In no way does patent exhaustion allow you to infringe on OTHER patents, whether or not they use the product in question.
I misread your original post, because your original post is a total non sequitur. Qualcomm didn't take Apple to court for infringing some patent they own that wasn't embodied in the chips they were selling. They tried to claim that their battery life management patent was somehow independent of the chip they were selling which... implemented the battery life patent.
We were talking about the seller of the product. It doesn't matter how many patents are embodied in the product, from the transistor to the amplifier, all of the patents are exhausted after the seller of the product has sold the chip, even if some of those patents were licensed by the maker of the actual product rather than owned by them. But it's not me saying that. It's the Supreme Court:
We conclude that a patentee’s decision to sell a product exhausts all of its patent rights in that item, regardless of any restrictions the patentee purports to impose or the location of the sale... [R]estrictions and location are irrelevant; what matters is the patentee’s decision to make a sale.
Emphasis mine.
In any case, Qualcomm didn't go to court to defend some random other company's patents, licensed or otherwise. They went to court to demand more money from Apple, and the legal theory they were using was shaky at best, and flat out unlawful at worst. Apple folding here was them getting the deal they were after, not any indication of the strength of Qualcomm's legal position.
The thing is: effective schooling requires (a) commitment from the families and (b) discipline within the school. If you have families who don't care that their kids aren't learning, who don't care that their kids disrupt school for everyone else, you're screwed. If you have a school that tolerates disruptive behavior...
That all sounds so reasonable, and got you a +5 to boot, but while part a) is fine, part b) is a disaster. Schools all over the country have tried that. Zero Tolerance is an unmitigated disaster. It is NOT working. I would bet a nickel that a good many of the kids in the LeBron James school were "zero toleranced" out of their regular school. You don't get to be 2nd percentile by accident.
Some of this is personal observation, but most of it I got from my mother, who was a high school English teacher off and on for 40 years. One of the schools she taught in was University City in St. Louis. U. City was very nearly majority black, at the time, with a population 48% African American. My mother was an extremely popular teacher, specifically because she was NOT a disciplinarian. She kept control of her classrooms, but she didn't rule with an iron fist like these Zero Tolerance morons.
She remembers specific students quite well, as you might expect. One of the kids couldn't sit still. He'd pop out of his chair and wander around the room. She'd let him do it. If he was white, he'd have been diagnosed with ADHD and dosed to the gills on designer pharmaceuticals today, but this was the late 1980s, and he was black, so ADHD didn't exist yet. In a Zero Tolerance authoritarian dictatorship so commonly found today, he'd have been endlessly sent to the principal's office, stuck in detention, and eventually suspended, with some bullshit line about how "disruptive" he is. When in fact it's the authoritarian moron who is being self-disruptive by making mountains out of molehills. When she really needed him to sit, my mother could get him to quite easily. There's a certain jocular tone you can take that will get you "ok, ok, I'm goin'..." obedience, and my mother knows how to use it. The authoritarian "Siddown right now or you're outta here!" approach gets you nothing but defiance from the same kid.
This school will help some individual kids, but that cultural problem is the real problem, and someday it is going to have to be addressed.
There are two cultural problems to be addressed. Yes, Black culture needs to accept that in the modern world, education is a necessity. But school culture also needs to finally realize that the nightmare that is Prussian Factory Education doesn't work especially well for anybody, and really doesn't work for black kids. You only get perfectly still rows of silent children sitting at their desks with perfect posture with their hands folded in front of them when they're all white and scared[1]. You don't get that from black kids ever, and there's an argument to be made, rather eloquently by J. T Gatto, that getting it from white kids is a terrible choice too.
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[1] You aren't going to scare the black kids. Their mommas are a lot scarier than you.
"Content relevant to your interrest" normally include stuff you agree or disagree with, but on a particular subject. I don't care about twitter but when I want stuff about a certain theme, I want the stuff for the stuff against, and a way to weight where the consensus is (e.g. flat earth, globular earth, and where the consensus is).
You and all of the rest of us reading Slashdot are very much in the minority on this point, as demonstrated by Slashdot's own metrics. Most people don't want that, or Slashdot would be far more popular than it is. It's rather blindingly obvious from which platforms are popular that people want bubbles. Bubbles sell. Bubbles sell really really well.
Shit, we have people here who don't want that. AmiMoJo is complaining further up about Slashdot's moderation because AmiMoJo doesn't like how the Slashdot consensus has diverged from his particular weird little worldview. He wants to "fix" Slashdot moderation, pretty much for the sole purpose of making his own posts more visible. And nearly everybody everywhere has exactly the same idea.
The fact that Slashdot moderation eventually converges on a consensus (at least in the aggregate) is a problem for the vast majority, who want the thing they think should be popular to be unassailably popular. They want the thing they think should be unpopular to be utterly buried. (Except for the Participation Trophy generation who think down-mods are evil and shouldn't exist.) Both infinite upmods and infinite downmods appeal to people's basest instincts. They want their team to "win", and that fact it only takes 4 votes to suddenly pop a Slashdot -1 post into +3 visibility upsets people. The fact it only takes 1 vote to drop a +3 post down into the sea of +2 also upsets people. (Substitute your own numbers for your personal visibility settings. (And the fact that you can have your own personal preference for which posts are visible are anathema to Twitter too.))
In short, nobody likes the Slashdot system because almost nobody likes being intellectually engaged, let alone intellectually challenged.
Basically yes. You will have to sign up to a third party verification service (like the one owned by MindGeek, no conflict of interest there...) which will require photo id.
I foresee a business opportunity. A free ad-supported porn proxy service with an endless series of domain permutations, like The Pirate Bay, running out of the commercial cloud providers all over the world (like The Pirate Bay). It's practically free money. The ads will of course be for porn.
Come to think of it, given the Great Firewalls in China and countries in the Middle East, that service probably already exists.
The numbers aren't staggering, but often the exponential growth from last to bottom tenth, sixth, or third is a more important improvement threshold than the move from 70 t0 80, or, 80 t0 90 percentile.
It is indeed considerably more important. According to the site that tracks these things, the fourth graders who managed to climb to the 30th percentile can now be considered functionally literate. They were illiterate before. That's a major qualitative difference. Fourth grade is pretty late for learning how to read, but better late than never.
Calling it a "STEM-based school" is a joke in poor taste though. This is remedial instruction of the most fundamental kind, and a damning indictment of the previous three to five years of schooling. A school that can't teach a child to read is not a school—it is a kid warehouse. And these kids can learn to read, as they have now demonstrated.
If LeBron James lending his name is what it takes to break through, more power to him. Unfortunately, as InterGuru points out below, that's not scalable or sustainable. There's only one LeBron James, and once his name is lent out too much, it's diluted and doesn't mean anything anymore. And it ages fast. How many of GenZ even knows Michael Jordan's name?
...just buying a CPU does not give you the license to make that other product, in the US or probably anywhere else.
Yes it does. It's called patent exhaustion, and the Supreme Court has ruled on it before, and is likely to rule on it again. One of the Federal Circuits has been getting extremely creative about how 'sticky' patents are, and at least some of their rulings have been fairly directly contradicted by the Supreme Court already. It isn't over, but it's fairly clear that SCOTUS is determined to defend patent exhaustion, and they always win in the end.
Now, the linked article doesn't really go in to detail as to why the first stage was lost. It isn't clear if the first stage is left upright for transit or whether there is a folding crane aboard that can be used to lower it to the deck...
It is kept upright. There's video footage and photos of the barge returning to port with boosters standing on it.
... surely it is possible to have a set of extending metal braces, again, powered by hydraulics, that can fold up from horizontal storage to a vertical brace position, then maybe simply wrap a loop around the circumference of the first stage, attach that to lines up to the top of the upright braces, and raise the support loop until it is just beneath the fold-out fins...
They already have a better solution, as was mentioned in the summary. They built a big flat low tug-like remote controlled vehicle they call Octagrabber which rolls under the booster and clamps onto the legs. They use it for Falcon 9 recoveries. The only reason they didn't use it for the Falcon Heavy central core is the legs are in a different place and the vehicle can't reach them. Yet. They will undoubtedly reengineer it to handle both leg designs.
he objection to one size fits all is what resonates with me. I fully understand that things are vastly different in NYC vs my rural nature preserve. I can swing my arms as much as I want with no danger of breaking someone's nose, and if I want to set off a few lbs of dynamite on my back 40, no one cares unless I fail to invite them to see the show.
That's great and all, but you're still going to get your fucking shots.
Smallpox was finally eradicated by tracking every last infection on the planet and inoculating a remote village in Somalia to prevent spreading the disease from the last victim. Yes, Somalia, that bastion of libertarian freedom.
You will be inoculated. We're not going to allow your little rural dystopia to act as a reservoir for an infectious disease that can later break out and wreak havoc in a higher density population. And we might prevent your rural dystopia from being completely depopulated along the way.
I expected better from Slashdot. You're getting trolled, folks. The dimmest object you can see with the naked eye is magnitude +6. Those are only visible in very dark rural areas. In big city suburbs, the best you can see with the naked eye is magnitude +4. A cubesat's reflected sunlight magnitude is typically +10 or +11. Cubesats are only barely visible to a very large telescope when illuminated solely with sunlight.
Now if each cubesat is an active light emitter, that's a whole different thing. Let's say it's primarily solar powered. Let's further say Pepsi spends $BIG_NUM on 44% efficient multi-junction solar cells. If 3 of the 6 faces of the cube are solar cells, that's 300 square centimeters of solar cell. Solar irradiance outside atmosphere is 1367 watts per square meter. 300 square centimeters is 0.03 square meters. 1367 * 0.03 * 0.44 = 18.04 watts. Let's say the other 3 faces of the cube are LEDs. 18 watts of LEDs from Amazon gets you 1260 lumens. 1260 lumens from 0.03 square meters is 42,000 lux. That's like a tiny spot of direct sunlight as seen from Earth. That's pretty good, though the angle at which it's visible is limited by altitude and it having only 3 illuminated faces. There's no image whatsoever. It's just a bright spot.
These are all best case numbers, of course. In reality the three faces of the cube won't operate at maximum efficiency since they can't all face the sun directly at once, and in LEO they don't see sunlight at all for half their orbit, etc etc. Still, if they worked at it, it could be pretty obnoxious.
They already did. They sued the government in December in the United States Court of Federal Claims.
The judge granted a stay of the lawsuit requested by the DoD while they investigated possible conflicts of interest.
The DoD completed their investigation and decided there were no conflicts of interest, but there may have been other ethics violations. Presumably the DoD's report is controlling in the lawsuit, though nobody has said yet what the disposition of the lawsuit will be.
We have reviewed your request regarding the alleged "terrorist" content on our website, and found the request to be baseless and nonsensical. As a result, your agency has been placed on our "incompetent authority" list. All future requests from your organization will be ignored.
That appears to be exactly the intent. Someone is trying to poison the well. Considering the 'Terrorist Content Regulation' doesn't exist yet, any demand to take something down by its authority is bogus regardless of the targeted content. This was not an accident, and the Internet Archive was selected specifically because it is known that they resist demand letters reflexively.
It won't change anything though. Big content owners have money and money buys politicians. End of story.
Canadians love to look down on Americans and portray them all to be racists or uneducated, or gun-toting maniacs but we have our fair share up here
Canadians have good reason to be gun-toting maniacs. Between the bears and the moose and the penguins, you take your life in your hands every time you step outside.
A few years ago the situation was reversed, rdp was slow and inflexible and before that there was no rdp at all, it's quite sad that one of the biggest benefits x11 had is being discarded.
X11's biggest benefit was also a giant Achilles heel. I used to use that feature regularly, even running remote Xterms. I stopped. The network is unreliable. This is a lesson that Google never learned, and many another company also fails at (game DRM, anyone?). When network instability breaks your TCP connection, your forwarded X11 app... dies. Kaput. You lose whatever you were working on that wasn't saved, which is always something, and often enough something you really wish it hadn't lost. RDP means your app(s) keep(s) running. You just reconnect and there everything is, just as you left it. X11 not being able to do that meant X11 was doomed.
You would however lose the £300m/year contribution made by the Crown Estates to the Treasury, a sum that's net of the payments from the Government to the royal family.
There's an argument to be made that the royal family has no business owning the Crown Estates to begin with, since they only existed because of divine right of kings to take whatever shit they wanted. Just because the theft is 800 years old doesn't mean it wasn't theft.
Now you could say that theft, even grand theft, has a statute of limitations, and indeed it does, but should there really be a limit on stealing large chunks of a country?
Sounds like Mr. Ingels and his colleagues have been reading Snow Crash.
There's a considerably more recent cultural reference available, with the same sort of muddy thinking at its root: the YouTube Original Sherwood, a children's 3D animated cartoon on YouTube with the underlying premise that global warming is unstoppable, the Ice Age will officially end (no ice caps, no glaciers, anywhere on Earth), and instead of just living on all the still remaining land, people will live on ocean cities controlled by lone despots and a rag tag band of rebels will steal from the rich to give to the poor. The protagonist is a teenage girl named Robin Locksley, naturally. And she's nominally an orphan, because Disney's vapid writing is inescapable, even when you're YouTube. The big reveal will be that her father is still alive, I'm sure.
The trailer for the second episode features one of the two villains (the junior one) taking a brown child hostage at "gun" point. (Though being YouTube, a Google property, nobody has guns. It's a non-gun weapon that's at least as scary as a gun, somehow...) Because you can never be too blatantly metaphorical.
And for some reason, everyone has an Australian accent.
Great so we'll give, say, half of Arizona to the nation of the Marshall Islands.
Wat? Arithmetic is evidently beyond your grasp. The total land area of the Marshall Islands is 70 square miles. The land area of Phoenix, Arizona is 517 square miles. The entire population of the Marshall Islands would fit in a suburb of Phoenix without hardship. There's barely 50,000 of them.
And there won't be any difficulties with simultaneously relocating most of the population of Los Angeles in that region, right?
Arizona is 113,998 square miles. Los Angeles is 503 square miles. Transplanting LA to Arizona would use up... 0.5% of the available land. And the present inhabitants wouldn't even notice. Arizona is vastly empty. There's no way to provide water for them all in Arizona specifically, but the American West is vast and empty and not all of it lacks water. As a practical matter, abandoning literally every coastal city and every island nation on the planet is completely possible. It won't happen, because dikes exist, but it could be done and nobody at all would be crowded.
You're obviously one of the city people who needs to get out into the countryside more often. The planet is big. Very very big. Most of it has no people on it at all. Humans have this peculiar habit of cramming themselves into tiny spaces for no goddamn reason at all. It makes no sense.
Having the skills to do that puts us at an advantage so overwhelming compared to the average person, that picking up some obscure OS and using it is as easy as cooking microwave popcorn.
The geniuses at my office managed to burn microwave popcorn. It's now forbidden in the office. I shit you not.
A while back, there was a story about this where a erson become "property of the state" as he owed them so much. He was then "Rescued" to Australia, I believe,
It's called Manna, by Marshall Brain. It's pretty poor fiction, and very unlikely science fiction, for a variety of reasons. Not least of which is Australia is uninhabitable.
Strangely enough, it seems like management jobs would be easiest to replace with software.
At maximum automation, 90% of management function ceases to exist. Management is largely about keeping track of what a bunch of humans are doing. No humans, no need to track what they're doing. The machines self-report accurately and completely, and what little "management" is still required is a very small shell script.
So people simply stopped shopping at K-Mart while it ate itself from within. They started shopping at Wal Mart.
Which is now in the process of cannibalizing itself. Another company will probably come along.
The next company did come along. It's called Amazon. And it's practiced self-cannibalization since its inception. It's getting away with it because what happens in the warehouses isn't visible to the general public. Eventually, they WILL automate pickers and packers. And that will be the end of mass employment at Amazon. And probably the end of WalMart, which won't have access to those robots.
All the highways near me are toll roads, yes. The local streets were paid for by the developers who put the neighborhoods in. What was your point, again?
Not sure what his point was, but my point is you live in a shithole. Toll roads are a symptom of dysfunctional government. Your government is broken and you like it that way. You live in a shithole.
And the concept of locally streaming via DLNA is very much limited to the realm of the geek/enthusiast, and that's very unlikely to ever change.
You should wander through YouTube sometime. There are literally 1000 kids telling you how to set up local DLNA streaming, or any other "Smart" TV alternative your little heart desires, all geared for the audience with a 5th grade vocabulary. And they're getting views. Lots of views.
Geeks cherish the idea that only they can understand the holy rituals necessary to purge the dark demons from people's devices. It ain't so. You may understand, but understanding is not required in order to successfully perform the rituals. The number of people blocking ads and bypassing invasive "Smart" TVs is rising, or anti-adblocking wouldn't be a thing. Remember when it wasn't? It wasn't that long ago. Things are changing.
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In no way does patent exhaustion allow you to infringe on OTHER patents, whether or not they use the product in question.
I misread your original post, because your original post is a total non sequitur. Qualcomm didn't take Apple to court for infringing some patent they own that wasn't embodied in the chips they were selling. They tried to claim that their battery life management patent was somehow independent of the chip they were selling which... implemented the battery life patent.
We were talking about the seller of the product. It doesn't matter how many patents are embodied in the product, from the transistor to the amplifier, all of the patents are exhausted after the seller of the product has sold the chip, even if some of those patents were licensed by the maker of the actual product rather than owned by them. But it's not me saying that. It's the Supreme Court:
We conclude that a patentee’s decision to sell a product exhausts all of its patent rights in that item, regardless of any restrictions the patentee purports to impose or the location of the sale... [R]estrictions and location are irrelevant; what matters is the patentee’s decision to make a sale.
Emphasis mine.
In any case, Qualcomm didn't go to court to defend some random other company's patents, licensed or otherwise. They went to court to demand more money from Apple, and the legal theory they were using was shaky at best, and flat out unlawful at worst. Apple folding here was them getting the deal they were after, not any indication of the strength of Qualcomm's legal position.
The thing is: effective schooling requires (a) commitment from the families and (b) discipline within the school. If you have families who don't care that their kids aren't learning, who don't care that their kids disrupt school for everyone else, you're screwed. If you have a school that tolerates disruptive behavior...
That all sounds so reasonable, and got you a +5 to boot, but while part a) is fine, part b) is a disaster. Schools all over the country have tried that. Zero Tolerance is an unmitigated disaster. It is NOT working. I would bet a nickel that a good many of the kids in the LeBron James school were "zero toleranced" out of their regular school. You don't get to be 2nd percentile by accident.
Some of this is personal observation, but most of it I got from my mother, who was a high school English teacher off and on for 40 years. One of the schools she taught in was University City in St. Louis. U. City was very nearly majority black, at the time, with a population 48% African American. My mother was an extremely popular teacher, specifically because she was NOT a disciplinarian. She kept control of her classrooms, but she didn't rule with an iron fist like these Zero Tolerance morons.
She remembers specific students quite well, as you might expect. One of the kids couldn't sit still. He'd pop out of his chair and wander around the room. She'd let him do it. If he was white, he'd have been diagnosed with ADHD and dosed to the gills on designer pharmaceuticals today, but this was the late 1980s, and he was black, so ADHD didn't exist yet. In a Zero Tolerance authoritarian dictatorship so commonly found today, he'd have been endlessly sent to the principal's office, stuck in detention, and eventually suspended, with some bullshit line about how "disruptive" he is. When in fact it's the authoritarian moron who is being self-disruptive by making mountains out of molehills. When she really needed him to sit, my mother could get him to quite easily. There's a certain jocular tone you can take that will get you "ok, ok, I'm goin'..." obedience, and my mother knows how to use it. The authoritarian "Siddown right now or you're outta here!" approach gets you nothing but defiance from the same kid.
This school will help some individual kids, but that cultural problem is the real problem, and someday it is going to have to be addressed.
There are two cultural problems to be addressed. Yes, Black culture needs to accept that in the modern world, education is a necessity. But school culture also needs to finally realize that the nightmare that is Prussian Factory Education doesn't work especially well for anybody, and really doesn't work for black kids. You only get perfectly still rows of silent children sitting at their desks with perfect posture with their hands folded in front of them when they're all white and scared[1]. You don't get that from black kids ever, and there's an argument to be made, rather eloquently by J. T Gatto, that getting it from white kids is a terrible choice too.
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[1] You aren't going to scare the black kids. Their mommas are a lot scarier than you.
"Content relevant to your interrest" normally include stuff you agree or disagree with, but on a particular subject. I don't care about twitter but when I want stuff about a certain theme, I want the stuff for the stuff against, and a way to weight where the consensus is (e.g. flat earth, globular earth, and where the consensus is).
You and all of the rest of us reading Slashdot are very much in the minority on this point, as demonstrated by Slashdot's own metrics. Most people don't want that, or Slashdot would be far more popular than it is. It's rather blindingly obvious from which platforms are popular that people want bubbles. Bubbles sell. Bubbles sell really really well.
Shit, we have people here who don't want that. AmiMoJo is complaining further up about Slashdot's moderation because AmiMoJo doesn't like how the Slashdot consensus has diverged from his particular weird little worldview. He wants to "fix" Slashdot moderation, pretty much for the sole purpose of making his own posts more visible. And nearly everybody everywhere has exactly the same idea.
The fact that Slashdot moderation eventually converges on a consensus (at least in the aggregate) is a problem for the vast majority, who want the thing they think should be popular to be unassailably popular. They want the thing they think should be unpopular to be utterly buried. (Except for the Participation Trophy generation who think down-mods are evil and shouldn't exist.) Both infinite upmods and infinite downmods appeal to people's basest instincts. They want their team to "win", and that fact it only takes 4 votes to suddenly pop a Slashdot -1 post into +3 visibility upsets people. The fact it only takes 1 vote to drop a +3 post down into the sea of +2 also upsets people. (Substitute your own numbers for your personal visibility settings. (And the fact that you can have your own personal preference for which posts are visible are anathema to Twitter too.))
In short, nobody likes the Slashdot system because almost nobody likes being intellectually engaged, let alone intellectually challenged.
Basically yes. You will have to sign up to a third party verification service (like the one owned by MindGeek, no conflict of interest there...) which will require photo id.
I foresee a business opportunity. A free ad-supported porn proxy service with an endless series of domain permutations, like The Pirate Bay, running out of the commercial cloud providers all over the world (like The Pirate Bay). It's practically free money. The ads will of course be for porn.
Come to think of it, given the Great Firewalls in China and countries in the Middle East, that service probably already exists.
The numbers aren't staggering, but often the exponential growth from last to bottom tenth, sixth, or third is a more important improvement threshold than the move from 70 t0 80, or, 80 t0 90 percentile.
It is indeed considerably more important. According to the site that tracks these things, the fourth graders who managed to climb to the 30th percentile can now be considered functionally literate. They were illiterate before. That's a major qualitative difference. Fourth grade is pretty late for learning how to read, but better late than never.
Calling it a "STEM-based school" is a joke in poor taste though. This is remedial instruction of the most fundamental kind, and a damning indictment of the previous three to five years of schooling. A school that can't teach a child to read is not a school—it is a kid warehouse. And these kids can learn to read, as they have now demonstrated.
If LeBron James lending his name is what it takes to break through, more power to him. Unfortunately, as InterGuru points out below, that's not scalable or sustainable. There's only one LeBron James, and once his name is lent out too much, it's diluted and doesn't mean anything anymore. And it ages fast. How many of GenZ even knows Michael Jordan's name?
...just buying a CPU does not give you the license to make that other product, in the US or probably anywhere else.
Yes it does. It's called patent exhaustion, and the Supreme Court has ruled on it before, and is likely to rule on it again. One of the Federal Circuits has been getting extremely creative about how 'sticky' patents are, and at least some of their rulings have been fairly directly contradicted by the Supreme Court already. It isn't over, but it's fairly clear that SCOTUS is determined to defend patent exhaustion, and they always win in the end.
Now, the linked article doesn't really go in to detail as to why the first stage was lost. It isn't clear if the first stage is left upright for transit or whether there is a folding crane aboard that can be used to lower it to the deck...
It is kept upright. There's video footage and photos of the barge returning to port with boosters standing on it.
... surely it is possible to have a set of extending metal braces, again, powered by hydraulics, that can fold up from horizontal storage to a vertical brace position, then maybe simply wrap a loop around the circumference of the first stage, attach that to lines up to the top of the upright braces, and raise the support loop until it is just beneath the fold-out fins...
They already have a better solution, as was mentioned in the summary. They built a big flat low tug-like remote controlled vehicle they call Octagrabber which rolls under the booster and clamps onto the legs. They use it for Falcon 9 recoveries. The only reason they didn't use it for the Falcon Heavy central core is the legs are in a different place and the vehicle can't reach them. Yet. They will undoubtedly reengineer it to handle both leg designs.
Think of it as evolution in action
It's just that.
Sure, but the virus is evolving too. If we are very lucky, we will wipe it out before it manages to evolve into something spectacularly nasty.
he objection to one size fits all is what resonates with me. I fully understand that things are vastly different in NYC vs my rural nature preserve. I can swing my arms as much as I want with no danger of breaking someone's nose, and if I want to set off a few lbs of dynamite on my back 40, no one cares unless I fail to invite them to see the show.
That's great and all, but you're still going to get your fucking shots.
Smallpox was finally eradicated by tracking every last infection on the planet and inoculating a remote village in Somalia to prevent spreading the disease from the last victim. Yes, Somalia, that bastion of libertarian freedom.
You will be inoculated. We're not going to allow your little rural dystopia to act as a reservoir for an infectious disease that can later break out and wreak havoc in a higher density population. And we might prevent your rural dystopia from being completely depopulated along the way.
I expected better from Slashdot. You're getting trolled, folks. The dimmest object you can see with the naked eye is magnitude +6. Those are only visible in very dark rural areas. In big city suburbs, the best you can see with the naked eye is magnitude +4. A cubesat's reflected sunlight magnitude is typically +10 or +11. Cubesats are only barely visible to a very large telescope when illuminated solely with sunlight.
Now if each cubesat is an active light emitter, that's a whole different thing. Let's say it's primarily solar powered. Let's further say Pepsi spends $BIG_NUM on 44% efficient multi-junction solar cells. If 3 of the 6 faces of the cube are solar cells, that's 300 square centimeters of solar cell. Solar irradiance outside atmosphere is 1367 watts per square meter. 300 square centimeters is 0.03 square meters. 1367 * 0.03 * 0.44 = 18.04 watts. Let's say the other 3 faces of the cube are LEDs. 18 watts of LEDs from Amazon gets you 1260 lumens. 1260 lumens from 0.03 square meters is 42,000 lux. That's like a tiny spot of direct sunlight as seen from Earth. That's pretty good, though the angle at which it's visible is limited by altitude and it having only 3 illuminated faces. There's no image whatsoever. It's just a bright spot.
These are all best case numbers, of course. In reality the three faces of the cube won't operate at maximum efficiency since they can't all face the sun directly at once, and in LEO they don't see sunlight at all for half their orbit, etc etc. Still, if they worked at it, it could be pretty obnoxious.
Oracle sues in 3...2.....1
They already did. They sued the government in December in the United States Court of Federal Claims.
The judge granted a stay of the lawsuit requested by the DoD while they investigated possible conflicts of interest.
The DoD completed their investigation and decided there were no conflicts of interest, but there may have been other ethics violations. Presumably the DoD's report is controlling in the lawsuit, though nobody has said yet what the disposition of the lawsuit will be.
We have reviewed your request regarding the alleged "terrorist" content on our website, and found the request to be baseless and nonsensical. As a result, your agency has been placed on our "incompetent authority" list. All future requests from your organization will be ignored.
That appears to be exactly the intent. Someone is trying to poison the well. Considering the 'Terrorist Content Regulation' doesn't exist yet, any demand to take something down by its authority is bogus regardless of the targeted content. This was not an accident, and the Internet Archive was selected specifically because it is known that they resist demand letters reflexively.
It won't change anything though. Big content owners have money and money buys politicians. End of story.
Canadians love to look down on Americans and portray them all to be racists or uneducated, or gun-toting maniacs but we have our fair share up here
Canadians have good reason to be gun-toting maniacs. Between the bears and the moose and the penguins, you take your life in your hands every time you step outside.
A few years ago the situation was reversed, rdp was slow and inflexible and before that there was no rdp at all, it's quite sad that one of the biggest benefits x11 had is being discarded.
X11's biggest benefit was also a giant Achilles heel. I used to use that feature regularly, even running remote Xterms. I stopped. The network is unreliable. This is a lesson that Google never learned, and many another company also fails at (game DRM, anyone?). When network instability breaks your TCP connection, your forwarded X11 app... dies. Kaput. You lose whatever you were working on that wasn't saved, which is always something, and often enough something you really wish it hadn't lost. RDP means your app(s) keep(s) running. You just reconnect and there everything is, just as you left it. X11 not being able to do that meant X11 was doomed.
Wait I just realized Fortnite is an Eugenics conspiracy.
All of modern society is a eugenics conspiracy, to judge by the birth rates around the globe.
You would however lose the £300m/year contribution made by the Crown Estates to the Treasury, a sum that's net of the payments from the Government to the royal family.
There's an argument to be made that the royal family has no business owning the Crown Estates to begin with, since they only existed because of divine right of kings to take whatever shit they wanted. Just because the theft is 800 years old doesn't mean it wasn't theft.
Now you could say that theft, even grand theft, has a statute of limitations, and indeed it does, but should there really be a limit on stealing large chunks of a country?
...whereas a preexisting body of federal office-holders "might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes".
Mr. Hamilton underestimated how rapidly the electors could be prostituted.
Sounds like Mr. Ingels and his colleagues have been reading Snow Crash.
There's a considerably more recent cultural reference available, with the same sort of muddy thinking at its root: the YouTube Original Sherwood, a children's 3D animated cartoon on YouTube with the underlying premise that global warming is unstoppable, the Ice Age will officially end (no ice caps, no glaciers, anywhere on Earth), and instead of just living on all the still remaining land, people will live on ocean cities controlled by lone despots and a rag tag band of rebels will steal from the rich to give to the poor. The protagonist is a teenage girl named Robin Locksley, naturally. And she's nominally an orphan, because Disney's vapid writing is inescapable, even when you're YouTube. The big reveal will be that her father is still alive, I'm sure.
The trailer for the second episode features one of the two villains (the junior one) taking a brown child hostage at "gun" point. (Though being YouTube, a Google property, nobody has guns. It's a non-gun weapon that's at least as scary as a gun, somehow...) Because you can never be too blatantly metaphorical.
And for some reason, everyone has an Australian accent.
Great so we'll give, say, half of Arizona to the nation of the Marshall Islands.
Wat? Arithmetic is evidently beyond your grasp. The total land area of the Marshall Islands is 70 square miles. The land area of Phoenix, Arizona is 517 square miles. The entire population of the Marshall Islands would fit in a suburb of Phoenix without hardship. There's barely 50,000 of them.
And there won't be any difficulties with simultaneously relocating most of the population of Los Angeles in that region, right?
Arizona is 113,998 square miles. Los Angeles is 503 square miles. Transplanting LA to Arizona would use up... 0.5% of the available land. And the present inhabitants wouldn't even notice. Arizona is vastly empty. There's no way to provide water for them all in Arizona specifically, but the American West is vast and empty and not all of it lacks water. As a practical matter, abandoning literally every coastal city and every island nation on the planet is completely possible. It won't happen, because dikes exist, but it could be done and nobody at all would be crowded.
You're obviously one of the city people who needs to get out into the countryside more often. The planet is big. Very very big. Most of it has no people on it at all. Humans have this peculiar habit of cramming themselves into tiny spaces for no goddamn reason at all. It makes no sense.
Having the skills to do that puts us at an advantage so overwhelming compared to the average person, that picking up some obscure OS and using it is as easy as cooking microwave popcorn.
The geniuses at my office managed to burn microwave popcorn. It's now forbidden in the office. I shit you not.
A while back, there was a story about this where a erson become "property of the state" as he owed them so much. He was then "Rescued" to Australia, I believe,
It's called Manna, by Marshall Brain. It's pretty poor fiction, and very unlikely science fiction, for a variety of reasons. Not least of which is Australia is uninhabitable.
Strangely enough, it seems like management jobs would be easiest to replace with software.
At maximum automation, 90% of management function ceases to exist. Management is largely about keeping track of what a bunch of humans are doing. No humans, no need to track what they're doing. The machines self-report accurately and completely, and what little "management" is still required is a very small shell script.
So people simply stopped shopping at K-Mart while it ate itself from within. They started shopping at Wal Mart.
Which is now in the process of cannibalizing itself. Another company will probably come along.
The next company did come along. It's called Amazon. And it's practiced self-cannibalization since its inception. It's getting away with it because what happens in the warehouses isn't visible to the general public. Eventually, they WILL automate pickers and packers. And that will be the end of mass employment at Amazon. And probably the end of WalMart, which won't have access to those robots.
All the highways near me are toll roads, yes. The local streets were paid for by the developers who put the neighborhoods in. What was your point, again?
Not sure what his point was, but my point is you live in a shithole. Toll roads are a symptom of dysfunctional government. Your government is broken and you like it that way. You live in a shithole.
The rest of us can do better, and we do.
And the concept of locally streaming via DLNA is very much limited to the realm of the geek/enthusiast, and that's very unlikely to ever change.
You should wander through YouTube sometime. There are literally 1000 kids telling you how to set up local DLNA streaming, or any other "Smart" TV alternative your little heart desires, all geared for the audience with a 5th grade vocabulary. And they're getting views. Lots of views.
Geeks cherish the idea that only they can understand the holy rituals necessary to purge the dark demons from people's devices. It ain't so. You may understand, but understanding is not required in order to successfully perform the rituals. The number of people blocking ads and bypassing invasive "Smart" TVs is rising, or anti-adblocking wouldn't be a thing. Remember when it wasn't? It wasn't that long ago. Things are changing.