You're right, but hashing makes "password recovery" impossible. Which do you think most users consider most important: security, or the ability to recover their forgotten passwords by an obvious fact about themselves?
Please read the article. He does not want to defend his patent. He wants to establish prior art so that the invention goes into the public domain. Patenting it and then abandoning the patent does so, and it publishes the invention in the PTO's own database where examiners are less likely to overlook it.
> You do not need to patent, and if you do you (theoretically) publish the details of your > invention.
The problem is that the patent examiners often overlook prior art (especially in software) and allow patents to issue anyway. Once a patent has issued it is presumed valid and an expensive lawsuit is required to overturn it. Patenting the invention (a US provisional patent costs only $100) both gets the invention published and puts it where the examiner is very unlikely to miss it, since the first thing he does is checks the PTO database to see if it has already been patented. of course, one should publish the invention elsewhere as well.
> If you do not defend your market exclusivity, a competitor can apply to have your patent > overturned/revoked. It would be a slam-dunk.
Not true, but it doesn't matter. Having his patent "overturned/revoked" would place the invention in the public domain which is exactly where he wants it.
> You cannot patent the invention *and* release it under GPL.
True, but not the way you think it is. A patent grants a monopoly on an invention. A copyight (the GPL is a copyright license) grants a monopoly on creative expression. The two are orthogonal. He can patent his invention and then distribute source code implementing it under the GPL with no problems at all.
Note that you can file provisional patent applications on any improvements that you make to the original "invention". Do so, and attach full source code for the reference implementation as an "exhibit".
> Wait a second. So these things went extinct just 10 years ago. Wouldn't it have been a > lot easier (and cheaper) to, um, keep some of them alive instead of waiting until they > died off?
Something. Otherwise, why would it show an ad customized just for you? If everybody sees the same ad it will be targeted at the group. In other words, it won't be much different than it is now.
I would imagine that it can't tell the difference between pictures, masks, and real faces. But so what? It doesn't really matter if it gets the sex ratio of the crowd wrong once in a while because three of the teenage girls looking at it were wearing Richard Nixon masks.
Description: Use your GMail account as a filesystem
GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail
account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and
uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the
filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.
> Let's not also forget that they've got things like the unmanned > Progress ISS supply ship that we're totally dependent on - something > that neither the US, Europe nor anywhere else has to offer.
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Of course, you can let them create a new password when they tell you their favorite color and what kind of pet they own.
You're right, but hashing makes "password recovery" impossible. Which do you think most users consider most important: security, or the ability to recover their forgotten passwords by an obvious fact about themselves?
But why were any cleartext passwords ever recorded at all?
> Nobody (that's nobody) chooses new passwords for every system they use.
False.
There'll be real-time auto-tune soon enough.
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plus a little hacking and amaze your friends and family as you wander along the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
> So unfortunately, catching the guy distributing the fliers wouldn't do you any good...
He knows who he got the flyers from.
Please read the article. He does not want to defend his patent. He wants to establish prior art so that the invention goes into the public domain. Patenting it and then abandoning the patent does so, and it publishes the invention in the PTO's own database where examiners are less likely to overlook it.
> You do not need to patent, and if you do you (theoretically) publish the details of your
> invention.
The problem is that the patent examiners often overlook prior art (especially in software) and allow patents to issue anyway. Once a patent has issued it is presumed valid and an expensive lawsuit is required to overturn it. Patenting the invention (a US provisional patent costs only $100) both gets the invention published and puts it where the examiner is very unlikely to miss it, since the first thing he does is checks the PTO database to see if it has already been patented. of course, one should publish the invention elsewhere as well.
> If you do not defend your market exclusivity, a competitor can apply to have your patent
> overturned/revoked. It would be a slam-dunk.
Not true, but it doesn't matter. Having his patent "overturned/revoked" would place the invention in the public domain which is exactly where he wants it.
> You cannot patent the invention *and* release it under GPL.
True, but not the way you think it is. A patent grants a monopoly on an invention. A copyight (the GPL is a copyright license) grants a monopoly on creative expression. The two are orthogonal. He can patent his invention and then distribute source code implementing it under the GPL with no problems at all.
Note that you can file provisional patent applications on any improvements that you make to the original "invention". Do so, and attach full source code for the reference implementation as an "exhibit".
Depends on how many people actually pay the fine.
> It's not able to recover wounded by itself...
Big Dog will take care of that.
...is the word you're looking for.
> The peper makes no suggestions on how a ship will generate and store the necessary
> gigajoules of energy to maintain a sustained reaction.
Yes it does.
> We may need a separate nuclear reactor to providing the ignition energy.
Read the papaer again.
Seems to me that it makes more sense to figure out how to make a healthy individual first. Which seems to be what they are working on.
> Wait a second. So these things went extinct just 10 years ago. Wouldn't it have been a
> lot easier (and cheaper) to, um, keep some of them alive instead of waiting until they
> died off?
So why didn't you do it?
Something. Otherwise, why would it show an ad customized just for you? If everybody sees the same ad it will be targeted at the group. In other words, it won't be much different than it is now.
There is no reason for them to do so, because the number of users who will encrypt will be too small to matter.
> While everyone looked on... ...and saw their own customized ad, not yours.
I would imagine that it can't tell the difference between pictures, masks, and real faces. But so what? It doesn't really matter if it gets the sex ratio of the crowd wrong once in a while because three of the teenage girls looking at it were wearing Richard Nixon masks.
Description: Use your GMail account as a filesystem
GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail
account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and
uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the
filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.
> Let's not also forget that they've got things like the unmanned
> Progress ISS supply ship that we're totally dependent on - something
> that neither the US, Europe nor anywhere else has to offer.
The Jules Verne seemed to work pretty well.
> I'd thought one of his strengths was supposed to be his personal
> incorruptibility.
And if you say otherwise he has some Polonium for you.
On the other hand, how could the Czar be corrupt anyway? You can't steal from yourself!