I've only ever had one TSA agent realize that I didn't have a cartridge razor in my dopp and confiscate my blades. Since that happened (but before I became an enormous beardo), I've brought only the bare minimum blades needed for my trips packed edge on to the x-ray scanner and left the butterfly in my shave kit but opened to show it was empty.
I imagine a safer and less obstreperous way might be to just buy an injector razor for when you travel.
Oh man, I can confirm this. I had to take a course of SSRI's last year and my gut-mind was so relaxed and happy on them that I completely lost the sensation of hunger. It was . . . odd. I had to set timers to remember to eat.
The Australian Innovation Patent isn't really a patent. When an application is filed a formalities check is completed, but no prior art search is conducted. Also, the inventor and assignee of an AIP can't litigate. If one wanted to, the Australian Patent Office would need to examine and issue an allowance as a standard patent.
From the perspective of the US patent system, the AIP is more like a provisional patent application than anything else.
What I'd be very interested in knowing is how many people have decided to get print subscriptions because of the paywall.
Doesn't it seem like the digital offerings are priced so that readers who want to become subscribers will choose a comparatively cheap print subscription and get the digital access as well? The least expensive paper delivery option (Sunday only) is less expensive than the digital all access that gets thrown in for 'free' when you sub to the print.
Don't misunderstand, the Times is my paper - has been for 15 years now, but I'm deeply dissappointed that rather than find a way to embrace digital, they're using it to prop up their print rate card.
If you log into Public Pair (http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair) and look at the prosecution history (tab labeled "Image File Wrapper") you will see that the examiner denied this application, and that the application was abandoned by the applicant in Oct of 2007. The system seemed to work quite well in this case.
The problem that I can see with this document is that there's no clear indication of when this document was first made available to the public.
I get that the lectures were published in '02, but what's at issue is when this particular page was published. As far as I can tell, the only thing that dates this document particularly is the lastBuildDate in '06.
I'm not sure that the indep claim covers the way podcasts are delivered nowadays. Claim 1 seems to require a single channel which both provides notification of new content and from which new content is downloaded. But, an RSS feed for a podcast just provides a URL pointing to the content. No one really downloads anything from an RSS feed.
My guess is that if this patent reads on any technology in use now, it's probably something more like dvrs or on demand TV.
Caveat: I haven't read the specification, so it's possible that there's a special definition that I'm missing.
Have any of your designer friends ever seen an issue of Army Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Man)? That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the page.
Anyhow, It looks like a really cool idea. Count on me to toss in some chum soon.
I have the same problem! How do you deal with it? Whenever I'm exposed to a new thing I want to learn, I ask if it's something I can and will apply relatively immediately, or something I'd learn only to incorporate it into my 'zombie plan' (or any other unlikely contingency). If it's for the far off future, I stick a pin in it and come back if the urge becomes more than a whim.
Also, I try to limit the time I spend ingesting info (discounting recreation) to about 20% of the time I spend creating.
Well, one of the most interesting things about puzzlers is that a significant (but perhaps still small) proportion of them like making puzzles as well as solving them.
If this were a problem I was working on, I'd try to support that behavior. Make it easy for people to transition from solvers to makers of puzzles. Then feed and nurture the community of fans by allowing solvers to rate and discuss and find similar puzzles.
I imagine a safer and less obstreperous way might be to just buy an injector razor for when you travel.