Are not going to get exploited on your private network unless your hacking it yourself.
If someone can get to your Apple TV to hack it, you've already fucked up to the point hat you're probably fully infected with viruses in the first place across your entire network.
Surely the same logic applies to the XMBC home theatre controller built on that old PC that was gathering dust in the closet. The advantage to rolling your own is that you *can* actually fix things yourself as opposed to waiting for updates from Apple.
Watching something once? Who does that? I've lost count of how many times I've watched Star Wars, Aliens, Galaxy Quest, Mystery Men, Enchanted, It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Maltese Falcon, Sink the Bismark, The Great Escape, A Bridge Too Far, Mean Girls, Finding Nemo, and dozens of others.
Because it defeats the purpose of the patent. Google didn't invent anything, so why should they get monopoly protection as if they did? It might be a different story if they hired Motorola's R&D department.
Why are people allowed to buy and sell patents in the first place? And as far as a company goes, a patent is an agreement between the company and the government. If the company ceases to be, then the patents should be terminated and the inventions released into the public domain.
I'd think that if you had physical access to the USB port, you would also have physical access to the cash itself and could just take it.
I think that that would be a poor design. One box for the hardware (you don't need armoured car knuckle draggers messing with the electronics), and one box containing the cash (You don't need the maintenance nerds walking away with pocketsfuls of crisp new bills). Both of those would be inside a box that locks out the general public. Actually, I'd probably put the cash inside a box inside the cash portion of the machine, so the armoured car folks are not dealing with cash, but with locked boxes that they cannot open. They pull out the empty box, and load in the full one, much like replacing a toner cartridge. Actually, the electronics should be done the same way: a one piece, factory sealed, replaceable module.
Again, IANAL, but this seems to be a description of something that might well have been a new idea in 1996. I dunno. The obviousness test is an interesting one, and I still can't figure why they can go after media producers, when the patent sounds like it would result in Apple, Sony and the software/device people infringing.
My guess would be that this is multifaceted. The 1996 patent is due to expire in 2016, so by delaying to enforce it until now they will have more fish to fry. Also, by going after the smaller infringers, they build both a precedent for inforcement, and a fund for pursuing larger infringers. If you're going to go after Apple, Sony etc, then you're going to need good backing both from a precedent and from a financial point of view.
The patent specifies a dialup connection to the internet using a SLIP/PPP connection:
The facilities provided by the operating system, such as Windows 95, typically includes multimedia support, as noted above, as well as a standard WINSOCK TCP/IP stack and modem dial up driver software to support a SLIPP/PPP Internet connection, as next discussed.
To effect these file transfers, the modem 115 is connected via conventional dial up telephone SLIP or PPP TCP/IP series data communication link 117 to an Internet service provider...
How about this bit:
At a time determined by player 103 monitoring the time of day clock 106, a dial up connection is established via the service provider 121 and the Interent to the FTP server 125 and the download compiliation 145 is transferred to the program data store 107 in the player 103.
So, how much of this patent applies if I'm using linux over a full time cable internet connection to access Sheldon Cooper's latest Fun with Flags podcast?
These life rafts are meant for keeping people afloat for a short time while the rescue teams. I doubt they'd have much more than a good first aid kit aboard.
I wonder about that. They talk about Emergency Locator Transponders in relation to the life rafts/ inflatable exit slides. If this is the case, do the life rafts have to be deployed before the ELTs hit the water? Do these rafts deploy automatically, or do they have to be deployed manually? If we have a zombie plane situation (which seems likely for the latter portion of the flight), then there will be nobody to manually deploy the rafts, and the ELTs would sink to the bottom along with the fuselage.
The Titanic was found. It won't take 73 years in this case, but the plane will be found*. I doubt it will be before the black box sonar pingers are exhausted, though.
* assuming the situation in Ukraine doesn't trigger WW3.
How far back do the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder keep their data. I have heard that the CVR only records the last two hours of cockpit audio. If so, all the CVR will reveal is the silence of a zombie cockpit.
There is a principle in law (but not in all jurisdictions) that one can only keep personal information about one's customers during the time one is doing business with them.
That's nice. Talk to me when it is a legal statute and a constitutional ammendment.
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Are not going to get exploited on your private network unless your hacking it yourself.
If someone can get to your Apple TV to hack it, you've already fucked up to the point hat you're probably fully infected with viruses in the first place across your entire network.
Surely the same logic applies to the XMBC home theatre controller built on that old PC that was gathering dust in the closet. The advantage to rolling your own is that you *can* actually fix things yourself as opposed to waiting for updates from Apple.
Watching something once? Who does that? I've lost count of how many times I've watched Star Wars, Aliens, Galaxy Quest, Mystery Men, Enchanted, It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Maltese Falcon, Sink the Bismark, The Great Escape, A Bridge Too Far, Mean Girls, Finding Nemo, and dozens of others.
And the security holes in the Apple TV box that I can't fix...?
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What about it?
Because it defeats the purpose of the patent. Google didn't invent anything, so why should they get monopoly protection as if they did? It might be a different story if they hired Motorola's R&D department.
Why are people allowed to buy and sell patents in the first place? And as far as a company goes, a patent is an agreement between the company and the government. If the company ceases to be, then the patents should be terminated and the inventions released into the public domain.
Well, we went from light emitting resistors to light emitting diodes, clearly the next step is light emitting transistors.
Like these or these?
Any solar cell will emit light ... if you run enough current through it.
Ah yes! Reminds me of the smoke emitting diodes I used to play with as a young lad.
o Since when is the lowercase "O" a bullet?
Since Slashdot stopped honouring the <OL> and <UL> HTML codes.
I'd think that if you had physical access to the USB port, you would also have physical access to the cash itself and could just take it.
I think that that would be a poor design. One box for the hardware (you don't need armoured car knuckle draggers messing with the electronics), and one box containing the cash (You don't need the maintenance nerds walking away with pocketsfuls of crisp new bills). Both of those would be inside a box that locks out the general public. Actually, I'd probably put the cash inside a box inside the cash portion of the machine, so the armoured car folks are not dealing with cash, but with locked boxes that they cannot open. They pull out the empty box, and load in the full one, much like replacing a toner cartridge. Actually, the electronics should be done the same way: a one piece, factory sealed, replaceable module.
What do banks have to do with ATM design? They just buy/lease them from ATM providers.
Again, IANAL, but this seems to be a description of something that might well have been a new idea in 1996. I dunno. The obviousness test is an interesting one, and I still can't figure why they can go after media producers, when the patent sounds like it would result in Apple, Sony and the software/device people infringing.
My guess would be that this is multifaceted. The 1996 patent is due to expire in 2016, so by delaying to enforce it until now they will have more fish to fry. Also, by going after the smaller infringers, they build both a precedent for inforcement, and a fund for pursuing larger infringers. If you're going to go after Apple, Sony etc, then you're going to need good backing both from a precedent and from a financial point of view.
The facilities provided by the operating system, such as Windows 95, typically includes multimedia support, as noted above, as well as a standard WINSOCK TCP/IP stack and modem dial up driver software to support a SLIPP/PPP Internet connection, as next discussed.
To effect these file transfers, the modem 115 is connected via conventional dial up telephone SLIP or PPP TCP/IP series data communication link 117 to an Internet service provider...
How about this bit:
At a time determined by player 103 monitoring the time of day clock 106, a dial up connection is established via the service provider 121 and the Interent to the FTP server 125 and the download compiliation 145 is transferred to the program data store 107 in the player 103.
So, how much of this patent applies if I'm using linux over a full time cable internet connection to access Sheldon Cooper's latest Fun with Flags podcast?
Ultimately, laziness. They simply haven't been needed until now, so why put in the effort and cost?
You aren't going to get the the mechanism of the crash by staring at satellite photos ...
True, but you might find the crash of the mechanism.
These life rafts are meant for keeping people afloat for a short time while the rescue teams. I doubt they'd have much more than a good first aid kit aboard.
I wonder about that. They talk about Emergency Locator Transponders in relation to the life rafts/ inflatable exit slides. If this is the case, do the life rafts have to be deployed before the ELTs hit the water? Do these rafts deploy automatically, or do they have to be deployed manually? If we have a zombie plane situation (which seems likely for the latter portion of the flight), then there will be nobody to manually deploy the rafts, and the ELTs would sink to the bottom along with the fuselage.
I don't believe that they will find it this time.
The Titanic was found. It won't take 73 years in this case, but the plane will be found*. I doubt it will be before the black box sonar pingers are exhausted, though. * assuming the situation in Ukraine doesn't trigger WW3.
How far back do the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder keep their data. I have heard that the CVR only records the last two hours of cockpit audio. If so, all the CVR will reveal is the silence of a zombie cockpit.
Yesssirreee, that's the USA that we've gotten, the United -freaking- SOVIET of America.
You really have no idea what that word means, do you?
Around here, they need to give you written 24 hrs notice except in an emergency.
There is a principle in law (but not in all jurisdictions) that one can only keep personal information about one's customers during the time one is doing business with them.
That's nice. Talk to me when it is a legal statute and a constitutional ammendment.
Religion, magic, witchcraft, and other hocus pocus have no part in science.
... unless you are doing a scientific study of those things. See: anthropology, psychology, history, etc.
What do you think the folks in the simulators are doing, making cheese?
Well, engine pings have been all over the news, so something that was once overlooked may now have been "corrected".
As far as cell phones "ringing", that could just be the cell network giving the caller feedback that the network is trying to connect.