With the ability to search on the internet there seem to be
a magnification of and concerted efforts to rename almost
anything. Partly from the publish or perish citation world but
with subtle and perhaps sinister financing.

All, that is needed is to cut the research thread is to silently
rename some prior art. And publish in modern documents
and journals.

A RAID might become SyntheticReliableStorageSystem (SRSS).
All papers discussing SRSS would never reference RAID research.
They would bypass RAID and jump to the side for statistical analysis
cited in RAID research iff necessary. All the layers renumbered,
renamed and restructured and Bob is your uncle...

It takes almost a generation but a very strong line is drawn and for
the most part only the grey haired know what went before.
This makes it almost impossible for patent research to reach
back into its own documents and difficult to impossible to
research on the internet or many libraries.

Some companies hire old guys and park them in
a museum like atmosphere and trot them out as needed.
A well fed and well populated museum could be the best defense
from some patent trolls.

Outside of the museum is some serious age discrimination.

This is important.....
I have seen thick wall steel pipe with blisters inside the metal.
The pipe contained high pressure hydrogen at high temperatures and
the hydrogen would react with the carbon in the steel and grow bubbles
a little like Swiss cheese.

The diffusion dimension of H2 and He is also interesting.

Ask the question differently..... why you would use helium.
A partial answer is thermal... revisit the old TCM (thermal conductive modules)
used in system components like IBM 3081. H has good thermal properties.
Another is the H or He have vastly better dynamic fluid properties to let the head seek
and perhaps fly better.
Pressure and seal is an issue but an expansion bladder can establish a way for
pressure changes to have minimum impact on the case.
Helium is inert allowing a wider choice of internal materials.

Some of these properties are not dependent on a 100% H atmosphere.

And if you crack one open you can sound funny.

Sure it looked like something other than a meteorite
I sure wanted it to be extraterrestrial.

Now how will we ever know. Last I checked all extraterrestrial
rocks and crafts are supposed to be fitted with blackbox recorders
and radar beacons. Compliance has been low so I have little
hope of additional collaborating evidence.

Many of the old strads have been modified to have a taller bridge
or this or that to improve on the voice.

The old strads that were less than wonderful have been used
as kindling or rebuilt and refitted to be playable. i.e. only the
instruments that stand the test of time made it to today.

One anomaly in the good ones that is almost impossible to measure
is the way the wood was dried. One supply had been submerged in
volcanic ash and was gently permeated with silica as well as it
was cured for decades before being sawn into boards and finally
dried. Should someone pull some Mt. St Hellen spruce out of Spirit
lake and slow cure the boards well we could have a modern fiddle
that in 700 years will prove to be a master.

Yet another clairvoyant posting.
Telling us what the secret plot of the show yet to be aired will tell us.

Perhaps this is simple marketing buzz generation....

Moving on.

It smells like a lot of PDF stuff.
Not a cut, paste,make, install process that is sure
yet documentation might be nice.

600 million does not seem sufficient to ship
removable fuel rods to Yucca Mtn. in the modern
world.

The good news is that there is some darn solid granite
in this area that could be tunneled into and rods stored
in one meter diameter coffins to the side and shielded
by rock. While not perfect the rods could be locked up
about as tight as Fort Knox...

Vastly larger masses of material exposed to neutron flux
and transmuted a little or a lot are a larger problem.

This is a big expensive RutRo....

While they are at it lets mandate recording cameras front, side and sure back.
Partly they can record police vehicle badness.

With luck we will also get good images of the next large meteor strike.

On reality I have noted is that the crash and rollover tests have caused
car makers to build thicker and wider vertical structures to protect the
occupants. However, the result is less visibility.

So DOT is likely mandating a fix for unintended consequences of their regulatory
process.

Nor do I.
There is an old saying to the effect:
"Had I known then what I know now".

In this case we see some evidence of relentless improvement which is something
I want from any vendor I do business with. We do want companies to install small
as well as large improvements in their product as they learn how to make and break
their products. Like software changes how do we evaluate the importance of each
tiny change?

I fear that the punitive nature of the modern legal system will take any change as
an admission of (fill in the blank). Such admissions then become the bones of
contention.

This is kin to the patent system where it is impossible to navigate and
near impossible to purchase access to inventions that can improve safety
of devices.

Who could have a problem with a program that returns
twice the input?
$ cat two.c /* two.c */ // return twice the input
#include
#include
int main( int argc, char *argv[]){
int innie;
innie= atoi(argv[1]);
printf("the answer is: %i \n", innie * (int)3);
}

WP has some history here:
"History[edit]

The exact timeline of the term oggcast is uncertain, however, The Linux Link Tech Show, one of the longer running Linux podcasts still in production, has a program in the Ogg Vorbis format in its archives from January 7, 2004.[2] Given that a stable release of Ogg Vorbis did not appear until July 19, 2002,[3] it is very likely that the term oggcast was coined sometime between 2002 and 2004."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oggcast)

WikiPedia may have it close to right.
Personal Audio lawsuits[edit]
Personal Audio, a company referred to as a "patent troll" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[22] filed a patent on podcasting in 2009 for a claimed invention in 1996.[23] In February 2013, Personal Audio started suing high-profile podcasters for royalties,[22] including the Adam Carolla Show and the HowStuffWorks podcast. US Congressman Peter DeFazio's previously proposed "SHIELD Act" intends to curb patent trolls.[24]
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

Under all this is mumble foo about Apple trademarks and software in iTunes and other devices that just made it easy.

This may prove to be such an egregious abuse of the system that Personal Audio may have serious liability.
In part their liability may be full disclosure of all attempts to capitalize on this both success and failure.
And further company memoranda involved in the decision to pay... some of the big guys pay for demands
below some guideline... with little interaction but their financial analysis is the gold in the sand pile.
i.e. proof of thuggery.

DING/Ding

UPDATE MARCH 5, 2014:

The court held a hearing today on the subpoena. Good news: Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins agreed with EFF and struck down Personal Audio's demands. The judge will issue a written order shortly; we will publish as soon as we have it.

Personal Audio can try to appeal the decision, so this fight may continue. But for now: victory!