Another piece of the puzzle is constricted transmission capacity. There is a complex relationship between the summer consumption of power in California and generation in the Northwest from spring/summer hydro. The capacity between California and the NW has always been a choke point. Recent expansion of wind generation has caused situations where there is more power available than can e used in the NW nor transported to other regions.Admittedly, this can be solved by just adding more transmission capacity but sometimes a little storage that can even out the peaks can even things out at a lower cost. BTW, California and Washington have some of the larger pumped storage facilities on the planet already.
I would argue that far too often in the world the system is rigged or cheated. We are no where near an egalitarian world. People too often lie cheat and steal and use unfair advantage against one another. I'n my world I see far too may people who come from extreme privilege crow about how they are self made and complain about other they call "losers" who aren't as prosperous as themselves as being parasites. Spend a little time with those who are still striving you might develop a little empathy and start to see that they are working twice as hard as you do and getting a fraction as much for their hard work. With a stacked deck, calling those who don't win a loser is disparaging the honest person.
There are several separate problems here. The most basic question is how many hours per person is need to achieve a given level of average material comfort. A simple measure is how many hours per person is spent in farming to keep us fed. Since industrialization this has dropped substantially. Same for making a ton of steel, etc. Nothing wrong with that per se. Except it leads to problem two, the distribution of goods and services. Creating an economic system that provides a fair distribution of the wealth and provides reasonable encouragement of individual contribution has been a problem that has defied effective optimal solutions. I would suggest that indeed most of our mass produced goods, cell phones to jeans are capable of being produced in "dark" automated factories at trivial long cost. The capital investment to do this will drive to even more standardized parts so those jeans may someday only cost $3, but will only come in one style. Sure you will need more robotics and manufacturing engineers, but millions of sweatshop workers will be unemployed in a traditional economy. While we will have the capacity to meet everybody's material needs ho will those goods get distributed if most of the world lacks jobs? Do you let people starve and thus starve the capitalist of customers? Do we start shrinking the human population due to lower birth rates as has started in some industrial countries? Do you divert folks from the work force such as sending them for schooling? Does the service economy grow: how many hair cuts can the world use? Do we grow the government sector (this really help even out the business cycles)? Do we just grow the dole queues? Does the dominance of standardized products create a new demand for unique items that drives a massive itsy like market for handmade custom product: will people pay $1000 for a custom handmade belt buckle to go with their standard issue $3 jeans (if you could make and sell two of those handmade custom belt buckles a week you could have a good living)? Is there some Utopian Star Trek solution just waiting to be invented or implemented?
The report really knocks the value of GMOs as begin completely over blown and of little value. Further, the report points to many unresolved ares of substantial risk.
As of now, these systems are little than remote manipulator with some macro and filtering. The filtering is to reduce human twitches and the macros are simple "bend left, push then twist" type replay of recorded actions that athletes would call muscle memory. Deciding if, what or where to cut is not on the horizon for robots. The greatest advantage to robots is letting the surgeon sit in a low fatigue chair and make a tiny incision the the business end of the machine goes into leaving minimal damage to get to the site of interest.
There is a strong argument that the best person to be the cutter is not the MD, but a technician with really good hands. Sure, some MDs have great hands, but not all. Understanding and decision making is what medical practice is all about. Frankly, many dentist have better hands than surgeons and many old school finish carpenters could probably be quickly trained to do better craftwork on bone than many orthopedic surgeon. Google some joint replacement x-ray images and you will quickly see work that I would fire any carpenter that worked on my treehouse. Same story in engineering. Some EEs can solder, but many just make a hash out of it.
Why does it seem that the HR department at nuc plants uses Matt Groaning to screen applicants?
"And thank you most of all for nuclear power, which is yet to cause a single proven fatality, at least in this country."
"Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button."
"And Lord, we are especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is. Except for solar, which is just a pipe dream."
"Yeah, you know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons."
--Homer Simpson
Bart: Dad, wake up. [Homer was sleeping at nuclear plant.]
Homer: I'm awake. I'm awake. I'm protected member of the team. You can't fire me, I quit! Please, I have a family.
[One lazy afternoon at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer is asleep at his workstation and a dog is sleeping on the floor next to his chair. In his sleep, Homer slumps over, falling onto a button labeled "Plant Destruct" and triggering an alarm.]
Computer Voice: "Core meltdown in ten seconds... nine... eight..."
[The dog wakes up, walks to the console, and pulls a lever. The alarm and the countdown stop.]
Computer Voice: "Meltdown averted. Good boy!"
[Later that same lazy afternoon, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission arrive at the power plant in their van. A woman inspector presses the buzzer at the front door.]
Mr. Burns [on intercom]: "What? How dare you disturb me during nap time!"
Woman Inspector: "We're from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This is a surprise test of worker competence."
Mr. Burns: "There must be some mistake. We, uhh, we make cookies here. Mr. BurnsOld-Fashioned Good-Time Extra-Chewy-"
Man Inspector: [cutting Burns off] "Get the axe."
[Now in college, Homer interrupts the Nuclear Physics Professor's lecture.]
Homer: "Uhh, excuse me, Professor Brainiac, but I worked in a nuclear power plant for ten years and I think I know how a proton accelerator works."
Professor: "Well, please come down and show us."
Homer: "All right, I will."
[The scene shifts to students screaming and fleeing the building while a green radiation glow fills the windows. Homer casually walks out just as two technicians in radiation suits are walking in.]
Homer: [gesturing over shoulder] "In there, guys."
Technicians: "Thanks, Homer."
If you are selling a medical device then yes the bar is very high, but do you need to sell this as a medical device. Walking is often prescribed to prevent heart disease, yet shoes are not regulated as a medical device. For that matter, you can buy heat rate monitors for exercise monitoring at the drug store that are not medical devices as far as the FDA is concerned. As long as you do not claim to treat or diagnose a medical condition you can sell your device with out any FDA approval. You might even be able to advertise it in diabetes magazines as long as you make absolutely no claims to diagnose or treat a disease. Don't even do a wink wink, nudge nudge suggestion in any advertising or manual. Expect the $12k device make to whine to the FDA so you would have to be squeaky clean. Sure, it will not get covered under insurance, but at such a lower cost that should not matter. Just describe it as an activity monitor like a fit bit (another non-medical fitness device). You also open up other non-diabetic markets such as where fit bit is in. Sounds like you have an interesting kick start project...
You will find that the analog front end for designing an EEG is non-trivial. Humans are a very low impedance source with a very poor signal to noise ratio due to cable, electrode, muscle and other subject generated noise that swamps the signal. Large sacks of electrolytes make great antennas for 50/60 Hz pick-up too. Add in the ability to survive a defibrillator hit of a life-safety device and the analog front end become very interesting. That said, TI has an entire analog front end for ECG that handles many of the thornier challenges including actively driving the leg electrode.
Can Apple really push an OS update to a locked phone and then force an update? Is the data stored in a separate flash chip from the processor? If so, then the problem is just attaching to the SPI port, reading out the crypto text the decrypting it. Decryption is a much less problematic issue for a NSA server farms loaded with custom hardware than it is for most of us. Who needs keys when you can afford brute force? If they can physically gain access to even the crypto text, as I assume that they can, then could this may all be theater to disguise their existing access? They must already have access to the users call records, emails and social media, so what is so interesting that is left on the phone? If this order stands I pity Apple as every lawyer in an employment dispute, car wreck or divorce will show up in Cupertino with a writ demanding the same service.
If you want to grow the economy in your town simply raise taxes and improve services, especially schools. Better schools, roads, concert halls, etc attracts those who are willing/able to pay more for those amenities. These tend to be those who can drive an economy due to higher incomes. This is not new: kids have been leaving the farm for opportunities/higher wages in the city for centuries. Now the economy is a broad thing and how that effects individuals is very uneven. If you have less competitive skills, i.e., education, you will likely be left behind and the rising cost of living will force you out. We definitely do need to educate everyone so that they can make a respectable living. We also need to compensate equitably those who do important work such as teachers so that they can afford to live in the communities that employ them. If you want to tank your local economy just cut taxes/services and all those who are wiling/able to make higher incomes will flee the area for someplace nice. If you cut taxes, sure you may get a few bottom feeder call centers or manufactures move in for a few years until they leave the country, but you are in a race to bankruptcy. Look at Wisconsin and Michigan that are very low services states while California and Washington are higher services states. Where would you make a long term investment in real-estate: Flint/Milwaukie or San Jose/Seattle?
The militias defined in the constitution are controlled by the federal government. There is no right to self organize an army or rebel anywhere in the constitution. In article 1 section 8 th power of congress include:
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
and in Article 2 section 2 the powers of the President include:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Read the the document folks before professing what you've been miss told what it says. The militias were added in the constitution to help repel invasions and to put down insurrections. Somehow, I just don't see these clowns taking orders from their Governor or our President.
Koreantoast, Militia was the first word so it was properly capitalized, but these are really lower case militia. Perhaps, even better labeled as wannabe war lords. Far too many of us have forgotten the intent and history of the term militia in the constitution. The intent of the 2nd amendment and Militia was driven by peoples fear of a weak federal government that could not protect them from insurrections because of the scare from Shay's rebellion. In the case of Shay's the post revolution federal continental government refused to open the federal armories so that the sate Militias could respond to an upstate New England insurrection. The armories were filled with weapons from the revolution that were paid for by the "national" government, but often ended up in the hands of the local units at the close of hostilities so not having access to what the local's saw as their arms was a sore point. At any rate, the anemic response of the national government tightened many such as Hamilton and Madison and was one of the motivators of the constitutional convention. You can see the car intent of the writers of the second amendment and militia clause in the Federalist Papers, especially #29. Hamilton does go on a fair bit on the importance of federal control of the Militia, that it be well regulated and by well regulated he means well trained and under tight federal control to prevent war between the states. Chaos from a weak central government was a big concern in the nascent US - the thought of federal tyranny would have seemed laughable at the time. There has been massive revisionist history of the early republic to fit modern agendas.
If you want to see the first application of the Militia and 2nd amendment read about the Whiskey Rebellion. When some local hot heads ruffed up a federal official and take over his office, George Washington federalized 13,000 members of the state militia
and using the leverage of the 2nd amendment forced the states to open their armories to equip the force. Washington lead the force, the only President to lead an army into battle, and rounded up the remaining 20 hot heads where were too dumb to go home when he arrived. By the way, even though Washington praised the militia publicly, he complained bitterly in private letters to members of congress that they were useless and undisciplined rabble.
Interestingly for recent event, Article IV, Section 4 speaks to the fact that the federal government had no choice, but to act as: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence." And the Oregon Governor did call for federal action. So, take home lesson:
US Militia == federally run arm of internal repression,
2nd amendment == state's rights to store arms for the feds under the rules the feds make.
Federal government must suppression rebellion.
On the technical side I ask basic questions. I put up a list of numbers on the whiteboard and ask them to write a function to sort them in ascending order. For example, 1, 5, -13, 2.5. I'm make it clear I don't care if they remember a particular sorting algorithm. Frank, I feel it is more meaningful if they mumble an apology about not remembering quick sort and accomplish it anyway. I just want to see if they can do a basic task than any programmer doing the type of work I do must be able to do. Some create a detailed compliable function and others write a pseudo code fragment. Either is fine, but I do ask everyone to review the code for correctness and completeness to make it check-in ready. You would think that every high school kid could do this, but you would be surprised at how many experienced programmers can't do this. This does not show if you are creative or smart. It only tells me that you have spent time writing code.
For softer skills I just chat about their past work and work environments. Honestly, the worst interviewer I had for soft skills turned out to be my best hire so it is at best it is a gamble and anybody who says otherwise is fooling themselves.
Shape Memory Alloy are a Nickel Titainium alloy often called muscle wire because by changing its crystal structure it gets shorter when heated or an electric current runs through it. While very different in how it works from a polymer, Shape Memory Alloy has had similar uses including heart stints, explosive bolt replacements on spacecraft, toys and heating air vent controls. Biggest down side to it is it tends to be a bit slow so it is more sloth muscle than jackrabbit muscle.
Yes, body cameras are a tools for handling over reaching or abusive police activity. If the information is not handled correctly cameras will also have a chilling effect on privacy and our lives. No-knock raids aside, police are often involved in non-criminal issues. Imagine if your teenage child has a yelling incident that adolescents are prone and the neighbors hearing an unusual ruckes next door call the cops - just be be safe. Cops show up to investigate and this teen ager is yelling and crying and generally being an idiot. Sure they calm down when they likely see a cop, but that scene is caught on tape. Imagine a few years latter applying to college and this is out in the net in an easily searchable form or 20 years latter applying for a job? A middle school teacher would not think twice about the scene, but imagine inviting a cop in to report a vandalized car while caring for an alzheimer's parent and some interaction is caught out of context that then make the rounds at work. Balancing these competing needs of openness and privacy is one of the emerging civil rights challenges of our day. As we have all learned that the internet is forever, have learned to not post those selfies of ourselves being overly stupid. We can edit our own posts, but how do you unpost something in the public record? The French have the concept of being able to start fresh: oblivion. In the US we used to be able to move further west and start anew. Where is the new west with the internet?
Take a deep breath. This is only an application, not a patent. YOU still have an opportunity to participate in the process. A few hundred dollars and three little words, "I claim fire." get you a useless application for fire. Very broad claims in an initial application are not unusual and are often just the starting point for negotiating with the examiner. Hopefully the examiner will push back and get them to reality. The first claim is: 1. An electronic-device-implemented method, the method comprising:
using the electronic device, generating a symmetric encryption key associated with a content item;
encrypting the content item using the symmetric encryption key;
encrypting the symmetric encryption key using a public encryption key for a recipient to generate an encrypted symmetric encryption key;
providing the encrypted symmetric encryption keys and information specifying the recipient to a synchronization computer that communicates, via a shared network, with at least one electronic device associated with the recipient; and
communicating the encrypted content item to instances of a client application executing on the at least one electronic device via secure peer-to-peer distributed sharing.
Note that every feature in a described claim must be present in your method before your method violates the patent.
If you have specific prior art you should share that information by contacting the general counsel of DropBox at (415) 986-7057 and the USPTO Commissioner of Patents at 800-786-9199. Be sure to mention the application publication US20150358297 attached to applications 62008940 & 14/448972 and provide specific prior art citations (websites, brochures, publications, patents, industry standards, etc) that the patent examiner should consider. Be polite, get to the point and don't rant.
General Counsel
DropBox, Inc.
185 Berry St #400,
San Francisco, CA 94107
and
Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Stop whining and write a letter. Seriously, if you don't participate, don't whine. Once a patent is issued it get much harder to make changes.
Indeed antennas do have a great impact on communication, but propagation includes how the signal interacts with the environment. Atmospheric absorption is very different at varying frequencies. In particular water absorption change very quickly at these frequencies. 2.4 GHz was "given away" to the unlicensed ISM bands because it is so highly absorbed by water that it was considered as useless for long range communications. This is why microwave ovens use 2.4GHz. Also scattering/back scattering and interaction with reflectors/surfaces at a given size changes with wavelength. Generally, the lower the frequency the better the range at a given power at the cost of lower bandwidth.
There are some residential routers that have existing IoT protocols such as ZigBee and Z-Wave already build in. Not used much but they do exist. I believe that Verizon was pushing this and Lowes is sell this under the label Iris. The IoT has been the fusion power of consumer products for decades - always just around the corner with the latest shiny new thing.
ah may have modes that support lots of bandwidth, but do not think for a second that you are going to get 4k video across town over 900 MHz from an arduino running from a coin cell. The bandwidth link budget will not support it. You quickly run into the thermal noise floor of silicon. At a given sensativity of your receiver: Bandwidth ~= power / distance. You will be lucky to get 100 kBPS into your backyard. How many hours will a cordless phone last with monster batteries? This is a dream for meter reading and in your house for a very limited number of bytes per hour from a coin cell device monitoring temperature or a door alarm.
Also pumped hydro energy storage is an existing utility scale option for intermitent renewables. With limited transmission capacity such as between the pacific northwest's hydro dams and California it is a great way to store energy from off peak transmission for use during peak usage.
AC, I appreciate your point of view and I.m sure you keep careful control of your Hackintosh , but but the total lack of physical security for whatever burnout bank employee who decides to take their tablet to the bar to work and forgets their device unlocked for any slimeball to empty my account scares me alot.
I sure don't want my bank account's security left open on a developer's tablet at Starbucks while they chat-up the barista. So please, if you hear about jobs where workers can have access to sensitive customer/patient information while downing shots at the bar please let us know. This business does not respect the security of my information. Working on off-line dev code from home is fine. Access to data off site is not!
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Another piece of the puzzle is constricted transmission capacity. There is a complex relationship between the summer consumption of power in California and generation in the Northwest from spring/summer hydro. The capacity between California and the NW has always been a choke point. Recent expansion of wind generation has caused situations where there is more power available than can e used in the NW nor transported to other regions.Admittedly, this can be solved by just adding more transmission capacity but sometimes a little storage that can even out the peaks can even things out at a lower cost. BTW, California and Washington have some of the larger pumped storage facilities on the planet already.
I would argue that far too often in the world the system is rigged or cheated. We are no where near an egalitarian world. People too often lie cheat and steal and use unfair advantage against one another. I'n my world I see far too may people who come from extreme privilege crow about how they are self made and complain about other they call "losers" who aren't as prosperous as themselves as being parasites. Spend a little time with those who are still striving you might develop a little empathy and start to see that they are working twice as hard as you do and getting a fraction as much for their hard work. With a stacked deck, calling those who don't win a loser is disparaging the honest person.
There are several separate problems here. The most basic question is how many hours per person is need to achieve a given level of average material comfort. A simple measure is how many hours per person is spent in farming to keep us fed. Since industrialization this has dropped substantially. Same for making a ton of steel, etc. Nothing wrong with that per se. Except it leads to problem two, the distribution of goods and services. Creating an economic system that provides a fair distribution of the wealth and provides reasonable encouragement of individual contribution has been a problem that has defied effective optimal solutions. I would suggest that indeed most of our mass produced goods, cell phones to jeans are capable of being produced in "dark" automated factories at trivial long cost. The capital investment to do this will drive to even more standardized parts so those jeans may someday only cost $3, but will only come in one style. Sure you will need more robotics and manufacturing engineers, but millions of sweatshop workers will be unemployed in a traditional economy. While we will have the capacity to meet everybody's material needs ho will those goods get distributed if most of the world lacks jobs? Do you let people starve and thus starve the capitalist of customers? Do we start shrinking the human population due to lower birth rates as has started in some industrial countries? Do you divert folks from the work force such as sending them for schooling? Does the service economy grow: how many hair cuts can the world use? Do we grow the government sector (this really help even out the business cycles)? Do we just grow the dole queues? Does the dominance of standardized products create a new demand for unique items that drives a massive itsy like market for handmade custom product: will people pay $1000 for a custom handmade belt buckle to go with their standard issue $3 jeans (if you could make and sell two of those handmade custom belt buckles a week you could have a good living)? Is there some Utopian Star Trek solution just waiting to be invented or implemented?
The report really knocks the value of GMOs as begin completely over blown and of little value. Further, the report points to many unresolved ares of substantial risk.
As of now, these systems are little than remote manipulator with some macro and filtering. The filtering is to reduce human twitches and the macros are simple "bend left, push then twist" type replay of recorded actions that athletes would call muscle memory. Deciding if, what or where to cut is not on the horizon for robots. The greatest advantage to robots is letting the surgeon sit in a low fatigue chair and make a tiny incision the the business end of the machine goes into leaving minimal damage to get to the site of interest.
There is a strong argument that the best person to be the cutter is not the MD, but a technician with really good hands. Sure, some MDs have great hands, but not all. Understanding and decision making is what medical practice is all about. Frankly, many dentist have better hands than surgeons and many old school finish carpenters could probably be quickly trained to do better craftwork on bone than many orthopedic surgeon. Google some joint replacement x-ray images and you will quickly see work that I would fire any carpenter that worked on my treehouse. Same story in engineering. Some EEs can solder, but many just make a hash out of it.
Why does it seem that the HR department at nuc plants uses Matt Groaning to screen applicants?
... nine ... eight ..."
"And thank you most of all for nuclear power, which is yet to cause a single proven fatality, at least in this country."
"Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button."
"And Lord, we are especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is. Except for solar, which is just a pipe dream."
"Yeah, you know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons."
--Homer Simpson
Bart: Dad, wake up. [Homer was sleeping at nuclear plant.]
Homer: I'm awake. I'm awake. I'm protected member of the team. You can't fire me, I quit! Please, I have a family.
[One lazy afternoon at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer is asleep at his workstation and a dog is sleeping on the floor next to his chair. In his sleep, Homer slumps over, falling onto a button labeled "Plant Destruct" and triggering an alarm.]
Computer Voice: "Core meltdown in ten seconds
[The dog wakes up, walks to the console, and pulls a lever. The alarm and the countdown stop.]
Computer Voice: "Meltdown averted. Good boy!"
[Later that same lazy afternoon, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission arrive at the power plant in their van. A woman inspector presses the buzzer at the front door.]
Mr. Burns [on intercom]: "What? How dare you disturb me during nap time!"
Woman Inspector: "We're from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This is a surprise test of worker competence."
Mr. Burns: "There must be some mistake. We, uhh, we make cookies here. Mr. BurnsOld-Fashioned Good-Time Extra-Chewy-" Man Inspector: [cutting Burns off] "Get the axe."
[Now in college, Homer interrupts the Nuclear Physics Professor's lecture.]
Homer: "Uhh, excuse me, Professor Brainiac, but I worked in a nuclear power plant for ten years and I think I know how a proton accelerator works."
Professor: "Well, please come down and show us."
Homer: "All right, I will."
[The scene shifts to students screaming and fleeing the building while a green radiation glow fills the windows. Homer casually walks out just as two technicians in radiation suits are walking in.]
Homer: [gesturing over shoulder] "In there, guys."
Technicians: "Thanks, Homer."
If you are selling a medical device then yes the bar is very high, but do you need to sell this as a medical device. Walking is often prescribed to prevent heart disease, yet shoes are not regulated as a medical device. For that matter, you can buy heat rate monitors for exercise monitoring at the drug store that are not medical devices as far as the FDA is concerned. As long as you do not claim to treat or diagnose a medical condition you can sell your device with out any FDA approval. You might even be able to advertise it in diabetes magazines as long as you make absolutely no claims to diagnose or treat a disease. Don't even do a wink wink, nudge nudge suggestion in any advertising or manual. Expect the $12k device make to whine to the FDA so you would have to be squeaky clean. Sure, it will not get covered under insurance, but at such a lower cost that should not matter. Just describe it as an activity monitor like a fit bit (another non-medical fitness device). You also open up other non-diabetic markets such as where fit bit is in. Sounds like you have an interesting kick start project...
You will find that the analog front end for designing an EEG is non-trivial. Humans are a very low impedance source with a very poor signal to noise ratio due to cable, electrode, muscle and other subject generated noise that swamps the signal. Large sacks of electrolytes make great antennas for 50/60 Hz pick-up too. Add in the ability to survive a defibrillator hit of a life-safety device and the analog front end become very interesting. That said, TI has an entire analog front end for ECG that handles many of the thornier challenges including actively driving the leg electrode.
Can Apple really push an OS update to a locked phone and then force an update? Is the data stored in a separate flash chip from the processor? If so, then the problem is just attaching to the SPI port, reading out the crypto text the decrypting it. Decryption is a much less problematic issue for a NSA server farms loaded with custom hardware than it is for most of us. Who needs keys when you can afford brute force? If they can physically gain access to even the crypto text, as I assume that they can, then could this may all be theater to disguise their existing access? They must already have access to the users call records, emails and social media, so what is so interesting that is left on the phone? If this order stands I pity Apple as every lawyer in an employment dispute, car wreck or divorce will show up in Cupertino with a writ demanding the same service.
If you want to grow the economy in your town simply raise taxes and improve services, especially schools. Better schools, roads, concert halls, etc attracts those who are willing/able to pay more for those amenities. These tend to be those who can drive an economy due to higher incomes. This is not new: kids have been leaving the farm for opportunities/higher wages in the city for centuries. Now the economy is a broad thing and how that effects individuals is very uneven. If you have less competitive skills, i.e., education, you will likely be left behind and the rising cost of living will force you out. We definitely do need to educate everyone so that they can make a respectable living. We also need to compensate equitably those who do important work such as teachers so that they can afford to live in the communities that employ them. If you want to tank your local economy just cut taxes/services and all those who are wiling/able to make higher incomes will flee the area for someplace nice. If you cut taxes, sure you may get a few bottom feeder call centers or manufactures move in for a few years until they leave the country, but you are in a race to bankruptcy. Look at Wisconsin and Michigan that are very low services states while California and Washington are higher services states. Where would you make a long term investment in real-estate: Flint/Milwaukie or San Jose/Seattle?
The militias defined in the constitution are controlled by the federal government. There is no right to self organize an army or rebel anywhere in the constitution. In article 1 section 8 th power of congress include:
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
and in Article 2 section 2 the powers of the President include:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Read the the document folks before professing what you've been miss told what it says. The militias were added in the constitution to help repel invasions and to put down insurrections. Somehow, I just don't see these clowns taking orders from their Governor or our President.
Koreantoast, Militia was the first word so it was properly capitalized, but these are really lower case militia. Perhaps, even better labeled as wannabe war lords.
Far too many of us have forgotten the intent and history of the term militia in the constitution. The intent of the 2nd amendment and Militia was driven by peoples fear of a weak federal government that could not protect them from insurrections because of the scare from Shay's rebellion. In the case of Shay's the post revolution federal continental government refused to open the federal armories so that the sate Militias could respond to an upstate New England insurrection. The armories were filled with weapons from the revolution that were paid for by the "national" government, but often ended up in the hands of the local units at the close of hostilities so not having access to what the local's saw as their arms was a sore point. At any rate, the anemic response of the national government tightened many such as Hamilton and Madison and was one of the motivators of the constitutional convention. You can see the car intent of the writers of the second amendment and militia clause in the Federalist Papers, especially #29. Hamilton does go on a fair bit on the importance of federal control of the Militia, that it be well regulated and by well regulated he means well trained and under tight federal control to prevent war between the states. Chaos from a weak central government was a big concern in the nascent US - the thought of federal tyranny would have seemed laughable at the time. There has been massive revisionist history of the early republic to fit modern agendas.
If you want to see the first application of the Militia and 2nd amendment read about the Whiskey Rebellion. When some local hot heads ruffed up a federal official and take over his office, George Washington federalized 13,000 members of the state militia and using the leverage of the 2nd amendment forced the states to open their armories to equip the force. Washington lead the force, the only President to lead an army into battle, and rounded up the remaining 20 hot heads where were too dumb to go home when he arrived. By the way, even though Washington praised the militia publicly, he complained bitterly in private letters to members of congress that they were useless and undisciplined rabble.
Interestingly for recent event, Article IV, Section 4 speaks to the fact that the federal government had no choice, but to act as: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence." And the Oregon Governor did call for federal action.
So, take home lesson:
US Militia == federally run arm of internal repression,
2nd amendment == state's rights to store arms for the feds under the rules the feds make.
Federal government must suppression rebellion.
On the technical side I ask basic questions. I put up a list of numbers on the whiteboard and ask them to write a function to sort them in ascending order. For example, 1, 5, -13, 2.5. I'm make it clear I don't care if they remember a particular sorting algorithm. Frank, I feel it is more meaningful if they mumble an apology about not remembering quick sort and accomplish it anyway. I just want to see if they can do a basic task than any programmer doing the type of work I do must be able to do. Some create a detailed compliable function and others write a pseudo code fragment. Either is fine, but I do ask everyone to review the code for correctness and completeness to make it check-in ready. You would think that every high school kid could do this, but you would be surprised at how many experienced programmers can't do this. This does not show if you are creative or smart. It only tells me that you have spent time writing code.
For softer skills I just chat about their past work and work environments. Honestly, the worst interviewer I had for soft skills turned out to be my best hire so it is at best it is a gamble and anybody who says otherwise is fooling themselves.
Shape Memory Alloy are a Nickel Titainium alloy often called muscle wire because by changing its crystal structure it gets shorter when heated or an electric current runs through it. While very different in how it works from a polymer, Shape Memory Alloy has had similar uses including heart stints, explosive bolt replacements on spacecraft, toys and heating air vent controls. Biggest down side to it is it tends to be a bit slow so it is more sloth muscle than jackrabbit muscle.
Yes, body cameras are a tools for handling over reaching or abusive police activity. If the information is not handled correctly cameras will also have a chilling effect on privacy and our lives. No-knock raids aside, police are often involved in non-criminal issues. Imagine if your teenage child has a yelling incident that adolescents are prone and the neighbors hearing an unusual ruckes next door call the cops - just be be safe. Cops show up to investigate and this teen ager is yelling and crying and generally being an idiot. Sure they calm down when they likely see a cop, but that scene is caught on tape. Imagine a few years latter applying to college and this is out in the net in an easily searchable form or 20 years latter applying for a job? A middle school teacher would not think twice about the scene, but imagine inviting a cop in to report a vandalized car while caring for an alzheimer's parent and some interaction is caught out of context that then make the rounds at work. Balancing these competing needs of openness and privacy is one of the emerging civil rights challenges of our day. As we have all learned that the internet is forever, have learned to not post those selfies of ourselves being overly stupid. We can edit our own posts, but how do you unpost something in the public record? The French have the concept of being able to start fresh: oblivion. In the US we used to be able to move further west and start anew. Where is the new west with the internet?
Great link periface, thanks.
Glad to hear the atmospheric physists got the measurements wrong?
Take a deep breath. This is only an application, not a patent. YOU still have an opportunity to participate in the process. A few hundred dollars and three little words, "I claim fire." get you a useless application for fire. Very broad claims in an initial application are not unusual and are often just the starting point for negotiating with the examiner. Hopefully the examiner will push back and get them to reality. The first claim is:
1. An electronic-device-implemented method, the method comprising: using the electronic device, generating a symmetric encryption key associated with a content item; encrypting the content item using the symmetric encryption key; encrypting the symmetric encryption key using a public encryption key for a recipient to generate an encrypted symmetric encryption key; providing the encrypted symmetric encryption keys and information specifying the recipient to a synchronization computer that communicates, via a shared network, with at least one electronic device associated with the recipient; and communicating the encrypted content item to instances of a client application executing on the at least one electronic device via secure peer-to-peer distributed sharing.
Note that every feature in a described claim must be present in your method before your method violates the patent. If you have specific prior art you should share that information by contacting the general counsel of DropBox at (415) 986-7057 and the USPTO Commissioner of Patents at 800-786-9199. Be sure to mention the application publication US20150358297 attached to applications 62008940 & 14/448972 and provide specific prior art citations (websites, brochures, publications, patents, industry standards, etc) that the patent examiner should consider. Be polite, get to the point and don't rant.
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Stop whining and write a letter. Seriously, if you don't participate, don't whine. Once a patent is issued it get much harder to make changes.
Indeed antennas do have a great impact on communication, but propagation includes how the signal interacts with the environment. Atmospheric absorption is very different at varying frequencies. In particular water absorption change very quickly at these frequencies. 2.4 GHz was "given away" to the unlicensed ISM bands because it is so highly absorbed by water that it was considered as useless for long range communications. This is why microwave ovens use 2.4GHz. Also scattering/back scattering and interaction with reflectors/surfaces at a given size changes with wavelength. Generally, the lower the frequency the better the range at a given power at the cost of lower bandwidth.
There are some residential routers that have existing IoT protocols such as ZigBee and Z-Wave already build in. Not used much but they do exist. I believe that Verizon was pushing this and Lowes is sell this under the label Iris. The IoT has been the fusion power of consumer products for decades - always just around the corner with the latest shiny new thing.
ah may have modes that support lots of bandwidth, but do not think for a second that you are going to get 4k video across town over 900 MHz from an arduino running from a coin cell. The bandwidth link budget will not support it. You quickly run into the thermal noise floor of silicon. At a given sensativity of your receiver: Bandwidth ~= power / distance. You will be lucky to get 100 kBPS into your backyard. How many hours will a cordless phone last with monster batteries? This is a dream for meter reading and in your house for a very limited number of bytes per hour from a coin cell device monitoring temperature or a door alarm.
Also pumped hydro energy storage is an existing utility scale option for intermitent renewables. With limited transmission capacity such as between the pacific northwest's hydro dams and California it is a great way to store energy from off peak transmission for use during peak usage.
AC, I appreciate your point of view and I.m sure you keep careful control of your Hackintosh , but but the total lack of physical security for whatever burnout bank employee who decides to take their tablet to the bar to work and forgets their device unlocked for any slimeball to empty my account scares me alot.
I sure don't want my bank account's security left open on a developer's tablet at Starbucks while they chat-up the barista. So please, if you hear about jobs where workers can have access to sensitive customer/patient information while downing shots at the bar please let us know. This business does not respect the security of my information. Working on off-line dev code from home is fine. Access to data off site is not!
COOL FUSION - Gota have it!