It sounds like they patented the virus - a process that runs at super-user level no matter what. Good job! Maybe now they can sue all those wascally hackers that keep messing up Windows systems with apps that do this.
It's the equivalent of showing up at a rally with supporters and having them all chant loud enough for the speaker's message to be obscured. It seems like a perfectly legal form of nonviolent protest, when associated with political parties. Commercial entities have a legal entitlement to their website not being attacked like this, but I think for non-profit organizations, especially with regards to politics, it should be OK.
You think it's hard getting a win32 broadband box on the net now? Wait till there are all-optical switches! You'll be hosed before the light from the screen reaches your eyeballs!
Microsoft should just post a big list of hacked machines, and turn everything wide open. After the script kiddie deluge is done, then we all go "phew! Wasn't that fun!" and go buy something else.
That's not a software giant, THIS is a ...
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Software giant! (a la Crocodile Dundee). As I have pointed out 21.6 times, Wal-Mart will kill any and all competitors because of their immense size, discount ability, and general acceptance by the population. Microsoft may be a big software company, but Wal-Mart is #1 on the Fortune 500 for a reason!
So, let's see. The monkey's gene to detect when it's going to get a reward is disabled. The monkey then tries to work really hard, because it can no longer figure out when the next reward is coming. Thanks to evolution, humans have overcome that. If I can't figure out when the reward is coming, I don't do shit!
Finally, FPS games will require moving around physically... I can see the game contestants' average weight declining rapidly as this device picks up support for Doom 3, etc. "I'm on the VR FPS diet! I just run around and pretend to shoot people for 8 hours a day."
I like how the summary includes direct quotes from the other page, but has a block quote around that and paraphrased stuff as well. A wee bit too early in the morning for a post, perhaps?
The picture says a thousand words! I would bet that the thumbpad either gets completely in the way, or makes scrolling super-easy. (obligatory)Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
Computer Science is not the same as Information Technology (professional I.T.). You can do I.T. without knowing one lick of Computer Science -- lots of people do. Also, you can do Computer Science knowing surprisingly little I.T. (I help Senior Engineers do basic IT stuff all the time, because they just couldn't figure it out/don't have the patience/focusing on something else/etc.)
I hope this helps to usher in the return of the working model requirement. As patents used to require a working model in order to be awarded, it surely would've been easier to figure out whose patent was which when the inventor actually had to have a working one! So long to all those hi-tech patents where the company merely drafted a requirements document and fired it off to the USPTO. Let's see you build one first! 10-20 million lines of code later, the hi-tech patent volume slides down a few more notches.
destroyed in a fire caused by the friction between the actual airplane, and the mental image of everyone that "no way is.NET flying an airplane". The plane burst into flames from a unilateral brain wave paradox. We all thought it out of existence!
Obviously the Microsoft Research link gives away the "why", but I really want to know why the overhead of.NET? Why not just compile it to "real" C++, build some machine code, and stick it on a chip? Doesn't that make more sense than.NET? Plus, I'd like to toss in my $.02 that 1GB is totally insane for an embedded system. The space shuttle doesn't need that much for its automated stuff.
If a paper is 100% funded by public grant, it should be 100% free to access. However, being only partially funded by a grant makes it harder to figure out what to do. Many art museums have admission fees, but still receive public funding. They need the money to stay open, though, because the funding isn't 100% of what they need. Also, a digest of articles isn't the same thing as going and picking up the latest patent digest -- it's like paying someone to show you their top 10 favorite patents, instead of pouring through the zillions logged in each digest. How do you charge for and distribute something with partial public funding? Who gets paid? Are they allowed to earn a profit?
Remember how Radio Shack used to always ask for your name/address/etc. whenever you bought anything? I could buy a germanium diode for $1 and get asked the same thing as if I bought a $1000 computer. Registration for news content is like making people key in their address to buy a newspaper from a vending machine. It's just completely ridiculous and unnecessary. ------ new t-shirts
Miles on the speedometer, miles on the road signs, and 55 mph is a common speed limit, so that 55 mile record means I could drive about an hour away and still get the signal, which in Ohio would be the complete middle of nowhere! Of course, in Ohio it doesn't even matter where you start from, if you drive for exactly one hour in the same direction at 55 mph you will be in the middle of nowhere.
um... how little did we learn since 9/11?
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Yes, I RTFA, and somehow I didn't see much about our intelligence agencies "not learning much since 9/11". I suppose the summary is referring to not hiring crackers that have done illegal stuff, but that's moronic -- if the NSA would reject someone for a job breaking into things BECAUSE they know how to break into things, we are all in big trouble.
I think it might say more about the most copied idea... a lot of times citations are made to basically restate someone else's idea, not that it particularly has to do with the researcher's idea, but as a refresher. To get that kinda info, you'd need to build a tree of some kind, right?
Let me be one of the first (today) to say that software-only hacks rule! There are a lot more people that can use that type of hack, then there are that would open the box and do stuff in order to get BASH, or what have you, to work. Having witnessed hardware xBox/TiVo hacks myself, I can attest that if you don't have nerves of steel, you could bump that soldering iron into something important.. and whoops! There goes the system.
And how many patents does Windows (or DID windows) violate of Apple? (Before Microsoft either changed it, or bought the patent, etc) This happens all the time!
Automatic updates have been around for a VERY long time. I would argue that since the development of a network connection, the idea has existed to send program updates via that very connection. In fact, a compiler is a digital medium for automatically updating source code into machine code, right? How long have compilers been around?
I used to read patents for fun (I liked the pictures), and I am certain that either the language is VERY specific on this patent, relating to the actual internet -- which didn't exist in 1990 as it does today, so the patent is probably moot against M$'s auto-update, or the patent is vague enough to be one of those "obvious" technology patents that would get thrown out if contested by M$'s law firm of Burn'em and Run (Robin Williams).
see: inexpensive 3d mouse
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What they really mean is "inexpensive 3d mouse". There are already 3d mice available for CAD applications, but they cost A LOT (Logitech Magellan for $579).
"...virtual block of clay -- possessing characteristics mimicking the physical properties of the clay -- is shaped precisely to the contouring of the actual clay."
The actual clay... meaning you still have to have clay? That's all well and good, but the biggest problem to working with clay and getting the shape onto the computer is getting clay all over your $K's worth of interface devices. I'd like to see the force feedback go into the glove, so I can just "model" virtual clay, sans real clay.
So much of custom development is database interface-related stuff, and yet with current provided tools, you have to build the same things over and over. With.Net I guess it's a little better in terms of being able to show a grid easily, but I'd like to see even more stuff just flat-out included. For example, tons of pre-coded webpage db stuff. Generic or not, it would save countless hours of everyone making their own set of generic pages, which we all have to do at some point in order to keep our sanity and not have to re-code the same thing 900 times.
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It sounds like they patented the virus - a process that runs at super-user level no matter what. Good job! Maybe now they can sue all those wascally hackers that keep messing up Windows systems with apps that do this.
It's the equivalent of showing up at a rally with supporters and having them all chant loud enough for the speaker's message to be obscured. It seems like a perfectly legal form of nonviolent protest, when associated with political parties. Commercial entities have a legal entitlement to their website not being attacked like this, but I think for non-profit organizations, especially with regards to politics, it should be OK.
You think it's hard getting a win32 broadband box on the net now? Wait till there are all-optical switches! You'll be hosed before the light from the screen reaches your eyeballs!
Microsoft should just post a big list of hacked machines, and turn everything wide open. After the script kiddie deluge is done, then we all go "phew! Wasn't that fun!" and go buy something else.
Software giant! (a la Crocodile Dundee). As I have pointed out 21.6 times, Wal-Mart will kill any and all competitors because of their immense size, discount ability, and general acceptance by the population. Microsoft may be a big software company, but Wal-Mart is #1 on the Fortune 500 for a reason!
So, let's see. The monkey's gene to detect when it's going to get a reward is disabled. The monkey then tries to work really hard, because it can no longer figure out when the next reward is coming. Thanks to evolution, humans have overcome that. If I can't figure out when the reward is coming, I don't do shit!
Finally, FPS games will require moving around physically... I can see the game contestants' average weight declining rapidly as this device picks up support for Doom 3, etc.
"I'm on the VR FPS diet! I just run around and pretend to shoot people for 8 hours a day."
I like how the summary includes direct quotes from the other page, but has a block quote around that and paraphrased stuff as well. A wee bit too early in the morning for a post, perhaps?
The picture says a thousand words! I would bet that the thumbpad either gets completely in the way, or makes scrolling super-easy. (obligatory)Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
Computer Science is not the same as Information Technology (professional I.T.). You can do I.T. without knowing one lick of Computer Science -- lots of people do. Also, you can do Computer Science knowing surprisingly little I.T. (I help Senior Engineers do basic IT stuff all the time, because they just couldn't figure it out/don't have the patience/focusing on something else/etc.)
I hope this helps to usher in the return of the working model requirement. As patents used to require a working model in order to be awarded, it surely would've been easier to figure out whose patent was which when the inventor actually had to have a working one! So long to all those hi-tech patents where the company merely drafted a requirements document and fired it off to the USPTO. Let's see you build one first! 10-20 million lines of code later, the hi-tech patent volume slides down a few more notches.
destroyed in a fire caused by the friction between the actual airplane, and the mental image of everyone that "no way is .NET flying an airplane". The plane burst into flames from a unilateral brain wave paradox. We all thought it out of existence!
Obviously the Microsoft Research link gives away the "why", but I really want to know why the overhead of .NET? Why not just compile it to "real" C++, build some machine code, and stick it on a chip? Doesn't that make more sense than .NET? Plus, I'd like to toss in my $.02 that 1GB is totally insane for an embedded system. The space shuttle doesn't need that much for its automated stuff.
If a paper is 100% funded by public grant, it should be 100% free to access. However, being only partially funded by a grant makes it harder to figure out what to do. Many art museums have admission fees, but still receive public funding. They need the money to stay open, though, because the funding isn't 100% of what they need. Also, a digest of articles isn't the same thing as going and picking up the latest patent digest -- it's like paying someone to show you their top 10 favorite patents, instead of pouring through the zillions logged in each digest. How do you charge for and distribute something with partial public funding? Who gets paid? Are they allowed to earn a profit?
Remember how Radio Shack used to always ask for your name/address/etc. whenever you bought anything? I could buy a germanium diode for $1 and get asked the same thing as if I bought a $1000 computer. Registration for news content is like making people key in their address to buy a newspaper from a vending machine. It's just completely ridiculous and unnecessary.
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Miles on the speedometer, miles on the road signs, and 55 mph is a common speed limit, so that 55 mile record means I could drive about an hour away and still get the signal, which in Ohio would be the complete middle of nowhere! Of course, in Ohio it doesn't even matter where you start from, if you drive for exactly one hour in the same direction at 55 mph you will be in the middle of nowhere.
Yes, I RTFA, and somehow I didn't see much about our intelligence agencies "not learning much since 9/11". I suppose the summary is referring to not hiring crackers that have done illegal stuff, but that's moronic -- if the NSA would reject someone for a job breaking into things BECAUSE they know how to break into things, we are all in big trouble.
I think it might say more about the most copied idea... a lot of times citations are made to basically restate someone else's idea, not that it particularly has to do with the researcher's idea, but as a refresher. To get that kinda info, you'd need to build a tree of some kind, right?
Let me be one of the first (today) to say that software-only hacks rule! There are a lot more people that can use that type of hack, then there are that would open the box and do stuff in order to get BASH, or what have you, to work. Having witnessed hardware xBox/TiVo hacks myself, I can attest that if you don't have nerves of steel, you could bump that soldering iron into something important.. and whoops! There goes the system.
And how many patents does Windows (or DID windows) violate of Apple? (Before Microsoft either changed it, or bought the patent, etc) This happens all the time!
Automatic updates have been around for a VERY long time. I would argue that since the development of a network connection, the idea has existed to send program updates via that very connection. In fact, a compiler is a digital medium for automatically updating source code into machine code, right? How long have compilers been around?
I used to read patents for fun (I liked the pictures), and I am certain that either the language is VERY specific on this patent, relating to the actual internet -- which didn't exist in 1990 as it does today, so the patent is probably moot against M$'s auto-update, or the patent is vague enough to be one of those "obvious" technology patents that would get thrown out if contested by M$'s law firm of Burn'em and Run (Robin Williams).
What they really mean is "inexpensive 3d mouse". There are already 3d mice available for CAD applications, but they cost A LOT (Logitech Magellan for $579).
Yet again, we teach our kids and everyone playing games that pretend death is fine, but pretend love is not... and they wonder why everyone's weird!
"...virtual block of clay -- possessing characteristics mimicking the physical properties of the clay -- is shaped precisely to the contouring of the actual clay."
The actual clay... meaning you still have to have clay? That's all well and good, but the biggest problem to working with clay and getting the shape onto the computer is getting clay all over your $K's worth of interface devices. I'd like to see the force feedback go into the glove, so I can just "model" virtual clay, sans real clay.
Perhaps if I could just borrow the MPAA/RIAA legal documents and color around the edges with a magic marker, all this nonsense would stop!
So much of custom development is database interface-related stuff, and yet with current provided tools, you have to build the same things over and over. With .Net I guess it's a little better in terms of being able to show a grid easily, but I'd like to see even more stuff just flat-out included. For example, tons of pre-coded webpage db stuff. Generic or not, it would save countless hours of everyone making their own set of generic pages, which we all have to do at some point in order to keep our sanity and not have to re-code the same thing 900 times.