Comment: Re:Awarded? (Score 1) 191
If you click on the "patent applications" side it goes to http://appft.uspto.gov/ instead.
Comment: Re:Defensive patent (Score 1) 191
If the Google patent is truly for something that is already known then it should not have been issued. I did not read the whole patent. Patents always have to be for something new that is not yet known by others: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics.jsp#novelty. If what Google patent was already known (and I'm not saying that it is because I didn't read the whole thing) then it can be challenged and overturned in court. It can be challenged in federal district court, appealed to the Federal Circuit, and appealed to the Supreme Court.
Comment: Re:Defensive patent (Score 1) 191
Comment: Re:Awarded? (Score 3, Informative) 191
All documents at http://patft.uspto.gov/ are issued patents.
Comment: Re:Defensive patent (Score 4, Insightful) 191
It is not true that if Google doesn't patent it, a troll will. A technique that is well known, such as MapReduce, is the property of the general public and is unpatentable. Any technology that has been sold or in use for over a year is unpatentable.
Apple's TV/DVR iPod is Patent Pending->
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blee37 writes "The USPTO has published a patent application by Apple for technology to enable a TV / DVR iPod. It suggests that an iPod would be able to switch between different content streams like terrestial TV, satellite TV, and HDTV. The diagrams also show an external device that could be connected to older iPods to enable TV/DVR capability."
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How the Great Firewall Works, and Evading It-> 1
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blee37 writes "This article describes the nuts and bolts of the Great Firewall of China. Surprisingly, it "censors" sites by sending TCP reset requests to the client and server and relies on these endpoint computers to comply with the reset request. It is shown that using a one line Unix command to ignore TCP resets defeats the Great Firewall. Original analysis done by Dr. Richard Clayton of the University of Cambridge."
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Comment: Re:already been done (Score 2, Informative) 148
Cyc is a controversial project in the AI community, and I'm glad that you brought it up. I don't think anyone yet knows how to use a database of commonsense facts, which is what Cyc is (though limited - the open source version only has a few hundred thousand facts) and which is one thing NELL could create. However, researchers continue to think about ways that an AI could use knowledge of the real world. There are numerous publications based on Cyc: http://www.opencyc.org/cyc/technology/pubs.
CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time 148
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from the hao-ubowt-hahmnimz dept.
from the hao-ubowt-hahmnimz dept.
blee37 writes "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a web-scraping AI program that never dies. It runs continuously, extracting information from the web and using that information to learn more about the English language. The idea is for a never ending learner like this to one day be able to become conversant in the English language." It's not that the program couldn't stop running; the idea is that there's no fixed end-point. Rather, its progress in categorizing complex word relationships is the object of the research. See also CMU's "Read the Web" research project site.
Comment: Unfortunate (Score 1) 178
It's unfortunate that the Chinese government continues to spy on the population. Many text messages that people send are quite personal.
Text message technology actually makes it easier to spy on people because you can just filter for words like "democracy" rather than actually having to pay an operator to listen to people's phone conversations. Many human rights activists in China had previously reported having their phones tapped.
Text message technology actually makes it easier to spy on people because you can just filter for words like "democracy" rather than actually having to pay an operator to listen to people's phone conversations. Many human rights activists in China had previously reported having their phones tapped.