Funny, sounds more like an extortion attempt under the RICO act to me.
"Nice phones you have, a shame if something unfortunate were to happen and you found yourself in court needing to spend millions of dollars to even find out what we claim to own".
This is extortion through insinuation that there is someone infringing, with no proof they are, and no ability for anybody to review the alleged list of patents.
Because if they actually released the list, I bet it would be in the interests of many people to have some of those patents overturned.
Of course the people with massive amounts of money are interested in maintaining an inherently flawed patent system which makes them massive amounts of money.
Film at 11.
When Microsoft can extort a share of Android with the threat of using an unspecified list of patents, the patent system has become so utterly broken as to be useless.
Burning the bridges the trolls live under? Patent reform? Thorough review of ALL patents to see if they make sense? Force Microsoft to disclose ALL patents they feel might be infringed?
Anything would be better than the stupidity which is the current patent system.
I've always thought that was stupid, and an abuse of patents.
We're going to threaten you with the notion that you may be violating one of many undisclosed patents. We're going to insist on a cut of revenues to license these patents to you. We may or may not tell you the patents even once we have your money.
This should be a put up or shut up scenario.
I also heavily expect that a great deal of these patents would yield howls of outrage as they more or less became "a system an methodology for doing something exactly like in the real world, but with a communications device/computer/phone".
This is just a blanket extortion scheme intended to make sure there can be no competition because everybody is beholden the the big players who hold patents awarded by chimpanzees whose job it is to simply approve as many as possible.
The cell companies will throttle, and continue to massively over-subscribe.
Pretty much every advancement they've touted as bringing faster, better, cheaper has translated into "not much faster", "slightly better (for them)", and in no way at all cheaper.
I have very little faith that most wireless companies will do anything but squeeze us for money money and more profits, while giving us the same service (or worse) than we already have.
But, it's social... and that adds huge value, because otherwise your friends would never know the movies you watch, and companies couldn't monetize that information.
And, kidding aside, I'm with you... I have no idea of what the benefit of knowing every movie my friends watch or them mine is.
But the world seems to have gone gaga for anything related to social media.
I rank it right up there with the.com bubble -- ZOMG, you have a web site.
Of course the flip side of that is the assumption that many people here make which is that there is nothing that is genuinely sensitive and damaging to release.
Oh, we believe it would be sensitive and damaging -- but we also believe it would be because they've breaking the law in many cases and bypassing any real oversight.
The assumption is the FISA court rubber stamps everything without actual regard for the law.
We don't trust them. We can't verify what they do. So we pretty much have to assume the worst.
but it has pipes that could withstand 400 bar of pressure. Why? I haven't got the slightest clue
My espresso machine is rated for 15 bar and probably weighs 2-3 kilos or so since it's made of heavy steel. 9 bar is pretty much the minimum to make espresso and actually get crema.
I assume it's been heavily over-engineered because having your espresso machine malfunction in space would make a horrible mess. If my espresso machine leaks, it dumps water and grounds on my counter -- in space, it would be worse espresso grind is almost a powder.
But due to the nature of pressurising a liquid to pass it through a capsule of ground coffee beans in a highly sensitive scientific environment, some precautions have been taken.
Again, over engineered for safety.
on the other hand, since the capsules can contain other stuff, you can also use it for a hot chocolate.
Well, they don't send children into space just yet, so nobody actually needs that.;-)
but I still can't get my mind around the fact that they used space age highest technology for making something that's 20 kilos and pumps water out of one bag, heats it up and pushes it into another.
As an espresso drinker... If I was going to be in space for an extended period of time... being able to occasionally have a proper espresso would be awesome. If we're going to colonize space, the little luxuries will be really important. The Italians are just bringing a little dolce vita to space.
According to Giuseppe Lavazza, who undertook this project as a personal challenge, the most common feedback from astronauts revealed one of the most missed commodities in space is the humble espresso. The introduction of a "corner cafe" is expected to help overcome the isolating and challenging environment astronauts have to work in, while also giving them a little home comfort while they float hundreds of miles above their own.
And, apparently, the astronauts agree. Who wouldn't like a little comfort from home, and a little pick me up after a space walk?
However, here is a link to a French company that offered RF blocking wallpaper two years ago
LOL... so, it's tin-foil hats, but in patterns?
Why does this whole thing remind me of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six... where if you had two antennas you could triangulate people and use it for military purposes?
How can computers be so alien to us when we've designed them?
And if we ever achieve AI, it will probably be very different from us... because it will be based on our best approximations of the mechanisms of the brain, and quite unlikely to match exactly how we actually work.
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Wow, neither my mother nor my wife are the crazy irrational beasts that I keep hearing about. As far as I can tell, my sister in law and my cousins, also not crazy irrational people. Most of my exes, also not crazy irrational.
OK, I had a girlfriend in highschool who was.
Either I've been lucky, or women aren't these un-knowable entities everyone keeps claiming.
Though, my brother did date his share of crazies, and an uncle's ex-wife was definitely crazy... but in a general crazy sense, not so much with the "crazy because she's female" sense.
Then again, I'm hardly famous for my insights into individual people.:-P
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Funny, sounds more like an extortion attempt under the RICO act to me.
"Nice phones you have, a shame if something unfortunate were to happen and you found yourself in court needing to spend millions of dollars to even find out what we claim to own".
This is extortion through insinuation that there is someone infringing, with no proof they are, and no ability for anybody to review the alleged list of patents.
Because if they actually released the list, I bet it would be in the interests of many people to have some of those patents overturned.
Of course the people with massive amounts of money are interested in maintaining an inherently flawed patent system which makes them massive amounts of money.
Film at 11.
When Microsoft can extort a share of Android with the threat of using an unspecified list of patents, the patent system has become so utterly broken as to be useless.
Burning the bridges the trolls live under? Patent reform? Thorough review of ALL patents to see if they make sense? Force Microsoft to disclose ALL patents they feel might be infringed?
Anything would be better than the stupidity which is the current patent system.
I've always thought that was stupid, and an abuse of patents.
We're going to threaten you with the notion that you may be violating one of many undisclosed patents. We're going to insist on a cut of revenues to license these patents to you. We may or may not tell you the patents even once we have your money.
This should be a put up or shut up scenario.
I also heavily expect that a great deal of these patents would yield howls of outrage as they more or less became "a system an methodology for doing something exactly like in the real world, but with a communications device/computer/phone".
This is just a blanket extortion scheme intended to make sure there can be no competition because everybody is beholden the the big players who hold patents awarded by chimpanzees whose job it is to simply approve as many as possible.
Now that's innovation.
Somehow, I doubt it actually will be faster.
The cell companies will throttle, and continue to massively over-subscribe.
Pretty much every advancement they've touted as bringing faster, better, cheaper has translated into "not much faster", "slightly better (for them)", and in no way at all cheaper.
I have very little faith that most wireless companies will do anything but squeeze us for money money and more profits, while giving us the same service (or worse) than we already have.
Well, it's like the old joke with the bulls ... let's walk down and fsck them all.
But, it's social ... and that adds huge value, because otherwise your friends would never know the movies you watch, and companies couldn't monetize that information.
And, kidding aside, I'm with you ... I have no idea of what the benefit of knowing every movie my friends watch or them mine is.
But the world seems to have gone gaga for anything related to social media.
I rank it right up there with the .com bubble -- ZOMG, you have a web site.
Oh, we believe it would be sensitive and damaging -- but we also believe it would be because they've breaking the law in many cases and bypassing any real oversight.
The assumption is the FISA court rubber stamps everything without actual regard for the law.
We don't trust them. We can't verify what they do. So we pretty much have to assume the worst.
My espresso machine is rated for 15 bar and probably weighs 2-3 kilos or so since it's made of heavy steel. 9 bar is pretty much the minimum to make espresso and actually get crema.
I assume it's been heavily over-engineered because having your espresso machine malfunction in space would make a horrible mess. If my espresso machine leaks, it dumps water and grounds on my counter -- in space, it would be worse espresso grind is almost a powder.
Again, over engineered for safety.
Well, they don't send children into space just yet, so nobody actually needs that. ;-)
As an espresso drinker ... If I was going to be in space for an extended period of time ... being able to occasionally have a proper espresso would be awesome. If we're going to colonize space, the little luxuries will be really important. The Italians are just bringing a little dolce vita to space.
And, apparently, the astronauts agree. Who wouldn't like a little comfort from home, and a little pick me up after a space walk?
Alas, probably no good biscotti though. ;-)
LOL ... so, it's tin-foil hats, but in patterns?
Why does this whole thing remind me of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six ... where if you had two antennas you could triangulate people and use it for military purposes?
Obviously, because it's paper. Which is not immediate.
But, I didn't think you could do a debit transaction with just an imprint. How do you know which account? You certainly don't have my PIN.
I'm skeptical this would even work. I've never heard of doing a debit transaction with an imprint ... it may exist, but that would surprise me.
Why keep using ancient swipe technology?
Chip and PIN is a *much* better system.
I should hope nothing ... I have one it my wallet.
How the heck does old fashioned imprinting help me to use a debit card?
Do these people actually not understand any of this technology?
Dude ... I don't play for Turing's team, and even I can tell you .... WHOOOOSH!!
Neither does a clitoris or a nipple, but people have successfully used them for millennia. ;-)
Apple obviously does.
This isn't a 3rd party saying it, this is Apple themselves.
LOL ... that or I'm so universally terrible at human nuance I've never picked up on gender differences.
Tough call. ;-)
I take that as axiomatic.
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So, what about switches? Surely it's not an "all one or the other" trait.
And if we ever achieve AI, it will probably be very different from us ... because it will be based on our best approximations of the mechanisms of the brain, and quite unlikely to match exactly how we actually work.
And, really:
Number 7 is about spot on.
Wow, neither my mother nor my wife are the crazy irrational beasts that I keep hearing about. As far as I can tell, my sister in law and my cousins, also not crazy irrational people. Most of my exes, also not crazy irrational.
OK, I had a girlfriend in highschool who was.
Either I've been lucky, or women aren't these un-knowable entities everyone keeps claiming.
Though, my brother did date his share of crazies, and an uncle's ex-wife was definitely crazy ... but in a general crazy sense, not so much with the "crazy because she's female" sense.
Then again, I'm hardly famous for my insights into individual people. :-P
I'm sorry, but nothing about that charade where someone claimed to pass the Turing test implies that a "goal was reached".
Except the people who claim it, nobody actually believes it.
Yeah, but short of an explicit sex chat ... I'm not even sure how you go about this.
"Are you a woman?" "Yes"
"Do you have b00b13s?" "Yes"
I'm pretty sure my wife would fail any questions regarding makeup or cosmetics.
I've known more than a few women who could swear like sailors ... maybe they were actually sailors.
I'm apparently suffering from a huge imagination fail, because I have no idea how one would do this in a text chat.
Captain Nemo? Captain Obvious? Captain Kirk?