I think you missed my point - terrorists was written with quotes. I'm questioning whether the huge number of people who are on the list meet the definition of terrorist, rather than just being anti-establishment or disruptive to government.
One of the primary criteria of terrorist success is to "succeed in spreading fear into the population". By that criteria the terrorists have clearly won against our governments on every single count. Is this really the case in the US? I can undestand having a fear of a cavity search from the TSA boys, but an actual fear of being "gotten" somehow by actual terrorists? Seriously?
Then let's thank God and the powers that be for the terrorist watch list (TWL), because anybody can be on it ! Let it be known that The Department of Homeland Security is an equal-opportunity list-maker.
One in 400 Americans is a Terrorist. You don't want to be a terrorist... do you? It wasn't so long ago that the United States of America was wrestled from Great Britain by "terrorists".
Three of the same system is not redundancy. The Shuttle flight control system runs 4 of one design making decisions with a peer-review system, and 1 of another with different hardware, different code, designed and built by different teams. Even if there's a software or hardware design flaw that cripples the 4 "redundant" controllers, the 5th will still be operational. THAT is redundancy. And it would have worked onthe ISS just as well.
They generate about $8Million a year selling power, which they have to pay for gas, employees, and the construction costs Don't ignore the millions of dollars worth of production that the electricity enables. The take from direct power sales is only a small part of the benefit.
That also being said, wtf. Not like multiple desktops/windows is a new X11 feature. Why sue now? From the Groklaw article:
So in July one Microsoft executive arrives; then as of October 1, there is the second, a patent guy. October 9, IP Innovation, a subsidiary, sues Red Hat. And Novell. So much for being Microsoft's little buddy.
So let's sum up: a California inventor moves his California shell company to Nevada, and then joins up with another California company, using an Illinois shell, to buy patents from Xerox and then assert them against a California company, a North Carolina company and a Massachusetts company. In Marshall, Texas.
Apparently IP Innovations LLC is a subsidiary of Acacia, one of the largest patent troll groups around according to Troll Tracker. IP Innovations has only been around since 2002 with 5 employees and revenues less than $1 million, according to their listing on Fedvendor, so it's quite perverse to be trying to sue over a patent issued to somebody else in 1991...
Anyways, why would they need this for an urban demo, where are there loads of fixed CCTV cams, and many places of opportunity to put mobile ones? Because that provides greater opportunity to measure the crowds reaction to the devices.
These guys have got your "flying car" right here. It's a lightweight, streamlined tricycle design, with a Mazda rotary running on diesel/Jet-A and retractable stabilizer and gyrocoptor rotor blades. It looks like a pretty good attempt, and the HITS (highway in the sky) system (see here for similar example) would certainly help the punters to navigate.
Ask anyone in prepress or DTP - Apple Macs have had stress detectors built in for years! As the deadline approaches, you can almost guarantee it'll crash more as you get more stressed. I read that the computer does it because it thinks you're working too hard for your own good.
But Dell..... Dell's laptops have been awful for a few years now. For the most part, they haven't significantly evolved past the C-Series chassis that they were using since the 90s. Pick up a dell laptop with one hand -- it'll weigh 6 pounds, feel flimsy, and in many cases, you'll actually hear the chassis start to creak and bend. Now do the same with a Thinkpad or MacBook. Now, decide which of the three is least likely to survive being dropped from 4 feet up. FWIW, I dropped my Dell Inspiron 6400 from 4 feet on to my concrete driveway this morning. It's got some new scrapes on the plastic, but is otherwise fine.
Education is not just intellectual, it's social too (some would say spiritual also).
Okay, I learned Math and English and Chemistry and even Home Economics, but I also learned teamwork, leadership, negotiation, how to surf, a bunch of good jokes, how to make out with a girl, etc. Those are skills you can't easily pursue on your own...
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Non-commercial development, not non-commercial use.
It's okay, it's just Microsoft trying to compete with Ubunutu 7.10's inclusion of trackerd.
I think you missed my point - terrorists was written with quotes. I'm questioning whether the huge number of people who are on the list meet the definition of terrorist, rather than just being anti-establishment or disruptive to government.
Does this mean that Macs sold after this date come with Leopard pre-installed as well?
Three of the same system is not redundancy. The Shuttle flight control system runs 4 of one design making decisions with a peer-review system, and 1 of another with different hardware, different code, designed and built by different teams. Even if there's a software or hardware design flaw that cripples the 4 "redundant" controllers, the 5th will still be operational. THAT is redundancy. And it would have worked onthe ISS just as well.
There is a catch, of course: Plastics are often derived from oil.
FTFY
Good spotting. Subtle and confusing though!
Apparently IP Innovations LLC is a subsidiary of Acacia, one of the largest patent troll groups around according to Troll Tracker. IP Innovations has only been around since 2002 with 5 employees and revenues less than $1 million, according to their listing on Fedvendor, so it's quite perverse to be trying to sue over a patent issued to somebody else in 1991...
These guys have got your "flying car" right here. It's a lightweight, streamlined tricycle design, with a Mazda rotary running on diesel/Jet-A and retractable stabilizer and gyrocoptor rotor blades. It looks like a pretty good attempt, and the HITS (highway in the sky) system (see here for similar example) would certainly help the punters to navigate.
Ask anyone in prepress or DTP - Apple Macs have had stress detectors built in for years! As the deadline approaches, you can almost guarantee it'll crash more as you get more stressed. I read that the computer does it because it thinks you're working too hard for your own good.
Education is not just intellectual, it's social too (some would say spiritual also).
Okay, I learned Math and English and Chemistry and even Home Economics, but I also learned teamwork, leadership, negotiation, how to surf, a bunch of good jokes, how to make out with a girl, etc. Those are skills you can't easily pursue on your own...