IMO it's a gray zone. Using software just as using mechanics in a novel way in a novel system? IMO clearly worthy of a patent but (as Dog-Cow points out below) the source code should be included or at least a complete algorithmic description that others can implement and improve upon. But most software patents aren't like that.
The interesting thing about hyperloop was it generated hype from a very old idea that have had a lot of people tinkering with models and designs. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't think anybody have ever contemplated making a high-speed train within tubes with a high vacuum - most designs doesn't use vacuum as such just low pressure. Why? Because it is _good_enough_ given the other limitations on speed (a main one being safety) and being realistic rather than a pipe dream.
What? In all cases I know of in the EU (and I guess you really mean Europe but didn't know enough to name the entity correctly) where there are "state media" it is independent. A government can't directly influence that media which works under a set of rules which in most cases are fixed in law - so changing the rules means changing the law. That's hard to do as most European countries aren't two-party states like some other places and getting enough support for changing something almost considered sacred is very slim.
TL;DR "state media" essentially means there is a media entity that have been given the right to get money via a kind of taxation and have rules to enforce political independence and other independence in their reporting. The government have nothing to say about that other than via law changes.
One doesn't _solve_ things with heuristics so I don't know what you mean? One can get pretty good results for traveling salesman problems with good algorithms, approaching the optimal route - sure. But it isn't the same as solving the problem which would provide the optimal route every time. If one want the optimal route the problem is still hard.
You can't be an engineer. Things have to be developed and things have to be tested. This is a good way to test things.
If you are pissed because the NSA do their work which includes creating (and testing) tools to do signal analysis... Well, you are probably pissed at everything.
You don't realize how but metadata a single sentence provides. It is almost impossible to remove it all and trying to do it is a pain in the ass. If one try to do it manually (or reading the resulting massaged text before sending it) there will most likely be leaking of the anonymous writing style into ones ordinary writing etc.
The best way is probably learning some unusual (compared to ones native tongue) language, only using that language when wanting to post anonymously and doing machine translation on top of that. But that requires one to never letting quirks/phrasing/analogies from that other language creep into non-anonymous posts.
Should I respond to what you wrote? You wondering have nothing to do with NSA "squirreling" anything. It is completely unrelated.
But perhaps the intended meaning is more deserving of an answer? If NSA have stored the communication before the identity of the individual is known it is probably legal and correct to keep it stored. But you are assuming that they would keep the communication data even if the individual is known to be an US citizen - why are you assuming that to be the case? Speculation upon speculation without real world feedback rarely produces anything worthwhile.
Yet another example of black&white thinking. If part of a "German" company cheats on testing protocols it doesn't mean Germany as an entity is breaking the relevant laws of the US. If part of NZ breaks some law it doesn't mean that NZ as an entity have broken that law.
Africa have a huge variety in "races" (not politically or technically correct but...) with varying heights, skin color, bone structures etc. Only racist (this one is technically correct!) and idiots wouldn't know that. I assume you are of the second kind?
Remember boys and girls, since nation-states became a thing, more citizens have died at the hands of their own government than have died in all the wars by a huge margin. Be careful what you wish for...you just may get it!
Only if you define being killed in war as "died at the hands of their own government". And that definition would be ludicrous.
And when they (reluctantly and intentionally slowly) allow independent inspections that do show they do indeed comply with whatever the sanctions are for then you can't just make up some sketchy false information in order to attack them anyway. Works for USA anyway. Leader of the free world right?
Processed food is great. Processing have improved the quality of food products in western countries (and by extension to most of the world) in many ways. If you don't like some kind of processing (and there are many examples I personally think are shit) then list them instead of using a catchphrase used by idiots.
The same thing applies to the reverse: natural food isn't always better, many foods require significant processing to produce something edible by humans. Heating, using chemicals, extensive water soaking etc. This is processing too and have been used by humans at least for the historical time. Many things that people have traditionally eaten have to be processed to remove poisons and/or transform the nutrition to something humans can consume. In some cases "modern" idiots that like "natural" food have skipped processing because it isn't natural with toxic results...
He(?) is right you know. If you'd bothered to read any number of other replies to this topic this isn't a space suit, it can't work as a space suit and so the AC you replied to is right. There are a lot of problems with this design if it was intended to be a space suit (which it isn't) but it's still PR-ojected as being one. False news in other words.
There are some ideas that maybe some day may make slimmer space suits possible but not today and probably not from SpaceX.
How is that a trolling attempt? More reasonable than the pile of shit you posted (opinion without reasoning nor facts to back it up). And you obviously do care as you not only read the above post but replied to it.
So you are a hypocritical poster claiming to be spamming (=posting without being interested in a debate). Yeah. We call those trolls.
I guess you are new to the Internet? Because the angry vocal shitheads are more likely racist, sexist idiots than the SJW strawmen people like you (=idiots) try to portrait as the standard. Whatever...
Why is it that people that should know better fall for conspiracy theories? Because an alternative explanation of how dread idiot shitbag was found isn't needed - he fucked up. In public forums. Repeatedly. He fucked up when he allowed people to get access to his notebook computer (yes _allowed_ by having shit security).
There's no reason to believe in conspiracies connected to this case. None. But still people that should know better believe them.
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Yes? However this should significantly weaken the patent in a reasonable court.
IMO it's a gray zone. Using software just as using mechanics in a novel way in a novel system? IMO clearly worthy of a patent but (as Dog-Cow points out below) the source code should be included or at least a complete algorithmic description that others can implement and improve upon. But most software patents aren't like that.
You don't understand what a company is _for_, that's obvious. They aren't created to make the world a happy place.
The interesting thing about hyperloop was it generated hype from a very old idea that have had a lot of people tinkering with models and designs. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't think anybody have ever contemplated making a high-speed train within tubes with a high vacuum - most designs doesn't use vacuum as such just low pressure. Why? Because it is _good_enough_ given the other limitations on speed (a main one being safety) and being realistic rather than a pipe dream.
What? In all cases I know of in the EU (and I guess you really mean Europe but didn't know enough to name the entity correctly) where there are "state media" it is independent. A government can't directly influence that media which works under a set of rules which in most cases are fixed in law - so changing the rules means changing the law. That's hard to do as most European countries aren't two-party states like some other places and getting enough support for changing something almost considered sacred is very slim.
TL;DR "state media" essentially means there is a media entity that have been given the right to get money via a kind of taxation and have rules to enforce political independence and other independence in their reporting. The government have nothing to say about that other than via law changes.
One doesn't _solve_ things with heuristics so I don't know what you mean? One can get pretty good results for traveling salesman problems with good algorithms, approaching the optimal route - sure. But it isn't the same as solving the problem which would provide the optimal route every time. If one want the optimal route the problem is still hard.
I'd assume all of them. It's hard to fly with only a left wing.
iff=If and only if.
Most likely. As I wrote above it is an excellent way to test software and methods that can be useful in other cases.
You can't be an engineer. Things have to be developed and things have to be tested. This is a good way to test things.
If you are pissed because the NSA do their work which includes creating (and testing) tools to do signal analysis... Well, you are probably pissed at everything.
You don't realize how but metadata a single sentence provides. It is almost impossible to remove it all and trying to do it is a pain in the ass. If one try to do it manually (or reading the resulting massaged text before sending it) there will most likely be leaking of the anonymous writing style into ones ordinary writing etc.
The best way is probably learning some unusual (compared to ones native tongue) language, only using that language when wanting to post anonymously and doing machine translation on top of that. But that requires one to never letting quirks/phrasing/analogies from that other language creep into non-anonymous posts.
Should I respond to what you wrote? You wondering have nothing to do with NSA "squirreling" anything. It is completely unrelated.
But perhaps the intended meaning is more deserving of an answer? If NSA have stored the communication before the identity of the individual is known it is probably legal and correct to keep it stored. But you are assuming that they would keep the communication data even if the individual is known to be an US citizen - why are you assuming that to be the case? Speculation upon speculation without real world feedback rarely produces anything worthwhile.
This is something that you should take to court together with others in the same situation. That is a scam!
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Yet another example of black&white thinking. If part of a "German" company cheats on testing protocols it doesn't mean Germany as an entity is breaking the relevant laws of the US. If part of NZ breaks some law it doesn't mean that NZ as an entity have broken that law.
It's really simple. Just use your brain(s).
Africa have a huge variety in "races" (not politically or technically correct but...) with varying heights, skin color, bone structures etc. Only racist (this one is technically correct!) and idiots wouldn't know that. I assume you are of the second kind?
Remember boys and girls, since nation-states became a thing, more citizens have died at the hands of their own government than have died in all the wars by a huge margin. Be careful what you wish for...you just may get it!
Only if you define being killed in war as "died at the hands of their own government". And that definition would be ludicrous.
And when they (reluctantly and intentionally slowly) allow independent inspections that do show they do indeed comply with whatever the sanctions are for then you can't just make up some sketchy false information in order to attack them anyway. Works for USA anyway. Leader of the free world right?
Processed food is great. Processing have improved the quality of food products in western countries (and by extension to most of the world) in many ways. If you don't like some kind of processing (and there are many examples I personally think are shit) then list them instead of using a catchphrase used by idiots.
The same thing applies to the reverse: natural food isn't always better, many foods require significant processing to produce something edible by humans. Heating, using chemicals, extensive water soaking etc. This is processing too and have been used by humans at least for the historical time. Many things that people have traditionally eaten have to be processed to remove poisons and/or transform the nutrition to something humans can consume. In some cases "modern" idiots that like "natural" food have skipped processing because it isn't natural with toxic results...
Well a proper space suit is essentially a house for the body so suite maybe correct in a way...
He(?) is right you know. If you'd bothered to read any number of other replies to this topic this isn't a space suit, it can't work as a space suit and so the AC you replied to is right. There are a lot of problems with this design if it was intended to be a space suit (which it isn't) but it's still PR-ojected as being one. False news in other words.
There are some ideas that maybe some day may make slimmer space suits possible but not today and probably not from SpaceX.
Yep. But in this new brave world appearance is everything and medium obviously thinks that's great.
How is that a trolling attempt? More reasonable than the pile of shit you posted (opinion without reasoning nor facts to back it up). And you obviously do care as you not only read the above post but replied to it.
So you are a hypocritical poster claiming to be spamming (=posting without being interested in a debate). Yeah. We call those trolls.
I guess you are new to the Internet? Because the angry vocal shitheads are more likely racist, sexist idiots than the SJW strawmen people like you (=idiots) try to portrait as the standard. Whatever...
Nice friends you have. Let's hope you don't do anything wrong or you may get a contract on your head...
Why is it that people that should know better fall for conspiracy theories? Because an alternative explanation of how dread idiot shitbag was found isn't needed - he fucked up. In public forums. Repeatedly. He fucked up when he allowed people to get access to his notebook computer (yes _allowed_ by having shit security).
There's no reason to believe in conspiracies connected to this case. None. But still people that should know better believe them.