The other key factor is that your skin can effectively block alpha particles, so alpha emitters are more or less safe to be around. The problem is when they get inside your body. Your skin isn't there to block the alpha particles, so they tend to rip stuff apart.
Except that after a relatively short period of time, there will have been enough hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, droughts, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes, and alien invasions that there won't be "some other place" left.
If you live somewhere that nature has decided is no longer going to be habitable by humans, get out or go down with the damn ship but either way do not expect anyone to help you rebuild in the same place.
Name a part of the United States that is not at risk from a natural disaster of any kind. Now name a part large enough to support 300 million people.
Go back and read the details of what happened. They are accused of intentionally exploiting a glitch in the machine to fraudulently win hundreds of thousands of dollars. If it happens to you once because you unknowingly pressed that particular combination of buttons, you most likely won't be facing criminal charges. Once you know about it, though, if you continue to intentionally exploit the glitch, you're taking someone else's money contrary to their intended means. Similarly, it's illegal to intentionally exploit a glitch in an ATM to get more money than is deducted from your account, or to walk into somebody's house and take their stuff because they forgot to lock their door.
Someone has already pointed out that the patents in question were issued from 1994-1999.
So, they weren't published, and they seem to meet the other requirements for "submarine patents".
"Issued" and "published" are sometimes used synonymously for patents, though there's some ambiguity because patent applications are usually made public before the patent is granted. If these patents were issued between 1994 and 1999, then they must have been made public during that same span (maybe slightly earlier if you're talking about making public the applications for patents issued at the 1994 end). A patent can't be made public any later than it's issued. That's the point of patents, to publicly disclose your invention. I don't know for certain about other countries, but in the United States, a patent application is publicly disclosed a certain amount of time after it's filed (I believe it's 18 months), even though it may not be granted until months or years after that.
A submarine patent is a patent whose issuance and publication are intentionally delayed by the applicant for a long time, such as several years.[1][2][3] This strategy requires a patent system where, first, patent applications are not published, and, second, patent term is measured from grant date, not from priority/filing date. In the United States, patent applications filed before November 2000 were not published and remained secret until they were granted. Analogous to a submarine, therefore, submarine patents could stay "under water" for long periods until they "emerged" and surprised the relevant market.
Unless these are patents that had been filed 15 years ago and were finally granted just now, they are not submarine patents.
I would guess that the only reason the crown still has that power is that they never use it. As soon as a monarch tries to overrule Parliament, I suspect that the power would be taken away, and not necessarily politely.
Prior to T-Mobile's offering of no-contract plans - if you paid for your phone outright, or brought your own phone - you STILL had to sign up for a contract.
That's true, though it isn't the recent no-contract offering that started it. T-Mobile has been doing it for several years now. My plan has been $20/month cheaper than it otherwise would be ever since I brought my N900 to them three years ago.
Maybe I am not current and entirely out of line, but with all the locking-down and searching-of-houses happening: what happened to the constitutional rights re: search and seizure?
"We're trying to find a guy that has killed four people and wounded a couple hundred. We know he's in the neighborhood. Mind if we take a quick look around?"
The "lockdown", which wasn't the armed-police-at-everybody's-door that Slashdot posters love to think the government does, is pretty common in the these situations, though usually not over such a large area. When there's an armed crazy guy around, standard operating procedure is to tell the civilians to keep out of the line of fire. I remember it happening once when I was a kid, when there was a standoff between the police and a guy that eventually shot himself. Everyone on my block was told either to evacuate to a nearby park or, in my family's case, to go into their basements and stay away from the windows. This isn't the beginning of a totalitarian regime, but the norm for trying to keep people safe.
Take a look at Political Compass. It at least splits economic and social issues, and does a decent job of explaining the different combinations. It also nicely shows how the Democrats and Republicans aren't as different overall as they would have you believe.
The fox news article says : "Experts say Rogers may be stretching the truth: most people’s computers likely aren’t infected by agents of foreign governments.
Where in the article does it say that, though? If they put it far enough down, a significant portion of the readers won't ever see it.
Completely agree. I still maintain that overall, season 5 wasn't as bad as a lot of people think. It had some weak points, especially compared to seasons 3 and 4, but the strong points were still very strong.
From what I've read, this will never happen, because getting the CGI and regular film to match at the higher resolution would be somewhere between insanely expensive and impossible.
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The other key factor is that your skin can effectively block alpha particles, so alpha emitters are more or less safe to be around. The problem is when they get inside your body. Your skin isn't there to block the alpha particles, so they tend to rip stuff apart.
"Emacs would be a great operating system, if only it included a decent text editor"
I don't think so. Down here in Boston, walking against the crosswalk signal and right in to a lot of traffic seems to bridge all racial divides.
Except that after a relatively short period of time, there will have been enough hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, droughts, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes, and alien invasions that there won't be "some other place" left.
If you live somewhere that nature has decided is no longer going to be habitable by humans, get out or go down with the damn ship but either way do not expect anyone to help you rebuild in the same place.
Name a part of the United States that is not at risk from a natural disaster of any kind. Now name a part large enough to support 300 million people.
Yes...let's use the cripple the project with the shittiest language currently in existence.
But enough about JavaScript...
Go back and read the details of what happened. They are accused of intentionally exploiting a glitch in the machine to fraudulently win hundreds of thousands of dollars. If it happens to you once because you unknowingly pressed that particular combination of buttons, you most likely won't be facing criminal charges. Once you know about it, though, if you continue to intentionally exploit the glitch, you're taking someone else's money contrary to their intended means. Similarly, it's illegal to intentionally exploit a glitch in an ATM to get more money than is deducted from your account, or to walk into somebody's house and take their stuff because they forgot to lock their door.
First to market with a piece of crap doesn't do the company any good.
Unfortunately, history seems to disagree with you.
Someone has already pointed out that the patents in question were issued from 1994-1999.
So, they weren't published, and they seem to meet the other requirements for "submarine patents".
"Issued" and "published" are sometimes used synonymously for patents, though there's some ambiguity because patent applications are usually made public before the patent is granted. If these patents were issued between 1994 and 1999, then they must have been made public during that same span (maybe slightly earlier if you're talking about making public the applications for patents issued at the 1994 end). A patent can't be made public any later than it's issued. That's the point of patents, to publicly disclose your invention. I don't know for certain about other countries, but in the United States, a patent application is publicly disclosed a certain amount of time after it's filed (I believe it's 18 months), even though it may not be granted until months or years after that.
This is what is also known as a "submarine patent"
It lurks under the water while adoption builds. Later on, the "submarine patent" surfaces and sues everyone.
As usual, Wikipedia states it well:
Unless these are patents that had been filed 15 years ago and were finally granted just now, they are not submarine patents.
I would guess that the only reason the crown still has that power is that they never use it. As soon as a monarch tries to overrule Parliament, I suspect that the power would be taken away, and not necessarily politely.
icann is as corrupt as any corporation
What do you think the "C" stands for?
Prior to T-Mobile's offering of no-contract plans - if you paid for your phone outright, or brought your own phone - you STILL had to sign up for a contract.
That's true, though it isn't the recent no-contract offering that started it. T-Mobile has been doing it for several years now. My plan has been $20/month cheaper than it otherwise would be ever since I brought my N900 to them three years ago.
...and got ads for underware.
Is that yet another layer between software and hardware?
Would've been nice if someone had told that to just about every Linux distro under the sun...
The KDE developers did tell the distributions that KDE 4.0 was not ready for normal users. The KDE developers were ignored.
Make sure he's wearing a Canadiens jersey first.
Maybe I am not current and entirely out of line, but with all the locking-down and searching-of-houses happening: what happened to the constitutional rights re: search and seizure?
"We're trying to find a guy that has killed four people and wounded a couple hundred. We know he's in the neighborhood. Mind if we take a quick look around?"
Sounds at least kind of reasonable to me.
The "lockdown", which wasn't the armed-police-at-everybody's-door that Slashdot posters love to think the government does, is pretty common in the these situations, though usually not over such a large area. When there's an armed crazy guy around, standard operating procedure is to tell the civilians to keep out of the line of fire. I remember it happening once when I was a kid, when there was a standoff between the police and a guy that eventually shot himself. Everyone on my block was told either to evacuate to a nearby park or, in my family's case, to go into their basements and stay away from the windows. This isn't the beginning of a totalitarian regime, but the norm for trying to keep people safe.
but I honestly can't see myself choosing to watch a good movie this way.
That problem has already been taken care of.
Take a look at Political Compass. It at least splits economic and social issues, and does a decent job of explaining the different combinations. It also nicely shows how the Democrats and Republicans aren't as different overall as they would have you believe.
Good point. I was thinking that they could block sites without nearly as much backlash if there weren't many other sites blocked as collateral damage.
Is it just me, or does this sound like the perfect motivation for governments to encourage IPv6 adoption?
The fox news article says : "Experts say Rogers may be stretching the truth: most people’s computers likely aren’t infected by agents of foreign governments.
Where in the article does it say that, though? If they put it far enough down, a significant portion of the readers won't ever see it.
Completely agree. I still maintain that overall, season 5 wasn't as bad as a lot of people think. It had some weak points, especially compared to seasons 3 and 4, but the strong points were still very strong.
From what I've read, this will never happen, because getting the CGI and regular film to match at the higher resolution would be somewhere between insanely expensive and impossible.