For tires with TPMS systems or RFID tags, vehicle tracking is already possible with simple antennas at a far lower cost than license plate OCR, and its harder to change your tires than your plates...

Honest question, have found only a few useful comments online. Has anyone else not already committed to either deployed both and compared?

According to the email I received, go to www.bn.com/borders and enter the email you registered under. You'll need access to that account to click through the confirmation email...

Since China, Mexico, India, and many places in the USA (chillers for example) routinely dump 1000s of tons of CFC's and HCFCs into the atmosphere, including R-12 (not US as we "banned" it), I fail to see how what is released via inhalers does any harm. Especially since each inhaler contains far less than an ounce.

If the companies sold 100,000,000 million inhalers, and each inhaler released a total of .1 ounce of CFC-12(commonly known as R-12) that would be less that 318 pounds of R-12.

With chillers in China and Mexico dumping 1000+ pounds of R-12 each week, India and Mexico, and China and Vietnam and every other 3rd world country venting out all refrigerants from car ACs to home refrigerators, to commercial cooling equipment, the 318 pounds is not going to have any effect.

Other than raise our health care costs and increase the amount of folks who can't afford to treat their illness, and eventually turning to disability in order to get medical care for something they could treat OTC for a small price.

So North Korea could make a fortune running proxy services?

Which is why my old and experienced ass, gets my games from private servers.

Because some of us enjoy playing a game against people who present a challenge.

You got that right. On a twinked out, fully chanted lvl 19 rogue, I could not solo kill a lvl 15 holy priest wearing BA chest and shoulders and random quest greens no higher than ilvl 11-12. I could kill lvl 19 retpallies as a lvl 15 twinked out and fully chanted mage, and as a twinked and enchanted lvl 10 mage, I got ironman and wrecking ball in my first WSG,

I have a wireless router running named FBILOADNET. Wonder how many people have tried to access the network? Alll of them have failed, as I can guarantee not even the NSA could crack into my wireless server and either use it or access anything connected to it of mine.

This is the real reason why most large companies now have email retention policies and auto-delete everything after 30..90 days.

It is a cheaper "fix".

What ancestors? God created man. Says so in the Holy King James Bible. Prepare yourself for Hell, for all eternity sinner. And may the Almighty G-d send all your family there with you so your suffering and be more complete watching them suffer eternal damnation and pain.

You miss the point - the researchers discovered an application of the laws of physics to cryptanalysis. Cool, interesting, but not inherently patentable. Then they patented every way to fix that problem, many of which would be obvious to someone skilled in the art.

If I discover that 1+2 = 3, I cannot patent that equation. If I discover an application of that equation to a physical problem, the intent of the framers in patent law was that only a non obvious application may be patented. The fact that they discovered the problem doesn't (at least by law) eliminate or nullify the PHOSITA requirement.

The researchers found a hard to find problem, then patented the obvious solutions to that problem.

This is one of the problem with patents in general - patents are being issued where the person "skilled in the art", i.e. someone who has the same degree of specialization, would have developed the same solution, and the USPTO no longer makes a reasonable effort to prevent that.

Not everyone who complains on Slashdot is naive on patent realities, and the problem is real and ugly.

Aside from the legal fiction of the PHOSITA (Person Having Ordinary Skill In The Art), the intent of this clause by the framers was that it should not be possible for anyone to obtain a patent on something that would be obvious to someone working in the field.

In this specific case, once the feasibility of power vector side channel attacks was understood, any ideas that should have been obvious to someone having ordinary skill in the applicable fields (cryptanalysis of side channels, EE, FPGA layout internals) should not be patentable.

While credit must be given to researches who discovered these attack vectors, the fact remains that the patents they obtained are broad enough to intersect essentially every idea a PHOSITA would come up with. While it is possible to interpret claims narrowly through the context of the background and description, juries often (especially in East Texas) fail to narrow interpretations sufficiently, and just attempting just a narrow interpretation will still cost you $1-3M in legal fees.

If your job includes evaluation of risk of patent infringement (which mine does, for one of the worlds largest companies) then you would understand that the combination of lowering the bar on "obvious" and "prior art", along with the challenges that venue shopping presents, have created a situation where it has become nearly impossible to do anything interesting without infringing many patents that should NOT have been issued.