There seem to be at least a couple of distinct ways of "sensing" the code you're working on. (And I'm not even counting the poor schmucks who are never really able to understand what they're doing.)
Maybe he's a misunderstood genius, but he's going to have to prove it.
Well, that's just a ridiculous suggestion. How the heck is he supposed to do that when no one else in the world is smart enough to understand his invention???
Because charging your electric car that fast would require more than 10x the entire power supplied to your whole house. (Not to mention the cabling...)
Data becomes public if and only if it's introduced into evidence by the Law Firm. Is it really so onerous to say, if you have health data that is confidential, take steps so it will not be disclosed until such time as it becomes part of the public record? Otherwise you open the door to all kinds of corner cases where a law firm can effectively disclose this information.
Are you forgetting that your communications with your lawyer were confidential for centuries before HIPAA piled on its god-awful morass of regulations???
Law firms recently received instructions regarding "secondary" violations of HIPAA. For instance, a firm might store X-ray images and depositions, expert affidavits, diagnoses, etc. that are strictly controlled at the source, but not necessarily at law firms, be the form of retention paper or digital. It would seem logical that all parties who have access to, or store, HIPAA-covered information should be regulated the same.
No, it really does not make sense. Take the law firms for example, if you provide your information to a law firm with the intent of suing a hospital or doctor, you are providing it with the intent that it (might) eventually be used in PUBLIC court proceedings. Why should a morass of privacy regulations apply in that situation?
99.9% of the doctors created today are just as scummy as anyone else. The age where doctors cared has not existed during my life time, if it ever did. The hippocratic oath is a joke at best, nothing more than lip service.
You're so full of shit it's coming out of your mouth instead of your asshole.
Where is the traditional "Wanted: Dead or Alive" mentality that always rises up in 2nd Amendment supporters when there's a chance to stop a crime that might have only been a robbery of a fast food store or a corner convenience mart?
When you shoot someone who is in the process of committing an armed crime, there is no question as to whether or not they are actually the guilty party.
Also, usually, you are responding to an actual current, possibly deadly, threat--as opposed to the courts who only consider crimes after the fact, when the accused is detained safely.
Would you care to tell us where that is in "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to the respective Writings and Discoveries"?
DING! You are correct, the prohibition on patenting mathematical algorithms, laws of nature, etc, are not in the constitution. They are in the Patent Act. Sorry about the sloppiness.
The quotes sure make it seem like the patent was invalidated for being one of those patents which is nothing more than a wish list of features, with no specific information as to an actual implementation. In other words, a marketing description masquerading as an invention.
I've long thought that so many patents of the past 20 years were like this, especially software patents, and that invalidating these would be a great first step, even if we don't manage to get rid of software patents. So, although it seems like the patent was NOT invalidated for being a software patent, it is still cause for great celebration, because it establishes a precedent for invalidating the worst kinds of software patents--and those awful, non-specific, overbroad crap patents are far more of a problem than clear patents on specific techniques.
I've often used this analogy: under the current patent regime, instead of RSA getting a patent on their particular public/private key crypto implementation, the first person (I forget who that was) to think up the concept of using a "trap door" function to create a public/private key system would have patented that idea, without having to bother with actually providing an implementation, and would have essentially owned (for 20 years) all the implementations which later researches, including RSA, did the hard work of actually inventing. So while you may think the RSA patent was a bad idea, it was nowhere near as bad as things got later, and frankly I could live with the RSA kind of software patent.
Also, even if there were really a God that created our universe, this God could not know for sure that he was really God in the sense that he couldn't know that there was nothing greater than himself (for the same way that we atheists can't know that there is nothing greater than us).
The gnostics believed that the god of the old testament, the vengeful angry violent god, was merely a powerful and jealous demon who wanted to keep mankind separated from knowledge of our inherent divinity. In that belief system, the snake in the garden of Eden was good, and was simply trying to show Adam & Eve the path to self-knowledge. And Jesus was a messenger of the true god...
I know my wishes do not effect or create a reality that does not exist, but I have faith that God is there and that there is more to our lives than what we have here.
Translation: you are the rare person of faith who actually understands what faith is.
Please, let's not let this Farmville jargon take over the net, including Slashdot. Nothing was 'gifted' unless it had certain special qualities. Things are given, not gifted.
You know what the funny thing is? YOUR ARE COMPLETELY 100% WRONG!
I suggest you go and look up "gift" now in your favorite dictionary;-)
Now the 2nd law of thermodynamics says: "All natural systems (e.g. nature) progresses from a state of order (creations) to a state of chaos (puddle of mud)". In other words, shit doesn't magically build itself, any more than it falls upwards.
No, the progression is necessarily from order toward entropy within a closed system. So, I suggest you look up at noon tomorrow, and ask yourself "yo, dipshit, is the earth actually a closed system, or is it possible that it gets a massive input of energy from some mysterious source???"
Yes, the whole system is progressing from order toward entropy as the sun burns. But the earth is getting that energy input and thus, temporarily, increasing order in the localized portion of the system. So I don't give a fuck how many engineering degrees you actually have, your post was still utterly ignorant idiotic drivel.
I shoot digital, and there are times when I want to be hands on with focus and aperture. One of my favorite lenses is a Tokina EL 28mm. I have a reverse ring that I attach to the filter ring. What the reverse ring does is allows me to shoot macro by reversing the lens. I can switch from standard to macro in seconds with this setup.
Interesting. Care to guess what was the one old one manual-everything lens I did not sell? The Nikkor 55mm Micro, macro (1:2) lens. I also kept the extension ring, and ferchrissakes, the extension bellows;-)
(Man just imagine the goatse shot I could take with that rig!)
Legitimate question, to which the summary provides no clue as to the likely answer.
Solar City is not just a manufacturer, they are also, in a sense, a distributed alternative utility. They do not sell panels to homeowners. Instead, they install solar systems on homes and sell the electricity produced to the homeowner. The advantage is that the homeowner has $0 upfront costs, and is guaranteed a specified level of savings over their current utility prices. So it's a much easier sell, since homeowners don't have to apply for a loan, cough up a down payment, make monthly payments and so on.
This model has been very successful at brining in sales, and Musk has been pretty successful at raising the enormous amounts of capital required to scale this model. (Solar City fronts the whole cost of installation, then earns that + profit back over a pretty long period of time.) It would be a heck of a challenge for a manufacturer of panels to go out and build the kind of business that Solar City has built.
Insinuating that female workers "fare worse" at Yahoo is akin to insinuating that there is rampant sexism and a glass ceiling going on there, which is most likely simply untrue.
Rampant sexism we don't actually know about, but there sure as shit is no "glass ceiling" at Yahoo;-)
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Doesn't everyone program this way?
No, actually ;-)
There seem to be at least a couple of distinct ways of "sensing" the code you're working on. (And I'm not even counting the poor schmucks who are never really able to understand what they're doing.)
Here's hoping "kids these days" don't skip out on the importance of programmer's imagination over these new fangled tools.
Here's hoping they do. Us old farts need all the advantages we can get.
Maybe he's a misunderstood genius, but he's going to have to prove it.
Well, that's just a ridiculous suggestion. How the heck is he supposed to do that when no one else in the world is smart enough to understand his invention???
;-)
Am I confused, or is this the same amoral sack of shit who lied to Congress with a straight face about NSA activities???
Because charging your electric car that fast would require more than 10x the entire power supplied to your whole house. (Not to mention the cabling...)
Data becomes public if and only if it's introduced into evidence by the Law Firm. Is it really so onerous to say, if you have health data that is confidential, take steps so it will not be disclosed until such time as it becomes part of the public record? Otherwise you open the door to all kinds of corner cases where a law firm can effectively disclose this information.
Are you forgetting that your communications with your lawyer were confidential for centuries before HIPAA piled on its god-awful morass of regulations???
Law firms recently received instructions regarding "secondary" violations of HIPAA. For instance, a firm might store X-ray images and depositions, expert affidavits, diagnoses, etc. that are strictly controlled at the source, but not necessarily at law firms, be the form of retention paper or digital. It would seem logical that all parties who have access to, or store, HIPAA-covered information should be regulated the same.
No, it really does not make sense. Take the law firms for example, if you provide your information to a law firm with the intent of suing a hospital or doctor, you are providing it with the intent that it (might) eventually be used in PUBLIC court proceedings. Why should a morass of privacy regulations apply in that situation?
99.9% of the doctors created today are just as scummy as anyone else. The age where doctors cared has not existed during my life time, if it ever did. The hippocratic oath is a joke at best, nothing more than lip service.
You're so full of shit it's coming out of your mouth instead of your asshole.
Where is the traditional "Wanted: Dead or Alive" mentality that always rises up in 2nd Amendment supporters when there's a chance to stop a crime that might have only been a robbery of a fast food store or a corner convenience mart?
When you shoot someone who is in the process of committing an armed crime, there is no question as to whether or not they are actually the guilty party.
Also, usually, you are responding to an actual current, possibly deadly, threat--as opposed to the courts who only consider crimes after the fact, when the accused is detained safely.
When will Slashdot install sensors to detect duplicate news?
They're called "editors", so the question is when will they finally debug them???
Would you care to tell us where that is in "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to the respective Writings and Discoveries"?
DING! You are correct, the prohibition on patenting mathematical algorithms, laws of nature, etc, are not in the constitution. They are in the Patent Act. Sorry about the sloppiness.
I read the argument about math not being patentable, but I don't really understand why.
Because that's what the constitution says. Want software patents? Amend the constitution ;-)
So basically the headline is completely debunked by the third sentence of the summary.
The third sentence refers to prior programs, not this one. So how "similar" is this one? We can't tell from the summary.
Before anyone else could make a remotely educated comment.
Educated comments take more time to compose ;-)
The quotes sure make it seem like the patent was invalidated for being one of those patents which is nothing more than a wish list of features, with no specific information as to an actual implementation. In other words, a marketing description masquerading as an invention.
I've long thought that so many patents of the past 20 years were like this, especially software patents, and that invalidating these would be a great first step, even if we don't manage to get rid of software patents. So, although it seems like the patent was NOT invalidated for being a software patent, it is still cause for great celebration, because it establishes a precedent for invalidating the worst kinds of software patents--and those awful, non-specific, overbroad crap patents are far more of a problem than clear patents on specific techniques.
I've often used this analogy: under the current patent regime, instead of RSA getting a patent on their particular public/private key crypto implementation, the first person (I forget who that was) to think up the concept of using a "trap door" function to create a public/private key system would have patented that idea, without having to bother with actually providing an implementation, and would have essentially owned (for 20 years) all the implementations which later researches, including RSA, did the hard work of actually inventing. So while you may think the RSA patent was a bad idea, it was nowhere near as bad as things got later, and frankly I could live with the RSA kind of software patent.
Also, even if there were really a God that created our universe, this God could not know for sure that he was really God in the sense that he couldn't know that there was nothing greater than himself (for the same way that we atheists can't know that there is nothing greater than us).
The gnostics believed that the god of the old testament, the vengeful angry violent god, was merely a powerful and jealous demon who wanted to keep mankind separated from knowledge of our inherent divinity. In that belief system, the snake in the garden of Eden was good, and was simply trying to show Adam & Eve the path to self-knowledge. And Jesus was a messenger of the true god...
Anyhoo, great points, great post.
I know my wishes do not effect or create a reality that does not exist, but I have faith that God is there and that there is more to our lives than what we have here.
Translation: you are the rare person of faith who actually understands what faith is.
Sorry for your loss, truly.
You give somebody an STD, you don't gift them an STD.
WRONG! Whether you give or gift an STD depends completely on the nature of the relationship ;-)
Please, let's not let this Farmville jargon take over the net, including Slashdot. Nothing was 'gifted' unless it had certain special qualities. Things are given, not gifted.
You know what the funny thing is? YOUR ARE COMPLETELY 100% WRONG!
I suggest you go and look up "gift" now in your favorite dictionary ;-)
Energy is like money, in the sense that you also need an Engineer to make stuff with it, otherwise you would just be making garbage.
Speaking of garbage...
That is the 2nd Law, and it conflicts directly with Evolution.
No, it does not. As the whole fucking universe decays, shit happens in various localities.
Darwin = White Supremacist. Man != God
Jeremy Connel = fucking dipshit moron
Now the 2nd law of thermodynamics says: "All natural systems (e.g. nature) progresses from a state of order (creations) to a state of chaos (puddle of mud)".
In other words, shit doesn't magically build itself, any more than it falls upwards.
No, the progression is necessarily from order toward entropy within a closed system. So, I suggest you look up at noon tomorrow, and ask yourself "yo, dipshit, is the earth actually a closed system, or is it possible that it gets a massive input of energy from some mysterious source???"
Yes, the whole system is progressing from order toward entropy as the sun burns. But the earth is getting that energy input and thus, temporarily, increasing order in the localized portion of the system. So I don't give a fuck how many engineering degrees you actually have, your post was still utterly ignorant idiotic drivel.
I've never understood how ISPs aren't common carriers.
A good guess: in the old days, they actually were data services, not just connectivity providers.
I shoot digital, and there are times when I want to be hands on with focus and aperture. One of my favorite lenses is a Tokina EL 28mm. I have a reverse ring that I attach to the filter ring. What the reverse ring does is allows me to shoot macro by reversing the lens. I can switch from standard to macro in seconds with this setup.
Interesting. Care to guess what was the one old one manual-everything lens I did not sell? The Nikkor 55mm Micro, macro (1:2) lens. I also kept the extension ring, and ferchrissakes, the extension bellows ;-)
(Man just imagine the goatse shot I could take with that rig!)
Why Silevo didn't aim to be biggest?
Legitimate question, to which the summary provides no clue as to the likely answer.
Solar City is not just a manufacturer, they are also, in a sense, a distributed alternative utility. They do not sell panels to homeowners. Instead, they install solar systems on homes and sell the electricity produced to the homeowner. The advantage is that the homeowner has $0 upfront costs, and is guaranteed a specified level of savings over their current utility prices. So it's a much easier sell, since homeowners don't have to apply for a loan, cough up a down payment, make monthly payments and so on.
This model has been very successful at brining in sales, and Musk has been pretty successful at raising the enormous amounts of capital required to scale this model. (Solar City fronts the whole cost of installation, then earns that + profit back over a pretty long period of time.) It would be a heck of a challenge for a manufacturer of panels to go out and build the kind of business that Solar City has built.
Insinuating that female workers "fare worse" at Yahoo is akin to insinuating that there is rampant sexism and a glass ceiling going on there, which is most likely simply untrue.
Rampant sexism we don't actually know about, but there sure as shit is no "glass ceiling" at Yahoo ;-)