Well, the definition was based on actual independent research of the bombings by an NGO (funded by one of the founders of Google). If that's not satisfactory for you, so be it.
IANAL, but I don't see any information in the USPTO transaction history or file wrapper of 12/973,387 to indicate any notice of claims allowance. This appears to still be just an application.
But for those of you who want to rip into it, here's the part that matters. Have fun!
1. A method for publishing and subscribing in a social network, the method comprising: allowing user to manage Human Operating System (HOS) including one or more profiles, activities, applications, services, actions, transactions, groups, searching, sharing, communication, collaboration, contents and connections; receiving and storing each registered user's one or more profile(s), user data, preferences and relational connections or dynamic relationships; dynamically publishing one or more selectable users contents via one or more publications; allow user to dynamically subscribing one or more selected contents from selected publications received from one or more connected or related users in the social network; presenting or updating the subscribed contents to subscribing user based on one or more criteria and preferences to user interface.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more selectable subscription of publications comprises subscription of publications from one or more social or personal networks or groups of users of the social network.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the groups of users is created based on match making of the users preferences and profiles.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more selectable publications includes a user-defined list of publishers or publications of other users including known and anonymous users of the social network.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more selectable subscriptions of publications include one or more content filters and preferences that identify a type of content from the received content items.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein one of the content filters identifies one or more multimedia content types including text, videos, images, URL, files and databases.
7. The method of claim 5, wherein one of the content filters identifies content from one or more applications, utilities, services, workspaces, auto recorded or generated journal contents and sources within the social network.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein publication synchronizing types includes snapshot, merge and transactional synchronization.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein subscriptions types included pull and push subscriptions from related or connected and matched or anonymous users of the social network.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting or updating in the user interface one or more content items received from users comprises presenting a received contents of one or more subscribed publications.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the content from publication(s) comprises a content of publication(s) that includes a real time filtered published content items provided by connected users of user.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the content from publication(s) comprises a dynamic or auto generated content publication(s) that includes a filtered content items selected by the social network as a function of a dynamic relationship between the user and the content items.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the content items in the dynamic or auto generated publication or feed include journal entries about actions taken by other users.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein the publication(s) further includes advertisements.
15. The method of claim 1, further comprising: providing Human Operating System (HOS) including one or more applications, services, modules, utilities to user for managing one or more activities, profiles, surveys, search macros, contents, connections, actions, events, transactions, groups, searching, generating, uploading and sharing contents and communication and collaboration to the connected or related users of the social network.
I currently make most of my income dealing with patents (searching, reading, analyzing, finding problems with them, writing material for them, etc). And guess what? Nobody reads the abstract to figure out the details. All it is useful for is to determine if it's even vaguely related to what you are working on.
If you base any analysis on a reading of the abstract alone, you are making a huge mistake. Don't bother.
I'm not saying the patent is valid or not. I'm just saying don't read the abstract.
One minor flaw in that logic. Call it the Schrodinger Cat paradox of Monkey Copyright. Monkeys can be typing randomly, which is fine. But at some point you have to confirm they duplicated the original works.
Unless you can guarantee randomness can produce a specific sequence in a finite time (statistically you can't), you have to periodically check the monkeys' work. It that confirmation that the output is identical that would indicate copying. Extremely inefficient way to copy, but copy none the less.
Shakespeare's works are public domain, which is why monkeys can do it. It might take a million of them to figure out how to do it, but every one of them knows they'll be turned into monkey stew if they try to write anything by J K Rowling. An encyclopedia of her works, they are still debating.
Dude, the fact that body parts are talking to each other should have clued you into the fact that it's a joke. Do you really need me to explain it too?
I refer to these sort of tactics as bunghole politics. The idea is to stop up the system so that it has to be shut down. Named after the following joke:
The brain said "I do all the thinking so I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The eyes said "I see everything and let the rest of you know where we are, so I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The hands said: "Without me we wouldn't be able to pick anything up or move anything. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The stomach said: "I turn the food we eat into energy for the rest of you. Without me, we'd starve. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The legs said: "Without me we wouldn't be able to move anywhere. I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
Then the rectum said: "I think I should be in charge." All the rest of the parts said: YOU?!! You don't do anything! You're not as important as we are, surely! You can't be in charge!"
So the rectum stopped working... After a few days, the legs were all wobbly, the stomach was all queasy, the hands were all shaky, the eyes were all watery, and the brain was all cloudy.
MORAL OF THE STORY
It only takes one asshole to shut down a job and an asshole is always in charge of everything.
The goal is to keep people cool, not a place. Here's one cool option (pun intended).
People have been making "cool ties" for several years now. Basically a cloth tube with a little bit of water absorbing polymer inside (available at gardening centers in the US). They hold a lot of water and create a little evaporative cooler for your neck. Like soaking a towel, but more water with less dripping.
People make them and send them to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. there are versions for necks, helmets, even vests.
Microsoft was not successful in defending the "Windows' trademark. They dodged a bullet. It was looking pretty bad for them, so they settled out of court.
Search for an email from someone from a particular domain, sent between 2 dates with an attachment between two sizes, but not including certain key words in the subject line.
You can pretty much specify any kind of boolean search on any field of email.
Yeah, I was walking a fine line with those two. Figured I could still say them with a straight face. Gmail lets you combine several accounts and does it well, but Thunderbird lets you manage those accounts in one spot. At least a little bit better.
Same bit of hair splitting with search. Google does search better, but Thunderbird has some fine grain control that is handy sometimes.
There's probably not a great reason. But there are a few differences that make it worthwhile to some people. The big thing to remember is Gmail and Thunderbird are not mutually exclusive. I use Gmail through Thunderbird and through a web interface.
Reasons Thunderbird might be useful to some people vs web based Gmail: Interface preference. Neither is superior, but some folks prefer Thunderbird. Multiple accounts. Thunderbird lets you manage multiple accounts with multiple providers easily. Plugins. I can only think of one: openPGP. And most people can live without it. Search. Believe it or not, Thunderbird gives you better control of search than Gmail Offline. Thunderbird lets you mess with your email while you are offline.
So my advice is to give Thunderbird a try, don't expect to be blown away, but who knows, you might like it.
Yeah, but failing a dozen times before success is still success. With deep pockets, Google can keep trying, and trying, and trying, until they get it right.
Another way dropping atomic bombs on Japan has saved lives is that it demonstrated how devastating they are for everyone to see. Made everyone a bit more reluctant to ever use them. We managed to pass through the phase of just treating them as a big bomb quickly when only one side had them, and only a couple.
Had they not been dropped on Japan in 1945, they almost certainly would have been used in a later conflict. But both sides would have had them, and more of them.
So I'm reluctant to call bombing Japan the wrong thing to do. For the reasons you gave, or, if it was a mistake, we learned from that mistake and avoided an even bigger one.
I remember the same thing. Something out of Georgia Tech. The tip was piezo controlled, making it very fast. IIRC, it was a 50 cal round intended as an antitank sniper round (a little bullet hitting in just the right spot might disable a tank turret or worse).
Spine stabilization would be possible. Piezos can react far faster than the bullet would be spinning. But the whole point is that spin isn't needed.
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Well, the definition was based on actual independent research of the bombings by an NGO (funded by one of the founders of Google). If that's not satisfactory for you, so be it.
In searching through PAIR, I followed the divisional, not the patent at question. Please ignore my comment or feel free to mod down.
Thanks and sorry.
IANAL, but I don't see any information in the USPTO transaction history or file wrapper of 12/973,387 to indicate any notice of claims allowance. This appears to still be just an application.
But for those of you who want to rip into it, here's the part that matters. Have fun!
1. A method for publishing and subscribing in a social network, the method comprising: allowing user to manage Human Operating System (HOS) including one or more profiles, activities, applications, services, actions, transactions, groups, searching, sharing, communication, collaboration, contents and connections; receiving and storing each registered user's one or more profile(s), user data, preferences and relational connections or dynamic relationships; dynamically publishing one or more selectable users contents via one or more publications; allow user to dynamically subscribing one or more selected contents from selected publications received from one or more connected or related users in the social network; presenting or updating the subscribed contents to subscribing user based on one or more criteria and preferences to user interface.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more selectable subscription of publications comprises subscription of publications from one or more social or personal networks or groups of users of the social network.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the groups of users is created based on match making of the users preferences and profiles.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more selectable publications includes a user-defined list of publishers or publications of other users including known and anonymous users of the social network.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more selectable subscriptions of publications include one or more content filters and preferences that identify a type of content from the received content items.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein one of the content filters identifies one or more multimedia content types including text, videos, images, URL, files and databases.
7. The method of claim 5, wherein one of the content filters identifies content from one or more applications, utilities, services, workspaces, auto recorded or generated journal contents and sources within the social network.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein publication synchronizing types includes snapshot, merge and transactional synchronization.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein subscriptions types included pull and push subscriptions from related or connected and matched or anonymous users of the social network.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting or updating in the user interface one or more content items received from users comprises presenting a received contents of one or more subscribed publications.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the content from publication(s) comprises a content of publication(s) that includes a real time filtered published content items provided by connected users of user.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the content from publication(s) comprises a dynamic or auto generated content publication(s) that includes a filtered content items selected by the social network as a function of a dynamic relationship between the user and the content items.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the content items in the dynamic or auto generated publication or feed include journal entries about actions taken by other users.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein the publication(s) further includes advertisements.
15. The method of claim 1, further comprising: providing Human Operating System (HOS) including one or more applications, services, modules, utilities to user for managing one or more activities, profiles, surveys, search macros, contents, connections, actions, events, transactions, groups, searching, generating, uploading and sharing contents and communication and collaboration to the connected or related users of the social network.
16. The met
I currently make most of my income dealing with patents (searching, reading, analyzing, finding problems with them, writing material for them, etc). And guess what? Nobody reads the abstract to figure out the details. All it is useful for is to determine if it's even vaguely related to what you are working on.
If you base any analysis on a reading of the abstract alone, you are making a huge mistake. Don't bother.
I'm not saying the patent is valid or not. I'm just saying don't read the abstract.
So they are bombing at random? Well since 2004 72% of all Pakastanis have been terrorists. 92% more recently.
Or maybe the targeting is a bit better than you think.
http://pakistansurvey.org/about/drones
One minor flaw in that logic. Call it the Schrodinger Cat paradox of Monkey Copyright. Monkeys can be typing randomly, which is fine. But at some point you have to confirm they duplicated the original works.
Unless you can guarantee randomness can produce a specific sequence in a finite time (statistically you can't), you have to periodically check the monkeys' work. It that confirmation that the output is identical that would indicate copying. Extremely inefficient way to copy, but copy none the less.
Shakespeare's works are public domain, which is why monkeys can do it. It might take a million of them to figure out how to do it, but every one of them knows they'll be turned into monkey stew if they try to write anything by J K Rowling. An encyclopedia of her works, they are still debating.
And use the classic discussion system. Reminds me of simpler times.
That would make a great sig line.
Dude, the fact that body parts are talking to each other should have clued you into the fact that it's a joke. Do you really need me to explain it too?
I refer to these sort of tactics as bunghole politics. The idea is to stop up the system so that it has to be shut down. Named after the following joke:
The brain said "I do all the thinking so I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The eyes said "I see everything and let the rest of you know where we are, so I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The hands said: "Without me we wouldn't be able to pick anything up or move anything. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The stomach said: "I turn the food we eat into energy for the rest of you. Without me, we'd starve. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
The legs said: "Without me we wouldn't be able to move anywhere. I'm the most important and I should be in charge."
Then the rectum said: "I think I should be in charge."
All the rest of the parts said: YOU?!!
You don't do anything! You're not as important as we are, surely!
You can't be in charge!"
So the rectum stopped working...
After a few days, the legs were all wobbly,
the stomach was all queasy,
the hands were all shaky,
the eyes were all watery,
and the brain was all cloudy.
MORAL OF THE STORY
It only takes one asshole to shut down a job and an asshole is always in charge of everything.
The goal is to keep people cool, not a place. Here's one cool option (pun intended).
People have been making "cool ties" for several years now. Basically a cloth tube with a little bit of water absorbing polymer inside (available at gardening centers in the US). They hold a lot of water and create a little evaporative cooler for your neck. Like soaking a towel, but more water with less dripping.
People make them and send them to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. there are versions for necks, helmets, even vests.
Here are some detailed instructions: http://www.watersorb.com/polymer_cool_neck_bands.htm
You may be interested in this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=phosphorus-a-looming-crisis
The full article is behind a paywall, but one conclusion is we need to recycle sewage.
Thank you for doing your part.
By that logic, we still haven't defeated the Nazis.
And maybe if the US would help those countries that still have Nazis (like the US), those countries would stop hating us and decide to ditch Nazis.
Brilliant!
Microsoft was not successful in defending the "Windows' trademark. They dodged a bullet. It was looking pretty bad for them, so they settled out of court.
http://www.silicon.com/technology/software/2004/02/11/lindows-wins-in-us-court-microsoft-ruling-39118328/
Search for an email from someone from a particular domain, sent between 2 dates with an attachment between two sizes, but not including certain key words in the subject line.
You can pretty much specify any kind of boolean search on any field of email.
Not better than Gmail ... just fine grain.
God@heaven /usr/earth/RobertTappanMorris sudo mv soul.bin /heaven /usr/earth/RobertTappanMorris rm -f * /usr/earth/RobertTappanMorris cd .. /usr/earth/ chmod 777 RobertTappanMorris
password:
God@heaven
God@heaven
God@heaven
(later other users will move his empty directory to /usr/earth/cemetery)
Yeah, I was walking a fine line with those two. Figured I could still say them with a straight face. Gmail lets you combine several accounts and does it well, but Thunderbird lets you manage those accounts in one spot. At least a little bit better.
Same bit of hair splitting with search. Google does search better, but Thunderbird has some fine grain control that is handy sometimes.
potato ... potato
There's probably not a great reason. But there are a few differences that make it worthwhile to some people. The big thing to remember is Gmail and Thunderbird are not mutually exclusive. I use Gmail through Thunderbird and through a web interface.
Reasons Thunderbird might be useful to some people vs web based Gmail:
Interface preference. Neither is superior, but some folks prefer Thunderbird.
Multiple accounts. Thunderbird lets you manage multiple accounts with multiple providers easily.
Plugins. I can only think of one: openPGP. And most people can live without it.
Search. Believe it or not, Thunderbird gives you better control of search than Gmail
Offline. Thunderbird lets you mess with your email while you are offline.
So my advice is to give Thunderbird a try, don't expect to be blown away, but who knows, you might like it.
Yeah, but failing a dozen times before success is still success. With deep pockets, Google can keep trying, and trying, and trying, until they get it right.
Yeah yeah, it's a radical idea. But maybe if you didn't dump so much crap in the the East River, it wouldn't be hazardous to swim in.
... and just route all their traffic through China? DNS, traffic, all of it. The system is all set up and running, waiting for them to join.
The sun also causes tides.
Another way dropping atomic bombs on Japan has saved lives is that it demonstrated how devastating they are for everyone to see. Made everyone a bit more reluctant to ever use them. We managed to pass through the phase of just treating them as a big bomb quickly when only one side had them, and only a couple.
Had they not been dropped on Japan in 1945, they almost certainly would have been used in a later conflict. But both sides would have had them, and more of them.
So I'm reluctant to call bombing Japan the wrong thing to do. For the reasons you gave, or, if it was a mistake, we learned from that mistake and avoided an even bigger one.
I remember the same thing. Something out of Georgia Tech. The tip was piezo controlled, making it very fast. IIRC, it was a 50 cal round intended as an antitank sniper round (a little bullet hitting in just the right spot might disable a tank turret or worse).
Spine stabilization would be possible. Piezos can react far faster than the bullet would be spinning. But the whole point is that spin isn't needed.