While that is an admirable aspiration I think that cell phones / smart phones have reached the point that disallowing them is no longer practical.
My sister is a high school math teacher and she says that in her school students are not allowed to use a phone during class but she still confiscates at least one per week. Normally the kids are not cheating but just texting friends. Actually the second most common is taking pictures of the exam paper! In any case the teachers only recourse is to confiscate the phone, give it to the VP, and make the student go and get it back while explaining why they were using it in the first place.
it is high-lighting all terms in all documents received from an internet search. How is that the same as a "highlight all button?" Whatever the case, highlighted searches have existed for a while, so why should this be patentable just because they batch the highlighting to all search results in a "network search"?
What this patent actually is for (from my reading) is a system that highlights the search terms in every page that a user loads. So if I am on the NYT and I do a page search (ctrl-f) for "Julian Assange" it will highlight all the occurrences. The patent is for the notion that when I transfer to the Washington Post all the instances of "Julian Assange" will be highlighted in the new page.
Still pretty weak but not the head slapping obvious it initially looks like.
Hackers go after more popular systems because that way they can infect exponentially more machines. The trouble is that every software manufacture want to be big enough and have enough market capitalization; no one is happy being the small fish. Any good piece of software is going to get more market capitalization and eventually get attacked. Ones that never get attacked are either niche markets or not very good.
Wait for $20/gal gasoline and watch driving habits change.
That would change driving habits. But any change that people can absorb will not change anything. Gasoline will not go up to $20/gal. But it will go to $5-8/gal and people will give up other things to afford it. Our society is addicted to the convenience of vehicles.
No. From the other article linked above (emphasis mine):
The patent was originally submitted in September 2006. Apple has expressed considerable interest in 3D tracking and interfaces, for instance through a remote concept. It has yet to implement any of its ideas in a shipping product, however, despite the newfound popularity of 3D amongst movie and gaming companies.
According to a better article Apple applied for the patent in 2006 but has yet to actually build any products that use the idea. Conveniently others have done the work and build products (google news search). This looks like some patent trolling from Apple.
I'm of two minds on this one. Private communications from diplomats to their masters at home are often rather brutally honest, as they have to be. To leak, intentionally, such communications is a risky venture. Think Franco-Prussian War here for a good example of just that sort of thing.
This reminds me of the famous quote from MLKJ: "An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal." [1]. It is often paraphrased "An unjust law is no law at all."
The merge will pump up all involved stock and make a lot of money for the stockholders. It may decimate the company's future but, as we learned from the SCO fiasco, that is a secondary concern.
I'm pretty sure that the closure of limewire will cause the amount of malware in the wild to drop dramatically.
Reminds me of Kazaa and Kazaa Lite. They are not closed now but are subscription services. Far off from their early days when they were a hotbed of virus and trojans.
The ultimate memory chips of the future will encode bits on individual atoms, a capability recently demonstrated for iron atoms by IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., which unveiled a new pulsed technique for scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs).
So this has not already happened (as the article implies) but is an idea for future development.
I do not think anyone 40 years ago dreamed that computers would ever be a prevalent in society as they are in the present. Most early computer scientists saw themselves as playing a game not developing the infrastructure that exists now.
The reason for the about face is probably a lawsuit against cisco from the Free Software Federation. This is a good thing that the actions of the FSF are forcing other companies to properly comply with the open source licenses they choose.
In India the government wants to have access to all communication to "obstruct and prevent terrorism". There is no "Bill of Rights" in India that grants the freedoms that exist in America and other countries. To do business in India you have to let the government have access. If you do not let them have access you cannot do business.
the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die
You know... I'm pretty sure everyone is 100% likely to die...
Unless you figure out how to exersize. It might be related to exercise, I cannot tell.
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And why allow phones in the first place?
While that is an admirable aspiration I think that cell phones / smart phones have reached the point that disallowing them is no longer practical.
My sister is a high school math teacher and she says that in her school students are not allowed to use a phone during class but she still confiscates at least one per week. Normally the kids are not cheating but just texting friends. Actually the second most common is taking pictures of the exam paper! In any case the teachers only recourse is to confiscate the phone, give it to the VP, and make the student go and get it back while explaining why they were using it in the first place.
Yeah. Maybe Time-Warner should buy them and make them even more irrelevant.
it is high-lighting all terms in all documents received from an internet search. How is that the same as a "highlight all button?" Whatever the case, highlighted searches have existed for a while, so why should this be patentable just because they batch the highlighting to all search results in a "network search"?
What this patent actually is for (from my reading) is a system that highlights the search terms in every page that a user loads. So if I am on the NYT and I do a page search (ctrl-f) for "Julian Assange" it will highlight all the occurrences. The patent is for the notion that when I transfer to the Washington Post all the instances of "Julian Assange" will be highlighted in the new page.
Still pretty weak but not the head slapping obvious it initially looks like.
First thing I do to new computers is remap caps lock to control, the way God and RMS intended...
And?
Hackers go after more popular systems because that way they can infect exponentially more machines. The trouble is that every software manufacture want to be big enough and have enough market capitalization; no one is happy being the small fish. Any good piece of software is going to get more market capitalization and eventually get attacked. Ones that never get attacked are either niche markets or not very good.
Wait for $20/gal gasoline and watch driving habits change.
That would change driving habits. But any change that people can absorb will not change anything. Gasoline will not go up to $20/gal. But it will go to $5-8/gal and people will give up other things to afford it. Our society is addicted to the convenience of vehicles.
If gasoline were to suddenly become significantly more expensive, the asking price could be adjusted accordingly.
If people have not changed their driving habits given where the prices are now I do not see any more increases changing those habits.
According to a better article Apple applied for the patent in 2006 but has yet to actually build any products that use the idea. Conveniently others have done the work and build products (google news search). This looks like some patent trolling from Apple.
Sounds like Peter Sunde is bitter at his lost domain. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
I'm of two minds on this one. Private communications from diplomats to their masters at home are often rather brutally honest, as they have to be. To leak, intentionally, such communications is a risky venture. Think Franco-Prussian War here for a good example of just that sort of thing.
This reminds me of the famous quote from MLKJ: "An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal." [1]. It is often paraphrased "An unjust law is no law at all."
Is there a catch?
Yes. To quote Linus:
User-level configuration for something that should just work is annoying. We can do better.
I think I will use an actual kernel patch rather then this hack in user space.
Because 0+0=1!
The merge will pump up all involved stock and make a lot of money for the stockholders. It may decimate the company's future but, as we learned from the SCO fiasco, that is a secondary concern.
Who knows how all us over twenties survived and still managed to get jobs, mortgages, cars, and RSPs sitting in those primitive uncomfortable chairs?
I'm pretty sure that the closure of limewire will cause the amount of malware in the wild to drop dramatically.
Reminds me of Kazaa and Kazaa Lite. They are not closed now but are subscription services. Far off from their early days when they were a hotbed of virus and trojans.
So long as you conform to the opinions of the moderators there, right, wrong, or otherwise, you can get along.
Except that Wikipedia does not have moderation.
If you release early and you release often, you will release a big piece of sh^H^H code with a lot of bugs.
Funny how Microsoft releases late and releases seldom and has the same problem...
This feature has stirred up lots of debate. With the uncertainty of XMarks they may be trying to capitalize on the panic.
That should cover three minutes twice a year.
So this has not already happened (as the article implies) but is an idea for future development.
I do not think anyone 40 years ago dreamed that computers would ever be a prevalent in society as they are in the present. Most early computer scientists saw themselves as playing a game not developing the infrastructure that exists now.
The reason for the about face is probably a lawsuit against cisco from the Free Software Federation. This is a good thing that the actions of the FSF are forcing other companies to properly comply with the open source licenses they choose.
Anyone who is famous enough to have what they wear be a major advertising event is unlikely to use unsolicited items send through the mail.
FAIL!!
In India the government wants to have access to all communication to "obstruct and prevent terrorism". There is no "Bill of Rights" in India that grants the freedoms that exist in America and other countries. To do business in India you have to let the government have access. If you do not let them have access you cannot do business.
What is there not to understand?
the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die
You know... I'm pretty sure everyone is 100% likely to die...
Unless you figure out how to exersize. It might be related to exercise, I cannot tell.