That is precisely what I was thinking... Global warming... making elephants more resistant to cold... They are going the wrong way... It seems like the are doing it just to do it and not for a real reason to do it.

If you realize you are sleeping and in a lucid state and decide to just use it like a sandbox playgound and do immoral things knowing that it is just a dream and not real people or things... does that make you bad or immoral? I won't go into detail but I have experimented a few times but stopped because I felt it might affect who I am since nobody really understands how dreams really affect people. There are limits for instance I can not make changes to buildings or the people in the dream, etc but I have a lot of control in my dreams as far as what I personally do inside the dream. I can switch channels by blinking my eyes if I don't like a dream scene. I don't get control of my dreams as much as I used to as a kid but still get awareness and control inside my dreams a few times a month.

I see it like writing a book. Just because you think of something for a story it does not mean you would do that or would want to do that in real life. Just in case though I really didn't like the feeling of when I did these experiments doing bad or immoral things so I stopped that pretty quickly. I do wonder though if someone purposely and repeatedly tried to do the opposite of what they normally would do purposely do immoral things... would that affect them in real life over time.

That is exactly how it works for me. I can fly if I want to, switch to different dreams like channels, and control some aspects of them. I could do it more often when I was younger but I still get control and switch to different channels if I don't like them a few times a month. I blink my eyes (in the dream) to change channels.

Thanks for that info.

I meant.... " First to file claims are mainly based on stuff not publicly available"

I think a lot of people are confused with what first to file really covers. First to invent claims are mainly based on stuff not publicly available. Even with the new first-to-file there are still protections for prior art that is publicly available. If you published or had a product already in the public that matched a patent that was filed later then you would still get protection. I am not lawyer... this is just what I have read after going over many articles on the web... so take with a grain of salt :).

I did a very similar thing this past Christmas. I used a white sheet and put a very bright white light bulb behind it. We were dressing up with funny hats and such with the family. It seemed like a very obvious thing to do to get a white background to me. I am no photographer... I just was wanting a nice white background.

You get to listen to Skinny Puppy. Sweet! Sign me up... oh wait... they put a water hose up where? while you listen?

For only $100,000,000 you can get your near-sited problems corrected without glasses or contacts. You might get cancer though. Bring back the space shuttle... there is a new use for it.

Surely some company trying to sell this tech is pushing it to the government somewhere.

And getting access to the keys and/or algorithms that generate said keyfobs. How well are the companies protecting them?

It doesn't help that those infected hosts now can get 150mbit/sec upload speeds... Verizon only charges an extra $10 a month for 50/25mbit service. It wouldn't take many of them to kill a lot of decent sized sites.

Just launch this stuff into the sun. Hopefully the rocket doesn't explode on take off though.

Are you a radio jockey in the Tampa Bay area by chance?