Patent claims an SOC with a hash engine that includes a message scheduler, which is what anyone skilled in the art would come up with when asked to design a mining SOC.

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The major vendors aren't nearly as interested in dropping the system hardware cost as they are in having plausible access to live microphone streams. Since the user is the product, and privacy is irrelevant, its now all about the data mining for advertising and related behavioral research. This also keeps the IP in the neural networks away from competitors and open source developers prying eyes. These chips might be used for some preprocessing, but these vendors want that data stream to continue as long as possible...

So, who are you trolling for ?

In the past any inventor who could produce documentation proving they invented something could gain priority over one filed by some who learned of the invention and had their legal team rush out a patent. Under "first to file" open science is basically dead, as any group collaborating openly online is at perpetual risk of having their work patented by anyone who learns of it and files before they can.

This has massively stifled online collaboration, as important inventions made in private now result in the inventor taking out a loan and going dark for 5-7 years while they wait for the USPTO to get around to their application.

It has also emboldened corporations to accelerate preexisting efforts to file as many patents as possible on anything promising.

The commons, like most public resources, are being privatized, and patents are a major drag on nearly every aspect of innovation.

yep, caught that after post, despite preview... wish there was a last chance edit...

With our fun new "first to file" patent system, not only can corporations beat almost any inventor to locking up an idea, we've nearly completely killed open science! And while many historians consider "first to file" to be a big part of the growth of American innovation and business in the previous centuries, we needed to reprioritize to help usher in our glorious new Gilded Age. Remember children, the government is just taking care of the most important citizens! So rejoice in your serfdom, and pick up that can...

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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Many people used to buy Craftsman tools due to high quality (compared to almost any other consumer brand) plus the lifetime warranty - the math made sense. But for years now the majority of Craftsman tools for sale are made in China ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), the quality has plummeted to Harbor Freight levels, and every time you get a warranty replacement the quality drops. Normal MBA thinking - how can I goose profits this quarter, and my golden parachute will carry me out the door when things go bad. This thinking across American business is whats killing American retail. Why buy crap from Sears or Wall-Mart when I can get slightly better crap faster on Amazon? Or if you don't mind waiting, roll the dice and order your crap directly from China. Related, no connection or affiliate code - I don't go to hobby stores any more, I go to https://hobbyking.com/ . Sure, sometimes the parts that arrive are bad, but most of the time its exactly what the local store offers, at 1/3 the price. If people (in general) don't want (to pay for) quality, and business managers don't care about killing the business, then everything is short term now. Silly people don't realize that trickles down to their own jobs. Or already has.

The plan to pay for the Mars mission using Iridium XXL is somewhat silly on the surface, but you have to acknowledge they are operating commercial LEO launch services at the highest launch rate in the world AND have already brought the price per to pound to LEO under $1k while their competitors are pushing $5-6k... So this does put their "aspirational" comments in a context somewhat different from most others. If SpaceX wanted to launch 8k Cubesats (as a silly counterpoint) they could do that without any help other than draining their own capital, and there are few national governments that could do that, much less private companies.

Heck, Zubrin told NASA how to put men on Mars a long time ago for ~$20b (unadjusted 1990 Mars Direct $), and NASA was more interested in seeing how many pet projects could get funded at the same time with an SEI proposal of $500b (unadjusted 1989 $, with normal overruns would end up north of $2t). So while I respect NASA's historical role tremendously, I have long since lost faith in them as a driving force for anything other than capital disbursement and some engineering outsourcing for private industry - they will not get a mars mission funded. SpaceX might.

The Apollo program included the Little Joe II and Saturn 1, 1B, and V rockets in addition to one CSM stack and a Lunar Lander, by Apollo budgets we should be at least into the Saturn flights, while SLS is still busy redesigning 40 year old Shuttle hardware.

SLS is likely going to end up north of $1b a launch to put about the same payload as Falcon Heavy for $90M a launch? And Falcon is expected to fly in a few months, while SLS first flight is officially now Dec 2019, insiders say more likely 2021.

I'm sorry, SpaceX is trying to open space, while NASA is primarily trying to help open taxpayer pockets.

NASA for decades has been primarily a program to send pork back to all 50 states, by using cost-plus contracts and making sure that as many congress-critters as possible can point to jobs they brought to their district. One report put ARES/SLS spending at $19B to date, and Orion at $13B to date. So we've spent nearly half the adjusted cost of the Apollo program with no hardware in flight yet. And the same report puts NASA overhead at 72% of Orion cost. NASA isn't really trying to return us to space as much as they're trying to run a jobs and pork program. Now I love NASA, have since I was a kid. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize an out of control government program thats been taken over by MBAs and politicians.

1) Any intelligence agency that doesn't look for exploits in commonly used tools isn't doing their job.
2) Kaspersky is a great target for exploit research no matter who you are.
3) Its common practice to keep identified exploits secret for high value zero day attacks JUST like this.
4) Also standard practice to request (or steal) source from domestic (or vulnerable) corps to make exploit location easier.

Not to defend Kaspersky (cause who knows?) but this just sounds like a normal day at the office for this problem space...

Remember, Congress has stated that a term mandated by the Constitution has being only for a "limited period" is perfectly acceptable to set at "forever minus a day"; given such abuse of discretion I'm just shocked, shocked I say that the 9th Circuit decided once again the Constitution means the opposite of what it says. Because its a "living document", and living things can change their mind, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06...

There is almost no aspect of the Constitution which hasn't been carved into shreds by numerous court rulings, especially the Bill of Rights. The fourth amendment has been reduced in practice to barely, sort of cover a locked box in a house you own, which LEO may still break into and search under a list of circumstances that grows every year. (Acceptable "exigent circumstances" now includes "I thought I heard something".) And until Immigration and Nationality Act 287(a)(3) is rescinded, Border Patrol can literally ignore the constitution, which is similar to Title 14 section 89 of the United States Code which lets the US Coast Guard conduct unlimited warrantless armed no-knock searches of ANY boat for ANY reason including training.

There are no branches of government which treat the Constitution with anything but utter contempt. This extends throughout most state and federal governments. Try "buying" land and building something on it without asking "master may I" every step of the way...