Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 07:02 AM EDT |
Yitang Zhang, who has worked outside academic circles since
receiving his
PhD in 1992 from Purdue, has proved that for
some
(even) number N less than 70
million, there
are infinitely many prime gaps of size exactly
N.
This is a major improvement on the knowledge of prime
distribution,
although it leaves open the Twin Prime
Conjecture that N can be
2.
--- Rosser's trick: "For every proof of me, there is a shorter
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 07:05 AM EDT |
Instead of creating and storing the one-time pad
as a random
sequence of 0s and 1s, Horstmeyer and co
generate a random signal by passing
light through a slab of
diffusing glass that scatters it randomly.
The
security of the system depends on the physical
complexity of the glass.
Horstmeyer and co say that that
this complexity means there is no way for an
eavesdropper,
Eve, to copy the glass without anyone noticing.
That cuts out
the need to store the key electronically and
entirely removes this
vulnerability to copying. “We describe
an encrypted communication principle
that can form a
perfectly secure link between two parties without
electronically saving either of their keys,” they say.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/515016/one-time-pad-
reinvented-to-make-el
ectronic-copying-impossible/
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Authored by: MDT on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 12:34 PM EDT |
Replicators Ahoy! Earl Grey Hot, 1. :)
NASA wants Replicator
Technology
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 09:43 PM EDT |
Link
Now growing by $1000
per day.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 05:22 AM EDT |
Quote from BBC article on the new console launch....
"The Xbox One sees Microsoft add a Blu-ray drive..."
Microsoft does not want to have to pay Sony a royalty on every XBOX sold.
They're going to argue, that it's a no choice scenario and that the drive itself
is just such a tiny insignificant part of the whole Xperience that Sony's
patents aren't worth jack.
.....
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 07:55 AM EDT |
Last I looked into it, it seemed to me at that time
the consensus was that we
were reaching the end Moore's Law.
Now there is an interesting interview with an
Intel executive who is saying they feel
they will be able to
continue to keep up with Moore's Law, and he discusses
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Authored by: MDT on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 09:04 AM EDT |
Well, it seems like shareholders have noticed that the two
don't play well
together. Of course, in their mind, it's
the electronics division that's
dragging down profits on the
entertainment division. Of course, the reality is
the
entertainment division has been inhibiting the electronics
division from
making advances and consumer friendly
products. Look at the fiasco with the
PS3 Linux, and so on.
All that was done primarily because the management at
Sony
went from being electronics guys to RIAA/MPAA people. I
think if they do
spin them off into separate companies, the
Sony Electronics that innovated with
the Walkman, the PS,
and some of the best TVs and other electronics might come
back. Might not, but it's a better chance than they have
now.
Link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 09:33 AM EDT |
The article includes the complaint from 1-800 Contacts v. Ditto and Ditto's
motion to dismiss.
Ditto
Turns To Indiegogo For Help Battling Patent Lawsuits (Including One From
1-800-Contacts)
Ditto, a startup that helps users virtually try on
different pairs of eyeglasses, has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help fight
a big threat — the company says it’s being sued by 1-800-CONTACTS and another
company called Lennon Imaging Technology (an NPE).
Ditto’s technology
allows users to create webcam recordings of their faces, which they then use to
see how different designer glasses will look with their facial shape and size.
Both Lennon Imaging and 1-800-CONTACTS are claiming that this technology
infringes their own patents. But Ditto’s campaign describes them as “patent
troll” lawsuits — Lennon is a non-practicing company, meaning that it doesn’t
have a product or service of its own, and Ditto co-founder and CEO Kate Endress
said 1-800-CONTACTS (which is owned by WellPoint) didn’t purchase the patent in
question until after the company’s CEO visited the Ditto website.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 09:39 AM EDT |
Twitter granted patent on
pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively
Twitter was
just officially granted a patent on the ubiquitous pull-to-refresh gesture — a
touch interface concept the company acquired when it purchased Tweetie developer
Atebits in 2010 and hired founder Loren Brichter, who invented the move.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 09:45 AM EDT |
Is it possible to prevent Chrome from installing AVG toolbar without my
permission? Getting tired of uninstalling it.
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Authored by: Tim on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 11:33 AM EDT |
Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 patents Apple according to a court
filing by
Apple.
PCWorld Link
Apple's Filing Link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 12:52 PM EDT |
Link
And it was a Texas
patent troll lawyer,
squished like a roach in Texas, albeit
not in east
Texas.
But hey, it's a start.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 02:43 PM EDT |
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Clueless. They
will soon find out what being
"Offended" is really about.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 06:37 PM EDT |
With the latest phase of Canadian copyright reform now complete, the
government may soon turn to the question of what comes next. Given last year's
major legislative overhaul and the landmark series of copyright decisions from
the Supreme Court of Canada, significant substantive changes are unlikely to be
on the agenda for the foreseeable future.
Instead, it is time for the
government to set its sights on the Copyright Board of Canada, a relatively
obscure regulatory body that sets the fees to be paid for the use of copyright
works. The Board is largely unknown in public circles, but it has played a
pivotal role in establishing the costs associated with private copying
(including a one-time iPod levy), educational copying, and the use of music by
Canadian broadcasters.
Michael
Geist, The Tyee[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 07:05 PM EDT |
Windows Phone Inventory Build-
Up: Bad
Sign For Q2 Nokia Lumia Shipments --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 09:31 PM EDT |
Link
Today, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the
Patent Abuse Reduction Act, a wide-ranging bill targeting abusive
litigation tactics—a favorite tool of the patent troll.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 11:33 PM EDT |
Link
But, for the time being, a DOJ-imposed
Catch-22 blocks the public from knowing more about the government’s illegal
surveillance. According to the DOJ, we can’t use FOIA, because the FISC rules
prevent it; and we can’t go to the FISC, because the FISC says FOIA is the
proper avenue. If Joseph
Heller were alive today, he would be impressed. So, too, would
Franz Kafka. A public
trapped between conflicting rules and a secret judicial body, with little
transparency or public oversight, seems like a page ripped from
The
Trial.
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Authored by: ukjaybrat on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 07:48 AM EDT |
Link
Can
someone please explain how this doesn't violate the first
sale
doctrine?--- IANAL [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 08:17 AM EDT |
Link The finished board will be an open source hardware design and
documentation for the Epiphany architecture is provided without the need for
non-disclosure agreements. Just as it should be.
And:Linux is the operating system of choice and with Ubuntu as the
supported distribution, but since open source drivers will be provided it should
be possible to develop support for FreeBSD, Android or just about any other
operating system with an ARM port. So what is there not to like
about it? I am thinking that with the appropriate software it might be useful
for circuit simulation, the thing for which I need all the processing power that
I can get. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 10:15 AM EDT |
The explosion struck a chord with 18-year NASA veteran Homer Hickam,
a former lead astronaut training manager for Spacelab, and later for the
International Space Station.
In the late 1950s, Hickam had a brush with law
enforcement for allegedly starting a forest fire. State police came to his high
school and led him and his friends away in handcuffs, but his high school
physics professor and school principal came to the rescue, clearing him of
wrongdoing.
Back then, schools did not have zero tolerance rules. Kids could
make their mistakes without the threat of a criminal record, or serving time in
jail.
"I couldn't let this go without doing something," Hickam said. "I'm
not a lawyer, but I could give her something that would encourage her. I've
worked closely with the U.S. Space Academy, and so I purchased a scholarship for
her."
Learning of her twin sister, Hickam raised enough money so Kiera and
Kayla could attend space camp together.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 10:22 AM EDT |
Kim Dotcom has announced that he is the inventor of the so-called
two-step authentication system and has a patent to prove it. The Megaupload
founder says the security mechanism, which has just been introduced by Twitter,
is being used by U.S. companies more than a billion times every week without
permission
Dotcom says he doesn’t want to sue, but might if the likes of
Google and Facebook don’t help fund his legal battle with the U.S.
Government.
Andy, TorrentFreak
Does this make Dotcom a blackballed All Black
blackmailer? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me - Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 10:51 AM EDT
- here's the patent - US6078908 A - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 12:47 PM EDT
- Dotcom's European two-factor authentication patent was revoked in 2011 - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 01:30 PM EDT
- If the description in the newspicks on new twitter login is correct then - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 07:34 PM EDT
- Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 09:59 AM EDT
- Did Kim Dotcom invent 2-factor authentication? Er, not exactly... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 02:25 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 11:45 AM EDT |
Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a
subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which
measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or
"state," of another particle—even if it's light years away. Now, experimenters
in Israel have shown that they can entangle two photons that don't even exist at
the same time.
[...]
Now Eli Megidish, Hagai Eisenberg, and colleagues
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have entangled two photons that don't
exist at the same time. They start with a scheme known as entanglement swapping.
To begin, researchers zap a special crystal with laser light a couple of times
to create two entangled pairs of photons, pair 1 and 2 and pair 3 and 4. At the
start, photons 1 and 4 are not tangled. But they can be if physicists play the
right trick with 2 and 3.
The key is that a measurement "projects" a
particle into a definite state -- just as the measurement of a photon collapses
it into either vertical or horizontal polarization. So even though photons 2 and
3 start out unentangled, physicists can set up a "projective measurement" that
asks, are the two in one of two distinct entangled states or the other? That
measurement entangles the photons, even as it absorbs and destroys them. If the
researchers select only the events in which photons 2 and 3 end up in, say, the
first entangled state, then the measurement also entangles photons 1 and 4. (See
diagram, top.) The effect is a bit like joining two pairs of gears to form a
four-gear chain: Enmeshing to inner two gears establishes a link between the
outer two.
[...]
The experiment shows that it's not strictly logical to
think of entanglement as a tangible physical property, Eisenberg says. "There is
no moment in time in which the two photons coexist," he says, "so you cannot say
that the system is entangled at this or that moment." Yet, the phenomenon
definitely exists. Anton Zeilinger, a physicist at the University of Vienna,
agrees that the experiment demonstrates just how slippery the concepts of
quantum mechanics are. "It's really neat because it shows more or less that
quantum events are outside our everyday notions of space and
time."
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 12:40 PM EDT |
Link
My thought is that most ad agencies I've known about --
including a lot of Mom and Pop stores -- have non-disclosure agreements they
have to sign with their biggest customers. Using the cloud -- even in the
brain-dead way Adobe is talking about -- raises interesting questions about
their enforceability. Are you listening GIMP? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 01:37 PM EDT |
The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora operating system has a bit of a
checkered history with the Raspberry Pi. It was originally the recommended
operating system for the device before being stripped from the Raspberry Pi
Foundation's downloads page, replaced by a version of Debian optimized for the
Pi's ARMv6 chip.
But Fedora is back on the Pi in the form of a new build
developed by the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology in Toronto. It's called "Pidora".
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 02:15 PM EDT |
CNET
announces the latestest Google aquisition, to
become
part of the GoogleX portfolio.
Self-piloting flying
wings tethered to a base
station take off like helicopters using rotors that
become
electrical power generators when the wing reaches an
altitude somewhere
between 800 and 2,000 feet, where winds
are stronger and more
consistent.
btw: CNet also informs us that contrary to
rumour, Google
is NOT building a Space Elevator. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 02:23 PM EDT |
Link
More popcorn.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 02:26 PM EDT |
I don't think Apple is going to like this. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 05:40 PM EDT |
Link
Seriously, did someone at
Microsoft really believe
that no one would notice?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 06:42 PM EDT |
The first infection vector we saw was using the famous CVE-2012-0158
vulnerability. This vulnerability
can be exploited by a specially crafted
Microsoft Office documents and allows arbitrary code execution. ...
The
other infection vector we found used PE files disguised as Microsoft Word or PDF
documents, most
likely distributed through email.
same old same old [welivesecurity.com]
On March 17, 2013 a
Norwegian newspaper reported that the country’s telecommunications giant
Telenor had filed a criminal police case for an unlawful computer intrusion.
... Our report details a
sophisticated cyberattack infrastructure that
appears to originate from India, conducted by private threat actors with
no
evidence of state-sponsorship. It has likely been in operation for over three
years, primarily as a platform for
surveillance against targets of national
security interest that are mostly based in Pakistan and possibly in the United
States.
Norman HangOver report [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: bilateralrope on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 06:45 PM EDT |
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one/
Have a read about the details
- Integrated so tightly into the Xbox that I doubt it can be unplugged as the
Kinect is the on switch.
- The Xbox in designed to be left on and accessing the internet when you aren't
using it.
- Radar like capabilities on the camera.
So we have a device with radar and camera functions that is an integral part of
a device designed to access the internet while you sleep. Oh, and to complete
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 07:40 PM EDT |
WHO
urges information
sharing over novel coronavirus
Saudi Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish
raised his concerns
at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
"We are still
struggling with diagnostics and the reason is
that the virus was patented by
scientists and is not allowed
to be used for investigations by other
scientists," he said.
"I think strongly that the delay in the development of
...
diagnostic procedures is related to the patenting of the
virus."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 08:53 PM EDT |
Recording reveals Mark Shurtleff’s ‘bizarro’ $2 million offer
On the
breakfast table at Mimi’s Cafe, Darl McBride had eggs and potatoes served in a
fried tortilla and an offer of $2 million from Utah’s then-attorney general,
Mark Shurtleff, if he would just shut his mouth.
McBride says he had
invested $286,000 with a prominent businessman, Mark Robbins, who had
allegedly promised him a $5 million return that McBride hoped would sustain
a grueling legal battle over intellectual-property rights between his company,
The SCO Group, and IBM.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 09:59 PM EDT |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/healt
h-22649922
Enough said ...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 10:42 PM EDT |
Rodrigo Contreras, the lead negotiator on the TPP from Chile,
resigned suddenly two months ago. It’s widely believed that he left his post
voluntarily. He’s held in high esteem not just in Chile but among his fellow
trade negotiators. His departure left people on the trade beat scratching their
heads.
It now appears probable that the reason for his resignation was that
he saw where the TPP was likely to go and didn’t want his name attached to it.
Contreras wrote an article in Spanish that ran last week Peru’s magazine Caretas
that described the promise, and more important, the dangers of the TPP. He
argued that many of its major thrusts, if they are not checked and modified, are
detrimental to less advanced economies.
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