Watch this get turned into political messages, bad bumper sticker clones, and worse: advertising.
And for those that shine dick pics: make sure the finish of your car can be protected from deep key scratches. I sadly know a couple of people who wouldn't hesitate..... or cut you off with millimeters to spare.
Hopefully they'll find their way into a cell before they kill too many people.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp could make great partners in our drive toward a securely connected future, and we continue to hold this door open to them.
In who's drive?
I wouldn't particularly care if Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all litigated out of existance, but that is a bit rich.
It's a good point. Add the twit er and you have a bunch of companies that wrote something and have largely become stagnant behemoths. It's about time for some or all of them to fall in order to make way for something better.
Hey. Wait a sec. I never thought of that. I think you are right!
Yes!!! I hope Blackberry wins big!
If these three could be shut down, it would improve the intartubes greatly and all over the globe.
How did Twitter get left out of this lawsuit?
Please, oh please, file an amended complaint!
Shitter doesn't actually do much of anything so they aren't much of a target for lawsuits.
Since Blackberry hasn't created anything new or compelling in15 years we feel obligated to try and make some cash off our old crap, that we ripped off from ICQ/AOL/IRC and other software implementations that existed long before we came into being...
One can only assume you're correct.. at first I thought the summary was shit, but as it turns out, the article is shit too.
They're suing about some IP, but since it isn't named, we have no idea what it is.. this might as well be a fucking press release designed to get their name in the news again, but it otherwise contains no actual information.
If BB felt there were patents being infringed, they should have done something about it years ago, because failing to enforce it is pretty much not going to do well in court.
Whatever, BB hasn't been relevant in years, and the people they're picking fights with have deep pockets.
Absent any facts, I'm left with no choice but to agree with your assessment. They've sunk so far into "who gives a fuck" that, well, who gives a fuck?
According to TFS, they did. It says they have been in talks with these companies for years. They didn't get anywhere, so this is the next step. Sometimes (err.. always) legal shit takes a long time and is expensive.
Be serious. The only thing those brands have in common is that they're now all irrelevant. If people hadn't read this article and you started talking about Zagat, probably 100 out of 100 people would have no idea what you were talking about. Not so for Xerox and Kodak. Just because all three are now defunct doesn't mean Zagat was ever in the same league with companies that really did something in the world.
Instead of being opened for use, like the wifi bands, it is being auctioned to monopolists who will mostly sit on it to keep prices high. That is how you are getting screwed.
I love tangled audio cords. Remind me of my first walkman.
The audio jacks are useful for lots more than just plugging in headphones. Oh wait, on iphone "you can't do that." I forgot, it is the phone of "no." Carry on.
From all outward appearances they are pretty much exactly the same as any of their competitors. Worse in some ways. They appear to make their products in other countries and import the products into the USA. They appear to evade paying taxes whenever possible. They try to force customers who have paid for an imported hardware product to only buy software from their store. Which part am I mistaken about?
don't most legal jurisdictions have a defence of truthfulness in defamation cases?
Civil cases are notoriously easy to win.
Not that I'm defending him, but a perfect example is O.J. Simpson. He was found not guilty of doing the crime, yet still had to pay tons of money in civil suits. Our legal system in the us is a real shitshow.
I see more and more of this coming up in the industry and it opens a question for me - who owns the car?
It may make a difference if the car is leased. But thinking about how Tesla batteries software limited capacity/range - if I buy the car with a giant battery in it cannot I not defeat that?
Or is it like Sat radio - where I have to have a subscription to continue using it? Is the "fuel" in my car available only through subscription? What prevents me from strapping a bigger battery to my roof and plugging it in through the charge-port (ala battery packs for cell phones).
So the car manufacture is going to install advertising software in my car? And may I defeat it or otherwise alter the vehicle as I see fit. And perform repairs on it too!!!
Leases/rentals are probably different as you say. I think there's plenty of case law on the books saying you can do whatever the heck you want with your own car. I don't see the difference in adding an engine modification to a gas car or adding the battery pack you talk about. In the case of the artificial battery limiter I would liken it to the existing performance limiters built into gas cars today. They exist in the electronic control unit computer and are easy to change with some plug-in parts from amazon on most cars. Just as modifying the settings on a gas car might damage the car, so might changing the battery usage stuff on the electric. If you own it, you can try it. I would not hesitate if I had one and was interested. Outside the USA, probably different.
Flying taxis have been a thing for years. It's done with airplanes. These days there's even websites dedicated to it. Just like uber didn't invent the regular taxi, they didn't invent the flying one either. Apparently Dara has never heard of google. Here's one of many: http://www.linearair.com/
You deserve to know who is doing it and why. What do the Russians get out of it? Reduced sanctions obviously.
And if they coordinated with Trump, what does Trump get out of it?
"Follow the money!" -- Tried and true wisdom
It seems incredibly unlikely at this point that they did given the lack of evidence. Suing internet trolls and disproving "the dossier" seem to have been all that has come out of the investigations so far. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for something being done about trolls - regardless of whether they're trolling political candidates or regular folks. Heck, I think we should go after trolls even if they aren't Russian and there isn't good PR in it for certain political parties.
Lightweight gmail sounds horrid. Gmail is already devoid of features and barely functional. Honestly I thought it was already very lightweight. In fact I would have said that was Gmail's only strength as a client.
Millennials are 1000 times better than live beyond yo
They live beyond yo? Yo is a very distant location indeed. I heard that it is hear ho ho and a bottle of rum.
u reans baby boomers who have racked up 22 trillion in debt and are going to make their grandkids pay it off for them.
Right now to reach break even government spending we need 10% annual growth in tax revune. Instead we get tax cuts and vague promises. By 2040 the us government will be completely bankrupt at the current rate of spending vs income. As it sits now 25% of our federal budget goes to pay interest payments on debt. Not prinicipal just interest. That debt is primiarily owed to the be people of the USA.
Put that on perspective. That means if you earn $300k annually your interest payments are $88k and your principals is in millions.
There is no way out of this and that is 100% due to the lazy fucking stupid boomers
Meanwhile, back on earth you will find that in the US the current debt situation is squarely on the shoulders of the Obama administration. I guess from one perspective you're right. I believe Obama is a "baby boomer." The current administration is working on it but seems to meet with objections at every turn. Fortunately, they've already made some progress and still have 3 (maybe 7) more years to work on it.
It's just Washington state. What a disappointment. It will probably only result in residents having to buy phones exclusively online, and will mean nothing at all for the rest of us.
You might ask: requested it? Sure. If you're a big company and you have, say, 100 seats of Illustrator, but you only upgrade every two years, you have a major problem. You need $100k to do your upgrade, but you only use it on alternating years. If you don't spend that $100k in one year, your accounting department won't give it to you the year after. Corporate account is *really* stupid that way. Apparently they got a lot of feedback from their corporate users that a subscription model would be ideal: they wouldn't have to worry about big jumps in upgrades (every other version) and it would smooth out their expenses.
Seems unusual. At my employer, we simply negotiate ELA's for large purchases - although $100k would not be significant enough to qualify as a capital purchase, it would simply be an item on some departments annual expense budget. To that end, yes departments generally have to use or lose their expense budgets. If you can't work out how to manage that for your organization, this is going to be the least of your problems. Keep in mind too that large companies are not going to be maintaining direct connections to the internet. Poking holes in a firewall to allow subscription based software to work is going to be objectionable to security and network teams at a minimum. Such things also carry costs in both of those realms... where large firms are concerned.
When Adobe made this change, we switched to other products where possible (Acrobat for example) and have a stringent exception process for the few employees whose job truly necessitates this brand of software specifically. Adobe is making less money from us than they used to. I guess the additional revenue from home users must be making up for it because they don't show signs of backing down yet.
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Watch this get turned into political messages, bad bumper sticker clones, and worse: advertising.
And for those that shine dick pics: make sure the finish of your car can be protected from deep key scratches. I sadly know a couple of people who wouldn't hesitate..... or cut you off with millimeters to spare.
Hopefully they'll find their way into a cell before they kill too many people.
In who's drive?
I wouldn't particularly care if Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all litigated out of existance, but that is a bit rich.
It's a good point. Add the twit er and you have a bunch of companies that wrote something and have largely become stagnant behemoths. It's about time for some or all of them to fall in order to make way for something better.
Hey. Wait a sec. I never thought of that. I think you are right! Yes!!! I hope Blackberry wins big! If these three could be shut down, it would improve the intartubes greatly and all over the globe. How did Twitter get left out of this lawsuit? Please, oh please, file an amended complaint!
Shitter doesn't actually do much of anything so they aren't much of a target for lawsuits.
One can only assume you're correct .. at first I thought the summary was shit, but as it turns out, the article is shit too.
They're suing about some IP, but since it isn't named, we have no idea what it is .. this might as well be a fucking press release designed to get their name in the news again, but it otherwise contains no actual information.
If BB felt there were patents being infringed, they should have done something about it years ago, because failing to enforce it is pretty much not going to do well in court.
Whatever, BB hasn't been relevant in years, and the people they're picking fights with have deep pockets.
Absent any facts, I'm left with no choice but to agree with your assessment. They've sunk so far into "who gives a fuck" that, well, who gives a fuck?
According to TFS, they did. It says they have been in talks with these companies for years. They didn't get anywhere, so this is the next step. Sometimes (err.. always) legal shit takes a long time and is expensive.
Zagat, Xerox, Kodak...
Be serious. The only thing those brands have in common is that they're now all irrelevant. If people hadn't read this article and you started talking about Zagat, probably 100 out of 100 people would have no idea what you were talking about. Not so for Xerox and Kodak. Just because all three are now defunct doesn't mean Zagat was ever in the same league with companies that really did something in the world.
My prepaid plan is 2G, you insensitive clod.
Get a better prepaid plan.
I'm a ham radio operator making extensive use of the 3.4-3.5 GHz (9cm)band. This story is useless without defining 3.5 GHz better.
If it's 3550-3700, that's not the ham band and we're ok. But what band is it? 3.5 is lots of things to lots of people.
Our link across Tampa Bay
Details haven't been posted yet. They should turn up here: http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctio...
Instead of being opened for use, like the wifi bands, it is being auctioned to monopolists who will mostly sit on it to keep prices high. That is how you are getting screwed.
You can buy it. Call Pai and place a bid.
I love tangled audio cords. Remind me of my first walkman.
The audio jacks are useful for lots more than just plugging in headphones. Oh wait, on iphone "you can't do that." I forgot, it is the phone of "no." Carry on.
From all outward appearances they are pretty much exactly the same as any of their competitors. Worse in some ways. They appear to make their products in other countries and import the products into the USA. They appear to evade paying taxes whenever possible. They try to force customers who have paid for an imported hardware product to only buy software from their store.
Which part am I mistaken about?
don't most legal jurisdictions have a defence of truthfulness in defamation cases?
Civil cases are notoriously easy to win.
Not that I'm defending him, but a perfect example is O.J. Simpson. He was found not guilty of doing the crime, yet still had to pay tons of money in civil suits. Our legal system in the us is a real shitshow.
How about wiki-sec? Anon white-hat dumping ground.
There are plenty of anonymous (not Anonymous) dumping grounds. Here's one: https://pastebin.com/
There are many varied options. You don't make money by publishing articles on pastebin, though.
I see more and more of this coming up in the industry and it opens a question for me - who owns the car?
It may make a difference if the car is leased. But thinking about how Tesla batteries software limited capacity/range - if I buy the car with a giant battery in it cannot I not defeat that?
Or is it like Sat radio - where I have to have a subscription to continue using it? Is the "fuel" in my car available only through subscription? What prevents me from strapping a bigger battery to my roof and plugging it in through the charge-port (ala battery packs for cell phones).
So the car manufacture is going to install advertising software in my car? And may I defeat it or otherwise alter the vehicle as I see fit. And perform repairs on it too!!!
Leases/rentals are probably different as you say. I think there's plenty of case law on the books saying you can do whatever the heck you want with your own car. I don't see the difference in adding an engine modification to a gas car or adding the battery pack you talk about. In the case of the artificial battery limiter I would liken it to the existing performance limiters built into gas cars today. They exist in the electronic control unit computer and are easy to change with some plug-in parts from amazon on most cars. Just as modifying the settings on a gas car might damage the car, so might changing the battery usage stuff on the electric. If you own it, you can try it. I would not hesitate if I had one and was interested. Outside the USA, probably different.
If I ever buy this car I will have to kick my own ass. It's the right thing to do.
Flying taxis have been a thing for years. It's done with airplanes. These days there's even websites dedicated to it. Just like uber didn't invent the regular taxi, they didn't invent the flying one either. Apparently Dara has never heard of google. Here's one of many: http://www.linearair.com/
Are you sure? They've explicitly mentioned that classes of apps won't work at all, not that they'd need a recompile.
That is just the usual Slashdot shithole editors. selectively quoting, even the article clearly states they just need a recompile.
...or just one in particular... msmash. I guess even slashdot has an agenda these days. You can't escape it in the news.
You deserve to know who is doing it and why. What do the Russians get out of it? Reduced sanctions obviously.
And if they coordinated with Trump, what does Trump get out of it?
"Follow the money!" -- Tried and true wisdom
It seems incredibly unlikely at this point that they did given the lack of evidence. Suing internet trolls and disproving "the dossier" seem to have been all that has come out of the investigations so far. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for something being done about trolls - regardless of whether they're trolling political candidates or regular folks. Heck, I think we should go after trolls even if they aren't Russian and there isn't good PR in it for certain political parties.
Lightweight gmail sounds horrid. Gmail is already devoid of features and barely functional. Honestly I thought it was already very lightweight. In fact I would have said that was Gmail's only strength as a client.
Jizz, improperly cleaned, after apple users masturbate over their new shiny apple product.
Millennials are 1000 times better than live beyond yo
They live beyond yo? Yo is a very distant location indeed. I heard that it is hear ho ho and a bottle of rum.
u reans baby boomers who have racked up 22 trillion in debt and are going to make their grandkids pay it off for them.
Right now to reach break even government spending we need 10% annual growth in tax revune. Instead we get tax cuts and vague promises. By 2040 the us government will be completely bankrupt at the current rate of spending vs income. As it sits now 25% of our federal budget goes to pay interest payments on debt. Not prinicipal just interest. That debt is primiarily owed to the be people of the USA.
Put that on perspective. That means if you earn $300k annually your interest payments are $88k and your principals is in millions.
There is no way out of this and that is 100% due to the lazy fucking stupid boomers
Meanwhile, back on earth you will find that in the US the current debt situation is squarely on the shoulders of the Obama administration. I guess from one perspective you're right. I believe Obama is a "baby boomer." The current administration is working on it but seems to meet with objections at every turn. Fortunately, they've already made some progress and still have 3 (maybe 7) more years to work on it.
Be fair now. beauHD also posts some good left wing news, or in some cases adds a nice left-wing slant to the summary.
Citation or examples please.
As usual you have no clue.
I work for the government. We are incompetent assclowns.
NOAA, NASA are the first that come to mind. Your department may be full of assclowns, but not all are.
It's just Washington state. What a disappointment. It will probably only result in residents having to buy phones exclusively online, and will mean nothing at all for the rest of us.
No. It is a "brain on a chip". You need to read the summary.
Some people's kids. Next they will be talking about moving from cloud computing to a client-server model.
You might ask: requested it? Sure. If you're a big company and you have, say, 100 seats of Illustrator, but you only upgrade every two years, you have a major problem. You need $100k to do your upgrade, but you only use it on alternating years. If you don't spend that $100k in one year, your accounting department won't give it to you the year after. Corporate account is *really* stupid that way. Apparently they got a lot of feedback from their corporate users that a subscription model would be ideal: they wouldn't have to worry about big jumps in upgrades (every other version) and it would smooth out their expenses.
Seems unusual. At my employer, we simply negotiate ELA's for large purchases - although $100k would not be significant enough to qualify as a capital purchase, it would simply be an item on some departments annual expense budget. To that end, yes departments generally have to use or lose their expense budgets. If you can't work out how to manage that for your organization, this is going to be the least of your problems.
Keep in mind too that large companies are not going to be maintaining direct connections to the internet. Poking holes in a firewall to allow subscription based software to work is going to be objectionable to security and network teams at a minimum. Such things also carry costs in both of those realms... where large firms are concerned.
When Adobe made this change, we switched to other products where possible (Acrobat for example) and have a stringent exception process for the few employees whose job truly necessitates this brand of software specifically. Adobe is making less money from us than they used to. I guess the additional revenue from home users must be making up for it because they don't show signs of backing down yet.