If multiple separate parties all try to patent the same thing, then the idea was too obvious to be patented in the first place.
You say that, but exactly this situation has occurred with inventions as original and important as the telephone (1876).
Yes and because of that the government spent more then 100 years suing AT&T for antitrust violations. Until finally AT&T agreed to diversify. Now we are still dealing with AT&T as a large entity though it is mainly over internet.
So, if voting in lockstep like Thomas and Scalia is bad at 86%, what is it when Sotomayor and Kagan vote together 94% of the time? Is that also lockstep?
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Well they claimed that Kagan was gay, but I never heard that about Sotomayer.
The punch ballots that were a problem in 2000 were working fine for years; it was only that particular election where they suddenly become "flawed".
Let us remember those punch ballets were just a newer version of the Hollerith card; something/.ers should be familiar with. In Chicago we were constantly told of two things after we were done.. Run your hand over the card to catch any loose chads. If you wanted to, you could look at the number of every hole pumched and compare it to the ballet to make sure that everything is OK. As long as the ballots are OK ( say the polling place did not get flooded and the ballots get soggy ) there really is no excuse.
What really happened was that ALGore called a bunch of Democratic voters stupid, tried to get a bunch of judges to rule that they didn't know what they were doing, drag an economy that was getting sluggish into an even worse one, so he could become President.
Then afterwards to prop him up Democrats went around saying we need new voting machines. So now we spend billions on new voting machines which do not work as well. Shoot the ballot I filled out last time looked like it was designed for a third grader.
I have to admit that I am bothered that Perry achieved the success he did, but I seem to remember interviews after his career was over, where he said that a lot of the time he succeeded because of opponents being distracted by their concern over how he was cheating even when he didn't.
As a Cub fan who saw a really great opportunity pass by, I can say that Greg Maddux almost never threw at 100 miles per hour. Hell a lot of the time he didn't even hit 90 mph.
Consider that about fifteen years ago the biggest watning to users were sticks and disk that would autorun and the single thing that users could do to make themselves a lot more secure was to disable autorun.
Now as I understand it Ubuntu comes with autorun capabilities.
Fact is that there are several things making linux less secure.
The first is that there are some people who in a hurry to catch up with Microsoft copy what Microsoft does including the bad engineering that leads to malware. The second thing is that the more respectable linux has become the more it's drawn in morons^H^H^H^H^H^H^H WIndows programers, in an Eternal September mindset that leads to the badly engineered apps.
I would say that the safeest thing you could do is do any unsafe computing in a special; account that you don't mind being corrupted and boot off external drive for the stuff you want really secure and be careful of how you use that.
Oil will still be quite valuable. We don't just use oil tro make fuel. In fact we came to rely on oil because the cheap byproducts made refining oil turned out to be pretty good fuels.
If we no longer used oil for fuel, we would still need tons of oil for all those modern wonders of organic chemistry.
he didn't do anything that LBJ didn't do as president, except for one thing... when some underlings got overzealous and broke the law ( without his knowledge ) he ordered it covered up--violating the law--instead of throwing his people under the bus. Personally I sort of like him better for that -- though he probably could have found a safer better way to do it.
One thing he never did-- outside the confines of fighting a war-- , he never had anyone killed, much less a foreign leader. If he did I think he would have been successful, This is unlike a certain president who tried to have a foreign leader assassinated three times ( and not pulling it off ) and even dealing with the Mafia to do it.
On a related note. I've read about 1/3-2/4 of Stevens. I would like to fill out my knowledge but don't want to read the book from front to back. Can anyone suggest a set of video lectures which will do this?
I see a lot of people arguing that Monsanto should not have the right to control how successive generations of their product be created. I wonder how of those same people argue that pet b readers should not have the right to require that people buying their pets have those pets spayed or neutered?
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is the falling margins on desktops and the pressure on desktop users to find cheaper alternatives to Windows on desktops.
If multiple separate parties all try to patent the same thing, then the idea was too obvious to be patented in the first place.
You say that, but exactly this situation has occurred with inventions as original and important as the telephone (1876).
Yes and because of that the government spent more then 100 years suing AT&T for antitrust violations. Until finally AT&T agreed to diversify.
Now we are still dealing with AT&T as a large entity though it is mainly over internet.
So, if voting in lockstep like Thomas and Scalia is bad at 86%, what is it when Sotomayor and Kagan vote together 94% of the time? Is that also lockstep?
~Loyal
Well they claimed that Kagan was gay, but I never heard that about Sotomayer.
The punch ballots that were a problem in 2000 were working fine for years; it was only that particular election where they suddenly become "flawed".
Let us remember those punch ballets were just a newer version of the Hollerith card; something /.ers should be familiar with.
In Chicago we were constantly told of two things after we were done.. Run your hand over the card to catch any loose chads. If you wanted to, you could look at the number of every hole pumched and compare it to the ballet to make sure that everything is OK. As long as the ballots are OK ( say the polling place did not get flooded and the ballots get soggy ) there really is no excuse.
What really happened was that ALGore called a bunch of Democratic voters stupid, tried to get a bunch of judges to rule that they didn't know what they were doing, drag an economy that was getting sluggish into an even worse one, so he could become President.
Then afterwards to prop him up Democrats went around saying we need new voting machines. So now we spend billions on new voting machines which do not work as well. Shoot the ballot I filled out last time looked like it was designed for a third grader.
I have to admit that I am bothered that Perry achieved the success he did, but I seem to remember interviews after his career was over, where he said that a lot of the time he succeeded because of opponents being distracted by their concern over how he was cheating even when he didn't.
As a Cub fan who saw a really great opportunity pass by, I can say that Greg Maddux almost never threw at 100 miles per hour. Hell a lot of the time he didn't even hit 90 mph.
Maybe he didn't do so well in triple A because he refused to cheat unlike his teammates who cheated and piled up better stats.
Consider that about fifteen years ago the biggest watning to users were sticks and disk that would autorun and the single thing that users could do to make themselves a lot more secure was to disable autorun.
Now as I understand it Ubuntu comes with autorun capabilities.
Fact is that there are several things making linux less secure.
The first is that there are some people who in a hurry to catch up with Microsoft copy what Microsoft does including the bad engineering that leads to malware.
The second thing is that the more respectable linux has become the more it's drawn in morons^H^H^H^H^H^H^H WIndows programers, in an Eternal September mindset that leads to the badly engineered apps.
I would say that the safeest thing you could do is do any unsafe computing in a special; account that you don't mind being corrupted and boot off external drive for the stuff you want really secure and be careful of how you use that.
Or, perhaps the second password offers a self destruct.
Hard to do on an imaged drive.
. Strousoup is right now spinning in his grave so furiously I'm sure it's causing a small earthquake right now on some pacific island...
Sttroustrup ( you know youm could have gotten the name right ) is still alive.
freak out when cops get mad about being recorded getting mad about being recorded.
It is if they advertise that you can do something and the ToS prevents you from doing that.
Oil, gas and coal will become nearly worthless,
Oil will still be quite valuable. We don't just use oil tro make fuel. In fact we came to rely on oil because the cheap byproducts made refining oil turned out to be pretty good fuels.
If we no longer used oil for fuel, we would still need tons of oil for all those modern wonders of organic chemistry.
Yes but here in the US they just created a $1 coin containing copper.
If you read my statement, you see that I say that anything Nixon did so did LBJ, not that Nixon did everything LBJ did.
he didn't do anything that LBJ didn't do as president, except for one thing... when some underlings got overzealous and broke the law ( without his knowledge ) he ordered it covered up--violating the law--instead of throwing his people under the bus. Personally I sort of like him better for that -- though he probably could have found a safer better way to do it.
One thing he never did-- outside the confines of fighting a war-- , he never had anyone killed, much less a foreign leader. If he did I think he would have been successful, This is unlike a certain president who tried to have a foreign leader assassinated three times ( and not pulling it off ) and even dealing with the Mafia to do it.
Uhm. IPads for toilets?
I like the phrase that a Master Sergeant used to tell us in HS ROTC, "figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure".
How about emails from leading proAGW scientistsplotting to keep antiAGW papers from being published?
The researchers was just so high they think they did it. They didn't realize they failed miserably.
On a related note.
I've read about 1/3-2/4 of Stevens.
I would like to fill out my knowledge but don't want to read the book from front to back.
Can anyone suggest a set of video lectures which will do this?
to tell people I paid to download porn.
I see a lot of people arguing that Monsanto should not have the right to control how successive generations of their product be created.
I wonder how of those same people argue that pet b readers should not have the right to require that people buying their pets have those pets spayed or neutered?
Especially Chunky Bacon!
Oh yeah and Ruby rules.
It would be a new perspective on the phrase, "I get to eat X". where X is your favorite star.