If the invention is so insignificant that competitors can imitate it, incorporate it into their products and release the new versions in less than six months, does the company really deserve a patent?
Owning 500 000 shares is a tie. Nobody said Bill Gates and Hugh Grant were having dinner every night or something like that.
And circumcision? The Jewish practise that so far has proven to be safe with no long-term effects? You need to try harder.
No long-term effects? Does the foreskin regrow? Oh, you mean no long-term effects that you find important.
And other complications, while rare, exist. According to the AAFP, "mortality risk has been estimated to be 1/500,000 procedures," which would be reasonable if we were talking about an important procedure, but it's completely unacceptable for circumcision.
Have we ever actually tried it? Or Marxism, for that matter.
Both free market supporters and Marx defended limited governments and distributed decision making, yet we somehow call our countries with huge, very powerful governments as if they represented implementations of those ideas. Makes no sense.
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The contradiction between the vocation and the good intentions of the administration on the one hand and the means and powers at its disposal on the other cannot be eliminated by the state, except by abolishing itself; for the state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities, since the scope of its own power comes to an end at the very point where civil life and work begin. (...) The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
People complain about comments being un-editable and static but I love that. It makes this feel permanent, it allows me to verbally pin people down, etc. But if Executive A five layers removed from you decides it needs to be his way, what are you gonna do?
Well, considering/. still doesn't support unicode, I think they can say "too hard, can't be done" and get away with it.
NAT64 is hardly that complicated. For legacy IPv4, you just need a stateless implementation; any decent gateway should provide that with almost no configuration.
I do agree that a market would be the best way to allocate this, but claiming that hoarding doesn't happen in a market system is ridiculous. Even if the UK could sell them at a profit, why would they when the IPs are only getting more valuable in the medium term?
For me, the main problem with P4s isn't that they aren't powerful enough; it's that they're extremely inefficient. My quadcore may not actually be that much more powerful, but when I'm just writing a Slashdot post, it draws much less power. For smartphones, that's even more important: shut down all except one cores when in idle, and your battery will last much longer.
The benefit of the "cloud" is reduced costs, and certainly doesn't mean it's insecure.
Tarsnap (a backup service), for example, is very much a cloud service (runs on EC2 and stores the user data on S3), yet it encrypts each archive you upload with a random AES256 key that is then itself encrypted with an RSA key that never leaves your machine, and the whole thing has multiple levels of signatures (to prevent tampering).
It's also designed and run by the FreeBSD Security Officer, which isn't a position given exactly to anyone.
While cloud services, like everything else, follow Sturgeon's law, you shouldn't label everything as insecure or badly designed.
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If the invention is so insignificant that competitors can imitate it, incorporate it into their products and release the new versions in less than six months, does the company really deserve a patent?
Owning 500 000 shares is a tie. Nobody said Bill Gates and Hugh Grant were having dinner every night or something like that.
And circumcision? The Jewish practise that so far has proven to be safe with no long-term effects? You need to try harder.
No long-term effects? Does the foreskin regrow? Oh, you mean no long-term effects that you find important.
And other complications, while rare, exist. According to the AAFP, "mortality risk has been estimated to be 1/500,000 procedures," which would be reasonable if we were talking about an important procedure, but it's completely unacceptable for circumcision.
Lack of money is not the most important reasons of why we haven't accomplished those things.
They're hardly difficult to find out:
First part:
Bill Gates initiated holdings in Monsanto Company. (...) His holdings were 500,000 shares as of 06/30/2010.
http://www.gurufocus.com/news/104835/gates-foundation-buys-ecolab-inc-goldman-sachs-monsanto-company-exxon-mobil-corp-sells-mt-bank
The second part, from their website:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/hivaids/Pages/reducing-hiv-risk-through-circumcision.aspx
Have we ever actually tried it? Or Marxism, for that matter.
Both free market supporters and Marx defended limited governments and distributed decision making, yet we somehow call our countries with huge, very powerful governments as if they represented implementations of those ideas. Makes no sense.
Â
The contradiction between the vocation and the good intentions of the administration on the one hand and the means and powers at its disposal on the other cannot be eliminated by the state, except by abolishing itself; for the state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities, since the scope of its own power comes to an end at the very point where civil life and work begin. (...) The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
That's SSL and has been here for 17 years. This API is useful for other stuff, like data that never leaves the client unencrypted.
Aren't those numbers usually calculated based on the net income, not revenue?
People complain about comments being un-editable and static but I love that. It makes this feel permanent, it allows me to verbally pin people down, etc. But if Executive A five layers removed from you decides it needs to be his way, what are you gonna do?
Well, considering /. still doesn't support unicode, I think they can say "too hard, can't be done" and get away with it.
NAT64 is hardly that complicated. For legacy IPv4, you just need a stateless implementation; any decent gateway should provide that with almost no configuration.
I do agree that a market would be the best way to allocate this, but claiming that hoarding doesn't happen in a market system is ridiculous. Even if the UK could sell them at a profit, why would they when the IPs are only getting more valuable in the medium term?
So, write a script to preprocess the logs, replacing the IPs with names?
There's a ridiculously low number of them. For each megastar you have a hundred thousand small artists getting ripped off.
For me, the main problem with P4s isn't that they aren't powerful enough; it's that they're extremely inefficient. My quadcore may not actually be that much more powerful, but when I'm just writing a Slashdot post, it draws much less power. For smartphones, that's even more important: shut down all except one cores when in idle, and your battery will last much longer.
Shipped and sold are very different animals. Unfortunately, since I wish Nokia would bounce back - I use and like their phones.
There's no such thing as youtube.be or Youtube Belgium, they all redirect to a single site, youtube.com.
Military R&D is not only about killing people; it brought us little things like the Internet, GPS, improved semi-conductors, etc.
So, why aren't you all individually working, instead of joining companies?
Your bullshit is so thick it's not even funny. You got a mining rig but didn't know about the transaction fees? A 10 bitcoin limit? FFS.
But here's the thing: in the Bitcoin community, those that have poor practices can actually fail!
But why would you want to do that? They don't need to be next to each other to communicate, you know...
From what I can tell, telling the truth is a defense, but the burden of proof lies on the accused. I'm not lawyer nor Swedish, though.
But not to have it not modded troll.
There are better reasons to choose an ISP than IPv6 availability. Like the fact that I often get 11mbps while paying for a 10mbps line.
Too late, the ISPs already got that covered with their insane prices per fixed IP address.
The benefit of the "cloud" is reduced costs, and certainly doesn't mean it's insecure.
Tarsnap (a backup service), for example, is very much a cloud service (runs on EC2 and stores the user data on S3), yet it encrypts each archive you upload with a random AES256 key that is then itself encrypted with an RSA key that never leaves your machine, and the whole thing has multiple levels of signatures (to prevent tampering).
It's also designed and run by the FreeBSD Security Officer, which isn't a position given exactly to anyone.
While cloud services, like everything else, follow Sturgeon's law, you shouldn't label everything as insecure or badly designed.