Both Aspirin and Heroin were trademarks of Bayer, a german company, at the end of WW1 in the treaty of Versailles Bayer was required to give up the 2 trademarks (they had already been appropriated by the US during the war).
to be fair "Asprin" was not lost to the public domain in the sense you mean - it was taken from Bayer as a 'spoil of war' as part of the WW1 armistace settlement
+2 virtual karma points to the first person who can name the other trademark taken from Bayer that's still in common use.....
how can someone hack your site if the wireless router is OUTSIDE your firewall? (or rather how can they hack it any more easily than any other attack on your firewall)
The whole point is to just accept that your wireless connection is as unsafe as the larger 'net - and treat it the same way
most of the people I know who know what they are doing now basicly drop their access point down outside their firewall and insist that users VPN/SSH in.
By doing this you are basicly acknowledging that the security isn't there and force your users to use secure tools to get to secure places.
Anyway my point is that if one of these guys drives by my home they'll probably pick up up my 802.11 and add it to their map, maybe even hack it to get access to the 'net - but do I care? nope
Microsoft has a massive PR machine getting that information out - all those who really want to know probably already heard from 2-3 different sources (plus you - boy am I fed up with the microsoft greek chorus on/.) KOfficve on the other hand is a bunch of OS hackers working hard for our own good - they CAN'T afford PR flunkies
While they have no clock you can cool the hell out of this stuff and see it speed up - pouring the LN2 into the top of the game box as your quake game play starts to get intense might be a good idea
BTW - there was a great paper about 10 years back out of Caltech where a bunch of students built an async cpu and the did exactly this - cooling it way down and finding it worked faster the colder they get
but it's quite posssible that person X holds the trademark for a product in Brazil, someone else does in Brunei and a third in Columbia - of course any of them should be able to claim that particular name and it should be first come first served, it shouldn't be "the biggest company wins" - the same name can also be trademarked for different products in the US for products in diverse industries. For example a hypothetical "Ford Food Industries" could sell stuff under the "Ford" label and ought to be able to claim the name if they register it first.
Another real-world example - a trademarked software product I once worked on turned out to be type of adult diaper in Italy and a line of modular shelving in the UK - we didn't own the name any more than they did
err... 'root'ing has yet another context in some parts of the world (NZ, Oz)... on the other hand the idea of a 'fuckathon' to save a company seems novel...
true - reading their web page it wasn't obvious whether they're pushing a CAD technology, a library or a CPU... or maybe all 3.
If they really want to push a CAD technology (or a library for that matter) they will suffer from the same problems the asynch boosters suffer from - basicly long run they'll have to get into bed with some part of the Cadance/Synopsys duopoly so they can be eased into people's CAD flows - remember almost all their potential customers have already spent millions with one of those big two and wont want to buy a new untested tool
From memory 8080s hade some dynamic nodes - the upside is that you can squeeze some extra gate delays out of some circuits (dynamic carry chains are a good example) - the down side is a chip with a MINIMUM clock speed - which makes test (scan and ATE etc) much harder - those expensive testers we test chips with just don't go that fast.
Given that net delays are becoming the gating factor in big chip designs dynamic logic seems to me to just be a sideshow - unless the long wires are themselves the dynamic nodes (transmission lines with solitons moving on them?) now that would be interesting...
Potentially much more interesting IMHO is clockless asynchronous logic - but CAD tools just aren't up to supporting this methodology (oh yeah and the synchronous clock based mindset is pretty entrenched too).
yup - and as they've found while it seems easy - tie a rocket on a balloon, let go of the balloon, launch the rocket when it get high enough - it's not - I've watched those guys (JP's mob - all volunteers) at Blackrock work their way up from small scale models in baby steps over the past few years, they'll make it eventually - it's hard, harder than it seems - launching big balloons is a hard problem in itself
is that if I release my wonderfull code GPLed it doesn't stop M$ from using it - it just requires them to come back to me and license it under some other terms - ie if the evile empire wants my code to do as they please with they'll have to pay thru the nose - just like they expect their cistomers to do.... but if the local high school can live with GPL I'm quite happy to give them the use of my code - and of course I benefit personally from the exchange of code that the GPL bazzar creates - I get back way more than I put in - and I get to work oin the code that I want to - none of this "OS development is off limits because we know best" sort of attitude that M$ puts forward - I much prefer Linus's "If you do something usefull that will make the OS better I'll add it" - judge me on MY merrits, not where I fit in YOUR business plan
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I live in the US and keep forgetting just how crappy NTSC is - whenevr I go home I get blown away, not by the extra resolution, but by the color (or rather colour). As someone who works on and off in the digital TV arena I'm very aware of the technical differences between the various systems - but tend to forget the impact the extra color gamut has on the visual experience.
The downside of course is all the garish neon colored advertisments:-(
no - he exercised his 1st amendment right to describe in public how to break the encryption - any US law which does not allow him his 1st amendment rights in the US (or I guess outside it) is itslef by definition illegal (unconstitutional)
I think hypertransport is intended as a PCI/AGP replacement - not for connecting the CPU and north bridge (memory controller) - of course pushing the memory controller onto the CPU probably isn't far off so hypertransport may be the only bus floating around the CPU after that (which of course will make SMP architecturally more difficult)
I have a laptop - I switch between ether card and wavelan card all the time (home and work) - I can see if I were using windows I'd be calling MS twice a day.....
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Both Aspirin and Heroin were trademarks of Bayer, a german company, at the end of WW1 in the treaty of Versailles Bayer was required to give up the 2 trademarks (they had already been appropriated by the US during the war).
yup +2 virtual karma to you
+2 virtual karma points to the first person who can name the other trademark taken from Bayer that's still in common use
The whole point is to just accept that your wireless connection is as unsafe as the larger 'net - and treat it the same way
By doing this you are basicly acknowledging that the security isn't there and force your users to use secure tools to get to secure places.
Anyway my point is that if one of these guys drives by my home they'll probably pick up up my 802.11 and add it to their map, maybe even hack it to get access to the 'net - but do I care? nope
I'm pretty sure I first saw the PBS show 4-5 years back, they also showed someone doing similar work in the mid west.
Microsoft has a massive PR machine getting that information out - all those who really want to know probably already heard from 2-3 different sources (plus you - boy am I fed up with the microsoft greek chorus on /.) KOfficve on the other hand is a bunch of OS hackers working hard for our own good - they CAN'T afford PR flunkies
BTW - there was a great paper about 10 years back out of Caltech where a bunch of students built an async cpu and the did exactly this - cooling it way down and finding it worked faster the colder they get
Another real-world example - a trademarked software product I once worked on turned out to be type of adult diaper in Italy and a line of modular shelving in the UK - we didn't own the name any more than they did
You might find it usefull to check out the USPTO where they say To determine whether there is a conflict between two marks, the PTO determines whether there would be likelihood of confusion, that is, whether relevant consumers would be likely to associate the goods or services of one party with those of the other party as a result of the use of the marks at issue by both parties. The principal factors to be considered in reaching this decision are the similarity of the marks and the commercial relationship between the goods and services identified by the marks. To find a conflict, the marks need not be identical, and the goods and services do not have to be the same.
err ... 'root'ing has yet another context in some parts of the world (NZ, Oz) ... on the other hand the idea of a 'fuckathon' to save a company seems novel ...
If they really want to push a CAD technology (or a library for that matter) they will suffer from the same problems the asynch boosters suffer from - basicly long run they'll have to get into bed with some part of the Cadance/Synopsys duopoly so they can be eased into people's CAD flows - remember almost all their potential customers have already spent millions with one of those big two and wont want to buy a new untested tool
Given that net delays are becoming the gating factor in big chip designs dynamic logic seems to me to just be a sideshow - unless the long wires are themselves the dynamic nodes (transmission lines with solitons moving on them?) now that would be interesting ...
Potentially much more interesting IMHO is clockless asynchronous logic - but CAD tools just aren't up to supporting this methodology (oh yeah and the synchronous clock based mindset is pretty entrenched too).
yup - and as they've found while it seems easy - tie a rocket on a balloon, let go of the balloon, launch the rocket when it get high enough - it's not - I've watched those guys (JP's mob - all volunteers) at Blackrock work their way up from small scale models in baby steps over the past few years, they'll make it eventually - it's hard, harder than it seems - launching big balloons is a hard problem in itself
the "I am Sparticus" approach - sprinkle your site with tasty yellow backgrounded goatse.cx links ....
OK - I'm joking - but actually it's a great idea - seed your local public library with Linux install kits
Well yeah - if you pay the BSA then they put you on that other mailing list and their sister organization comes and shakes you down for cookies ....
yup - my point exactly :-)
is that if I release my wonderfull code GPLed it doesn't stop M$ from using it - it just requires them to come back to me and license it under some other terms - ie if the evile empire wants my code to do as they please with they'll have to pay thru the nose - just like they expect their cistomers to do .... but if the local high school can live with GPL I'm quite happy to give them the use of my code - and of course I benefit personally from the exchange of code that the GPL bazzar creates - I get back way more than I put in - and I get to work oin the code that I want to - none of this "OS development is off limits because we know best" sort of attitude that M$ puts forward - I much prefer Linus's "If you do something usefull that will make the OS better I'll add it" - judge me on MY merrits, not where I fit in YOUR business plan
The downside of course is all the garish neon colored advertisments :-(
1st amendment sais the govt can't make a law abridging freedom of speech - it has nothing to do with who's doing the saying - it constrains the govt
It was a speech - he said stuff in public in front of people
Of course this is not true - just because a thief has run of with your CDs doesn't mean you don't still own them
no - he exercised his 1st amendment right to describe in public how to break the encryption - any US law which does not allow him his 1st amendment rights in the US (or I guess outside it) is itslef by definition illegal (unconstitutional)
I think hypertransport is intended as a PCI/AGP replacement - not for connecting the CPU and north bridge (memory controller) - of course pushing the memory controller onto the CPU probably isn't far off so hypertransport may be the only bus floating around the CPU after that (which of course will make SMP architecturally more difficult)
I have a laptop - I switch between ether card and wavelan card all the time (home and work) - I can see if I were using windows I'd be calling MS twice a day .....