1. The Scientologists open up a storefront to sell their books and recruit followers.
2. You lease the storefront right next door and paint your storefront and doorway to match theirs.
3. You call your storefront "Science, Really".
4. You distribute free pamphlets and sell your book which is critical of Scientology.
Can the Scientologists shut you down?
Yes, you've tried to lure people into your storefront by making it appear to be another entrance to theirs. Is that illegal?
If you answer "Yes," then substitute this for step 3.
The difference in kinetic energy is converted into heat. A black sail heats up. An ideal, perfectly reflective mirrored sail does not heat up at all.
If you could somehow cause the energy absorbed by the leading black surface of the sail to be emitted out the rear surface as photons, then you would have something practical.
The parent's point was that as the sail gets farther away from Sol, the energy from other, nearer stars (the destination) would "push" on the leading surface and this force would eventually be greater than the force on the rear surface, causing the sail to be blown back towards home.
Think of two kids and a little sail boat in a small tub of water. Each kid is trying to blow the boat to the opposite side. As the boat nears one side, the "defender" has a clear advantage. The boat will ping-pong back and forth, never reaching either side.
That is a lot lower than the amount of patents issued nowadays.
Nowadays you don't have to bundle up your patent and the working model and ride your horse all the way to Washington D.C. to file your patent application.
You know, making that a requirement might not be a Bad Thing. There sure would be a lot of horse... er, "pollution" in Washington D.C.
Not that there isn't a lot of bull pollution there already.
When I was about 13 I visited the basement workshop of the man who patented the machine that makes corrugated cardboard. He had the working miniature patent model there gathering dust. It was about a foot square.
and someone still punched a hold through the door skin to open the *unlocked* door with the *open* window
Someone was just using your car for practice.
If a thief relies on the reaching-in-through-the-open-window method too much, he starts to lose his touch.
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Great. I'm going back to cans and string.
Fantastic mental image! You and about 50 other people in a public square, each with a can, and "any-to-any" strings attached between all of the cans.
This would accomplish two things: make your network visible; and ensure that anyone trying to "hack in" would get tangled up and become "the biggest ball of string in" wherever you might be.
The big problem, as far as I can see it, is reading 8" discs (as these do not, I believe, use the same controller as the others), or proprietry discs.
An 8" controller chip will also handle 5.25" drives, but not always the other way 'round.
Most proprietary disks are only odd in the software/formatting area, although hard-sectored disks require special circuitry to handle the extra INDEX pulses.
The original Apple format was a totally different beast, hardware-wise. That's why an S100 disk controller card cost $350 back in the day and the Apple disk controller card cost only $80.
Dollar for dollar, transistor amplifiers output far more power before they're overloaded, making this discussion moot.
The paper was discussing pre-amps, specifically those that couple a microphone to a mixing console. It wasn't really addressing output power during playback. It discussed input-overload and the resulting pre-amp output distortion.
Since a recording engineer has no control over how loud a performer sings or plays into a mic, understanding how the various types of pre-amps handle the peaks can lead to better choices for recording pre-amps.
The statement was made that performances recorded via tube pre-amps sounded richer, punchier than those recorded with transistor pre-amps and the article investigated what causes that (the fact that the second harmonic is more pronounced than the third). There was no mention of the playback amplifier.
This is the first rule of Security-101. Only you don't really need spies. You only have to make the users think you have them.
Years ago the mainframe operating system (OS/360 MVT) had several known exploitable flaws. The system admin at a large university would walk around the computer labs with a thickish print-out. He would stop behind someone, look over their shoulder, flip to a page in his print-out, and say something like, "Well Collins, I see you finally got past your compiler error on assignment #3. Good job!"
He never showed his "print-out" to anyone, so no one ever knew exactly how much or what kind of data he had. It turns out that it was just the raw data for the weekly system usage reports, but no one was willing to risk getting caught doing something dicey.
In the name of convenience, we won't look through it every time, and you can still keep it.
Years ago I contracted at a military base. Contractors were required to submit their briefcases to exit searches. We were searched _every_ time we left that base.
What were the security guards looking for? Computer print-outs. Green-bar paper. That was the only thing on their contraband list. Tapes, diskettes, even laser printer print-outs were OK. But just don't try to sneak out with any of that green-bar "computer print-outs" because they'd nab you every time!
My '99 Camry will sound the alarm if I unlock the door with the key after locking it electronically. But as soon as I start the engine (with the key) the alarm turns off.
If I lock the door with just the key, it doesn't set the alarm. I don't like the extra bulk in my pocket, so I only carry the key.
I had to hide the remotes from my wife. She always uses the remote to lock the car, and every time she used my car she'd set the alarm.
IIRC, the Nokia mesh network announced several years ago had enough range (at least several hundred meters) that even a few nodes sprinkled around a neighborhood could form an effective network. And they had an AP with a 10 Km range to get to the first node. Is the meshcube for neighborhoods or just for apartment buildings?
At 100Mbps, the meshcube is faster than the older Nokia, but if the range is no better than a Linksys wireless router, I'm not sure what their market would be.
IMHO, patents should only be awarded if a company is willing to open its source code to an extent. It can still be proprietary, but there must be the legitimate opportunity for someone else to be able to "look inside" to see how it works. If a company want to keep it's code closed, fine. But no patent.
In days of yore, that's how it worked: if you had a great idea, you could choose to patent it (and disclose it in the patent application) or you could keep it closely guarded as a trade secret. You could not have it both ways.
The danger of holding it as a trade secret was that someone else might independently stumble upon it and then you're out of luck (or as we say now: screwed).
Now it seems that you can have it both ways. Very sad.
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1. The Scientologists open up a storefront to sell their books and recruit followers.
Can the Scientologists shut you down?2. You lease the storefront right next door and paint your storefront and doorway to match theirs.
3. You call your storefront "Science, Really".
4. You distribute free pamphlets and sell your book which is critical of Scientology.
Yes, you've tried to lure people into your storefront by making it appear to be another entrance to theirs. Is that illegal?
If you answer "Yes," then substitute this for step 3.3. You put no sign on your storefront.
If you could somehow cause the energy absorbed by the leading black surface of the sail to be emitted out the rear surface as photons, then you would have something practical.
The parent's point was that as the sail gets farther away from Sol, the energy from other, nearer stars (the destination) would "push" on the leading surface and this force would eventually be greater than the force on the rear surface, causing the sail to be blown back towards home.Think of two kids and a little sail boat in a small tub of water. Each kid is trying to blow the boat to the opposite side. As the boat nears one side, the "defender" has a clear advantage. The boat will ping-pong back and forth, never reaching either side.
Nowadays you don't have to bundle up your patent and the working model and ride your horse all the way to Washington D.C. to file your patent application.
You know, making that a requirement might not be a Bad Thing. There sure would be a lot of horse... er, "pollution" in Washington D.C.Not that there isn't a lot of bull pollution there already.
"First Patent", that is.
Needless to say, it was awesome!
Someone was just using your car for practice.
If a thief relies on the reaching-in-through-the-open-window method too much, he starts to lose his touch.Fantastic mental image! You and about 50 other people in a public square, each with a can, and "any-to-any" strings attached between all of the cans.
This would accomplish two things: make your network visible; and ensure that anyone trying to "hack in" would get tangled up and become "the biggest ball of string in" wherever you might be.An 8" controller chip will also handle 5.25" drives, but not always the other way 'round.
Most proprietary disks are only odd in the software/formatting area, although hard-sectored disks require special circuitry to handle the extra INDEX pulses.The original Apple format was a totally different beast, hardware-wise. That's why an S100 disk controller card cost $350 back in the day and the Apple disk controller card cost only $80.
Being asked to train your outsource replacement is bad enough. Being asked to write your replacement is even worse.
But since you're the only one who really knows how it works, would you mind terribly?Please?
And I'll promise "up to $1M" to anyone who replies to this comment. Seriously.
Bear in mind that the term "up to" includes the number "zero", so to promise "nothing less than up to 300%" is to promise "nothing less than zero".As for my "up to $1M" offer, guess which end of the scale I choose for payoffs. The zero end.
Then I guess Che would have been even prouder of Robert Redford if he'd projected it on a wall.
... from the "Gimme a 'G'" dept.
But helicopters are slow, have a relatively short range and would have to be ship-based. No ship is going to want to be anywhere near a monster wave.
So unless they want to bail out of the rear of a B-707 with a parafoil and a surfboard, they'll just have to settle for the video game version.A: Lava lamps.
Excuse me, but I am neither single nor retarded.
Asshole?OK, it's a fair cop.
The paper was discussing pre-amps, specifically those that couple a microphone to a mixing console. It wasn't really addressing output power during playback. It discussed input-overload and the resulting pre-amp output distortion.
Since a recording engineer has no control over how loud a performer sings or plays into a mic, understanding how the various types of pre-amps handle the peaks can lead to better choices for recording pre-amps.The statement was made that performances recorded via tube pre-amps sounded richer, punchier than those recorded with transistor pre-amps and the article investigated what causes that (the fact that the second harmonic is more pronounced than the third). There was no mention of the playback amplifier.
This is the first rule of Security-101. Only you don't really need spies. You only have to make the users think you have them.
Years ago the mainframe operating system (OS/360 MVT) had several known exploitable flaws. The system admin at a large university would walk around the computer labs with a thickish print-out. He would stop behind someone, look over their shoulder, flip to a page in his print-out, and say something like, "Well Collins, I see you finally got past your compiler error on assignment #3. Good job!"He never showed his "print-out" to anyone, so no one ever knew exactly how much or what kind of data he had. It turns out that it was just the raw data for the weekly system usage reports, but no one was willing to risk getting caught doing something dicey.
Years ago I contracted at a military base. Contractors were required to submit their briefcases to exit searches. We were searched _every_ time we left that base.
What were the security guards looking for? Computer print-outs. Green-bar paper. That was the only thing on their contraband list. Tapes, diskettes, even laser printer print-outs were OK. But just don't try to sneak out with any of that green-bar "computer print-outs" because they'd nab you every time!If I lock the door with just the key, it doesn't set the alarm. I don't like the extra bulk in my pocket, so I only carry the key.
I had to hide the remotes from my wife. She always uses the remote to lock the car, and every time she used my car she'd set the alarm.At 100Mbps, the meshcube is faster than the older Nokia, but if the range is no better than a Linksys wireless router, I'm not sure what their market would be.
They probably meant "alreadily". ;)
If you're referring to "he's she's", I read that as "he belongs to she", which would be poetic license for "he's hers".
But of course, IANAP(oet) so there you go.Can you spell "Pr0f3ss0r 3m3r17us"? For an additional $4000 and three 1337 script samples (in your own handwriting, please), you can be one.
Does this imply that SimIndiana checks for a valid (not bootlegged) copy of Windows? Was BillyG involved in this project somehow?
In days of yore, that's how it worked: if you had a great idea, you could choose to patent it (and disclose it in the patent application) or you could keep it closely guarded as a trade secret. You could not have it both ways.
The danger of holding it as a trade secret was that someone else might independently stumble upon it and then you're out of luck (or as we say now: screwed).Now it seems that you can have it both ways. Very sad.