There's one CLEC in the western US that provides dialup service to ISP's that also intercepts search requests, forwards the search to Yahoo, etc., and alters the search engine returns by changing links and inserting ads. You'd never know what was happening unless you were watching the traffic on the port and noticed that DNS was returning the same IP address for all the search engines.

Patenting software is a tremendous gamble, given the vast and ever-increasing amount of prior art that exists. There is far too much prior art for anyone to be aware of it all. But patent applicants forge on, sometimes rewording claims to obscure the fact that they are obvious or prior art but never giving up on the dream to see their name on an official US government patent and dreaming of all the millions and millions they'll make from the resulting monopoly, only to find their claims rejected and often whole patents voided on reexamination.

Software should not be patentable. Among other reasons, this is a field fraught with traps and pitfalls that even the most experienced cannot help but fall into. Also, it is so risky that patent insurance, if at all available, costs far more than the patent is worth.

There seems to be a popular notion that there is no difference between sending a video as a file and sending as a stream because bytes is bytes is bytes. Though it seems a reasonable opinion, it is still not a valid assumption. IP wasn't designed for streaming media or any other real-time communication. Streaming is an inefficient use of IP resources that disproportionately degrades network performance. Empirical observations of network data flow and traffic with and without real-time streaming support that conclusion. Gigabit rates will not increase the efficiency of streaming over IP. Instead, it is more likely to make networks slower, in part due to the misconception that fatter pipes means more streaming capacity.

The smartest ways to broadcast media in real time is to use technologies designed for it: Broadcast TV, radio, cable, PSTN. Using IP networks is just plain stupid.

Besides, what good reason is there to stream recorded media in real time? It is not live-as-it-happens. It's like buying a film movie frame by frame and watching it as you receive the frames from the store. Makes absolutely no sense.

When asked about this, Bank of America was unresponsive.

As usual.

Bank of America has had a long history of negligence with regard to online security, ever since they opened up web access to account holders.

And now what will become of the Elephant's Child? Keeping non-robotic entities out of the stacks will serve only to starve it to death.

Exploring the depths of the library stacks is one of the last and more refined civilised expressions of human hunter-gatherer instincts, where one can find even that which she didn't know she was looking for.

Serendipity is at the foundation of discovery and new knowledge. We become less than what we are when it is denied us.

It's not a lie!

It's not fraud!

It's a serving suggestion!

What? Where's the beef? Well, it's -- Look! Over there! A unicorn!

Comcast & Verizon have been known to routinely treat business customers as residential customers. ,

But your bank, credit card companies, et cetera, will be very happy to dump the authentication burdens and liabilities on someone else. Then, when someone steals your money, credit or services, it's not their fault.

Pretty much everything in security & authentication that comes from government has inevitably proven to be crap in the wild. Their stuff only "works" within controlled conditions, behind closed doors and with strictly limited access. Government blessed private and proprietary scams are far more concerned with the money than the security.

A lot of black hats are likely praying for this scam to get underway. And when it does become official, there will likely be a run on rubber sheets.

According to the article there was no measurement made of the magnetic field. Rather, the strength of the magnetic field was calculated by observing and measuring something else and then plugging that data into a model which then calculated the strength of the magnetic field. Regardless of the degree of confidence in the calculation, it is still not a measurement and it's crap science to call it that.

they're talking about stacking the dice, not the devices. You know what dice are? They're the little chips of silicon that are then packaged to make the IC's that you typically see and use. Unless you can precisely align and drill little tiny microscopic holes in the dice and electrically connect the one on top to the one on bottom, then you haven't been doing what they're doing. Not even close.

The closest anyone has ever got to this is stacking small dice on a larger die and wire bonding the pads of one to the other.

Interesting that TSV is found to be useful after all. 29 years ago an AMD employee independently conceived of TSV and AMD refused to talk to the employee about this and other concepts, nearly all of which have subsequently been developed and patented by AMD's competitors.

No.

Evade the Constitution by calling it a civil action and then rig the rules to make any defense difficult if not impossible.

If not a hoax, then it would seem that DHS/ICS may have overstepped it's authority or is outside it's jurisdiction and is stepping on the Secret Service's and especially the FBI's toes.

The FBI still has primary jurisdiction in copyrights violation cases, IIRC.

What may have happened here is that someone went to the FBI to shutdown the sites, was denied, then went agency shopping and found the DHS/ICS eager to make their internet bones.

This seems somewhat like the FBI and Secret Service inept & incompetent Keystone Kops actions from the 90's when the DMCA was enacted, up to and including going after innocent parties, without evidence, without investigation, based solely on hearsay.

If they are in fact acting outside their jurisdiction, I would hope that EFF and other attorneys give the DHS and ICS a justly deserved roasting in court. But the people who induced the DHS/ICS to do this would get off scot-free, even if they lied to DHS/ICS.

Does anyone remember that little ball of hot stuff at the core of the planet and how it's producing various elements and compounds? Does anyone remember that carbon is one of the elements produced in abundance? Does anyone remember that compounds from the core move out to the surface, combining with other elements (such as oxygen) along the way?

With that nuclear furnace fusioning/fissioning away at the core (and which happens to be the source of carbon, oxygen, etc. for this planet) why would there be a need for atmospheric carbon to somehow go below the ground? Why wait for plant material to get buried underground?

It's not politically correct to mention this and it is Green heresy but a fact is a fact, even when it goes against whatever "correct" thinking is currently fashionable.

Once again, Army genius comes up with a half-assed and dangerous solution.

From the article:
"The power lines that run from the street to a house usually consist of one insulated wire that carries electricity to the house, paired with a bare wire that carries electricity away to complete a circuit."

uh, what? I haven't seen any overhead drops that consist of less than two insulated cables and one bare one to carry the split-220 to the typical home, small business, street lamp, etc.

If this device cuts into both insulated wires, there will be fireworks and they will blow any "covert op" they may be indulging in.

There's the wrong way, the right way and the Army way. This is so not the right way.