Most companies in the drugs market can afford to fight frivolous patents. The software market has many small players who can't afford to fight frivolous patents.
If the TSA made a terrorist decide not to attack an airplane, they wouldn't immediately stop being terrorists, they'd just attack something else. Since no one has attacked anything else, it would be fair to assume that no one's been dissuaded form attacking airplanes.
If you keep your right hand on your mouse, then typing "sd" requires less hand movement. (Especially if your left hand defaults to the WASD keys whenever you use a keyboard.)
No, because those games are made by different companies. Parker Brothers has no incentive to get people to play Settlers of Catan, as they'd then lose a customer.
Sony, on the other hand, gets a cut of every PS3 game sold, so it's in their best interest for them to transition their customers from buying one casual game per year to buying a new FPS every month.
No Certificate Authority worth anything would undermine their integrity in this fashion
Thanks to how browsers handle SSL certificates, they don't need to get the signing key from a reputable CA, they just need to get one from any CA approved by your browser.
any law that would force them to do so in certain circumstances is effectively giving the government the right to commit forgery in the name of justice
Thanks to some of the provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act, the FBI can send out a National Security Letter and force a CA to turn over their private key. It's unlikely that the CA would publicly disclose that their key had been compromised, as that would be bad for business.
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One with competitors who have access to the same cost-reducing technology.
So if I lend you money, then you use the money to buy something from me, your debt shouldn't count?
Mosanto could just bankrupt him through legal fees if they sued him.
Most companies in the drugs market can afford to fight frivolous patents. The software market has many small players who can't afford to fight frivolous patents.
As long as they kept serving ads in the UK, they could stop offering every other service without a significant drop in revenue.
How do you ensure that the stack is really being shuffled randomly, and that no one is being given any extra priority?
If the TSA made a terrorist decide not to attack an airplane, they wouldn't immediately stop being terrorists, they'd just attack something else. Since no one has attacked anything else, it would be fair to assume that no one's been dissuaded form attacking airplanes.
Did that right consent to being recognized?
If that were to happen, many universities would immediately raise tuition by $X.
It was this comic.
Not to worry, your ISP is ready to provide Online Gaming Internets for only an additional $19.99 per month!
It cost the RIAA $16 for every dollar they collected with the lawsuits.
For every person they actually take to court, they get several hundred out-of-court settlements.
1: Because humans are prone to error, and may by mistake skip an important word or phrase.
Google Translate isn't exactly flawless.
Yes, it is. There's a proof of this in the summary.
Most people don't have smartphones.
If your job can be done from your car, then it can also be done from your home.
If the patent system in the US weren't horribly broken, then he could have both.
If you keep your right hand on your mouse, then typing "sd" requires less hand movement. (Especially if your left hand defaults to the WASD keys whenever you use a keyboard.)
But what is they have cruise control enabled? Clearly we should outlaw cruise control. Think of the children!
No, because those games are made by different companies. Parker Brothers has no incentive to get people to play Settlers of Catan, as they'd then lose a customer. Sony, on the other hand, gets a cut of every PS3 game sold, so it's in their best interest for them to transition their customers from buying one casual game per year to buying a new FPS every month.
(and that's with 10-20m down being standard)
To be fair, it probably costs a lot to connect your house to their network if you live >20 metres beneath the surface of the earth.
No Certificate Authority worth anything would undermine their integrity in this fashion
Thanks to how browsers handle SSL certificates, they don't need to get the signing key from a reputable CA, they just need to get one from any CA approved by your browser.
any law that would force them to do so in certain circumstances is effectively giving the government the right to commit forgery in the name of justice
Thanks to some of the provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act, the FBI can send out a National Security Letter and force a CA to turn over their private key. It's unlikely that the CA would publicly disclose that their key had been compromised, as that would be bad for business.
It was uploaded to Reddit 12 hours ago; that's probably why it's just reaching Slashdot now.
A new update, which came out today, changed the ending. Now, after GLaDOS explodes, you get dragged away by a robot of some kind. Video.
The problem is that a spambot that can break CAPTCHAs 10% of the time is good enough, but OCR systems have to be much more accurate.