No, both sides have been enormous cunts for the entire trial, and she's pissed at both of them for that reason. It got bad enough that if Samsung loses, they're basically guaranteed a full appeal at this point. Probably the same with Apple. So we're almost certainly going to get to relive all this AGAIN! WEEE!
This. Since almost the beginning, when Samsung's lawyers started lining up evidence for the judge to strike down, this trial was merely a pre-game for the appeal. In big trials like this, appeals are inevitable (unless the process is exhausting enough to make a settlement more appealing), so this move suggests Apple's lawyers are now finishing off with enough material to make the appeal trial that much more interesting.
If you can build something on the scale of effectively harvesting a solar flair for energy, there are any number of easier, most consistent, more powerful (over the long run) sources that you could harvest instead. Your suggestion would be kind of like trying to power a military radio by absorbing the kinetic energy of bullets being fired at the soldier carrying it. Physically possible? Yeah, probably. But there are easier ways to solve the problem.
Ok, out with it then, what's the electrical potential of bullets at high velocity?
Sure, we just need a solar windmill about 10,000 miles in diameter, and a base to rest it on that doesnt cause enough gravity for it to collapse (so the moon is out)
However, on a moon base, if you had spare manufacturing capacity and absolutely nothing better to do with your resources and time, an emergency lighting solution that will last 6 billion years, plus or minus meteor erosion, is kind of cool. Even if its only one wimpy dim LED.
I have not run the math but I think you're better off collecting microwave background radiation from deep space using the same length of wire. Essentially a real low powered "rectenna" from the microwave power satellite people except using cosmic background radiation. Also it would last longer than the life of the sun. On the other hand after the sun goes nova the moon base is probably screwed anyway. Probably.
How do we get supplies there? Dunno. How do we build shelters there? Dunno. How do we grow food and harness oxygen there? Dunno. But hey, emergency lighting is a slam dunk!
*I know we are "most of the way there" on all of these technologies, it's just funny how we get ahead of ourselves sometimes...
Is there any way we could harness the power of solar flares to provide energy (either for space-based installations or to beam back to Earth)? Now if we know when they're coming farther in advance, it seems we could better take advantage of them. Not a continuous stream of energy, to be sure, but it a boost every now and then could help take the load off other sources of energy.
Sure, we just need a solar windmill about 10,000 miles in diameter, and a base to rest it on that doesnt cause enough gravity for it to collapse (so the moon is out). Crack that and yes the solar wind would be a pretty reliable source of energy.
Of course, that's a crime in most jurisdictions, so any startup would get their website shutdown and their asses in court.
lolwat. Not familiar with Mint.com, are you? Just build the appropriate text into the EULA and the "Accept" checkbox before you do it and you are golden. You are doing it with the user's explicit permission.
Always thought it was a bad idea. I was helping a buddy of mine get some online game going, and the place (EA Games) wants your email address as your log in ID. But my buddy, is like, "why do they want my email's password?" I try to explain, "They don't. They want you to use your email as your log in info, but make a new password." I'm pretty sure he used the same password as his email password. And honestly, that is way too easy to do like that.
What is needed is a check process during setup of the new account, wherein the server will attempt to log into the appropriate site (Yahoo, Gmail, or whatever) with the same password. If it succeeds, a message appears chiding the user for being such a dolt. It would take some work to have a flexible and comprehensive list of such check procedures for different email services (a list of valid pop3 servers, web site login pages, etc) but it would be worth it in the long run so that sites could advertise (and deliver) above-average account security. I smell a start-up.
in the email just put "you're already registered, your work here is done. That or, someone is trying to hack you, please ratchet paranoia accordingly"
And if you're trying to attack an enemy on that site, its something of a three sided coin flip if you're better off freaking them out by re-registering them exactly once, or once per day psuedo-stalking, or a thousand times per hour mailbomb.
You could cap it at one message per day, week, etc. The message doesn't really have to be sent ever since it's for a registration that will not take place, except for the case where the user forgot they had an account altogether and are trying to create a new one, so you want some kind of personalized notification of such an incident. Once a week is probably enough to avoid having someone forget about it before they do it again. Also, you could give the option to turn the notification off entirely if you are indeed being "e-Stalked" by some masked marauder.
Is there any alternative to throwing out a "this email address is already in use" error if a user attempts to register with someone else's email?
Sure, flag the account for extra auditing in the following x number of hours. Or, start any registration with an email call-back and let anyone "start" the registration even if it exists, and in the email just put "you're already registered, your work here is done. That or, someone is trying to hack you, please ratchet paranoia accordingly". Since you shouldn't be registering with an email that isn't yours and the web page will just be a "please check your email for registration info" this will not tell the illegitimate user anything useful.
Do you like to have to bribe your way around the local bureaucracy? Do you like to live within a mile of crushing poverty? Do you like to endure social, natural, and economic crises?
If you answered yes to all of these, then yes an emerging market is for you (i.e. Brazil, China, India, etc). If you answered no to any of them, stay in a Western country.
A nice, cozy, Western country like the United States?
If you want to avoid all these, you pretty much don't have other choice than one of those OMIGOD SOCIALIST! wellfare states, and even then these are not guaranteed. Nitpicking aside, all these three problems seem to be a part of everyday life in the US, just in a (slightly) different scale.
Holy moly, if you think the "Scale" of these issues (especially poverty) is even recognizably similar to the US, you must have the world's best pair of fisheye glasses. What happens when several MILLION people live on only 1-2 dollars a day, right next to a metropolis of several million with a western style of life of 100 to 200 dollars a day, or more? Hint, the answer has to do with private helicopters. And if you can't afford one... well...
There are also tiny towns all over the world with long histories of very stable economies and politics. Those are obviously harder to find, but they exist. Not every city in emerging or undeveloped countries is teeming with knife wielding, unemployed, illiterate natives.
The problem is that the submitters big plan is to have a career in technology. Try moving to some backwater town where you a) dont look like anyone there, b) don't talk like anyone there, and c) don't know anyone there... And then try competing for, if you're lucky, the ONE job around in technology. If you aren't lucky, you will not find out that there are no technology careers for 100 miles, only after you put a down payment on a bribe to a land owner so you can get a place to live.
Sounds like you are basing your decisions on a glance at the financial section of a magazine rack...
"Trouble in Europe"? Oh no! Better get out of here! "Trouble in The US"! Oh no! Better not move there! "Indonesia at a crossroads" Hmm, sounds promising!
Try opening the thing up next time and actually read what's going on. Then take the "am I ready to live in am emerging market?" quiz:
Do you like to have to bribe your way around the local bureaucracy? Do you like to live within a mile of crushing poverty? Do you like to endure social, natural, and economic crises?
If you answered yes to all of these, then yes an emerging market is for you (i.e. Brazil, China, India, etc). If you answered no to any of them, stay in a Western country. Keep your skills current and if the place goes downhill, just relocate again. Hell, you did it once, right?
Your summary of " $388 million in IP losses for American companies" was actually $388 Billion, and it was in total cybercrime losses in the USA (including time lost due to outages/delays)
"Symantec [placed] cybercrime’s [US] total cost, factoring in time lost, at $388 billion".
You keep making errors like that and ProPublica is going to come after YOU next.
It's an enterprise app like Google Apps is enterprise-ready... You can use it for "Enterprise-like" features but do Enterprises truly use it exclusively? Hell no.
All RIM would have needed to do was make a suite of apps that look like the old apps they had before (not hard since Android apps don't have hard and fast style rules) and then build a management backend that looked like what they had before, so that admins wouldn't have a huge learning curve when going to a BB/Android hybrid.
Fear of change is what RIM was banking on, by deciding to do things the way they always had and shunning any alternative. For decision makers that fear is quickly going extinct; today if you don't embrace change then you (like RIM) go extinct instead. That was their downfall, they put all their chips in the "lets just not change" category and didn't realize that change is absolutely inevitable. If they had walked the line, catered to those who still had a preference for the old BB style while allowing change to happen organically, they would have had a niche. As of now, their niche is solely organizations who haven't woken up to change (and those companies are either going to wake up or go out of business. Not a good spot to find yourself.
There is a difference in saying "you can't have your wifi hotspot on because you are breaking xyz law" and saying "you can't have your wifi hotspot on without being escorted off premises without the ability to re-enter." Just like it's not illegal to possess and use a recording device in plain sight when capturing images that are also in plain sight, but if you do it at certain venues where they ask you not to, and you don't have a press pass, you will be tossed out. House rules trump the law.
No seriously, this reads like a random rant than an actual article. What are we here to discuss again?
What he didn't get to say was that the REAL bitch of his job is when he has to troubleshoot someones failed internet connection, and the only medium with which to contact him is an internet-based live chat...
"ok, so go back to your house and check on your 'internet box' to see if the little light marked 'DSL' is green or amber... yes I will wait..."
So Samsung is playing the long game. They've given up on this battle, and are already preparing for the next one.
In fact, if they can show that this judge ruled more harshly in retaliation for doing something that is completely legal, they improve their odds of getting it overturned on appeal. So they should actually be trying to anger this judge (through entirely legal means, of course).
They overlooked one thing, the IOC is going to get them thrown out for not "playing to the best of their ability" since they are not fighting in this case like it's life and death.
Except for the fact that Heinz makes the best ketchup out there, I agree.
That's the thing; anyone who says "well this marketing campaign is terrible" without numbers behind it (since numbers are easy to come by when it comes to how much of a thing got sold, and when) is basically just sharing their opinion. And who the f cares about what some guy who likes to complain about ads thinks? That would be like me expecting national press for protesting this shit. I know no one else cares about it, that's what slashdot is for.
Isn't an ad campaign basically a self-measuring practice? Either their sales will go up, or they wont. Why do we need pundits to weigh in on *everything* in the universe? Advertising these days is everywhere and constant, this is like someone criticizing Heinz for making lousy ketchup. Are people buying it? Yes? Then shut the f up and go find something worthwhile to debate.
I've meet Clive a few times. He is made out to be a crazy coot but the man is actually quite intelligent. He loves science. He has a *lot* of money and will be making a *lot* more in the near to medium future. He's happy to donate just for the possibility. He loves thinking big.
So what's next for him? A giant hydrogen-powered dirigible to cruise the continent for chicks?
Samsung might have copied, Apple might have copied, but doesn't "innocent until proven guilty" still apply? If Apple believes that its designs were leaked and copied (which it is not arguing, and there is no reason to suspect that, in 2005, Asian manufacturers would have access to Apple internal design documents) then it has to show this.
Actually, no. This is a civil case not a criminal one. Most of the things you infer from criminal cases (like presumption of innocence, reasonable doubt, burden of proof, etc) do not apply here.
That being said, this is still pretty dumb. I think they need to get the patent clerk on the stand and ask them what is so novel about a black box with a screen on one side and rounded corners. Then, ask them if you can patent a device with a rubber "approved" stamp welded to a spring loaded armature. When they say yes, thank them for their service and tell them to clean out their desk.
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Maybe after they transplant the brain in a brainless body, we'll find out why he was hanged in his time.
Convicted of a crime he didn't commit, of course...
No, both sides have been enormous cunts for the entire trial, and she's pissed at both of them for that reason. It got bad enough that if Samsung loses, they're basically guaranteed a full appeal at this point. Probably the same with Apple. So we're almost certainly going to get to relive all this AGAIN! WEEE!
This. Since almost the beginning, when Samsung's lawyers started lining up evidence for the judge to strike down, this trial was merely a pre-game for the appeal. In big trials like this, appeals are inevitable (unless the process is exhausting enough to make a settlement more appealing), so this move suggests Apple's lawyers are now finishing off with enough material to make the appeal trial that much more interesting.
If you can build something on the scale of effectively harvesting a solar flair for energy, there are any number of easier, most consistent, more powerful (over the long run) sources that you could harvest instead. Your suggestion would be kind of like trying to power a military radio by absorbing the kinetic energy of bullets being fired at the soldier carrying it. Physically possible? Yeah, probably. But there are easier ways to solve the problem.
Ok, out with it then, what's the electrical potential of bullets at high velocity?
Sure, we just need a solar windmill about 10,000 miles in diameter, and a base to rest it on that doesnt cause enough gravity for it to collapse (so the moon is out)
However, on a moon base, if you had spare manufacturing capacity and absolutely nothing better to do with your resources and time, an emergency lighting solution that will last 6 billion years, plus or minus meteor erosion, is kind of cool. Even if its only one wimpy dim LED.
I have not run the math but I think you're better off collecting microwave background radiation from deep space using the same length of wire. Essentially a real low powered "rectenna" from the microwave power satellite people except using cosmic background radiation. Also it would last longer than the life of the sun. On the other hand after the sun goes nova the moon base is probably screwed anyway. Probably.
How do we get supplies there? Dunno. How do we build shelters there? Dunno. How do we grow food and harness oxygen there? Dunno. But hey, emergency lighting is a slam dunk!
*I know we are "most of the way there" on all of these technologies, it's just funny how we get ahead of ourselves sometimes...
Nothing can effect the rate of decay of radioactive materials; it is, has been, and always will be constant. Just like the carbon 12/14 balance.
Half right half wrong.
Now that you've observed it, certainly you know if his post is dead or alive...
Is there any way we could harness the power of solar flares to provide energy (either for space-based installations or to beam back to Earth)? Now if we know when they're coming farther in advance, it seems we could better take advantage of them. Not a continuous stream of energy, to be sure, but it a boost every now and then could help take the load off other sources of energy.
Sure, we just need a solar windmill about 10,000 miles in diameter, and a base to rest it on that doesnt cause enough gravity for it to collapse (so the moon is out). Crack that and yes the solar wind would be a pretty reliable source of energy.
Of course, that's a crime in most jurisdictions, so any startup would get their website shutdown and their asses in court.
lolwat. Not familiar with Mint.com, are you? Just build the appropriate text into the EULA and the "Accept" checkbox before you do it and you are golden. You are doing it with the user's explicit permission.
Always thought it was a bad idea. I was helping a buddy of mine get some online game going, and the place (EA Games) wants your email address as your log in ID. But my buddy, is like, "why do they want my email's password?" I try to explain, "They don't. They want you to use your email as your log in info, but make a new password." I'm pretty sure he used the same password as his email password. And honestly, that is way too easy to do like that.
What is needed is a check process during setup of the new account, wherein the server will attempt to log into the appropriate site (Yahoo, Gmail, or whatever) with the same password. If it succeeds, a message appears chiding the user for being such a dolt. It would take some work to have a flexible and comprehensive list of such check procedures for different email services (a list of valid pop3 servers, web site login pages, etc) but it would be worth it in the long run so that sites could advertise (and deliver) above-average account security. I smell a start-up.
in the email just put "you're already registered, your work here is done. That or, someone is trying to hack you, please ratchet paranoia accordingly"
And if you're trying to attack an enemy on that site, its something of a three sided coin flip if you're better off freaking them out by re-registering them exactly once, or once per day psuedo-stalking, or a thousand times per hour mailbomb.
You could cap it at one message per day, week, etc. The message doesn't really have to be sent ever since it's for a registration that will not take place, except for the case where the user forgot they had an account altogether and are trying to create a new one, so you want some kind of personalized notification of such an incident. Once a week is probably enough to avoid having someone forget about it before they do it again. Also, you could give the option to turn the notification off entirely if you are indeed being "e-Stalked" by some masked marauder.
Is there any alternative to throwing out a "this email address is already in use" error if a user attempts to register with someone else's email?
Sure, flag the account for extra auditing in the following x number of hours. Or, start any registration with an email call-back and let anyone "start" the registration even if it exists, and in the email just put "you're already registered, your work here is done. That or, someone is trying to hack you, please ratchet paranoia accordingly". Since you shouldn't be registering with an email that isn't yours and the web page will just be a "please check your email for registration info" this will not tell the illegitimate user anything useful.
Do you like to have to bribe your way around the local bureaucracy?
Do you like to live within a mile of crushing poverty?
Do you like to endure social, natural, and economic crises?
If you answered yes to all of these, then yes an emerging market is for you (i.e. Brazil, China, India, etc). If you answered no to any of them, stay in a Western country.
A nice, cozy, Western country like the United States?
If you want to avoid all these, you pretty much don't have other choice than one of those OMIGOD SOCIALIST! wellfare states, and even then these are not guaranteed. Nitpicking aside, all these three problems seem to be a part of everyday life in the US, just in a (slightly) different scale.
Holy moly, if you think the "Scale" of these issues (especially poverty) is even recognizably similar to the US, you must have the world's best pair of fisheye glasses. What happens when several MILLION people live on only 1-2 dollars a day, right next to a metropolis of several million with a western style of life of 100 to 200 dollars a day, or more? Hint, the answer has to do with private helicopters. And if you can't afford one... well...
There are also tiny towns all over the world with long histories of very stable economies and politics. Those are obviously harder to find, but they exist. Not every city in emerging or undeveloped countries is teeming with knife wielding, unemployed, illiterate natives.
The problem is that the submitters big plan is to have a career in technology. Try moving to some backwater town where you a) dont look like anyone there, b) don't talk like anyone there, and c) don't know anyone there... And then try competing for, if you're lucky, the ONE job around in technology. If you aren't lucky, you will not find out that there are no technology careers for 100 miles, only after you put a down payment on a bribe to a land owner so you can get a place to live.
Sounds like you are basing your decisions on a glance at the financial section of a magazine rack...
"Trouble in Europe"? Oh no! Better get out of here!
"Trouble in The US"! Oh no! Better not move there!
"Indonesia at a crossroads" Hmm, sounds promising!
Try opening the thing up next time and actually read what's going on. Then take the "am I ready to live in am emerging market?" quiz:
Do you like to have to bribe your way around the local bureaucracy?
Do you like to live within a mile of crushing poverty?
Do you like to endure social, natural, and economic crises?
If you answered yes to all of these, then yes an emerging market is for you (i.e. Brazil, China, India, etc). If you answered no to any of them, stay in a Western country. Keep your skills current and if the place goes downhill, just relocate again. Hell, you did it once, right?
Your summary of " $388 million in IP losses for American companies" was actually $388 Billion, and it was in total cybercrime losses in the USA (including time lost due to outages/delays)
"Symantec [placed] cybercrime’s [US] total cost, factoring in time lost, at $388 billion".
You keep making errors like that and ProPublica is going to come after YOU next.
Not to mention the spellcheck feature on his BlackBerry is seriously lacking... THAT'S going to be better in BB10 too!
It's an enterprise app like Google Apps is enterprise-ready... You can use it for "Enterprise-like" features but do Enterprises truly use it exclusively? Hell no.
All RIM would have needed to do was make a suite of apps that look like the old apps they had before (not hard since Android apps don't have hard and fast style rules) and then build a management backend that looked like what they had before, so that admins wouldn't have a huge learning curve when going to a BB/Android hybrid.
Fear of change is what RIM was banking on, by deciding to do things the way they always had and shunning any alternative. For decision makers that fear is quickly going extinct; today if you don't embrace change then you (like RIM) go extinct instead. That was their downfall, they put all their chips in the "lets just not change" category and didn't realize that change is absolutely inevitable. If they had walked the line, catered to those who still had a preference for the old BB style while allowing change to happen organically, they would have had a niche. As of now, their niche is solely organizations who haven't woken up to change (and those companies are either going to wake up or go out of business. Not a good spot to find yourself.
There is a difference in saying "you can't have your wifi hotspot on because you are breaking xyz law" and saying "you can't have your wifi hotspot on without being escorted off premises without the ability to re-enter." Just like it's not illegal to possess and use a recording device in plain sight when capturing images that are also in plain sight, but if you do it at certain venues where they ask you not to, and you don't have a press pass, you will be tossed out. House rules trump the law.
No seriously, this reads like a random rant than an actual article. What are we here to discuss again?
What he didn't get to say was that the REAL bitch of his job is when he has to troubleshoot someones failed internet connection, and the only medium with which to contact him is an internet-based live chat...
"ok, so go back to your house and check on your 'internet box' to see if the little light marked 'DSL' is green or amber... yes I will wait..."
So Samsung is playing the long game. They've given up on this battle, and are already preparing for the next one.
In fact, if they can show that this judge ruled more harshly in retaliation for doing something that is completely legal, they improve their odds of getting it overturned on appeal. So they should actually be trying to anger this judge (through entirely legal means, of course).
They overlooked one thing, the IOC is going to get them thrown out for not "playing to the best of their ability" since they are not fighting in this case like it's life and death.
You big-ketchup shill. Everyone knows Rold Gold is the finest in tomato based confectionery condiments. NO BLOOD FOR KETCHUP!
You put ketchup on your confections? lol gross. I do NOT want to know what you do with mayonnaise.
Except for the fact that Heinz makes the best ketchup out there, I agree.
That's the thing; anyone who says "well this marketing campaign is terrible" without numbers behind it (since numbers are easy to come by when it comes to how much of a thing got sold, and when) is basically just sharing their opinion. And who the f cares about what some guy who likes to complain about ads thinks? That would be like me expecting national press for protesting this shit. I know no one else cares about it, that's what slashdot is for.
If he had common sense do you really think he would be asking a bunch of nerds for fashion advice?
You are assuming it's a He. You fail common sense (see submitter's name for reasonable doubt).
Isn't an ad campaign basically a self-measuring practice? Either their sales will go up, or they wont. Why do we need pundits to weigh in on *everything* in the universe? Advertising these days is everywhere and constant, this is like someone criticizing Heinz for making lousy ketchup. Are people buying it? Yes? Then shut the f up and go find something worthwhile to debate.
I've meet Clive a few times. He is made out to be a crazy coot but the man is actually quite intelligent. He loves science. He has a *lot* of money and will be making a *lot* more in the near to medium future. He's happy to donate just for the possibility. He loves thinking big.
So what's next for him? A giant hydrogen-powered dirigible to cruise the continent for chicks?
Samsung might have copied, Apple might have copied, but doesn't "innocent until proven guilty" still apply? If Apple believes that its designs were leaked and copied (which it is not arguing, and there is no reason to suspect that, in 2005, Asian manufacturers would have access to Apple internal design documents) then it has to show this.
Actually, no. This is a civil case not a criminal one. Most of the things you infer from criminal cases (like presumption of innocence, reasonable doubt, burden of proof, etc) do not apply here.
That being said, this is still pretty dumb. I think they need to get the patent clerk on the stand and ask them what is so novel about a black box with a screen on one side and rounded corners. Then, ask them if you can patent a device with a rubber "approved" stamp welded to a spring loaded armature. When they say yes, thank them for their service and tell them to clean out their desk.