Posts by John Smith 19

"yet all declined, citing prior art. I"

I've always wondered if when one of these cases happens the "prior art" document is incorporated into the list of documents the USPTO should check the to see if this has been done before.

Doing this should widen the knowledgebase sufficiently to stop later attempts at patents from being accepted, filtering out rubbish.

Nahhhhh.

That would prevent the pack of scum bag lawyers involved from trousering the large green. they love so much and deprive the USPTO of income.

so probably not.

Well if you do wnat to orchestrate a DoS get the US Govt to organize it.

Obvious really.

It's a start

But boy has it been a long time coming.

Astonishing.

You're talking about watching atoms vibrate in a crystal.

When you look deeper into objects your understanding is likely to change quite a lot.

Neat.

The bulk of the sensor should be fairly simple and relatively undemanding as it's basically a special purpose volt meter.

However the cell will probably have to be replaceable/disposable because the bacteria are going to die at high concentrations.

Likewise if you want a spectrum of nasties it can detect you'll want exchangeable cartridges on this thing.

Still thumbs up for a lightweight, low power simple device.

Neat.

Exploiting longitudinal waves in water seems a very under studied area of science to me.

A while back a team worked out that you could focus water waves on a tidal power site by simply sticking a pattern of posts in the water. Effectively creating a watery phased array system.

Thumbs up for this and a hope it becomes available for the next big spill.

11.2Km/s is the speed you get "falling" from the Moons orbit to the Earth orbit.

Lunar return needs much smaller velocity changes, hence much less powerful and lower Isp can do the job in the first place.

It's good to be reminded that there *are* cases where the people won.

But remember this is the USA.

THE PATRIOT Act trumps everything.

So can't do what it says but you can f**k up the satellite phone calls and reroute them?

Which could be very valuable if some corporate fat cat thinks he's talking to an adviser telling him thinks which are in fact total BS

But hard coded passwords in airborne equipment.

Are you f**king mad?

So *despite* being the incumbant they don't have a home team advantage?

I smell the work of BT's "relationship management team" at work vigorously lubricating the sales channel.

If this is correct then at least Logicalis got a great entry for their corporate CV. :( .

Actually the clever bit is the *design* software.

And when boffins use the word "arbitrary" they mean that they can design a part to a specific size, shape or requirement, rather than a cut-and-try-and-hope-it-works process.

Keep in mind this version is made in paper.

That is not a requirement for future versions.

My instinct is the limits are set by the areal strength of the shape memory materials.

Thumbs up for clever thinking and not breaking the bank to do the research.

It's only when you try to mimic the human brain architecture you discover *how* clever it is.

The roughly 10^10 neurons and 10^15 synapses runs on < 400W.despite being 3d packed.

Binary synapes are not without uses. IIRC the WISARD machine used them and demonstrated facial recognition in 1/30 sec IE 1 TV frame in the late 80's.

Depends if you're government or a customer who gives a s**t

In the former they manage the sucker client

In the latter it depends how clueless are the people they are dealing with.

Once saw a wirelsse burglar alarm this could benfit

The individual remote boxes (window sensors, IR etc) ate batteries..

Frankly if the IoT is going to take off people won't want the huge PITA of changing batteries, all of which will no doubt be different between different products, making buying them in bulk to do a mass replace impossible.

I smell a version of the justification of "Super injuctions"

And I can smell it from here.

Actually the "public interest" routine was trotted out by the UK govt during the "supergun" trial.

3 (of 4 involved) govt Ministers trotted out "Public Interest Immunity" certificates. 1 declined.

The "public interest" was in the public not knowing that a)At least one Director was reporting everything to the security services (and by extension the US and Israel). b) Everyone except Customs & Excise knew what the "gas pipe" was and where it was going, which was why they seized it.

My instinct is one of those companies is BAe and their CEO dropped in on call-me-Dave (as apparently unlike any CEO from a normal company he can) and said it would damage "British" IE BAe shareholder interests if that fact got out.

Paranoid?

Moi?

Pwnd by a printer in HR.

Am I the only person here thinking "Good?"

And while I'm on the subject printers remotely accessible from the internet?

Are their leasors (because the big stuff is not usually owned by the company) using some kind of f**ked up remote user support deal?

The only renewable I detect is the smell of BS

For which there is a virtually infinite supply already.

AFAIK the major customer for this Panasonic Tesla plant is Tesla

Who make cars.

Not home load leveling packages. Not business load leveling packages.

For this little fantasy to happen a)The Tesla plant has to have spare mfg capacity to sell and b)Someone has to want it.

Thing is as business ramps up they are going to need that capacity for themselves.

Well that's one solid customer made.

Now what about the other several hundred million needed to fund an actual company?

Seeing a big hole in the page

I guess there should be a picture of it there?

So quite a lot of AV not very good?

I wonder what would happen if the support documentation for routers and socket addresses got good enough that ordinary users could figure out if they wanted stuff to go out through a port or not?

Obligatory "Brazil" reference

"Buttle, not Tuttle"

Know what I mean?

Oh great you can now do automated "pump and dump" schemes.

Yay for that.

If these results actually mean anything of course.

Sticking everyithing behind a firewall sounds like a good first step but...

Long term it looks like all vendors are going to have to get more into security.

If you're a small company with limited resources it seems like common sense to be friendly and receptive with security researchers rather than play the "Our products are fully secure. There is nothing to worry about" routine.

I've always wondered at the difficulty of implementing protocols. My instinct is keep it simple and work through the spec as a state machine using a tool, not writing huge chunks of code.

So why don't they close the loss making divisions and only support *existing* customers?

But what do I know of business.

Impressive and I'd expected it to be *much* colder

The background temperature of deep space is usually described as being about 3-4K.

Which suggests solar heating bumps things up a lot, or the comet has some kind of internal process going on.

Thumbs up for field work, especially so far away.

"*most* of the time, they are subject to public scrutiny. "

And there's the problem.

You know the government will play the "National Security" card and say this is too sensitive to discuss/monitor/question.

I did not know that the Aus gov has such advanced cross government data management and I agree that if the government the usual cabal of data fetishist career spookocrats who are usually behind this BS wants it done they should pay for it.

I also agree it's a butt headed stupid thing to do and is grossly disproportionate to the size of threat involved.

"Volcanic activity."

I did not know it had volcanoes.

*Sounds* good.

But it all hinges on 2 things

Effective oversight and avoidance of regulatory capture.

Time will tell who is offered the NS Koolaid and who drinks it.

SOP. When caught. Deny everything.

But remember people can fake source locations.

Astonishing.

Thumbs up for such results so far from home.

Note this very different environment also allows for the construction of new weather models starting from a very different basis.

Found by *how* big a team? 1 you say?

So what's the betting the TLA's have been using this approach for at least the last 20 years?