1] The disclosure lists the inventors, but does not list an assignee. That means that the inventors own the patent, not the US Navy. You are being befuddled by the name of the place these guys work. Try doing a USPTO search with Microsoft as assignee to see what a patent looks like when the inventors don't own the patent rights.
2] It's not a patent for *THE* firewall, which everyone already knows about. It's for partitioning a trusted network, which means that the network itself can be certified as a C2 or B1 secure network. Try looking up operating systems which support those kinds of security - they've been around since the 80's.
A commonly held belief which is not true.
It is so not true that the FAA has a "sterile cockpit" rule, whereby pilots in the cockpit are only allowed to communicate in an official manner (such as: "flaps down") and are strictly forbidden from shooting the shit. Casual conversations in the cockpit have been known to be highly distracting, as they have caused a number of commercial fatal accidents.
Driver problem. I've used 2 different versions of Premier on 3 different Windows PCs. Over the course of hundreds of hours of use, it's never crashed. Not once.
I have seen people have problems who put in third party hardware boards and drivers (like Canopus). Not a problem with the PC, Windows, or Premier.
If you live in a major city, DSL and cable modems are options. If you live in a small city you can generally get a cable modem, but not everyone can get DSL. If you live in a small town you can't get DSL and you might not be able to get a cable modem. If you live in a rural area you cannot get DSL and you cannot get a cable modem - you're generally stuck with dialup unless you live in an area that offers longrange 802.11. When you're stuck with dialup you want to minimize your phone charges. AOL has more dialup locations than other dialup services. The other services may be $10 less a month than AOL, but the associated phone charges could be $20 more a month than AOL - which is easy if your dialup node is a long distance charge.
Call it what you like, but these silly fads are making Slashdot look like a Web 1.0 dinosaur. There was a day when Slashdot was the place to go to find out what was new with the web, or to find cutting-edge tech stories. Slashdot relies on a army of dedicated users to find news, but then the articles are left to the mercy of small band of administrators who may not see the value of a particular breaking story.
Now there are tools that sit on top of del.icio.us that aggregate bookmarks by popularity and time, allowing you to discover new stories as they happen. These days most of the articles I see posted to Slashdot are old news that I read days ago. Unless Slashdot starts adopting some of the Web 2.0 techniques, the site will soon find itself as relevant as USENET.
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America hostage Jill Carroll hurts Google stock.
New bin Laden message drops Google stock.
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H1-B's are predominately hired into entry-level positions, and as such their salaries should be expected to be lower than the average. Most of them are college freshouts who just completed a degree in the US, and have exhausted their student visas. They are paid the same as other new hires that are college freshouts. Trying to say that H1B's make less money than the average engineer is like saying a newly hired freshout makes less money than the average engineer. Duh.
If you've ever been involved in hiring an H1B visa person, you know that you must fill out government paperwork documenting the salaries of staff in equivalent positions. The starting salary of that H1B cannot be less than those workers.
In the real world you get a stack of 300 resumes. You pick out the top 30. You bring them in for interviews. By law, you're not allowed to ask what kind of visa they might be on, only if they can legally work in the US. You send out job offers to the best candidates. You then find out your top 3 choices need H1B's. You either pursue them or settle for the lesser qualified candidates. If you have the budget (it costs me more to hire an H1B) and your company hasn't exhausted its H1B quota, you go for the more qualified H1B candidate. Otherwise you settle for a lesser candidate.
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1] The disclosure lists the inventors, but does not list an assignee. That means that the inventors own the patent, not the US Navy. You are being befuddled by the name of the place these guys work. Try doing a USPTO search with Microsoft as assignee to see what a patent looks like when the inventors don't own the patent rights.
2] It's not a patent for *THE* firewall, which everyone already knows about. It's for partitioning a trusted network, which means that the network itself can be certified as a C2 or B1 secure network. Try looking up operating systems which support those kinds of security - they've been around since the 80's.
A commonly held belief which is not true. It is so not true that the FAA has a "sterile cockpit" rule, whereby pilots in the cockpit are only allowed to communicate in an official manner (such as: "flaps down") and are strictly forbidden from shooting the shit. Casual conversations in the cockpit have been known to be highly distracting, as they have caused a number of commercial fatal accidents.
Driver problem. I've used 2 different versions of Premier on 3 different Windows PCs. Over the course of hundreds of hours of use, it's never crashed. Not once. I have seen people have problems who put in third party hardware boards and drivers (like Canopus). Not a problem with the PC, Windows, or Premier.
Sometimes AOL is the cheapest service to use.
Now there are tools that sit on top of del.icio.us that aggregate bookmarks by popularity and time, allowing you to discover new stories as they happen. These days most of the articles I see posted to Slashdot are old news that I read days ago. Unless Slashdot starts adopting some of the Web 2.0 techniques, the site will soon find itself as relevant as USENET.
H1-B's are predominately hired into entry-level positions, and as such their salaries should be expected to be lower than the average. Most of them are college freshouts who just completed a degree in the US, and have exhausted their student visas. They are paid the same as other new hires that are college freshouts. Trying to say that H1B's make less money than the average engineer is like saying a newly hired freshout makes less money than the average engineer. Duh. If you've ever been involved in hiring an H1B visa person, you know that you must fill out government paperwork documenting the salaries of staff in equivalent positions. The starting salary of that H1B cannot be less than those workers. In the real world you get a stack of 300 resumes. You pick out the top 30. You bring them in for interviews. By law, you're not allowed to ask what kind of visa they might be on, only if they can legally work in the US. You send out job offers to the best candidates. You then find out your top 3 choices need H1B's. You either pursue them or settle for the lesser qualified candidates. If you have the budget (it costs me more to hire an H1B) and your company hasn't exhausted its H1B quota, you go for the more qualified H1B candidate. Otherwise you settle for a lesser candidate.