... Malware authors typically snag a new piece of malware then modify it, malware typically installs other malware also potentially mutated. You can't clean the system. You just gave them back a machine you weren't sure was actually clean. What's to say you just didn't find one of the many quieter variants?
Just to be perfectly clear: You CAN NOT Clean malwale. You can restore to a known good state with a VM. Otherwise: Unless you were watching that thing instruction by instruction in a debugger as it operated, you don't know what the fuck it did to that system -- Certainly not by the time someone complains about it.
That said: Ignorance is bliss: They think it's clean, so do you, and you can sleep at night, while not sacrificing your job security when that silent bastard wakes up and installs more noisy malware. "Never attribute to genius that which can be explained by ignorance."
Unlikely. Factory fires (This started off as a fire) happen all the time. This one was just unfortunate enough to happen where a metric shit tonne of amonium nitrate happened to be.
This wasn't an "unfortunate" accident. This was the result pure unabashed incompetence and greed. It's not like we don't know how far to space apart caches of volatile stuff having a high energy density in order to prevent massive explosions like this. For fuck's sake, do you think even the morons who sign up for the military would put ammo reserves all in one giant pile for safe keeping? No, that's fucking stupid. Stupid and a bit less expensive, but mostly stupid. The fire was an accident, but the explosion was caused by Corporate Negligence.
[Coincidence] or is it related to the Boston bomb attack..?
Yes. Timing was Coincidental and it was related to the Boston bomb attack: While the terrorist attack in Boston will likely result in less rights for civilians, the West, TX explosion won't cause corporations to be beholden to even basic zoning restrictions; The Boston explosions were committed by a small group of terrorists with the intent to kill, and strike fear into hearts of citizens, but the West explosion were caused by a large corporation on accident, and we should be terrified of their general recklessness, but we aren't. The Boston attack, like most terrorist threats, would have been exceedingly hard to prevent (esp. without stripping away the rights of all citizens), yet most all of the West, TX explosion injuries and casualties could have been easily avoidable by requiring such plants spend the money to relocate further from the towns they cause to spring up as they get filthy fucking rich. The perpetrator(s) of the Boston explosions may be found and put to justice for their crimes, but the rich bastards who are responsible for the West, TX explosion will get a sympathetic pat on the back, and at least a tax break in losses from Uncle Sam. The terrorists wounded many in their Boston attack, but the West, TX explosion was far more lethal and devastating. People will get right fucking pissed off about the terrorist attack in Boston, but they'll exhibit a disproportionate response of only remorse for the victims of the TX explosion.
tittle (tit - tel) n. - portmanteau of 'titillating' and 'title'.
Typically used to describe news headlines that are more interesting than the article.
Unlike other portmanteau, the morphemes being combined are heterophonic -- having the same initially spellings, but different meanings;
Thus, a double t is introduced as a form of self referential onomatopoeia; The word is spelled the way it ought to sound. "'Twasn't a typo; The tittle they typed told a more titillatious tale than the total text transmitted."
I believe very few of our leaders have ever had a genuine desire to harm people nor have they harbored a profound megalomania. Ego - of course; megalomania - no.
That HF production scenario involved Daimler spraying HFO-1234yf over a burning hot engine block.
Okay, am I the only one that thinks that putting a chemical that, when exposed to high heat or fire, converts to one that can cause death if it comes in contact with a patch of skin smaller than the palm of your hand for a few seconds in a car's engine compartment is a really dumb idea? In the event of a front-end collision, you've got shit spraying and leaking everywhere, smoke, flames, people dead, dying, or injured... and you're suggesting that we should introduce into an already inherently dangerous situation for first responders to walk into... the risk of exposure to an airborn acid that can kill them if they come in contact with it and likely wouldn't know at the time they did?
I'm sorry, but I'm with Congress on this: The woman that approved this was a flaming retard that, on no account, should be put in a position of authority over approving other compounds that could potentially save a company a few bucks at the expense of people's lives and health.
You sir are a fool. Consider that we tell the paramedics to just let the BMW owners die. Fucking pricks the lot of 'em anyway. Doing the world a favor and you call her a flaming retard? Get a check-up from the neck-up, mate.
Read tittle, imagined tiny insect Gundam warriors battling the ferocious Gigga Vacuum cleaners. Can't bring myself to read the submission and destroy this newfound fun.
"Targeting individual homes and apartment buildings of two floors or fewer"
Yes, someone actually uses "or fewer" instead of "or less" when talking about countable objects!
Wait, you can count and use context clues? "fewer" vs "less" -- Less has one less syllable and is easier to say.
What's odd is that we all know languages are fucking horrible at transmitting thought, but there are some fuckers like you who actually care about the particulars of how shit's wrote. If there were ambiguity I'd understand, but if you get the meaning then the message was transmitted. Stop acting like a fucking 1980's BASIC parser: "SYNTAX ERROR -- UAAAAAGH!" You Have a Brain, stop fucking wasting it.
"unless the creator helped things happen this way for the purpose to create intelligent life."
Assuming that humanity is evidence of intelligent life is a very big assumption.
Well, let's do science to it: Back problems due to poor adaptation to walking vertically. Nerves that run under your feet. Your retinas are upside down and thus have a hole / blindspot where the blood vessels go through. Hooves exist, so do better spines like giraffe's necks, and cephalopod's eyes are right side out with no blind spot required (blood in the back, receptors in the front) so it's not like "god" didn't do it right elsewhere. I just can't believe a benevolent deity created man. If so, we were made to suffer and be laughed at.
Then you look at yourself and think, Oh, look, I don't have fur like other mammals do! Then you look about at other mammals that don't have fur... They are aquatic or have aquatic ancestors: Whales, Elephants, Manatee, Walrus, Hippopotamus. A small portion like the naked mole rat simply live underground -- They're all in contact with stuff more dense than air. What about those aquatic creatures though? Don't they all get layers of blubber -- fat concentrated towards the outside rather than distributed in the core. A dog, horse or even cow will die from fat clogging its heart long before it can reach the level of percentage of body fat that a human can reach -- That's because our fat isn't concentrated in our core, it's blubber. We have superior breath control than Apes & Chimps do -- They'll never learn to talk like we can. We can hold our breath, hell, you can pressurize your mouth and your soft palette will close off your sinus, making an air/water tight seal. The chimps and apes don't stand upright -- but they do when they're crossing or wading in water... They don't have our dexterous opposable thumbs and dexterous digits because they don't catch prey. Our hands would be pretty good for catching fish.
So, when we look at things rationally, and compare the evidence, it seems unless there's a prevailing scientific theory that we came from aquatic apes, then both religion and science are fucking morons. YOU ARE NAKED. YOUR ANCESTORS WERE MERFOLK OR MOLE PEOPLE!
Your $200 pocket phone can do a lot of things that it couldn't do a decade ago, but it will always trail behind what is possible with more dedicated hardware and is a very long time off from being able to do everything you need to a satisfactory degree such that you don't need any other form of computing.
This is where you're wrong: The pocket phone is currently the dedicated hardware. The PC is the general purpose computing. If you plot the graph in both business machines and games you'll see that it points towards more general purpose hardware. Pinball (one game per machine) / Adding Machine (one use per machine) -> digital machines with more than one application, but dedicated to running only one (Arcade cabinets, whole-room computers, fax machines, teletype) -> Machines that can select between applications ( game consoles, desktop computers (look! faxmodems) ) -> More multifunction machines adopting every possible feature -- Consoles & PCs with games, social networking, movies, (they're the same damn thing now) Portable computers -> Smart Phones and tablets (Just integrating a cell phone into a small portable PC, really). However, this first few generations of mega mobile PCs (smart phones / tablets) had to take a hit in the processor department -- Much like Consoles did compared to Arcades, or how minicomputers did compared to mainframes... Guess what? Consoles and Minicomputers won out, they were more unibiquitous due to availability. Just like phones and tablets are becomming. Eventually the faster hardware cycles meant that consoles surpassed arcade cabinets, or were at parity. This is what you can expect in the "PC" vs "mobile PC w/ phone" department.
Sorry pall. I agree with you to an extent, but you either don't know your history, or are being willfully ignorant of it as it repeats all around you time and again. It's a real pain in the ass to synchronize shit, even when it works it's screwed simply because it's nicer for all your stuff to be in one device (no sync needed). You'll have your big screen HD wall of monitors -- You'll even have a keyboard and mouse -- There will even be a media / controller system to control it all, but you'll be using a touch screen to do WACOM and other interface, and it'll store and process your data in conjunction with everything else -- It'll be the hub since you can take it with you. I mean, it's not like computers are still the size of buildings or rooms or closets or desks or crates anymore...
This is why we get so incensed about drunk drivers that kill others. A person doing everything right is still dead because of the actions of another. But if you drive under that railroad train by yourself, people regard it as "your own damn fault".
Ah but see here, the driverless cars have full 360 degree vision, and they already stop for trolleys and erroneous pedestrians crossing the road illegally. They do so without honking and swearing at the git too. So, as you say, if your ignore the copious warnings the driverless car's self diagnostic gives you that its optics are fucked, and manage to override the fail-safe then wind up under a train, they yes, people will still regard it as "your own damn fault". Not only that, but YOUR insurance is paying to clean up the mess.
Wake me up when it is NON-downloadable content and I can play it offline.
Thus Rip Van Winkle slept uninterrupted for decades. He was wakened only briefly by the machine intelligences that now claimed all resources on his planet before being drugged and dragged off this very museum. That, machildren, is how we discovered the last known surviving human.
There are increasing numbers of Android boxes that you can also plug into your TV and controllers. What possible point does Ouya have in this light?
0. You need an Internet connection to use it -- Mandatory online system update at 1st boot.
1. Every game is free to play / pay to win -- (innovative Sim City / Diablo 3 style always online DRM)
2. You have to give out your credit card info before you get any of the "free" games.
You just don't understand, old timer. The Ouya is the new Indie console. These and other innovations over other devices will save the struggling game industry and bring games back to the TV!
</snark>
America was looking for a way into WWII. We even had troops volunteering for other armies. Suddenly, a vast collection of ships appears within strike distance of Japan's aircraft, and the new radar system's operator's warnings go unnoticed. They couldn't have NOT taken the bait. I mean, if you're a strategist, would YOU have put all those ships in one place? It's not rocket science. Willful negligence is a valid military and political tactic.
I'd agree that it's a bit of a waste of bandwidth, disk space, etc. for/. to bother with it. Unless, of course, it turns out eventually that there's an interesting tech component to the story.
legally should/would they be held liable if one of those millions of sites has illegal content,...
Or what if they archived a copyrighted site without asking the owners for permission, such as a personal site, or one of those news sites that keep complaining about others who link to them - or even those persons who link to them...
There are many more examples, but it looks like this should cause more issues rather than good use.
I agree. We should abolish Copyrights. They are very problematic non-rights that benefit no one, really.
I'm all for people learning to develop in a Unix environment and working with hardware but how do we keep this from becoming the Javascript/HTML of the hardware world? What I mean is that too many people learn nothing more than Javascript and HTML and call themselves programmers. How do we encourage people to go beyond the basics and not just build everything based on a Raspberry Pi?
The R. Pi is just one of many single board computers. It did not create the market. It is not interesting to those like me who have been working with embedded systems prior to its release (except where low cost is more important than power). Unless they offer competitive pricing for even more capable units, then have no fear: Folks will migrate to other platforms when they outgrow the R.Pi. For another $100 you can get a more powerful Linux based single board computer, that's is in stock, and has more features (such as IO rails like the Arduino does). Search "linux single board computer" in your search engine of choice.
Wait... Unless you mean that Linux will become the JavaScript and HTML of the world, in which case I think you should know that all that most JS and HTML is served from Linux boxes... Hmm, you're not seriously putting forth the "No True Scotsman" argument WRT languages are you? I mean, you know one lang, you can pick up another with exponential ease -- JS is horribly inefficient and has crazy 'this' scoping rules, but your concern it's no more valid than if one were to learn only C++, then dare to call themselves a programmer...
IMO, all of the comments and discussion about whether genes are inventions or discoveries or natural or artificial are completely irrelevant.
The purpose of the patent system is to advance the useful arts and sciences. Given that there is obviously a lot of scientific (and commercial) value in identifying the functions of particular parts of our genetic code, that's something we want to encourage. Patents are supposed to do this by encouraging research results to be published so that other researchers can use them for inspiration and as building blocks. If that's not happening, then patents aren't providing any value.
So, a very simple test: If researchers routinely use the patent database as a source of inspiration and a place to find tools to solve specific problems, and are very willing to look for and license patents that help them make progress, then they're good and useful. If, however, patents are an obstruction, if researchers actively avoid looking at patents to avoid possible treble damages from willful infringement, or if they block useful avenues of research, then they're not providing any value and should be discarded.
That's only a good test if researchers never published anywhere else. As you note, patents encourage research results to be published, but there's nothing that says that the publication must be the patent. Rather, patents eliminate the necessity of keeping trade secrets, where you wouldn't publish anywhere. By getting the patent, you are free to publish as much as you want, without losing any exclusive rights to the invention.
You are assuming that folks don't invent things all the time and just never think them novel enough to patent them. For instance: Most of the software patents granted infringe "undisclosed" prior art -- It's just that the prior art isn't "disclosed" because no one thought removing expired indices from a hash table while you traverse it was innovative enough to get it patented, or cared to. However, Linux was threatened with just such a bogus patent. Point being: There is no risk to disclosing -- Crap has already been disclosed and is even in use; In this case, In Nature.
Specifically, without patents, researchers at pharma companies wouldn't be publishing white papers or scientific articles, since their employers would have them under highly restrictive NDAs. So, the very simple test would be whether researchers use any database that includes information that is also covered by one or more patents for inspiration or as a place to find tools to solve specific problems - or, conversely, how often do people get a patent and publish the information elsewhere, and how often are those "elsewhere" locations mined by others?
Pure unabashed speculation on your part. I can't believe you posted that. You clearly don't apply the methods of rationality in your thinking processes. Consider the following: Where is your proof that without the patents the researchers wouldn't be publishing? You have ZERO evidence to support your claim. This may have been true for some things hundreds of years ago, but I think you grossly underestimate the skill of today's reverse engineers. I mean, really, are you daft? There is a whole market of "generics". Consider for a moment the Automotive and Fashion industries. Neither is allowed copyright or design patents, and yet they are both very innovative in design, and the designs are their core selling point -- The sleek and stylish commercials with no information on build innovation or even Cubic Liters of engine size are proof enough that unprotected designs still sell quite well. Here we have two data points that are in direct opposition to your claims. You have ZERO evidence to support your claims. It would be irrational NOT to run the damn experiment at this point and see whether or not the patents are actually beneficial rather than just assume they are: Abolish Patents, and l
The masses don't know about this story yet. Once the Gay Marriage debate dies down a bit (or once the decision is released) and this becomes the next big court case, you will see overwhelming popular support for eliminating gene patents.
Well, I agree, with clarification that it will be popular support for eliminating the gay gene patent.
Sulu, you've had your fun. Now it's time to share your innovation with the rest of the galaxy.
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I was right with you until:
Then I clean the system.
... Malware authors typically snag a new piece of malware then modify it, malware typically installs other malware also potentially mutated. You can't clean the system. You just gave them back a machine you weren't sure was actually clean. What's to say you just didn't find one of the many quieter variants?
Just to be perfectly clear: You CAN NOT Clean malwale. You can restore to a known good state with a VM. Otherwise: Unless you were watching that thing instruction by instruction in a debugger as it operated, you don't know what the fuck it did to that system -- Certainly not by the time someone complains about it.
That said: Ignorance is bliss: They think it's clean, so do you, and you can sleep at night, while not sacrificing your job security when that silent bastard wakes up and installs more noisy malware. "Never attribute to genius that which can be explained by ignorance."
Everything's bigger in Texas.
Unlikely. Factory fires (This started off as a fire) happen all the time. This one was just unfortunate enough to happen where a metric shit tonne of amonium nitrate happened to be.
This wasn't an "unfortunate" accident. This was the result pure unabashed incompetence and greed. It's not like we don't know how far to space apart caches of volatile stuff having a high energy density in order to prevent massive explosions like this. For fuck's sake, do you think even the morons who sign up for the military would put ammo reserves all in one giant pile for safe keeping? No, that's fucking stupid. Stupid and a bit less expensive, but mostly stupid. The fire was an accident, but the explosion was caused by Corporate Negligence.
[Coincidence] or is it related to the Boston bomb attack..?
Yes. Timing was Coincidental and it was related to the Boston bomb attack: While the terrorist attack in Boston will likely result in less rights for civilians, the West, TX explosion won't cause corporations to be beholden to even basic zoning restrictions; The Boston explosions were committed by a small group of terrorists with the intent to kill, and strike fear into hearts of citizens, but the West explosion were caused by a large corporation on accident, and we should be terrified of their general recklessness, but we aren't. The Boston attack, like most terrorist threats, would have been exceedingly hard to prevent (esp. without stripping away the rights of all citizens), yet most all of the West, TX explosion injuries and casualties could have been easily avoidable by requiring such plants spend the money to relocate further from the towns they cause to spring up as they get filthy fucking rich. The perpetrator(s) of the Boston explosions may be found and put to justice for their crimes, but the rich bastards who are responsible for the West, TX explosion will get a sympathetic pat on the back, and at least a tax break in losses from Uncle Sam. The terrorists wounded many in their Boston attack, but the West, TX explosion was far more lethal and devastating. People will get right fucking pissed off about the terrorist attack in Boston, but they'll exhibit a disproportionate response of only remorse for the victims of the TX explosion.
So, you see, they are inversely related.
[Everyone knows] that 14 year old basement dwellers do not have rights and are not really people.
FINALLY Everyone is thinking of the Children!
They just don't think very highly of them, is all...
Choosy Mom's can't choose Beggars?
tittle (tit - tel) n. - portmanteau of 'titillating' and 'title'.
Typically used to describe news headlines that are more interesting than the article.
Unlike other portmanteau, the morphemes being combined are heterophonic -- having the same initially spellings, but different meanings;
Thus, a double t is introduced as a form of self referential onomatopoeia; The word is spelled the way it ought to sound.
"'Twasn't a typo; The tittle they typed told a more titillatious tale than the total text transmitted."
I believe very few of our leaders have ever had a genuine desire to harm people nor have they harbored a profound megalomania. Ego - of course; megalomania - no.
What is, Manifest Destiny's Child.
I'll take ironic idiots for $1000, Alex.
That HF production scenario involved Daimler spraying HFO-1234yf over a burning hot engine block.
Okay, am I the only one that thinks that putting a chemical that, when exposed to high heat or fire, converts to one that can cause death if it comes in contact with a patch of skin smaller than the palm of your hand for a few seconds in a car's engine compartment is a really dumb idea? In the event of a front-end collision, you've got shit spraying and leaking everywhere, smoke, flames, people dead, dying, or injured... and you're suggesting that we should introduce into an already inherently dangerous situation for first responders to walk into... the risk of exposure to an airborn acid that can kill them if they come in contact with it and likely wouldn't know at the time they did?
I'm sorry, but I'm with Congress on this: The woman that approved this was a flaming retard that, on no account, should be put in a position of authority over approving other compounds that could potentially save a company a few bucks at the expense of people's lives and health.
You sir are a fool. Consider that we tell the paramedics to just let the BMW owners die. Fucking pricks the lot of 'em anyway. Doing the world a favor and you call her a flaming retard? Get a check-up from the neck-up, mate.
... descended from criminals and retarded monkeys.
No, we're not all descended from the English let alone Americans.
Az cornvicted monktard, am mad you cumpare wif Americalfs or Englushes.
Read tittle, imagined tiny insect Gundam warriors battling the ferocious Gigga Vacuum cleaners. Can't bring myself to read the submission and destroy this newfound fun.
"Targeting individual homes and apartment buildings of two floors or fewer"
Yes, someone actually uses "or fewer" instead of "or less" when talking about countable objects!
Wait, you can count and use context clues? "fewer" vs "less" -- Less has one less syllable and is easier to say.
What's odd is that we all know languages are fucking horrible at transmitting thought, but there are some fuckers like you who actually care about the particulars of how shit's wrote. If there were ambiguity I'd understand, but if you get the meaning then the message was transmitted. Stop acting like a fucking 1980's BASIC parser: "SYNTAX ERROR -- UAAAAAGH!" You Have a Brain, stop fucking wasting it.
"unless the creator helped things happen this way for the purpose to create intelligent life."
Assuming that humanity is evidence of intelligent life is a very big assumption.
Well, let's do science to it: Back problems due to poor adaptation to walking vertically. Nerves that run under your feet. Your retinas are upside down and thus have a hole / blindspot where the blood vessels go through. Hooves exist, so do better spines like giraffe's necks, and cephalopod's eyes are right side out with no blind spot required (blood in the back, receptors in the front) so it's not like "god" didn't do it right elsewhere. I just can't believe a benevolent deity created man. If so, we were made to suffer and be laughed at.
Then you look at yourself and think, Oh, look, I don't have fur like other mammals do! Then you look about at other mammals that don't have fur... They are aquatic or have aquatic ancestors: Whales, Elephants, Manatee, Walrus, Hippopotamus. A small portion like the naked mole rat simply live underground -- They're all in contact with stuff more dense than air. What about those aquatic creatures though? Don't they all get layers of blubber -- fat concentrated towards the outside rather than distributed in the core. A dog, horse or even cow will die from fat clogging its heart long before it can reach the level of percentage of body fat that a human can reach -- That's because our fat isn't concentrated in our core, it's blubber. We have superior breath control than Apes & Chimps do -- They'll never learn to talk like we can. We can hold our breath, hell, you can pressurize your mouth and your soft palette will close off your sinus, making an air/water tight seal. The chimps and apes don't stand upright -- but they do when they're crossing or wading in water... They don't have our dexterous opposable thumbs and dexterous digits because they don't catch prey. Our hands would be pretty good for catching fish.
So, when we look at things rationally, and compare the evidence, it seems unless there's a prevailing scientific theory that we came from aquatic apes, then both religion and science are fucking morons. YOU ARE NAKED. YOUR ANCESTORS WERE MERFOLK OR MOLE PEOPLE!
Your $200 pocket phone can do a lot of things that it couldn't do a decade ago, but it will always trail behind what is possible with more dedicated hardware and is a very long time off from being able to do everything you need to a satisfactory degree such that you don't need any other form of computing.
This is where you're wrong: The pocket phone is currently the dedicated hardware. The PC is the general purpose computing. If you plot the graph in both business machines and games you'll see that it points towards more general purpose hardware. Pinball (one game per machine) / Adding Machine (one use per machine) -> digital machines with more than one application, but dedicated to running only one (Arcade cabinets, whole-room computers, fax machines, teletype) -> Machines that can select between applications ( game consoles, desktop computers (look! faxmodems) ) -> More multifunction machines adopting every possible feature -- Consoles & PCs with games, social networking, movies, (they're the same damn thing now) Portable computers -> Smart Phones and tablets (Just integrating a cell phone into a small portable PC, really). However, this first few generations of mega mobile PCs (smart phones / tablets) had to take a hit in the processor department -- Much like Consoles did compared to Arcades, or how minicomputers did compared to mainframes... Guess what? Consoles and Minicomputers won out, they were more unibiquitous due to availability. Just like phones and tablets are becomming. Eventually the faster hardware cycles meant that consoles surpassed arcade cabinets, or were at parity. This is what you can expect in the "PC" vs "mobile PC w/ phone" department.
Sorry pall. I agree with you to an extent, but you either don't know your history, or are being willfully ignorant of it as it repeats all around you time and again. It's a real pain in the ass to synchronize shit, even when it works it's screwed simply because it's nicer for all your stuff to be in one device (no sync needed). You'll have your big screen HD wall of monitors -- You'll even have a keyboard and mouse -- There will even be a media / controller system to control it all, but you'll be using a touch screen to do WACOM and other interface, and it'll store and process your data in conjunction with everything else -- It'll be the hub since you can take it with you. I mean, it's not like computers are still the size of buildings or rooms or closets or desks or crates anymore...
This is why we get so incensed about drunk drivers that kill others. A person doing everything right is still dead because of the actions of another. But if you drive under that railroad train by yourself, people regard it as "your own damn fault".
Ah but see here, the driverless cars have full 360 degree vision, and they already stop for trolleys and erroneous pedestrians crossing the road illegally. They do so without honking and swearing at the git too. So, as you say, if your ignore the copious warnings the driverless car's self diagnostic gives you that its optics are fucked, and manage to override the fail-safe then wind up under a train, they yes, people will still regard it as "your own damn fault". Not only that, but YOUR insurance is paying to clean up the mess.
Wake me up when it is NON-downloadable content and I can play it offline.
Thus Rip Van Winkle slept uninterrupted for decades. He was wakened only briefly by the machine intelligences that now claimed all resources on his planet before being drugged and dragged off this very museum. That, machildren, is how we discovered the last known surviving human.
There are increasing numbers of Android boxes that you can also plug into your TV and controllers. What possible point does Ouya have in this light?
0. You need an Internet connection to use it -- Mandatory online system update at 1st boot.
1. Every game is free to play / pay to win -- (innovative Sim City / Diablo 3 style always online DRM)
2. You have to give out your credit card info before you get any of the "free" games.
You just don't understand, old timer. The Ouya is the new Indie console. These and other innovations over other devices will save the struggling game industry and bring games back to the TV!
</snark>
America was looking for a way into WWII. We even had troops volunteering for other armies. Suddenly, a vast collection of ships appears within strike distance of Japan's aircraft, and the new radar system's operator's warnings go unnoticed. They couldn't have NOT taken the bait. I mean, if you're a strategist, would YOU have put all those ships in one place? It's not rocket science. Willful negligence is a valid military and political tactic.
I'd agree that it's a bit of a waste of bandwidth, disk space, etc. for /. to bother with it. Unless, of course, it turns out eventually that there's an interesting tech component to the story.
Bombs are technology.
Out of curiosity, how is this even legal?
legally should/would they be held liable if one of those millions of sites has illegal content, ...
Or what if they archived a copyrighted site without asking the owners for permission, such as a personal site, or one of those news sites that keep complaining about others who link to them - or even those persons who link to them...
There are many more examples, but it looks like this should cause more issues rather than good use.
I agree. We should abolish Copyrights. They are very problematic non-rights that benefit no one, really.
$_ =~ s/hat all t//; # :-P
I'm all for people learning to develop in a Unix environment and working with hardware but how do we keep this from becoming the Javascript/HTML of the hardware world? What I mean is that too many people learn nothing more than Javascript and HTML and call themselves programmers. How do we encourage people to go beyond the basics and not just build everything based on a Raspberry Pi?
The R. Pi is just one of many single board computers. It did not create the market. It is not interesting to those like me who have been working with embedded systems prior to its release (except where low cost is more important than power). Unless they offer competitive pricing for even more capable units, then have no fear: Folks will migrate to other platforms when they outgrow the R.Pi. For another $100 you can get a more powerful Linux based single board computer, that's is in stock, and has more features (such as IO rails like the Arduino does). Search "linux single board computer" in your search engine of choice.
Wait... Unless you mean that Linux will become the JavaScript and HTML of the world, in which case I think you should know that all that most JS and HTML is served from Linux boxes... Hmm, you're not seriously putting forth the "No True Scotsman" argument WRT languages are you? I mean, you know one lang, you can pick up another with exponential ease -- JS is horribly inefficient and has crazy 'this' scoping rules, but your concern it's no more valid than if one were to learn only C++, then dare to call themselves a programmer...
s/resting/restricting/
IMO, all of the comments and discussion about whether genes are inventions or discoveries or natural or artificial are completely irrelevant.
The purpose of the patent system is to advance the useful arts and sciences. Given that there is obviously a lot of scientific (and commercial) value in identifying the functions of particular parts of our genetic code, that's something we want to encourage. Patents are supposed to do this by encouraging research results to be published so that other researchers can use them for inspiration and as building blocks. If that's not happening, then patents aren't providing any value.
So, a very simple test: If researchers routinely use the patent database as a source of inspiration and a place to find tools to solve specific problems, and are very willing to look for and license patents that help them make progress, then they're good and useful. If, however, patents are an obstruction, if researchers actively avoid looking at patents to avoid possible treble damages from willful infringement, or if they block useful avenues of research, then they're not providing any value and should be discarded.
That's only a good test if researchers never published anywhere else. As you note, patents encourage research results to be published, but there's nothing that says that the publication must be the patent. Rather, patents eliminate the necessity of keeping trade secrets, where you wouldn't publish anywhere. By getting the patent, you are free to publish as much as you want, without losing any exclusive rights to the invention.
You are assuming that folks don't invent things all the time and just never think them novel enough to patent them. For instance: Most of the software patents granted infringe "undisclosed" prior art -- It's just that the prior art isn't "disclosed" because no one thought removing expired indices from a hash table while you traverse it was innovative enough to get it patented, or cared to. However, Linux was threatened with just such a bogus patent. Point being: There is no risk to disclosing -- Crap has already been disclosed and is even in use; In this case, In Nature.
Specifically, without patents, researchers at pharma companies wouldn't be publishing white papers or scientific articles, since their employers would have them under highly restrictive NDAs. So, the very simple test would be whether researchers use any database that includes information that is also covered by one or more patents for inspiration or as a place to find tools to solve specific problems - or, conversely, how often do people get a patent and publish the information elsewhere, and how often are those "elsewhere" locations mined by others?
Pure unabashed speculation on your part. I can't believe you posted that. You clearly don't apply the methods of rationality in your thinking processes. Consider the following: Where is your proof that without the patents the researchers wouldn't be publishing? You have ZERO evidence to support your claim. This may have been true for some things hundreds of years ago, but I think you grossly underestimate the skill of today's reverse engineers. I mean, really, are you daft? There is a whole market of "generics". Consider for a moment the Automotive and Fashion industries. Neither is allowed copyright or design patents, and yet they are both very innovative in design, and the designs are their core selling point -- The sleek and stylish commercials with no information on build innovation or even Cubic Liters of engine size are proof enough that unprotected designs still sell quite well. Here we have two data points that are in direct opposition to your claims. You have ZERO evidence to support your claims. It would be irrational NOT to run the damn experiment at this point and see whether or not the patents are actually beneficial rather than just assume they are: Abolish Patents, and l
The masses don't know about this story yet. Once the Gay Marriage debate dies down a bit (or once the decision is released) and this becomes the next big court case, you will see overwhelming popular support for eliminating gene patents.
Well, I agree, with clarification that it will be popular support for eliminating the gay gene patent.
Sulu, you've had your fun. Now it's time to share your innovation with the rest of the galaxy.
Also had one with an AM/FM Radio built in. I'm their target demographic. Guess what? I DON'T WEAR A FUCKING WATCH ANYMORE.