Hate to say this, but there are not that many uses for 64 bit processors yet. Manufacturers do not provide 64-bit drivers for their products. The drivers that exist are buggy. To the average Joe, 64-bit is useless. He doesn't need the extra horsepower for his Internet browser or word processor. Well, unless Vista comes out.
I guess the misconception is that the engineers are also overseas and therefore the quality of the goods are going to go down. [sarcasm]You see, the Chinese are only good at following instructions given to them by the Americans.[/sarcasm] But look at the Thinkpad/Lenovo T60: they are still very well-built machines, when compared to even the Powerbooks.
It's terrible to think that a great brand is going to go out of existence because of unwarranted xenophobia. Imagine if we're stuck with Dell!
Abstracting any innovation to a high degree will render it obvious under the prior art. For example, a huge consortium probably owns a patent on 802.11 wireless. Do we say that since Marconi already sent messages over wireless a century ago this patent should be rendered obvious? Is it really obvious? Is there a difference between a 747 and a the Wright Brother's plane? NTP holds a patent over something more substantial than "e-mail over wireless". It's an implementation that allows for faster updating.
I guess when you invent something, you wouldn't patent it. And I'm sure that you haven't invented anything because of those shyster patents have stifled your creativity. Or wait. Perhaps you would want to invent something because you can get one of those shyster patents and sue someone for a whole bunch of money.
You said it yourself. TIVO made a product that was cheaper, more available, smaller, more robust feature-wise, and did on-the-fly video work. Just because ENIAC was a machine that added numbers together doesn't mean that you can use it to invalidate all computer patents since then.
At the beginning of my law firm intership last summer, recruits were told not to discuss work out in public. Not ever. Not on the elevators, not around the streets of Manhattan, not the shuttle flight between Boston (home office) and New York (the branch office). There are lots of lawyers and other folks out there who can trade on that information because some of our work involved mergers. I thought this was hype until some guy on the elevator from another firm was discussing a case that sounded familiar. It was the case I was working on---on the other side! I told him I was on the other side and he should stop talking. He did.
But imagine how much your productivity would drop if you couldn't talk about work on the elevator, in the cab, streets, hour-long airplane flights, etc.
That is a good use of the vulnerability once you rig the hardware. You still have the rig the NVRAM and then cause the server to overheat sufficiently to trigger the failure. In theory, it sounds great, but as a practical matter, with that much physical access you could just threaten to stab the admins with your screwdriver until he gives you root on the other virtual servers.
Oh, come on. "Headless body found in topless bar" is a work of genius. "Sick Gloria in transit Monday", also.
I think you mean "Sick Transit's Glorious Monday", a headline in response to the end of a transit union strike. A play on the Latin phrase "sic transit gloria mundi": Worldly things do not last. Clearly some pessimists there.
I liked the NY Post headline about former Connecticut governor Rowland: "Ex Con Ex Conn Guv: Rowland Rolls On Out"
Blackberries aren't the problem as much as it is the people who abuse them. Remember, Blackberries don't annoy people; inconsiderate people annoy people. Case in point. Once I had a job interview at a law firm. Not to toot my own horn too much, but I'm one of the more well-qualified candididates on the IP law market. (Top five, uh, top four, law school, Slashdot poster, yadda yadda.) Interviewer is a bigwig, head of IP litigation, etc. Anyway, we shake hands and then he almost immediately excuses himself and starts hacking away on his Blackberry. I sit there for about five minutes. I finish my drink, then I get up, thank him for his time, and leave. Query: Would he have pulled the same thing with a cell phone if he didn't have a Blackberry? All signs point to yes.
How much money does RIM make from the United States? If RIM doesn't want to subject itself to United States law, it can leave our markets. If RIM wants to make American dollars, it has to follow American law. Certainly, RIM didn't shy away from the U.S. legal system when it sued others for infringing on its patent on miniature keyboards on portable devices. Besides, it's not as though RIM didn't lobby U.S. Congressman into getting the PTO to reject all the NTP patents in unheard-of pace.
All the patents-in-suit in the RIM/NTP case were stamped with non-final rejections by the PTO. Still, if RIM wants to trash NTP, they ought to look at their own actions a few years back. I wonder if NTP will renege on the deal in light of these inflammatory comments and really trash RIM.
Ignore the process server. Don't take registered mail, don't talk to strangers carrying envelopes. They have to serve you in order to get in touch with you. Personal jurisdiction for Internet-related suits has been pretty tricky so once you graduate and move out of Massachusetts it'll be tough for them to get ahold of you. (Unless you answer them, in which case you have submitted to the jurisdiction of the court.)
This doesn't constitute legal advice, by the way. Just noting that they cannot sue you if they do not serve you.
Blockbuster, if you're listening, you need to lay hard into the US Patent Office and sue them for incompetently issuing bogus patents that will cost you huge penalties in legal fees and possible settlement costs.
The advantage of vigorously pursuing full-scale litigation against the patent office is that most of the research for your legal team will be done free of charge. There is a huge community who are already aware of the problem with the USPTO and can point to at least hundreds of similar bogus patents that have or may in the future cause significant financial loss to other companies.
Good luck. You cannot sue the US PTO. It's called sovereign immunity.
In this contest you must write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible...
Read the conditions of the contest clearly. You obviously lose.
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I LMAO when the article described a vulnerability to a "sequel injection". I think he meant http://www.google.com/search?q=sql+injection&start =0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozi lla:en-US:official>SQL injection. Still, can you imagine an injection of Basic Instinct II? That's scarier than a SQL injection.
I think the recent cries to the effect that Apple's build quality is slipping are pretty overrated - this laptop feels incredibly solid and well built. I'm a very happy Apple customer - to the point of chuckling madly.
Have you used a Thinkpad? Those suckers are super well-built.
From TFA: "Myxobacteria are micrometre-scale filament-shaped organisms that glide along surfaces, leaving a trail of slime in their wake. Biologists were convinced the bugs produced the slime as lubricant, but couldn't explain how they generated the force to move."
That second phrase, "couldn't explain how they generated the force to move" seems to contradict your statement that scientists already knew how they moved.
From the Karma Whore page on Wiki: "Often these will be needless information (such as a link to a Wikipedia article relevant to the subject being discussed), or a message of a political nature that is in alignment with the groupthink so that it will be moderated upwards by people who agree with the stance expressed in the message."
Polygraph Technician: This is a control question, really. How would you say would be the easiest way to take a weapon away from a Grammaton Cleric? Brandt: [speaks into Preston's ear.] You ask him for it.
In the social engineering context, I guess you give him chocolate for it.
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Hate to say this, but there are not that many uses for 64 bit processors yet. Manufacturers do not provide 64-bit drivers for their products. The drivers that exist are buggy. To the average Joe, 64-bit is useless. He doesn't need the extra horsepower for his Internet browser or word processor. Well, unless Vista comes out.
I guess the misconception is that the engineers are also overseas and therefore the quality of the goods are going to go down. [sarcasm]You see, the Chinese are only good at following instructions given to them by the Americans.[/sarcasm] But look at the Thinkpad/Lenovo T60: they are still very well-built machines, when compared to even the Powerbooks.
It's terrible to think that a great brand is going to go out of existence because of unwarranted xenophobia. Imagine if we're stuck with Dell!
Abstracting any innovation to a high degree will render it obvious under the prior art. For example, a huge consortium probably owns a patent on 802.11 wireless. Do we say that since Marconi already sent messages over wireless a century ago this patent should be rendered obvious? Is it really obvious? Is there a difference between a 747 and a the Wright Brother's plane? NTP holds a patent over something more substantial than "e-mail over wireless". It's an implementation that allows for faster updating.
I guess when you invent something, you wouldn't patent it. And I'm sure that you haven't invented anything because of those shyster patents have stifled your creativity. Or wait. Perhaps you would want to invent something because you can get one of those shyster patents and sue someone for a whole bunch of money.
You said it yourself. TIVO made a product that was cheaper, more available, smaller, more robust feature-wise, and did on-the-fly video work. Just because ENIAC was a machine that added numbers together doesn't mean that you can use it to invalidate all computer patents since then.
GHB dissolves stryofoam.
At the beginning of my law firm intership last summer, recruits were told not to discuss work out in public. Not ever. Not on the elevators, not around the streets of Manhattan, not the shuttle flight between Boston (home office) and New York (the branch office). There are lots of lawyers and other folks out there who can trade on that information because some of our work involved mergers. I thought this was hype until some guy on the elevator from another firm was discussing a case that sounded familiar. It was the case I was working on---on the other side! I told him I was on the other side and he should stop talking. He did.
But imagine how much your productivity would drop if you couldn't talk about work on the elevator, in the cab, streets, hour-long airplane flights, etc.
That is a good use of the vulnerability once you rig the hardware. You still have the rig the NVRAM and then cause the server to overheat sufficiently to trigger the failure. In theory, it sounds great, but as a practical matter, with that much physical access you could just threaten to stab the admins with your screwdriver until he gives you root on the other virtual servers.
Oh, come on. "Headless body found in topless bar" is a work of genius. "Sick Gloria in transit Monday", also.
I think you mean "Sick Transit's Glorious Monday", a headline in response to the end of a transit union strike. A play on the Latin phrase "sic transit gloria mundi": Worldly things do not last. Clearly some pessimists there.
I liked the NY Post headline about former Connecticut governor Rowland:
"Ex Con Ex Conn Guv: Rowland Rolls On Out"
Blackberries aren't the problem as much as it is the people who abuse them. Remember, Blackberries don't annoy people; inconsiderate people annoy people. Case in point. Once I had a job interview at a law firm. Not to toot my own horn too much, but I'm one of the more well-qualified candididates on the IP law market. (Top five, uh, top four, law school, Slashdot poster, yadda yadda.) Interviewer is a bigwig, head of IP litigation, etc. Anyway, we shake hands and then he almost immediately excuses himself and starts hacking away on his Blackberry. I sit there for about five minutes. I finish my drink, then I get up, thank him for his time, and leave. Query: Would he have pulled the same thing with a cell phone if he didn't have a Blackberry? All signs point to yes.
How much money does RIM make from the United States? If RIM doesn't want to subject itself to United States law, it can leave our markets. If RIM wants to make American dollars, it has to follow American law. Certainly, RIM didn't shy away from the U.S. legal system when it sued others for infringing on its patent on miniature keyboards on portable devices. Besides, it's not as though RIM didn't lobby U.S. Congressman into getting the PTO to reject all the NTP patents in unheard-of pace.
All the patents-in-suit in the RIM/NTP case were stamped with non-final rejections by the PTO. Still, if RIM wants to trash NTP, they ought to look at their own actions a few years back. I wonder if NTP will renege on the deal in light of these inflammatory comments and really trash RIM.
I patented "x) Profit!" Where "x" is an integer.
Ignore the process server. Don't take registered mail, don't talk to strangers carrying envelopes. They have to serve you in order to get in touch with you. Personal jurisdiction for Internet-related suits has been pretty tricky so once you graduate and move out of Massachusetts it'll be tough for them to get ahold of you. (Unless you answer them, in which case you have submitted to the jurisdiction of the court.)
This doesn't constitute legal advice, by the way. Just noting that they cannot sue you if they do not serve you.
Good luck. You cannot sue the US PTO. It's called sovereign immunity.
My bad.
Read the conditions of the contest clearly. You obviously lose.
I LMAO when the article described a vulnerability to a "sequel injection". I think he meant http://www.google.com/search?q=sql+injection&start =0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozi lla:en-US:official>SQL injection. Still, can you imagine an injection of Basic Instinct II? That's scarier than a SQL injection.
I think the recent cries to the effect that Apple's build quality is slipping are pretty overrated - this laptop feels incredibly solid and well built. I'm a very happy Apple customer - to the point of chuckling madly.
Have you used a Thinkpad? Those suckers are super well-built.
And yet, the nearest star is like 35 light years away.
From TFA:
"Myxobacteria are micrometre-scale filament-shaped organisms that glide along surfaces, leaving a trail of slime in their wake. Biologists were convinced the bugs produced the slime as lubricant, but couldn't explain how they generated the force to move."
That second phrase, "couldn't explain how they generated the force to move" seems to contradict your statement that scientists already knew how they moved.
Backing up the DVD is a snap too, and I don't have to deal with the annoying hassle of Movielink/CinemaNow's homebrew DRM.
Except **AA has managed to project their oddity into our world and have rendered this a crime.
This story is not a prank. Really. It's a bona-fide story. Stop calling it gay.
From the Karma Whore page on Wiki:
"Often these will be needless information (such as a link to a Wikipedia article relevant to the subject being discussed), or a message of a political nature that is in alignment with the groupthink so that it will be moderated upwards by people who agree with the stance expressed in the message."
Ironic, huh?
Polygraph Technician: This is a control question, really. How would you say would be the easiest way to take a weapon away from a Grammaton Cleric?
Brandt: [speaks into Preston's ear.] You ask him for it.
In the social engineering context, I guess you give him chocolate for it.
Kharma whoring.
I keed, I keed.