From where I sit, it seems to be for someone else's good... at my expense. Thanks... Not interested.

You are not required to drive on public roads. In fact I have three motorized vehicles in California that are completely uninsured, and have been for 20+ years. They never leave private land.

This bill required you to buy healthcare simply for being alive.

An exception... If the bill affects taxation or revenue, it must originate in the house. The Senate can't originate tax bills. This stalled the recent "FDA food production" grab by Monsanto, I think it was S510 or something like that...

KA9Q NOS was a MS-DOS application running on a full size PC. It could route between a SLIP connection from the Internet to a HF/VHF/UHF radio "network", thought it was illegal to set up such a configuration. It was a reasonably full featured TCP/IP implementation, but there wasn't a lot of ability to add services. I think it had the ability to telnet out, and host FTP. It may have had naming services and possibly something like gopher, but that's not really needed to be prior art. What it was is TCP/IP routing on a wireless network. It suffered from retransmit problems on long haul links. Picture 3 stations in a line, 30 miles apart. The station in the middle hears both. The stations on the ends only hear the station in the middle. They implement CDMA and retransmit. The end stations step on each other and the middle station gets nothing but collisions. 802.11 came years later, and succeeded because it was a local area only network, and used unlicensed spectrum with no license requirement or legal restrictions on use.

So in 1988 we had wireless TCP/IP routing. The AX25 drivers in the Linux kernel were integrated into 2.0 circa 1996, and available as a patch some time before that. Jeff Tranter wrote an article for it in Linux Journal circa 1997. I believe the Linux filtering and routing stuff was pretty advanced at that point. So the Linux portion pre-dates the patent as well.

All that's left is "embedded Linux", But I'm sure there was someone running Linux on a precursor to a Soekris board back in the 90's.

What does that leave in the patent claims?

The ampr.org domain dates to April 1988. Phil Karn's KA9Q NOS claims to date back to 1985. I know I established a routed connection from the east bay to Cupertino via a KA9Q "router" in San Jose using 1200 baud modems on 2m VHF radio around 1990 or 1991, and I was just repeating work that everyone else was doing.

Temkin

The low-end computer monitor market is using commodity HD TV LCD's. The solution is to pony up and buy a middle tier monitor that does proper 1600 x 1200 or something aspect ratio appropriate.

You get what you pay for.

Except OpenSolaris is dead.

Often true. Though at times judges have been known to harass or attempt to entrap a juror candidate that professes such.

If you truly believe in jury nullification, you'll keep quiet about it so you can actually use it when needed. I don't avoid jury duty. But I long ago decided that the "war on drugs" is a huge waste of time, money, and people's lives. I doubt I could convict someone of simple pot possession, without some extra circumstance like violence, or other crime.

Your personal knowledge is disallowed and even illegal as a juror. Jurors adding testimony without cross-examination during deliberations is one of the other big things you can get in trouble for. It introduces bias of its own. That's why they usually dismiss anyone with any relevant expertise. In fact, I find having a science degree very nearly a "get out of jury duty free card".

It would be solved in 50 years.

Having actually worked in next door to a oxygen isotope lab, and having seen just how painstakingly difficult it is to do Oxygen mass spectrometry correctly...

I'm not worried about this getting abused any time soon.

About 8 or more years ago I spent a saturday morning playing GT on the PS/2. I was working on unlocking the various license classes, and was really into it for 2 or 3 hours. The wife asked me to run to the store to pick up something. About a mile from my house I realized I was driving like a complete maniac...

Time republish "Inconstant Moon"...

And they laughed when Sun bought StorageTek!

Well... Ok... That didn't work out so well...

Never do this:

"Do you know why I pulled you over today?"

"Yes sir, you are conducting an investigation in the discharge of your official duties, and had probable cause to do so."

They don't like that one at all....