Large companies can afford to employ people who's sole purpose is to spam out patents. Small companies can't do that.
When you step on another large company's patent, big deal, you have your own patents so you threaten with MAD. If its a small company, drive them to the ground, or extort money, whatever works for you. Patents are kinda like nuclear weapons, you keep them there to bully smaller countries and to make sure that larger countries don't use theirs on you.
I was always under the impression that planes are checked for bombs simply because the plane itself is worth a lot of money.
You don't have scanners in bus stops, public locations and train stations. And I'm sure you can sneak in more explosives around the airport to kill more people than just the equivalent of people who are on the plane, with less trouble. Seriously you could just pack a bunch of suitcases of the stuff and put it all over the place. If you're fast enough (and/or use copous amounts of sensors) you won't even need to kill yourself doing it.
Yes a terrorist can hide a bomb in a baby. A terrorist can also surgically insert a bomb into a baby if they wanted to.
They could also just detonate the bomb at the airport itself (remember russia?) and skip all of this.
All this stupid theatre does absolutely nothing, except give the 'terrorists' (and the general population) a little grope before they get blown up. Wouldn't want them to die unhappy would we?
Yeah, we have two factor authentication. Don't worry, your account is safe. Nobody can access it except you, and us, and some of it from out advertisers, but nothing to worry about. Now give us more information we can sell.
Given that WL 'clean up' the documents before they leak them to the media, don't you think someone who'd leak the top secret information to the media, or the entire batch of uncleaned files... would be both dangerous and would ruin WL's credibility?
"Hey look ! Cheap labour! Lets open a ton of factories there and employ a ton of people to do industrial jobs"
They basically pushed a ton of money into the chinese economy in this manner. Think of all the 'made in china' stuff you find. Meanwhile the money which was going to American industry workers is going to China. So American companies ruin the home economy but get cheaper products.
And now China are going to have stealth and high-altitude bombers. Good going.
The US already made china the next superpower. It doesn't need to steal US research, it can do everything on its own in probably a more efficient manner.
This way the US cripples its research, and we'll cut off another reason for the US to exist for this economy.
On one hand, I can understand the creative process that goes into coding and the 'fun' you have in making it your thing.
However if you're likely to have millions of people depending on your code, which will alwso be modified by other people, then you had better have a good process as well.
I used to work at a company which required that pretty much all the important pieces of code have JUnit tests for them. Whenever someone else touches your code - which is bound to happen (I was modifying code which was written years ago - and the author wasn't employed anymore), it'll be a good thing if you know you haven't smashed anything.
So there's a time and a place for everything. If its very important code, yes please, strictness. If its something small and silly, then go creative on it.
Given how limited the phone choice is, and how 'special' iPhone users are, and the premium they pay, and the fact that this 'bug' got (or will get) apple into trouble...
Over where I come from we have 3 main Tv channels. One is run by an independant group, and two others are run by different political parties.
If you watch the three news programs in series, you'll go from a country which is collapsing due to corruption and bad stuff the PM is doing, a country which is perfect because of what the PM is doing, to something in the middle.
So yeah, this is pretty much the case everything has been in for years.
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Yeah but this is a patent war.
Large companies can afford to employ people who's sole purpose is to spam out patents. Small companies can't do that.
When you step on another large company's patent, big deal, you have your own patents so you threaten with MAD. If its a small company, drive them to the ground, or extort money, whatever works for you. Patents are kinda like nuclear weapons, you keep them there to bully smaller countries and to make sure that larger countries don't use theirs on you.
And do you think the large companies want that? They can use it to crush the little guy. Won't ever happen.
You're a small company, they're a large company. They have powerful lawyers, you don't.
They can pretty much sue you for anything, no matter how stupid and baseless it is.
Sorry, this is the stupid way software patents are.
I was always under the impression that planes are checked for bombs simply because the plane itself is worth a lot of money.
You don't have scanners in bus stops, public locations and train stations. And I'm sure you can sneak in more explosives around the airport to kill more people than just the equivalent of people who are on the plane, with less trouble. Seriously you could just pack a bunch of suitcases of the stuff and put it all over the place. If you're fast enough (and/or use copous amounts of sensors) you won't even need to kill yourself doing it.
Well they didn't call me in the morning.
Not to mention if you do it near the naked-body-scanners you'll damage something worth a few million dollars.
Yes a terrorist can hide a bomb in a baby. A terrorist can also surgically insert a bomb into a baby if they wanted to.
They could also just detonate the bomb at the airport itself (remember russia?) and skip all of this.
All this stupid theatre does absolutely nothing, except give the 'terrorists' (and the general population) a little grope before they get blown up. Wouldn't want them to die unhappy would we?
Yeah, we have two factor authentication. Don't worry, your account is safe. Nobody can access it except you, and us, and some of it from out advertisers, but nothing to worry about. Now give us more information we can sell.
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Facebook.
"pledged to be the most transparent government in US history"
Failing this is just like losing a game on the tutorial level
Given that WL 'clean up' the documents before they leak them to the media, don't you think someone who'd leak the top secret information to the media, or the entire batch of uncleaned files... would be both dangerous and would ruin WL's credibility?
"Hey look ! Cheap labour! Lets open a ton of factories there and employ a ton of people to do industrial jobs"
They basically pushed a ton of money into the chinese economy in this manner. Think of all the 'made in china' stuff you find. Meanwhile the money which was going to American industry workers is going to China. So American companies ruin the home economy but get cheaper products.
And now China are going to have stealth and high-altitude bombers. Good going.
The US already made china the next superpower. It doesn't need to steal US research, it can do everything on its own in probably a more efficient manner.
This way the US cripples its research, and we'll cut off another reason for the US to exist for this economy.
On one hand, I can understand the creative process that goes into coding and the 'fun' you have in making it your thing.
However if you're likely to have millions of people depending on your code, which will alwso be modified by other people, then you had better have a good process as well.
I used to work at a company which required that pretty much all the important pieces of code have JUnit tests for them. Whenever someone else touches your code - which is bound to happen (I was modifying code which was written years ago - and the author wasn't employed anymore), it'll be a good thing if you know you haven't smashed anything.
So there's a time and a place for everything. If its very important code, yes please, strictness. If its something small and silly, then go creative on it.
Media/Software piracy hands out media for free.
This is clearly a commie plot to destroy American values.
Red Hat totally stole my patent on uh paying off patent trolls.
I'll be taking my check now please.
Given how limited the phone choice is, and how 'special' iPhone users are, and the premium they pay, and the fact that this 'bug' got (or will get) apple into trouble...
You can hardly compare can you?
I don't think intel are going to produce any rectangular-with-rounded-edges shaped tablets any time soon.
but it certainly doesn't look like any other PDF I've seen.
Its the pixels and you having seen quite a few PDFs in your time.
When that was written , America had just come out of an independance war and didn't want to have foreign interference any more.
Kinda like the right to bear arms. Both made sense in that time, but they don't make as much sense nowadays.
Over where I come from we have 3 main Tv channels. One is run by an independant group, and two others are run by different political parties.
If you watch the three news programs in series, you'll go from a country which is collapsing due to corruption and bad stuff the PM is doing, a country which is perfect because of what the PM is doing, to something in the middle.
So yeah, this is pretty much the case everything has been in for years.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fallacy_of_division
Thanks for playing.
Nobody with a brain has ever claimed that OSX is impervious
There you go. There's your problem right there.
Well you're the one who chose to read that.
Ah, but we all know macs don't get viruses. So what's the problem with letting this totally legit-looking program install?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Z386vXrt4 See? Macs don't get viruses. Only silly PCs do.
Luxury Yachts won't pay themselves.