Did anybody else look at that video and immediately remember the montage sequence from The Right Stuff with archival footage of NASA's rockets blowing up?
That didn't set them back, and somehow I don't think this will set back these private experimenters either.
Since this is a bit of a viscious cycle (the more patents that the Patent Office gets the more it says "Sounds good"), there obviously needs to be a change, but I've yet to see a truly plausible example of what would be a successful change to our patent system.
Patents, at times, actually are good things, so entirely doing away with the patent system wouldn't be a good idea, nor would adding more money to the patent office budget (the same problems we have now, just more of them), and making the patents harder to apply for would just benefit the offensive-patenting corporations with the money to hire expensive lawyers.
"It will be fascinating to go back and look at photographs of important people like John Kennedy," Dr. Nayar said. "From a single image of the eye, we may be able to figure out what was around him and what he was looking at."
I strongly doubt any archival photo negatives or digital replicas have the quality or the resolution to be able to do work like this.
In the realm of digital photos, I seriously doubt the 3 pixels representing the eye of a world leader from a 640x480 image would be enough to reconstruct a reflection from.
Oh... this will be wonderful for security the world over. If it works...
Microsoft Programmer: "Why does our software suck?"
*computer hangs, then bursts into flames from the load*
Yes, but with barcodes it has to look book-by-book. With a couple of radio tag receptors, it can triangulate the signal and think to itself "Hmm... I need to go up and right" instead of "Is this the book? No. Is this the book? No. Is this the book?..."
"what makes you think the robots won't be able to access a constantly-changing database recording, among other things, the locations of the books"
The article...
"Because the database will only give an approximate location, the robot will navigate its way to the bookshelf, using its infrared and laser guidance system, and scan books within a four-metre radius."
This might actually be a good use for RFID, or something similar.
It seems like once the robot gets to the bookshelf it needs to look in per the database, it does a very, very inefficient search book-by-book.
Could this perhaps be a good use (imagine that) for RFID? It seems that some sort of radio tags on books would help the robot localize the book a bit more and speed up the searches.
"They are specifically upset about Samba, Apache and Sendmail."
Hmm... perhaps becasue Samba, Apache, and Sendmail are better constructed than their Microsoft counterparts?
Universities helping their students to see that paying for IP is a good thing is something almost no one can argue with, but I'm not thrilled with the way many universities handle students' 'payment'.
I remember another university that tried to have students pay a mandatory "MP3 Fee" with their tuition for access to Napster because they figured that they'd download music anyway. Needless to say, that wasn't very popular with the students there.
If I recall correctly, it isn't an issue of the chip "knowing" anything. I'm fairly sure this technology just enables the chip to respond to security events passed along to it by Windows. If other operating systems emulate this feature, there'd be no way for the chip to "know" that it is using anything other than an operating system with such enhancements.
Why do you care if your chip knows what operating system you're running anyway? It's not like it's going to email Microsoft all by itself and tell them you're running a pirated version of Windows XP.
But what happens after the introductory period?
I remember another university that tried to have students pay a mandatory "MP3 Fee" with their tuition for access to Napster because they figured that they'd download music anyway.
Needless to say, that wasn't very popular with the students there. I hope GWU doesn't follow suit.
"and as a bonus, the reservoir can be used as an aquarium"
Right... I'm sure the fish will love the vibrations coming from my computer.
For that matter, I'm sure they'll love being shoved in that little nook between my desk and the wall.
"But it appears that the crux of this case is that Red Hat must prove that the mis-stated earnings were the result of an honest mistake, not intentional fudging (*cough* Enron */cough*)."
But that's not it...
Because Redhat apparently had false information for investors for three years, and they're just now releasing that information, the current investors who saw their (unrealistically valued) stock price plummett got screwed, and they've got a legitimate grievance.
(As far as I can tell. Though it should go without saying... IANAL)
Well, there's this method for cracking AES called eXtended Sparse Linearization that came around in 2002 or so (the attack is a method for solving systems of quadratic equations).
Problem is, we don't know if the attack works, but if it does work, it'll only get better. If the optimizations for the attack (assuming it works...) get down to 2^70 or 2^80 or so complexity, AES will be obsolete by the end of the decade. And that's why I don't think AES should be widely implemented just yet.
"802.11i's privacy services are built on top of AES, a strong encryption standard that passes muster with even the most paranoid security administrators"
No, not really. I would much rather use Serpent (the AES runner-up) than Rinjdael (the AES standard) for my encryption. As one of "the most paranoid security administrators," I'm rather annoyed that speed was chosen over security for the AES standard.
It actually does have a performance advantage. The advantages of replacement parts on bicycles don't necessarily have to be mass or aerodynamics. That product significantly improves the stiffness of your handlebars, which is unspeakably useful when putting massive amounts of torque on them during a sprint. Trust me.
What are these things designed on?
Probably some of the worst-maintained paved roads in all of Europe. Seriously, when it rains, some of the European roads the Tour goes through are literally more slippery than ice. And their bumps will rattle your eyeballs out.
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That didn't set them back, and somehow I don't think this will set back these private experimenters either.
As opposed to what you get a public universities"?
Patents, at times, actually are good things, so entirely doing away with the patent system wouldn't be a good idea, nor would adding more money to the patent office budget (the same problems we have now, just more of them), and making the patents harder to apply for would just benefit the offensive-patenting corporations with the money to hire expensive lawyers.
So what do we do about it?
I strongly doubt any archival photo negatives or digital replicas have the quality or the resolution to be able to do work like this.
In the realm of digital photos, I seriously doubt the 3 pixels representing the eye of a world leader from a 640x480 image would be enough to reconstruct a reflection from.
Oh, yeah, and it is inexpensive -- it's only $1,199.
It's not RAID, but you could buy a 1-terabyte drive from LaCie.
Oh ... this will be wonderful for security the world over. If it works ...
Microsoft Programmer: "Why does our software suck?"
*computer hangs, then bursts into flames from the load*
Yes, but with barcodes it has to look book-by-book. With a couple of radio tag receptors, it can triangulate the signal and think to itself "Hmm ... I need to go up and right" instead of "Is this the book? No. Is this the book? No. Is this the book? ..."
"what makes you think the robots won't be able to access a constantly-changing database recording, among other things, the locations of the books" The article ...
"Because the database will only give an approximate location, the robot will navigate its way to the bookshelf, using its infrared and laser guidance system, and scan books within a four-metre radius."
This might actually be a good use for RFID, or something similar.
It seems like once the robot gets to the bookshelf it needs to look in per the database, it does a very, very inefficient search book-by-book.
Could this perhaps be a good use (imagine that) for RFID? It seems that some sort of radio tags on books would help the robot localize the book a bit more and speed up the searches.
"They are specifically upset about Samba, Apache and Sendmail." Hmm ... perhaps becasue Samba, Apache, and Sendmail are better constructed than their Microsoft counterparts?
Now excuse me while I get working on southeastern Virginia.
I remember another university that tried to have students pay a mandatory "MP3 Fee" with their tuition for access to Napster because they figured that they'd download music anyway. Needless to say, that wasn't very popular with the students there.
I sure hope these universities don't follow suit.
If I recall correctly, it isn't an issue of the chip "knowing" anything. I'm fairly sure this technology just enables the chip to respond to security events passed along to it by Windows. If other operating systems emulate this feature, there'd be no way for the chip to "know" that it is using anything other than an operating system with such enhancements. Why do you care if your chip knows what operating system you're running anyway? It's not like it's going to email Microsoft all by itself and tell them you're running a pirated version of Windows XP.
Someone actually does have the email address asdf@asdf.com. Here is his reasoning why he doesn't accept email to that address.
But what happens after the introductory period? I remember another university that tried to have students pay a mandatory "MP3 Fee" with their tuition for access to Napster because they figured that they'd download music anyway. Needless to say, that wasn't very popular with the students there. I hope GWU doesn't follow suit.
"and as a bonus, the reservoir can be used as an aquarium" Right ... I'm sure the fish will love the vibrations coming from my computer.
For that matter, I'm sure they'll love being shoved in that little nook between my desk and the wall.
"But it appears that the crux of this case is that Red Hat must prove that the mis-stated earnings were the result of an honest mistake, not intentional fudging (*cough* Enron */cough*)." But that's not it ...
Because Redhat apparently had false information for investors for three years, and they're just now releasing that information, the current investors who saw their (unrealistically valued) stock price plummett got screwed, and they've got a legitimate grievance.
(As far as I can tell. Though it should go without saying ... IANAL)
Just in case that doesn't make sense to anyone, you might want to see this thread from yesterday.
Well, there's this method for cracking AES called eXtended Sparse Linearization that came around in 2002 or so (the attack is a method for solving systems of quadratic equations). Problem is, we don't know if the attack works, but if it does work, it'll only get better. If the optimizations for the attack (assuming it works ...) get down to 2^70 or 2^80 or so complexity, AES will be obsolete by the end of the decade. And that's why I don't think AES should be widely implemented just yet.
"802.11i's privacy services are built on top of AES, a strong encryption standard that passes muster with even the most paranoid security administrators" No, not really. I would much rather use Serpent (the AES runner-up) than Rinjdael (the AES standard) for my encryption. As one of "the most paranoid security administrators," I'm rather annoyed that speed was chosen over security for the AES standard.
Tell that to the guy who had his team car drive into him in Stage 1.
It actually does have a performance advantage. The advantages of replacement parts on bicycles don't necessarily have to be mass or aerodynamics. That product significantly improves the stiffness of your handlebars, which is unspeakably useful when putting massive amounts of torque on them during a sprint. Trust me.
What are these things designed on? Probably some of the worst-maintained paved roads in all of Europe. Seriously, when it rains, some of the European roads the Tour goes through are literally more slippery than ice. And their bumps will rattle your eyeballs out.
There is actually a rule. I can't quite send my 200-page rulebook over the internet, though. Sorry.