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... the New York Times revealed that the use of fake reviews is widespread. ...-Jibz (August 28, 2012, 03:00 PM)
Try to search Slate.com for jacob silverman against enthusiasm
-his original post is about the very same problem on facebook.-Curt (August 29, 2012, 08:44 AM)
With the America Invents Act of 2011, which was signed by President Obama on September 16, 2011[8] The law will switch U.S. right to the patent from the present "first-to-invent" system to a "first-to-file" system for patent applications filed on or after March 16, 2013 [9] Many legal scholars[10][11][12] have commented that such a change would require a constitutional amendment. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution gives Congress the power to “promote the Progress of ... useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to ... Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective ... Discoveries.” These scholars argue that this clause specifically prohibits a first-to-file system because the term "inventor" refers to a person who has created something that has not existed before.
Under the first-to-invent system, when two people claim the same invention, the USPTO would institute an interference proceeding between them to review evidence of conception, reduction to practice and diligence.
LOL!
Well, if it's any comfort, I've often had really really stupid things like that when dealing with hardware, programming or debugging. Spend ages trying more and more esoteric stuff, only to realize that you should be smacking your head against the wall for not seeing the obvious =)-f0dder (August 29, 2012, 02:16 AM)
As bad as politics are in the US, they aren't *that* overt.-wraith808 (August 28, 2012, 05:40 PM)
You could try disabling the hardware BIOS discovery feature by selecting the "OS is plug&play aware" option in the BIOS settings if there is one. That sometimes prevents that problem from occurring since P&P discovery won't take place until after Windows loads.That should only affect stuff like IRQ assignments and device initialization, and not affect boot order, though.-40hz (August 28, 2012, 10:11 AM)-f0dder (August 28, 2012, 10:41 AM)
Throughout mathematician Philip Masyrk's peripatetic life, there has been only one constant: Irma Arcuri. Their ongoing love affair has endured his two marriages and her countless travels. But now Irma has vanished, leaving Philip her library of 351 books, including five written by Irma herself. Buried somewhere within her luxuriously rebound volumes of Cervantes and Turgenev, Borges and Fowles, lies the secret to her disappearance-and Philip soon realizes that he is trapped within their narratives as well. Who is Irma Arcuri? What is really hidden in the library? And most importantly, whose story is this?
Especially when, as also written in the Jury instructions, damages are not supposed to punish, but only to compensate for losses.-Mark0 (August 27, 2012, 11:36 AM)
So in layman terms that particle or organism farts oxygen and intakes something else? if nothing else it could be used for the underwater diving and also for terraforming or say in space.-mahesh2k (August 26, 2012, 02:26 PM)
Now if I could only find a goat that eats tin cans and craps gold bullion!!-MilesAhead (August 26, 2012, 04:21 PM)
Seems legit...
http://stm.sciencema...ontent/4/140/140ra88
http://www.scienceda.../06/120627142512.htm
http://www.nature.co...n-injections-1.10899
http://www.huffingto...eathe_n_1634101.html
http://gizmodo.com/5...ve-without-breathing-cthorpe (August 26, 2012, 12:31 PM)
[Now I'm wondering if I patent rounded corners on a triangle...-Renegade (August 25, 2012, 09:04 AM)
Isn't there some way I/we/people could make known to Apple what I/we/people think of them ? No ...?-joiwind (August 25, 2012, 07:22 AM)
It will be interesting to see what happens in the European and Australian courts LOL-Carol Haynes (August 25, 2012, 06:51 AM)
I rather doubt that we'll actually find out the exact amounts of the bribes...-Renegade (August 25, 2012, 07:11 AM)
(We'll be playing a lot of Tom Waite and Madness songs too!)This reminds me of why I am wary of dual boot set-ups. Someone could write a Windows virus to attack your Linux system files, or a Linux virus to attack your Windows system files. In either case any normal antivirus software would not be running.
Not sure if that exists in real life, either.-daddydave (August 24, 2012, 02:01 PM)
Crisis Believed to be First Malware Infecting Virtual Machines
12:20 PM - August 24, 2012 by Wolfgang Gruener - source: Symantec
Crisis, a previously detected trojan, has turned out to be much more sophisticated malware than originally described.
Instead of just infecting Macs, Crisis also infects Windows PCs as well as Windows Mobile devices and, for the first time, a VMware virtual machine. Security researchers originally believed that the malware was limited to simply monitoring the applications Adium, Firefox, Skype and MSN Messenger.
Crisis is distributed via social engineering and tricks a user into running a Java applet Flash installer. The malware then identifies the operating system and uses the respective executable file. The trojan is carried in a JAR (Java ARchive) file, which is based on the ZIP format and usually includes Java class files, metadata and resources in one file to distribute a Java application or Java libraries.
What makes Crisis interesting is that it appears to be specifically looking for virtualized environments and is therefore believed to be the first malware to spread onto a virtual machine.
The threat searches for a VMware virtual machine image on the compromised computer and, if it finds an image, it mounts the image and then copies itself onto the image by using a VMware Player tool.
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It does not use a vulnerability in the VMware software itself. It takes advantage of an attribute of all virtualization software: namely that the virtual machine is simply a file or series of files on the disk of the host machine. These files can usually be directly manipulated or mounted, even when the virtual machine is not running as is the case above.
This may be the first malware that attempts to spread onto a virtual machine. Many threats will terminate themselves when they find a virtual machine monitoring application, such as VMware, to avoid being analyzed, so this may be the next leap forward for malware authors.
