Sounds suspicious. Oh I bet it's 'perfectly safe', but you start out on math and who knows where you'll end up? Smoking crack out of rolled up nonstandard analysis theorems in a gutter in cambridge? It's a gateway drug, I tell ya.
If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
This just says that if you (attempt to) sue someone for using WebM, you don't get to use it anymore. Like the GPL for patents. Ooooh, scary.
Indeed, we're not going to be doing this anytime soon, but I don't expect never. Perhaps a few hundred years should be enough to refine our techniques to the point where we could do this without introducing any defects whatsoever. "Opens the possibility" is just the start..
I won't pretend to speak for the GP, but I feel I should point out that a loved one and a corpse are different things. If you really believe that the person you loved is gone when they die, there is no real reason to have feelings about the shell left behind.
No one claimed the cart could move in zero wind. "Faster than the wind" in this case means some multiple of the wind speed. So it just sits there in the still air, as expected.
Conservation of energy doesn't prevent this from working. After all, with a turbine powering the wheels, a cart can travel faster than windspeed into the wind anyway.
In this case, a plain sailcart (with no propellor) reduces the velocity of the mass of air that is pushing it by a bit --> reduces the wind's kinetic energy. This enables the cart to move forward (the energy is transferred to the cart) until it's almost at windspeed, where it has a negligible effect on the velocity of the wind.
If a fan is then added at windspeed, it starts to push air back, reducing the air's kinetic energy again. This energy has to go somewhere, either as heat or the kinetic energy of the cart. Since most propulsion systems are not 0% efficient, I'd bet on the cart accelerating (to a speed faster than the wind).
So you see we're not getting free energy from anywhere. Kinetic energy is proportional to the mass involved, and there's a very large supply of moving air available.
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.
They constantly complain so much of their wealth is being taken, yet they pull crap like this.
I fail to see why you're so surprised. If you're pissed off at how much you're being taxed, reducing how much tax you have to pay is kind of the obvious thing to do. *shrug*
If the point was that a pile of DVDs ought to have a lesser total sentence than robbing a store at knifepoint, then I don't see how it matters that you can break the sentence into 20 "counts". The point stands that 60 years is too much. 20 three year counts is just explaining how the situation came about.
Did you know you can download things on the internet for free? Apparently it costs music producers a trillion dollars a year in lost sales. Maybe if we got everyone to pirate every child porn video on the internet at once, we could put these people out of business!
Here we go again, implying that AIs won't work until they have feelings.
You might fairly refute the "emotionless reason" of Mr Spock, but I don't think that means you need emotions in order to think. It just means you don't have to lack emotions. There's a difference. Emotions give us (humans) goals. A machine's goals can be programmed in (by humans, who have goals). A machine doesn't have to "feel sad" for the suffering of people to take action to prevent said suffering - it just needs a goal system that says "suffering: bad". 'S why we call them machines.
What? It's just a wikipedia article. It really matters that much to you? And how does one "steal" stuff from a public web site anyway? Look, the point of wikipeda isn't to get your own awesome article published so people can see what a good writer you are (even if it is awesome). The point is to enable people to educate themselves, to disseminate knowledge. If people take what you've written and use it somewhere else then good, mission accomplished. I think that's really the most useful way to feel about this. Even if people do take what you've written, pass it off as their own, and sell it in books, that's not actually preventing our goal (people being able to read it) from being reached, so I wouldn't worry about it.
As for the issue of doofuses putting false stuff in articles.. well, that's a problem and I have no answer to that. I just want to talk about the issue of "ownership".
What the hell's wrong with displaying "https"? Anyone attentive enough to know "https" means secure/ssl is attentive enough to notice the lack of a massive flashing lock icon and then non-bright-green colored address bar.
Of course the browser doesn't know the difference between a site that uses signed certificates that is being MITM'd and one that uses a self-signed certificate. That's why neither of these should be advertised as being "secure". Because they're not. And when you go to https://my.bank/ and notice that the lock isn't there because someone's doing a MITM with a self-signed cert you should realise "whoa, hey, this isn't a secure connection" and proceed to not give your bank details to whoever is at the other end.
On the other hand, when you go to https://porn.site/ and it uses a self-signed certificate, well no, it's not secure. Maybe someone is doing a MITM attack. But at least some random person with a passive network sniffer can't see everything you're watching, and furthermore no-one even with an active MITM attack can affect your connection once it's been established.
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Sounds suspicious. Oh I bet it's 'perfectly safe', but you start out on math and who knows where you'll end up? Smoking crack out of rolled up nonstandard analysis theorems in a gutter in cambridge? It's a gateway drug, I tell ya.
If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
This just says that if you (attempt to) sue someone for using WebM, you don't get to use it anymore. Like the GPL for patents. Ooooh, scary.
http://qntm.org/pointnine
Indeed, we're not going to be doing this anytime soon, but I don't expect never. Perhaps a few hundred years should be enough to refine our techniques to the point where we could do this without introducing any defects whatsoever. "Opens the possibility" is just the start..
Our governments just love to sell off vital infrastructure, don't they?
I won't pretend to speak for the GP, but I feel I should point out that a loved one and a corpse are different things. If you really believe that the person you loved is gone when they die, there is no real reason to have feelings about the shell left behind.
No one claimed the cart could move in zero wind. "Faster than the wind" in this case means some multiple of the wind speed. So it just sits there in the still air, as expected.
Conservation of energy doesn't prevent this from working. After all, with a turbine powering the wheels, a cart can travel faster than windspeed into the wind anyway.
In this case, a plain sailcart (with no propellor) reduces the velocity of the mass of air that is pushing it by a bit --> reduces the wind's kinetic energy. This enables the cart to move forward (the energy is transferred to the cart) until it's almost at windspeed, where it has a negligible effect on the velocity of the wind.
If a fan is then added at windspeed, it starts to push air back, reducing the air's kinetic energy again. This energy has to go somewhere, either as heat or the kinetic energy of the cart. Since most propulsion systems are not 0% efficient, I'd bet on the cart accelerating (to a speed faster than the wind).
So you see we're not getting free energy from anywhere. Kinetic energy is proportional to the mass involved, and there's a very large supply of moving air available.
could care less
Couldn't care less, please, unless you mean the RIAA actually do care about getting money from her. Say what you mean, not the opposite.
you will not attain it?
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.
— Miyamoto Musashi (The Book of Five Rings)
Doesn't "going postal" usually involve guns and mass murder? Dammit google, you were meant to be subtle about doing evil things.
They constantly complain so much of their wealth is being taken, yet they pull crap like this.
I fail to see why you're so surprised. If you're pissed off at how much you're being taxed, reducing how much tax you have to pay is kind of the obvious thing to do. *shrug*
If the point was that a pile of DVDs ought to have a lesser total sentence than robbing a store at knifepoint, then I don't see how it matters that you can break the sentence into 20 "counts". The point stands that 60 years is too much. 20 three year counts is just explaining how the situation came about.
"Paying for it or trading for it"
Did you know you can download things on the internet for free? Apparently it costs music producers a trillion dollars a year in lost sales. Maybe if we got everyone to pirate every child porn video on the internet at once, we could put these people out of business!
Here we go again, implying that AIs won't work until they have feelings.
You might fairly refute the "emotionless reason" of Mr Spock, but I don't think that means you need emotions in order to think. It just means you don't have to lack emotions. There's a difference. Emotions give us (humans) goals. A machine's goals can be programmed in (by humans, who have goals). A machine doesn't have to "feel sad" for the suffering of people to take action to prevent said suffering - it just needs a goal system that says "suffering: bad". 'S why we call them machines.
allows some else to steal my stuff
What? It's just a wikipedia article. It really matters that much to you? And how does one "steal" stuff from a public web site anyway? Look, the point of wikipeda isn't to get your own awesome article published so people can see what a good writer you are (even if it is awesome). The point is to enable people to educate themselves, to disseminate knowledge. If people take what you've written and use it somewhere else then good, mission accomplished. I think that's really the most useful way to feel about this. Even if people do take what you've written, pass it off as their own, and sell it in books, that's not actually preventing our goal (people being able to read it) from being reached, so I wouldn't worry about it.
As for the issue of doofuses putting false stuff in articles.. well, that's a problem and I have no answer to that. I just want to talk about the issue of "ownership".
So you can vote below the line.
That's actually an option, you know.
Eww, that wasn't obligatory at all. In fact, never do it again.
The funny thing is that when I first read your post I thought you were talking about America.
Then again, the actual claims of the patent may be something entirely different than the summary.
It does seem almost inevitable.
Is that a challenge?
You seem to have mixed up your assignment and comparison operators (unless you intended to go on an infinite killing spree, of course).
What the hell's wrong with displaying "https"? Anyone attentive enough to know "https" means secure/ssl is attentive enough to notice the lack of a massive flashing lock icon and then non-bright-green colored address bar.
Good luck with that.
What?
Of course the browser doesn't know the difference between a site that uses signed certificates that is being MITM'd and one that uses a self-signed certificate. That's why neither of these should be advertised as being "secure". Because they're not. And when you go to https://my.bank/ and notice that the lock isn't there because someone's doing a MITM with a self-signed cert you should realise "whoa, hey, this isn't a secure connection" and proceed to not give your bank details to whoever is at the other end.
On the other hand, when you go to https://porn.site/ and it uses a self-signed certificate, well no, it's not secure. Maybe someone is doing a MITM attack. But at least some random person with a passive network sniffer can't see everything you're watching, and furthermore no-one even with an active MITM attack can affect your connection once it's been established.