All you need is for someone to plug this thing in behind the firewall and turn it on. The viruses will find insecure machines and replicate there. And it can install deep packet monitoring etc and listen to all the packets being passed around in the wired networks, which are often unencrypted.
Sometime in the 1980s someone had the bright idea to make nuclear powered airplanes. They looked up the patents and found Richard Feynman (yes, the Feynman) had patented it already in 1940s. So they decided to recruit him to lead the new company. Feynman had completely forgotten about that patent.
What had happened was that the army sent a captain to talk to all scientists working in the Manhatten Project and patent all the innovative ideas. Feynman told this captain, "Well, energy is just energy and you have this nuclear energy now. Just use this in any old thing that needs energy and presto! you got a patent. Put it in a ship Nuclear Powered Ship, put it in a plane, Nuclear Powered Airplane. Put it in a sub... you get the idea." A couple of weeks later the captain returned and said, "Well the ship and the sub are taken. But the plane... Its yours!".
Funny thing about the incident is, the Government would buy all these patents back from the scientists for a nominal sum of 1$. So the captain made Feynman sign it over to the government. Feynman demanded his dollar. The captain said, it was just a formality. But Feynaman stood his ground. "I want my dollar." So the captain, out of frustration, just gave him a dollar out of his pocket to get it over with. Actually setting up the paper work to collect 1$ from the government would have been too much of a hassle. So Feynman did what he always does. He bought donuts (for lot more than a dollar I assume) started going around the lab saying, "Have a donut, I got a dollar from the Army for my patent". The lab was full of people who had signed over 40 or 50 patents to the government. They all started pestering the captain for their dollars. And Feynman had a hearty laugh at the captain.
Most of these patents do not strike me as non-obvious at all. Just "do the same old thing, but now with computers!" and apply for a patent.
We have filed notices to build an intergalactic highway through that planet. Notice can be perused in a nearby star, hardly 4.5 light years away in a dark unlit basement without stairs in a filing cabinet in a disused toilet, with a "Beware of the Cheetah" sign on the door.
About a week or so before sitting for the IIT-JEE break up with your girlfriend and fall into despair and depression. Great way to boost your All India Rank and State Rank.
I don't mean to insult you or anything. You could be an outlier. I am not talking about you in particular, but in general about people who watch TV 8 hours a day.
But I think most people who watch TV 8 hours a day will have pretty small disposable income. For a family of four, going from 25K a year income to 50K a year income, the total income ratio is just 2, but the disposable income ratio is going to be something like 4 or even 8. The profit margins are huge in the disposable income expenditure. When it comes to bread, milk and gas, the profit margins are very tight. That means, it is better to snag 1 hour of a family with large income than to fight to get 8 hours from a low wage earning family.
I am using an old Panasonic hard disk based DVR. It used to get the listings from TVGOS service and it was great. It needed no monthly subscriptions. The DVD recorder broke down and I find that there is no newer model! There is currently no DVR that requires no monthly fees that has at least some rudimentary capability to acquire the listings.
Why isn't Panasonic introducing the next gen DVR? Is it possible to use TiVO without a monthly fee? Is it possible to edit clips in a TiVO and burn it off to a DVD?
Why does IE's internal blocking so much better (80%) than Google+Firefox (27%)?
Basically Firefox and Google can be much more conservative when estimating a site's malware potential. Since the browser is more secuire, it can let it more attacks and trust Firefox to protect itself to a large extent. IE has a long history of being used in intranets of corporations, and making the browser secure will break tons of installations and companies will not accept it. Their only choice is to find all the malware hosting sites and block them.
Children who grew up in farms with contact with animals dont develop asthma. The nose and lungs are insensitive to some of the irritants. Kids who grow up in ultra clean, sanitized environment develop asthma. Japan is a basket case in this example. They need a bubble around them.
IE grew up in friendly benign corporate environment. It needs very good filters and blocks. Unix cut its teeth in multiuser, college enviornment. So its derivatives Linux and its cultural progeny Firefox and other OSS have immunity built into them deep down.
Google is worried a dominant player like iPhone will make too heavy a demand for giving google access to its customer base. Android Chrome etc are all just basic insurance policcy for google. The marketshare target for google is not >50% or market dominance or anything like that. All it wants is to force other players to stay interoperative. It needs a marketshare big enough to do that. That is all.
Was about to say, nah, spell checkers are where money is. But then I realized, steals Vs stills is an error that is not easy to catch by spell and grammar checkers and one needs a fairly sophisticated AI to do context analysis. No there is no money there.
Wow! It has a VT100 emulator? Wow! That means I can tell both emacs and vi to go to hell and launch EDT editor! Holy Cow! How did I past 25 years without a VT100 emulator I can't figure out. I still need a CRA0: card reader and MT0A: tape reader emulators. But I buy this and wait for the retired VAX-11 engineers to hack it up in open source!!!
This might mean all those calculations projecting imminent bankruptcy of social security will have to be redone. If people are not going to live as long as they do now, there will be that much reduced pressure on the social security trust fund. Couple it with stalling the insurance reform, make healthcare more expensive, and bump another 45 million more Americans off health insurance. That way we can bring down the number of people getting on to the social security benefits and the duration also will be cut. So looks like all these problems are self correcting and they will solve themselves. Of course we may not like the way the problems solve themselves and we might personally get the short end of the stick too. But we at least know how the problems are going to solve themselves.
I don't know what the big fuss is about relativistic navigation. Almost every day my close relative sits on the passenger seat tells me where to go. Some times my other close relative sits in the back seat and tells me where to go. Being used to that kind of relativistic navigation, I wonder why NASA is so puzzled.
Some 20 years from now, the confirmation hearings for supreme court justice nominations will get to be really interesting. Also the mud slinging and sliming and negative ads during election campaigns are going to be even more entertaining than it is now. We will be living in really interesting times.
Glycine is the only thing they are willing to admit. NASA believes the world is not in a position to digest, (ha, ha) the more significant finding in the comet: High Fructose Corn Syrup.
The hard disks used to be called Winchester Drives (I vaguely recall IBM made a dual platter disk drive 30MB capacity on each platter, and allegedly Winchester 30-30 was a well known rifle and so the drive was named Winchester drive too), after a famed rifle. Well, it would be poetic justice to put a hard disk out of misery using its namesake.
First off, I am no lawyer. My understanding of Groklaw suggests that ODF would immune to this patent.
The relevant passage:
"Custom XML" refers to content within the file that is of a different XML format, with a separate "custom schema" to describe that content. The problem with such content is that there is no way for a standard to describe how such data should be interpreted, as it is by definition in a "custom format" and can be any kind of data. That is why "custom XML" is not allowed in ODF documents, and that is one of the reasons why OOXML is such a miserable standard.
And this
Interesting, no? There's one more headline, but only to debunk, Matt Asay's Microsoft's 'Custom XML' patent suit could put ODF at risk. Actually, it doesn't, so far as I know. Custom XML was one of the reasons ODF folks thought the OOXML "standard" was crudely designed, and that it had no place in a standard. It was a big discussion, and basically, to the extent I understood it, the issue was this: that it was a short cut on Microsoft's part, so it wouldn't have to do things in the usual standard way but could just keep things as they were, dumping a lot of processing stuff into the format, where, ODF folks said, it didn't belong. The very name should tell you why.
Instead of trying to educate the jury that the whole point of "Extensible" markup language is to extend and customize the files the lawyers were pulling stunts. In the tragedy of errors, I cant decide who to root for.
Just print the text and graphics to plain paper, seal it in an envelop and make it part of the estate to be distributed by the executor. Very safe, hack proof and does not require any unusual level of cooperation from third parties nor fees. If you want you can leave a soft copy in a disk or a chip and ask the executor to email the message, if you are hung up over "its got to be email not mail".
How much it costs to scan the documents and host it in the servers? They should probably charge 3 cents a page to the first buyer and then reduce it to one cent for the second, to 0.1 cent for the third buyer and then zero for all subsequent buyers.
Allows Google to automatically collect anonymouse location data to improve the quality of location services.
OK, OK, OK, it is google which is collecting the data. Since they are not evil, it should not matter. A simple case of false alarm. Cool down guys, there is nothing to see here, move along.
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This seems to be the SEO scumbags, demanding that the state step in to make their jobs easier.
This seems to be the SEO scumbags, demanding that the state step in to make their jobs easier ^H^H^H^H^H possible
There! corrected it for you.
Dont forget, it all comes after prying their guns from their cold dead fingers...
All you need is for someone to plug this thing in behind the firewall and turn it on. The viruses will find insecure machines and replicate there. And it can install deep packet monitoring etc and listen to all the packets being passed around in the wired networks, which are often unencrypted.
What had happened was that the army sent a captain to talk to all scientists working in the Manhatten Project and patent all the innovative ideas. Feynman told this captain, "Well, energy is just energy and you have this nuclear energy now. Just use this in any old thing that needs energy and presto! you got a patent. Put it in a ship Nuclear Powered Ship, put it in a plane, Nuclear Powered Airplane. Put it in a sub... you get the idea." A couple of weeks later the captain returned and said, "Well the ship and the sub are taken. But the plane... Its yours!".
Funny thing about the incident is, the Government would buy all these patents back from the scientists for a nominal sum of 1$. So the captain made Feynman sign it over to the government. Feynman demanded his dollar. The captain said, it was just a formality. But Feynaman stood his ground. "I want my dollar." So the captain, out of frustration, just gave him a dollar out of his pocket to get it over with. Actually setting up the paper work to collect 1$ from the government would have been too much of a hassle. So Feynman did what he always does. He bought donuts (for lot more than a dollar I assume) started going around the lab saying, "Have a donut, I got a dollar from the Army for my patent". The lab was full of people who had signed over 40 or 50 patents to the government. They all started pestering the captain for their dollars. And Feynman had a hearty laugh at the captain.
Most of these patents do not strike me as non-obvious at all. Just "do the same old thing, but now with computers!" and apply for a patent.
We have filed notices to build an intergalactic highway through that planet. Notice can be perused in a nearby star, hardly 4.5 light years away in a dark unlit basement without stairs in a filing cabinet in a disused toilet, with a "Beware of the Cheetah" sign on the door.
About a week or so before sitting for the IIT-JEE break up with your girlfriend and fall into despair and depression. Great way to boost your All India Rank and State Rank.
But I think most people who watch TV 8 hours a day will have pretty small disposable income. For a family of four, going from 25K a year income to 50K a year income, the total income ratio is just 2, but the disposable income ratio is going to be something like 4 or even 8. The profit margins are huge in the disposable income expenditure. When it comes to bread, milk and gas, the profit margins are very tight. That means, it is better to snag 1 hour of a family with large income than to fight to get 8 hours from a low wage earning family.
Why isn't Panasonic introducing the next gen DVR? Is it possible to use TiVO without a monthly fee? Is it possible to edit clips in a TiVO and burn it off to a DVD?
Basically Firefox and Google can be much more conservative when estimating a site's malware potential. Since the browser is more secuire, it can let it more attacks and trust Firefox to protect itself to a large extent. IE has a long history of being used in intranets of corporations, and making the browser secure will break tons of installations and companies will not accept it. Their only choice is to find all the malware hosting sites and block them.
Children who grew up in farms with contact with animals dont develop asthma. The nose and lungs are insensitive to some of the irritants. Kids who grow up in ultra clean, sanitized environment develop asthma. Japan is a basket case in this example. They need a bubble around them.
IE grew up in friendly benign corporate environment. It needs very good filters and blocks. Unix cut its teeth in multiuser, college enviornment. So its derivatives Linux and its cultural progeny Firefox and other OSS have immunity built into them deep down.
Google is worried a dominant player like iPhone will make too heavy a demand for giving google access to its customer base. Android Chrome etc are all just basic insurance policcy for google. The marketshare target for google is not >50% or market dominance or anything like that. All it wants is to force other players to stay interoperative. It needs a marketshare big enough to do that. That is all.
Now Google comes and stills[sic] their business -
(emphasis mine)
Was about to say, nah, spell checkers are where money is. But then I realized, steals Vs stills is an error that is not easy to catch by spell and grammar checkers and one needs a fairly sophisticated AI to do context analysis. No there is no money there.
Wow! It has a VT100 emulator? Wow! That means I can tell both emacs and vi to go to hell and launch EDT editor! Holy Cow! How did I past 25 years without a VT100 emulator I can't figure out. I still need a CRA0: card reader and MT0A: tape reader emulators. But I buy this and wait for the retired VAX-11 engineers to hack it up in open source!!!
This might mean all those calculations projecting imminent bankruptcy of social security will have to be redone. If people are not going to live as long as they do now, there will be that much reduced pressure on the social security trust fund. Couple it with stalling the insurance reform, make healthcare more expensive, and bump another 45 million more Americans off health insurance. That way we can bring down the number of people getting on to the social security benefits and the duration also will be cut. So looks like all these problems are self correcting and they will solve themselves. Of course we may not like the way the problems solve themselves and we might personally get the short end of the stick too. But we at least know how the problems are going to solve themselves.
I don't know what the big fuss is about relativistic navigation. Almost every day my close relative sits on the passenger seat tells me where to go. Some times my other close relative sits in the back seat and tells me where to go. Being used to that kind of relativistic navigation, I wonder why NASA is so puzzled.
Some 20 years from now, the confirmation hearings for supreme court justice nominations will get to be really interesting. Also the mud slinging and sliming and negative ads during election campaigns are going to be even more entertaining than it is now. We will be living in really interesting times.
oooooooooooooosh!
Glycine is the only thing they are willing to admit. NASA believes the world is not in a position to digest, (ha, ha) the more significant finding in the comet: High Fructose Corn Syrup.
I am not going to get vendor locked in to iPhone. Will there be a Android version available from Tom Tom or one of its competitors?
The hard disks used to be called Winchester Drives (I vaguely recall IBM made a dual platter disk drive 30MB capacity on each platter, and allegedly Winchester 30-30 was a well known rifle and so the drive was named Winchester drive too), after a famed rifle. Well, it would be poetic justice to put a hard disk out of misery using its namesake.
The relevant passage:
"Custom XML" refers to content within the file that is of a different XML format, with a separate "custom schema" to describe that content. The problem with such content is that there is no way for a standard to describe how such data should be interpreted, as it is by definition in a "custom format" and can be any kind of data. That is why "custom XML" is not allowed in ODF documents, and that is one of the reasons why OOXML is such a miserable standard.
And this
Interesting, no? There's one more headline, but only to debunk, Matt Asay's Microsoft's 'Custom XML' patent suit could put ODF at risk. Actually, it doesn't, so far as I know. Custom XML was one of the reasons ODF folks thought the OOXML "standard" was crudely designed, and that it had no place in a standard. It was a big discussion, and basically, to the extent I understood it, the issue was this: that it was a short cut on Microsoft's part, so it wouldn't have to do things in the usual standard way but could just keep things as they were, dumping a lot of processing stuff into the format, where, ODF folks said, it didn't belong. The very name should tell you why.
Instead of trying to educate the jury that the whole point of "Extensible" markup language is to extend and customize the files the lawyers were pulling stunts. In the tragedy of errors, I cant decide who to root for.
Just print the text and graphics to plain paper, seal it in an envelop and make it part of the estate to be distributed by the executor. Very safe, hack proof and does not require any unusual level of cooperation from third parties nor fees. If you want you can leave a soft copy in a disk or a chip and ask the executor to email the message, if you are hung up over "its got to be email not mail".
How much it costs to scan the documents and host it in the servers? They should probably charge 3 cents a page to the first buyer and then reduce it to one cent for the second, to 0.1 cent for the third buyer and then zero for all subsequent buyers.
Allows Google to automatically collect anonymouse location data to improve the quality of location services.
OK, OK, OK, it is google which is collecting the data. Since they are not evil, it should not matter. A simple case of false alarm. Cool down guys, there is nothing to see here, move along.
Extend, pending
Extinguish. soon