help you...
Also, anyone who works for Google, will as a matter of either survival or basic mindset, espouse the view that Google's views are the correct ones. Pedigree of the speaker notwithstanding. It is true in all corporate cultures with only rare exceptions. Often we see jobs for corporate evangelist, seldom if ever for official corporate detractors/devil's advocates.
Boeing and Mitre have both trashed my wireless signals to Part 15 devices. And they are primary or secondary on the bands in use. WiFi is an unlicensed interloper of limited power. Confronted by even the sidebands of some transmitters operating in a licensed and legal mode there is no hope. Except. Faraday shields keep all the signal goodness inside in as well as keep the bad juju out. The moral of this story is when you walk through a metal door with metallic gaskets ask your friendly native guide what you're walking through... And I swear some joker at Boeing scans through the 305MHz car alarm unlock sequences when his equipment is otherwise idle. My car unlocks itself about once a month. I'm not the only one in the area hat it happens too either. And remember that like most Part 15 devices the receiver is deaf. A good quality 2.4 or 5GHz receiver will see a pretty solid noise floor from all the WiFi for 1000's of yards or more in urban settings.