It's looking more and more like someone got into the White House and then realized that the President doesn't actually run the country. The bureaucrats do.
Are you a primary contractor? Do you have a government vehicle?
Nope, didn't think so.
Just doing business with the government as a contractor is amazingly expensive in terms of paperwork. I'd bet at least $7m of that is the salaries of all the lawyers involved in making this thing go.
Don't bother. Just overhaul the entire IP system. So far Trademarks is the only member of the three types of IP that doesn't with regularity make headlines with how broken it is.
Just because they can walk a straight line within the sensory limits of the officer doesn't mean there isn't a 5% or 10% reduction in reaction time that can be the difference between life and death in a car.
Then again being tired at the wheel is far more dangerous. There's just no good field test for that.
I'm sure the presence will cause them to get warrants to search for drugs, but there would be thresholds (like current BAC levels) that determine impairment. The legal system is already set up to handle this one (though as always there will be lobbying on both sides as to where exactly to set those lines).
The technology appears to be able to be tuned to detect specific molecules (by the large variety of things they can make it detect). So long as there's a molecular difference between active cannabis and the metabolites then you shouldn't end up with false positives for weeks after.
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
Would you call a missile a hybrid? It has a delivery system (thruster, guidance system, etc) and a payload (explodie part). You can replace that explodie part with a nuclear, biological, or chemical warhead... or with a satellite that you use that ICBM launch system to put into low earth orbit.
Conflicker is the payload, not the delivery system.
What's worse is places like this are a double whammy for electric cars based on batteries. We have to replace our lead-acid battery every two years because the heat eats it. Li batteries are almost as sensitive (if not more so) so this 'battery packs last 5-10 years is more like 2-3 here.
One more problem - the Phoenix Valley is nearly 75 miles across.
Before Phoenix can embrace the electric car we need 300+ mile ranges (minimum 200 with AC going the whole time) a guarantee that will replace the pack every 2 years for nearly free and the charging infrastructure.
The only good news on that last one is solar power is plentiful here and everyone wants covered parking. All it takes is the price point to finally come down enough on solar panels and every parking lot in the state will go solar roofed.
Reorganizing someone else's work is a derivative work.
A âoederivative workâ is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications, which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a âoederivative workâ.
The source code (or original work that Wolfram Alpha reads) can be copyrighted. Anything resulting from machine manipulation of that is a derivative work and there's already copyright rules for dealing with such.
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Being put in a tent in the desert in 115 degree heat is considered torture in most countries. Apparently not here though.
You don't live in Arizona do you?
It's looking more and more like someone got into the White House and then realized that the President doesn't actually run the country. The bureaucrats do.
Are you a primary contractor? Do you have a government vehicle? Nope, didn't think so. Just doing business with the government as a contractor is amazingly expensive in terms of paperwork. I'd bet at least $7m of that is the salaries of all the lawyers involved in making this thing go.
Does the UK have an equivalent of the US's 5th Amendment?
Ir put photovoltaic panels on your roof. Distributed power generation anyone?
The same thing that says that if electricity prices go up too much more putting photovoltaic cells on my roof becomes profitable.
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OK, but at least Industrial Design and Trade Secret (the red headed stepchildren of IP rights) don't make much news...
Don't bother. Just overhaul the entire IP system. So far Trademarks is the only member of the three types of IP that doesn't with regularity make headlines with how broken it is.
So why was it granted in the first place?
Just because they can walk a straight line within the sensory limits of the officer doesn't mean there isn't a 5% or 10% reduction in reaction time that can be the difference between life and death in a car.
Then again being tired at the wheel is far more dangerous. There's just no good field test for that.
Hard to do in the field.
'presence' is difference than 'enough to impair'.
I'm sure the presence will cause them to get warrants to search for drugs, but there would be thresholds (like current BAC levels) that determine impairment. The legal system is already set up to handle this one (though as always there will be lobbying on both sides as to where exactly to set those lines).
The technology appears to be able to be tuned to detect specific molecules (by the large variety of things they can make it detect). So long as there's a molecular difference between active cannabis and the metabolites then you shouldn't end up with false positives for weeks after.
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Appendix/
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Would you call a missile a hybrid? It has a delivery system (thruster, guidance system, etc) and a payload (explodie part). You can replace that explodie part with a nuclear, biological, or chemical warhead... or with a satellite that you use that ICBM launch system to put into low earth orbit.
Conflicker is the payload, not the delivery system.
There's a difference between a botnet and a virus. Botnet is the payload, virus is the delivery system.
Also a headless botnet could be taken over by a new master if they can figure out how.
I live in Phoenix with a 40 mile commute.
Turn off the AC? Only if you want to die.
What's worse is places like this are a double whammy for electric cars based on batteries. We have to replace our lead-acid battery every two years because the heat eats it. Li batteries are almost as sensitive (if not more so) so this 'battery packs last 5-10 years is more like 2-3 here.
One more problem - the Phoenix Valley is nearly 75 miles across.
Before Phoenix can embrace the electric car we need 300+ mile ranges (minimum 200 with AC going the whole time) a guarantee that will replace the pack every 2 years for nearly free and the charging infrastructure.
The only good news on that last one is solar power is plentiful here and everyone wants covered parking. All it takes is the price point to finally come down enough on solar panels and every parking lot in the state will go solar roofed.
They're looking for amateurs and university projects not Boeing or Northrup to take this one up.
Reorganizing someone else's work is a derivative work.
A âoederivative workâ is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications, which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a âoederivative workâ.
(17 USC Sec. 101)
Not completely...
The source code (or original work that Wolfram Alpha reads) can be copyrighted. Anything resulting from machine manipulation of that is a derivative work and there's already copyright rules for dealing with such.
Mostly they're looking ahead to 2010 and 2011 and hoping we pull out of the recession so they can buy it back.