Just how much money are we depriving these poor people's kids by not paying them money when we visit digg or play flash games?
On a separate note, I wonder how they are going to value this patent. I haven't really found any indications on that - am I going to have to start paying royalties on the sites that I already provide free of charge and ads?
I know there is a lot of concern in the security circles about MS' entry into A/V. First, there are some many ways to get Norton or Mcafee for free or next to it, I don't see that as a big threat. I see the much bigger threat being the potential for MS' A/V program to not be such a freaking enormous, bloated pig, like Norton and Mcafee.
I'm no advocate of the Chinese government, but the US is applying a double standard to these companies. On the one hand, the US wants Google to roll over and give them what they want to stop something the US considers "bad", namely child porn. In the same breath, they want those same companies to stand up against foreign governments who are trying to prosecute something they consider "bad".
"We want you to always do the 'right thing', unless we're the ones asking you."
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I really can't wait to invest in a company that has "increasing net losses". It's like 1999 all over again. I know they're after some capital, but profits talk right now and I really can't see this going well for them.
MS certainly isn't winning over any of the open source community with that move. It really drives the wedge deeper and give more people more reason to not use Windows.
I do have to wonder how much of this is to show a strong front to the increasingly powerful media companies and their mostly oppresive DRM schemes.
Unfortunately, as self driving cars become more and more viable, we're going to run into a liability problem. Sure, the self driving cars can probably cut crashes and resulting deaths by some huge percent, but there will still be some that happen. Then, those crashes and deaths will be the responsibility of the car manufacturer who will get sued into oblivion.
I can tell you I've been at several places and NONE of them have really concerned themselves with infringing on others' patents. The common rebuttal is that "we have patents too, and I'm sure we can find them [other company] infringing on ours somehow. Hence, we can "strike a deal" if a problem ever comes up.
It has nothing to do with the drivetrain, that's true, but it has everything to do with sapping the inertia from a moving car. I don't but for a second that it "harnesses the vehicle pressing down on the road". The plate is an elevated ramp, which my car pushes down on as it goes over. My car will take more enery to go over a road of those things than a normal, flat road.
It really is amazing that they can spend that kind of money and have nothing to show for it... All the while, they're hunting criminals trying to screw the government - sounds like they should look inside.
What exactly was involved in the QA process for the 360? Were they in a refrigerated room for the tests? Did the not actually test the power supply? Were all of the components suspended from the ceiling?
1) Bush is quickly becoming so unpopular that congress people in his own party will disagree with him just to be able to get re-elected in the coming years, so I'm not going to buy that it'll be Bush's idea if it does happen. 2) I'm guessing the states would be challenging anything like this quite hard, because as you say, that's what the national guard is for. 3) This is quite off-topic.
Having the farmers hiding their birds from the government isn't helping. They're trying to protect their property, but in the end they'll end up causing many more to die.
Also, with migratory ducks and swallows (of the laden variety), we're going to see this all over europe in the coming weeks.
How do you classify something as 10x safer than something else? Do they expect 10x less people to die, 10x less frequent explosive disasters, or are the events themselves 10x less dangerous, meaning astronauts could survive?
Look, if these crazy governments (US included) would stop butting in, the record labels that hold on to their current business models would go out of business, but some other, more creative model would come into being. Hell, one of the big record companies themselves might even be the innovator.
Yes, Russia is having to pay to get him there, but Russia is pretty much treating this multi-national scientific endeavor as a high priced hotel. Why not let Hilton or someone pop for a hotel module and start funding some of the space program, since there doesn't seem to be a shortage of millionaires wanting to go to space. Maybe then we could fix the hubble or some other meaningful science.
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Just how much money are we depriving these poor people's kids by not paying them money when we visit digg or play flash games?
On a separate note, I wonder how they are going to value this patent. I haven't really found any indications on that - am I going to have to start paying royalties on the sites that I already provide free of charge and ads?
ugh.
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
I know there is a lot of concern in the security circles about MS' entry into A/V. First, there are some many ways to get Norton or Mcafee for free or next to it, I don't see that as a big threat. I see the much bigger threat being the potential for MS' A/V program to not be such a freaking enormous, bloated pig, like Norton and Mcafee.
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
I'm no advocate of the Chinese government, but the US is applying a double standard to these companies. On the one hand, the US wants Google to roll over and give them what they want to stop something the US considers "bad", namely child porn. In the same breath, they want those same companies to stand up against foreign governments who are trying to prosecute something they consider "bad".
"We want you to always do the 'right thing', unless we're the ones asking you."
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
I really can't wait to invest in a company that has "increasing net losses". It's like 1999 all over again. I know they're after some capital, but profits talk right now and I really can't see this going well for them.
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
MS certainly isn't winning over any of the open source community with that move. It really drives the wedge deeper and give more people more reason to not use Windows.
I do have to wonder how much of this is to show a strong front to the increasingly powerful media companies and their mostly oppresive DRM schemes.
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
Unfortunately, as self driving cars become more and more viable, we're going to run into a liability problem. Sure, the self driving cars can probably cut crashes and resulting deaths by some huge percent, but there will still be some that happen. Then, those crashes and deaths will be the responsibility of the car manufacturer who will get sued into oblivion.
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
I thought Linux wasn't going to go for GPL3, so how exactly would that sharing work?
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
I can tell you I've been at several places and NONE of them have really concerned themselves with infringing on others' patents. The common rebuttal is that "we have patents too, and I'm sure we can find them [other company] infringing on ours somehow. Hence, we can "strike a deal" if a problem ever comes up.
Jerry
http://www.networkstrike.com/
The answer is that they're not doing well financially at all. They continue to get infusions of cash from private investors to cover ongoing legal costs: http://www.forbes.com/2005/12/22/jetblue-applied-s ignal-cx_dn_1222eyeonstocks.html
I suspect they can keep it up for another year or so before they start running out of investors to screw.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
It has nothing to do with the drivetrain, that's true, but it has everything to do with sapping the inertia from a moving car. I don't but for a second that it "harnesses the vehicle pressing down on the road". The plate is an elevated ramp, which my car pushes down on as it goes over. My car will take more enery to go over a road of those things than a normal, flat road.
And yes, I did RTFA
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Takes generating electricity to a new level of inefficiency...
I suppose it might work on a ramp going down, but level or up, and the "free" energy is coming from the gas tanks of the drivers.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
It really is amazing that they can spend that kind of money and have nothing to show for it... All the while, they're hunting criminals trying to screw the government - sounds like they should look inside.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
What exactly was involved in the QA process for the 360? Were they in a refrigerated room for the tests? Did the not actually test the power supply? Were all of the components suspended from the ceiling?
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I guess we've found a purpose for those 8 core CPU's we've been hearing about...
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
are some volume buttons and a treo style keyboard on the top of the mouse, and we can ditch the traditional keyboard altogether.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Not that it lessens their tresspass, but Sony is apparently pulling the "infected" CDs:y /2005-11-14-sony-cds_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurit
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
...should those using VOIP be exempt from the abuses of governmental powers that the rest of us must endure?
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Wasn't there recently a /. article about a court case that ruled that ISP's can't block access to certain sites because they 'compete' with said ISP?
Besides, if you like foxnews, comcast is the most people get is already, albeit over cable tv, not internet.
I really hope we don't see this deterioration of the internet, though.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
1) Bush is quickly becoming so unpopular that congress people in his own party will disagree with him just to be able to get re-elected in the coming years, so I'm not going to buy that it'll be Bush's idea if it does happen.
2) I'm guessing the states would be challenging anything like this quite hard, because as you say, that's what the national guard is for.
3) This is quite off-topic.
Having the farmers hiding their birds from the government isn't helping. They're trying to protect their property, but in the end they'll end up causing many more to die.
Also, with migratory ducks and swallows (of the laden variety), we're going to see this all over europe in the coming weeks.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
It's got to be more cost effective than placing all of the speed sensors like they've done in Georgia ( available on www.georgia-navigator.com)
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
How do you classify something as 10x safer than something else? Do they expect 10x less people to die, 10x less frequent explosive disasters, or are the events themselves 10x less dangerous, meaning astronauts could survive?
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
Look, if these crazy governments (US included) would stop butting in, the record labels that hold on to their current business models would go out of business, but some other, more creative model would come into being. Hell, one of the big record companies themselves might even be the innovator.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Yes, Russia is having to pay to get him there, but Russia is pretty much treating this multi-national scientific endeavor as a high priced hotel. Why not let Hilton or someone pop for a hotel module and start funding some of the space program, since there doesn't seem to be a shortage of millionaires wanting to go to space. Maybe then we could fix the hubble or some other meaningful science.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I thought MS had a patent on unpatched browser flaws?!?!?
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/