developed a small implanted device that translates signals recorded from the surface of the brain into computer commands. The device, which is less invasive than implants
Just because the Military chose not to prosecute does not mean these were sweet villagers minding their shops and tending their gardens when "inaccurately" picked up.
They were caught with weapons in hand in combat or with large weapon caches.
Thanks for doing that legwork. Your cut and past proves my statement was correct.
Software patents may (arguably) be patentable, it is not yet settled. But if software are ultimately found to be so it will be because they require a device (computer) and are not a patent of a pure thought process as is business methods.
Process, as used in 35USC referred to manufacturing processes not thought processes.
TFA says Bilski was rejected by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office on the basis that it simply involved a mental process.
Even if it has been a patent on a proceedure for sorting office papers into filing cabinets that did not require specialized equipment, it would STILL not rise to the level of a patentable process.
Processing raw corn into imitation leather shoe laces via a series of physical and chemical manipulations would be a patentable process.
I initially read the Original Post as someone looking for some measure of keeping track of a new and naive school child.
The more I re-read it the more obvious it seems that the real issue was a DIY project where the goal is to spend any amount of time and effort and money to use Free Software rather than buy a service that the kid might actually LIKE to have (such as a track-able child's cell phone).
I was going to suggest, (at the risk of being called an insensitive clod) that he duct tape the netbook, GPS, Batteryback to the Family Dog rather than risk the poor kid being nic-named "Terminator Girl" for all the DIY gear he wants to lash onto her.
Now my principal question is: Does the Mother know about this scheme?
Wouldn't it be more efficient to hire competent people in your school district that know how to put the child on the right bus.
In a word: NO.
Come back after 1) you have children 2) you've actually DEALT with a school board, 3) you've ever managed to con, cajole, convince, or coerce any action by a school board on ANY subject what so ever.
> Your attitude is extremely unhealthy for your child, honestly.
Being grabbed by a pedophile is even more unhealthy.
Any child young enough not to reliably get on the right bus is probably grade 4 or less. This is exactly the age that parents must exercise extreme vigilance. Old enough to go in public unaccompanied but still naive as a newborn kitten.
For you to come here and pompously state that abdication of parental responsibility is more healthy than having the kid carry a cell phone due to some tinfoil hat paranoia about RF reveals a really sick and naive mind.
Location via GPS is assisted by cell towers. Line of site is not always needed with AGPS chipsets. Its all automated.
There is no reason this phone could not be zipped into a backpack and the child told never to take it out unless it rings. Thieves can be tracked as well.
This is a commercial service. There is no reason to cobble together something complex.
Instead of posting on Slashdot for a technical solution, a far better solution would be a call to your local news organizations about how the school district is getting kids lost on their bus system
Except that he can solve his problem for his child within a couple days, whereas the political or public approach will take years. She will be far to savvy to track by the time a social solution can be found.
Its all well and good to self righteously posture here on slashdot about how easy it is to humiliate a school district into doing something you want them to do.
Its also obvious as hell that you have no kids and have not dealt with a school district in any capacity since you graduated from High School.
Go home. Make a bowl of Jello. Poke your finger into it up to the second knuckle. Pull finger out. See how HUGE and obvious that hole is?
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Leave it alone.
If you sell the house it will be there for the next person.
Really, why mess up perfectly operational systems just because you are not using it at the moment?
Quote:
developed a small implanted device that translates signals recorded from the surface of the brain into computer commands. The device, which is less invasive than implants
How's that again?
I suppose I could break down read TFA.....
Now almost everyone, from my boss, coworkers and even my grandparents have a Facebook.
So they are ALL joining the meat market because they are sadly disillusioned with their lives?
Question: Could it be YOUR fault?
Apple has their hands pretty full with checking every app and rating it for the (coming) Parental Control System.
Look, they just need to start hiring Highschool Graduates. The GED programs aren't working.
Seriously, how can an app reviewer be so astoundingly dumb that they can not distinguish web content from the tool they are reviewing.
Their own Safari browser would have failed the prude test on some days. I swear they go looking for porn.
Not at all.
The idea that POWs should get civil trials frosts me. This is not a law enforcement issue.
Simple shooters were either shot or imprisoned locally.
To persist in your dream world you have to explain why only A FEW were sent half way around the world.
Talk to someone who has served in country. If you can refrain from insulting them long enough to actually listen to what they tell you.
These were not shop keepers. Get over yourself.
Perhaps I wasn't specific enough. Weapons in hand shooting at Coalition troops, lead by or members of Taliban.
Why do you persist in this fiction that random individuals were grabbed from their beds and shipped at great expense half way around the world?
Are you a total idiot, or do you just think the average American Soldier is?
Well these lap tops are not surfing the net just yet, but you can bet key loggers are in place.
Accuracy?
Just because the Military chose not to prosecute does not mean these were sweet villagers minding their shops and tending their gardens when "inaccurately" picked up.
They were caught with weapons in hand in combat or with large weapon caches.
Naive Much ?
Knocked down that nasty strawman nicely.
Too bad you mad him out of your own clothes.
Thanks for doing that legwork. Your cut and past proves my statement was correct.
Software patents may (arguably) be patentable, it is not yet settled. But if software are ultimately found to be so it will be because they require a device (computer) and are not a patent of a pure thought process as is business methods.
Process, as used in 35USC referred to manufacturing processes not thought processes.
TFA says Bilski was rejected by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office on the basis that it simply involved a mental process.
Even if it has been a patent on a proceedure for sorting office papers into filing cabinets that did not require specialized equipment, it would STILL not rise to the level of a patentable process.
Processing raw corn into imitation leather shoe laces via a series of physical and chemical manipulations would be a patentable process.
See the difference?
Exactly So.
I initially read the Original Post as someone looking for some measure of keeping track of a new and naive school child.
The more I re-read it the more obvious it seems that the real issue was a DIY project where the goal is to spend any amount of time and effort and money to use Free Software rather than buy a service that the kid might actually LIKE to have (such as a track-able child's cell phone).
I was going to suggest, (at the risk of being called an insensitive clod) that he duct tape the netbook, GPS, Batteryback to the Family Dog rather than risk the poor kid being nic-named "Terminator Girl" for all the DIY gear he wants to lash onto her.
Now my principal question is: Does the Mother know about this scheme?
And I know for a fact you over estimate these things.
These are political animals, that even local judges are powerless to control.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to hire competent people in your school district that know how to put the child on the right bus.
In a word: NO.
Come back after 1) you have children 2) you've actually DEALT with a school board, 3) you've ever managed to con, cajole, convince, or coerce any action by a school board on ANY subject what so ever.
Careful reading suggests it was a first couple of days problem.
24 hour rule does not apply to first graders.
You watch too much TV.
Why is low power important when it comes to protecting a first grader?
Really, get over it and plug the damn thing in every other day.
> Your attitude is extremely unhealthy for your child, honestly.
Being grabbed by a pedophile is even more unhealthy.
Any child young enough not to reliably get on the right bus is probably grade 4 or less. This is exactly the age that parents must exercise extreme vigilance. Old enough to go in public unaccompanied but still naive as a newborn kitten.
For you to come here and pompously state that abdication of parental responsibility is more healthy than having the kid carry a cell phone due to some tinfoil hat paranoia about RF reveals a really sick and naive mind.
See here:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2006-07-26-disney-mobile_x.htm
Location via GPS is assisted by cell towers. Line of site is not always needed with AGPS chipsets. Its all automated.
There is no reason this phone could not be zipped into a backpack and the child told never to take it out unless it rings. Thieves can be tracked as well.
This is a commercial service. There is no reason to cobble together something complex.
Instead of posting on Slashdot for a technical solution, a far better solution would be a call to your local news organizations about how the school district is getting kids lost on their bus system
Except that he can solve his problem for his child within a couple days, whereas the political or public approach will take years. She will be far to savvy to track by the time a social solution can be found.
Its all well and good to self righteously posture here on slashdot about how easy it is to humiliate a school district into doing something you want them to do.
Its also obvious as hell that you have no kids and have not dealt with a school district in any capacity since you graduated from High School.
Go home.
Make a bowl of Jello.
Poke your finger into it up to the second knuckle.
Pull finger out.
See how HUGE and obvious that hole is?
Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children....
There. Said it. You knew it was coming when you posted that, so we might as well get it out of the way.
The FIRST thing a Pedo will do is get rid of the cell phone.
But we don't all live in tiny small towns...