Who is more likely to win this, to me, legal battle being fought for the sake of there being a legal battle?
Quite frankly, I can't see 'Scrolls' as being that unique a game name in the first place. Confusing it with 'The Elder Scrolls' seems like a fairly long stretch given I always thought of it as 'Elder Scrolls' and never 'Scrolls' even before this lawsuit. It's like comparing cats to catapults. *Keyboard cat!*
The best thing about the Internet was the tearing down of borders and connecting the world as one big place.
Governments (and some corporations) want to put borders back up. It's in their nature to attempt for more and more control over their fiefdoms.
Fortunately, most citizens are used to the concept of the Internet as it stands right now and governments are facing a lot of accumulated inertia.
Of course, the US government is tapped into a lot of their portion of the pie and China firewalls their nation. True global cooperation to control the Internet as a single entity is... unlikely anytime soon.
Personally, I really hope someone develops technology that can take control of the Internet out of the hands of governments altogether, creating a virtual country in its own right. Again, unlikely, but I can dream, can't I?
A disease is the cure to another disease. Heh. Understanding viruses teaches us more about the human immune system because the viruses have obviously evolved ways to shut our immune response down or use it against us. Once we fully understand the human immune system and its weaknesses then we can figure out how to improve it.
Given all the research being put into AIDS and cancer, the ever growing understanding on how viruses and the body works, and the increasing human ability to manipulate things on a nanoscale I was beginning to wonder what was taking so long.
Heck, once AIDS is solved, cancer should be next, and I hope some kind of universal anti-viral agent that boosts the immune system's effectiveness ten fold eventually comes. Something that can clean up plaque from blood vessels would be nice too.
So, if one were to send a program that installs a virus/trojan on their computer and the program has an EULA that prevents the user running the app from taking them to court then they can't? Please tell me I'm wrong and why?
So any freshwater river going into ocean could provide a continual source of hydrogen that can, in turn, be burned to produce electricity. Maybe even power it's own factory to compress the hydrogen for later energy storage. Nice.
How powerful would one estimate linking multiple cloud and, of ten percent of the top 500 supercomputers would be? That would be one massive number cruncher.
Where's the popcorn when I need it?! Ah! Here it is! Now the show may begin!
All we need is a real-time simulator showing all the patent lawsuits occurring across the planet. Kinda like the classic Wargames but with patents instead of nukes.
Maps of network internals can turn up routable unsecured devices like printers, APs with old firmware, that forgotten server in that closet etc. that can be used to harvest login credentials or exploit the network further if the devices are trusted.
True. My old workplace networking division was searching for where the internal infection of Conflicker was coming from.
I re-told them about the wonder of nmap ("Huh? What's that?" @_@) that I had mentioned briefly (and was obviously ignored and forgotten) and discovered the worm was coming from one of their internal web servers located in the same physical room as their office. And these were our network security guys who sold security systems. *sigh*
Harness the power of obsessive gamers around the world! Seriously, Starcraft 2 alone is already almost a national sport in some Asian countries.
Now the programmers have to take Foldit to the next level: Cancer Wars! Whomever creates the best omni-purpose cancer fighter that doesn't blow apart the landscape(human body) wins!
And after that? Virus Cataclysm -- the viruses are invading and YOU are your body's last hope!
Maybe even: Reconstructors -- the body is failing and it's up to the player to restore it as good as new. (Yes, old age is the enemy)
Finally, the hardest game of all: US Economy Simulator! (You ever imagine politicians solving a protein problem much less the U.S. national debt? Yeah, didn't think so.)
All of a sudden I had this image of printing kidneys, blood vessels and all, shooting out of a laser printer because someone clicked the wrong application.
This is something that really should have been addressed a while ago, not after months and months of hoping Rogers would fix it. Many Canadian telecos like Rogers and Bell are seriously needing some reining in on more than a few matters. I really hope that the CRTC is finally getting reality instead of being spoon fed it by Bell and co.
It's also unfortunately clear that unless the public screams bloody murder that the Canadian--oops, HARPER--government will do very, very little proactively to improve the internet situation. Unless votes are threatened--ziltch.
The heck with concrete. I'll consider 3D printing tech truly accomplished when they can actually print using layers of silicon and carbon atoms, forming up molecular bonds in lattices and matrices as the structure is built. True, flawless stone reinforced by carbon nanotube meshes sealed by diamond!
Would that be more or less stronger than concrete and by how much?
I suppose the best example would be from an anime series called 'Gundam Seed' there the giant robots had 'phase shielding' where the armor would be energized and suddenly become much, much harder to destroy. Without energy the armor would be normal but adding energy the armor becomes several times more resistant to kinetic impact.
What I'd love to see, and more in the realm of sci-fi, are materials that can somehow 'pretend' to be multiple times harder than diamond rather than actually be that hard on a purely physical level.
Hey, if a material can 'pretend' to be invisible to light then why not 'pretend' to be semi-invisible to kinetic energy or pressure?
I know it's a reach but a fun concept to try for, no?
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...thought of it as 'Elder Scrolls' and never 'Scrolls' even before this lawsuit...
Sorry, 'it' refers to the game 'Elder Scrolls' not 'Scrolls'. Oops.
Who is more likely to win this, to me, legal battle being fought for the sake of there being a legal battle?
Quite frankly, I can't see 'Scrolls' as being that unique a game name in the first place. Confusing it with 'The Elder Scrolls' seems like a fairly long stretch given I always thought of it as 'Elder Scrolls' and never 'Scrolls' even before this lawsuit. It's like comparing cats to catapults. *Keyboard cat!*
The best thing about the Internet was the tearing down of borders and connecting the world as one big place.
Governments (and some corporations) want to put borders back up. It's in their nature to attempt for more and more control over their fiefdoms.
Fortunately, most citizens are used to the concept of the Internet as it stands right now and governments are facing a lot of accumulated inertia.
Of course, the US government is tapped into a lot of their portion of the pie and China firewalls their nation. True global cooperation to control the Internet as a single entity is... unlikely anytime soon.
Personally, I really hope someone develops technology that can take control of the Internet out of the hands of governments altogether, creating a virtual country in its own right. Again, unlikely, but I can dream, can't I?
Ah, yes. Read that one as well. Very interesting.
A disease is the cure to another disease. Heh. Understanding viruses teaches us more about the human immune system because the viruses have obviously evolved ways to shut our immune response down or use it against us. Once we fully understand the human immune system and its weaknesses then we can figure out how to improve it.
Don't like movies?
Given all the research being put into AIDS and cancer, the ever growing understanding on how viruses and the body works, and the increasing human ability to manipulate things on a nanoscale I was beginning to wonder what was taking so long.
Heck, once AIDS is solved, cancer should be next, and I hope some kind of universal anti-viral agent that boosts the immune system's effectiveness ten fold eventually comes. Something that can clean up plaque from blood vessels would be nice too.
Offer users the ability to print their favorite hotel/castle/maze for permanent display.
Some designs are quite neat and can often get vaped by server deaths/map corruption.
So, if one were to send a program that installs a virus/trojan on their computer and the program has an EULA that prevents the user running the app from taking them to court then they can't? Please tell me I'm wrong and why?
Unless the company pisses off the son/daughter/wife/husband of said weapons-grade lawyer. Then it gets personal.
Routers using quantum entanglement to transmit data over long distances. Whee!
Up.
Handy-dandy microwave signal detector! Hey, if your app can tell between wifi and microwave then that would be a neat thing to be able to track.
Hey, if it, or some variation of it, could help shield a spacecraft from the Van Allen belts I'd call it a win.
So any freshwater river going into ocean could provide a continual source of hydrogen that can, in turn, be burned to produce electricity. Maybe even power it's own factory to compress the hydrogen for later energy storage. Nice.
Black computer screen background and a lone icon with the title looking sorta like the icon's label... sorta.
Yeah, his name is a little large -- took me a moment to realize where the actual title was.
How powerful would one estimate linking multiple cloud and, of ten percent of the top 500 supercomputers would be? That would be one massive number cruncher.
Where's the popcorn when I need it?! Ah! Here it is! Now the show may begin!
All we need is a real-time simulator showing all the patent lawsuits occurring across the planet. Kinda like the classic Wargames but with patents instead of nukes.
Maps of network internals can turn up routable unsecured devices like printers, APs with old firmware, that forgotten server in that closet etc. that can be used to harvest login credentials or exploit the network further if the devices are trusted.
True. My old workplace networking division was searching for where the internal infection of Conflicker was coming from.
I re-told them about the wonder of nmap ("Huh? What's that?" @_@) that I had mentioned briefly (and was obviously ignored and forgotten) and discovered the worm was coming from one of their internal web servers located in the same physical room as their office. And these were our network security guys who sold security systems. *sigh*
I'm just picturing Godzilla, sitting at a computer in a basement somewhere...
Between surfing the 'net for dragon porn.
Harness the power of obsessive gamers around the world! Seriously, Starcraft 2 alone is already almost a national sport in some Asian countries.
Now the programmers have to take Foldit to the next level: Cancer Wars! Whomever creates the best omni-purpose cancer fighter that doesn't blow apart the landscape(human body) wins!
And after that? Virus Cataclysm -- the viruses are invading and YOU are your body's last hope!
Maybe even: Reconstructors -- the body is failing and it's up to the player to restore it as good as new. (Yes, old age is the enemy)
Finally, the hardest game of all: US Economy Simulator! (You ever imagine politicians solving a protein problem much less the U.S. national debt? Yeah, didn't think so.)
All of a sudden I had this image of printing kidneys, blood vessels and all, shooting out of a laser printer because someone clicked the wrong application.
"I said print out my organizer not organs!"
This is something that really should have been addressed a while ago, not after months and months of hoping Rogers would fix it. Many Canadian telecos like Rogers and Bell are seriously needing some reining in on more than a few matters. I really hope that the CRTC is finally getting reality instead of being spoon fed it by Bell and co.
It's also unfortunately clear that unless the public screams bloody murder that the Canadian--oops, HARPER--government will do very, very little proactively to improve the internet situation. Unless votes are threatened--ziltch.
The heck with concrete. I'll consider 3D printing tech truly accomplished when they can actually print using layers of silicon and carbon atoms, forming up molecular bonds in lattices and matrices as the structure is built. True, flawless stone reinforced by carbon nanotube meshes sealed by diamond!
Would that be more or less stronger than concrete and by how much?
I suppose the best example would be from an anime series called 'Gundam Seed' there the giant robots had 'phase shielding' where the armor would be energized and suddenly become much, much harder to destroy. Without energy the armor would be normal but adding energy the armor becomes several times more resistant to kinetic impact.
What I'd love to see, and more in the realm of sci-fi, are materials that can somehow 'pretend' to be multiple times harder than diamond rather than actually be that hard on a purely physical level.
Hey, if a material can 'pretend' to be invisible to light then why not 'pretend' to be semi-invisible to kinetic energy or pressure?
I know it's a reach but a fun concept to try for, no?