Has any considered making patent information available shortly before it is patented?
Offer a 'temporary' patent about a month, during which time people could view the patient but not act on any of the information. People could submit problems or conflicts during this time. At the end of the period, the USPTO reviews the information prior to granting the patent.
Yes, I know this is all supposed to be taken care of before hand, but judging by the number of reviews of granted patents, it obviously isn't happening.
This is a common attitude, but from several years of working on an ambulance and speaking with ER docs, I believe it to be wrong.
The only time your organs can be harvested is if you have zero chance of recovery (brain missing, etc..) or in rare circumstances when you have a living will which authorized the termination of life support.
If anything, carrying a donor card would keep you alive longer (in an odd way), as the EMTs will continue CPR and other life-saving techniques when they ordinarily wouldn't in order to keep your transplantable organs from sustaining further damage.
I seem to remember some software being developed which emulated the OBD II car computer. It would be very interesting to load that software, this product, and a DA card to allow manual adjustments.
OTOH, some idiot will probably do this on an unstable OS, brining new meaning to 'system crash'.
Good idea, let's start blocking people we don't like [entire blocks of addresses] from accessing certain resources. My neighbor pisses me off, maybe I should slip in a few firewall rules at work. Next an ISP will decide it doesn't like what I see, block my favorite sites.
The net works because everything is available to all. Let's not change that, even if the **AA is screwing everyone.
If it is this close to background radiation, how can it be so effective? Can anyone tell me where 'background' radiation is coming from? Is it only outside?
How difficult is it to hide IR from a helicopter? I should think that a good amount of insulation would do the job. That, or you can leave an electric heater running up their for months, after a couple of raids, start growing the pot...
The article says that some of the x-rays pass through the subject, some scatter. Will they be using detectors behind the subject to look for densities within the subject? Hiding under a roll of fat is just the start, plenty of, er, 'cavities'.
Wouldn't these x-rays bounce off of ceramics, metals, and glass just fine? If the point of the tech is to detect plastic explosive (as regular metal detectors don't)... I'd imagine all those substances are denser (so more x-ray opaque) then skin and plastic explosives...
There was a guy who did this, hooked up sprayer nozzles into a hole he cut in the middle of a van, lines going to 4 or 5 paint cans. He'd drive at a specfic speed (~5mph or so) and the computer would turn on and off the jets to leave some piece of graffiti on the road.
Yes, I can see the future now....
PHB1: Our new entranceway RFID scanner shows that 95% of our customers are recognized by their clothing, hear a customized greeting, and promptly exist the store. We think they're being spooked somehow.
PHB2: Maybe we should install more scanners to research the problem?
I wonder how much of this is due to programming style. What I mean is, can there be a difference in how easy it is to debug apache (maintained and written by many people) versus an OSS project which was mostly written my one person?
I'd imagine that a large number of programmers results in more 'generic' code, rather than the specialized shortcuts that are unique to most programmers. That would make it much easier to debug, IMHO.
How is this different from some of the modified DVD players which allow you to skip/fast-forward through the annoying intros that take half an hour?
If I paid for the DVD, I reserve the right to watch it in any order and at any speed I choose!
I've seen this done for several small facilities using almost any kind of firewall which supports masquerading (which would be almost all of them). Simple forward all the IM traffic to a dedicated logging machine, which then forwards it to the true IM server. By blocking access to the IM server on all but the redirected ports, there is no way to bypass it. How is this technically difficult?
Some legal experts suggested Hatch's provocative remarks were more likely intended to compel technology and music executives to work faster toward ways to protect copyrights online than to signal forthcoming legislation.
I didn't realize that individual senators were in the business of threatening industries...
So you want me to convert from 42VDC to 110AC then back down to around 9VDC in order to charge my cell phone? How efficient is this? How much energy is lost at each conversion? I know many of the inverters out there get pretty hot, so they must be losing some.
On top of that, all I really want is wall warts in my car. Next I'll need to chain a couple of them together to fit all the transformers... maybe an UPS... a rack to hold the whole thing up... but who needs a passenger seat, anyways?
I was referring to the straight 42-volt outlets, like what is used for your cigarette lighter. Will they offer these sockets at the expected 12-volts? Will they offer 42-volt DC outlets in the car for powering other devices? If so, will the connector be different (presumably so, to prevent people from damaging 12-volt devices), and will they standardize this plug?
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Are they going to change the cigarette-lighter plug and all obey the same standard? I can picture it now... "I plugged in my cell phone to charge, and then it started smoking....."
I already need a hundred 12-volt adapters in my house for charging different things, don't need them in my car as well.
As I remember from high school biology, doesn't only a small percentage of our DNA code for useful information? The reset was just junk that is cut out during protein synthesis (introns? extrons? I forget the terms...) Is this included in the study? Could it be that chimps are also extremely genetically uniform in the areas that matter, but they have more diverse "junk" material than us?
Then again, I seem to remember someone saying that the "junk" DNA plays a vital part in evolution? Argh, guess I shouldn't have slept through those classes! Now we'll all become extinct!
I don't get it... How does being genetically similar make us close to extinction? I can see how it would slow evolution, assuming a low rate of non-lethal mutation. Are they assuming that a cataclysmic event (such as a disease) will occur and we won't have the genetic diversity to find people who are immune?
Then again, maybe this makes sense. Think of the recent major disease outbreaks... AIDS, SARS, etc... what percentage of the population is immune to these diseases again?
Hey! That's a good idea, add IPsec, QoS, etc.... but then the processor won't be able to handle everything, so you'll have to upgrade that. And you'll need some fans to cool the new processor. And maybe a HDD for logging.... wow, add a monitor and you'll be able to use it as a workstation!/me buys another cheap pc....
How will this work? I mean, if AIM is just generating keys prior to each conversation, then it's not really a digital signature. If you use the same key pair for all your conversations, how will you use your screen name at other computers? One of the big advantages of AIM over other clients is that it is already installed everywhere. If I need advice, I can login and talk to my contacts.
OTOH, if it's stored w/ AOL, and messages are passing through AOL.... how is this better than generated per-conversation keys?
And after a computer is authenticated, how do you think the router at the other end of the wireless network knows to let her traffic through? When she enters a proper user/pass, either her IP or MAC are recorded and that traffic allowed to go through. Spoof them, and you're on with her username. Not secure.
More specifically, I find that reading someone else's code gives me insight into their thought process behind the solution they chose. Especially the comments and commented out lines. Combining the ideas of a few other people and my own, I get all the benefits of understanding as well as easier bug fixes.
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Has any considered making patent information available shortly before it is patented?
Offer a 'temporary' patent about a month, during which time people could view the patient but not act on any of the information. People could submit problems or conflicts during this time. At the end of the period, the USPTO reviews the information prior to granting the patent.
Yes, I know this is all supposed to be taken care of before hand, but judging by the number of reviews of granted patents, it obviously isn't happening.
This is a common attitude, but from several years of working on an ambulance and speaking with ER docs, I believe it to be wrong.
The only time your organs can be harvested is if you have zero chance of recovery (brain missing, etc..) or in rare circumstances when you have a living will which authorized the termination of life support.
If anything, carrying a donor card would keep you alive longer (in an odd way), as the EMTs will continue CPR and other life-saving techniques when they ordinarily wouldn't in order to keep your transplantable organs from sustaining further damage.
I seem to remember some software being developed which emulated the OBD II car computer. It would be very interesting to load that software, this product, and a DA card to allow manual adjustments.
OTOH, some idiot will probably do this on an unstable OS, brining new meaning to 'system crash'.
Good idea, let's start blocking people we don't like [entire blocks of addresses] from accessing certain resources. My neighbor pisses me off, maybe I should slip in a few firewall rules at work. Next an ISP will decide it doesn't like what I see, block my favorite sites.
The net works because everything is available to all. Let's not change that, even if the **AA is screwing everyone.
If it is this close to background radiation, how can it be so effective? Can anyone tell me where 'background' radiation is coming from? Is it only outside?
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How difficult is it to hide IR from a helicopter? I should think that a good amount of insulation would do the job. That, or you can leave an electric heater running up their for months, after a couple of raids, start growing the pot...
The article says that some of the x-rays pass through the subject, some scatter. Will they be using detectors behind the subject to look for densities within the subject? Hiding under a roll of fat is just the start, plenty of, er, 'cavities'.
Wouldn't these x-rays bounce off of ceramics, metals, and glass just fine? If the point of the tech is to detect plastic explosive (as regular metal detectors don't)... I'd imagine all those substances are denser (so more x-ray opaque) then skin and plastic explosives...
There was a guy who did this, hooked up sprayer nozzles into a hole he cut in the middle of a van, lines going to 4 or 5 paint cans. He'd drive at a specfic speed (~5mph or so) and the computer would turn on and off the jets to leave some piece of graffiti on the road.
Can't seem to find the site - anybody?
A good job for parents? Well, you can never have enough patch cables.
Mr. Parent, meet Mr. Crimper.
Think laptop screens.....
Yes, I can see the future now.... PHB1: Our new entranceway RFID scanner shows that 95% of our customers are recognized by their clothing, hear a customized greeting, and promptly exist the store. We think they're being spooked somehow. PHB2: Maybe we should install more scanners to research the problem?
I wonder how much of this is due to programming style. What I mean is, can there be a difference in how easy it is to debug apache (maintained and written by many people) versus an OSS project which was mostly written my one person? I'd imagine that a large number of programmers results in more 'generic' code, rather than the specialized shortcuts that are unique to most programmers. That would make it much easier to debug, IMHO.
How is this different from some of the modified DVD players which allow you to skip/fast-forward through the annoying intros that take half an hour? If I paid for the DVD, I reserve the right to watch it in any order and at any speed I choose!
I've seen this done for several small facilities using almost any kind of firewall which supports masquerading (which would be almost all of them). Simple forward all the IM traffic to a dedicated logging machine, which then forwards it to the true IM server. By blocking access to the IM server on all but the redirected ports, there is no way to bypass it. How is this technically difficult?
Some legal experts suggested Hatch's provocative remarks were more likely intended to compel technology and music executives to work faster toward ways to protect copyrights online than to signal forthcoming legislation. I didn't realize that individual senators were in the business of threatening industries...
So you want me to convert from 42VDC to 110AC then back down to around 9VDC in order to charge my cell phone? How efficient is this? How much energy is lost at each conversion? I know many of the inverters out there get pretty hot, so they must be losing some. On top of that, all I really want is wall warts in my car. Next I'll need to chain a couple of them together to fit all the transformers... maybe an UPS... a rack to hold the whole thing up... but who needs a passenger seat, anyways?
I was referring to the straight 42-volt outlets, like what is used for your cigarette lighter. Will they offer these sockets at the expected 12-volts? Will they offer 42-volt DC outlets in the car for powering other devices? If so, will the connector be different (presumably so, to prevent people from damaging 12-volt devices), and will they standardize this plug?
Are they going to change the cigarette-lighter plug and all obey the same standard? I can picture it now... "I plugged in my cell phone to charge, and then it started smoking....." I already need a hundred 12-volt adapters in my house for charging different things, don't need them in my car as well.
What is their privacy policy? How do I know they won't sell the info to Jenny Craig?
As I remember from high school biology, doesn't only a small percentage of our DNA code for useful information? The reset was just junk that is cut out during protein synthesis (introns? extrons? I forget the terms...) Is this included in the study? Could it be that chimps are also extremely genetically uniform in the areas that matter, but they have more diverse "junk" material than us? Then again, I seem to remember someone saying that the "junk" DNA plays a vital part in evolution? Argh, guess I shouldn't have slept through those classes! Now we'll all become extinct!
I don't get it... How does being genetically similar make us close to extinction? I can see how it would slow evolution, assuming a low rate of non-lethal mutation. Are they assuming that a cataclysmic event (such as a disease) will occur and we won't have the genetic diversity to find people who are immune? Then again, maybe this makes sense. Think of the recent major disease outbreaks... AIDS, SARS, etc... what percentage of the population is immune to these diseases again?
Hey! That's a good idea, add IPsec, QoS, etc.... but then the processor won't be able to handle everything, so you'll have to upgrade that. And you'll need some fans to cool the new processor. And maybe a HDD for logging.... wow, add a monitor and you'll be able to use it as a workstation! /me buys another cheap pc....
How will this work? I mean, if AIM is just generating keys prior to each conversation, then it's not really a digital signature. If you use the same key pair for all your conversations, how will you use your screen name at other computers? One of the big advantages of AIM over other clients is that it is already installed everywhere. If I need advice, I can login and talk to my contacts. OTOH, if it's stored w/ AOL, and messages are passing through AOL.... how is this better than generated per-conversation keys?
And after a computer is authenticated, how do you think the router at the other end of the wireless network knows to let her traffic through? When she enters a proper user/pass, either her IP or MAC are recorded and that traffic allowed to go through. Spoof them, and you're on with her username. Not secure.
More specifically, I find that reading someone else's code gives me insight into their thought process behind the solution they chose. Especially the comments and commented out lines. Combining the ideas of a few other people and my own, I get all the benefits of understanding as well as easier bug fixes.