re: Unless you get served, you have no legal obligation to even acknowledge the existence of the company let alone the letter they sent out. .
Is that really true? Just avoiding service / delivery of the message is enough to keep you clear of trouble? That doesn't sound quite right or sane, but then again, nothing in this world of lawsuits and copyright is on this side of the sane/insane dividing line...
re: Exerting your legal rights is not extortion, nor is offering a settlement to avoid litigation. For better or for worse, RICO doesn't apply. .
Unfortunately true, just the same way that statements made in filing a lawsuit cannot be used for the basis of a defamation or libel lawsuit, supposedly, according to the/. article just the other day.
It's like the lifetime warranty for TomTom GPSs : the warranty applies for as long as the device is functional; once the product stops functioning, the lifetime warranty no longer applies. WTF?
I did not know that the "@hotmail.com" addresses still worked and just forwarded (I'm guessing). Thanks for the info. I retract my slight technicality, since Hotmail still exists, and MS is most probably scraping your html hotmail emails too.
but they can't scrape your hotmail anymore because hotmail n'existe pas. They removed hotmail. Hotmail is an ex-parrot. But very likely that MS does do all of that on their other webmail and other internet protocol services.
The term "virus" in this context means a power virus -- which is an artificial workload designed to draw as much power as possible from the chip....... It's a virus because a malicious person might be able to activate this mode and melt down your CPU, so typically they _do_ have to design the system to support it.
Wow, thanks for the very informative post. It makes sense that being able to deal with full thermal stress would be useful. I've had my quad-core shut down on me once at 20-30 seconds into the boot-up sequence, and then I realized that the heat-sink was not fully applied to or in contact with the CPU surface. I reseated everything and the boot-up sequence went just fine. So I'm really glad that there was an on-die thermal danger detector that shut down my quad-core as the thermal level went to dangerous failure levels. The fact that it's alsodesigned and tested to be actually able to withstand a full power-load draw for a fixed interval is even more impressive.
No, you fool, she gave her grandson $100,000.00 for some software that may or may not have been worth anything at all. She gave a directed donation that could only be used to buy that particular software. It's the same as when MS "donates" software with a high-dollar-value to a school district and tries to lock them into the MS tool chain or upgrade cycle. It's not so much a "donation" as a self-serving transfer of money with tax benefits accruing to the so-called "donor". So STFU about goats if you're not going to bother catching the point.
Yeah, and earlier the so-called "editors" mixed up psychiatrists (Medical Doctors) and psychologists (Ph.D. Doctors) in their article about the British Psychological Association. They titled the post "Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness". You'd think the name of the British Psychological Association might have given them a clue. .
These editors couldn't find a clue if you put the board game "Clue" in front of their faces! (ba-dum-dum!)
Wow. I completely agree with you. Sorry that some idiots are modding you a "troll" for this statement. If I had any mod points, I'd remedy that. Strangely, I was getting 15 mod points daily until about three weeks ago when I made a comment about getting so many mod points, and suddenly I haven't had any mod points at all since then. My behavior online here hasn't changed at all (frequency of logging in, frequency of posting, frequency of my;>) smileys and bold-facing...) C'est tres etrange. .
Did you catch the point once where Grandma Bush of the presidential dynasty donated $100kUSA to a Texas school system with the money earmarked for software purchases from one of her grand-children's software company? Isn't that a hell-of-a-sneaky way to "gift" money to your grandchildren and sneak around the IRS tax-free gift limit of $11kUSA per year? ? ? If it weren't such a fucked up sleazy thing to do and immoral at that, I guess I'd be impressed by it. I always thought that Barbara Bush was one of the "good ones", along with her husband in some ways, but that certainly changed my mind about her.
Apple's first foray into cell phones was the ROKR made in conjunction with Motorola. It was just a rebadged Motorola E398 with the Apple iTunes music store accessible directly from the phone via licensed Apple software. It launched in September 2005.
Apple severely cut motorola off at the knees by soon announcing the iPhone and discontinuing support of the ROKR in September 2006, with the iTunes software being set up and configured to work with the as yet undisclosed iPhone hardware. So even Apple had a mis-step with Motorola on its first time out on the cell-phone dance floor. Why shouldn't Facebook make a misstep or two? (Not that I condone facebook's existence, the utility of facebook pages, or even any point to checking up on facebook at all. I just have an opinion about 1st generation hardware attempts! ! !)
It's also like the Zune phone. Just when MS started its advertising blitz with ?uestLove a.k.a. Questlove, the stores started discounting and discontinuing the damn useless phone and music player.
Verizon to Share User Location Data, Browsing History With Marketers
Verizon has posted changes to its privacy policy stating that it will now share user location data, Web browsing history and demographic information with marketers.
While Verizon insists that it will not provide third parties with any information identifying users on a personal basis, it will give them a wide array of its users' information, including websites they frequent on their Verizon devices, places where their devices have been, and demographic categories such as gender and age range. Verizon will also share user interests with marketers, such as whether they're a sports fan, own a pet or what sort of restaurants they frequent.
The Department of Justice in the USA already wants carriers to keep user location data for further review by DOJ as needed, warranted or not.
All of this just by searching for [ +"user location data" ] on your favorite search engine! So why aren't people up in arms about this?? Oh yeah, because not only do they accept this voluntarily, they pay the damn phone companies a monthly allotment to take their personal data and sell it! Damn sheep!
For the same reason that there was a surge in "autistic" children, or "autism spectrum" disorder kids in the last decade: more people being diagnosed. Do you know that in the 1700s nobody was labeled with having Parkinson's disease? Or Lou Gehrig's disease? Of course, there were probably people who had those diseases, but those disease names or the recognition of those syndromes as specific diseases did not even exist at that time! .
So of course once something has been defined there's a greater likelihood of it being recognized as existing in a patient as more doctors are trained about the knowledge and existence of the disease. .
And that's not even going into the secondary gain that people get from having kids labelled as "autism spectrum" disorder kids: extra time on tests, extra help in school, some people like these diagnoses (like "Aspergers's") because it makes their kids or them "special" and eligible for aid or benefits. So sometimes there's also fraudulent labeling for secondary gain.
Somebody down below mention the other solution of using a longer screwdriver (which works very well:>) ), but your solution works and is also called a stethoscope! I'm just not sure I'd want to have rubber tubing near a running car engine, as a hot part could melt the rubber and fuse the tube to that hot part, or a dangling loop of rubber could get caught up in some moving part or a fan-belt. :>) I personally think that the longer screwdriver approach is safer ! ! !
Re: It's therefore not surprising that some psychologists would issue a statement like this. .
I completely agree with you. In fact, the rambling statement by these psychologists (which does not appear to be scientific) is readily disproven by the biggest and most successful example of medical treatment of a mental health disorder: schizophrenia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Medication ) and the 1950's discovery of an
antipsychotic medication
which greatly improved the hallucinations and psychotic breaks undergone by schizophrenic patients:
chlorpromazine was found while looking for anti-histamines (for allergies).
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The wikipedia article on chlorpromazine points out:
In 1955 it was approved in the United States for the treatment of emesis (vomiting). The effect of this drug in emptying psychiatric hospitals has been compared to that of penicillin and infectious diseases.[50] But the popularity of the drug fell from the late 1960s as newer drugs came on the scene.
From chlorpromazine a number of other similar antipsychotics were developed. It also led to the discovery of antidepressants.[53]
Chlorpromazine largely replaced electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, and insulin shock therapy.
In other words, chlorpromazine actually worked so well that the psychiatrists no longer had to resort to ECT, brain surgery, or screwing with the patient's sugar and insulin levels. . You'd have to be a complete moron to claim that there is no evidence for medical and pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia: the evidence is almost 60 years old. The only conclusion to draw from this is that the British Psychological Society is, in fact, composed of vast groups of complete morons who do not believe in science or the scientific method.
The pdf link gets me to an error message page:
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The incident ID is: 0.
on the court's web page. Is it just for me, or a bad link?
According to Groklaw, however, one of the judges said
``Let's be clear: if all of these claims, including the system claims, are not patent-eligible, this case is the death of hundreds of thousands of patents, including all business method, financial system, and software patents as well as many computer implemented and telecommunications patents,'' Moore wrote.
Let's hope that Judge Moore is right, and these patents and deemed ineligible for patenting at all.
If you're allowed access to the material..., such as being able to check it out of the library or access it while on the library property or on the library internet connection, then why should there be any limits on transforming the data from one medium to another in order to allow a blind reader to know the words, or to allow automated voice recognition to create captions on the fly to allow deaf library patrons to be able to access and understand movies or disks that do not have intrinsic text captions embedded into the video stream or overlaid on the video itself? .
That sort of transformative change, on the fly, to allow immediate access and use ought to be fully exempt from "copyright restrictions" just as creating a temporary copy in RAM on a computer as the data is in flight from your internet connection through your computer onto your screen also does not count as copyright infringement!!!! .
This must be SO frustrating for the people who really need this access!!! How can we fix this? How can we help??? Is there something to be done?? Somewhere to sign up??? Any clues?
Greed is usually the leading cause for "a lack of attention to detail", as in a desire for profits leading to taking shortcuts designed to save money. San Onofre, just north of San Diego and Camp Pendleton had a shutdown in 2012 specifically because non-approved and non-tested techniques and modifications to approved plans were used during construction,, most likely to save costs and increase profits so someone could go home with bigger paychecks and bigger bonuses. .
Prior to 2012, plenty of other problems were found at San Onofre: "Problems at nuclear plant concern regulators" in the San Diego Union Tribune covered a few of these which ended up "resulting in the simultaneous shutdown of two safety backup systems and placing operators on standby to shut down a nuclear reactor." .
In Florida, you've got the hubris of Duke Energy trying to repair a cooling tower on its own using its own idiots rather than hiring people expertly capable of doing things just to save $10M$us (ten million usa dollars) resulting in the total shutdown of the Crystal River nuclear plant until at least 2014 at a total cost of repair projected to be $2.75B$us (2.75 Billion usa dollars):
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/03/01/1894613/nuclear-fiasco-vexes-progress.html : The problems experienced at Crystal River stem from a botched attempt to replace the plant's steam generator. The replacement required cutting a giant hole - measuring 23 feet by 27 feet - in the 42-inch-thick protective wall of the building that contains the nuclear reactor. To save money, Progress opted to manage the project on its own and awarded the contract to an engineering firm that had no experience in such repairs.
The work resulted in three instances of "delamination," a term used to describe an internal separation of the building wall. Each delamination is the size of a basketball court, said Florida's Deputy Public Counsel, Charles Rehwinkel. "They were definitely three separate events, or discrete incidents," he said.
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The blunder shows that a highly experienced nuclear operator with a sterling reputation in the industry is not immune from unforeseen miscues that raise questions about judgment and competence.
The sequence of mistakes has put Progress in a state of crisis management for more than two years. Company officials are dealing with persistent questions from Wall Street analysts while they negotiate data requests from the insurer, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, known as NEIL.
4 generator failures hit US nuclear plants in in AP article: Four generators that power emergency systems at nuclear plants have failed when needed since April, an unusual cluster that has attracted the attention of federal inspectors and could prompt the industry to re-examine its maintenance plans.
and those are just from a quick cursory review from a web search engine. People who look harder can find more. The common link in all of these are shortcuts taken to save money and to bypass conventional procedures which are required to be followed by the NRC.
which is the link listed in the Ars Technica article "Copyright troll Righthaven finally, completely dead" . I guess the editors copied the text from the Ars Technica article including the "(pdf)" parenthetical statement pointing out that the Ars Technica URL link points to a pdf file. Then they inserted the link to the Ars Technica article itself, rather than the link to the pdf file. (why am I bothering writing this?? no one else seems to have noticed the botched and borked link!)
re: can't even pronounce Diffie-Hellman, let alone know what it is. . I don't give a Whitfield Diffie, let alone know what it is! ;>)
Listen, I'll get back to you in a Diffie with some of that mayonnaise. We call that East Coast Hellman's stuff "Best Foods" out here on the West Coast. That's what all that EastCoast-WestCoast fighting's all about, right? .
That's a possibility for another/. poll: your favorite non-SI units:
-- Diffie as time
-- Smoot as length
-- I don't give a Whitfield Diffie as a curse/swear
-- pinch as volume
etc.
F2 still works on my uefi laptop. Don't know about if it still works with fast boot as I nuked my mswindows as soon as I got it and installed windows (X windows, thank you) on it instead with gnu-licious linux of the debian flavor.
Right, like the Iran centrifuge blow-ups weren't caused by the USA and by Israel? Anyone who claims to know who's been doing what on the world stage is blowing smokes. Even our own country-men-and-women probably don't realize the extent of our own country's cyberwarriors and how the USA admitted to state-sponsored hacking of Iran's centrifuges, (srsly, Obama sed we didz it, lookitup) and how many other things are being done in our name or upon us. Bush admitted to the NSA hacking our own telcoms and spying on ALL usa-internet traffic. .
So don't say that China's behind the majority of it. It's very likely that they are since they comprise the majority population of this planet, but it's equally likely that the USA and NATO elements are number one. (haha, I sound nationalistic and jingoistic, now, don't I? That wasn't my intent. My intent was to point out that anyone claiming definitive knowledge of the percentage responsibility couldn't possibly know the truth. They can only know about their own personal or own divisional involvement. Diplomacy and secrecy means that we don't ever truly know the capabilities and capacities of the other sides.)
I'm sorry to hear about that. Thank you for sharing the details. I'm sorry that the doctors jumped the gun based on a family history without considering the other possible physical and organic causes. That's the whole point of psychiatrists being M.D.'s: they're supposed to think like medical doctors so that they can rule out things like tumors in the brain or infections that could cause symptoms. I'm also glad you're healthy again. Best wishes for the future.
Re : I had internal infections misdiagnosed as depression for over 4 years before physical symptoms appeared.[emphasis mine] .
May I respectfully ask how you could expect anyone to diagnose something which had no physical symptoms manifesting for four years? It's not like doctors have magic. They have to base their diagnosis and diagnostic procedures based upon the history and physical: the history and information given by the patient and the physical exam performed to assess the patient's physical well being. .
If no physical symptoms manifest, whether as things that could or could not be tested for by blood tests or by scans of any type, how could anyone predcit or deduce its existence? There's a problem that also occurs when doctors overprescribe or overuse tests: they get trounced on for "overusing or overprescribing tests or scans"!! The doctor can only do things based upon the evidence presented... .
As to the last sentence of your, I sadly have to agree with you about "How the hell can a doctor prescribe SSRI without measuring the actual levels first?" .
The drug companies' pharmaceutical reps (representatives, salesman and saleswomen really) go to doctors and try to persuade them to prescribe certain drugs, the ones that their company makes. Many primary care doctors (such as internists or family physicians) who ought not be prescribing drugs which should be prescribed by specialists such as psychiatrists end up prescribing drugs such as SSRI's because of the marketing and because of the pressure from patients. That part is so sadly true. They ought not do that; I agree with you there. Did you see a specialist or a general practitioner?
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re: Unless you get served, you have no legal obligation to even acknowledge the existence of the company let alone the letter they sent out.
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Is that really true? Just avoiding service / delivery of the message is enough to keep you clear of trouble? That doesn't sound quite right or sane, but then again, nothing in this world of lawsuits and copyright is on this side of the sane/insane dividing line...
re: Exerting your legal rights is not extortion, nor is offering a settlement to avoid litigation. For better or for worse, RICO doesn't apply. /. article just the other day.
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Unfortunately true, just the same way that statements made in filing a lawsuit cannot be used for the basis of a defamation or libel lawsuit, supposedly, according to the
It's like the lifetime warranty for TomTom GPSs : the warranty applies for as long as the device is functional; once the product stops functioning, the lifetime warranty no longer applies. WTF?
I did not know that the "@hotmail.com" addresses still worked and just forwarded (I'm guessing). Thanks for the info. I retract my slight technicality, since Hotmail still exists, and MS is most probably scraping your html hotmail emails too.
but they can't scrape your hotmail anymore because hotmail n'existe pas. They removed hotmail. Hotmail is an ex-parrot. But very likely that MS does do all of that on their other webmail and other internet protocol services.
re:
The term "virus" in this context means a power virus -- which is an artificial workload designed to draw as much power as possible from the chip.Wow, thanks for the very informative post. It makes sense that being able to deal with full thermal stress would be useful. I've had my quad-core shut down on me once at 20-30 seconds into the boot-up sequence, and then I realized that the heat-sink was not fully applied to or in contact with the CPU surface. I reseated everything and the boot-up sequence went just fine. So I'm really glad that there was an on-die thermal danger detector that shut down my quad-core as the thermal level went to dangerous failure levels. The fact that it's alsodesigned and tested to be actually able to withstand a full power-load draw for a fixed interval is even more impressive.
Here's a link to the wikipedia page about a "Power Virus". And there's an Intel link about "Thermal performance challenges from Silicon to systems" there on the wikipedia page which is a dead link: http://download.intel.com/technology/itj/q32000/pdf/thermal_perf.pdf .
Re: I will note that the iPad's keyboard also lacks springiness and tactile feedback.
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Touche`, and well said!
No, you fool, she gave her grandson $100,000.00 for some software that may or may not have been worth anything at all. She gave a directed donation that could only be used to buy that particular software. It's the same as when MS "donates" software with a high-dollar-value to a school district and tries to lock them into the MS tool chain or upgrade cycle. It's not so much a "donation" as a self-serving transfer of money with tax benefits accruing to the so-called "donor". So STFU about goats if you're not going to bother catching the point.
Yeah, and earlier the so-called "editors" mixed up psychiatrists (Medical Doctors) and psychologists (Ph.D. Doctors) in their article about the British Psychological Association. They titled the post "Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness". You'd think the name of the British Psychological Association might have given them a clue.
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These editors couldn't find a clue if you put the board game "Clue" in front of their faces! (ba-dum-dum!)
Wow. I completely agree with you. Sorry that some idiots are modding you a "troll" for this statement. If I had any mod points, I'd remedy that. Strangely, I was getting 15 mod points daily until about three weeks ago when I made a comment about getting so many mod points, and suddenly I haven't had any mod points at all since then. My behavior online here hasn't changed at all (frequency of logging in, frequency of posting, frequency of my ;>) smileys and bold-facing...) C'est tres etrange.
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Did you catch the point once where Grandma Bush of the presidential dynasty donated $100kUSA to a Texas school system with the money earmarked for software purchases from one of her grand-children's software company? Isn't that a hell-of-a-sneaky way to "gift" money to your grandchildren and sneak around the IRS tax-free gift limit of $11kUSA per year? ? ? If it weren't such a fucked up sleazy thing to do and immoral at that, I guess I'd be impressed by it. I always thought that Barbara Bush was one of the "good ones", along with her husband in some ways, but that certainly changed my mind about her.
Apple's first foray into cell phones was the ROKR made in conjunction with Motorola. It was just a rebadged Motorola E398 with the Apple iTunes music store accessible directly from the phone via licensed Apple software. It launched in September 2005.
Apple severely cut motorola off at the knees by soon announcing the iPhone and discontinuing support of the ROKR in September 2006, with the iTunes software being set up and configured to work with the as yet undisclosed iPhone hardware. So even Apple had a mis-step with Motorola on its first time out on the cell-phone dance floor. Why shouldn't Facebook make a misstep or two? (Not that I condone facebook's existence, the utility of facebook pages, or even any point to checking up on facebook at all. I just have an opinion about 1st generation hardware attempts! ! !)
It's also like the Zune phone. Just when MS started its advertising blitz with ?uestLove a.k.a. Questlove, the stores started discounting and discontinuing the damn useless phone and music player.
Who's to say AT&T isn't doing this already in USA?
Verizon is already doing this, and has been for a while, according to
PC World's article about this
Verizon to Share User Location Data, Browsing History With Marketers
Verizon has posted changes to its privacy policy stating that it will now share user location data, Web browsing history and demographic information with marketers.
While Verizon insists that it will not provide third parties with any information identifying users on a personal basis, it will give them a wide array of its users' information, including websites they frequent on their Verizon devices, places where their devices have been, and demographic categories such as gender and age range. Verizon will also share user interests with marketers, such as whether they're a sports fan, own a pet or what sort of restaurants they frequent.
The Department of Justice in the USA already wants carriers to keep user location data for further review by DOJ as needed, warranted or not.
Apple already got slogged for tracking user location data in articles and on South Park's "Human Centipad" episode, if you remember that. And that was followed by Android having to deal with user location tracking issues in May of 2011.
All of this just by searching for [ +"user location data" ] on your favorite search engine! So why aren't people up in arms about this?? Oh yeah, because not only do they accept this voluntarily, they pay the damn phone companies a monthly allotment to take their personal data and sell it! Damn sheep!
For the same reason that there was a surge in "autistic" children, or "autism spectrum" disorder kids in the last decade: more people being diagnosed. Do you know that in the 1700s nobody was labeled with having Parkinson's disease? Or Lou Gehrig's disease? Of course, there were probably people who had those diseases, but those disease names or the recognition of those syndromes as specific diseases did not even exist at that time!
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So of course once something has been defined there's a greater likelihood of it being recognized as existing in a patient as more doctors are trained about the knowledge and existence of the disease.
.
And that's not even going into the secondary gain that people get from having kids labelled as "autism spectrum" disorder kids: extra time on tests, extra help in school, some people like these diagnoses (like "Aspergers's") because it makes their kids or them "special" and eligible for aid or benefits. So sometimes there's also fraudulent labeling for secondary gain.
Somebody down below mention the other solution of using a longer screwdriver (which works very well :>) ), but your solution works and is also called a stethoscope! I'm just not sure I'd want to have rubber tubing near a running car engine, as a hot part could melt the rubber and fuse the tube to that hot part, or a dangling loop of rubber could get caught up in some moving part or a fan-belt.
:>)
I personally think that the longer screwdriver approach is safer ! ! !
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I completely agree with you. In fact, the rambling statement by these psychologists (which does not appear to be scientific) is readily disproven by the biggest and most successful example of medical treatment of a mental health disorder: schizophrenia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia#Medication ) and the 1950's discovery of an antipsychotic medication which greatly improved the hallucinations and psychotic breaks undergone by schizophrenic patients: chlorpromazine was found while looking for anti-histamines (for allergies).
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The wikipedia article on chlorpromazine points out: In 1955 it was approved in the United States for the treatment of emesis (vomiting). The effect of this drug in emptying psychiatric hospitals has been compared to that of penicillin and infectious diseases.[50] But the popularity of the drug fell from the late 1960s as newer drugs came on the scene. From chlorpromazine a number of other similar antipsychotics were developed. It also led to the discovery of antidepressants.[53]
Chlorpromazine largely replaced electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, and insulin shock therapy.
In other words, chlorpromazine actually worked so well that the psychiatrists no longer had to resort to ECT, brain surgery, or screwing with the patient's sugar and insulin levels.
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You'd have to be a complete moron to claim that there is no evidence for medical and pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia: the evidence is almost 60 years old. The only conclusion to draw from this is that the British Psychological Society is, in fact, composed of vast groups of complete morons who do not believe in science or the scientific method.
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on the court's web page. Is it just for me, or a bad link?
According to Groklaw, however, one of the judges said
``Let's be clear: if all of these claims, including the system claims, are not patent-eligible, this case is the death of hundreds of thousands of patents, including all business method, financial system, and software patents as well as many computer implemented and telecommunications patents,'' Moore wrote.Let's hope that Judge Moore is right, and these patents and deemed ineligible for patenting at all.
If you're allowed access to the material..., such as being able to check it out of the library or access it while on the library property or on the library internet connection, then why should there be any limits on transforming the data from one medium to another in order to allow a blind reader to know the words, or to allow automated voice recognition to create captions on the fly to allow deaf library patrons to be able to access and understand movies or disks that do not have intrinsic text captions embedded into the video stream or overlaid on the video itself?
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That sort of transformative change, on the fly, to allow immediate access and use ought to be fully exempt from "copyright restrictions" just as creating a temporary copy in RAM on a computer as the data is in flight from your internet connection through your computer onto your screen also does not count as copyright infringement!!!!
.
This must be SO frustrating for the people who really need this access!!! How can we fix this? How can we help??? Is there something to be done?? Somewhere to sign up??? Any clues?
.
Prior to 2012, plenty of other problems were found at San Onofre: "Problems at nuclear plant concern regulators" in the San Diego Union Tribune covered a few of these which ended up "resulting in the simultaneous shutdown of two safety backup systems and placing operators on standby to shut down a nuclear reactor."
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In Florida, you've got the hubris of Duke Energy trying to repair a cooling tower on its own using its own idiots rather than hiring people expertly capable of doing things just to save $10M$us (ten million usa dollars) resulting in the total shutdown of the Crystal River nuclear plant until at least 2014 at a total cost of repair projected to be $2.75B$us (2.75 Billion usa dollars): http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/03/01/1894613/nuclear-fiasco-vexes-progress.html : The problems experienced at Crystal River stem from a botched attempt to replace the plant's steam generator. The replacement required cutting a giant hole - measuring 23 feet by 27 feet - in the 42-inch-thick protective wall of the building that contains the nuclear reactor. To save money, Progress opted to manage the project on its own and awarded the contract to an engineering firm that had no experience in such repairs. The work resulted in three instances of "delamination," a term used to describe an internal separation of the building wall. Each delamination is the size of a basketball court, said Florida's Deputy Public Counsel, Charles Rehwinkel. "They were definitely three separate events, or discrete incidents," he said.
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The blunder shows that a highly experienced nuclear operator with a sterling reputation in the industry is not immune from unforeseen miscues that raise questions about judgment and competence.
The sequence of mistakes has put Progress in a state of crisis management for more than two years. Company officials are dealing with persistent questions from Wall Street analysts while they negotiate data requests from the insurer, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, known as NEIL.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/crystal-river-nuclear-plant-had-flaw-in-its-safety-procedures-for-more/1276841 also shows that Crystal River had other serious problems, just like so many other plants that consistently skirt safety regulations and prescribed critical safety procedures:
4 generator failures hit US nuclear plants in in AP article: Four generators that power emergency systems at nuclear plants have failed when needed since April, an unusual cluster that has attracted the attention of federal inspectors and could prompt the industry to re-examine its maintenance plans.and those are just from a quick cursory review from a web search engine. People who look harder can find more. The common link in all of these are shortcuts taken to save money and to bypass conventional procedures which are required to be followed by the NRC.
which is the link listed in the Ars Technica article "Copyright troll Righthaven finally, completely dead" . I guess the editors copied the text from the Ars Technica article including the "(pdf)" parenthetical statement pointing out that the Ars Technica URL link points to a pdf file. Then they inserted the link to the Ars Technica article itself, rather than the link to the pdf file. (why am I bothering writing this?? no one else seems to have noticed the botched and borked link!)
re: can't even pronounce Diffie-Hellman, let alone know what it is.
;>) /. poll: your favorite non-SI units:
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I don't give a Whitfield Diffie, let alone know what it is!
Listen, I'll get back to you in a Diffie with some of that mayonnaise. We call that East Coast Hellman's stuff "Best Foods" out here on the West Coast. That's what all that EastCoast-WestCoast fighting's all about, right?
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That's a possibility for another
-- Diffie as time
-- Smoot as length
-- I don't give a Whitfield Diffie as a curse/swear
-- pinch as volume
etc.
right! good point. You're correct. I didn't know exactly how it worked.
F2 still works on my uefi laptop. Don't know about if it still works with fast boot as I nuked my mswindows as soon as I got it and installed windows (X windows, thank you) on it instead with gnu-licious linux of the debian flavor.
Right, like the Iran centrifuge blow-ups weren't caused by the USA and by Israel? Anyone who claims to know who's been doing what on the world stage is blowing smokes. Even our own country-men-and-women probably don't realize the extent of our own country's cyberwarriors and how the USA admitted to state-sponsored hacking of Iran's centrifuges, (srsly, Obama sed we didz it, lookitup) and how many other things are being done in our name or upon us. Bush admitted to the NSA hacking our own telcoms and spying on ALL usa-internet traffic.
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So don't say that China's behind the majority of it. It's very likely that they are since they comprise the majority population of this planet, but it's equally likely that the USA and NATO elements are number one. (haha, I sound nationalistic and jingoistic, now, don't I? That wasn't my intent. My intent was to point out that anyone claiming definitive knowledge of the percentage responsibility couldn't possibly know the truth. They can only know about their own personal or own divisional involvement. Diplomacy and secrecy means that we don't ever truly know the capabilities and capacities of the other sides.)
I'm sorry to hear about that. Thank you for sharing the details. I'm sorry that the doctors jumped the gun based on a family history without considering the other possible physical and organic causes. That's the whole point of psychiatrists being M.D.'s: they're supposed to think like medical doctors so that they can rule out things like tumors in the brain or infections that could cause symptoms. I'm also glad you're healthy again. Best wishes for the future.
Re : I had internal infections misdiagnosed as depression for over 4 years before physical symptoms appeared.[emphasis mine]
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May I respectfully ask how you could expect anyone to diagnose something which had no physical symptoms manifesting for four years? It's not like doctors have magic. They have to base their diagnosis and diagnostic procedures based upon the history and physical: the history and information given by the patient and the physical exam performed to assess the patient's physical well being.
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If no physical symptoms manifest, whether as things that could or could not be tested for by blood tests or by scans of any type, how could anyone predcit or deduce its existence? There's a problem that also occurs when doctors overprescribe or overuse tests: they get trounced on for "overusing or overprescribing tests or scans"!! The doctor can only do things based upon the evidence presented...
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As to the last sentence of your, I sadly have to agree with you about "How the hell can a doctor prescribe SSRI without measuring the actual levels first?"
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The drug companies' pharmaceutical reps (representatives, salesman and saleswomen really) go to doctors and try to persuade them to prescribe certain drugs, the ones that their company makes. Many primary care doctors (such as internists or family physicians) who ought not be prescribing drugs which should be prescribed by specialists such as psychiatrists end up prescribing drugs such as SSRI's because of the marketing and because of the pressure from patients. That part is so sadly true. They ought not do that; I agree with you there. Did you see a specialist or a general practitioner?