I'm very interested to hear more about these rulings of sourcecode as a diagram. I personally agree with the view of sourcecode as nothing more than a verrrry formal description of the patent, but did not guess the courts would have this much common sense. Can you cite any specific cases?
FTFA, it sounds like that's exactly what she did. There was even a control with no covering at all:
"one group in a shielded Faraday cage, another group in a cage wrapped in fiberglass that did not block radio waves and a third set was unprotected altogether."
Two GE engineers -- working nights and weekends for two years -- were able to construct a machine to replay the old tapes
This surprises me some. At work we have been tasked with retrofitting a device manufactured by GE (technically, a company GE bought), and need to sign an NDA with them to obtain critical specs on the device. So far it has taken 8 months and counting for them to even send the NDA for us to sign, not to mention numerous manhours playing phonetag and going up the chain of supervisors (and even having a Navy technical contact call and turn up the heat). To be fair, they did manage to send one after "only" 6 months of this, but with the wrong company's name filled in, so it's now going back through the system...
If someone's designing Arduino into automotive safety systems, they have bigger problems than russian hax0rz storing up to 16kB of illicit warez in their inadequately protected flash ROM.
BTW, when most people talk about Arduino they are mainly referring to a software platform and its associated libraries.
Agreed, Arduino definitely grows on you. My day job involves a lot of PIC assembler, often targeting micro-power and energy harvesting applications. My first time using an Arduino, I thought, "Wow, this is a noob toy." The second time: "Cool, I don't have to write my own string/memory/i2c/etc. libraries?" Third time: "How did I ever live without this?"
Obviously, hand-written assembler is still king for my production work, but banging together a quick test (or test fixture!) with the Arduino platform is a huge time saver. One of these days I'm hoping to port some of the micropower tricks & toys back to the platform, just to see the applications that ravening hordes of weekend hardware tinkerers will come up with.
I had a doctor who used to be in marketing, got fed up with it and went to med school. I came to him with an unusual complaint; my penis was turning orange. He looked at the affected area, looked at me, and said "Jerk off, THEN eat the cheetos."
Where I live (a suburb on the east cost), the city charges a $25 recycling fee to dispose some environmentally noxious waste items, including leaded CRTs. They will only be picked up with the recycling sticker attached. The upshot of this is that old TVs (planted on the sidewalk in front of Other People's Houses during the night) now outnumber the residents 4 to 1. (One on my way to work has sat on the curb untouched for over two months now.)
I think the parent meant ignore single keypresses, for example one digit of a 3-digit channel change. The DVR/human keys channel 214, the Comcastic box tunes channel 24 and waits for the user to notice the error visually and re-enter. The odds of this happening on the DVR's first or second 3-digit attempt would be the same.
On my old phone, I measured its idle power consumption at 8mA @ 3.7VDC between RF bursts, which spiked up to just over 1A even in close proximity to the tower. That's about 30mW neglecting the RF consumption or actual use (backlights, game playing etc.). So the GP's setup is within the ballpark of feasibility as a charge extender, but I'd go out on a limb and say filling the boot with an equivalent mass of fresh batteries will be much more comfortable than the boiling water.
Sadly, piezo generators are not great either for any serious tasks like charging phones or plugging laptops into your shoe. (Disclaimer: I'm an EE at one company that makes these things.) They would power a shoe-embedded pedometer / sensor mote, or maintain the realtime clock of some device, but you only get 10s of mW average from a typical device under ideal lab conditions. (Plus, in a shoe-generator scenario, that 10mW is coming right out of your body's forward-motion power budget - probably not noticeable, but that power is not any more for free than bike dynamo power.)
Sure, after you've waved the sign for 10 minutes, they will make a couple calls and complimentary travel arrangements will be made on your behalf. Upon arriving at your destination, I'm told you are entitled to a free phone call as well.
And your lawyer's claim would have been what, exactly?
"They stopped giving me free stuff, without giving a good reason. It's ILLEGAL for them to not give me free stuff!"
Believe me, I've been there, and it sucks (my domain - predating Google - was once misclassified as a spam site by Google's search algorithm; the preferred/only method of resolving this is to know-a-guy who's facebook friends with Matt Cutts), but I don't know any legal theory that entitles anyone to monetary damages for not letting you play with their toys, even if the reason is silly/nonexistent.
One of the guys is in Ukraine; civilian nukes can't travel that far:-(
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Heh. Throughout the latter half of season 6, I kept thinking, "this is The Goonies for adults". When they were lowering Desmond into the cave-full-o-gold, and he's asking to the effect of, "well, what do I do?"
"Grab as much of One-Eyed Willy's treasure as you can carry, and get the hell out of there! If you see Chunk down there, tell 'im I said heya.
"...at the end it will turn out to have not been important at all because it was the act of trying to destroy it that bound The Fellowship together and THAT's what mattered!"
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Maybe that was its purpose all along. To bind them (the Fellowship) into the quest of finding and destroying it, so that their otherwise humble lives would have an extraordinary meaning. It would have been a great ending. Everyone who is not a slashdotter would ignore its utter lameness and go on about how the Quest or the Ring did not matter because it was about the inter-personal associations they formed during it (not to mention the Frodo and Legolas kiss scene), and how this ending broke new ground, and revolutionized how T..ahem, books are written.
The difference may be that I Dream Of Jeannie did not spend its first three seasons specifically playing up the mystery of how the mechanics of fitting into the bottle worked.
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... or how the Dharma/Others had already devised a foolproof technical solution (the pylons) to the Smoke Monster, even though the Smoke Monster fight was what six seasons' worth of BS were leading up to. Or why nobody during this time (surely Jacob knew about the Others...) thought, "hey, I've got it! Why don't we put those pylon things around the mouth of the cave so the smoke monster can't go in there breaking shit?"
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That's not too far off the real reason Michael's son Walt vanished from the story arc, and why we never learn more about his gifts, etc. The actor hit puberty and grew/aged too fast to be believable in the storyline, so they dereferenced him from the remainder of the script.
Slashdot Mirror
"...would be attempting to jump from a balloon at least 120,000 feet altitude...
But they're also doing important work, potentially groundbreaking work."
I see what u did there.
I'm very interested to hear more about these rulings of sourcecode as a diagram. I personally agree with the view of sourcecode as nothing more than a verrrry formal description of the patent, but did not guess the courts would have this much common sense. Can you cite any specific cases?
FTFA, it sounds like that's exactly what she did. There was even a control with no covering at all:
"one group in a shielded Faraday cage, another group in a cage wrapped in fiberglass that did not block radio waves and a third set was unprotected altogether."
This may be, but I would hardly call 12 pages a "token" C&D. Them lolyers must've been hungry.
Two GE engineers -- working nights and weekends for two years -- were able to construct a machine to replay the old tapes
This surprises me some. At work we have been tasked with retrofitting a device manufactured by GE (technically, a company GE bought), and need to sign an NDA with them to obtain critical specs on the device. So far it has taken 8 months and counting for them to even send the NDA for us to sign, not to mention numerous manhours playing phonetag and going up the chain of supervisors (and even having a Navy technical contact call and turn up the heat). To be fair, they did manage to send one after "only" 6 months of this, but with the wrong company's name filled in, so it's now going back through the system...
If someone's designing Arduino into automotive safety systems, they have bigger problems than russian hax0rz storing up to 16kB of illicit warez in their inadequately protected flash ROM.
BTW, when most people talk about Arduino they are mainly referring to a software platform and its associated libraries.
Agreed, Arduino definitely grows on you. My day job involves a lot of PIC assembler, often targeting micro-power and energy harvesting applications. My first time using an Arduino, I thought, "Wow, this is a noob toy." The second time: "Cool, I don't have to write my own string/memory/i2c/etc. libraries?" Third time: "How did I ever live without this?"
Obviously, hand-written assembler is still king for my production work, but banging together a quick test (or test fixture!) with the Arduino platform is a huge time saver. One of these days I'm hoping to port some of the micropower tricks & toys back to the platform, just to see the applications that ravening hordes of weekend hardware tinkerers will come up with.
What's that, 1E+09 boos?
You even fail at being a racist.
Hope they will not be using a Haardon-Like Features face detection algorithm.
I had a doctor who used to be in marketing, got fed up with it and went to med school. I came to him with an unusual complaint; my penis was turning orange. He looked at the affected area, looked at me, and said "Jerk off, THEN eat the cheetos."
Creepy...
Where I live (a suburb on the east cost), the city charges a $25 recycling fee to dispose some environmentally noxious waste items, including leaded CRTs. They will only be picked up with the recycling sticker attached. The upshot of this is that old TVs (planted on the sidewalk in front of Other People's Houses during the night) now outnumber the residents 4 to 1. (One on my way to work has sat on the curb untouched for over two months now.)
I think the parent meant ignore single keypresses, for example one digit of a 3-digit channel change. The DVR/human keys channel 214, the Comcastic box tunes channel 24 and waits for the user to notice the error visually and re-enter. The odds of this happening on the DVR's first or second 3-digit attempt would be the same.
iPad. For when your robot girlfriend's flying the flag.
On my old phone, I measured its idle power consumption at 8mA @ 3.7VDC between RF bursts, which spiked up to just over 1A even in close proximity to the tower. That's about 30mW neglecting the RF consumption or actual use (backlights, game playing etc.). So the GP's setup is within the ballpark of feasibility as a charge extender, but I'd go out on a limb and say filling the boot with an equivalent mass of fresh batteries will be much more comfortable than the boiling water.
Sadly, piezo generators are not great either for any serious tasks like charging phones or plugging laptops into your shoe. (Disclaimer: I'm an EE at one company that makes these things.) They would power a shoe-embedded pedometer / sensor mote, or maintain the realtime clock of some device, but you only get 10s of mW average from a typical device under ideal lab conditions. (Plus, in a shoe-generator scenario, that 10mW is coming right out of your body's forward-motion power budget - probably not noticeable, but that power is not any more for free than bike dynamo power.)
Sure, after you've waved the sign for 10 minutes, they will make a couple calls and complimentary travel arrangements will be made on your behalf. Upon arriving at your destination, I'm told you are entitled to a free phone call as well.
And your lawyer's claim would have been what, exactly?
"They stopped giving me free stuff, without giving a good reason. It's ILLEGAL for them to not give me free stuff!"
Believe me, I've been there, and it sucks (my domain - predating Google - was once misclassified as a spam site by Google's search algorithm; the preferred/only method of resolving this is to know-a-guy who's facebook friends with Matt Cutts), but I don't know any legal theory that entitles anyone to monetary damages for not letting you play with their toys, even if the reason is silly/nonexistent.
One of the guys is in Ukraine; civilian nukes can't travel that far :-(
Heh. Throughout the latter half of season 6, I kept thinking, "this is The Goonies for adults". When they were lowering Desmond into the cave-full-o-gold, and he's asking to the effect of, "well, what do I do?"
"Grab as much of One-Eyed Willy's treasure as you can carry, and get the hell out of there! If you see Chunk down there, tell 'im I said heya.
"...at the end it will turn out to have not been important at all because it was the act of trying to destroy it that bound The Fellowship together and THAT's what mattered!"
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Maybe that was its purpose all along. To bind them (the Fellowship) into the quest of finding and destroying it, so that their otherwise humble lives would have an extraordinary meaning. It would have been a great ending. Everyone who is not a slashdotter would ignore its utter lameness and go on about how the Quest or the Ring did not matter because it was about the inter-personal associations they formed during it (not to mention the Frodo and Legolas kiss scene), and how this ending broke new ground, and revolutionized how T..ahem, books are written.
The difference may be that I Dream Of Jeannie did not spend its first three seasons specifically playing up the mystery of how the mechanics of fitting into the bottle worked.
... or how the Dharma/Others had already devised a foolproof technical solution (the pylons) to the Smoke Monster, even though the Smoke Monster fight was what six seasons' worth of BS were leading up to. Or why nobody during this time (surely Jacob knew about the Others...) thought, "hey, I've got it! Why don't we put those pylon things around the mouth of the cave so the smoke monster can't go in there breaking shit?"
That's not too far off the real reason Michael's son Walt vanished from the story arc, and why we never learn more about his gifts, etc. The actor hit puberty and grew/aged too fast to be believable in the storyline, so they dereferenced him from the remainder of the script.
Especially now that they are banning flash...the shot will take longer still, AND the waiter gets to trip over tripods.
Good suggestion :-)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} imagelogr [NC,OR]
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://corbis.com/ [R,L]
If they think I previously stole the images they are stealing, they're not responsible, right?