Spammers and the seedy underbelly of programming have grid computing all figured out. Why is it taking the "legitimate" computing world so long? Look at how successful the spyware/malware networks are at building a "grid" of zombie PC's and harnessing their combined resources for spam, DDOS attacks, etc.
Somebody please analyze what the malware world is doing, and share it with the grid computing gurus. The technology can't be THAT different, can it?
Quick! Something is endangered! Protect it! Lets make lawyering illegal so Napster 1.0 can survive! Lets form a commission to study the effects on the world without HDTV tuner cards to provide visual entertainment to the disenfranchised masses who only have a PC and no HDTV console. Preserve the card's native habitat... legislate that all hardware currently with HDTV tuners installed can never be powered off and must have govt-supplied UPS systems!
During the election the "so called liberal media" was very quick to point out anything Bush said or didthat was remotely questionable (even ignoring the CBS fiasco).
Why would they not be so quick to do the same thing at the time he made this statement?
The media has no qualms with speaking badly about the President.
In any case, Its not lying if you are making statements based on the best information you have at the time. Also remember, WMD were one small piece of the reasoning for going into Iraq. The MAIN reason was enforcing the buku previous UN resolutions that had been ignored.
The US is always the teeth of the UN, whether the UN asks us to go in as a puppet, or whether we take it upon ourselves.
It doesn't have to be a database. The GPS could log "last mileage" into the car's computer. If you don't want to track history, just sotre the last mileage, and not the fill-up history.
If municipalities insisted cable could be laid under the condition a cable company will sell, at a reasonable price, bandwidth on their cable to competitors, would we be paying such huge prices?
Yes. That is happening now with telephone service. The extra charge in our area is coded as a "Universal Service Fee" or "Federal Regulation Fee" or some-such wording to make it look like a tax, when it is really a phone company charge to compensate for being forced to sell signal on their own lines to their competition.
IANAL - but I read/skimmed through the patent as much as I could decipher the doublespeak, and the description of a computer, etc. Not knowing about patent law or prior art, I have to say this looks like a patentable idea. The patent is describing a very specific problem, and an implementation for its solution. Some of the aspects, like the base-30 character selection, are thoughtful enough to not be obvious, IMO.
The headline is misleading, becuase they are not patenting lat/lon, just one method of representing it in a URL.
I do think there are a number of holes in it. For example, claiming a patent on the method of concatenating 2 strings together just because they generated those strings creatively to represent coordinates.
Wrapping up, I think the patent is valid, but is a mix of patentable and non-patentable statements. It is at least an interesting algorithm to study.
Thanks for clarifying since I didn't RTFA. Your first post did read that the 97% came from the article, so I didn't mean to sound like you came up with the stat.
I'll wager 10:1 the "hacker" breaching the system was the RIAA bot searching for P2P software and mp3's on the server.
Originally I started thinking of this post as a joke, THEN I started thinking... what if the FBI really DID have a server with a collection of confiscated mp3's being held as "evidence" for "review" by agents at their convenience? And what if RIAA really did have such as hack-bot programmed and authorized to shutdown P2P systems?
The trouble was (and the key difference in their decline, IMHO) Altavista, Excite, Yahoo, and the other search engines of the time all became to portal-ish, with too much other fluff.
I switched to google because they kept it simple. An engine. A list of results. Minimal clutter. For the most part they have kept it simple, putting any new features as separate links, so I don't have to worry about those features until I want to use them.
My Blackberry gives all this. (granted, it is the companies blackberry, so part of its usefulness is due to Blackberry server tying into Exchange, etc) pr0n would be avoided on the company's nickel.
And people who do know (pro) audio will tell you not to look at Radio Shack or BOSE as a rule of thumb.
I have to agree it is gross overkill to spend $hundreds per channel for the equivalent of professional stage wireless systems if you are going to be sending mp3's over them.
You can literally practice until your fingers bleed (and it doesn't take that long) until you develop calouses. ( a natural solution to the problem. )
Should guitar lessons be outlawed?
Have we just not endured the Blackberry long enough for nature to develop a solution to the problem?
Here in Central OH SBC took over AT&T, rates stayed about the same for a while, then started creeping up. I got a better deal from Sprint and jumped. No regrets.
For my area, this is old news.
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Somebody please analyze what the malware world is doing, and share it with the grid computing gurus. The technology can't be THAT different, can it?
When can I order My Veritech VF-1?
Quick! Something is endangered! Protect it! Lets make lawyering illegal so Napster 1.0 can survive! Lets form a commission to study the effects on the world without HDTV tuner cards to provide visual entertainment to the disenfranchised masses who only have a PC and no HDTV console. Preserve the card's native habitat... legislate that all hardware currently with HDTV tuners installed can never be powered off and must have govt-supplied UPS systems!
During the election the "so called liberal media" was very quick to point out anything Bush said or didthat was remotely questionable (even ignoring the CBS fiasco). Why would they not be so quick to do the same thing at the time he made this statement? The media has no qualms with speaking badly about the President. In any case, Its not lying if you are making statements based on the best information you have at the time. Also remember, WMD were one small piece of the reasoning for going into Iraq. The MAIN reason was enforcing the buku previous UN resolutions that had been ignored. The US is always the teeth of the UN, whether the UN asks us to go in as a puppet, or whether we take it upon ourselves.
next story, move along.
So you don't get taxed for non-CA driving.
It doesn't have to be a database. The GPS could log "last mileage" into the car's computer. If you don't want to track history, just sotre the last mileage, and not the fill-up history.
Yes. That is happening now with telephone service. The extra charge in our area is coded as a "Universal Service Fee" or "Federal Regulation Fee" or some-such wording to make it look like a tax, when it is really a phone company charge to compensate for being forced to sell signal on their own lines to their competition.
I want a processor that goes to 11!
The headline is misleading, becuase they are not patenting lat/lon, just one method of representing it in a URL.
I do think there are a number of holes in it. For example, claiming a patent on the method of concatenating 2 strings together just because they generated those strings creatively to represent coordinates.
Wrapping up, I think the patent is valid, but is a mix of patentable and non-patentable statements. It is at least an interesting algorithm to study.
Thanks for clarifying since I didn't RTFA. Your first post did read that the 97% came from the article, so I didn't mean to sound like you came up with the stat.
Games and enterprise business apps are under 3% of the software? I smell a statistic pulled from someone's backside.
Originally I started thinking of this post as a joke, THEN I started thinking... what if the FBI really DID have a server with a collection of confiscated mp3's being held as "evidence" for "review" by agents at their convenience? And what if RIAA really did have such as hack-bot programmed and authorized to shutdown P2P systems?
Food for thought.
I switched to google because they kept it simple. An engine. A list of results. Minimal clutter. For the most part they have kept it simple, putting any new features as separate links, so I don't have to worry about those features until I want to use them.
...how much does business increase or decrease when the moderators post an ad^H^Harticle on slashdot?
"Yick"
"Why Bank?"
I didn't read the article, and will continue to use Ctrl-F to search within the context of my current web page. No Yahoo required.
Message in the sky:
"The WMD's are right HERE!"
My Blackberry gives all this. (granted, it is the companies blackberry, so part of its usefulness is due to Blackberry server tying into Exchange, etc) pr0n would be avoided on the company's nickel.
This past election certainly showed how well THAT worked. :|
I have to agree it is gross overkill to spend $hundreds per channel for the equivalent of professional stage wireless systems if you are going to be sending mp3's over them.
On second thought, it'll never catch on. Too much research involved in research.
You can literally practice until your fingers bleed (and it doesn't take that long) until you develop calouses. ( a natural solution to the problem. ) Should guitar lessons be outlawed? Have we just not endured the Blackberry long enough for nature to develop a solution to the problem?
Where's a mod point when I need one?
I thought it already had.
Here in Central OH SBC took over AT&T, rates stayed about the same for a while, then started creeping up. I got a better deal from Sprint and jumped. No regrets. For my area, this is old news.