ktizo

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by ktizo 14y ago
Oh, hadn't you heard? There was a memo. New policy, started today, just after tea.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Some of the lawmakers wouldn't overhaul patent law even if you had a global supply of universal replicators that were powered only by the sound of happy laughter.
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by ktizo 14y ago
So, presumably a lobbyist working at the EU now has a new golf membership.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Could be either. Or even both. Is very hard to tell with cunning plans.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I think it is part of a plan to destroy western society by locking up all the courts and government with unanswerable questions such as "Who first thought of the rectangle?". Soon, there will be nothing left but a wasteland and some lawyers
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by ktizo 14y ago
Usually the store is filming you anyway.
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by ktizo 14y ago
So Putin and the court are helpfully assisting them in this intention by providing much needed promotional support after consultation with Barbra Streisand on how to best handle the issue.
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by ktizo 14y ago
People do protest around mosques. And besides, christianity is founded by a guy who apparently trashed a temple after riding into it on a donkey, so churches are fair game for protest on that basis alone. Also, the russian government isn't
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by ktizo 14y ago
At least the dollar has a government with a big military behind it Then all you are doing is pegging your wealth to the stability of a nation, which statistically speaking is not that good a bet.
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by ktizo 14y ago
any truly autonomous agent would be out-competed by one that has a human in the loop modifying the code to adapt to the market Not necessarily, you could have a self modifying agent using genetic algorithms that could develop quicker than
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by ktizo 14y ago
You should probably not consider it aid then. Any money paid by the UK to India is surely more a sort of very long overdue rent.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Chandrayaan-1 was a pretty successful mission by all accounts though despite not lasting. It found evidence of water pretty much straight away, which was worth the budget all on its own.
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by ktizo 14y ago
You seem pretty angry and are arguing from an interpretation of the OP's post that I personally don't think really matches either the tone or the content of that post. You also seem to forget that in many countries that support a strong boo
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by ktizo 14y ago
the Division of Standards is claiming that until the National Institute of Standards and Technology has guidelines in place for GPS location technology Is not as though GPS is some brand new thing that they have never heard of before. Thi
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by ktizo 14y ago
Being reduced to pure dependence on goodwill when every other player in the economic system can also depend on the force of law The force of law is dependent on goodwill. And it isn't as though the force of law isn't being used in copyrig
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by ktizo 14y ago
And if you take the train from London to Glasgow, it is currently £120 for a single ticket, whereas I can book on British Airways for a flight tomorrow for £74.
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by ktizo 14y ago
No. (blows raspberry) Besides, the adjective 'patent troll' has very little to do with the veracity of individual patents. Patents can be perfectly sound, but still be subject to trolling. Trolling is generally the activity of treating pate
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by ktizo 14y ago
From here - http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=568 Who funded the work and how much have you invested in these inventions? This area of research is an example of an Intellectual Ventures program called Sponsored Invention. In Sponso
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by ktizo 14y ago
My guess is that the copper oxide would be much cheaper to work into much thinner sheets than silicon, which is also expensive to purify, so although the raw material may be more expensive, the processing costs and volume used might be wher
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by ktizo 14y ago
You could just have removable weights on it. Suction feet is the other obvious one.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Most books don't break even. Also, many books scanned by google are not easily available, out of print, or out of copyright, so I would be very surprised if google is costing authors anything like $750 per book. In fact I would suspect, if
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by ktizo 14y ago
Yes, but the bathtub doesn't demand coke at lapdancing clubs anywhere near as often.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Perhaps they were trying to prove she cures cancer, and accidentally wrote something vaguely accurate instead.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I think it is allowed if they are engineering some sort of giant pivoting lever.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Kevin Warwick has a more up to date version of this controlling a robot in his lab at Reading Uni - http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/biomedical/bionics/rat-br... Presumably someone, somewhere has a bathtub of human neurons and is probab
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by ktizo 14y ago
What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts? Well, at least we have a shortlist then. UK, Iceland, Greece, Spain... Advanced Persistent Phish? - Is that some kind of really
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by ktizo 14y ago
Come on, is about ten short paragraphs. In the time taken to post that and then go through the summaries, you could have read it.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Perhaps we could reanimate the corpse of Kurt Vonnegut and send him to go and eat whatever brains they have between them. I am sure he would approve.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Get some people to point at the sky and shout a lot while some others nip round the back and hide all the pitchforks.
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by ktizo 14y ago
If some authors are outraged about the idea of ink being lent, then what do they think about libraries?

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