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Hmm. I thought slashdot would automatically linkify that. https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/SDcoemc9V3J?e.

There's no danger of a fuel shortage. The new US centrifuge enrichment plant is up and running, and the second section of the plant is under construction.

Simply not using Google products won't protect you from this as it is using scripts embedded in web pages. Google analytics Gstatic and Googleadservices just to name a few

Google provides tools to opt out of Analytics and Ads tracking, which will suppress these cookies.

See http://google.com/privacy/tools, the bottom two entries.

I think there are a bunch of links in this Slashdot discussion claiming otherwise. On the surface, it makes sense: shut down nuclear plants, and what else are you going to do? Solar just can't produce that amount of power (yet).

To confirm this, I just did a quick Google search for "Germany Coal Nuclear Solar":
https://www.google.com/search?q=germany+coal+nuclear+solar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
which seems to confirm the increase in coal burning, although the Poland connection seems to be false.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-G-N/Germany/
"More than half of Germany’s electricity was generated from coal in the first half of 2013, compared with 43% in 2010." but it says nothing about the shutdown of nuclear reactors.

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/05/debunking-common-myths-about-nuclear-coal-power-in-germany-this-time-repeated-by-the-guardian/
"coal (including lignite) is up around 5%...have nothing to do with nuclear in Germany."

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0716/The-dirty-coal-behind-Germany-s-clean-energy
This sites the 5% figure but doesn't mention why. "Germany has managed to be praised by environmentalists more than any other developed nation and yet is building more coal plants than more or less any other developed country" but it has no specifics.

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/green-energy-bust-in-germany
This one claims the same thing.
"Germany is indeed avoiding blackouts—by opening new coal- and gas-fired plants. Renewable electricity is proving so unreliable and chaotic..."

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/57035
"they are now building coal-fired electricity generation and shuttering nuclear power plants..."

I don't know what to believe now. Ultimately, we would need to see the energy mix numbers from the German power companies/government to know for sure. Just pointing out that new coal plants are being built doesn't mean much. They might be replacing existing ones, or making cleaner/smaller ones.

If the US can take a fibre copy of an entire Google data-centre/backup then so can any other country/organisation. That means that expect more than just the US having copies and keeping very very quiet about it. If they don't, then I am sure that certain countries are going "thats a good idea" and its a race between the Google team locking down their inter data center coms.

Any country that hosts a google datacentre and any fibre operator that has a managed service contract could be considered "compromised".

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/

5 million businesses on Google for a start.

Apple does have a directory system and management tools, Ars Technica has a 10 page review up today in fact.

Nobody in their right mind tries using Mac OS X server to manage any real amount of macs (not by itself, anyways). Otherwise you are correct, mac can be perfectly good corporate citizens, with every aspect of the client locked down and managed centrally. You can use commercial 3rd party software to do it (Casper, Absolute Manage) or do it with Open Source tools (Puppet, Munki). You can use Apple Profile Manager combined with any of tools above. You can even use SCCM with Macs these days (if you really, really want to), or product like Centrify, to attach your mac to your AD with better control.

If you really are interested in managing macs in real environments, check out the following:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/macenterprise
http://krypted.com/
http://www.afp548.com/ /jussi

Go ask the guy who runs Ford if there would still be a Ford if GM and Chrysler had gone under.

They would have been in a sweet market position. Ford is one of the losers in this game because they weren't needy enough to require federal bail out.

Oh yes, Ford are the losers all right. I just wish I had hung on to the Ford stock I bought at $1.50 instead of greedily selling it when it hit $4.

why use so many Apple computers when there's your own awesome Chromebook?

Because the Chromebook is basically a web-browser wrapped in hardware. You wouldn't want to compile code or run VMs on it. That doesn't mean the Chromebook is useless.

why use so many Apple computers when there's your own awesome Chromebook?

Google employee here (but I don't speak for my employer and I am basing this purely on anecdotal observation, not hard data).

I'm only familiar with my impressions from the engineering side, so I don't know much about the sales and marketing side of things, but nearly all of the engineers use Linux desktops (unless they're developing client software, like Chrome). Laptops are a different story. As a Bay Area-wide phenomenon, software engineers sure like their Macbooks, and this place is no exception. A few of us run Linux laptops, but my impression is that Macbooks outnumber Linux laptops plus Chromebooks combined. But the internal hardware requisition site is now offering the Pixel (indeed, recommending it instead of Macbooks), so this should change with time.

There's also the matter of hardware refresh cycles. The Pixel is not even a year old yet, and it hasn't been available for requisitions for its entire lifespan, so a good number of employees haven't yet had the chance to switch even if they want to. (Returned working laptops are refurbished and reused, so turning over the inventory will take longer than you might expect.) Also, lack of VPN or native SSH impeded the Chromebook's internal usefulness in the early days, but today hardly anything still requires VPN (it works now regardless) and the Secure Shell app is pretty workable (set it "Open as Window" so that ^W goes to the terminal). And... well, the early Chromebooks had anemic hardware specs, which is not true of the Pixel.

why use so many Apple computers when there's your own awesome Chromebook?

Google employee here (but I don't speak for my employer and I am basing this purely on anecdotal observation, not hard data).

I'm only familiar with my impressions from the engineering side, so I don't know much about the sales and marketing side of things, but nearly all of the engineers use Linux desktops (unless they're developing client software, like Chrome). Laptops are a different story. As a Bay Area-wide phenomenon, software engineers sure like their Macbooks, and this place is no exception. A few of us run Linux laptops, but my impression is that Macbooks outnumber Linux laptops plus Chromebooks combined. But the internal hardware requisition site is now offering the Pixel (indeed, recommending it instead of Macbooks), so this should change with time.

There's also the matter of hardware refresh cycles. The Pixel is not even a year old yet, and it hasn't been available for requisitions for its entire lifespan, so a good number of employees haven't yet had the chance to switch even if they want to. (Returned working laptops are refurbished and reused, so turning over the inventory will take longer than you might expect.) Also, lack of VPN or native SSH impeded the Chromebook's internal usefulness in the early days, but today hardly anything still requires VPN (it works now regardless) and the Secure Shell app is pretty workable (set it "Open as Window" so that ^W goes to the terminal). And... well, the early Chromebooks had anemic hardware specs, which is not true of the Pixel.

You may be wrong yourself. If you look at the FBI Crime Reports, you will see that there are 37 criminal firearm based homicides for every self-defense homicide by a civilian. The USA has a much higher gun death rate than other developed countries, and when you look within the USA itself, you find that Case-control studies, ecological time-series and cross-sectional studies indicate that in homes, cities, states and regions in the U.S., where there are more guns, both men and women are at higher risk for homicide, particularly firearm homicide., or put simply more guns, more crime. All of the above citations go to original or academic sources. So what could be going on? Well, firstly, the NRA attempts to stop scientists from studying gun violence. (In a similar vein, the junk-food industry tries to limit the study of the health effects of sugar.) Secondly, the NRA keeps its own datasets to do it's own "research" to reach its own conclusions, which (call me crazy), keeps the donors happy. Those would be the gun manufacturers. Most large industries do this. I'm open minded on the issue, and follow it because I have an academic interest in cognitive bubbles. If you are interested learning a different perspective on the issue, then read this. You don't have to believe a word of it; however, if you *can* read it, and accurately repeat back the arguments made, then that would indicate enough cognitive flexibility to really be informed about the issue, and be an expert. Ideologues do not have this flexibility, but want to maintain the self-concept of being an expert, which explains most of what is wrong with politics.

You are a liar. Here, let me quote:

If you look at the FBI Crime Reports, you will see that there are 37 criminal firearm based homicides for every self-defense homicide by a civilian.

Homicides are not a good measure of defensive actions. Defensive homicides are what happens when the criminal does not back off when warned, is too violent too fast for a threat backed by a gun to work, etc. The vast majority of defensive gun uses are simply displays. Like the guy up thread with the gun on his lap. The criminals were there, and may have been working themselves up to act, but left because of the gun.

Your assertion that a gun has to kill to do it's job is both myopic and factually incorrect. Heck, often a simple display indicating this victim will not go down as easy as they thought is enough to prevent the crime.

Why would you need to LIE to support your position unless your position was wrong? You sir, are a LIAR.

why use so many Apple computers when there's your own awesome Chromebook?

And yet Chrome still can't do CSS3 gradients right..... http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41756#c71

Why can't my washing machine/dryer/microwave send my cellphone an alert when it's done and I'm in another room?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.washer&hl=en

Why can't I turn on the lights at home from the grocery store so I don't have to carry my groceries in while it's dark?

http://www.smarthome.com/android_apps.html

Why can't I turn on the jacuzzi during a rough day at work so it's ready when I get home?

http://www.balboawatergroup.com/iphone-Application

Why can't my DVD player turn off my lights and close my blinds when it's time to watch a movie and then turn the lights back on when I pause it to get a drink?

DVD player? What decade are you living in?
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/15_Customization/Home_Automation

Why can't my refrigerator detect what's in it and suggest recipes and tell me what's expired?

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50364798/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Why can't I check to see if I forgot to turn the stove off after I left the house?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/22/2816405/samsung-smart-oven-android-app-control

Why can't my sprinklers check the weather forcast and put off watering if it's supposed to rain?

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/10/smart-lawn-sprinklers-cut-down-on-water-waste/

Why can't my blinds and windows automatically open and close to regulate the temperature in the house?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass

Are there any other inventions of the past 20 years that you missed and want me to google for you? Or do you think you've got it now? Tech tip: Put the world "Smart" in front of whichever thing you're looking for in your search and generally the first link will be the one you want.

You're right. No one in the US ever pays to tour homes of famous people.

It's true. The biggest tip off is the presence of Canadian Intelligence Gathering Centres throughout the USA.

You may be wrong yourself. If you look at the FBI Crime Reports, you will see that there are 37 criminal firearm based homicides for every self-defense homicide by a civilian. The USA has a much higher gun death rate than other developed countries, and when you look within the USA itself, you find that Case-control studies, ecological time-series and cross-sectional studies indicate that in homes, cities, states and regions in the U.S., where there are more guns, both men and women are at higher risk for homicide, particularly firearm homicide., or put simply more guns, more crime.

All of the above citations go to original or academic sources. So what could be going on?

Well, firstly, the NRA attempts to stop scientists from studying gun violence. (In a similar vein, the junk-food industry tries to limit the study of the health effects of sugar.)

Secondly, the NRA keeps its own datasets to do it's own "research" to reach its own conclusions, which (call me crazy), keeps the donors happy. Those would be the gun manufacturers. Most large industries do this.

I'm open minded on the issue, and follow it because I have an academic interest in cognitive bubbles. If you are interested learning a different perspective on the issue, then read this. You don't have to believe a word of it; however, if you *can* read it, and accurately repeat back the arguments made, then that would indicate enough cognitive flexibility to really be informed about the issue, and be an expert. Ideologues do not have this flexibility, but want to maintain the self-concept of being an expert, which explains most of what is wrong with politics.

Funny that academics don't pin-point race as a risk factor. Sounds like you read that in some alternative media, and now it is your reality -- cause its just such a nice story. Any academic citation to back it up though? Something published that passed peer review?

This isn't even a permission an App can request on Android. Not sure about iOS.

There is, actually. READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS

  To prevent apps from using this (and other permissions) download something like App Ops or root your device and use XPrivacy.

This isn't even a permission an App can request on Android. Not sure about iOS.

There is, actually. READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS

  To prevent apps from using this (and other permissions) download something like App Ops or root your device and use XPrivacy.

Use a third party application (while you can). They don't have the promoted tweets and the like. For Android I recommend TweetLanes

This should give you a few good hits.

If the emails where stored only on the server then this would be inconvenient.

Why would you do that? Keep using your current client. If you want to jump in and use a webmail client, then there are solutions for keeping that local as well.

I agree that people should keep their data in a form that is easy to recover from the loss of a provider, just as they should keep their data in a form that is easy to recover from the loss of their local data center.

The first version of this Doodle got the algorithm to compute age wrong (!). The original version of the Doodle used the COBOL expression

SUBTRACT CurrentYear FROM BirthYear GIVING Age

which actually computes the negative of the age (for most people born after Christ, anyway).

I wondered whether this might be a nod to her pioneering work in software debugging, as also referenced in the flying moth at the end of the animation, but since Google has since corrected the bug, it seems even the mighty Google still sometimes commits the simplest of programming errors. (Right on their main page and logo, too. Oooops. I suppose there's also the view that the code was wrong because it was a woman doing the coding. You misogynist Google bastards.)

Whatever the reason, happy birthday and many thanks to Amazing Grace.

(full disclosure: I submitted this as a story overnight, but since it didn't get picked up, it seemed too funny to let it completely slip into the ether.)

The first version of this Doodle got the algorithm to compute age wrong (!). The original version of the Doodle used the COBOL expression

SUBTRACT CurrentYear FROM BirthYear GIVING Age

which actually computes the negative of the age (for most people born after Christ, anyway).

I wondered whether this might be a nod to her pioneering work in software debugging, as also referenced in the flying moth at the end of the animation, but since Google has since corrected the bug, it seems even the mighty Google still sometimes commits the simplest of programming errors. (Right on their main page and logo, too. Oooops. I suppose there's also the view that the code was wrong because it was a woman doing the coding. You misogynist Google bastards.)

Whatever the reason, happy birthday and many thanks to Amazing Grace.

(full disclosure: I submitted this as a story overnight, but since it didn't get picked up, it seemed too funny to let it completely slip into the ether.)

I don't know who is using them, but they are a $2 billion a year company.

My understanding is they took their cash hoard from the .com era and used it to become a kind of 'idea' incubator, and they own a number of web properties around the internet without really using their name to promote it. For example, they own TechCrunch and Huffington Post.

The 16GB nexus 10 appears to be $449 with the 16GB iPad starting at $499.

There's also the new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX @ $229.
7" @ 323 ppi, Quad-Core 2.2 GHz, 17 hour batt reading, 303 grams.

"Mayday" button for help.

https://www.google.com/#q=+Amazon+Kindle+Fire+HDX+7%22

+5 insightful

Seriously, all of the people who freak out about the waste are just being ridiculous. So what if the stuff is dangerous for 10,000 years? We don't have to solve that problem, all we have to do is to keep it safe for a few centuries, and make sure that our descendants understand what it was that we did and what the potential issues are.

The key thing to understand in our generation is the cost of the infrastructure to transport the spent fuel around. In the U.S this is estimated to be a 30 year project with significant costs attached to it, in and of itself. Fukushima has demonstrated the danger inherent in the spent fuel cooling pools, that is why any infrastructure project has to start with an actual location to transport it to.

In the U.S Yucca mountain does not meet the requirements Studies of the Yucca mountain hydrology revealed that the passage cl-36 from atmospheric nuclear testing took less that 50 years in ground water through Yucca mountain so the reality of Yucca is it is inappropriate to contain *any* kind of radioactive products, especially the ones you are referring to. Yucca is pumice and volcanic ash, you *need* granite if you want a serious facility. Even the Swedish test facility is better designed than Yucca and the design of the actual facility shows the U.S how it *should* be done.

Dear future kids,

We have a plan. We will be around as a bureaucracy 5,000 years from now to guard all the stuff that will still need to be guarded.

Sincerely,
The U.S. DOE

quodlibet

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

And this is the reason for this bug :-(

I know the obvious answers are 9'' iPads/Android tablets, but IMO with sending emails as a requirement he's better off with a Chromebook. It's super-easy to use and has a real keyboard that doesn't require holding down a virtual key to get extra options. According to Google, most of them haved a 11.6'' display, but there are several with a 14'' display. Also, they're dirt cheap.

Seconded on the Chromebook. My father is 87 - and loves his Chromebook. This is going to be much easier for your father than a tablet.

Nexus 10 is the SAME PRICE as a base ipad and the same specs.

Same price, yes. But otherwise, TOTAL BULLSHIT. You could, you know, actually educate yourself by looking at Nexus 10 specs vs. Apple iPad specs, but here are some highlights:

Processor:
Nexus 10: CPU: Dual-core A15, GPU: Quad-core Mali TS04
iPad: Dual-core A5 Chip (CPU and GPU combined, ugh)

Display:
Nexus 10: 2560 x 1600 (300 ppi)
iPad: 1024-by-768 resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)

RAM: Nexus 10: 2GB
iPad: 512MB (actually had to look that one up on Wikipedia ... can't imagine why Apple doesn't want to advertise that).

There's more, but you can see (if you take your Apple blinders off) that the iPad isn't even in the same ballpark as the Nexus 10.

I turned my wife's smartphone into her own Jitterbug style large print/large icon phone with that app. A tablet using it would be quite easy for your Dad with just a little set up. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.kunes.android.launcher.activity&hl=en

Why again? get "the last ripper" and keep those last FM tracks forever and ever and ever.

http://code.google.com/p/thelastripper/

A better way to promote programming to kids:

https://www.google.com/search?q=booth+babes&source=lnms&tbm=isch

That would scare young male geeks into the next time zone (all the while bragging about what they would have done, had they, you know, not been unfortunately called away ...).

I know the obvious answers are 9'' iPads/Android tablets, but IMO with sending emails as a requirement he's better off with a Chromebook. It's super-easy to use and has a real keyboard that doesn't require holding down a virtual key to get extra options. According to Google, most of them haved a 11.6'' display, but there are several with a 14'' display. Also, they're dirt cheap.

Chrome has a full application interface for writing apps in it, much like Android or iOS. Feel free to hit https://chrome.google.com/webstore and have a look at some.

An excellent and inspiring article from a versatile and eloquent organic and computational chemist and it is delightful to see fun mentioned in the annals of the stuffy Nobel-folk. Fun hardly ever survives the peer review process these days.

But. From TA,

An early design invented by Admiral Hyman Rickover -- suitable for submarines but hardly optimal for efficient land-based power stations -- was frozen and applied to hundreds of reactors around the country.

Oh yes oh best beloved, Admiral Rickover was the Father of the light water reactor, the Naval taskmaster who imperiled his military career to apply direct agitation to his superiors -- on the idea that a nuclear reactor might some day power great submarines and ships. He slew the Lernaean Hydra that was the military establishment of the day, not the whole thing, just a few heads that got in his way. He seized the reins and cracked the whip, mustered the almost-Hippies of Los Alamos to yoke them as Oxen of Science. In toil, occasional obscenities and hot water... the Light Water Reactor was born! To become the fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust, the USS Nautilus! Even Walt Disney was impressed.

But Rickover did not invent the thing. In fact, he was also kind of a jerk.

On US Patent 2,736,696 you will see four names: Eugene P Wigner, Leo A Ohlinger, Gale J Young, Alvin M Weinberg. Weinberg was rightfully proud of his contribution to help solve the Navy's propulsion problem, but as a protégé of Wigner he had also learned that in the thermal spectrum Thorium was a good performer and with the right chemistry it could breed a self-sustaining fissile reaction. So with several chemists they began work in that direction (nuclear airplane yadda yadda) built what non-chemists called, 'the chemists' reactor'.

Fast forward to 1973. Two prototypes of Uranium molten salt reactors had been built to prove that fission and breeding could occur in this 'dry' chemical environment that would have amazing inherent safety advantages, especially for widely deployed commercial reactors.

But Weinberg had become obnoxious. His conviction that Light Water Reactors had unresolved safety issues prompted him to remark on the topic publicly, and it created a bit of a stir amongst those who had thought that Atoms for Peace was a unified voice, and we were harnessing the atom in the best possible way.

But privately all he wished to do was complete his work on the Liquid Salt Thorium Breeder and present it. He was sure that the wisdom of this approach would be obvious to all, especially when it had become reality.

In 1973 Admiral Rickover was given his fourth star and was everyone's Nuclear Darling. He had his Nuclear Navy, he had his Liquid Metal Fast Breeder and the ear of President Nixon.

It would have been a most appropriate time to honor the contribution of his former colleague Weinberg, whose diligent work had helped bring him to the pinnacle of his career. You could buy a billion dollars' worth of stuff with a few hundred million in those days, and the Cold War (and its chilly cousin Atoms for Peace) were integral essential of the federal funding machine. Rickover was no idiot and his public speeches centered on the Navy's perfect record and its attention to safety. He was no idiot and was surely aware of the advantages of using molten salts. A single phone call would have been all it took.

But he was a jerk.

Admiral Rickover it was who took the fun out of building nuclear reactors.

Next question?

For the rest of the story, and it is an amazing one, strap yourself down and clamp your eyes open for two hours to endure Tho

A better way to promote programming to kids:

https://www.google.com/search?q=booth+babes&source=lnms&tbm=isch

USPS state subsidized? USPS does not depend on any subsidy to survive. It generates its own revenues through sales of stamps and other products.

That statement is only true in theory. Reality is much different. Plenty more coverage here.

A few unique features of mpd, off the top of my head:

* Handles extremely large music collections with ease
* Can be controlled remotely (over the network), with ease (see here and here for examples)
* Can be controlled by multiple clients simultaneously due to the client/server model (imagine a party where everyone with a smartphone has access to a queued jukebox)
* Many different clients to choose from: windows, linux, mac, command line, GUI,
* Scriptable

And there's even more than that. You just have to understand what it's for, and it's not an exact substitute for a standard desktop music player. It's an entirely different paradigm.)

A few unique features of mpd, off the top of my head:

* Handles extremely large music collections with ease
* Can be controlled remotely (over the network), with ease (see here and here for examples)
* Can be controlled by multiple clients simultaneously due to the client/server model (imagine a party where everyone with a smartphone has access to a queued jukebox)
* Many different clients to choose from: windows, linux, mac, command line, GUI,
* Scriptable

And there's even more than that. You just have to understand what it's for, and it's not an exact substitute for a standard desktop music player. It's an entirely different paradigm.)

Depends on which platform (there's an open defect for OSX and I don't know about Windows), but on Linux it's been gapless if compiled from the git repo for maybe six months.

Compiling Clementine from source.

Depends on which platform (there's an open defect for OSX and I don't know about Windows), but on Linux it's been gapless if compiled from the git repo for maybe six months.

Compiling Clementine from source.

The obviousness test has failed us time and time and time again. To me, that's a simple reason for simply banning all software patents, as other countries have done without major mishap.

A common misconception. "Software-only" patents are banned in Europe and many other countries, but they're also banned here in the US, under Bilski. What gets issued here are "software" patents that also claim portions of the machine executing the software - and the same exact claims get allowed in Europe. For example, this one was granted in Europe in September. Claim 5 sure looks like what you would call a "software patent that has been banned in other countries", right?

An issue with software engineers and programmers is that, at least in my experience, they tend to be rather smart people (if sometimes narrowly focused), and thus have a rather skewed view on what they consider to be "obvious". If we rely on non-experts to agree with us on obviousness, we're always going to be disappointed. And creating some clever process to determine obviousness is going to succeed no better than creating some magical process to solve any challenging and creative problem in the real world. No offense regarding your solution, but I'd guess you're probably looking at this problem through the lens of a programmer or mathematician - solving challenging problems with algorithms and processes is what we do. But it tends not to work as well in the real world, which is much messier and more complex than a computer simulation.

But the people at the patent office are also experts - programmers with a background in the specific technology. The patent office is divided into art groups for all the different areas of industry, with Examiners hired specifically for those areas - so biologists and chemists examine pharma stuff, mechanical engineers examine tools and engines, electrical engineers examine circuits, and programmers examine software.
Two things here, though - first, the patent office didn't accept programmers until about the mid to late 90s, so you had EE guys examining software that they couldn't really wrap their heads around. That's why we see a bunch of bad patents from that time, and since patents tend to get filed, granted 5 years later, and sued on 5 years after that, that's why they're in the news. The ones getting issued now are better.
Second, there still needs to be that objective test, because even if you have the greatest programmer in the world examining the patent, they're still human and prone to looking at something in hindsight. And in hindsight, many inventions look obvious, but that's because the patent application just explained to you exactly how it's done. I bet you could draw a model of an internal combustion engine or steam engine on a napkin right now... but does that mean it was obvious in the 1700s? Or does it mean that you've had years of knowledge and looking at those diagrams and now it's ingrained? So, the test is set up specifically to avoid that problem - you can only show obviousness by using references that existed at the time of filing.

I'm afraid we simply just have to toss out the entire category. Patenting software just needs to be abolished. Copyright is plenty to legally protect the interests of development companies and/or individuals. Anything more than that just leads to overly anti-competitive behavior through sleazy legal maneuvers in the long run.

Copyright is next to useless for smaller programmers, because it's protecting the wrong thing. Basically, copyright protects the exact work, so it's really handy when people want that exact work: you want to see Hollywood's "Thor", not Bollywood's "Hammer-God". You want the latest Britney Spears album (maybe for use as a coaster?), not the elevator music version. And that can even w

I used this one btw: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.slvn.appops

And I have verified that disabling a permission changes the behaviour of the apps (PvZ2 normally diables outside sound, but this change overrides that, so you can still listen to music while playing for example).