Wired reports that a new headset is on the way to solve all those background noise problems you have had with your cell phone in crowded areas.
Here's an idea, learn some fucking manners and don't use your phone in a crowd or while driving. And if you do use a phone while driving, consider drunk driving instead, it's safer.
OK, that was amazingly easy to find the answer to my own question there... after phone call number one, I have the following information:
The USPTO's toll-free number is 800 786-9199 (free call anywhere in the US). They're really friendly people, and you'll get a human waaaay faster than you can, even in person, at the USPS.
The patent examiner for this application is Syed Zia, and their phone number is 571-272-3798.
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL (PATENTS)
CODE 1008.2
4555 OVERLOOK AVENUE, S.W.
WASHINGTON DC
20375-5320
US
This patent could be issued without protest if you don't act now! Move all Slashdot for great justice ! Take off every protest ! You know what you doing ! Move Zig ! Or all your patent will belong to us !
Maybe it's a sad attempt to prove that they're on the cutting edge of technology by patenting some newfangled idea that the rest of us have been using for years?
That being said, how does one submit prior art for this application? This thing really needs to die last Tuesday.
Yes, Six Flags Magic Mountain has one, and it's parodied as the "Maternafuge" in Futurama. It's about the only thing in California that makes me want to vomit for a reason other than disgust.
I've been using Macs since 1992 and hating PC's since they stopped supporting NT4.0
PCs didn't stop supporting NT4, Microsoft and vendors stopped supporting NT4. Which isn't a bad thing: As this article points out there are better options than NT4.
That doesn't mean I am willing to unlearn everything I've got invested in Macs because some gadfly can't stand to look at another Terminal.app window.
Get over yourself. KDE with the Aqua look and feel reduces relearning from OSX to zero.
Gentoo tends to be really feature-incomplete and doesn't have a lot of the conveniences found in other distros that users are more likely to use by default. Debian, for example, has it. I haven't checked, but I would imagine Ubuntu has it, too, because of this.
They do, but actually getting it to work can be a pain in the ass. I've had an easier time setting up WiFi and Bluetooth than getting dial-up access working under Linux.
Use a real modem, use pppconfig(8), and you'll wonder why Windows makes it so friggin hard.
Add in that most computers tend to come with winmodems that are anywhere from difficult to impossible to get working under Linux, and you have another wrinkle for the linux n00b to work through.
Those are sound cards. Just because some people managed to use them as a modem doesn't mean it's something you can depend on.
I don't disagree. Truckers spend a lot more hours on the road than most people, they're limited to 0.04. Scary enough, I see some of those guys going the retard route and driving on the phone. In fact, the worst traffic accident in the state of Oregon was started by a trucker talking on the phone that ducked below the dashboard to pick an 8 track up off the floor about two years ago. 14 cars involved, not counting the 12 on the car carrier the guy was driving. All in all somewhere between 20 and 30 cars involved, and IIRC some victims were burned so badly in the resulting fire that they never found a body.
According to TFA, they compared phone users to drivers who were at the legal blood-alcohol limit, not those above it. So they have, at most, demonstrated that driving while using a phone is more dangerous than other driving that we consider legal.
Many driver's licenses are restricted to 0.00 or 0.04 as the legal limit, rail transport and commercial driver's licenses being like that, off the top of my head. That means blowing 0.04 is over the limit in the case of the latter. 0.08 isn't legal, 0.07 is scraping by.
people who have casual sex rarely break the 15 minute mark.
Well, maybe *you* don't.
Or maybe I'm just weird that way. Oh well.
"MOM! Dad pwned me again!"
Uh, oh. Are you sure you meant to share that with the group? You might check the green pages in the phone book for an incest support group and the blue pages for health and human services...
Given what we've seen so far in the case, it's more likely that they carefully scanned it, determined the data was still there, and therefore must not have been stolen.
How much are you paying to sit up at Portland State's CS department and/not/ know about dd or cp?:o) It's not like copying data is destructive.
It is common knowledge that an underground power grid is less susceptible to the effect of a large thunderstorm.
Maybe on Mars or Los Angeles, neither of which have weather or intelligent life. But here on Earth, where it rains, underground utility conduits are notorious for flooding, resulting in extensive telephone and electric outages where such conduits are deployed.
And here we have an example of the kind of person that the rest of the world views as American. If you want to know why terrorists kill Americans, just look at that asshole's attitude.
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...like the back of a truck stop parking lot?
Here's an idea, learn some fucking manners and don't use your phone in a crowd or while driving. And if you do use a phone while driving, consider drunk driving instead, it's safer.
And it is. But like the original poster said, is a source-less, unsupported plugin something that the corporate world is going to use? Probably not.
The USPTO's toll-free number is 800 786-9199 (free call anywhere in the US). They're really friendly people, and you'll get a human waaaay faster than you can, even in person, at the USPS.
The patent examiner for this application is Syed Zia, and their phone number is 571-272-3798.
This patent is about to be issued, ACT QUICKLY, DAMMIT!. You need to file a protest as outlined in Chapter 1,900 of the Manual for Patent Exam Procedure with the USPTO. When you do, it is vital that you also send a copy to the NRL's council at the following address as well:
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL (PATENTS)
CODE 1008.2
4555 OVERLOOK AVENUE, S.W.
WASHINGTON DC
20375-5320
US
This patent could be issued without protest if you don't act now! Move all Slashdot for great justice ! Take off every protest ! You know what you doing ! Move Zig ! Or all your patent will belong to us !
That being said, how does one submit prior art for this application? This thing really needs to die last Tuesday.
Seems like YouOS more like a half-assed attempt at a network-enabled desktop environment. If that's what you want, what's wrong with, say, KDE?
Yes, Six Flags Magic Mountain has one, and it's parodied as the "Maternafuge" in Futurama. It's about the only thing in California that makes me want to vomit for a reason other than disgust.
I wouldn't fsck AOL with Dr. Ruth's dick.
It's been 22.3 years. AIDS is now funny.
PCs didn't stop supporting NT4, Microsoft and vendors stopped supporting NT4. Which isn't a bad thing: As this article points out there are better options than NT4.
That doesn't mean I am willing to unlearn everything I've got invested in Macs because some gadfly can't stand to look at another Terminal.app window.
Get over yourself. KDE with the Aqua look and feel reduces relearning from OSX to zero.
Gentoo tends to be really feature-incomplete and doesn't have a lot of the conveniences found in other distros that users are more likely to use by default. Debian, for example, has it. I haven't checked, but I would imagine Ubuntu has it, too, because of this.
Use a real modem, use pppconfig(8), and you'll wonder why Windows makes it so friggin hard.
Add in that most computers tend to come with winmodems that are anywhere from difficult to impossible to get working under Linux, and you have another wrinkle for the linux n00b to work through.
Those are sound cards. Just because some people managed to use them as a modem doesn't mean it's something you can depend on.
I guess that excludes government-run public schools, huh?
I guess we should get rid of kill(1) while we're at it, right?
I don't disagree. Truckers spend a lot more hours on the road than most people, they're limited to 0.04. Scary enough, I see some of those guys going the retard route and driving on the phone. In fact, the worst traffic accident in the state of Oregon was started by a trucker talking on the phone that ducked below the dashboard to pick an 8 track up off the floor about two years ago. 14 cars involved, not counting the 12 on the car carrier the guy was driving. All in all somewhere between 20 and 30 cars involved, and IIRC some victims were burned so badly in the resulting fire that they never found a body.
Many driver's licenses are restricted to 0.00 or 0.04 as the legal limit, rail transport and commercial driver's licenses being like that, off the top of my head. That means blowing 0.04 is over the limit in the case of the latter. 0.08 isn't legal, 0.07 is scraping by.
Your opinion does not matter in any way shape or form until you log in.
The OP implied that Linux support for dialup internet connections was dicey, when in fact it's not. Nobody's doubting that dialup is slow.
Well, maybe *you* don't.
Or maybe I'm just weird that way. Oh well.
"MOM! Dad pwned me again!"
Uh, oh. Are you sure you meant to share that with the group? You might check the green pages in the phone book for an incest support group and the blue pages for health and human services...
How much are you paying to sit up at Portland State's CS department and /not/ know about dd or cp? :o) It's not like copying data is destructive.
(-1, Moron): How can you find slashdot and complete miss that dialup ISPs use PPP, and Linux distros almost always come with pppd?
Which is sad, really, since the rest of the world let VMS die long ago.
My flight sim manuals say "Flight Simulator is a trademark of Bruce Artwick Organisation"
Maybe on Mars or Los Angeles, neither of which have weather or intelligent life. But here on Earth, where it rains, underground utility conduits are notorious for flooding, resulting in extensive telephone and electric outages where such conduits are deployed.
And here we have an example of the kind of person that the rest of the world views as American. If you want to know why terrorists kill Americans, just look at that asshole's attitude.