I don't think you could legally use a ham radio link for work related stuff, and hams, being sticklers for the rules and also defensive against commercial encroachment, would rat you out. One end of the wifi spectrum shares a bit of a ham band, but the issue would be the same if you wanted to operate there as a ham rather than under the no license rules.
There is, however, some unlicensed bandwidth on similar frequencies to wifi that might allow more power. It is still line of sight, however. It might be cheaper to use wifi with high gain antennas. I don't know the legality of that, but the antennas are widely available at otherwise reputable dealers.
Do you think Valerie Lakey should have gone without top notch legal representation? That is the case that made his reputation representing a little girl who was disemboweled by a defective swimming pool drain-- and survived. Edwards has made a large fortune as a trial lawyer, but he has made most of it representing individual clients wronged by powerful interests with powerful legal representation. He is also the only wealthy candidate I know of who did it pretty much all on his own, starting life as one of the little people and rising by force of merit. He can chase my ambulance any day.
I was an engineer for many years and an engineering manager for several more. It struck me that a primary mistake engineering managers make is to think they have ceased being engineers and to get out of date. At least the first three levels of engineering management are still primarily technical; they just have larger projects than can be done with only two hands. The first engineer anybody remembers is Imhotep who built the first pyramid. He certainly didn't do that single handed. The notion that becoming a first line manager is transitioning from engineering to management is a trap. Fall into it, and you will likely rise no higher and may have trouble maintaining your position. Certainly you have to pick up a few new skills, but you are still paid primarily for your technical results.
If you want only to defend your right to use something patentable, you just publish in a journal held by a number of libraries. IBM's Invention Disclosure Bulletin is an example of this. They publish everything they think might be patentable, but not worth the time and expense to patent.
Contacting the county extension agent is a great suggestion! In most, if not all states, there are county agents affiliated with the state's main agricultural college. Usually there is a home agent and a farm agent. There may be a marine agent in coastal areas. They have pamphlets on all sorts of things, and access to the latest doctrine on how to do things from controlling bugs, to preserving food, to who knows what. The best part of it is that it is almost all free.
I don't think that statement is accurate. There is an extensive display on Enigma and the bombes at the NSA museum in Maryland. A large number of bombes were physically in the US, and the US was given the plans so they could build them. A large chunk of one is part of the display.
There are a number of versions of the Enigma machine on display as well, including a pre war commercial version with labeling in English. As I recall, the German military version added another rotor.
You can't read just the first claim or two in a patent application. Those always include life, the universe, and everything. They start out with the general area, then focus down to what is really being claimed as new. Nobody really expects the first several claims to be valid, although the hope of the filer is that the edge of validity is nearer the top than the bottom of the list. That is what makes reading the beginning of a patent or a filing for one often so outrageous.
Prof. Jonathan Spanier is in Materials Engineering, so I would bet this is a lab demonstration of an effect that might be developed into a technology, not something likely to appear on store shelves in a year or two. Still, it is an important first step in that direction.
North Carolina has gone a bit further and now requires a percentage of random hand recounts to verify the system is working correctly. This provides a check on not just the voting machines, but on the tabulating equipment, which could also be tampered with.
That isn't quite right. Both political parties have used phone calls as part of their campaigns for generations. Very often they are trying to identify who is planning to vote their way so they can make sure they get to the polls. Early on, they are looking for hot issues and identifying people who might be tipped by being sent a relevant position paper. Later, if you are planning to vote a straight ticket, you can schedule a free ride to the polls.
Most public radio stations also stream their audio. There is some sort of an agreement between NPR and the copyright owners that allows it, and it is done in addition to the over the air stream. You can usually find a link from their home page, which tends to be W---.org.
I used to volunteer for the local public radio station and noticed, while the number of listeners to the stream was rather small, they seemed to contribute somewhat more than the over the air listeners, and some that did so were well out of the area.
Even a misdemeanor sounds over the top to me. That goes in his record and will show up on job applications, security clearance applications, etc. for the rest of his life. Sure, scare the kid half to death, but don't mess up his future over what appears to me to be a prank. You need to quiet them down and to make them aware they are becoming responsible for their actions, but possibly keeping a kid out of university for a high school prank strikes me as counter productive.
It was a long time ago, but I think I did worse when I was that age.
Why cannot a state issue two types of driver's license, one that meets its needs at the current cost, and one that meets the Feds' requirements for an additional $67, the cost of obtaining a passport, but without the passport? Those who have passports needn't pay twice, including foreigners who presumably have passports from their own countries, and green cards or other visas if they are legals. Others have their choice of a conforming driver's license or a regular one plus a passport. For that matter, why not either do nothing, or charge more than the cost of a passport and kick the ball back in their court?
If an individual invents and patents something, how else is he likely to be able to market and profit from his invention? He needs somebody with the resources to find and license companies that might want to use the invention and also to defend his claims, if necessary. Otherwise, patents are only of use to large companies to prevent startups from getting going. Most of them have extensive cross licensing agreements with other behemouths, so their main worry is some little guy inventing something they actually have to pay a bit for, and having the resources to make them comply.
That is not to defend the "085" patent. It looks to me like something Cable and Wireless, among others, was doing a couple decades ago. There might be something to reducing it to a device cheap enough for use on a single phone, but that looks like about all.
About the only thing I got from the article was that there was an error in how the book was reported to have been ordered, and there was a similar story from another college that turned out to be false. That gives some credence to the notion it is a UL, but doesn't prove anything. After all, there appear to be mis-statements or mistakes in most news articles. Also, the article didn't claim it was a hoax, just that there was an error in the original reporting.
There are multiple schools of thought on this. One is that it is not good for the morale of remaining employees to continue working with someone who sees greener grass elsewhere. Another is that the likely new employer is a competitor and it is best to remove a competitor's promised employee from your organization. A third is that the employee rather expects to be dismissed with two weeks compensation to take a break before the new job, and it is the polite thing to do.
When someone leaves an organization for any reason, it is standard industrial hygiene to kill all access to company systems, even when the parting is amicable.
I don't see anything odd here. Sometimes companies need to keep people for the two weeks, but usually they pay them off, wish the departing comrade well, and go on.
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There is a fairly long history of US dependence on Canada in national security matters. The DEW line springs to mind. Also, Northern Telecom supplied a fairly large number of military telephone switches and even some crypto gear. A fair amount of equipment used in our space program is of Canadian design. It seems to me government employees using a COTS communication device supplied by them is a much smaller risk. If the government isn't going to use things of foreign manufacture, it is likely to be much worse off considering the large amount of technological equipment that is only manufactured overseas.
Beyond that, Canada is probably the lowest risk non US supplier one can imagine. They are independent, and there are occasional squabbles, usually over arcane trade issues, but they are so like us and so tied to us economically and culturally it is hard to imagine a major meltdown that would be a serious impediment to US national security. On the other hand, the last time we did get into a shooting war with them, they came down and burned the White House.
When I was in maybe fifth grade some of the students started a petition to the administration to modify some rule (I forget what). Nobody got suspended but they took the top five signers of the petition and beat them with a fraternity paddle. This was in a public school, but many years ago. Fortunately, I was a bit below the cutoff and walked.
With the repeated extensions of copyright, essentially theft from the common wealth, they have bought a congress to enact, I don't think they have any ground to plead fairness. This would apply less to works created under the current law, but for works the copyrights of which would have expired under the law in place when they were created, they have no moral case I can see., beyond that one ought to give enacted law the benefit of the doubt.
The problem, as I see it, is that the notion of "intellectual property" is a fabrication of special pleading. Patents and copyrights are time limited monopolies in things that are not property granted by the government to encourage industry and creativity. Extending them without compensation is about the same thing as would be giving away our highways to private interests to turn into toll roads without any payment from them.
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I don't think you could legally use a ham radio link for work related stuff, and hams, being sticklers for the rules and also defensive against commercial encroachment, would rat you out. One end of the wifi spectrum shares a bit of a ham band, but the issue would be the same if you wanted to operate there as a ham rather than under the no license rules.
There is, however, some unlicensed bandwidth on similar frequencies to wifi that might allow more power. It is still line of sight, however. It might be cheaper to use wifi with high gain antennas. I don't know the legality of that, but the antennas are widely available at otherwise reputable dealers.
Do you think Valerie Lakey should have gone without top notch legal representation? That is the case that made his reputation representing a little girl who was disemboweled by a defective swimming pool drain-- and survived. Edwards has made a large fortune as a trial lawyer, but he has made most of it representing individual clients wronged by powerful interests with powerful legal representation. He is also the only wealthy candidate I know of who did it pretty much all on his own, starting life as one of the little people and rising by force of merit. He can chase my ambulance any day.
I was an engineer for many years and an engineering manager for several more. It struck me that a primary mistake engineering managers make is to think they have ceased being engineers and to get out of date. At least the first three levels of engineering management are still primarily technical; they just have larger projects than can be done with only two hands. The first engineer anybody remembers is Imhotep who built the first pyramid. He certainly didn't do that single handed. The notion that becoming a first line manager is transitioning from engineering to management is a trap. Fall into it, and you will likely rise no higher and may have trouble maintaining your position. Certainly you have to pick up a few new skills, but you are still paid primarily for your technical results.
Instead of Blue Water, which is singularly inappropriate for a university located 900 miles from the nearest, wouldn't Boneyard be more appropriate?
From TFA, it is North Carolina State University. You are about to be set upon by wolves!
The question would then become whether examining and approving the material would make them a publisher, would it not?
Actually, the notice allows a reply by email if you provide and electronic "signature".
If you want only to defend your right to use something patentable, you just publish in a journal held by a number of libraries. IBM's Invention Disclosure Bulletin is an example of this. They publish everything they think might be patentable, but not worth the time and expense to patent.
Contacting the county extension agent is a great suggestion! In most, if not all states, there are county agents affiliated with the state's main agricultural college. Usually there is a home agent and a farm agent. There may be a marine agent in coastal areas. They have pamphlets on all sorts of things, and access to the latest doctrine on how to do things from controlling bugs, to preserving food, to who knows what. The best part of it is that it is almost all free.
I don't think that statement is accurate. There is an extensive display on Enigma and the bombes at the NSA museum in Maryland. A large number of bombes were physically in the US, and the US was given the plans so they could build them. A large chunk of one is part of the display.
There are a number of versions of the Enigma machine on display as well, including a pre war commercial version with labeling in English. As I recall, the German military version added another rotor.
You can't read just the first claim or two in a patent application. Those always include life, the universe, and everything. They start out with the general area, then focus down to what is really being claimed as new. Nobody really expects the first several claims to be valid, although the hope of the filer is that the edge of validity is nearer the top than the bottom of the list. That is what makes reading the beginning of a patent or a filing for one often so outrageous.
Prof. Jonathan Spanier is in Materials Engineering, so I would bet this is a lab demonstration of an effect that might be developed into a technology, not something likely to appear on store shelves in a year or two. Still, it is an important first step in that direction.
It is THEIR first telephony suite, perhaps, but not THE first. Reminds me of old AT&T claims about "firsts" things that had debuted elsewhere.
It did get me to RTFA, which is the purpose of a headline, but it was misleading. The actual article was not particularly interesting.
North Carolina has gone a bit further and now requires a percentage of random hand recounts to verify the system is working correctly. This provides a check on not just the voting machines, but on the tabulating equipment, which could also be tampered with.
That isn't quite right. Both political parties have used phone calls as part of their campaigns for generations. Very often they are trying to identify who is planning to vote their way so they can make sure they get to the polls. Early on, they are looking for hot issues and identifying people who might be tipped by being sent a relevant position paper. Later, if you are planning to vote a straight ticket, you can schedule a free ride to the polls.
Most public radio stations also stream their audio. There is some sort of an agreement between NPR and the copyright owners that allows it, and it is done in addition to the over the air stream. You can usually find a link from their home page, which tends to be W---.org.
I used to volunteer for the local public radio station and noticed, while the number of listeners to the stream was rather small, they seemed to contribute somewhat more than the over the air listeners, and some that did so were well out of the area.
I think the model in other media is that the bandwidth suppliers pay the content suppliers, without whom the bandwidth would be worthless.
Even a misdemeanor sounds over the top to me. That goes in his record and will show up on job applications, security clearance applications, etc. for the rest of his life. Sure, scare the kid half to death, but don't mess up his future over what appears to me to be a prank. You need to quiet them down and to make them aware they are becoming responsible for their actions, but possibly keeping a kid out of university for a high school prank strikes me as counter productive.
It was a long time ago, but I think I did worse when I was that age.
Why cannot a state issue two types of driver's license, one that meets its needs at the current cost, and one that meets the Feds' requirements for an additional $67, the cost of obtaining a passport, but without the passport? Those who have passports needn't pay twice, including foreigners who presumably have passports from their own countries, and green cards or other visas if they are legals. Others have their choice of a conforming driver's license or a regular one plus a passport. For that matter, why not either do nothing, or charge more than the cost of a passport and kick the ball back in their court?
If an individual invents and patents something, how else is he likely to be able to market and profit from his invention? He needs somebody with the resources to find and license companies that might want to use the invention and also to defend his claims, if necessary. Otherwise, patents are only of use to large companies to prevent startups from getting going. Most of them have extensive cross licensing agreements with other behemouths, so their main worry is some little guy inventing something they actually have to pay a bit for, and having the resources to make them comply.
That is not to defend the "085" patent. It looks to me like something Cable and Wireless, among others, was doing a couple decades ago. There might be something to reducing it to a device cheap enough for use on a single phone, but that looks like about all.
About the only thing I got from the article was that there was an error in how the book was reported to have been ordered, and there was a similar story from another college that turned out to be false. That gives some credence to the notion it is a UL, but doesn't prove anything. After all, there appear to be mis-statements or mistakes in most news articles. Also, the article didn't claim it was a hoax, just that there was an error in the original reporting.
There are multiple schools of thought on this. One is that it is not good for the morale of remaining employees to continue working with someone who sees greener grass elsewhere. Another is that the likely new employer is a competitor and it is best to remove a competitor's promised employee from your organization. A third is that the employee rather expects to be dismissed with two weeks compensation to take a break before the new job, and it is the polite thing to do.
When someone leaves an organization for any reason, it is standard industrial hygiene to kill all access to company systems, even when the parting is amicable.
I don't see anything odd here. Sometimes companies need to keep people for the two weeks, but usually they pay them off, wish the departing comrade well, and go on.
There is a fairly long history of US dependence on Canada in national security matters. The DEW line springs to mind. Also, Northern Telecom supplied a fairly large number of military telephone switches and even some crypto gear. A fair amount of equipment used in our space program is of Canadian design. It seems to me government employees using a COTS communication device supplied by them is a much smaller risk. If the government isn't going to use things of foreign manufacture, it is likely to be much worse off considering the large amount of technological equipment that is only manufactured overseas.
Beyond that, Canada is probably the lowest risk non US supplier one can imagine. They are independent, and there are occasional squabbles, usually over arcane trade issues, but they are so like us and so tied to us economically and culturally it is hard to imagine a major meltdown that would be a serious impediment to US national security. On the other hand, the last time we did get into a shooting war with them, they came down and burned the White House.
When I was in maybe fifth grade some of the students started a petition to the administration to modify some rule (I forget what). Nobody got suspended but they took the top five signers of the petition and beat them with a fraternity paddle. This was in a public school, but many years ago. Fortunately, I was a bit below the cutoff and walked.
With the repeated extensions of copyright, essentially theft from the common wealth, they have bought a congress to enact, I don't think they have any ground to plead fairness. This would apply less to works created under the current law, but for works the copyrights of which would have expired under the law in place when they were created, they have no moral case I can see., beyond that one ought to give enacted law the benefit of the doubt.
The problem, as I see it, is that the notion of "intellectual property" is a fabrication of special pleading. Patents and copyrights are time limited monopolies in things that are not property granted by the government to encourage industry and creativity. Extending them without compensation is about the same thing as would be giving away our highways to private interests to turn into toll roads without any payment from them.