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A simple CDMA or TDMA (code/time division multiple access) scheme allow multiple devices to receive/transmit at the same time. This is how cell phones work.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_division_multiple_access
(Creator here) Ha, yeah JSLint really provokes strong emotions.

Before I added in JSLint, if you misplaced one semicolon or forgot a parentheses, none of the tests would run and it would just say "program failed". That was incredibly frustrating to me. I figured that if I was getting frustrated, and I was the creator of the tests, then random users would be REALLY frustrated. So I added in JSLint. Now you get line and column numbers for exactly where the syntax broke down.

I'm actually happy following all of JSLint's suggestions. But my first test user, my wife, had other thoughts. She filled out her first answer, saw the whitespace errors, and said "hells no". So I turned off the whitespace checking. She seemed OK with it after that.

Which checks in particular are annoying? I can change the default parameters of JSLint to be less strict about some things. But I don't want to give up syntax checking entirely.
How is it unfair?
inlinecallbacks also makes things easier, when applicable.
Regarding your pet peeve, don't you think that the individual's style, interpretation, and individual application of taught material make it a form of art? You similarly teach painting technique and skill, and repetitively practice a certain technique, even on the same image over and over again. Once the person learns what you are attempting to teach, and they start to implement it in their own way, in new scenarios, then it starts to become artful.
Doesn't the fact that everybody is jockeying to buy the IP of other companies to protect themselves from patent lawsuits suggest the system is broken?

One piece of patent reform that might be nice is that you can't acquire IP, unless you have a majority of the people who created the IP under full-time employment (or something to that effect).
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Any device designed to operate in a war zone is an implicit support of the activity. Even life-saving devices. If you made bullet-proof jackets and sold them to the US military, you are supporting the military. You may even be impacting the outcome of an engagement, or influencing the endgame.

If the truck did not exist, 6 US soldiers would likely be dead. The insurgents would probably prefer this. Because the truck existed, the soldiers may now go on to fulfill their missions, which may result in insurgents being killed.

Basically, war is an ugly thing. Don't expect to get involved without getting a little dirty.

P.S. In the interest of transparency, I am an American and a strong supporter of the US military. I have family currently serving, and I'm glad that there was a device like the truck that saved lives.
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In summary Total Film said the movie is very long very talkative and made his way to a firing sequence of action of money has a time of wanton destruction induced by robot.
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The DOD does take quite a bit of overhead to work with. They also do buy some stuff at pretty competitive prices. As I remember the tent contracts were actually pretty reasonable compared to what commercial 30-man tents cost (actually less than quite a few).

// Dad used to work for place that made tents and bags for DOD
A tip to everyone: When speaking, don't umm in regular intervals... that's all your listeners will listen on.

Individual ums and uhs can add flavor and aren't overall too distracting. However, if you um in regular intervals with the same tone, especially when it's a connection, it's REALLY distracting. Ugh.
Unfair? Through legitimately bidding higher than 3.14 billion dollars?
The convolutions continue.

"What I’m complaining about isn’t Google playing the game, but rather their insistent whining about their competitors only after they lost the game."

It's easy to redefine the game as whatever suits your outcome. And it's perfectly reasonable to complain about an unfair game that you're losing because it's unfair.

And anyway, by this logic, you could simply call the PR battle 'part of the game' and say Google is just playing on the rising anti-patent sentiment in the industry.
Isn't "billions" of anti protons an absurdly small number to talk about spaceflight fuel. Per http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/154104 (which looks about right) we have 2.73 X 10^26 hydrogen atoms per pound.

An antiproton is basically an antihydrogen missing its positron.
Google seems to feel entitled to copy whatever it wants. Android copies the UI from the iPhone. Places copied data from Yelp. Google+ copies from Facebook. Their coupon thing is a clone of Groupon. And yet it’s Google that acts as though it has been offended when these competitors fight back.

The one sited source is extremely shallow, and the rest is both not sourced and laughable. Gruber is making quite the leap after his hand waving and backpedaling.
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Hmm. Would the alternative method still be stable if someone had deliberately altered the internal pump to deliver in random, high-dosage spurts (or whatever else that would be hard to counter)? Of course, it starts getting a whole lot less stealthy then.

Would paramedics/well-equippped ambulance ever go as far as trying to disable an internal pump before reaching the hospital?

Edit: Also, what's the difference between the 'control panel' and the 'wireless [controller]'? My understanding was it was entirely implanted, with no external connections (and even recharged via induction loop, or surgical replacement). If that's the case, then all comms are, by necessity, wireless. NFC control might mitigate the threat a little, at least from a range perspective, but I can't see where there could otherwise be a difference.
Specifically US patent no. 7,469,381
PBS has a good documentary called remote control war. It is on netflix, it talks about similar current technologies and those under development. There is also a clip about hackerspaces developing similar devices later in the program.
Would you feel more comfortable if a few smart people figured out the same things and didn't tell anyone about it, but instead used it for profit or to cause harm to innocent people?
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You and the girl have a relationship similar to the one between Maddie Hayes and David Addison from Moonlighting. Only much much less interesting.

How the hell am I supposed to know what this means?
What do you do as a developer in a large corporation where you have zero control over how the patent with your name attached to it gets used? The higher-ups will give you the MAD defense argument, which is fine, except that they're not restricted to that use case. They can do whatever they want, and you can't be sure that they aren't going to bulldoze over some smaller company with it later on.
I think the bigger problem is Objective-C isn't a desirable programming language to begin with, and therefore another language based on it is even less desirable.
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As a diabetic (something few of the posters seem to be) I find this discussion quite interesting if a little wrong in some of its assumptions. The first is the idea that turning off the pump will cause the wearer to expire. In most cases, not true. If you want to (and lets wave our magic wand and enable the hack skipping the tech problems mentioned) kill your target, you are going about it the wrong way. Don't turn off the supply---turn it up, way up. You need to create an overdose based on the size of the individual and their tolerance to insulin. Now without knowing the details of the pump industry, I'd guess that there are built in limiters concerning overdoses. This makes the problem far more challenging, even if you know the individual in question. How often do you discuss with your diabetic friends just how many units it would take to kill them? At a guess, even if you know they are diabetic, this is probably not part of normal conversation. There is also the assumption that the wearer never checks his equipment. In the single photo in the article above, I notice a screen crowded with information. Again jumping over the problems listed both in the article and here, the hack would have to adjust the display so as not to warn the victim. Given the in-ability to decipher the signals transmitted, this seems a bit problematic at best. No, I think the best method of attack is the one with a hammer---'Wow you wear a pump huh? Can I see it (victim looks down to pull up shirt) villain applies Maxwell's hammer as solution.'
Yeah, that's gonna take more than a trip to the hackerspace— maybe a Kickstarter.
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That's exactly it. If we complained about every new feature we'd still be using static pages with blink tags. Google and Firefox are teaming up to implement this features. Look at how Google went about WebGL. They had a competing plugin called O3D but when they saw O3D was working out they dropped it completely and even ported the O3D api to WebGL (which I use now since then). Microsoft of old would just have kept going (hence DirectX instead of continuing to support OpenGL).
As someone who makes technology purchasing decisions, this article infuriates me. Datasheets and a pricing structure are fundamentally more efficient than sales snowjobs. The fact that this approach is apparently effective makes me weep for the intelligence of other technical decision makers.

To this day, I refuse to do business with companies like rackspace who spam website visitors with marketing materials and chat windows instead of giving me rapid access to network, datacenter, hardware, and pricing data.
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They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the “Rockstar” group including Microsoft and Apple), to make sure Google didn’t get them; seeking $15 licensing fees for every Android device; attempting to make it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android...

From the original Google blog post.
Read Google's post again. That's where it's explained. Note that the following is not necessarily my opinion, but my interpretation of Google's post.

Google believes that a cartel of competitors formed to combine resources with the main purpose of using those resources to bid on IP to use against Android. The winning bid didn't reflect any individual competitor's valuation of the asset, but rather the aggregate of their valuations given that they all plan to use the asset as leverage against Android. Google thinks this is anticompetitive.
The defense is the same as cellphone-triggered bombs: jam RF when moving in unfriendly territory.
While I'm not a fan of Gruber I think its fair to say that he's writing to an audience for which all of these are well known. You may disagree with their validity, but you're already well familiar with their arguments and evidence -- sources probably aren't a necessity for a blog post on the topic.
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You are mixing my quotes with the previous commenter's
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Other people have already answered this, but since you come from a C++ background, perhaps this will help.

Lambdas and closures get mentioned together because they don't make sense apart. "Lambda" is just a fancy term for an anonymous function, but it also implies that the function is created (sans optimizations) dynamically (i.e. at runtime). This doesn't ever happen in C++, so hence the confusion.

A closure is the concept that a dynamically created function carries with it the state in which it was created (in C++ terms, the callstack). Imagine for a moment we had a C++ keyword called "lambda" that could create functions at runtime. What would the following code do?

typedef int (*function_t)(int);
function_t accum(int x) {
return lambda (int y) { return x+=y; };
}

You see the problem? "x" is no longer on the stack once foo() returns, but the function we return from foo accesses it! In fact doing anything meaningful with "x" is bogus. The solution is to have dynamically created functions like this to logically copy the call-stack that they are created in, so that they can access any of these stack variables. This is a closure.

It is clear that you could have lambdas without closures, by either disallowing accessing any non-globals in your lambdas, or just having the behavior be undefined if the function accesses any variables that have left scope. In practice this makes for lots and lots of bugs, so the solution is closures.

The C++ way of combining a function with state, is to use a class (or a struct). Here's the C++ way of doing the above:

class accum {
int x;
accum(int x) : x(x) {}
int operator()(int i) {return x+=i}
}

Notice how you need to be explicit about what state you keep in the class. With closures the state kept around is implicit, but it is kept around too.
Criticism welcome. I too have "Rules of play", but it is still standing there on my desk, unopened - no time now, writing a new game script :) On "legitimize our pursuits" you could check this writing by Hecker (always stimulating): http://chrishecker.com/Going_Against_The_Grain
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You can install applications on Android devices by logging in through the web interface and buying them. The next time the Android Market app syncs with the service it will see it has been bought and will download automatically.

So not just anyone can install things to your phone, just whoever has access to the Google account associated with your phone.
It's really shocking and depressing to me how many court cases are being settled and laws are being passed by judges and congresspeople that know nothing about the subject matter.
Google "civil forfeiture" -- scary stuff. You can get it back, but the onus is on you to stake a valid claim.
They say build something you would use, and I felt there was a need for this. It's really aimed at people who love new music but are either too busy to scour the web looking for it, or don't know where to start.
Subscribers get an email each day telling them about a new band with links to a player and places they can download the song. We only cover indie/unsigned bands and all the links are to tracks the band or label has posted to the web for free.
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Some of the things you're listing are must-haves (secure channel), but most are not. If increasing reliability and versatility makes the drone last 10 times longer and costs 10 times more -- it's not worth it in the long run: it's goal to trigger the first IED it can find, anyway. Even if it's not, it still would be cheaper and easier to buy 10 drones or make them modular enough so anybody with some X-Box experience can snap a new one together in the field. Manuals? -- nah, see the X-Box thing above. Besides, who reads RC cars' manuals? Replace/repair? -- a dumpster full of modular parts is lightyears ahead of any repair technician in the field. Production lines? -- there already exist production lines for RC cars, aren't they?

To put it in the familiar context: what you're describing (and what DoD is used to) is a mainfraime. These guys just made a PC.
No reason to go ad hominem on the judge.

Seems like it's more a disagreement on the legal definition of "substantial"
"more concerned with your apparent suggestion"

where have I made any such "apparent suggestion" in any of my comments. i haven't - i've stated that, and at least I believed I made quite clear, that the risk and practicality of using this hack is negligible. i haven't stated that it does not exist or that it should not be fixed. to the contrary - it should be fixed.

you're focusing on a singular aspect in a vacuum. "improper security implementation." - yes in this singular vacuum - you're correct and that's great - it's a concern. But what point is there focusing on security implementations in a vacuum when your dealing with real devices on real people and the practicality of using such improper implementations. The entire BlackHat conference is about exposing hacks in vendor-neutral software and devices that affect the real world. As I stated:

"Get realistic - security loopholes are only as important as what you are trying to practically protect and at what cost with what risk. This is what I am trying to make evident."

i'm focusing on the practicality in the real world as is the entire point of the BlackHat Security Conference. Arguably any device which opens itself to wireless communication could be hacked - and a device like this should have some cryptographic system requiring two separate keys - but at what practical cost is my point.

as hanslemen says in his article - the easiest way to resolve this is just to build in upper and lower limits of insulin delivery. at least you can't kill someone - but I acknowledge that even controlling it is a concern.

[peace, not trying to get all up and hot in here :)]
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But Google had the choice to be a part of the consortium, according to Microsoft's counsel. Assuming that invitation was indeed extended, how does that jive at all with what you just quoted?
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I read Google's post and Microsoft's response and Google's update to the post and Microsoft's response to the update as well: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/gentlemen-take-this-outside...
Considering all arguments, I think there is more to this story than what Google told in the blog post.
The fact that they did not even mention that they were offered to be part of the joint bid in the initial post raises a lot of questions.
I'm torn. On the one hand, I appreciate a good hack. On the other hand, if it's going to be used day in and day out to save lives, a certain amount of quality and versatility is needed so that you can rely on it. If every scout team uses a two foot tall RC car, bomb trip wires go up to 3 feet above ground, or they quit using trip wires and switch to magnetic induction coils like the trip lights for stop lights, or speed bumps that the car can't handle get built all over, or patrols can't safely go out on rainy days when the streets are muddy. I worry that this only works well when it's a disposable individual hack used as an additional precaution, not as a standard issue primary first line of defense.
So you can select 5 guys who are all mature and competent, or 5 competent people, at least one of whom is female. Whichever is easier.
See my other reply on this thread. Basically Google believes the bidding represents anticompetitive behavior on the part of a cartel of android competitors.
He has to turn comments off on Daring Fireball or else he would be called out as an Apple fanboy/lobbyist after posts like this. Plenty of companies are willing to compete by creating better products rather than taking their competition to court. The iPhone is getting pushed aside by Android and they are playing dirty to stop it. Unless you can point to some novel technology that Apple should control because it was truly new and different, then Android should be able to compete. Just calling it "competitive" rather than offense and defense is a political tactic that tries to make Google look just as bad as the other guys, or conversely make Apple look just as good as the others. This is not a valid comparison. Combative patent lawsuits are not a requirement for successful businesses. There is a major difference between companies that choose to be litigious to stifle competition rather than focus on creating better products at a cheaper price. Buying a patent portfolio in order to stifle innovation rather than to enable you to create new or better products goes against the purpose of the patent system as it is described in the constitution:

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

They should have pooled these billions to create a massive patent reform campaign. It probably would have been cheaper and more effective in the long run.
People do stupid shit because most of the time they don't know "what" is the stupid shit in whatever they are doing. It is hard and only looks easy on hindsight. This is the part were a mentor or good teacher can make a HUGE difference.
Could you elaborate on what kind of stupid things can you do when doing math? What to avoid, etc.?
You beat me to the punch, but it was actually Call of Duty Black Ops. :)
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Generally, any check that isn't a syntax exception on commonly used browsers. Specifically, it barfed when I didn't include optional semicolons.

var x = 5

shouldn't fail.
Ignoring the various free speech issues and focusing on the headline: remember, "substantial hardship" is a technical term.

It means "a demonstrated economic, technological, legal, or other type of hardship to the person requesting the variance or waiver." [0] Of particular note, it only seems to come up in the case of requesting a waiver or other sort of legal exception. An example usage might be a homeless person getting a waiver for a court filing fee, because coming up with the money would be a hurdle he probably couldn't clear.

In this particular case, the company in question is requesting the expedited return of a seized domain, while legal proceedings are still going on. In order to secure such a ruling, they would need to show that not having the domain for the duration of the trial would actually be crippling, not merely inconvenient. (Having not been in the courtroom, I don't know how well they argued this point, but apparently the judge didn't buy it.)

[0] http://www.kleinfeldlaw.com/Publications/Articles/Variances%... and in other places; the usage seems to be fairly consistent