There are other requirements for an accelerated examination petition to be approved. For example, they have to provide their own search report (which is then supplemented by the examiner's search), and they have to point out where there is support under 35 USC 112, first paragraph, in the specification for all elements of the claim. They also have to pay a fee.
The "hot topic" rule for making an application special doesn't require a fee and only requires that the claims are directed to one of those special topics (HIV and cancer cures, etc.).
Actually, the person or thing performing the method steps doesn't have to understand the meanings of the colors. The database can present that mapping info to them, and the mapping could have also been provided by a third party (e.g., the recipient or sender of the e-mail).
As for the summary being flamebait, it's regular practice here to complain about a patent without reading the claims first.
Any Slashdot article that quotes from the abstract, background, or other parts of the disclosure of a patent application instead of the claims, which are the part of a patent application that actually counts, should automatically get tagged "badsummary".
What the hell do you think gives you the right to peacefully assemble and protest?
As with most malls, the Franklin Mills Mall, where the U.S. Army Experience Center is located, is private property. This means that if the owner wants you gone and you stay anyway, you're trespassing, which means you're subject to arrest.
Actually, from actually reading the twitter log, it seems like the police were very reasonable, allowing the protesters to march all the way down to and into the mall, where they protested for some time. Eventually, a police captain told them they'd have to leave. When they didn't, a few people got arrested. I suspect the order to leave was at the behest of the mall management, since there are numerous other stores there which depend on having an orderly environment in order to conduct business.
You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, and you can't peaceably assemble on private property when the owner doesn't want you there. Simple as that.
Most toner is made from oil: it takes about 1 million barrels of oil to supply the US with toner for a year. This is less than.1% of the oil the country uses.
Additionally, it's oil that's not being burned to make deadly deadly greenhouse gases.
That's why the answer to global warming is one word: plastics. Since plastics don't decay over time, it's a great way to sequester carbon. So, every time you throw that milk jug away instead of recycling it, you're helping the environment by raising the price of oil just a little bit more and causing less oil to be used.
Actually, it's plain-and-simple that the GOP is running a conservative against him in the GOP primary, so rather than waste a bunch of money in a fight where many of his supporters won't get to vote, he's just moving it to the general election.
Personally, I would have much preferred that he dropped party affiliation altogether, but I guess the Dems might have made it a three-way race, and who knows what would have happened then.
Actually, we already have infantry and artillery. Obama just wants to dump a bunch of money into researching Future Tech to run up the score. So boring... just build the damn ship to Alpha Centauri already so you can win and start a new game.
They are NOT bitter enemies. Republicrats are the same way.
An irony is that while the politicians get along pretty well, the rank-and-file citizenry of the Democrat and Republican parties in the US are practically at each others' throats, in no small part because they've been goaded there by fringe groups and media personalities.
I would say that the aspersions cast concerning Beckerman and the "pending sanctions motion" would be inaccurate. If I were in a lawsuit, I could potentially move to have sanctions entered against my opponent for various miscellaneous reasons, such as making out with the court reporter while the judge's back was turned, etc., regardless of whether any of those things were true or not. For the two seconds it would take the judge to deny my motion, that motion would be pending. At that very moment, someone could file a brief in another court involving the person who is my opponent in my case, stating that there is a pending sanctions motion against that person.
In Beckerman's case, while the motion isn't based on pure ridiculousness as in my straw man above, it's still based solely on allegations made by the RIAA against Beckerman with no consideration of any evidence.
While the assertion may not be "incorrect", as there is a pending sanctions motion against Beckerman, the fact that the RIAA frames it as a reason to discredit Beckerman makes it inaccurate.
If we can halve the risk to the mother while doubling the risk to the embryo - I'm all for it.
Well, you might as well take that to the logical conclusion, reducing the risk to the mother to zero while ensuring disaster to the embryo, by not getting her pregnant in the first place.
Except they gave it a totally pansy acronym. I mean, come on, Beowulf ripped Grendel's arm off and nailed it above the door to the hall as a trophy. The only thing notable that a fawn ever did was watch its mom get killed by hunters.
Yeah, but head-mounted displays were Dominion technology. They were the bad guys. That's probably why the UCSB folks went with the astrometrics lab from Voyager (only better).
The fact that TFA misrepresents what's going on makes it prime fodder for/. Now we can all demonstrate how much smarter we are than everyone else by all separately posting about how the article sucks and how that's not really what they're doing.
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Have you seen what's out there on the Internet? I'm not sure I want that stuff smeared all over my meatspace.
There are other requirements for an accelerated examination petition to be approved. For example, they have to provide their own search report (which is then supplemented by the examiner's search), and they have to point out where there is support under 35 USC 112, first paragraph, in the specification for all elements of the claim. They also have to pay a fee.
The "hot topic" rule for making an application special doesn't require a fee and only requires that the claims are directed to one of those special topics (HIV and cancer cures, etc.).
Actually, the person or thing performing the method steps doesn't have to understand the meanings of the colors. The database can present that mapping info to them, and the mapping could have also been provided by a third party (e.g., the recipient or sender of the e-mail).
As for the summary being flamebait, it's regular practice here to complain about a patent without reading the claims first.
We've actually known about Rosie O'Donnell for some time now.
But what I want to know is how Wolfram Alpha interacts with elementary cellular automata!
Also: "Any word that follows 'virtual' is a lie."
Any Slashdot article that quotes from the abstract, background, or other parts of the disclosure of a patent application instead of the claims, which are the part of a patent application that actually counts, should automatically get tagged "badsummary".
Oh, wait, that'd be all of them.
Fat, slow, and obsessed with superficialities like pretty shiny colors?
I resent that implication. I may be fat and slow, but I have never been distracted from my important duties by mere shiny OOOH THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!
"eBay Fakes Devalue Lara Croft of Tomb Raiding"
What the hell do you think gives you the right to peacefully assemble and protest?
As with most malls, the Franklin Mills Mall, where the U.S. Army Experience Center is located, is private property. This means that if the owner wants you gone and you stay anyway, you're trespassing, which means you're subject to arrest.
Actually, from actually reading the twitter log, it seems like the police were very reasonable, allowing the protesters to march all the way down to and into the mall, where they protested for some time. Eventually, a police captain told them they'd have to leave. When they didn't, a few people got arrested. I suspect the order to leave was at the behest of the mall management, since there are numerous other stores there which depend on having an orderly environment in order to conduct business.
You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, and you can't peaceably assemble on private property when the owner doesn't want you there. Simple as that.
Most toner is made from oil: it takes about 1 million barrels of oil to supply the US with toner for a year. This is less than .1% of the oil the country uses.
Additionally, it's oil that's not being burned to make deadly deadly greenhouse gases.
That's why the answer to global warming is one word: plastics. Since plastics don't decay over time, it's a great way to sequester carbon. So, every time you throw that milk jug away instead of recycling it, you're helping the environment by raising the price of oil just a little bit more and causing less oil to be used.
WTF do they think a newspaper is for?
Journalists and the press are for uncovering and delivering news to the populace.
Newspapers are for making money.
Actually, it's plain-and-simple that the GOP is running a conservative against him in the GOP primary, so rather than waste a bunch of money in a fight where many of his supporters won't get to vote, he's just moving it to the general election.
Personally, I would have much preferred that he dropped party affiliation altogether, but I guess the Dems might have made it a three-way race, and who knows what would have happened then.
Actually, we already have infantry and artillery. Obama just wants to dump a bunch of money into researching Future Tech to run up the score. So boring... just build the damn ship to Alpha Centauri already so you can win and start a new game.
They are NOT bitter enemies. Republicrats are the same way.
An irony is that while the politicians get along pretty well, the rank-and-file citizenry of the Democrat and Republican parties in the US are practically at each others' throats, in no small part because they've been goaded there by fringe groups and media personalities.
I don't need something that will play the game for me. What fun is that?
No, what I really need is something that will help me rack my balls quickly.
I would say that the aspersions cast concerning Beckerman and the "pending sanctions motion" would be inaccurate. If I were in a lawsuit, I could potentially move to have sanctions entered against my opponent for various miscellaneous reasons, such as making out with the court reporter while the judge's back was turned, etc., regardless of whether any of those things were true or not. For the two seconds it would take the judge to deny my motion, that motion would be pending. At that very moment, someone could file a brief in another court involving the person who is my opponent in my case, stating that there is a pending sanctions motion against that person.
In Beckerman's case, while the motion isn't based on pure ridiculousness as in my straw man above, it's still based solely on allegations made by the RIAA against Beckerman with no consideration of any evidence.
While the assertion may not be "incorrect", as there is a pending sanctions motion against Beckerman, the fact that the RIAA frames it as a reason to discredit Beckerman makes it inaccurate.
Fry: Hey! Stephen Hawking! Aren't you that physicist that invented gravity?
Stephen Hawking: Sure. Why not?
What is it with the fetish to put everything inside the TV?
DRM.
Why are you abbreviating and then writing out the abbreviation? Doesn't that kind of negate the point of an abbreviation?
Most people on the Tubes would have saved themselves a lot of time by just writing the commonly-used abbreviation, "WAYAATWOTA? DTKONTPOAA?"
If we can halve the risk to the mother while doubling the risk to the embryo - I'm all for it.
Well, you might as well take that to the logical conclusion, reducing the risk to the mother to zero while ensuring disaster to the embryo, by not getting her pregnant in the first place.
Whether you ride it or not, you'll be paying for it.
Except they gave it a totally pansy acronym. I mean, come on, Beowulf ripped Grendel's arm off and nailed it above the door to the hall as a trophy. The only thing notable that a fawn ever did was watch its mom get killed by hunters.
Yeah, but head-mounted displays were Dominion technology. They were the bad guys. That's probably why the UCSB folks went with the astrometrics lab from Voyager (only better).
The fact that TFA misrepresents what's going on makes it prime fodder for /. Now we can all demonstrate how much smarter we are than everyone else by all separately posting about how the article sucks and how that's not really what they're doing.