Sounds philosophically a lot like the UNIX pipeline. Late to the game as I am, I've really been impressed with what I can do with those little component applications working in concert. The idea of teaching a computer to do your job for you, without having to create the software from scratch, needs to be revived.
It only adds 30 minutes onto your commute if you wait until you're ready to leave, and then plug it in. I don't know about you, but I typically wake up more than an hour before I leave for work, and I'm sure I can find the five minutes to plug in the car somewhere near the start of the window.
You're looking at the problem the wrong way. If you want people to power up their gizmos by using their chemical energy (which by all accounts they have too much of) then having them wear a pair of slightly inefficient shoes is more practical than giving them a hand crank and telling them to get on with it.
I know the USPTO is fucked up but I don't think even they'll make a decision on the basis of "a sci-fi writer once conceived of an object which did the same thing by a completely unexplained means".
There's a balance between the impact of the seizure and the evidentiary value of the equipment. If you seize a TOR node, you're causing a large inconvenience to one, possibly-involved person, seizing a whole lot of unrelated information related to that person, and in return getting one unit of evidence. If you seize just about any single machine from an ISP, in order to get the same unit of evidence, you're causing a large inconvenience to many, almost certainly uninvolved people, and seizing a whole lot of unrelated information related to those people. Correspondingly the latter is frowned upon more than the former, and is much less likely to get a warrant.
You're trying to poison the well, which is an effective answer to datamining but given the size of Facebook's userbase you're going to need homeopathy for it to be effective.
If we assume cognative dissonance then it's safe to say that this will just be taken as additional proof that the establishment is self-serving/incompetent/oppressive.
Well, since you seem to want a fishing analogy, not many anglers just drop the lure into the water and reel in if there's no immediate hit.
They would if it cost them $1.5m a minute. (Microsoft, HP etc.) Of course if it's only costing you $10 an hour, then you can afford to relax. (Small startups.)
I assumed when you wrote that relationships were about compromise and acceptance, that you were criticising OKCupid's post for being rather strident and uncompromising. Evidently I quite badly misunderstood what you were getting at.
I thought it was obvious that a blog post about the statistics of courting would not be a particularly strong example of courting. One would not include statistics in one's opening romantic gambit, for example.
That's not a bad idea, actually. Put one transmitter on Earth and one relay around Mars* and pool the resources of the transmitting nations on improving bandwidth and reliability. Then the Mars relay switches to high-bandwidth (relatively) short-range radio for the last leg.
They've already announced that an update is on the way for the affected devices, removing the offending animation. Given that the decision's not effective for about two months I think they'll have it fixed before it even becomes an issue.
Given that patents are supposed to be about how your invention does something and not what it does, one would hope that this sort of thing happened more often.
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Sounds philosophically a lot like the UNIX pipeline. Late to the game as I am, I've really been impressed with what I can do with those little component applications working in concert. The idea of teaching a computer to do your job for you, without having to create the software from scratch, needs to be revived.
Two hundred and twenty outlets?! I'm not sure I have enough extension cords.
A nuclear reactor isn't a nuclear weapon. It's no more dangerous - and a good deal less covert - than a lead suitcase full of nicked nuclear fuel.
It's from the article, where they discuss how different this reactor is from the public stereotypes of a nuclear reactor.
(Although as we all know, cooling towers are hardly unique to nuclear reactors.)
It only adds 30 minutes onto your commute if you wait until you're ready to leave, and then plug it in. I don't know about you, but I typically wake up more than an hour before I leave for work, and I'm sure I can find the five minutes to plug in the car somewhere near the start of the window.
If/when inductive charging becomes ubiquitous (RIP Touchstone) I hope that'll be the case.
Even then, Stanley Kubrick's production designers already came up with the same rectangle.
You're looking at the problem the wrong way. If you want people to power up their gizmos by using their chemical energy (which by all accounts they have too much of) then having them wear a pair of slightly inefficient shoes is more practical than giving them a hand crank and telling them to get on with it.
I know the USPTO is fucked up but I don't think even they'll make a decision on the basis of "a sci-fi writer once conceived of an object which did the same thing by a completely unexplained means".
There's a balance between the impact of the seizure and the evidentiary value of the equipment. If you seize a TOR node, you're causing a large inconvenience to one, possibly-involved person, seizing a whole lot of unrelated information related to that person, and in return getting one unit of evidence. If you seize just about any single machine from an ISP, in order to get the same unit of evidence, you're causing a large inconvenience to many, almost certainly uninvolved people, and seizing a whole lot of unrelated information related to those people. Correspondingly the latter is frowned upon more than the former, and is much less likely to get a warrant.
You're trying to poison the well, which is an effective answer to datamining but given the size of Facebook's userbase you're going to need homeopathy for it to be effective.
If we assume cognative dissonance then it's safe to say that this will just be taken as additional proof that the establishment is self-serving/incompetent/oppressive.
They would if it cost them $1.5m a minute. (Microsoft, HP etc.) Of course if it's only costing you $10 an hour, then you can afford to relax. (Small startups.)
I assumed when you wrote that relationships were about compromise and acceptance, that you were criticising OKCupid's post for being rather strident and uncompromising. Evidently I quite badly misunderstood what you were getting at.
I thought it was obvious that a blog post about the statistics of courting would not be a particularly strong example of courting. One would not include statistics in one's opening romantic gambit, for example.
More specifically it shows self-awareness, a quality which is conspiciously lacking from genuinely awful human beings.
The blog article should not be construed as an attempt at courtship, and should not be used as a model for communication within a relationship.
They derive enjoyment from the product. I think that's the beating heart of the Western economy TBH.
It's not arrogant to make assertions that are backed up by data. It's even less arrogant to make those assertions in a humorous way.
That's not a bad idea, actually. Put one transmitter on Earth and one relay around Mars* and pool the resources of the transmitting nations on improving bandwidth and reliability. Then the Mars relay switches to high-bandwidth (relatively) short-range radio for the last leg.
*Realistically, a redundant set
They've already announced that an update is on the way for the affected devices, removing the offending animation. Given that the decision's not effective for about two months I think they'll have it fixed before it even becomes an issue.
Given that patents are supposed to be about how your invention does something and not what it does, one would hope that this sort of thing happened more often.
Right. I was answering the AC's question about why 3.0 doesn't infringe.
It amounts to a software claim in a patent for a whole device. It'll be interesting to see how the court takes the validity of that.
I believe it uses a different gallery interface.