SecondLife is currently free (as in beer). Creating an avatar is free and there is no monthly fee unless you wish to upgrade to a premium account in order to own some virtual 'real' estate.
... Okay, what kind of list of the best games ever doesn't include chess? What about poker? Oh wait. They misnamed their list. It's a list of 'videogames'.:P
I wrote something like that back when I was in high school. If that doesn't work to prove it's an obvious thing that shouldn't patented, then at least it's prior art.
Nope. See, thanks to 'fair use' they can do what they are doing anyway.. which is showing small snippets out of copyrighted books. They are offering the opt-out out of politeness, not as a legal cop-out.
Unlike bittorrent sites that will copy entire works in full.
You say this and yet, the current slashdot submission actually links ot the original article and adds a link to his (Roland Piquaille's) own overview at his online journal. In fact, it pretty much looks like you just copy and pasted this comment from a previous comment, isn't it?
Security through obscurity isn't about some department or whatever not being transparent. Security through obscurity is a term used about claiming that using unknown methods for securing (something, like, say, documents) makes it more secure than using well known methods. Like a specially made encryption, instead of a well-known one. The problem with that is that since it is unknown, it means it wasn't well researched and nnobody knows if there's actual wholes in this security. It was a joke about using some kind of blanking tag to hide text in an rtf document... It's secure as long as nobody knows what was done.
The sentence breaks down as: (I like broadband) but (its pretty far down on the (list of critical infrastructure projects we have neglected)) to (pursue war, enriching the upper class, and funding a global colonial regime).
How typically american. The articles says that in Korea, broadband has better penetration than.. not america.. but rather, *the rest of the world*! Which does happen to include America, but is not limited to it. Nor is America even a good meter to compare to, broadband-wise.
Except of course, planting seeds that you own shouldn't be a crime, and of course, if the seed produces a new plant, well, gee, that's just what its genetic code makes it do, and if Monsato isn't happy with that, they should correct that 'defect' in their product. The bottom line is... a fertile genetic code is *meant* to reproduce itself, that's its whole purpose... Imagine if Microsoft had put in a bug in one of its products that made it copy itself sometimes (say, once a year in spring)... Could they sue the customers for having copies of the software?
I don't see how that 'wireless switching' could ever exist, except in point to point directional stuff. Maybe this is what was meant by wireless switching?
Quote: Belkin Pre-N products do not drop to the lowest networking speed in a mixed-mode environment - If a standard 802.11g or 802.11b device is introduced into a Belkin Pre-N network.
YOu are quite right, since he's probably not part of a terrorist gorup, it wasn't terrorism. Just attempted mass murder. Further, I dunno if you've read the article, but both the pilot and copilot of the commercial airplane *were* blinded, momentarily. Which is why a police helicopter was in the neighborhood a few days later, looking for the source of the beam... And geez, if the moron did not try to blind them too, which is how they found him.
Well, technically, they don't determine if a crime was commited or not. The jury in fact is supposed to decide if the defendant is guilty of the crime(s) he's being charged with.
No offense, but 'an AI much more intelligent than any human' will have much better plans than any you, or I, can come up with. It's useless to try to predict what would happen if we could either increase our intelligence or produce super-human AI. They will not think like us.
You did read the actual text describing this advance, did you not? He's talking not about personal computers, but about computer technologies.. In this case, the first steps done in opto computing. He didn't mention there was also quantum computing demonstrated. Quantum computing has the potential to make all our current speed measuring methods completely obsolete, where optical computing is simply better (faster, potentially not as power hungry, etc...), quantum computing simply behaves in totally new ways, able to find solutions nearly instantaneously whatever the number of potential results.
It is my understanding that this does not apply in the US. Their patent laws do allow for patents on mathematical formulas. This is contrary to what is allowed in Canada, and most of the rest of the world.
The only problem is that, indeed, here in Canada, at least, you can do just that. A TV station -can- take any publicly avialable broadcast and simply rebroadcast it, as long as they do not alter the content of said broadcast... I guess, most importantly, not remove original brodcaster's logo and such, and even more critical, not remove the commercials and sponsors announcements.
This is where you only fall unto sementics. Is ICraveTV rebroadcasting? Surely, although the method is adapted to the digital medium, that is what they are doing.
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SecondLife is currently free (as in beer). Creating an avatar is free and there is no monthly fee unless you wish to upgrade to a premium account in order to own some virtual 'real' estate.
... He did mention that Netscape was inspired by Mosaic.
... Okay, what kind of list of the best games ever doesn't include chess? What about poker? :P
Oh wait. They misnamed their list. It's a list of 'videogames'.
I wrote something like that back when I was in high school. If that doesn't work to prove it's an obvious thing that shouldn't patented, then at least it's prior art.
Google to the rescue.
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.1/changes.html
Nope. See, thanks to 'fair use' they can do what they are doing anyway.. which is showing small snippets out of copyrighted books.
They are offering the opt-out out of politeness, not as a legal cop-out.
Unlike bittorrent sites that will copy entire works in full.
Snippets = ok.
In full = copyright infringement
Strange that I have seen no mention of http://theswitchboard.ca/ throughout all these comments.
You say this and yet, the current slashdot submission actually links ot the original article and adds a link to his (Roland Piquaille's) own overview at his online journal.
In fact, it pretty much looks like you just copy and pasted this comment from a previous comment, isn't it?
Security through obscurity isn't about some department or whatever not being transparent. Security through obscurity is a term used about claiming that using unknown methods for securing (something, like, say, documents) makes it more secure than using well known methods. Like a specially made encryption, instead of a well-known one. The problem with that is that since it is unknown, it means it wasn't well researched and nnobody knows if there's actual wholes in this security.
It was a joke about using some kind of blanking tag to hide text in an rtf document... It's secure as long as nobody knows what was done.
And teaching kids to *read*:
The sentence breaks down as:
(I like broadband) but (its pretty far down on the (list of critical infrastructure projects we have neglected)) to (pursue war, enriching the upper class, and funding a global colonial regime).
You don't want immortal cells. What you want is cells that can be regenerated. Infinitely.
Mirrors do the same as magnification, it concentrates the sun in one place.
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Anyway, it's been done before:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/len
How typically american. The articles says that in Korea, broadband has better penetration than.. not america.. but rather, *the rest of the world*!
Which does happen to include America, but is not limited to it. Nor is America even a good meter to compare to, broadband-wise.
Of course, that's 5:1 to 10:1 depending. And with the accelerator it's in between 2:1 and 1:1.
Except of course, planting seeds that you own shouldn't be a crime, and of course, if the seed produces a new plant, well, gee, that's just what its genetic code makes it do, and if Monsato isn't happy with that, they should correct that 'defect' in their product.
The bottom line is... a fertile genetic code is *meant* to reproduce itself, that's its whole purpose...
Imagine if Microsoft had put in a bug in one of its products that made it copy itself sometimes (say, once a year in spring)... Could they sue the customers for having copies of the software?
I don't see how that 'wireless switching' could ever exist, except in point to point directional stuff. Maybe this is what was meant by wireless switching?
Quote: Belkin Pre-N products do not drop to the lowest networking speed in a mixed-mode environment - If a standard 802.11g or 802.11b device is introduced into a Belkin Pre-N network.
That sounds more reasonable.
YOu are quite right, since he's probably not part of a terrorist gorup, it wasn't terrorism. Just attempted mass murder.
Further, I dunno if you've read the article, but both the pilot and copilot of the commercial airplane *were* blinded, momentarily.
Which is why a police helicopter was in the neighborhood a few days later, looking for the source of the beam... And geez, if the moron did not try to blind them too, which is how they found him.
Well, technically, they don't determine if a crime was commited or not. The jury in fact is supposed to decide if the defendant is guilty of the crime(s) he's being charged with.
Poster said he had gas heating, but it's electrically-fired, so he does need electricity to run it... but he's not heating with electricity.
No offense, but 'an AI much more intelligent than any human' will have much better plans than any you, or I, can come up with.
It's useless to try to predict what would happen if we could either increase our intelligence or produce super-human AI. They will not think like us.
You did read the actual text describing this advance, did you not? He's talking not about personal computers, but about computer technologies.. In this case, the first steps done in opto computing. He didn't mention there was also quantum computing demonstrated.
Quantum computing has the potential to make all our current speed measuring methods completely obsolete, where optical computing is simply better (faster, potentially not as power hungry, etc...), quantum computing simply behaves in totally new ways, able to find solutions nearly instantaneously whatever the number of potential results.
Yeah, I mean, if it's not happening in America, it can't be important, right?
BS, as you said.
White LEDs (InGaN) are made by using a phosphorus coating inside the LED assembly that is excited by a blue LED.
What you are describing are RGB LEDs.
It is my understanding that this does not apply in the US. Their patent laws do allow for patents on mathematical formulas.
This is contrary to what is allowed in Canada, and most of the rest of the world.
The only problem is that, indeed, here in Canada, at least, you can do just that. A TV station -can- take any publicly avialable broadcast and simply rebroadcast it, as long as they do not alter the content of said broadcast... I guess, most importantly, not remove original brodcaster's logo and such, and even more critical, not remove the commercials and sponsors announcements.
This is where you only fall unto sementics. Is ICraveTV rebroadcasting? Surely, although the method is adapted to the digital medium, that is what they are doing.