I agree with you to some extent, but what the hell does any of that have to do with a the government wasting funds helping a 7 year old run a lemonade stand?
I am well aware of that, I am a computer engineer. I'm saying that it's stupid to even be having this discussion since we're talking about the transmission of digital data from one component to another. What matters is the ones and zeros in a digital computer. That 'one' or 'zero' may be three volts in component A, five volts in component B, negative five volts in a component C and zero volts in component D. They all represent a logical 'one' and so long as the cable is capable of delivering the logical 'one' when it should deliver a logical 'one' and a logical 'zero' when it should deliver a logical 'zero' the cable is "working". When the cable can not meet those requirements, the cable is "broken". One cable is not better than another because it delivers a noiseless, more consistent waveform, because the noiseless waveform and the slightly noisy waveform will both be interpreted as either a 'one' or a 'zero'. There is no difference between the 'one' delivered from the noisy cable and the 'one' delivered from the noiseless cable.
No, it means that it's illegal for anybody else to do it without paying apple royalties. Since this isn't a feature that sane or rational consumers would actually want on their phones, I don't see why apple wouldn't license this patent to all the other authoritarian moneygrubbers out there, especially since being the only ones remotely breaking their customers phones would probably be viewed as a bad thing. The more companies they license this patent to (if they are awarded it) the better apple looks in comparison, and the more money they make in the process.
Yes, but sata cables have 8 leads in them, current flows in both directions at the same time, and it uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_signaling , which basically means that the signal is sent on one lead and the opposite of signal is sent on another other, then the two signals are compared to reduce noise in the output.
No it does not. Electrons get recycled. They go in one direction, and then the other.
I never said the stream flowed in one direction at all times.
Indeed, it is the ones and zeros that matter. But ones and zeroes are represented by "things" called "packets" or "analog waveforms". In principle, if the waveform gets mangled, your ones and zeroes turn to zeroes and ones.
And when the cable starts delivering zeros when it should deliver ones, or ones when it should deliver zeros, we call the cable "broken" and we "throw it away" because it is "not functioning properly".
Since when does a SATA Cable deliver analog voltage? It delivers a stream of electrons.
You see, we can keep going to a lower level of data abstraction, but since we're talking about digital computers, what matters is the ones and zeroes.
I don't think America is unique in the amount of evil it produces, just the amount it exports. There are plenty of tin-pot dictators, warlords and autocrats out there producing much more evil than the US, they just keep it all local.
No, drugging kids _is_ the solution, so long as they actually have the disorder. My brother has had pretty severe ADHD his whole life. He's never liked taking Adderol (I think I'm misspelling that), but since high school he's recognized that he simply can't focus on school work without it, so now he only takes it when he has class or needs to study.
I don't think you'll find any PR people, trademark lawyers or corporate executives who think that the benefits of being a "local hero" in a small community that no one is paying attention to yet outweighs the risks of being a "corporate sponsor of child rape" or "messengers of hate" when the nice pastor you decided to give free reign to with your logo gets caught doing something or saying something that your company has no control over.
Generally after I've spent a night spewing out hot liquids and gasses, I need a day or two to sleep it off. I can imagine plasma makes for an even worse hangover.
That guy is selling imaginary real estate. He used the proceeds from sale of that imaginary real estate to purchase the VW Bug and it's trademark infringing paint job.
Licensing your multi-billion dollar publicly traded corporation's trademark to a specific religious organization for zero fee would be much worse PR than filing a C&D and letting the lawsuit die quietly and harmlessly once the guy complied with the order.
Yes, but then they are legally affiliated with that guy's church, and most sane businessmen don't want the idea thrown around that their Company endorses a particular minister at a particular church.
The problem is that Best Buy needs to send him a Cease and Desist when they become aware of possible infringement or they waive their rights to assert the trademarks in other cases. It's not that they want to be dicks to that particular guy, it's that if they let him get away with it, they lose their right to assert trademark infringement in future cases. The Icons and VW Bug thing are close enough that no reasonable person would say it's not derivative of Geek Squad's logos, so if they let him get away with it they have to let everyone get away with it. There is significant legal precedent that non-asserted trademarks are not valid trademarks. It's much safer for them to just send this guy a C&D than to have a different, real trademark infringement case a year down the road where the defense claims that Geek Squad was aware of other trademark violations that they took no action to end those violations, therefore their trademark claim should be thrown out.
You're confusing trademarks with patents. Trademarks are to prevent people from fraudulently claiming to be affiliated with a business.
For example, lets pretend you started a successful, well respected business named 'Haedrian's Home Improvements' and trademark the name. If I try to cash in on your success by setting up a similar business named "Haeadrian's Home Improvements" then you could sue me for trademark infringement. It's to prevent me from ruining your business's reputation by doing shitty work for customers who aren't smart enough to realize that There's an extra A in my business's name and it's not the same company as yours. It doesn't matter if either of us invented anything.
Did anyone else notice that the article didn't actually mention any privacy flaws with chrome, even though it says that chrome has them? They cite specific examples for IE, firefox and safari, then just say "oh, chrome has flaws too".
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I agree with you to some extent, but what the hell does any of that have to do with a the government wasting funds helping a 7 year old run a lemonade stand?
Yeah, the government helping a 7 year old run a lemonade stand is really a good use of taxpayer dollars when our economy is on the brink of collapse.
I've worn a condom every time I've had a blood transfusion, and I've never gotten HIV.
I mean moon! I'm crushing your moon!
I am well aware of that, I am a computer engineer. I'm saying that it's stupid to even be having this discussion since we're talking about the transmission of digital data from one component to another. What matters is the ones and zeros in a digital computer. That 'one' or 'zero' may be three volts in component A, five volts in component B, negative five volts in a component C and zero volts in component D. They all represent a logical 'one' and so long as the cable is capable of delivering the logical 'one' when it should deliver a logical 'one' and a logical 'zero' when it should deliver a logical 'zero' the cable is "working". When the cable can not meet those requirements, the cable is "broken". One cable is not better than another because it delivers a noiseless, more consistent waveform, because the noiseless waveform and the slightly noisy waveform will both be interpreted as either a 'one' or a 'zero'. There is no difference between the 'one' delivered from the noisy cable and the 'one' delivered from the noiseless cable.
No, it means that it's illegal for anybody else to do it without paying apple royalties. Since this isn't a feature that sane or rational consumers would actually want on their phones, I don't see why apple wouldn't license this patent to all the other authoritarian moneygrubbers out there, especially since being the only ones remotely breaking their customers phones would probably be viewed as a bad thing. The more companies they license this patent to (if they are awarded it) the better apple looks in comparison, and the more money they make in the process.
Yes, but sata cables have 8 leads in them, current flows in both directions at the same time, and it uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_signaling , which basically means that the signal is sent on one lead and the opposite of signal is sent on another other, then the two signals are compared to reduce noise in the output.
No it does not. Electrons get recycled. They go in one direction, and then the other.
I never said the stream flowed in one direction at all times.
Indeed, it is the ones and zeros that matter. But ones and zeroes are represented by "things" called "packets" or "analog waveforms". In principle, if the waveform gets mangled, your ones and zeroes turn to zeroes and ones.
And when the cable starts delivering zeros when it should deliver ones, or ones when it should deliver zeros, we call the cable "broken" and we "throw it away" because it is "not functioning properly".
Since when does a SATA Cable deliver analog voltage? It delivers a stream of electrons. You see, we can keep going to a lower level of data abstraction, but since we're talking about digital computers, what matters is the ones and zeroes.
I think you meant 'most people'.
I don't think America is unique in the amount of evil it produces, just the amount it exports. There are plenty of tin-pot dictators, warlords and autocrats out there producing much more evil than the US, they just keep it all local.
No, drugging kids _is_ the solution, so long as they actually have the disorder. My brother has had pretty severe ADHD his whole life. He's never liked taking Adderol (I think I'm misspelling that), but since high school he's recognized that he simply can't focus on school work without it, so now he only takes it when he has class or needs to study.
Looks like the RIAA finally got that army of copyright enforcers they've been looking for.
I don't think you'll find any PR people, trademark lawyers or corporate executives who think that the benefits of being a "local hero" in a small community that no one is paying attention to yet outweighs the risks of being a "corporate sponsor of child rape" or "messengers of hate" when the nice pastor you decided to give free reign to with your logo gets caught doing something or saying something that your company has no control over.
Generally after I've spent a night spewing out hot liquids and gasses, I need a day or two to sleep it off. I can imagine plasma makes for an even worse hangover.
That guy is selling imaginary real estate. He used the proceeds from sale of that imaginary real estate to purchase the VW Bug and it's trademark infringing paint job.
Licensing your multi-billion dollar publicly traded corporation's trademark to a specific religious organization for zero fee would be much worse PR than filing a C&D and letting the lawsuit die quietly and harmlessly once the guy complied with the order.
Yes, but then they are legally affiliated with that guy's church, and most sane businessmen don't want the idea thrown around that their Company endorses a particular minister at a particular church.
Yeah, but then they become affiliated with a particular religious organization and most businesses do not want to do that.
The problem is that Best Buy needs to send him a Cease and Desist when they become aware of possible infringement or they waive their rights to assert the trademarks in other cases. It's not that they want to be dicks to that particular guy, it's that if they let him get away with it, they lose their right to assert trademark infringement in future cases. The Icons and VW Bug thing are close enough that no reasonable person would say it's not derivative of Geek Squad's logos, so if they let him get away with it they have to let everyone get away with it. There is significant legal precedent that non-asserted trademarks are not valid trademarks. It's much safer for them to just send this guy a C&D than to have a different, real trademark infringement case a year down the road where the defense claims that Geek Squad was aware of other trademark violations that they took no action to end those violations, therefore their trademark claim should be thrown out.
You're confusing trademarks with patents. Trademarks are to prevent people from fraudulently claiming to be affiliated with a business. For example, lets pretend you started a successful, well respected business named 'Haedrian's Home Improvements' and trademark the name. If I try to cash in on your success by setting up a similar business named "Haeadrian's Home Improvements" then you could sue me for trademark infringement. It's to prevent me from ruining your business's reputation by doing shitty work for customers who aren't smart enough to realize that There's an extra A in my business's name and it's not the same company as yours. It doesn't matter if either of us invented anything.
Not just stupid, defiantly and proudly stupid. We've devolved into a culture that celebrates its own ignorance
Seems they own the word Douche in the word Douchebag too.
I came here to call him a Douchenozzle, I stayed to sue you for trademark infringement.
Did anyone else notice that the article didn't actually mention any privacy flaws with chrome, even though it says that chrome has them? They cite specific examples for IE, firefox and safari, then just say "oh, chrome has flaws too".
They fall under the "social conservatives" category :)