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  1. Re:When will US companies steal Tech from China? on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    EU would not cooperate they are happy to work with China against the USA's interests.

  2. Re:It only takes one generation for freedom to die on Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    NK is China. But for Mao's invasion of NK at the end of the Korean War there would be no such thing as NK.

    NK is their baby -- all of the harm and evil that has flowed from there is China's responsibility.

  3. Re:Corporations: Always Defenders of Freedumbs! on Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on now. Those Big IT corps that support and enable the Iranian internet black-out are probably all big supporters of net neutrality.

    They would never help a dictatorship limit access to the internet? It would go against their sacred principles of open and unfettered access to the Internet.

    Oh, Nevermind. It is just all about the money for those guys too.

  4. Koreans, etc. just come to America on tourist visas. Work a few months under the table and then go home. In the Bellevue, WA bust that these emails are related to, all of the sex-worker so-called victims left town immediately after it was announced to go work somewhere else.

    If cops and local do-gooders were interested in helping victims they would go after American street prostitutes and backpagers. Not the review board sex-work industry. Review boards have real communities that make the business safer for workers and clients alike. Taking out review board communities, harms the economy, harms the local "normie" community, wastes local police resources, and so on.

    It is fascinating and a little horrifying to watch hardcore feminists and hardcore conservatives join together to relentlessly fight against stuff that men like. Next, up banning sex-robots. Because if men like it - it must be Evil.

  5. Re:WTF kind of defense argument is this? on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think that is his only argument?

    If you had any familiarity with law practice in the US you might not be so WTF.

    In the US generally you include everything that you can think of in your early filings. The defense attorney probably has 20 other "boring" arguments why his client should not be convicted. If you don't get all your arguments (defenses in this case) in your initial filings it is unlikely you can bring them up later.

    Here, this argument is raised because the lawyer might want to mention it to a judge or jury. It is part of the classic "he didn't know it was so evil" or "it can't possibly be as evil or pervasive as the government contends, since Amazon never gave a class about it, look they give classes about other things that are Evil, but not this, so this might not be so Evil after all, amiright?" defense that is common to include in criminal cases.

    I am not kidding.

  6. Calling them "trafficked" gets local LE access to sweet Federal grant money.

    This whole case was a scam,

    Shutting down a sex-worker review/reference site increases the risk for non-trafficked sex workers. The so-called victims in the TRB bolted so they could get back to work somewhere else. They sex-trafficked themselves right out of town.

  7. Our year-old Roku works fine with Youtube. No glitches no crashes, even when it is left on all night long.

  8. Reissue serial numbers: USRE43500; USRE43528; and USRE43529. Searchable on google.

  9. SecureAplus has white-listing as well as anti-virus.

    My wife's computer and my daughter's computer were always becoming malware infested. Since using SecureAPlus with the whitelist restriction turned on we haven't had any problems. Now whenever a non-whitelisted program tries to run, they full-stop until I check it out. Plus the AV allegedly runs using multiple AV engines in The Cloud.

  10. Re:Why is this news? Obama has the power now... on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    Sheesh. Talk about #fakenews

    Obama ran unopposed for State Senator campaign in 1996 because the machine disqualified his primary opponents. The Chicago Board of Elections (e.g., the machine) ruled that 62% of the signatures that his opponents submitted with their nominating petitions were invalid.

    http://stoneformayor.com/obama...

  11. Re:Private entity on Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? (dailykos.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Twitter has become a partisan hack site rather than a communication platform -- as is their right. Likewise, it is my right to have deleted my account. No worries.

  12. Couch-coop is fun but not split screen on Ubisoft Talks Splitscreen and the Division · · Score: 1

    I like games like Hell diver and diablo 3 for couch-coop fun. Split screen is too distracting for me - never liked it.

  13. Re:In other words, a software patent on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess we almost agree.

    There really is no such thing as a software patent. Patent applications are rejected in the US all the time for trying to claim abstract ideas. Many of these applications are even more likely to be rejected in the EU, JP, and CN.

    However, US patent applications that many folks here would characterize as "software patents" are often allowed in the US and many of them get allowed in EU, JP, and CN virtually unchanged.

  14. Good times there in the 90's on A History of Innovation and Dysfunction At Los Alamos National Laboratory (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 0
    I did a couple of internships/co-ops there. Fun place. Like a university but without regular classes -- oh and a lot more guns.

    It is a giant government complex rife with waste and bloat no different than many other large government operations.

    I remember when a tech in our lab was tasked to "spend" $250,000 in two-weeks with nothing costing more than $5000. He had fun.

  15. Re:In other words, a software patent on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    EU does grant "software patents" (not that there is such a thing a "software patent") Many big software companies file patent applications for all their patents in US, EU, JP, DE, and China -- usually using the exact same application as they file in the US. http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Europ...

  16. Re:Step back from the ledge on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    link to USPTO preissuance prior art submission by efiling. http://www.uspto.gov/patent/in...

  17. Re:In other words... on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    That's kind of the point of IP protection. You patent one way of doing X so I need to either license your way of doing X or figure out a different way of doing the X. The incentive to Innovate works both ways -- first mover gets the patent, subsequent movers figure out different, possibly better, ways to accomplish the same thing. (Or, they get permission to use the patented idea.)

  18. Re:Sampling bias on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Intellectual Property/Patents have always been a cost/part of doing business. Traditional industries patent the hell out everything and they sue each other like crazy. Just because it isn't front page news like "Apple v. the World" doesn't mean it doesn't happen a lot. Not to mention Bio and Pharm. They are also very aggressive in protecting their IP.

  19. Not a patent - just an application on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just a published application - not an issued patent. It hasn't even been examined yet. During prosecution the claims in this application are going to be significantly narrowed if this application is going to result in an issued patent.

  20. Your post is a perfect example showing why most slashdotters (and most columnists) should not spout off about the quality of patents or patent applications. Your comment above confirms that you are completely ignorant on the topic of patents and yet you feel confident to offer your uninformed opinion to the world. There is a reason patent attorneys get paid so much -- because the subject matter is difficult and complicated.

  21. I shared it once and it backfired. on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1
    The problem was that the person I shared it with had "better" on paper credentials than me -- he had a masters in CS - me just a BS CompE. I was making significantly more than him -- but (back in the day) I was a hot shot so I provided more value.

    He ran to management and dropped a dime -- "Perlface" is making more than me and he just got his bachelors.... So he got a raise that management didn't think he deserved. And I got a talking to.

    I guess the problem in my case was that management was just too chicken shit to tell him "you aren't worth it bro."

    However, if we had lock step salaries based on credentials and experience I would have been making less than the less productive Masters dude, which would have sucked as well.

  22. Re:Bullshit ... on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    "We now know not only that Netflix’s traffic management issues had nothing to do with paid prioritization, but that they were also the fault not of any ISP but of its own business partner."

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/la...

  23. Re:One highly-publicized case is all it took on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    As a consumer that pays for Netflix, I liked the fact that they could pay for more bandwidth. Net neutrality is going to result in a broadband that will suck for everyone with few incentives to encourage ISPs to build out features.

    As an aside, curiously, toll roads and roadway congestion pricing seem to be embraced by many who are pro-net neutrality.

  24. What do you expect? on License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime · · Score: 1

    They promise not to sue you for using/distributing the .Net Runtime. For example, if you write and distribute a .Net application they will not sue you for infringing their .Net patents. But you may get sued if your .Net application infringes on their other patents -- such as search engine patents, and so on.

  25. Re:Prior art: telephone modems and av transponders on Patent Troll Wins $15.7M From Samsung By Claiming To Own Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    ...It might be interesting to see how many other examples this group can identify.

    Well you can start by asking Samsung's lawyers. One way (maybe the best way) to defend against an infringement lawsuit is to prove there is prior art that invalidates the plaintiff's patents. You can bet Samsung looked everywhere to find prior art that invalidated the patents they were accused of infringing. Apparently, they couldn't find any.