Comment Re:Skinner! (Score 1) 88
I'm going to make a batch of steamed hams, and watch the show!
Comment Re:My big question is... (Score 1) 297
And I wonder who will pull the trigger on this... Apple or Amazon?
Comment My big question is... (Score 1) 297
are they going to lock out the Kindle iPhone application from running on the iPad?
Comment Re:"could this mean a new era for US patent policy (Score 1) 88
They're not exactly thrilled about them now...
Comment Re:Isn't that required? (Score 4, Informative) 88
Patent prosecution (writing patents) requires you pass the US patent bar, which is different from a state bar. To sit for the patent bar, you must have an engineering/science degree. Patent litigation, however, only requires you be certified by the bar of the state in which you are practicing; Patent Bar and technical degrees are not required.
You can also take the patent bar w/o going to law school, and become a patent agent. Still need the technical background, though.
Comment Re:Sorry Google (Score 1) 123
But they HAVE added them... you can't see a monkey from the fifth dimension until it is too late. That's why they're so dangerous.
Comment Felony! (Score 1) 1079
White text on a black screen? That IS a crime...
Comment And this is important because... (Score 1) 79
... anyone?
Comment Nudity solves the problem (Score 1) 758
Have a naked lan party! Nudity leaves the participants with nowhere to hide stolen items... well, almost nowhere.
Camera Phones Read Hidden Messages in Print 126
pikine writes "As reported by BBC News, Fujitsu has developed a technology that encodes 12-bytes of information in a printed picture by skewing yellow hue, which is difficult to discern by human eye but fairly easy for camera phones to decode using software written in Java." The first target uses are promotional contests and competitions, not entirely unlike those game pieces that need to be viewed through a colored filter.
Feed Bloggers Blow It on Wikipedia Ban (wired.com)
Submission + - Interstellar Ark
xantox writes: "There are three strategies to travel 10.5 light-years from Earth to Epsilon Eridani and bring humanity into a new stellar system : 1) Wait for future discovery of Star Trek physics and go there almost instantaneously, 2) Build a relativistic rocket powered by antimatter and go there in 22 years by accelerating constantly at 1g, provided that you master stellar amounts of energy (so, nothing realistic until now), but what about 3): go there by classical means, by building a gigantic Ark of several miles in radius, propulsed by nuclear fusion and featuring artificial gravity, oceans and cities, for a travel of seven centuries — where many generations of men and women would live ? This new speculation uses some actual physics and math to figure out how far are our fantasies of space travel from their actual implementation."
Journal Journal: Linux.com | My sysadmin toolbox
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/1550251
Lesser known command line tools for all flavors of Linux.
Submission + - Geek Toys for Kids
Edis Krad writes: An CNN Money article reviews the Hot Toys for 2007. From the article:
"Industry leaders have accepted that kids are becoming more technology savvy at a younger age, and therefore are more inclined to discard their Barbie dolls and Power Ranger action figures for the cool MP3 player or camera cell phone."
Among those, I was particularly impressed with the Video Journal (blogging for kids?), the virtual bicycle (apparently, riding a real bicycle isn't cool enough anymore), and last but not least, the robotic parrot , that oddly reminds me of the replicant owl in Blade Runner
As technology becomes cheaper and more available, is it true that kids prefer cool gadgets rather and soccer balls and baseball gloves?
"Industry leaders have accepted that kids are becoming more technology savvy at a younger age, and therefore are more inclined to discard their Barbie dolls and Power Ranger action figures for the cool MP3 player or camera cell phone."
Among those, I was particularly impressed with the Video Journal (blogging for kids?), the virtual bicycle (apparently, riding a real bicycle isn't cool enough anymore), and last but not least, the robotic parrot , that oddly reminds me of the replicant owl in Blade Runner
As technology becomes cheaper and more available, is it true that kids prefer cool gadgets rather and soccer balls and baseball gloves?
Submission + - waterproof iPod mod is just the beginnning
Gilliam H. writes: "The waterproof iPod thing is already out there. The real scoop I think is that the guy who invented it. Professor Silverman, has a string of patents on things that are very nearly sci-fi.
The swimman is what everyone is talking about all of the the sudden but that's like throwing a bullet as opposed to shooting it.
Yes, I am too lazy to write the actual story but I thought I'd put out what I know and let other more caffeinated people do it.
Gilliam-"
