Not true. Ask the makers of viagra. Patented for years. Only recently was it revealed they didn't disclose every detail in their patent. So virtually on the eve of the patent expiration, their patent was revoked. But the don't have to give back the billions they made.
But I never said they were all those things in every case. It was a list of possibilities.
I'm waiting for incognito mode not only not to leave track on the computer itself but also on the remote sites I visit. How is it incognito if I connect somewhere I've been before to and you send the cookies that were already saved for that site, for example?
According to the help page about Incognito mode, it explicitly states it deletes all cookies when you exit incognito mode. Use it for single purpose at a time, and close it out after the fact, there will be no cookies left for them to find.
Never log into any account while in incognito mode, unless you ONLY log in there while in incognito mode.
For a Chrome-addict like me, what I've been waiting for is the option to open an incognito tab within the same window as regular tabs. Apparently this lack of functionality is a feature intended to ease confusion among users. For me, I just find it irritating.
No, its to prevent leakage of data via the container. Each tab is supposedly running in a sandbox, but if they are in the same container window there is a risk there.
That's all fine and dandy, but that is not what Cho and his program are all about. He wants wide applicability, tolerance of abuse, safety.
You want to put a 700 degree C device composed of corrosive salts in the hands, with a shock hazard of gargantuan proportions in the hands of people who's video recorder is still blinking midnight?
That kind of installation can already be built today, but nobody wants to do it on an industrial scale. (And industrial scale is the only way it makes any sense). Because when they do the cost analysis, its not really worth it. Cool ideas don't always make dollars or sense.
If the oil doom sayers are correct, then there would be enough political pressure to adjust patent law to free up the tech.
From your lips to God's ears.
Patent law is so entrenched it can probably never be fixed. Only a policy of Nationalizing Patents the way that some countries nationalize industrial segments, refineries, mines, etc has any hope of success. And as long as there is even one congress critter with his hand out that will never happen.
(There is another meaning to "Nationalizing Patents" which simply takes a foreign patents and gets a US patent to cover the same thing. That's not what I mean here. I mean a "taking".)
The problem with the gold standard is that it uses a division principle to adjust for inflation so that the rich get markedly richer while the poor literally starve. The point of fiat currency is that the stronger your GDP is the more money you can print without hurting your economy. Thus the guy who sits on his 100 million at 3% interest will meet inflation but the average worker every time we raise the minimum wage will see a vastly larger benefit. In short we need fiat currency to keep a modern economy working because of the huge surplus labor pool mixed with the insanely large world economy.
Are you getting your economic theory on ebay again!!!
With a currency tied to gold, everything else is tied to gold as well. A loaf of bread, a car, a house. There is no inflation. Inflation occurs because fiat currency is tied to nothing.
There still may be greed, and some may charge more than a dollar a loaf, but the bread will go un-bought if it is too expensive.
The minimum wage is also a creation of fiat currency which becomes unnecessary (and actually impossible) with a currency tied to gold.
Shorterterm impact should include progress towards bench-top prototype devices that exploit radically new concepts for electrochemical storage utilizing materials that are abundant and have low manufacturing cost, high energy densities, long cycle life, and high safety and abuse tolerance for a broad range of energy storage applications.
Something running at 700c is hardly long life, high safety, and abuse tolerant for a broad range of applications. Its at best a single point storage scheme, not much more portable than pumping water up hill.
Batteries are green, because they get rid of lots of tiny pollution sources (and demand shifting). The political motivation behind this is probably make work for a national laboratory. Since the end of the cold war, they've been desperately trying to find something to do beyond new ways to kill people.
Not all Batteries are green when you consider the total life cycle.
But given that a rechargeable battery allows energy portability, which is worth a great deal, they may be greener than schemes that rely on continuous.
But what is missing with this 5 in 5 plan is practicality.
The best minds in the world have been laboring on this for years, and progress is pretty slow. Results are proprietary, patented, secret. If Chou things he can pry these secrets out of the hands of the corporate overlords, or he things he can field any new tech that won't be instantly assaulted by patent lawyers and trolls he is crazy.
Anything developed here will, to the extent it sees the light of day, not be marketed without huge patent encumbrances tacked on by dodgy players who will take any research discoveries, and plaster them with patents, and sue any others that try the same thing. (Rambus ring any bells?) Unless the Government is going into the battery business,
DARPA's success isn't likely to be replicated in the world of patent trolls.
Just because he works for the FBI doesn't mean he is computer literate. The majority of them are nothing more than federally paid beat cops doing missing persons investigations and helping out when other LE can't do the investigation themselves. I think you and others are giving him too much credit because he works for a three letter government agency.
My post suggested that even Joe Sixpack should be able to uninstall what he installed, given that the directions are included with the product and on the product's web site.
However..... FBI agents are far from beat cops. The requirements state that you must possess a four-year degree from a college or university accredited by one of the regional or national institutional associations recognized by the United States Secretary of Education. You must have at least three years of professional work experience. You would expect this sort of person to write thing (like passwords) down in a safe place, and remember where the directions for removal could be found. (It took me 27 seconds to find the page on the web).
Your money is now ours. Pay up. The article and the summary state explicitly which software was used, and its no where near as smart as the the stuff you linked. It only works with windows.
...the spyware surviving a cleaning by a computer repair shop and the FBI...
Pretty astounding, when you consider he knew what he installed and it comes with de-install directions. Quoting the FAQ:
Tamper-Proof Technology eBLASTER does not show up as an icon, does not appear in the Windows system tray, does not appear in Windows Programs, does not show up in the Windows task list, cannot be uninstalled without the eBLASTER password YOU specify, and eBLASTER does not slow down the operation of the computer it is recording. eBLASTER does not initiate connections to the Internet and will only forward email and send activity reports when the monitored computer is already connected to the Internet. All of these features make it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to locate and/or remove eBLASTER.
Re-imaging the computer from original installation media should have done it, but I suspect that the shop he took it to did not have that media, or the Certificate and wasn't about to use their own copy, and simply removed the user account.
I can see the FBI not wanting to waste their time and resources on what was his personal project, and sent him to a private shop. Good on them if that's how it went down.
But the guy running that private shop might be open to a civil suit by the principal.
I suspect that people with education and stable incomes continue to have children at the already low rate that they have historically.
That immigrants are also reducing the number of pregnancies hints that they understand the consequences and costs of raising children. Or maybe it hints that with access to free medical services (and yeah, lets not kid ourselves, for them it is free), they have managed to throw off the traditions of the third world of having many children even when living in squalor in the hopes that some of them will survive to take care of them in their old age.
(You would sort of expect this, since anyone willing to abandon their homeland and go on a long and dangerous journey risking arrest, and sometimes life, in the hopes of improving their conditions, would seem unlikely to fall back into the trap that they left).
Its been a long time since this country had a depression lasting 5 years, (with another 4 years on the horizon). Long enough for even the clueless to begin to understand the costs involved of feeding kids while out of work.
So who is still having those kids? I suspect the least able to support them. Unmarried teen age girls living in poverty. Despite nationally declining rates, teen birth rates in the United States remain persistently high, at 34.4 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19. And these rates are dramatically higher than in other developed countries. Twice as high as Canada.
With no skills, and no prospects, there seems to be an entire population of breeder-class individuals. And they are not necessarily the immigrants that we all thought they were.
Since is has a video clip that starts playing automatically, I wasn't there long enough to know that it wouldn't work with Firefox.
Actually it wasn't a video clip, that was just a noisy advertisement that happened to appear on the same page. Still Annoying, but it has a mute button.
Very easy to teach to someone, very easy to learn. You just better have some good running legs:)
I suspect that they don't run too far.
Seems unlikely they would pick an entire order, just the parts near their station. Then they plop the tagged bin onto the conveyor which sends all the bins of a given order to a common location for boxing.
I'm guessing they get pick sheets for multiple orders at once (looking at the pictures seems to suggest they are picking into multiple bins in push carts) and the pick sheets are arranged in "elevator seeking" order so they can complete one planned circuit through their area, ending at the conveyor. Rinse Repeat.
As long as the person stocking the floor codes it into the computer correctly, there is little chance of losing anything. They probably arrange things more for the size and shape of the shelving and pick-bins used in a given floor section than anything else. Tiny parts in small drawers. All the books in a given area. Big items somewhere else. Looking at the pictures seems to confirm this.
I doubt the car fans would make a huge difference. MAX AC usually works with recirculated air anyway, rather than trying to push more air into the closed car.
But you could test it for yourself by taking you house barometer for a test ride.
The slamming of the car door might induce a transient pressure spike if the car windows were closed. Accelerating, or Braking hard will create a pressure differential between the front and back seats of the car. You can sense that with nothing more complex than a tethered helium balloon. As you accelerate, the balloon floats forward, toward thinner air.
(I can foresee a CSI tv episode based on this where the hit and run driver claims he was a passenger in the back seat but was running this app on his phone which registered a pressure spike just before time of impact).
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Checked your task list. Chrome spawns a sandboxed task per tab.
But the trolls keep the money.
Not true. Ask the makers of viagra.
Patented for years. Only recently was it revealed they didn't disclose every detail in their patent. So virtually on the eve of the patent expiration, their patent was revoked.
But the don't have to give back the billions they made.
But I never said they were all those things in every case. It was a list of possibilities.
I'm waiting for incognito mode not only not to leave track on the computer itself but also on the remote sites I visit. How is it incognito if I connect somewhere I've been before to and you send the cookies that were already saved for that site, for example?
According to the help page about Incognito mode,
it explicitly states it deletes all cookies when you exit incognito mode. Use it for single purpose at a time, and close it out after the fact, there will be no cookies left for them to find.
Never log into any account while in incognito mode, unless you ONLY log in there while in incognito mode.
For a Chrome-addict like me, what I've been waiting for is the option to open an incognito tab within the same window as regular tabs. Apparently this lack of functionality is a feature intended to ease confusion among users. For me, I just find it irritating.
No, its to prevent leakage of data via the container. Each tab is supposedly running in a sandbox, but if they are in the same container window there is a risk there.
That's all fine and dandy, but that is not what Cho and his program are all about.
He wants wide applicability, tolerance of abuse, safety.
You want to put a 700 degree C device composed of corrosive salts in the hands, with a shock hazard of gargantuan proportions in the hands of people who's video recorder is still blinking midnight?
That kind of installation can already be built today, but nobody wants to do it on an industrial scale. (And industrial scale is the only way it makes any sense). Because when they do the cost analysis, its not really worth it. Cool ideas don't always make dollars or sense.
If the oil doom sayers are correct, then there would be enough political pressure to adjust patent law to free up the tech.
From your lips to God's ears.
Patent law is so entrenched it can probably never be fixed.
Only a policy of Nationalizing Patents the way that some countries nationalize industrial segments, refineries, mines, etc has any hope of success. And as long as there is even one congress critter with his hand out that will never happen.
(There is another meaning to "Nationalizing Patents" which simply takes a foreign patents and gets a US patent to cover the same thing. That's not what I mean here. I mean a "taking".)
Format wouldn't have done it either. It probably hooks the boot sector. Most people simply reformat without rewriting the boot sector.
The problem with the gold standard is that it uses a division principle to adjust for inflation so that the rich get markedly richer while the poor literally starve. The point of fiat currency is that the stronger your GDP is the more money you can print without hurting your economy. Thus the guy who sits on his 100 million at 3% interest will meet inflation but the average worker every time we raise the minimum wage will see a vastly larger benefit. In short we need fiat currency to keep a modern economy working because of the huge surplus labor pool mixed with the insanely large world economy.
Are you getting your economic theory on ebay again!!!
With a currency tied to gold, everything else is tied to gold as well. A loaf of bread, a car, a house.
There is no inflation. Inflation occurs because fiat currency is tied to nothing.
There still may be greed, and some may charge more than a dollar a loaf, but the bread will go un-bought if it is too expensive.
The minimum wage is also a creation of fiat currency which becomes unnecessary (and actually impossible) with a currency tied to gold.
Cho wants practical solutions
Shorterterm impact should include progress towards bench-top prototype devices that exploit
radically new concepts for electrochemical storage utilizing materials that are abundant
and have low manufacturing cost, high energy densities, long cycle life, and high safety
and abuse tolerance for a broad range of energy storage applications.
Something running at 700c is hardly long life, high safety, and abuse tolerant for a broad range of applications.
Its at best a single point storage scheme, not much more portable than pumping water up hill.
We need portable energy, and molten anything is not an answer.
Its easy to give a Ted Talk, its a lot harder to offer up a practical idea. (Just look at how many TED talks are nothing but TED Talks).
Batteries are green, because they get rid of lots of tiny pollution sources (and demand shifting). The political motivation behind this is probably make work for a national laboratory. Since the end of the cold war, they've been desperately trying to find something to do beyond new ways to kill people.
Not all Batteries are green when you consider the total life cycle.
But given that a rechargeable battery allows energy portability, which is worth a great deal, they may be greener than schemes that
rely on continuous.
But what is missing with this 5 in 5 plan is practicality.
The best minds in the world have been laboring on this for years, and progress is pretty slow. Results are proprietary, patented, secret.
If Chou things he can pry these secrets out of the hands of the corporate overlords, or he things he can field any new tech that won't be
instantly assaulted by patent lawyers and trolls he is crazy.
Anything developed here will, to the extent it sees the light of day, not be marketed without huge patent encumbrances tacked on by
dodgy players who will take any research discoveries, and plaster them with patents, and sue any others that try the same thing.
(Rambus ring any bells?) Unless the Government is going into the battery business,
DARPA's success isn't likely to be replicated in the world of patent trolls.
Just because he works for the FBI doesn't mean he is computer literate. The majority of them are nothing more than federally paid beat cops doing missing persons investigations and helping out when other LE can't do the investigation themselves. I think you and others are giving him too much credit because he works for a three letter government agency.
My post suggested that even Joe Sixpack should be able to uninstall what he installed, given that the directions are included with
the product and on the product's web site.
However.....
FBI agents are far from beat cops. The requirements state that you must possess a four-year degree from a college or university accredited by one of the regional or national institutional associations recognized by the United States Secretary of Education. You must have at least three years of professional work experience. You would expect this sort of person to write thing (like passwords) down in a safe place, and remember where the directions for removal could be found. (It took me 27 seconds to find the page on the web).
Your money is now ours. Pay up.
The article and the summary state explicitly which software was used, and its no where near as smart as the the stuff you linked. It only works with windows.
...the spyware surviving a cleaning by a computer repair shop and the FBI...
Pretty astounding, when you consider he knew what he installed and it comes with de-install directions.
Quoting the FAQ:
Tamper-Proof Technology
eBLASTER does not show up as an icon, does not appear in the Windows system tray, does not appear in Windows Programs, does not show up in the Windows task list, cannot be uninstalled without the eBLASTER password YOU specify, and eBLASTER does not slow down the operation of the computer it is recording. eBLASTER does not initiate connections to the Internet and will only forward email and send activity reports when the monitored computer is already connected to the Internet. All of these features make it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to locate and/or remove eBLASTER.
Re-imaging the computer from original installation media should have done it, but I suspect that the shop he took it to did not have
that media, or the Certificate and wasn't about to use their own copy, and simply removed the user account.
I can see the FBI not wanting to waste their time and resources on what was his personal project, and sent him to a private shop.
Good on them if that's how it went down.
But the guy running that private shop might be open to a civil suit by the principal.
I suspect that people with education and stable incomes continue to have children at the already low rate that they have historically.
That immigrants are also reducing the number of pregnancies hints that they understand the consequences and costs of raising children. Or maybe it hints that with access to free medical services (and yeah, lets not kid ourselves, for them it is free), they have managed to throw off the traditions of the third world of having many children even when living in squalor in the hopes that some of them will survive to take care of them in their old age.
(You would sort of expect this, since anyone willing to abandon their homeland and go on a long and dangerous journey risking arrest, and sometimes life, in the hopes of improving their conditions, would seem unlikely to fall back into the trap that they left).
Its been a long time since this country had a depression lasting 5 years, (with another 4 years on the horizon). Long enough for even the clueless to begin to understand the costs involved of feeding kids while out of work.
So who is still having those kids? I suspect the least able to support them. Unmarried teen age girls living in poverty. Despite nationally declining rates, teen birth rates in the United States remain persistently high, at 34.4 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19. And these rates are dramatically higher than in other developed countries. Twice as high as Canada.
Also those living on public assistance, of one form or another, where having another kid means another increase in their assistance check.
The birth rate for women 15 to 50 years old receiving public assistance income in the last 12 months was 155 births per 1,000 women, about three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance. See page 15.
With no skills, and no prospects, there seems to be an entire population of breeder-class individuals. And they are not necessarily the immigrants that we all thought they were.
Since is has a video clip that starts playing automatically, I wasn't there long enough to know that it wouldn't work with Firefox.
Actually it wasn't a video clip, that was just a noisy advertisement that happened to appear on the same page. Still Annoying, but it has a mute button.
Very easy to teach to someone, very easy to learn. You just better have some good running legs :)
I suspect that they don't run too far.
Seems unlikely they would pick an entire order, just the parts near their station.
Then they plop the tagged bin onto the conveyor which sends all the bins of a given order to a common location for boxing.
I'm guessing they get pick sheets for multiple orders at once (looking at the pictures seems to suggest they are picking into multiple bins in push carts) and the pick sheets are arranged in "elevator seeking" order so they can complete one planned circuit through their area, ending at the conveyor. Rinse Repeat.
As long as the person stocking the floor codes it into the computer correctly, there is little chance of losing anything. They probably arrange things more for the size and shape of the shelving and pick-bins used in a given floor section than anything else. Tiny parts in small drawers. All the books in a given area. Big items somewhere else. Looking at the pictures seems to confirm this.
Exactly his point. Swoosh!
Or learn to pronounce the word the British way, in which case the spelling is correct.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/missile
Lose the beard. Find a shirt. Just sayin...
Would I troll you dude?
See demo on YouTuve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpURFYgR2E
I doubt the car fans would make a huge difference. MAX AC usually works with recirculated air anyway, rather than trying to push more air into the closed car.
But you could test it for yourself by taking you house barometer for a test ride.
The slamming of the car door might induce a transient pressure spike if the car windows were closed.
Accelerating, or Braking hard will create a pressure differential between the front and back seats of the car. You can sense that with nothing more complex than a tethered helium balloon. As you accelerate, the balloon floats forward, toward thinner air.
(I can foresee a CSI tv episode based on this where the hit and run driver claims he was a passenger in the back seat but was running this app on his phone which registered a pressure spike just before time of impact).
not everyone lives in the US. and some people may even have friends who happen to live in other countries than they themselves do.
So what?
How does that justify handing over your entire privacy?
I have an even better system for managing Facebook.
I never joined, and never will.
That you need to set aside time, and restrict your usage at other times, says clearly you DO have a problem.