Not really. Well, what you would need to do is the following:

1. Establish a reputation in the field by publishing in existing prestigious journals.
2. Do peer reviews of existing work for prestigious journals .. if you did Step 1 well, this wouldn't be too hard
3. Get together with others who have established their reputation in Step #1 and start a journal

They aren't easy steps, but then how else would you get get good peer reviewers and establish a quality journal? If you have the support of existing experts, then you wouldnt have a problem. if you don't have their support that could point to weakness in your ability to actually have a journal of high quality.

Huh? It's very easy. If your paper is good, just submit it to a known prestigious journal .. a list would be published in mainstream journals -- and you dont really need one .. you can go by citation indexes or just *gasp* read some of the entries in existing publications and see if they are coherent. Or you can ask around by attending seminars at colleges that are reputed.

It's easy to get familiar with who the top researchers are in any field .. it really doesn't take a lot of effort. If you are in a particular field you would know, so all you have to do is find out where their publications are .. (you can find this out easily from their corporate webpage or university department links).

A large capital intensive project that yields information that cannot be patented. Why would private investors spend money on it?

The Brain map will discover information, that information cannot be suppressed or even hidden (somebody is bound to leak it for free). Therefore it makes no sense for private investors to pour money into it, since they won't be able to get a return.

On the other hand, the value to society is immense .. therefore government should do it.

The reason the iWatch will kick this things butt is because the iWatch will:

1. Have a speakerphone
2. Allow you to answer/defer/pre-ring silence calls
3. It will have a speakerphone
4. Will let you respond with canned texts using the touch UI or text back using the Voice UI, when you don't wish to answer in speakerphone mode that is.
5. Did I mention the iWatch will have a speakerphone feature?
6. It will have voice activation.

How can an intelligence agency be so stupid?

Android has probably not outsold Apples devices, when you consider Android's non existent tablet sales and lack of laptops/desktop installations.

Well, I presented it in the form that people with low analytical motivation can absorb it. Since they vote, you have to convince them too you know.

Fact is that video games have made us safer. Population has increased yet the number of psychos per 100 people has decreased. Homicide rates have decreased. The murder rate in the prohibition era (1920s) was 4 times higher than today's rate.

USPTO is correct on this, it's like someone getting a trademark on Extra LargeT-shirt.

Windows on low end computers suck. Windows 8 would have the same market share as Windows Phone (nearly zero) if it wasn't for their Windows and MS Office monopoly. The currently available products of Microsoft I have respect for are Windows 7, Visual Studio, and MS Office. Windows 8 is horrible. Windows Phone is halfway decent. It would have been competitive in 2008.

Microsoft is going to ruin its brand even further by allowing Windows to run on crapboxes.

MagLIF is the current front runner in my book. I expect ITER to succeed as well.

Country:US:Filing date:19.01.2001, Filing number:09/766035, Pub.number:20010017944, Grant number:NA

It's disgusting they have patents filed in 2001 that are still pending that means they have will have a monopoly on that particular invention until abotu 2030, due to a loophole in the patent law that states that if the patent takes longer than 2 years to grant .. the time until the actual grant date doesn't count. This allows companies to extract royalties for 30 to even 40 years, especially if they had other patents that were granted for a particular type of technology.

The US Patent Office is to blame for this mess!!!

Wright's 1903 flight was not widely reported/known until a few years later. People at the turn of the century already had gliders, hot air balloons, and dirigibles. Hot air balloons were used in the civil war and of course well before that too.

Seriously you guys lack imagination. I remember in 2005 when I suggested that existing phones where were crap and that large screen touchscreen phones would be successful people thought I was crazy. Now the same people are claiming there is no way to make a watch user friendly. The screen of the iWatch will be at least the size of an iPod nano, probably larger and wider like a shrunken iphone in landscape mode..

In addition to the obvious things like GPS, Siri, blutetooth, apps, and phone call response/averting like the ability to answer a call in speaker phone mode with a tap or gesture:

1. Always-on voice control -- if the toy R2D2 robot running on double A batteries can have it, why cant a modern device (it wont consume much power, it's listening only for a specific keyword(s)).? One of the keywords can be a distress codeword that can call 911 or help and activates (GPS) tracking. Note, Always-on voice control is different than Siri which requires you to press a button.
2. Tap anywhere, including on the outside of the strap to answer or silence the phone or to view the time. And an option to shake to silence. Default? Will have to test which works best (gestures or tap?). There will also be a cool setting which causes your iWatch to vibrate for a few seconds before the phone actually starts ringing .. this will allow you to silence your phone without being awkward.
3. Heart rate and other health or distress vital signs monitor. An IR camera and other sensors facing downwards at the skin will probably be the best way to implement this ... though the first versions can be electricity based.
4. Ability to quickly send a canned text or voice message when you cannot answer the phone -- Ideally the UI will allow for this even in darkness when you are in a movie theater.
5. A pulse system that allows people to send you basic text-style messages without you having to read it. For example, if you are in a meeting and your friend wants to tell you she's gotten home .. she can send a short vibration sequence -- kinda like Morse code. The phone will vibrate in a specific pattern first to tell you it's her message, and then it will vibrate out the message. Doesn't have to be vibration only .. any sort of touch/skin sense thing I suppose.
6. Finger gesture to text character/word as a keyboard substitute.
7. USB 3/lighting connector.
8. NFC
9. Seamless data sync/integration with phone and other devices.
10. buttonless slick design, face and bottom having a gentle curve to it.

The above features are what I would expect in the first edition, the second version should have a miniature camera, thumbprint recognition.

There are a few other features I don't want to list here because I know Apple is gonna snag 'em and patent these features. I don't mind the snagging I don't like the patenting. After all, I am not bitter that 2 years after I mentioned that a large touchscreen phone and voice UIs would sell really well .. they announced the iPhone. Proof: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163341&cid=13644457 [slashdot.org]

Don't be a fool. The only person defending rapists here is you. By advocating imprisonment of a possibly innocent person, you want to add a victim to the rapists roster so he has something extra to feel happy about. Unless they both carried out the rapes .. of course you have no evidence of that. Fact is that you are just as bad as a criminal. You should be jailed for wanting to imprison an innocent person. That's attempted kidnapping you are guilty of.