Second, every patent application gets a rejection. A Rejection is part of a conversation between you and the patent office to determine exactly what is novel and should be covered by a patent. Handling rejections is cheap compared to filing patents.

Third, pursuing patents generally protects your business. It is not the entire business. Go sell.

Finally, there is no way of seeing abandoned patents. The knowledge is kept confidential and thus disappears. I was hoping that the patent office should publish the abandoned patents twenty years after they are filed so the knowledge is never lost.

The “patent pending” claim is correct. There are cheap ways to get the moniker if you wish it.

I would also like to ask how one files for a patent themselves and where the information can be aquired.

Thank you,
Rod Reynolds

Direct connection to the NAS came up with the same problem. Tech support says it’s a bad NIC then and RMA it. I get to keep my drives; they just want the chassis. I paid them 20 US for an advance RMA which is quite reasonable really, especially since they sent it air when it was supposed to be ground. Here’s where the fun starts, though.

I get the RMA unit and it’s an old one. Older than the one I own. You can tell by the serial number. It’s probably refurbished as there are marks on the case. Whatever, I don’t care as long as it works, right. I install my drives, do a factory reset and install the latest firmware. I start to transfer my data to it and…I’ll bet you can guess what happens next. That’s right! Same problem. I run Wireshark again and it shows copious amounts of TCP checksum errors while moving files up to this paperweight.

I e-mail tech support right away and tell them that it does the same thing and that if they can’t fix it, and I don’t have faith that they can, then I want my money back. That was 4 days ago. I have yet to hear anything from them. I believe this is the part where they stonewall the customer. Anyway, I’ve contacted my CC company to see if they can help and they can’t. I just sent an e-mail to the retailer I bought this junk off of and am awaiting their reply. I don’t have much faith that they will be able to do anything. At this point I believe I’m going to end up with a 1500 buck brick sitting in the closet collecting dust.

Charles you’re right. It IS landfill!

I’m having trouble with file transfers to the NV+ from my OpenSuse box. Ran wireshark as support asked and I’m getting TONS of tcp checksum errors. Support says I have to check with another PC so I drag an old box out, install OpenSuse 11.1 and, after a lot of time and hassle, I find transfers are doing the same thing from that box as well. It has a completely different Gigabit NIC so they can’t blame my equipment now. They still want me to do a direct connection to the PC. Reasonable, I guess…it could me my gigabit switch, right???? Not likely. I’m praying it’s a firmware issue or I’ll have to pay a fortune to send it back to them for RMA. Even then what about my data??? And what if they just send it back? I’ve had companies do that before.

When I was looking into this I threw around the idea of building my own, God knows, for the money I could have had a pretty sweet little NAS. But I like the very small power consumption on this. How I wish now that I had just built my own.

Clinical Studies:

Homeopaths point to the nearly two hundred years of clinical experience of convinced doctors and satisfied patients. Homeopathic remedies are believed to be effective in treating a wide variety of illnesses: infectious diseases such as flu and colds; chronic conditions such as allergies, asthma, migraines, and PMS. Conventional medicine has not had much of success in treating many of these conditions.

Several clinical studies exist that show the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies. Many of these studies employed double blind studies, accepted by scientists. Recent clinical trials suggest that homeopathic medicines have a positive effect on allergic rhinitis, asthma, treatment of dermatological complaints, fibrositis, influenza, and for the treatment of migraine.

In 1994, the first study that involved homeopathy was published in a peer-reviewed American scientific journal. Jennifer Jacobs, M.D., led the study, which was conducted in Nicaragua and included eighty-one children with acute diarrhea. All the children received standard antidehydration treatment for diarrhea, consisting of water containing salt and sugar. In addition, half the children received homeopathic treatment and half received a placebo. The study confirmed homeopathy’s effectiveness: the recovery time for children receiving homeopathic treatment was 20 percent faster than those receiving the placebo, reducing the bout of diarrhea by one day. These results are heartening because diarrhea is the leading cause of death in developing countries such as Nicaragua.

In 1991, the British Medical Journal published an analysis of 107 clinical studies published between 1966 and 1990. The authors found that in 81 of the experiments, the homeopathic treatments were successful. Even when they included only the 23 studies that they considered to be of the highest quality, the vast majority of these (15) showed positive results. Here’s how the results broke down: 13 out of the 19 trials of respiratory infection treatment were effective, 6 out of 7 were positive for other infections, 5 out of 7 were positive for digestive system treatment, 5 out of 5 were successful for hay fever, 5 out of 7 showed accelerated recovery after surgery, 4 out of 6 helped in rheumatological disease, 18 of 20 were beneficial for pain or traumatic injury; and 8 out of 10 worked for mental or psychological problems.
In one study published in Lancet by Dr. David Taylor Reilly and his colleagues compared the effects of a homeopathic hay-fever remedy with a placebo. In this double-blind controlled study, Dr. Reilly found that those who received the homeopathic remedy had six times fewer symptoms and were able to cut their use of antihistamines in half.

Another study published in 1989 in the British Medical Journal dealt with fibromyalgia. The double- blind, controlled trial was also “crossed over,” meaning the treatment lots were switched after one month so the subjects could be compared, not only with each other, but also with themselves. The results were evaluated by a rheumatology professional who was not a homeopath. The study found that the homeopathic remedy provided highly statistically significant improvement in both subjective and objective symptoms.

In a double-blind controlled study conducted in Britain in 1980, 82 percent of those receiving the homeopathic remedy enjoyed improvements in rheumatoid arthritis versus 21 percent of the control group on placebo. The subjects in this study received remedies that were individually prescribed.

Other significant positive studies show homeopathy helps in pain following tooth extraction (76 percent versus 40 percent for a placebo}; reduces vertigo and nausea; reduces labor time in pregnant women (5.1 hours versus 8.5 hours}; and reduces risk of abnormal labor (11.3 percent versus 40 percent).

Two double-blind studies compared Quietude, a combination of homeopathically prepared plant extracts that has been very popular in France, with diazepam (Valium). The subjects were adults and children who were nervous and suffered from sleeplessness. The results showed that the homeopathic product increased sleep time, reduced interruptions during sleep, and reduced nervousness. Both products relieved insomnia and minor nervous tension 63 percent of the time. However, the homeopathic remedy produced no side effects: there was no daytime dizziness, as opposed to 13 percent of the diazepam group. Homeopathic remedy group suffered no daytime drowsiness, but 53 percent of the diazepam group felt drowsy. In addition, Quietude was better at reducing children’s nightmares, and 74 percent of the Quietude patients said the product was better than other treatments, as opposed to 48 percent of the diazepam group who felt this way.

A study, conducted in 1985, found that patients who took the homeopathic product Oscillococcinum, derived from duck heart and liver, experienced reduction in their fever much rapidly (in two days ) than those who took placebo. Shivering disappeared by day four. In another controlled study, published in 1989 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 66 percent more of the Oscillococcinum group recovered within forty-eight hours as compared to the placebo group.
Clinical studies show the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies in treating infectious diseases. In a French study published in 1987, silica, prepared homeopathically to the 10c potency, stimulated macrophage activity by nearly 70 percent. Macrophages are white cells belonging to the immune defense system that destroy harmful cells and microorganisms. Homeopathic remedies were also shown to be effective in correcting immunological disorders in mice. In other studies, eight out of ten homeopathic remedies tested were able to inhibit the growth of viruses (in chicken embryos) by 50 to 100 percent.

Other studies show the usefulness of homeopathic remedies in treating diabetes. A 1992 study examined sixty people with retinal problems due to diabetes. In approximately half of the patients taking the homeopathic remedy (Arnica), the eye condition improved; only 1 percent of the subjects receiving placebo improved a like amount. The subjects were evaluated using objective measuring instruments, indicating that homeopathy may prove valuable in helping this group of diabetics preserve their sight.

Conventional physicians often belittle homeopathic remedies and their effectiveness to placebo effect. However, several studies on animals and infants show that homeopathic remedies do work. Obviously, animals and infants are less likely to be influenced by placebo. In Germany, poultry farmers are treating their hens with homeopathic remedies instead of antibiotics for coughs, colds, and digestive problems. Farmers also treat their cats, dogs, horses, cattle, and birds homeopathically.

Other animal studies add to the evidence. A 3x potency of Chelidonium lowered cholesterol in rabbits by 25 percent. Microdoses of Arsenicum (10x up to 30x; and 5c up to 15c) helped rats eliminate toxic doses of arsenic from their systems, a study that has important implications for humans who are increasingly exposed to many heavy metals in the environment. And pigs given Caulophyllum had half as many stillbirths as those who received a placebo.

Homeopaths have been reporting good results when treating infants for common health problems such as teething, colic, eczema, and fever.

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I probably will pull this out of the storage pile and plug it back in. It’s been six months and maybe software will fix parts of it.

#4 – I hope Firefox works with it now. The issue had been the admin software would launch the browser, control it resolution, and do a bad job. Really, there is now excuse for specifically disabling scroll bars and then blowing the screen real estate.
#5 – I could track this down. It seems like the type of problem that an update would fix.
#7 – You have a loud PC? On your desk? Why?

The issue isn’t about a typical consumer versus a geek. It’s recognizing landfill. I can write a networking stack from scratch; the software shipped with the NAS was still unworkable.

Have a great day!