1. A computer simulation of a real-world thing is not, in and of itself, patentable. This is not to say the programming behind it could not be clever enough to be patentable.
2. Doing something wirelessly or on a mobile device already done on desktop computers is also not inherently patentable, though it may already be covered by a desktop patent.
Tthe quote may not be from him, but this whole argument that government is why things are great is specious arrogancy.
Free people hire it to secure their rights so they can go on to pursue their own ends, and time and again this is what makes a nation great.
Obama's statement, "You didn't build that (company)!", which he mostly backed off of, was the opposite of his observed trend. Legion are the nations with roads that don't do squat economically, because of rampant kickbacks, illegal or legal (massive taxation or other burden).
Onscreen keyboards would be OK if they actually did less.
Give me arrow keys right there, so I can scroll the cursor to where I want instead of trying to press a seven hundred square foot fintertip between two hugging ants.
Stop "helping" me with backspace. I will decide when to release, not you. I don't want you erasing the entire 500 word essay because I held it down for 5s. Especially without an undo. Mac solved this problem 30 fucking years ago.
"It seems'" says Morpheus, "that those idiot programmers who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it...dragging everyone else along with them."
I turned off autocorrect on my Android phone because it constantly filled in the wrong word. This as opposed to Word, which rarely did.
Maybe it was the higher error rate, or maybe it was too dumb not to correct proper nouns, who knows? But off it went. And his problem irritated me to near death within a few sentences, it was so pervasive.
Well, it's good and proper this is being handled by courts and regulatory agencies, rather than that anachronism of elected legislators in a parliament.
Most stuff in the same orbit altitude should be travelling at roughly the same speed. Therefore this would be something in a wildly eccentric or kilted orbit, or retrograde.
The people of Virgina can access their information that way. Most of the rest these out-of-state people wanted they got through other means. One guy wanted his own records related to his kids...and got it. Another wanted info already on the Internet by Virginia, and ruling he had to spend a few minutes surfing to get it rather than the cumbersome FOIA process was hardly "burdensome".
Also, there is no constitutional right to records -- it has never been considered so historically, and is something elected officials did because citizens demanded it. Indeed, the right to inspect other peoples' records has historically been seen as a no-no.
So if the records don't concern you directly (you, a court case, property you may want to buy, all of which have mechanisms) and you are not a Virginia citizen, tough shit. FOIA doesn't help you.
Teacher: Well, class. Let's all welcome our new student Jimmy. His family just moved here to Mars from Alpha Centauri. Jimmy, why don't you tell us what it was like. What planet did your family live on?
Jimmy: mumble mumble
Teacher: I'm sorry, I didn't get that.
Jimmy: Albertus Alauda
Nelson: Your planet is named after some dead guy's grandpa who won a contest! Ha ha!
Teacher: That's enough. It's true, all seventeen billion Albertus Alaudans live on a planet named in a contest by a bunch of people who might as well been carrying spears.
You do realize, don't you, that innocuous privacy loss to corporations may be thwarted, but that complete loss to governments proceeds unhindered?
Ask your elderly grandma before she slips away about he primary problem of all history: government spying on citizenz, and not to sell your name off in an advertising list to Depends Undergarments.
Yes it's one study. Where was this concern when it was one study showing correlation between religious belief and being an idiot, or having higher chance of teen pregnancy or promiscuity, or believing in UFOs?:)
As a libertarian atheist, I bitch a lot about a lot, but this turnabout is fun if for no other reason than some detractors of religion are just nonsentient goobers latching onto anything to hate another group, just like any other meme regurgitator in support of their overmeme, thus missing the bigger picture.
> " 'Blaming BitTorrent for piracy is like blaming a freeway for drunk drivers, ' Jill Calcaterra, Cinedigm's chief marketing officer said"
I like Bittorrent, but this is a bit disingenuous. It's more like blaming a freeway with with drive-thru bars every 100 feet because zoning doesn't forbid it, for having drunk drivers.
Don't confuse Fox News with Fox Everthing Else (tho Fox News also addresses a "niche" larger than CNN by far).
Fox did this with Glee -- a summer replacement of 6 episodes they put on Hulu too, which had such monster viewings just on the first episode, it got immediately pulled and programmed for the fall.
It helps their target demographic is late boomers and Gen X nostalgia, what with them entering their prime earning years.
That doesn't work as well as you think. Companies that import workers look for domestics as token hires to fend off trouble. The unemployment rate is so low they're a golden defensive shield.
I have read several different science fiction stories based on real technology, where face recognition tracks individuals and stores it in a database, along woth car tracking.
One story even did a Google Earth kind of things and tracked you inside buildings as well. Type in a name, boom! Exactly where you are, and were, is known and logged.
They would be useful, even if fake, if terrorists thought them real and skipped attempts.
FBI and friends use lie detectors even though they are hogwash. I assume it's for the same reason: to scare people rather than use as a physical filter. Only the high-level strategists need know it doesn't work -- the plebe agents don't.
Don't know but I can imagine hw manufacturers adding some kind of sensitivity multipliers or other cheap hardware to a flatscreen's elecrical feed during construction to do detailed proximity analysis, thus doing away with a proper touchscreen altogether.
The troll text exists. It's all automated to snag frist psots.
Such is the state of this newfangled anarchy of the Internet.
I wonder if Slashdot mods have checked what percent of -1 troll is actually accurate, thus decreasing anarchy, and what percent are -1 I Disagree!, also decreasing anarchy, but in the wrong way, in favor of totalitarianism.
Slashdot Mirror
> "thanks to its anodized aluminum body, unquestionably one of the prettiest."
Anodized aluminum, or does it just look like anodized aluminum?
This violates my rule 1.
1. A computer simulation of a real-world thing is not, in and of itself, patentable. This is not to say the programming behind it could not be clever enough to be patentable.
2. Doing something wirelessly or on a mobile device already done on desktop computers is also not inherently patentable, though it may already be covered by a desktop patent.
Tthe quote may not be from him, but this whole argument that government is why things are great is specious arrogancy.
Free people hire it to secure their rights so they can go on to pursue their own ends, and time and again this is what makes a nation great.
Obama's statement, "You didn't build that (company)!", which he mostly backed off of, was the opposite of his observed trend. Legion are the nations with roads that don't do squat economically, because of rampant kickbacks, illegal or legal (massive taxation or other burden).
A Firefox phone is cool.
An Apple phone is cool.
A Google Android phone is cool.
A Blackberry 10 phone is cool.
A Windows phone is not.
At this point, an IBM phone would be cooler than a Microsoft one. It has come full circle.
"Criss cross!"
"Very good, Peter!"
Onscreen keyboards would be OK if they actually did less.
Give me arrow keys right there, so I can scroll the cursor to where I want instead of trying to press a seven hundred square foot fintertip between two hugging ants.
Stop "helping" me with backspace. I will decide when to release, not you. I don't want you erasing the entire 500 word essay because I held it down for 5s. Especially without an undo. Mac solved this problem 30 fucking years ago.
"It seems'" says Morpheus, "that those idiot programmers who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it...dragging everyone else along with them."
I turned off autocorrect on my Android phone because it constantly filled in the wrong word. This as opposed to Word, which rarely did.
Maybe it was the higher error rate, or maybe it was too dumb not to correct proper nouns, who knows? But off it went. And his problem irritated me to near death within a few sentences, it was so pervasive.
Well, it's good and proper this is being handled by courts and regulatory agencies, rather than that anachronism of elected legislators in a parliament.
Takes the politics out of it.
Whoever smelt it dealt it. Which wood be yew.
First web page?
No disclaimer!
No privacy statement!
Probably no multiple languages, violating some European law.
I can't believe people survived without the wisdom of our masters!
Most stuff in the same orbit altitude should be travelling at roughly the same speed. Therefore this would be something in a wildly eccentric or kilted orbit, or retrograde.
The people of Virgina can access their information that way. Most of the rest these out-of-state people wanted they got through other means. One guy wanted his own records related to his kids...and got it. Another wanted info already on the Internet by Virginia, and ruling he had to spend a few minutes surfing to get it rather than the cumbersome FOIA process was hardly "burdensome".
Also, there is no constitutional right to records -- it has never been considered so historically, and is something elected officials did because citizens demanded it. Indeed, the right to inspect other peoples' records has historically been seen as a no-no.
So if the records don't concern you directly (you, a court case, property you may want to buy, all of which have mechanisms) and you are not a Virginia citizen, tough shit. FOIA doesn't help you.
> US Take note, this has shown that even though Big Business is behind something, voters can say"No"
And what if the voters are wrong? There's a lot of money for talking heads to promote scare stories, leading to problems where there were none.
Silicone breast implants aren't actually bad for you, so say giant studies.
Mercury in vaccnes was removed and it didn't affect autism.
Adjutants in vaccines are similarly not used in the US for asinine scare political reasons.
Olestra, the fake fat in potato chips? Cause of cramps? Actually causes slightly less cramps than regular potato chips in blind tests.
In the year 2263:
Teacher: Well, class. Let's all welcome our new student Jimmy. His family just moved here to Mars from Alpha Centauri. Jimmy, why don't you tell us what it was like. What planet did your family live on?
Jimmy: mumble mumble
Teacher: I'm sorry, I didn't get that.
Jimmy: Albertus Alauda
Nelson: Your planet is named after some dead guy's grandpa who won a contest! Ha ha!
Teacher: That's enough. It's true, all seventeen billion Albertus Alaudans live on a planet named in a contest by a bunch of people who might as well been carrying spears.
It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Ég er frá Íslandi og eins lunda og spila Warcraft.
(Sorry, blame Google Translate.)
Dear European proud of your privacy laws,
You do realize, don't you, that innocuous privacy loss to corporations may be thwarted, but that complete loss to governments proceeds unhindered?
Ask your elderly grandma before she slips away about he primary problem of all history: government spying on citizenz, and not to sell your name off in an advertising list to Depends Undergarments.
Morpheus: You've...missed the point.
Yes it's one study. Where was this concern when it was one study showing correlation between religious belief and being an idiot, or having higher chance of teen pregnancy or promiscuity, or believing in UFOs? :)
As a libertarian atheist, I bitch a lot about a lot, but this turnabout is fun if for no other reason than some detractors of religion are just nonsentient goobers latching onto anything to hate another group, just like any other meme regurgitator in support of their overmeme , thus missing the bigger picture.
Or are they gonna go Dutch?
The sentence will be stoning to death.
It's always good to see law enforcement working together in a joint investigation.
I hear they just tracked his Twitter hash tag.
> " 'Blaming BitTorrent for piracy is like blaming a freeway for drunk drivers, ' Jill Calcaterra, Cinedigm's chief marketing officer said"
I like Bittorrent, but this is a bit disingenuous. It's more like blaming a freeway with with drive-thru bars every 100 feet because zoning doesn't forbid it, for having drunk drivers.
Don't confuse Fox News with Fox Everthing Else (tho Fox News also addresses a "niche" larger than CNN by far).
Fox did this with Glee -- a summer replacement of 6 episodes they put on Hulu too, which had such monster viewings just on the first episode, it got immediately pulled and programmed for the fall.
It helps their target demographic is late boomers and Gen X nostalgia, what with them entering their prime earning years.
That doesn't work as well as you think. Companies that import workers look for domestics as token hires to fend off trouble. The unemployment rate is so low they're a golden defensive shield.
I have read several different science fiction stories based on real technology, where face recognition tracks individuals and stores it in a database, along woth car tracking.
One story even did a Google Earth kind of things and tracked you inside buildings as well. Type in a name, boom! Exactly where you are, and were, is known and logged.
We do not want to give government this power.
They would be useful, even if fake, if terrorists thought them real and skipped attempts.
FBI and friends use lie detectors even though they are hogwash. I assume it's for the same reason: to scare people rather than use as a physical filter. Only the high-level strategists need know it doesn't work -- the plebe agents don't.
Don't know but I can imagine hw manufacturers adding some kind of sensitivity multipliers or other cheap hardware to a flatscreen's elecrical feed during construction to do detailed proximity analysis, thus doing away with a proper touchscreen altogether.
Why does the alternative to anarchy need to be the most bloated and intrusive government (in economic terms) in human history?
It's about memes spreading. If you argue political philosophy, you've already become a nonsentient cog in meme reproduction.
The troll text exists. It's all automated to snag frist psots.
Such is the state of this newfangled anarchy of the Internet.
I wonder if Slashdot mods have checked what percent of -1 troll is actually accurate, thus decreasing anarchy, and what percent are -1 I Disagree!, also decreasing anarchy, but in the wrong way, in favor of totalitarianism.