No, no, you cannot copyright how to make a functional object. That's what patents are for, and they run out after 20 years.

Yes, but you really think they go "noooo, we got enough money, no need to" when offered some more?

Pretty much, yes. What's going on inside the reactor vessel hasn't changed much in fifty years. None of the more exotic designs has been much of a success. If anything goes wrong with a new design years downstream, a billion dollar plant may have to be retired early.

What's been learned is that the worst cases designed for fifty years ago weren't bad enough. It's necessary to design for bigger earthquakes, bigger tsunamis, bigger fires, bigger floods, bigger leaks, bigger airplane crashes, and bigger screwups than was thought fifty years ago. (All those things have happened.) This runs up costs. Also, decommissioning a damaged reactor is far more expensive than building it. We still don't have a place to put used fuel rods, either.

Your second case assumes altruism on the part of Sony.

This is Sony we're talking about. The same company that removed the *option* to run a different OS from the PS3. The same company that put a rootkit on their CDs.

You got modded informative. There should be a "delusional" mod.

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This will also probably also be good for FreeBSD in terms of its codebase as well. I expect Sony will probably be feeding back some patches.

This man is in denial.

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By your wording,it's obvious that you fellate the NSA.

Bye.

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Nice. Given Disney's interest in converting 2D movies to fake 3D movies, it's not surprising that they're investing in this. It looks like they're able to do this without having to create imagery to fill in occluded areas, which is a problem with some of the other approaches.

Next, Google StreetView needs to be redone with this level of quality.

So register a trademark yourself. You have an earlier priority date.

Their priority date (for "Word Mark AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 JOBS") is December 21, 2012.

Because you used the "Domains by Proxy" service to hide the registration information for your domain, you may have trouble proving first use. Another disadvantage of those ownership-hiding services - when you need to prove ownership, you can't.

A US Government employee broke the law

When a law is unjust, you break it.

If he really cared that it was "the right thing to do" he would turned himself in the day he released to keep the storm on PRISIM, not himself.

That would be suicide.

  The US government is at war with the 4'th Amendment. Patton said "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his." A good soldier lives to fight another day.

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Yes I did and yes I did.

I'm not US American, but don't think it's any better in Europe. Yes, "my" party didn't make it into the parliament, but at the very least my message was "yes I was there, yes I voted, but NONE of you deserve my vote, I'd rather hand it to someone who has no chance of winning."

We're likely to see this in the private sector first. A likely application would be a machine learning system used by investment funds, to decide how to optimally vote stock proxies. What that means is a machine that decides when to fire CEOs. If some fund starts getting better returns that way, it will happen.

You could obfuscate HTML by generating a custom font with glyphs in the Unicode private use space for each message, then using hard-to-read characters. This is, of course, a monoalphabetic substitution, which is close to the weakest known cryptosystem. At best it might be useful for getting spam through filters.

If anybody started using this font for CAPCHAs, there would be a module to break it for spam programs within weeks. Assuming the existing learning algorithms didn't solve it automatically.

(Correction: that paper is from 2007.)

Their highest tier is "Maximum monthly withdrawal of 500,000 USD (or equivalent) capped to a maximum of 100,000 USD per 24 hrs and a 10,000 BTC withdrawal per 24hrs without any monthly limit." That's small in financial terms.

That's a typical Mt. Gox excuse. "We're going to hold onto your money for some vague amount of time for some vague reason." Note that they're only stopping withdrawals from Mt. Gox, not inbound transfers. That's very suspicious. If they'd lost their banking relationship for wire transfers, they couldn't do inbound transfers either.

I've mentioned before that Mt. Gox's withdrawal limits are suspicious. They should be able to pay out 100% of funds they hold on short notice. They're not a bank, and are required by the Payment Services Act of Japan to have 100% of the assets entrusted to them. Even more suspicious is that as Bitcoin has grown, Mt. Gox withdrawal limits have become smaller.

If you have assets in Mt. Gox, get them out now. There are too many red flags about that business.