Promoting Confidence in the Judiciary. A judge shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the
independence,* integrity,* and impartiality* of the judiciary, and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety.
Nevile Shute, the author of books such as "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice" was a professional aeronautical engineer turned author. In the early 1930's, he worked a private company that was producing an airship. His company was in competition with a much better funded government effort. He wrote a novel about his experience, called "Slide Rule", that is still in print.
In it, he contrasts the private company style to the government effort, and made a lot of good observations that are worth thinking about even today. In the end, the government project went way over budget, and their airship crashed. By contrast, the well managed private effort worked great. Nevile felt that one of the main reasons why airships were abandoned in the 1930's was due to bad government designs.
It would be interesting to do a genetic test of the spelling bee winners, and see if perhaps they have some genes that are present at a higher rate in the Indian population.
Puny human eyeballs only have three kinds of cones, one that peaks in response to red, one to green, and one to blue. While our superior alien overlords may be pleased with this new technology, physiologically, you can't tell the difference.
If you live in the US, you can do both. First send in a provisional patent to the USPTO using their electronic filing system (costs $110), then publish your idea. You have a year to decide to patent the idea or not, and if you decide not to, all you are out is $110.
The flexible path that would go to shallow gravity well destinations, such as asteroids or the martian moons, makes a lot of sense to me. This lets NASA gradually transition from the international space station to long duration space voyages, while avoiding the big problem of lifting the huge amount of mass needed to enter and return from gravity wells. To show how much simpler the shallow gravity well problem is, consider that efficient, low-power thrusters mounted on a platform similar to the international space station could do the trick. At the same time, this lets us gain access to materials (ice, metals, etc.) present in the space environment, and also lets us do a lot of interesting fundamental science.
It's not clear to me from the press release if these are really the lost slow scan tapes, or just a really good restoration from 40 year-old tapes of the broadcast, which still suffered from the limited analog conversion problems of that era.
Pinky in mouth... We award the plaintiffs one Trillion dollars!
Not actually too far off. A case could be made for $250 million dollars (one quarter trillion dollars), based on 1,700 songs available, and $150,000 damages per song.
I'm not too happy about the ruling that MediaSentry evidence was legally obtained. Then again, since apparently it's now OK to snoop on other computers for purposes of obtaining evidence to use against someone, perhaps I'm just a bit slow to recognize that this is the dawn of a whole new industry!
At first I read the title as "Twitter on Scalia". Justice Scalia is one of the most conservative US Supreme Court justices, and I'm not sure that this would have been a happy combination.
Actually if you don't file another patent referencing the provisional patent within a year, the patent office will discard the provisional patent. So this won't show up in their searches.
You can put an invention into the public domain by simply publishing it and then failing to file a patent on it. The main thing here is to find a low cost forum that will preserve your publication for a long time.
It's a good idea to at least file a provisional patent on your concept before you discuss it with vendors. Write up your ideas and sketches as completely as you can, and send it in to the USPTO with a check for $110 using form SB16, available at:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0016_fill.pdf
As a 56 year old, I'm happy to say that at least your self-judgment circuits decay at about the same rate as your mental agility, so at least it ends up feeling about the same!
More seriously, I've seen studies that show that verbal ability holds up pretty well, even though math ability starts to slip. I think that this may be true (not that I was ever a big math wizard to begin with). I can still do math and programming, but it feels like more work now, and I try to avoid doing it unless it's absolutely necessary.
Thomas Jefferson invented things, yes, but did he file for patents on his inventions? no. He was the first commissioner of patents, and probably did not because it was a conflict of interest.
Given that the telegraph should be considered the true precursor of the internet, I recommend that Lincoln be given the honorary Slashdot number of "0".
*** "What hath god wrought" is considered to be the first documented telegraph message.
Slashdot Mirror
Pokemon Snap had a similar concept, minus the war setting of course...
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/judicialethics/ABA_MCJC_approved.authcheckdam.pdf
RULE 1.2
Promoting Confidence in the Judiciary. A judge shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independence,* integrity,* and impartiality* of the judiciary, and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety.
Nevile Shute, the author of books such as "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice" was a professional aeronautical engineer turned author. In the early 1930's, he worked a private company that was producing an airship. His company was in competition with a much better funded government effort. He wrote a novel about his experience, called "Slide Rule", that is still in print.
In it, he contrasts the private company style to the government effort, and made a lot of good observations that are worth thinking about even today. In the end, the government project went way over budget, and their airship crashed. By contrast, the well managed private effort worked great. Nevile felt that one of the main reasons why airships were abandoned in the 1930's was due to bad government designs.
It would be interesting to do a genetic test of the spelling bee winners, and see if perhaps they have some genes that are present at a higher rate in the Indian population.
Puny human eyeballs only have three kinds of cones, one that peaks in response to red, one to green, and one to blue. While our superior alien overlords may be pleased with this new technology, physiologically, you can't tell the difference.
I'm Red-Green color blind you insensitive clod!
If you live in the US, you can do both. First send in a provisional patent to the USPTO using their electronic filing system (costs $110), then publish your idea. You have a year to decide to patent the idea or not, and if you decide not to, all you are out is $110.
Any relationship between ELF and SPEW (Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare)?
The flexible path that would go to shallow gravity well destinations, such as asteroids or the martian moons, makes a lot of sense to me. This lets NASA gradually transition from the international space station to long duration space voyages, while avoiding the big problem of lifting the huge amount of mass needed to enter and return from gravity wells. To show how much simpler the shallow gravity well problem is, consider that efficient, low-power thrusters mounted on a platform similar to the international space station could do the trick. At the same time, this lets us gain access to materials (ice, metals, etc.) present in the space environment, and also lets us do a lot of interesting fundamental science.
It's not clear to me from the press release if these are really the lost slow scan tapes, or just a really good restoration from 40 year-old tapes of the broadcast, which still suffered from the limited analog conversion problems of that era.
To me, Nesson's conduct is right on the line between brilliant tactics, and just plain nuts. I can see it either way.
Not actually too far off. A case could be made for $250 million dollars (one quarter trillion dollars), based on 1,700 songs available, and $150,000 damages per song.
Yes, I guess when you go onto the Internet using Windows, you should expect these sort of things...
I'm not too happy about the ruling that MediaSentry evidence was legally obtained. Then again, since apparently it's now OK to snoop on other computers for purposes of obtaining evidence to use against someone, perhaps I'm just a bit slow to recognize that this is the dawn of a whole new industry!
Sure, let's have an "advisory" Amicus Curiae!
Since this decision does seem to be bogus, can Tenenbaum appeal?
At first I read the title as "Twitter on Scalia". Justice Scalia is one of the most conservative US Supreme Court justices, and I'm not sure that this would have been a happy combination.
Actually if you don't file another patent referencing the provisional patent within a year, the patent office will discard the provisional patent. So this won't show up in their searches.
You can put an invention into the public domain by simply publishing it and then failing to file a patent on it. The main thing here is to find a low cost forum that will preserve your publication for a long time.
It's a good idea to at least file a provisional patent on your concept before you discuss it with vendors. Write up your ideas and sketches as completely as you can, and send it in to the USPTO with a check for $110 using form SB16, available at: http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0016_fill.pdf
As a 56 year old, I'm happy to say that at least your self-judgment circuits decay at about the same rate as your mental agility, so at least it ends up feeling about the same!
More seriously, I've seen studies that show that verbal ability holds up pretty well, even though math ability starts to slip. I think that this may be true (not that I was ever a big math wizard to begin with). I can still do math and programming, but it feels like more work now, and I try to avoid doing it unless it's absolutely necessary.
Work's been kind of slow for him lately. Perhaps he can represent one of the record companies.
People who live in glass houses not an issue here!
Where do I send my resume?
Thomas Jefferson invented things, yes, but did he file for patents on his inventions? no. He was the first commissioner of patents, and probably did not because it was a conflict of interest.
*** "What hath god wrought" is considered to be the first documented telegraph message.