Someone builds this into a spyware program (legal or illegal). They'll get hits from all over, and waste thousands trying to prosecute / send notices to all the grannies and others that are doing absolutely nothing illegal. Will also bring up so many false positives that they'll have to measure traffic (and check its validity) to get any meaningful results, which is what they should be doing in the first place...
I think I had millimeter microwave detection systems in mind when I posted this. They detect the round IN THE AIR and determine your position based on this. Multiple remote rifles would be the ONLY way to defeat it. Doing so would be cumbersome and wasteful, but you have to do what you have to do if you want to live another day...
In about 10 years, everyone will have cameras on them that document EVERYTHING they see and put it in an easily retrievable form. Flip through a book and B&N, go home, and read it to your hearts content. We are headed into an infomational age nothing like you have ever seen or dreamed of...
That someone can win a case like this and set a precedent that will tame this Multi-Corp Goliath that relentlessly lobbies for "share 1 file and you're a felon", and sues old grandma's that don't even have a computer! Its getting very very sick, IMO...
They lawyers are "evil" but he says that for a reason. These are the BRIGHTEST PEOPLE ON EARTH, and they will eat you alive, no joke. He would have been wise to program the mail service himeself or hire someone to do it (80 hours for a small scale system). Right now is the time to settle for the 250k or whatever they are offering now considering the judgement IMO...
The big guys don't pay for others patents. Instead, they cross-license patents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-licensing/), which is sharing Patent portfolios to prevent mutually assured destruction (in litigation) because every big company cannot be in business WITHOUT violating some other mega corporations patents.
The little guy does indeed get screwed over as you pointed out. Doesn't that go against the original intent of the Patent system?
I am a longtime computer user and i UNINSTALLED it after using it for a total of 3 days.
I sent a couple of files for assignments I had to teachers, and guess what! You can't even get a viewer for excel 2007 so they can open and read what I've done! WTF. And to top it off, the interface is so crazy I couldn't find the undo button without doing a google search 2 or 3 times. Yeah, go ribbons... If Vista is anything like that, they are going to go down like the Hindenberg...
The stocks shown are too thinly traded. Any investor putting money in those during a pump and dump would be NUTS because there is just not enough volume there to unload your shares. I would imagine a stock that trades a bit heavier, like one on the OTC BB would respond much more favorably increase wise, and would allow pump and dumpers an oppurtunity to dump shares later, even if the price did go down a bit. I would never trade such low volume stocks as the ones used in the given example...
I listen to my scanner here in Ellensburg frequently. Usually something happens, like a hit and run, and the police are off searching for a vehicle that fits a usually broad description. People generally do NOT have time to snap off a pic of a criminal event occuring, BUT IF THEY DID, they could use their own picture taking device to zoom in and get say... a license plate number... and report the same infomation to police moments later on either another cell phone or after calling back 911.
If they are laying out millions of dollars for this I say it's a waste. But if they're spending a small amount of money, and the major carriers and cell phone manufacurer's build this into their products, it could have some usefulness, but on a limited scope.
Any benefits received from such a system would not outweigh the negatives of living in an Orwellian society, where camera's are on every corner and if you piss off the wrong person, prior image "evidence" can be used to persecute you... And no, I don't think saying such a system of camera's on every corner leads to an Orwellian society is a slippery slope fallacy.
Set up some remote rifles and set them to fire at approximately the same time you fire. This will give the device numerous targets to engage and give you time to flee the area before artillery comes in. Old rifles probably go for around $20 US in Iraq about now, so figure 5 false positives cost around $100 dollars, plus materials cost to rig up the remote shot operation...
Very true. Hence my follow up post suggesting the setting up of cheap rifles to give multiple sniper 'hits'. Probably can get 5 rifles there for about 200 US and make the defensive sniper solution useless...
Or, even better yet... Set up some remote rifles (you can get vintage rifles for around 70 a pop) and set them to fire at approximately the same time you fire. This will give the device numerous targets to engage and give you time to flee the area before artillery comes in...
A common sniper tactic is to position yourself in a location where hills and other terrain will reflect sound back to the target, confusing the target as to the actual location of your fires. Couldn't sound reflection be brought into play and give the device the wrong location, or a set of wrong locations?
Its my understanding that in order to start off a high explosive reaction you must impact it with a velocity equal to or greater than the explosives burn rate... IE some high explosives explode at a rate of say 3400 feet per second and need a impact velocity of 3400 feet per second or greater. A blasting cap is made of high explosive that has a burn rate greater than the explosive being detonated...:-)
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Someone builds this into a spyware program (legal or illegal). They'll get hits from all over, and waste thousands trying to prosecute / send notices to all the grannies and others that are doing absolutely nothing illegal. Will also bring up so many false positives that they'll have to measure traffic (and check its validity) to get any meaningful results, which is what they should be doing in the first place...
I think I had millimeter microwave detection systems in mind when I posted this. They detect the round IN THE AIR and determine your position based on this. Multiple remote rifles would be the ONLY way to defeat it. Doing so would be cumbersome and wasteful, but you have to do what you have to do if you want to live another day...
In about 10 years, everyone will have cameras on them that document EVERYTHING they see and put it in an easily retrievable form. Flip through a book and B&N, go home, and read it to your hearts content. We are headed into an infomational age nothing like you have ever seen or dreamed of...
That someone can win a case like this and set a precedent that will tame this Multi-Corp Goliath that relentlessly lobbies for "share 1 file and you're a felon", and sues old grandma's that don't even have a computer! Its getting very very sick, IMO...
They lawyers are "evil" but he says that for a reason. These are the BRIGHTEST PEOPLE ON EARTH, and they will eat you alive, no joke. He would have been wise to program the mail service himeself or hire someone to do it (80 hours for a small scale system). Right now is the time to settle for the 250k or whatever they are offering now considering the judgement IMO...
The big guys don't pay for others patents. Instead, they cross-license patents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-licensing/), which is sharing Patent portfolios to prevent mutually assured destruction (in litigation) because every big company cannot be in business WITHOUT violating some other mega corporations patents.
The little guy does indeed get screwed over as you pointed out. Doesn't that go against the original intent of the Patent system?
I am a longtime computer user and i UNINSTALLED it after using it for a total of 3 days.
I sent a couple of files for assignments I had to teachers, and guess what! You can't even get a viewer for excel 2007 so they can open and read what I've done! WTF. And to top it off, the interface is so crazy I couldn't find the undo button without doing a google search 2 or 3 times. Yeah, go ribbons... If Vista is anything like that, they are going to go down like the Hindenberg...
The stocks shown are too thinly traded. Any investor putting money in those during a pump and dump would be NUTS because there is just not enough volume there to unload your shares. I would imagine a stock that trades a bit heavier, like one on the OTC BB would respond much more favorably increase wise, and would allow pump and dumpers an oppurtunity to dump shares later, even if the price did go down a bit. I would never trade such low volume stocks as the ones used in the given example...
I listen to my scanner here in Ellensburg frequently. Usually something happens, like a hit and run, and the police are off searching for a vehicle that fits a usually broad description. People generally do NOT have time to snap off a pic of a criminal event occuring, BUT IF THEY DID, they could use their own picture taking device to zoom in and get say... a license plate number... and report the same infomation to police moments later on either another cell phone or after calling back 911. If they are laying out millions of dollars for this I say it's a waste. But if they're spending a small amount of money, and the major carriers and cell phone manufacurer's build this into their products, it could have some usefulness, but on a limited scope. Any benefits received from such a system would not outweigh the negatives of living in an Orwellian society, where camera's are on every corner and if you piss off the wrong person, prior image "evidence" can be used to persecute you... And no, I don't think saying such a system of camera's on every corner leads to an Orwellian society is a slippery slope fallacy.
Why is that idiotic? Would it not be an effective countermeasure? Could it not be done? Please enlighten me...
Set up some remote rifles and set them to fire at approximately the same time you fire. This will give the device numerous targets to engage and give you time to flee the area before artillery comes in. Old rifles probably go for around $20 US in Iraq about now, so figure 5 false positives cost around $100 dollars, plus materials cost to rig up the remote shot operation...
Very true. Hence my follow up post suggesting the setting up of cheap rifles to give multiple sniper 'hits'. Probably can get 5 rifles there for about 200 US and make the defensive sniper solution useless...
Or, even better yet... Set up some remote rifles (you can get vintage rifles for around 70 a pop) and set them to fire at approximately the same time you fire. This will give the device numerous targets to engage and give you time to flee the area before artillery comes in...
A common sniper tactic is to position yourself in a location where hills and other terrain will reflect sound back to the target, confusing the target as to the actual location of your fires. Couldn't sound reflection be brought into play and give the device the wrong location, or a set of wrong locations?
Its my understanding that in order to start off a high explosive reaction you must impact it with a velocity equal to or greater than the explosives burn rate... IE some high explosives explode at a rate of say 3400 feet per second and need a impact velocity of 3400 feet per second or greater. A blasting cap is made of high explosive that has a burn rate greater than the explosive being detonated... :-)