LOL. Is that really the patent the tinfoilhatters believe caused the flight 370 tragedy? A trivial patent about optimizing geometry to maximize dies per wafer? You have got to be kidding me.

As for who owns this worthless patent; "engineers working for a company do not own the inventions that they patent, they belong to the company that employs them". Or if you prefer it in legalese:
http://inventors.about.com/od/licensingmarketing/a/patent_licensin.htm
http://www.yale.edu/ocr/pfg/guidelines/patent/inventor_owner.html

You should really stop believing all the nonsense you are being fed and do some research for yourself. Its good that you dont automatically believe whats being told by the media or governments, now please apply that same state of mind to the conspiracy theories and find out how ludicrous they really are.


Patent on what exactly?  Point me to the patent, and show me evidence JR now owns it. The chip you mentioned is a bog standard ARM core thats being used in hundreds of millions of chips, the design is property of ARM holdings and Freescale licensed it (along with about 2 dozen other companies).  No one holds a patent on it, you dont patent chip designs, they fall under copyright,  but whatever patents are applicable to the design will belong to ARM not freescale, and much less freescale engineers (*). Dont you realize that engineers working for a company do not own the inventions that they patent, they belong to the company that employs them? The death of a few engineers changes absolutely nothing relating to any patent ownership.


IM quite aware of Vpro, but it has absolutely zero bearing on what happened here.

Enlighten me, what could happen if a vacuum cleaner, fitness monitor or universal touchscreen remote control ends up in the wrong hands, and how does abducting/killing a few engineers stop this from happening, especially considering these chips are for sale, there is no export ban on them, and most of the products that implement these chips come from China?


No, we have the intergalactic counsel for that.
 

BTW, arent you the one thats implying this is a government plot ?

Most potent next generation weaponry, ROFL.

You guys crack me up. Its an ARM cortex M0 microcontroller running at a few whopping MHz, same core you can buy from countless other companies like NXP. Or if you want your own M0 design you just licence it from ARM. Countless implementations are for sale, and have been for some time, costs about $1 in volume from secret next gen arms dealers like Mouser or Digikey. But now that the Rothchilds, Mossad, NSA and FSB conspired with aliens to abduct a few geniuses that implemented ARMs reference design, what will the Chinese do?

Thats the ironic part; by allowing advertisers to buy signature space, the value of the actual ads is diminished tremendously.
So not only does this policy kill signal noise ratio, it even hurts his own bottomline, fat as it may still be.

It clearly said they would assume all liability. Ie, take on the debt.

Ive been using this forum for 4 years or so now, with different accounts,  I used to spend several hours every day on here and early on actually read most posts, but its just become unusable to me, its impossible to keep up with the flood of posts, and 99% of them just arent worth reading. Whats worse is that its impossible to find the few posts that are worth reading.

Part of this is due to bitcoin going more mainstream and logically creating a lot of new users,  but whats greatly exacerbating the problem is forum policy and forum software.

The policy that allows users to put spam in their signature and have casino's and what not pay out (newbie/alt account) posters based on how much (nonsense) they post each day is the straw that broke the camel's back. At least 2/3 of the activity I see is just alt accounts posting whatever in order to boost their activity and collect more bitcoins for their signature spam. How this is allowed is beyond me.

Another part of the problem is the relaxed newbie restrictions; with so many new accounts being registered every day, the bar to post should be raised, not lowered. Who wants to see 16 newbie spam accounts push down some of the rare pearls of wisdom, say posts by DeathandTaxes to the point where you cant possibly find them?

Finally the forum software thats absolutely unhelpful. Despite the fact that Theymos was given enough money to buy a medium sized software development company, in all these years, it hasnt improved one meaningful yota. The few changes that were made, made things worse, not better (think trust system)

Its really sad but these days I need to get my bitcoin updates from google news or reddit.

 

No different than previous years.  Every year one or more exchanges get hacked/close down, pyramid schemes collapse and nearly all IPO's fail either by accident or design.So far there has only been one real exception to this rule, and that is/was Asicminer.

BTW, remember my pilot suicide hypothesis? I hadnt even read this yet:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/flight-370-pilot-friend-shouldn-flying-article-1.1734998

Investigators are reluctant to say anything with certainty, as they should be, but there is nothing else anyone has come up with that makes those kinds of pings, at that frequency at that interval. There is a reason that frequency was chosen for black box pingers: nothing in nature creates anything similar.

Underwater acoustics is weird and complicated. The very same signal may only be detectable for a few km under some circumstances or many thousands of km in others (google for Deep Sound Channel).

Exactly what makes you say that ? Whether the plane exploded midair,  crashed vertically or ditched, the black boxes and 99% of the plane would still end up at the bottom of the ocean. There isnt much in a plane that floats and remains floating for a month, and those parts that do are microscopic compared to the vastness of the ocean and could have drifted hundreds of Km further by now. That we havent found debris by no means proves the plane is mostly intact.

Ditching isnt much of a theory anyway, since it explains nothing. If the plane was still under control by the crew, why would the pilots fly it completely off course to the middle of nowhere for 7 or whatever hours?

You got that wrong. Tape out means the design is sent to the mask manufacturer for validation and production. The mask set can only be made after tape out.

Its an AMT miner. They are so rare they carry a large collector's premium.

only 10B in June? Hashrate levelling off? I say keep dreaming.

Even if no one orders anything new anymore, the amount of placed but undelivered orders alone is already staggering. BFL hasnt shipped a single 28nm product yet,  ditto for BlackArrow and Spondoolies. Then you have the companies that still have to work through months of backlogs and promised upgrades, like Bitmine, Cointerra, HF,..

Last but not least, there is Asicminer:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5025133#msg5025133

For the math impaired 10K wafers x 40TH=400PH or almost 10x todays overall network hashrate. Leveling off, my ass.

he acoustic pingers believed to be on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's two black boxes were due for overhauls and battery replacements in 2012 but were never returned to their manufacturer, the manufacturer tells CNN.

If the original batteries remain in the pingers, the battery life probably will have dropped from the required 30 days to 20 or 25 days, Patel says.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/04/us/flight-370-pinger-batteries/

Its kinda funny you disbelieve the official story (which basically only is "we have no clue"), and seem willing to accept any conspiracy as more plausible than the official 'we have no clue' story, yet apparently you barely know any of the facts of the investigation. You are not aware of the acars pings that pretty much prove the plane flew south for a long time, have no clue about GPS, and you missed this story too. Why do you seem hell bent on disbelieving what you have no clue about?

People are weird creatures I guess, born with superstitious genes. IN the old days we'd have called anything we didnt understand an act of the Gods, now that many of us no longer believe in interventionist gods, its become aliens or elaborate secret government plots. Trying to argue against it is probably as fruitless as trying to argue against people believing in aliens or gods.

Still, let me point out a few things; about the eye witness reports. There are several eye witness reports from (among other places), Vietnam, Maladives, Phillipines and Sri lanka. Look at the map, and find out what that means. Yep, most of them simply have got to be wrong, flight 370 couldnt have been at all those places. That doesnt prove all of them are incorrect, but based on what would you believe one and not the other?  With an event like this, you simply know lots of people will either just make stuff up to get some media attention (and possibly make a buck), or project their own fantasies and whatever they saw that night, they will fool themselves in to believing it looked like a Boeing 777 from MA, even though at night they couldnt have seen much more than a few lights. What are the odds some other planes where flying low that night in an area that spans a quarter of the globe? Id say 100%.

As for the "theory" of the Malaysians shooting down flight 370; that makes no sense whatsoever. First of all, a plane making a turn is hardly a reason to scramble fighter jets, and far less a reason to shoot it down over water. Secondly, the controllers didnt even realize it made any turn or that it had disappeared for quite some time. Lastly, not even the US were capable of intercepting hijacked planes in time when they were flying over NY and Washington, I dont know what makes you think the Malaysian air force could.

As for the impossibility of a "mechanical fire" (wth?), I suspect the poster meant electrical fire. It seems entirely plausible to me that such a fire would disable onboard electronics or prompt the crew to disable those electronics, by pulling all circuit breakers. THe latter is actually standard procedure. Doing so may have stopped fueling the fire preventing it from going out of control.  How does a plane keep flying then? Simple, engines are almost completely autonomous and they are located quite far from the fuselage. Once started, all they really need to keep running is fuel, which the plane had plenty off. To put some perspective on this, there are several recorded incidents where the crew was unable to *stop* the engines after landing. For the most famous/recent example look up Qantas Flight 32, the airbus A380 that landed after one engine exploded. For 3 hours after landing the crew was unable to shut off one engine, no matter what they tried, with all electrical systems shut down and even with fire crews dousing the engine with water and foam. Thats how "weird" it is that a jet engine keeps running, its just what it does.

And then within ~15 minutes recovering the acars system in that pile of debris, have it working and fly it to the middle of the indian ocean, because the Malaysians  figured out that the British sat operator would be able to figure out the plane location based on acars pings using that doppler shift analysis, even if that very same company didnt know it was possible until they did it ? Oh please.

As for not wanting to give radar data, very few countries are happy to hand over military radar data for the world to see.

If one machine is profitable, then so are 100. And vice versa.


Going big changes nothing (as an asic customer). Or almost nothing, I dont know what kind of volume discounts asic manufacturers give, but thats the only thing that changes. Actually, the opposite is true, if you go *really* big, you start competing with yourself. Theoretically 1 miner might be profitable, but under the same circumstances, 10000 may no longer be. If you cant see that, just calculate the ROI on 1 billion of whatever theoretically profitable miner.

It is a fact 20 Freescale employees where on that plane (not all engineers):

Twenty employees of U.S. chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor were passengers on a Malaysia Airlines flight presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast, according to a company statement on Saturday.

The employees, among 239 people on the plane, included engineers and manufacturing staff, many of whom travel regularly between company facilities in Tianjin, China, and Kuala Lumpur, a company source said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/malaysia-airlines-freescale-idUSL2N0M602O20140309

RussiaToday planted several weird conspiracy theories about that, that make no sense at all. They had some talking head insinuate those engineers worked on super secret stealth technology that could render any plane invisible (seriously) and there have been versions of the story involving electric car patents.

Freescale mostly makes embedded micro controllers for automotive and RF chips.  While IM sure there are patents in the name of some of those victims (but which will be owned by Freescale) there is no shred of evidence for the above fantasies.