Then use an on-screen keyboard with a randomized layout for password entry. Assuming a layer of rubber padding behind the keyboard circuit isn't good enough.
Do you think the US and Canadian governments, at the very least, can't get access to any data that passes through RIM's servers not using a custom user-generated key?
True, they already limit the supply of human lawyers, why should it be a challenge for them to exclude robots? (at least before some point in the far future where robots achieve sentience and it could be considered racism - but they could limit these just the same as humans, and at that point a robot's "cost of living" would be just as high as a human's so they wouldn't be driving prices down).
One of the sequences from Animatrix examines this problem and it turns out quite differently, more realistically I'd say. You should give it a watch...
That would filter out all of the tech industry geniuses with no degree for example, and make signup a nightmare. Ah well, nothing a little photoshopping can't take care of, I'm sure.
Any time someone suggests letting the public handle anything important directly, I think of 4chan.
You think of a forum that exists for the express purpose of trolling and stupid humor? Why? Why do you not think of Slashdot instead?
Imagine this patent comment system required a $10 signup fee and a reputation system that was based solely on the quality of submissions. It would be dead serious and would get the job done well.
If 50% of the prior art examples that go in are a good fit for the claim I'd say that would be good enough, and it would fix the patents-on-prior-art problem overnight.
Jeez only one contributor who wasn't willing to roll over for Apple? And because he may have had a business interest in doing so? Seems the days of open source idealism are long gone...
I wonder if it would be possible to set up a dual-fuel (bio)diesel/gasification engine. That would be the ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Vehicle power plant. No diesel available? No problem, just toss in some (re)killed zombie parts!
I'd quit after saving up a lifetime supply of Kiss My Ass money, say, around $20M, which should take about 6 months. What human would do anything else? Do they really burn through enough in cocaine & hooker costs that they need that much income in a sustained manner?
Now if Apple hired me in the early 2000s to ruin their company, you know what I would have done? Release a phone with good, expensive hardware and locked down software. Make developers pay to release software on the device.
And you know what I would have done after that? Make a version of the phone that can't make calls or fit in your pocket and charge even more for it.
I would have made Apple one of the world's most successful megacorporations, failing horribly at my job.
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Then use an on-screen keyboard with a randomized layout for password entry. Assuming a layer of rubber padding behind the keyboard circuit isn't good enough.
Encrypted partitions + well-secured lock screen with anti-bruteforce + case intrusion detection systems (to prevent cold boot attack) + self-destruct systems (remote wipe + dead man's switch) = really fucking good security.
Do you think the US and Canadian governments, at the very least, can't get access to any data that passes through RIM's servers not using a custom user-generated key?
Good luck getting the super-rich to go along with this.
True, they already limit the supply of human lawyers, why should it be a challenge for them to exclude robots? (at least before some point in the far future where robots achieve sentience and it could be considered racism - but they could limit these just the same as humans, and at that point a robot's "cost of living" would be just as high as a human's so they wouldn't be driving prices down).
One of the sequences from Animatrix examines this problem and it turns out quite differently, more realistically I'd say. You should give it a watch...
This is why I wanted to get into robotics!
(jk, actually it's because normal IT work is mostly boring as sin x_x)
"The system" is fundamentally just, fair and meritocratic.
BWAHAHAHA holy shit, you can't be serious.
People still use Windows 98 these days!? 8-(
Perhaps you'd also like to bitch about GM trademarking the name "Volt"?
I would. WTF? GM gives their electric car the most generic name possible next to "GM electric" and then wants to trademark it? And gets it? Wow.
Multitouch would even be possible with those ancient infrared-grid touchscreens. I'd be shocked if there was no patent for multitouch on those.
Or names of open-source apps :-P
That would filter out all of the tech industry geniuses with no degree for example, and make signup a nightmare. Ah well, nothing a little photoshopping can't take care of, I'm sure.
Any time someone suggests letting the public handle anything important directly, I think of 4chan.
You think of a forum that exists for the express purpose of trolling and stupid humor? Why? Why do you not think of Slashdot instead?
Imagine this patent comment system required a $10 signup fee and a reputation system that was based solely on the quality of submissions. It would be dead serious and would get the job done well.
If 50% of the prior art examples that go in are a good fit for the claim I'd say that would be good enough, and it would fix the patents-on-prior-art problem overnight.
I'm surprised there's been no talk of a VirtualBox fork yet. But yeah I'm sure it won't be long now...
Or the color magenta (notice that Engadget's gone back to their magenta color theme since T-mobile's been circling the drain?)
...that happens with everything Oracle touches. MySQL users will switch to MariaDB just as OO.org users switched to LibreOffice.
That is the worst possible meaning of "grown up." Meaning, "given up hope, accepted defeat, sold out."
Jeez only one contributor who wasn't willing to roll over for Apple? And because he may have had a business interest in doing so? Seems the days of open source idealism are long gone...
Oh look another "informed skeptic."
CO2/temperature lag:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/the-lag-between-temp-and-co2/
Some articles on periods with unusual CO2/temperature differences:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm
http://www.skepticalscience.com/CO2-has-been-higher-in-the-past.html
I wonder if it would be possible to set up a dual-fuel (bio)diesel/gasification engine. That would be the ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Vehicle power plant. No diesel available? No problem, just toss in some (re)killed zombie parts!
Brilliant! This could give electric cars practically unlimited highway range!
Next article: HP lays off OVER 9000 employees as part of a cost-cutting measure.
I'd quit after saving up a lifetime supply of Kiss My Ass money, say, around $20M, which should take about 6 months. What human would do anything else? Do they really burn through enough in cocaine & hooker costs that they need that much income in a sustained manner?
You know, it's funny, I was just reading this:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19419_6-parodies-that-succeeded-because-nobody-got-joke_p2.html
Now if Apple hired me in the early 2000s to ruin their company, you know what I would have done? Release a phone with good, expensive hardware and locked down software. Make developers pay to release software on the device.
And you know what I would have done after that? Make a version of the phone that can't make calls or fit in your pocket and charge even more for it.
I would have made Apple one of the world's most successful megacorporations, failing horribly at my job.