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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 08:49 PM EDT |
“It will be a miracle if we get through the summer without it
happening to somebody,” he says.
“We’re going to start pushing harder, we are
going to race, and those kinds of boats — catamarans — tip
over.”
The Boat
that Could Sink the America's Cup, wired.com
They don't just tip
over, they tear themselves apart. Some lessons in naval archicture needed
somewhere.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 08:49 PM EDT |
Got asked to look at a Mac. Somehow the harddrive got totally messed up.
The Mac Diskutil was useless, wouldn't erase the drive.
Booted with Crunchbang, hit it with GParted, and was reinstalling OSX in
no time.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 11:11 AM EDT |
Advocates of “open science” argue that the current model of science,
developed in the 1600s, needs to change and take full advantage of the Internet
to share research and collaborate in the discovery making process. When the
entire scientific community can connect instantly online, they argue, there is
simply no reason for research teams to work in silos and share their findings
according to the publishing schedules of journals.
Subscriptions limit
access to scientific knowledge. And when careers are made and tenures earned by
publishing in prestigious journals, then sharing datasets, collaborating with
other scientists, and crowdsourcing difficult problems are all
disincentivized.
Following 17th century practices, open science advocates
insist, limits the progress of science in the 21st.
Alex Mayyasi, Priceonomics[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 08:34 PM EDT |
Ren Zhengfei, the CEO and founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei,
gave his first ever interview to a handful
of reporters on
Thursday NZ Herald National
Business Review
Forbes
Wall St Journal
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 06:57 AM EDT |
International Space Station
making laptop migration from Windows XP to
Debian 6
Chuvala said, "We needed an operating system
that was
stable and reliable – one that would give us in-
house control. So if we needed
to patch, adjust or adapt, we
could." Partly in response to the
2008 infection
by the Gammina.AG. Virus brought in by an astronaut on a
flash
drive? The article also notes several other benefits
of utilising Open Source
software, responsiveness of devs,
community, training, etc., that help in order
to
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 07:55 AM EDT |
For various reasons, I've been trying to keep in contact with a group of people
who use Skype text messaging as a primary means of contact. As I refuse to put
anything from Microsoft on my computer, and as Microsoft is being very difficult
about letting other chat clients connect to their servers, this has been
something of an exercise in frustration.
Up until recently, howeer, imo.im suited my needs quite well; it connected to
Skype, and I was able to chat to my hearts' content.
Now it doesn't. Imo.im's customer feedback page (on Facebook, so I won't link to
it directly) indicates that there is nothing that they can do about the problem;
which implies that Microsoft's servers are no longer letting them connect.
This looks to me like Microsoft extinguishing their competition again...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 12:53 PM EDT |
Enigma World Code
Group
Do you want to send and receive Enigma messages?
This
website was created for those who would like to learn about the German World War
II Enigma code machine and use a virtual simulator of this machine to pass coded
messages to other members and friends in our group.---
The following
program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 02:24 PM EDT |
| Disney applies for a trademark on "Dia de los Muertos" & "Day of the Dead"
-- thinks better of it after heavy pushback.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 07:04 PM EDT |
This is cool: "Astronaut records first
music video from
space". Brought to you by The Verge. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 09:35 PM EDT |
Cool thread going on at ZD and elsewhere -- maybe PJ wants to Google news
it and then add it to the newspicks.
I disagree with the Microsoft developers reasoning on why Windows is slower
than Linux: I think it is because Microsoft has purposefully included in the
Windows Kernel all the crapware that they said they needed in Internet
Explorer back from the 1995 lawsuit settlement. They have so much vendor
lockin code build into the Windows kernel to make it purposefully
incompatible with Linux, such that all that extra code runs slow.
This is because Microsoft's primary design goal with Windows remains,
VENDOR LOCKIN. Performance they could care less about. They have feature
bloat after feature bloat to lock in the next generation. Same with Office.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 09:54 PM EDT |
Similar to but != SARS
BBC
wired.com
Le Monde french
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 11:20 PM EDT |
At the center of the effort is Canipre, the only anti-piracy
enforcement firm that provides forensic services to copyright-holders in
Canada.
The Montreal-based firm has been monitoring Canadian users'
downloading of pirated content for several months. It has now gathered more than
one million different evidence files, according to its managing director Barry
Logan.
Pierre
Chauvin, The Tyee[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 05:13 AM EDT |
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Possibly a bit early to make this call, but he could be on to
something.
Are Smartphones on Their Way
Out
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 06:16 AM EDT |
| All
right it's El Reg, but still [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 08:31 AM EDT |
| In the movies,
government spies are often seen in high-tech lairs, creeping into the dark
corners of the Web with ease and cracking codes with a few clicks. But if a
recently released NSA "Guide to Internet Research" is any indication, the life
of an online spy is not exactly a high-octane, Web-powered thrill
ride. ---
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 11:26 AM EDT |
| Bill Gates said recently that
iPad owners really just want the Surface tablet, and are "frustrated" by the
lack of features in the iPad. His claims are hard to believe. ---
The
following program contains immature subject matter.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 11:59 AM EDT |
| Monsanto Wins
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on
Monday that farmers could not use Monsanto’s patented genetically altered
soybeans to create new seeds without paying the company a fee.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 01:13 PM EDT |
| in case you were wondering [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 11:20 AM EDT |
Here's a portion of the included argument OCRed from the posted PDF:
In light of the interview, Patent Owner hereby addresses the patentability of
claim 19, before
turning to the remaining rejected claims.
A. Claim 19: Lira does not disclose a device having "instructions for
translating
the electronic document in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of
the electronic document is no longer displayed"
Claim 19 is directed to a device having one or more programs that include
specifically
recited instructions. In particular, the one or more programs of the device of
claim 19 include
"instructions for translating the electronic document in a second direction
until the area beyond the
edge of the electronic document is no longer displayed".
As discussed in the interview, Patent Owner asserts that, even under the
broadest reasonable
construction standard, a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand
that a device of claim
19 must include instructions for performing translation in the second direction
with the recited stop
condition (i.e., "until the area beyond the edge of the electronic document
is no longer displayed").
Further, the person of ordinary skill would understand that incidentally
achieving a similar visual
result, based on a different stop condition, is neither an express nor inherent
disclosure of the
required instructions. Lira discloses a centering function. Thus, Lira fails to
disclose, explicitly or
inherently, instructions for translation in the second direction with the stop
condition (i.e., "until the
area beyond the edge of the electronic document is no longer displayed")
recited in claim 19.
1. Claim 19 requires executable program instructions
As discussed in the interview, Patent Owner asserts that claim 19 requires
executable
program instructions rather than just a result achieved on the screen of a
device. In particular, claim
19 recites, "[a] device comprising ... one or more programs, wherein the
one or more programs are
stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more
processors". Each of the
recited "instructions" is included in the one or more programs.
2. The broadest reasonable construction of the "instructions for
translating the
electronic document in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of
the electronic document is no longer displayed" limitation
Patent Owner asserts that even under the broadest reasonable construction, the
final
instructions of claim 19 require executable program instructions that not only
specify the particular
command (i.e., translation in the second direction), but also specify a
particular stop condition (i.e.,
"until the area beyond the edge of the electronic document is no longer
displayed").
A person of ordinary skill in the art would recognize the significance of
specifying a stop
condition for translation in the second direction in a device operating based on
executable program
instructions. Unlike translation in the first direction, which is terminated by
detecting that the object
is no longer on the touch screen (i.e., user input), there is no input-based
stop condition specified in
claim 19 for ending translation in the second direction. Rather, the device of
claim 19 includes
instructions specifying that translation in the second direction is terminated
based on determining
that the area beyond the edge is no longer displayed. In operation, the device
of claim 19 would
stop translation once the stop condition is met, based on the recited
instructions.
In summary, a device of claim 19 must include executable program instructions
having the
recited translation stop condition of "until the area beyond the edge of
the electronic document is no
longer displayed".
3. Originally filed claim 19 included the "instructions for translating
the
electronic document in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of
the electronic document is no longer displayed" limitation
As noted by Patent Owner's representatives in the interview, originally filed
claim 19
recited:
[I]nstructions for translating the document in a second direction until the
area beyond the edge of the document is no longer displayed, after the
object is no longer detected on or near the touch screen display.
As is the case for issued claim 19, original claim 19 also made clear that the
recited
"instructions" are directed to more than just a result achieved on the
screen of the device. In both
the original and issued claim 19, each of the "instructions" are part
of "one or more programs []
stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors
[of the device]".
The final element of claim 19 was amended during prosecution to include language
relating to
various portions, but the amendment does not alter the recited stop condition
("until the area beyond
the edge of the electronic document is no longer displayed") nor the fact
that the stop condition is a
part of executable program instructions. (See Notice of Allowance dated October
29,2008, in App.
No. 11/956,969.)
Similarly, the originally filed specification included descriptions of program
instructions
consistent with the ordinary meaning of program instructions, as they are used
in the claims. See,
e.g., Specification filed December 14,2007, at paragraphs [0009], [0012],
[00l3], and [0100]. As
such, one of ordinary skill would recognize that the instructions for
translation in the second
direction, as with all of the instructions recited in claim 19, are directed to
elements of a computer
program, rather than merely to a result achieved on the screen of the device of
claim 19.
4. Lira does not disclose executable program instructions having the recited
translation stop condition of "until the area beyond the edge of the
electronic
document is no longer displayed"
Patent Owner asserts that Lira fails to disclose, explicitly or inherently, a
device of claim 19
under the broadest reasonable construction discussed above. Moreover, Lira fails
to do so,
regardless of whether an internal boundary of a document is or is not an edge of
an electronic
document, as claimed. The Office Action cites to Lira at page 15 for disclosure
of translation in a
second direction, based on Lira's snap-to-nearest column function. (Office
Action at pages 9-10.)
Lira's snap-to-nearest column function does not include a stop condition of
"until the area beyond
the edge of the electronic document is no longer displayed".
Rather, Lira makes clear that the stop condition for the function is based on
centering of the
column: "the display 1205 centers the logical column 1210 as the pen 1200
is lifted from the
screen". (Lira at page 15, lines 23-25 (emphasis added).) Stopping
translation based on the column
being centered is substantially different than stopping based on the area beyond
the edge no longer
being displayed.
Moreover, Lira's centering-based stop condition is wholly consistent with the
remainder of
its disclosure. Lira makes clear that its logical columns may be sized so as to
be "less than or equal
to the display window width". (Lira at page 11, lines 10-11. See also Lira
at page 1, lines 22-23;
and page 2, lines 1-3.) In instances when the column is sized less than the
width of the display, a
centering-based stop condition would ensure that the column is "snap[ped]
into alignment" with the
middle of the display, rather than being skewed to one side. Lira makes no
mention or suggestion
of employing a different stop conditions, based on logical column width. This is
also consistent
with the description of the manual actions taken by the user that the
snap-to-nearest column function
is meant to replace: "the user manually centers the desired column in the
display window 1205 by
making one or more left or right corrections to the stylus 1200". (Lira at
page 14, lines 25-28
(emphasis added).)
In view of Lira's unequivocal disclosure of a centering-based stop condition,
Lira's
description of its snap-to-column function as "caus[ing] the logical column
1220 to snap into
alignment with the display window 1205 as the user stops scrolling" is
merely a disclosure of the
incidental visual result of translating until the edge of column 1220 is aligned
with the screen,
without being a disclosure of instructions having a stop condition of
"until the area beyond the edge
of the electronic document is no longer displayed". Notably, this
incidental result only occurs when
the width of the column corresponds to the width of the display, as Lira leaves
no ambiguity as to
the centering-based stop condition used in the snap-to-nearest column function.
Accordingly, Patent Owner asserts that Lira fails to expressly or inherently
disclose a device
having executable program instructions having the recited translation stop
condition of "until the
area beyond the edge of the electronic document is no longer displayed", as
required by claim 19.
B. Claim 20 is also clearly directed to computer instructions
Claim 20 is directed to a computer readable storage medium having stored
therein
instructions that cause a device to perform the recited functions. As such,
Patent Owner asserts that
the arguments presented above with respect to claim 19 are fully applicable to
claim 20, as well.
Accordingly, Patent Owner asserts that Lira fails to expressly or inherently
disclose
computer readable medium having executable program instructions for translating
in a second
direction with the stop condition of "until the area beyond the edge of the
electronic document is no
longer displayed", as required by claim 20.
C. Claims 1-6,8-12, and 16: Lira does not expressly or inherently teach every
limitation of the claims
1. Claim 1 also includes the stop condition of "until the area beyond the
edge of
the electronic document is no longer displayed"
Patent Owner notes that rejected claim 1 (from which claims 2-6,8-12, and 16
depend)
clearly requires stopping translation in the second direction based on
"until the area beyond the edge
of the electronic document is no longer displayed", as is the case for
claim 19.
While claim 1 does not recite executable program instructions, Patent Owner
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