Some of these universities have made hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty payments from the pharma companies. You think they are going to give up that gravy train so that dark people won't suffer and die? Universities are run by classic Limousine Liberals -- all for social programs unless it hits *their* cash flow.
Some of you people have clever ideas for abuse of this technology. Let me add a few more:
* Position a camera facing the parking lot of police stations. Capture the plates that enter and exit and post it on the Internet or sell it to criminal syndicates who want to check to see their associates have been near the cops recently.
* Position a camera near the entry/exit of suburban housing tracts. In the event of a burglary, rape, or kidnapping, compare the list with previous days to give the cops some leads to go on. If no crime is present, pay for the gear by selling the list of comings and goings to data aggregators who collate such things for sale to the highest bidder.
* Position a camera near an abortion clinc (or substitute the controversial location of your choice) and post the license plate details on the Internet in convenient database formats so that anyone can correlate this with data they capture from other locations (see above).
* Place a camera near the entry/exit of rich neighborhoods and issue real-time SMS alerts for when cars leave and enter the neighborhood.
* Place a camera near the parking lot where elected officials park, and collate these records with late night records of cameras near red light districts, crack dealers, etc. To save space, automatically delete the license plate of the Washington DC mayor as it goes without saying he'll be there.
Give me an hour and I could give you twenty more of these. Little Brother, indeed.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's pretty clear that SixDegrees.com provides prior art which demolishes claim 1 of the Friendster patent. If I were sued by Friendster, I would definitely subpoena their internal email archives which would might show that they were aware of SixDegrees, yet failed to list this as prior art on their patent application (which would void it).
Something I've wondered about is what will happen when, sometime in the not-too-distant future, we no longer need roads for transportation because we've invented some kind of autonomous flying vehicle. What are we going to do with all that real estate? At least where I live, the roadway is too narrow to be used for additional home construction, so does all this land simply become a vast system of pedestrian malls? Or can somebody think of a better use for it? Of course the realpolitik of the situation is that the various government landowners will try to maximize the revenue to be had from selling this freed-up land, so what kind of monstrosity are they going to foist upon us?
I suspect that Schwartz was the guy who started the Silicon Valley speech idiom of beginning each answer to a technical question with the word "So". For example:
"Hey Johnathan, what is Java?"
"So, Java is this universal programming language..."
Not sure why this is important to me, but I've spent a lot of time in San Jose recently and I've noticed that everyone is talking that way now. To me it comes across as a teensy bit impatient and condescending, if you consider the tone of voice typically used.
No, it won't get past the drawing board. The Brits won't accept the French plan to put the propellers in the front (their patented "PermaRetreat" technology).
I've done some checking of aggregate SAN bandwidth in the last few months, and for the most part companies are not even saturating their 2 gbit Fibre Channel links (for that matter, most could easily run with legacy 1 gbit gear). Even the inter-switch links are often crusing well below 2 gbit. Funny to note that the big push is to release 4 gbit gear, for what conceivable purpose I have no idea.
It just seems to me that the real issue is access time, not bandwidth, though kudos to this team for an essentially meaningless achievement.
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Some of these universities have made hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty payments from the pharma companies. You think they are going to give up that gravy train so that dark people won't suffer and die? Universities are run by classic Limousine Liberals -- all for social programs unless it hits *their* cash flow.
Some of you people have clever ideas for abuse of this technology. Let me add a few more:
* Position a camera facing the parking lot of police stations. Capture the plates that enter and exit and post it on the Internet or sell it to criminal syndicates who want to check to see their associates have been near the cops recently.
* Position a camera near the entry/exit of suburban housing tracts. In the event of a burglary, rape, or kidnapping, compare the list with previous days to give the cops some leads to go on. If no crime is present, pay for the gear by selling the list of comings and goings to data aggregators who collate such things for sale to the highest bidder.
* Position a camera near an abortion clinc (or substitute the controversial location of your choice) and post the license plate details on the Internet in convenient database formats so that anyone can correlate this with data they capture from other locations (see above).
* Place a camera near the entry/exit of rich neighborhoods and issue real-time SMS alerts for when cars leave and enter the neighborhood.
* Place a camera near the parking lot where elected officials park, and collate these records with late night records of cameras near red light districts, crack dealers, etc. To save space, automatically delete the license plate of the Washington DC mayor as it goes without saying he'll be there.
Give me an hour and I could give you twenty more of these. Little Brother, indeed.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's pretty clear that SixDegrees.com provides prior art which demolishes claim 1 of the Friendster patent. If I were sued by Friendster, I would definitely subpoena their internal email archives which would might show that they were aware of SixDegrees, yet failed to list this as prior art on their patent application (which would void it).
Something I've wondered about is what will happen when, sometime in the not-too-distant future, we no longer need roads for transportation because we've invented some kind of autonomous flying vehicle. What are we going to do with all that real estate? At least where I live, the roadway is too narrow to be used for additional home construction, so does all this land simply become a vast system of pedestrian malls? Or can somebody think of a better use for it? Of course the realpolitik of the situation is that the various government landowners will try to maximize the revenue to be had from selling this freed-up land, so what kind of monstrosity are they going to foist upon us?
I suspect that Schwartz was the guy who started the Silicon Valley speech idiom of beginning each answer to a technical question with the word "So". For example:
"Hey Johnathan, what is Java?"
"So, Java is this universal programming language..."
Not sure why this is important to me, but I've spent a lot of time in San Jose recently and I've noticed that everyone is talking that way now. To me it comes across as a teensy bit impatient and condescending, if you consider the tone of voice typically used.
No, it won't get past the drawing board. The Brits won't accept the French plan to put the propellers in the front (their patented "PermaRetreat" technology).
Don't see what you are complaining about... the .museum TLD allows us to more easily find important cultural facilities.
I've done some checking of aggregate SAN bandwidth in the last few months, and for the most part companies are not even saturating their 2 gbit Fibre Channel links (for that matter, most could easily run with legacy 1 gbit gear). Even the inter-switch links are often crusing well below 2 gbit. Funny to note that the big push is to release 4 gbit gear, for what conceivable purpose I have no idea.
It just seems to me that the real issue is access time, not bandwidth, though kudos to this team for an essentially meaningless achievement.