Blue Origin will almost certainly end up being an "also ran". It is essentially an extension of Jeff Bezo's ego. I expect an announcement soon that Amazon will be launching groceries at its Amazon Prime customers with Blue Origin rockets... Certainly, they will not be launching any paying payloads into space any time soon. Blue Origin is just another Amazon Pipe Dream.
...and help to warehouses more efficient by bringing the product shelves to the workers...
Do the "editors" actually read the summaries? I get this feeling that most of the new Slashdot "editors" where hired through Dice.com... Not a good sign.
I've just finished reading the claims and scanning the description and found no part of it that should be patentable...
You are, of course, a professional in the field of statistics and modeling? Marketing perhaps? You are maybe a patent lawyer?
No?
You're just some arm-chair pontificater?
I thought so.
Also note that the patent names the required activities only (mostly it just lists potential sources of data); it does not explain the methods or mechanisms used to perform those activities.
Complete bullshit. The "Detailed Description" goes way beyond what you suggest.
Certainly such a patent is asinine, but your over-simplistic "argument" - such that it is - does not address any of the issues and in fact is the standard type of argument from people that have no clue as to how to read a patent.
The House has got it spot on. Now for the Senate and President.
It's pretty much a fact that the Dems (of which I have been a lifelong member) both own the Senate, and are owned by many of the people (universities, high tech, and so on) that value patents.
Coming to the US is a privilege, not a right. As well, a "blog" post, when there is no other substantiation, is not a reliable source.
It is not surprising that the current set of/. bloggists, who live at Dad's house or at the least soak of dad's American Express, hype up unsubstantiated shit like this.
I can tell you definitively that in my discipline, physical oceanography, it is uncommon to save the basic data from an experiment. Once the PI of an experiment has written a paper or two and perhaps passed some data and a problem to a grad student, he loses interest and goes on to the next experiment. A few people archive basic data, but interest in such archives is slight. There are a few archives of current meter data like mine, and some archived hydrographic data. These archives are created when money (always hard to find) is made available. Places like WHOI keep the data from some experiments online, though I think it is rare for anyone to look at it after the first few years. NODC, which is tasked to preserve oceanographic data, does so but keeps it in a form that often is almost impossible to decypher. They just put it online in whatever form the experimenter provides it to them; often he is the only one who knows what a given column of numbers means.
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China has just landed their space craft on the moon. Just hours ago.
When will Space-X do that ?
SpaceX is a commercial "lift" company. Their objective would include landing something on the moon only if someone paid them to do it.
SpaceX is challenging Lockheed Martin and Boeing's United Launch Alliance
Blue Origin will almost certainly end up being an "also ran". It is essentially an extension of Jeff Bezo's ego. I expect an announcement soon that Amazon will be launching groceries at its Amazon Prime customers with Blue Origin rockets... Certainly, they will not be launching any paying payloads into space any time soon. Blue Origin is just another Amazon Pipe Dream.
Do state police have the authority to use them as well? Do they have a special license from the FCC?
Surly you jest! Are you not aware that laws do not apply to "LE"? Especially when tracking "terrorists"? Come on, dude, get out of the basement!
And if the Boston coppers were passing this all on to a Three Letter Agency, you can bet the FCC knew and turned a "blind eye".
The Ars T "story" is simply a re-hash of this (from the Boston Globe):
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/14/boston-police-suspend-use-high-tech-licence-plate-readers-amid-privacy-concerns/B2hy9UIzC7KzebnGyQ0JNM/story.html
Replying to myself, I don't have a Facebook account, but I am still on LiveJournal. Not sure what that makes me...
A Luddite?
I'm not sure I like your tone.
You have a problem with his skin color?
And they "help to warehouses more efficient" as well!
...and help to warehouses more efficient by bringing the product shelves to the workers...
Do the "editors" actually read the summaries? I get this feeling that most of the new Slashdot "editors" where hired through Dice.com... Not a good sign.
Can I at least ask for some other numbers, such as the number of bird kills resulting from pollutants dumped out by the big coal fired plants in Ohio?
So, one wrong makes another OK? That there are other preventable sources of eagle kills, it's OK for wind?
A better way to promote programming to kids:
https://www.google.com/search?q=booth+babes&source=lnms&tbm=isch
I've just finished reading the claims and scanning the description and found no part of it that should be patentable...
You are, of course, a professional in the field of statistics and modeling? Marketing perhaps? You are maybe a patent lawyer?
No?
You're just some arm-chair pontificater?
I thought so.
Also note that the patent names the required activities only (mostly it just lists potential sources of data); it does not explain the methods or mechanisms used to perform those activities.
Complete bullshit. The "Detailed Description" goes way beyond what you suggest.
Certainly such a patent is asinine, but your over-simplistic "argument" - such that it is - does not address any of the issues and in fact is the standard type of argument from people that have no clue as to how to read a patent.
This is just another case of adding "... on a computer" or "... over wifi" to something that's already an established practice to gain a patent.
They are not patenting the concept, they are patenting a specific algorithm.
Apparently the FDA is about protecting what goes in your eyes than what goes in you mouth?
No, the FDA is about protecting the "rights" of doctors and insurance companies to make obscene amounts of money.
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian?
The House has got it spot on. Now for the Senate and President.
It's pretty much a fact that the Dems (of which I have been a lifelong member) both own the Senate, and are owned by many of the people (universities, high tech, and so on) that value patents.
The Senate will not pass this, and what a shame.
If you believed in your words, you would not have posted them as Anonymous Coward.
Please provide a reference to your screed.
There is *NO* other evidence that this event took place *except* the blog post.
I can write a blog TODAY that says anything I want/
Coming to the US is a privilege, not a right. As well, a "blog" post, when there is no other substantiation, is not a reliable source.
It is not surprising that the current set of /. bloggists, who live at Dad's house or at the least soak of dad's American Express, hype up unsubstantiated shit like this.
Evidence provided by a blog. The most reliable kind.
I suspect this could be true, but a random blog post really is not "evidence".
If the private sector wants to compete, let it compete: in the private sector. Leave government work for the government.
Are you suggesting that Boeing and Lockheed are government agencies?
I can tell you definitively that in my discipline, physical oceanography, it is uncommon to save the basic data from an experiment. Once the PI of an experiment has written a paper or two and perhaps passed some data and a problem to a grad student, he loses interest and goes on to the next experiment. A few people archive basic data, but interest in such archives is slight. There are a few archives of current meter data like mine, and some archived hydrographic data. These archives are created when money (always hard to find) is made available. Places like WHOI keep the data from some experiments online, though I think it is rare for anyone to look at it after the first few years. NODC, which is tasked to preserve oceanographic data, does so but keeps it in a form that often is almost impossible to decypher. They just put it online in whatever form the experimenter provides it to them; often he is the only one who knows what a given column of numbers means.
Anyway,its nice to have the convenience of letting my dog poop in my own yard.
And apparently you also think it's OK to let your dog poop on a communal yard. Your neighbors probably disagree.
The lawn at my apartment is for all the residents to enjoy, not just the dog owners.
How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control?
You give it up with a smile and don't, or you hire lawyers.
Touché, I say (turning toward you while discharging a full, er, stream...
Well, I didn't see any ${BADTHING}s ...
Ah yes, pseudocode. You can't argue with that!