Generating a (generally) fixed representation document in electronic format that matches almost exactly what will be printed, still preserves searchable text, and uses an Open Standard is now a problem?
The Federal government is almost exclusively Microsoft office product dominated. Should publishing the.doc file be preferable? or MS's 'save as HTML' format? I believe Google has adequately demonstrated that PDF is easily searchable/indexable. Conversion software is free. (Ghostscript/viewer is installed by default on many government PC's). I'd say, stick with it.
programs are mathematical constructs. you can't patent math. some people claim it's a unique document more appropriate for copyright, not patenting. Of course, we have 'process patents'. Programs are a mathematical description of a process or set of instructions followed by a machine to perform a task. The process can get quite complex, but it is still a finite state process. So people claim that they're patentable. And the debate goes round and round.
"If they were to balance effort and reward, they might actually have to (for instance) pay overtime to the programmers who put in 80-hour weeks to meet the deadline..."
Factual Background. 12. Since at least 2002, the United States government has used unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct “targeted killings” overseas. Many of the drone strikes have taken place on bona fide battlefields—for example, in Afghanistan. In 2002, however, the U.S. conducted a drone strike in Yemen that killed several individuals including a U.S. citizen. According to news reports, the frequency of drone strikes has increased significantly over the last few years, and in particular in the last year.
actually, FOUO only covers a narrow set of conditions, and are generally privacy related. Medical records, active legal proceedings, corporate trade secrets, etc., that should be excluded from FOIA disclosure. Of course, recently this has been broadened (#1 especially)
(1)(A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an
Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national
defense or foreign policy and (B) are in fact properly classified
pursuant to such Executive order;
(2) related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices
of an agency;
(3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than
section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires
that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to
leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular
criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to
be withheld;
(4) trade secrets and commercial or financial information
obtained from a person and privileged or confidential;
(5) inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which
would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in
litigation with the agency;
(6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure
of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy;
(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement
purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law
enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected
to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a
person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication, (C)
could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose
the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local, or
foreign agency or authority or any private institution which
furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a
record or information compiled by criminal law enforcement authority
in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting
a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information
furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques
and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions,
or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement
A wire is a real-time method of transferring immediate funds and supporting information between two financial institutions and is relatively expensive to use. An ACH is similar to a wire transfer only it uses a batch- process. Transactions received by the bank during the day are stored and processed later in batches and normally do not become available to a beneficiary until the next day. ACH transfers are less expensive than wire transfers."
So, you're getting a factor of 2-10x in weight savings. Tell that to a aerospace designer and he'll make it work. It's also a cheap material (well, feedstock's cheap. and normal PE is cheap, especially relative to copper these days). Who knows how expensive this stuff might be if they can make more than single fibers.
Just for argument's sake, the jury is still out on 'thermal rectification'. The key is just that you can't ignore certain parts of entropy generation that will exist in such a device. Here's an abstract link from a young professor at UC-Riverside, currently getting a DARPA Young Investigator Award.
'hundreds of attacks a day'. What's an attack? is a port scan an attack? Is a botnet sending a virus payload in an email attachement an attack? How many of those 'attacks' are commercially driven, versus militarily driven? Likely we're dealing with standard internet 'crime' not 'attacks'. Wouldn't be surprised if 95% of what he called attacks involved the word V1AgArA.
Since these are scientists, I assume that Google Scholar is the thing they'd miss most. Before, you had to subscribe to indexing services (Ovid, Web of Science, etc.) to get access to searchable abstracts, reference spidering, etc. Then, you'd find the article of interest and go to the publisher site to see your options for obtaining the article. Now, I can Google Scholar >95% of the technical literature I'm interested in, I'm shown the multiple versions of a file, some of which might be available for free, I can search a very broad range of topics through a single portal, and it'll take me to the publisher site if that's what's needed.
Can't beat it. Nobody else has anything close for free.
after discovery of infringement (maybe a couple years after the event), they could have attempted to come to an agreement with both entities. Negotiation might have broken down and now the patent holder's last recourse is an infringement suit.
Wouldn't be the first time that series of events occurred, especially when multiple patent-lawyer-loaded parties are involved, and it would create a legitimate delay before filing suit.
Be interesting to see what the details actually were, however.
Slashdot Mirror
somewhat relevant xkcd:
Exploits of a Mom
http://xkcd.com/327/
decompile. how hard could it be.
Aren't most printed documents meant for reading?
Generating a (generally) fixed representation document in electronic format that matches almost exactly what will be printed, still preserves searchable text, and uses an Open Standard is now a problem?
The Federal government is almost exclusively Microsoft office product dominated. Should publishing the .doc file be preferable? or MS's 'save as HTML' format? I believe Google has adequately demonstrated that PDF is easily searchable/indexable. Conversion software is free. (Ghostscript/viewer is installed by default on many government PC's). I'd say, stick with it.
Successful compromise results in both parties leaving the table unhappy. I think what we have here is a VERY successful compromise.
there is a Simple article about the problem, though:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_Conjecture
still waiting for the simple.wikipedia.org article to fill me in.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_of_the_Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture
"Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this name."
programs are mathematical constructs. you can't patent math. some people claim it's a unique document more appropriate for copyright, not patenting. Of course, we have 'process patents'. Programs are a mathematical description of a process or set of instructions followed by a machine to perform a task. The process can get quite complex, but it is still a finite state process. So people claim that they're patentable. And the debate goes round and round.
"If they were to balance effort and reward, they might actually have to (for instance) pay overtime to the programmers who put in 80-hour weeks to meet the deadline..."
supply and demand sucks, huh?
hey, lots of kids grind their way through college. It pays better than the tips they get from spinning around the pole.
from the actual filing:
Factual Background.
12. Since at least 2002, the United States government has used unmanned
aerial vehicles to conduct “targeted killings” overseas. Many of the drone strikes have
taken place on bona fide battlefields—for example, in Afghanistan. In 2002, however,
the U.S. conducted a drone strike in Yemen that killed several individuals including a
U.S. citizen. According to news reports, the frequency of drone strikes has increased
significantly over the last few years, and in particular in the last year.
actually, FOUO only covers a narrow set of conditions, and are generally privacy related. Medical records, active legal proceedings, corporate trade secrets, etc., that should be excluded from FOIA disclosure. Of course, recently this has been broadened (#1 especially)
Specifically, from
United States Code, Title 5 , Section 552
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+5USC552
(1)(A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an
Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national
defense or foreign policy and (B) are in fact properly classified
pursuant to such Executive order;
(2) related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices
of an agency;
(3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than
section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires
that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to
leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular
criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to
be withheld;
(4) trade secrets and commercial or financial information
obtained from a person and privileged or confidential;
(5) inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which
would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in
litigation with the agency;
(6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure
of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy;
(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement
purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law
enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected
to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a
person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication, (C)
could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose
the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local, or
foreign agency or authority or any private institution which
furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a
record or information compiled by criminal law enforcement authority
in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting
a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information
furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques
and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions,
or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement
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investigations or prosecutions if such d
come on. It CLEARLY states that "An anonymous reader" wrote that summary.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_wire_transfer_and_an_automated_clearing_house
" Answer:
A wire is a real-time method of transferring immediate funds and supporting information between two financial institutions and is relatively expensive to use. An ACH is similar to a wire transfer only it uses a batch- process. Transactions received by the bank during the day are stored and processed later in batches and normally do not become available to a beneficiary until the next day. ACH transfers are less expensive than wire transfers."
the point of a bendable book is so you can turn the pages. how many pages do you think your e-ink book needs?
don't forget the rest, though:
Density:
copper: 8.96g/cm3
aluminum: 2.7 g/cm3
silicon: 2.33 g/cm3
AluminumNitride (high thermal conductivity insulating ceramic, k~160to190W/mK): 3.33g/cm3
LDPE and HDPE: 0.92-0.97 g/cm3.
So, you're getting a factor of 2-10x in weight savings. Tell that to a aerospace designer and he'll make it work. It's also a cheap material (well, feedstock's cheap. and normal PE is cheap, especially relative to copper these days). Who knows how expensive this stuff might be if they can make more than single fibers.
Just for argument's sake, the jury is still out on 'thermal rectification'. The key is just that you can't ignore certain parts of entropy generation that will exist in such a device. Here's an abstract link from a young professor at UC-Riverside, currently getting a DARPA Young Investigator Award.
Solid-State Thermal Rectification With Existing Bulk Materials
http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3089552
As long as the system results in a net entropy increase, some versions of the theory say its possible.
from scratch? this might take a while.
'hundreds of attacks a day'. What's an attack? is a port scan an attack? Is a botnet sending a virus payload in an email attachement an attack? How many of those 'attacks' are commercially driven, versus militarily driven? Likely we're dealing with standard internet 'crime' not 'attacks'. Wouldn't be surprised if 95% of what he called attacks involved the word V1AgArA.
possibly a lot of funding for the civil side (FBI) but not for the military side. Hence the power struggle over definitions.
and Blinky text! We all miss the blinky text!
Since these are scientists, I assume that Google Scholar is the thing they'd miss most. Before, you had to subscribe to indexing services (Ovid, Web of Science, etc.) to get access to searchable abstracts, reference spidering, etc. Then, you'd find the article of interest and go to the publisher site to see your options for obtaining the article. Now, I can Google Scholar >95% of the technical literature I'm interested in, I'm shown the multiple versions of a file, some of which might be available for free, I can search a very broad range of topics through a single portal, and it'll take me to the publisher site if that's what's needed.
Can't beat it. Nobody else has anything close for free.
no, we're allowed to demand a higher salary while we're at it.
after discovery of infringement (maybe a couple years after the event), they could have attempted to come to an agreement with both entities. Negotiation might have broken down and now the patent holder's last recourse is an infringement suit.
Wouldn't be the first time that series of events occurred, especially when multiple patent-lawyer-loaded parties are involved, and it would create a legitimate delay before filing suit.
Be interesting to see what the details actually were, however.
buzz kill. pay no attention to the rack sized power supply behind the curtain.
Single stream FTW!