Hollywood is the only party (and the music industry) that screws over the people actually producing stuff by pulling this trick. Sure corps do it all the time, but they pay employees first, and generally employee pay is not tied to "net profits" of the company. Same goes for sports teams. Lebron James paycheck is not dependent on the team he plays for making money, its dependent on how well he and his agent negotiate his contract.
In hollywood and the music industry, not only do they get to dodge taxes with this trick, they also get to dodge paying their employees cause most of the contracts in LA are of a "% of net profits" mold... Thus, not only are they screwing over the government (why again do they have so much sway in DC??!!??) but they screw over regular working people and of course, high paid actors and musicians as well...
well... I can't believe thats really *all* you have to pay... If you build the next facebook, and in 2 years you need 30k servers... you better believe MS is going to come after you for valid actual fully paid licenses... I have no clue how much that would cost... Licensing a small 30 person law firm costs 30k just for 3 servers and MS office... I can't even begin to fathom how much a datacenter full of web servers and SQL server would cost... well into the hundreds of millions... and you can bet MS will keep coming year after year after year.... They'll want you to upgrade the OS every 3-4 years, upgrade SQL server every 2-3 years... each time taking hundreds of millions of dollars from your pocket... and for what?!? FOSS solved these problems and solved them better 10 years ago...
MS licensing would have killed facebook, twiiter, and google. Probably yahoo, and just about anyone else too. When these businesses started taking off they were still venture funded, and they were adding hundreds if not thousands of machines a month. With that kind of scaling the doubling in cost for MS licensing would have bankrupted all of them before they had a chance to find a business model. No one building to scale on the web would ever choose MS, its far too expensive when you're talking about thousands of nodes.
The only major web company I know of that runs MS is eBay... and besides going public in the.com boom, I have no clue how they managed to afford the doubling of their startup costs that using MS means. Maybe they got some sort of sweetheart deal... but MS is notorious for doing a sweetheart deal to start, only to ruin your life when the rubber actually hits the road, trusting them with your business is foolish. eBay shareholders would probably be really happy if the capex going to MS stayed on eBay's bottom line...
Maybe... but the last 3 startups I've worked for it was 100% the free thing. When you're building web services that are going to scale to thousands of users and millions of transactions, you need hardware... and when each CPU you plop out there costs you $800+ in software licenses, it gets very expensive very fast, and linux is a no brainer.
So... essentially the court accepted a case and then wasted everyone's time doing the USPTO's job, and declared the patent invalid in this specific case because it wasn't patentable material... Something the USPTO should have done in the first place...
No new precedent, no new tests, no new rules... So everything will stay exactly as it is, and the USPTO will continue to approve bogus patents just like this one... Great! I love America!
I don't think the point was "don't let people get big enough" cause really... some professions just have to take on massive amounts of risk. How much is it worth if a plane crashes? should we only be allowed to fly a plane with 5 passengers? Do airlines have to start doing risk analysis based on the earning potential of passengers to stay below some arbitrary threshold (that is how legal claims are processed in case you don't know... in an accident/death situation the damage is calculated based on how much you would have made if you stayed alive... among other things)? No..
The article argues that in any profession that is high risk (airlines, medical, deep sea oil drilling) there should be mandatory error correction systems in place. Airplanes do not crash all the time cause they have lots of redundant systems and checklists, and a regulator that at least sometimes pays attention.
I watched as they put the latest containment cap on the BP well... and my first thought was "well if they just made this stupid thing a little more modular, this would be an easy fix". Right below where they cut off the pipe, there is a connection with some pretty big bolts... seems to me that if there were a valve below that, they could temporarily divert the oil out the side of the thing, unscrew that pipe, screw on a new pipe that goes all the way to the surface, and then close the valve and done, oil flowing safely to the surface... I assume the reason they can't do that is because of the pressure from the oil flowing through the pipe... I'm probably wrong there... My only experience with fluid under pressure is sprinkler systems and household plumbing. Seems to me that would cost maybe a couple thousand dollars and would be a common sense fail safe to have on any oil well...
Anyway, the point of the article is that high risk things should be surrounded with systems that mitigate errors or prevent them, redundancies, checklists, etc... To keep humans from.. uh... applying our flawed human reasoning to problems
You're arguing against yourself. Arguing that this "eastern" methodology is better is fundamentally flawed based on this article/research. The elder should not be punished for making a mistake, he should be allowed to make a mistake and learn from it. Now he knows something he didn't used to know, and he can become a better person, but eastern culture artificially caps one's learning potential to the first time they make a mistake after they "should know better", whenever that is... Assuming that there is some point in life that people "know everything" and "shouldn't make a mistake anymore" is a pretty arrogant assumption for a society to make. What you're essentially saying is "once you're 43 (or whatever the mystical "elder" age is) you have progressed as far as you can progress, you are perfect, cause if you're not perfect, you will be forced to retire and can no longer progress"
That is just as flawed as the western ideal of trivializing/denying mistakes to make believe they didn't happen. Both systems inhibit human progress by causing mistakes and failures to not be learned from which is the point of the article/research. We should embrace mistakes, because that is how we learn. We should build systems to protect us from making mistakes, because internally we will make mistakes no matter how expert we are. The only way to avoid mistakes is to build systems external to ourselves to protect against fatal error.
At any rate, I'm highly suspicious that all mistakes in eastern culture are found out and punished in this way. Further, I would be even more highly surprised to find that the correct person is always the one who must retire. With your livelihood and reputation on the line, there are some pretty high incentives to cover up mistakes or blame subordinates for mistakes so as to keep one's position or "save face".
You're statement that "you practice until you get it right. And when it actually counts, you get it right." is a fallacy. No matter how much you practice you will not be 100% perfect. That is the WHOLE POINT of this research/article. There is some edge case that your practice will not prepare you for, and for which the assumptions you make based on your practice will be wholly in error. The only way to overcome this shortcoming is to acknowledge it and allow people to make mistakes and to build systems around humans that can mitigate the errors before they become fatal.
No, in the US its perfectly legal to be a stand alone freelance person... The US incentivizes you to become a business entity by offering tax breaks and such. If you are a sole-proprietor in the US your tax rate can be up to twice as high as if you form an LLC or S-Corp, so you are rewarded heavily for incorporating.
This is exactly the opposite, they are outlawing the low (no?) tax option to drive everyone into a situation where they will pay much higher taxes.
apple is the distributor of the software. It is distribution that gets you in trouble with the GPL. If you download a GPL app, and modify it, and then never distribute it to anyone else, then you are not required to share your source code modifications. It is in distribution that you violate the GPL, if you do distribute your modified app, then you are required to include all the source code.
This is where apple is in violation because they are the distributor of the app, not the developers.
The DC that my company colos a few racks in had this same thing happen about a year ago (not a car crash, just a transformer blew out). But the transfer switch failed to switch to backup power, and the DC lost power for 3 hours.
What is up with these transfer switches? Do the DCs just not test them? Or is it the sudden loss of power that freaks them out vs a controlled "ok we're cutting to backup power now" that would occur during a test? Someone with more knowledge of DC power systems might enlighten me...
The best is when they tell you to do all this neat stuff in their "welcome to html5" presentation... and then none of it works, cause its still in flash...
So, I'm using the latest chrome, and the latest firefox, and the latest safari... and if I disable flash and attempt to go to any of the "html5" documents... I get "You need to upgrade to the latest flash player to access this content".... If I leave flash enabled, I get the same old clunky flash document viewer... so uh what gives?
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Where are the class action law suits for this crap?!? Isn't it fraud to sell something that you know is broken? Essentially the movie industry selling a plastic and aluminum coaster and billing it as a full length feature film. The only way to make these idiots stop putting DRM on everything is to cause them serious financial pain when they do...
I guess my concern would be, Earthquake at 2am? Everyone is indoors and asleep? How does some laser shining on their house wake them up? Seems like that is a pretty big gaping hole in the universality of the warning, and would create large doubts as to the efficacy and therefore need to spend probably billions of dollars developing and deploying such a system.
(Assuming it is practical and feasible to illuminate large swaths of the planet from space)
Pretty sure he meant 1M page views/day as he compares it to slashdot using alexa data.... Is reading comprehension really that hard? Context clues are your friend.
I run a site using django/postgres, we do about 100k page views/day on a 512Mb 10GB Virtual machine. Its not doing anything crazy like google, but yeah, we aren't close to needing more power yet. When we do, first thing we'll do is bump up RAM for increased cache space...
My problem with the whole "no carb" diet (I've tried it, I simply can't do it), is the way it adversely effects my brain function. Your brain runs on carbs. When I am in ketosis I have a headache and I seriously completely lose high mental function. Abstractions, math, programming (what I do for a living) all become nearly impossible for me to do. Tried a Ketosis diet about 2 months ago, for about 3 weeks I stayed on it, and just got done refactoring the code I wrote during that time.... Wow, that was bad code. Say eating a normal diet I estimate that I have a stack depth of probably 8-10 layers. So in code, I can be conscious of a whole lot, I can think way up a class hierarchy, understand how a change here is going to effect several aspects of code, etc.... When I'm on a ketosis diet, I probably have a stack depth of 2. Making connections, abstracting things away appropriately becomes almost impossible when you can only consciously deal with your immediate surroundings. And I make a whole lot more errors of the type "I changed X and if effected A, B, and C that I hadn't even thought about".
All in all, I'll stick with some carbs. potatoes, whole grain bread, and pasta are my main sources of carbs, and I really try not to eat them in excess... but some carbs are necessary.
How much are you paid mr "engineering manager"? If you make more than the engineers who are ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK, then you are overpaid.
Making short sighted investment decisions like this is why our country is in such a shambles. If businesses actually looked out 5-10 years once in a while, instead of 3 months from now, then we wouldn't have all this outsourcing.
Great so you hire some chinese engineers who you can barely communicate with, and BTW, who hate you and are your sworn enemies (Yes the Chinese HATE America, with a passion!). But they make nice, and get the job cause they'll do it for 1/10th the price (per hour). Of course once you factor in all the communication errors you're going to have, it takes them 3 times as long to do anything, so that eats up some of the savings. Now, the issue is, they own your company. The engineers OWN your company. So you better be happy having the ownership of your company controlled by people who may at any minute be detained for "subversive" behavior.
But say all that works out, great wonderful. It's 5 years from now and you need another 50 engineers to support your systems and customers. You decide "we have enough money now, lets hire some americans". So you start to try to do that, but the Chinese won't share info with your new American employees. Then suddenly, a new competitor pops up in China, they have all your info, all your code, and wow, their CEO is your old head engineer. Suddenly they stop talking to you all together. You have no one in america that understands your code, you have no one that can even get the latest versions of your code (its all in China), and wow... your business is over. And good luck appealing to the Chinese government for help! The american government won't be able to do anything to help you either.
Uh... If you had looked at the pictures you would know that "thousands" of these couldn't have ended up in desktop computers. The "fake" processors are not actually functional. It is a hunk of lead. It doesn't even have pins. It would be impossible for anyone to actually install this in a computer.
Further, I don't know who you think buys retail processors besides techies? Mom n pop buy their computers from dell, and dell would certainly stop these processors from reaching them, no PC with this part could pass even the most remedial QA.
Patent law is retarded. You can sit on a patent for 19 years and 11 months. There is no requirement to go after people to keep a patent enforcible. You can patent something and wait for the entire term of the patent for someone to actually invent/commercialize what you have patented, and then sue them at the 11th hour and take as much money from them as the courts will give you.
The exclusion of microsoft is interesting, perhaps MS already has a cross licensing deal with Xerox?
If you had read the article you would know this wasn't a case of "guessing" the URL. The article states that they had a source that told them the EXACT url to use, and it doesn't involve a query string at all. This source (probably some lower level person inside the ministry in question) had knowledge of the new site, and what it contained, and they leaked this information to the journalists. This is 100% not hacking.
The URL in question is nswtransportblueprint.com.au. It isn't functioning now, but according to the journalists it was on Friday. The 3700 "hits" were probably the journalists going to various pages on the site and printing the information, as the article does say that is what they did.
At any rate, there wasn't a password *anywhere* not in the URL, not in the headers, it was a completely open and accessible site. Google could have crawled it if there were any external links pointing to it that would lead the googlebot over. Anyone on the planet could have gone to the URL and seen the information. If your friend tells you "Hey I know this great new site that you should check out its supercoolsite.com", and you go there, and supercoolsite.com has no access control, no passwords, no funky URL parameters to guess, but maybe supercoolsite.com hasn't officially launched yet, and they don't actually want traffic... are you hacking their site? Maybe the founders sister is a blabber mouth and told all her friends about this site her brother is building, unbeknownest to him. That is hacking according to your definition that if the URL isn't "published in any way" then the URL alone is access control? That's just crazy. Putting something on the web by definition is publishing it to the world. If you don't want the world to see it you have to put it behind some kind of real access control (username/password/encryption/run server on a different port/ip access list/VPN) Preferably a combination of all of those.
only issue with this is that currently the attorney's fees are paid 100% by clients (IE in the private sector). In this scenario of socialized law, we'd have to impose a new tax on everyone so that the state would have the money to pay all of these new state employed attorneys. In order to get any attorneys on board you'd have to set a pretty decent rate, probably at least 2-300/hr. This would be a pretty massive tax.
yes, it can be challenged, but at what cost? Running a patent case up the appeals ladder like that will cost many tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions. So, the only people who can preemptively challenge patents are the people who have the most interest in seeing the status quo continued (IE IBM, MSFT, GOOG)
Anyway, the ancestors in this post are correct, if google doesn't patent this, and say, linkedin, or facebook, or any of the other hundreds of businesses that use map/reduce had tried and succeeded in patenting it (yes, they shouldn't be able to, but shouldn't, and can are not mutually exclusive in this case). Then they'd be able to sue google and say "Hey google derives 90% of their revenue from the application of this algorithm, we feel we are entitled to at least 50% of google's revenue". And, if they can get a jury of 12 uninformed, generally marginally educated people in the eastern district of Texas to see it there way, well, then thats what it will be. Unless google wants to spend untold millions fighting.
Much easer to spend the 3-500k pushing the patent through.
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Hollywood is the only party (and the music industry) that screws over the people actually producing stuff by pulling this trick. Sure corps do it all the time, but they pay employees first, and generally employee pay is not tied to "net profits" of the company. Same goes for sports teams. Lebron James paycheck is not dependent on the team he plays for making money, its dependent on how well he and his agent negotiate his contract.
In hollywood and the music industry, not only do they get to dodge taxes with this trick, they also get to dodge paying their employees cause most of the contracts in LA are of a "% of net profits" mold... Thus, not only are they screwing over the government (why again do they have so much sway in DC??!!??) but they screw over regular working people and of course, high paid actors and musicians as well...
well... I can't believe thats really *all* you have to pay... If you build the next facebook, and in 2 years you need 30k servers... you better believe MS is going to come after you for valid actual fully paid licenses... I have no clue how much that would cost... Licensing a small 30 person law firm costs 30k just for 3 servers and MS office... I can't even begin to fathom how much a datacenter full of web servers and SQL server would cost... well into the hundreds of millions... and you can bet MS will keep coming year after year after year.... They'll want you to upgrade the OS every 3-4 years, upgrade SQL server every 2-3 years... each time taking hundreds of millions of dollars from your pocket... and for what?!? FOSS solved these problems and solved them better 10 years ago...
MS licensing would have killed facebook, twiiter, and google. Probably yahoo, and just about anyone else too. When these businesses started taking off they were still venture funded, and they were adding hundreds if not thousands of machines a month. With that kind of scaling the doubling in cost for MS licensing would have bankrupted all of them before they had a chance to find a business model. No one building to scale on the web would ever choose MS, its far too expensive when you're talking about thousands of nodes.
The only major web company I know of that runs MS is eBay... and besides going public in the .com boom, I have no clue how they managed to afford the doubling of their startup costs that using MS means. Maybe they got some sort of sweetheart deal... but MS is notorious for doing a sweetheart deal to start, only to ruin your life when the rubber actually hits the road, trusting them with your business is foolish. eBay shareholders would probably be really happy if the capex going to MS stayed on eBay's bottom line...
Maybe... but the last 3 startups I've worked for it was 100% the free thing. When you're building web services that are going to scale to thousands of users and millions of transactions, you need hardware... and when each CPU you plop out there costs you $800+ in software licenses, it gets very expensive very fast, and linux is a no brainer.
So... essentially the court accepted a case and then wasted everyone's time doing the USPTO's job, and declared the patent invalid in this specific case because it wasn't patentable material... Something the USPTO should have done in the first place...
No new precedent, no new tests, no new rules... So everything will stay exactly as it is, and the USPTO will continue to approve bogus patents just like this one... Great! I love America!
I don't think the point was "don't let people get big enough" cause really... some professions just have to take on massive amounts of risk. How much is it worth if a plane crashes? should we only be allowed to fly a plane with 5 passengers? Do airlines have to start doing risk analysis based on the earning potential of passengers to stay below some arbitrary threshold (that is how legal claims are processed in case you don't know... in an accident/death situation the damage is calculated based on how much you would have made if you stayed alive... among other things)? No..
The article argues that in any profession that is high risk (airlines, medical, deep sea oil drilling) there should be mandatory error correction systems in place. Airplanes do not crash all the time cause they have lots of redundant systems and checklists, and a regulator that at least sometimes pays attention.
I watched as they put the latest containment cap on the BP well... and my first thought was "well if they just made this stupid thing a little more modular, this would be an easy fix". Right below where they cut off the pipe, there is a connection with some pretty big bolts... seems to me that if there were a valve below that, they could temporarily divert the oil out the side of the thing, unscrew that pipe, screw on a new pipe that goes all the way to the surface, and then close the valve and done, oil flowing safely to the surface... I assume the reason they can't do that is because of the pressure from the oil flowing through the pipe... I'm probably wrong there... My only experience with fluid under pressure is sprinkler systems and household plumbing. Seems to me that would cost maybe a couple thousand dollars and would be a common sense fail safe to have on any oil well...
Anyway, the point of the article is that high risk things should be surrounded with systems that mitigate errors or prevent them, redundancies, checklists, etc... To keep humans from.. uh... applying our flawed human reasoning to problems
You're arguing against yourself. Arguing that this "eastern" methodology is better is fundamentally flawed based on this article/research. The elder should not be punished for making a mistake, he should be allowed to make a mistake and learn from it. Now he knows something he didn't used to know, and he can become a better person, but eastern culture artificially caps one's learning potential to the first time they make a mistake after they "should know better", whenever that is... Assuming that there is some point in life that people "know everything" and "shouldn't make a mistake anymore" is a pretty arrogant assumption for a society to make. What you're essentially saying is "once you're 43 (or whatever the mystical "elder" age is) you have progressed as far as you can progress, you are perfect, cause if you're not perfect, you will be forced to retire and can no longer progress"
That is just as flawed as the western ideal of trivializing/denying mistakes to make believe they didn't happen. Both systems inhibit human progress by causing mistakes and failures to not be learned from which is the point of the article/research. We should embrace mistakes, because that is how we learn. We should build systems to protect us from making mistakes, because internally we will make mistakes no matter how expert we are. The only way to avoid mistakes is to build systems external to ourselves to protect against fatal error.
At any rate, I'm highly suspicious that all mistakes in eastern culture are found out and punished in this way. Further, I would be even more highly surprised to find that the correct person is always the one who must retire. With your livelihood and reputation on the line, there are some pretty high incentives to cover up mistakes or blame subordinates for mistakes so as to keep one's position or "save face".
You're statement that "you practice until you get it right. And when it actually counts, you get it right." is a fallacy. No matter how much you practice you will not be 100% perfect. That is the WHOLE POINT of this research/article. There is some edge case that your practice will not prepare you for, and for which the assumptions you make based on your practice will be wholly in error. The only way to overcome this shortcoming is to acknowledge it and allow people to make mistakes and to build systems around humans that can mitigate the errors before they become fatal.
he's not now... but be careful about travelling though. If he goes anywhere with an extradition treaty with pakistan he'll be nabbed and executed.
No, in the US its perfectly legal to be a stand alone freelance person... The US incentivizes you to become a business entity by offering tax breaks and such. If you are a sole-proprietor in the US your tax rate can be up to twice as high as if you form an LLC or S-Corp, so you are rewarded heavily for incorporating.
This is exactly the opposite, they are outlawing the low (no?) tax option to drive everyone into a situation where they will pay much higher taxes.
apple is the distributor of the software. It is distribution that gets you in trouble with the GPL. If you download a GPL app, and modify it, and then never distribute it to anyone else, then you are not required to share your source code modifications. It is in distribution that you violate the GPL, if you do distribute your modified app, then you are required to include all the source code.
This is where apple is in violation because they are the distributor of the app, not the developers.
The DC that my company colos a few racks in had this same thing happen about a year ago (not a car crash, just a transformer blew out). But the transfer switch failed to switch to backup power, and the DC lost power for 3 hours.
What is up with these transfer switches? Do the DCs just not test them? Or is it the sudden loss of power that freaks them out vs a controlled "ok we're cutting to backup power now" that would occur during a test? Someone with more knowledge of DC power systems might enlighten me...
The best is when they tell you to do all this neat stuff in their "welcome to html5" presentation... and then none of it works, cause its still in flash...
So, I'm using the latest chrome, and the latest firefox, and the latest safari... and if I disable flash and attempt to go to any of the "html5" documents... I get "You need to upgrade to the latest flash player to access this content".... If I leave flash enabled, I get the same old clunky flash document viewer... so uh what gives?
Please keep your SQL and HTML separate. Don't punish those who will come after you.
Where are the class action law suits for this crap?!? Isn't it fraud to sell something that you know is broken? Essentially the movie industry selling a plastic and aluminum coaster and billing it as a full length feature film. The only way to make these idiots stop putting DRM on everything is to cause them serious financial pain when they do...
If you own one of these discs call an attorney!
I guess my concern would be, Earthquake at 2am? Everyone is indoors and asleep? How does some laser shining on their house wake them up? Seems like that is a pretty big gaping hole in the universality of the warning, and would create large doubts as to the efficacy and therefore need to spend probably billions of dollars developing and deploying such a system.
(Assuming it is practical and feasible to illuminate large swaths of the planet from space)
Pretty sure he meant 1M page views/day as he compares it to slashdot using alexa data.... Is reading comprehension really that hard? Context clues are your friend.
I run a site using django/postgres, we do about 100k page views/day on a 512Mb 10GB Virtual machine. Its not doing anything crazy like google, but yeah, we aren't close to needing more power yet. When we do, first thing we'll do is bump up RAM for increased cache space...
My problem with the whole "no carb" diet (I've tried it, I simply can't do it), is the way it adversely effects my brain function. Your brain runs on carbs. When I am in ketosis I have a headache and I seriously completely lose high mental function. Abstractions, math, programming (what I do for a living) all become nearly impossible for me to do. Tried a Ketosis diet about 2 months ago, for about 3 weeks I stayed on it, and just got done refactoring the code I wrote during that time.... Wow, that was bad code. Say eating a normal diet I estimate that I have a stack depth of probably 8-10 layers. So in code, I can be conscious of a whole lot, I can think way up a class hierarchy, understand how a change here is going to effect several aspects of code, etc.... When I'm on a ketosis diet, I probably have a stack depth of 2. Making connections, abstracting things away appropriately becomes almost impossible when you can only consciously deal with your immediate surroundings. And I make a whole lot more errors of the type "I changed X and if effected A, B, and C that I hadn't even thought about".
All in all, I'll stick with some carbs. potatoes, whole grain bread, and pasta are my main sources of carbs, and I really try not to eat them in excess... but some carbs are necessary.
How much are you paid mr "engineering manager"? If you make more than the engineers who are ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK, then you are overpaid.
Making short sighted investment decisions like this is why our country is in such a shambles. If businesses actually looked out 5-10 years once in a while, instead of 3 months from now, then we wouldn't have all this outsourcing.
Great so you hire some chinese engineers who you can barely communicate with, and BTW, who hate you and are your sworn enemies (Yes the Chinese HATE America, with a passion!). But they make nice, and get the job cause they'll do it for 1/10th the price (per hour). Of course once you factor in all the communication errors you're going to have, it takes them 3 times as long to do anything, so that eats up some of the savings. Now, the issue is, they own your company. The engineers OWN your company. So you better be happy having the ownership of your company controlled by people who may at any minute be detained for "subversive" behavior.
But say all that works out, great wonderful. It's 5 years from now and you need another 50 engineers to support your systems and customers. You decide "we have enough money now, lets hire some americans". So you start to try to do that, but the Chinese won't share info with your new American employees. Then suddenly, a new competitor pops up in China, they have all your info, all your code, and wow, their CEO is your old head engineer. Suddenly they stop talking to you all together. You have no one in america that understands your code, you have no one that can even get the latest versions of your code (its all in China), and wow... your business is over. And good luck appealing to the Chinese government for help! The american government won't be able to do anything to help you either.
Thats no more than 7000 year old earth you insensitive clod!
Uh... If you had looked at the pictures you would know that "thousands" of these couldn't have ended up in desktop computers. The "fake" processors are not actually functional. It is a hunk of lead. It doesn't even have pins. It would be impossible for anyone to actually install this in a computer.
Further, I don't know who you think buys retail processors besides techies? Mom n pop buy their computers from dell, and dell would certainly stop these processors from reaching them, no PC with this part could pass even the most remedial QA.
You misunderstood the post. He needs 2-3TB PER CLIENT, not 2-3TB total.
Patent law is retarded. You can sit on a patent for 19 years and 11 months. There is no requirement to go after people to keep a patent enforcible. You can patent something and wait for the entire term of the patent for someone to actually invent/commercialize what you have patented, and then sue them at the 11th hour and take as much money from them as the courts will give you.
The exclusion of microsoft is interesting, perhaps MS already has a cross licensing deal with Xerox?
If you had read the article you would know this wasn't a case of "guessing" the URL. The article states that they had a source that told them the EXACT url to use, and it doesn't involve a query string at all. This source (probably some lower level person inside the ministry in question) had knowledge of the new site, and what it contained, and they leaked this information to the journalists. This is 100% not hacking.
The URL in question is nswtransportblueprint.com.au. It isn't functioning now, but according to the journalists it was on Friday. The 3700 "hits" were probably the journalists going to various pages on the site and printing the information, as the article does say that is what they did.
At any rate, there wasn't a password *anywhere* not in the URL, not in the headers, it was a completely open and accessible site. Google could have crawled it if there were any external links pointing to it that would lead the googlebot over. Anyone on the planet could have gone to the URL and seen the information. If your friend tells you "Hey I know this great new site that you should check out its supercoolsite.com", and you go there, and supercoolsite.com has no access control, no passwords, no funky URL parameters to guess, but maybe supercoolsite.com hasn't officially launched yet, and they don't actually want traffic... are you hacking their site? Maybe the founders sister is a blabber mouth and told all her friends about this site her brother is building, unbeknownest to him. That is hacking according to your definition that if the URL isn't "published in any way" then the URL alone is access control? That's just crazy. Putting something on the web by definition is publishing it to the world. If you don't want the world to see it you have to put it behind some kind of real access control (username/password/encryption/run server on a different port/ip access list/VPN) Preferably a combination of all of those.
only issue with this is that currently the attorney's fees are paid 100% by clients (IE in the private sector). In this scenario of socialized law, we'd have to impose a new tax on everyone so that the state would have the money to pay all of these new state employed attorneys. In order to get any attorneys on board you'd have to set a pretty decent rate, probably at least 2-300/hr. This would be a pretty massive tax.
yes, it can be challenged, but at what cost? Running a patent case up the appeals ladder like that will cost many tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions. So, the only people who can preemptively challenge patents are the people who have the most interest in seeing the status quo continued (IE IBM, MSFT, GOOG)
Anyway, the ancestors in this post are correct, if google doesn't patent this, and say, linkedin, or facebook, or any of the other hundreds of businesses that use map/reduce had tried and succeeded in patenting it (yes, they shouldn't be able to, but shouldn't, and can are not mutually exclusive in this case). Then they'd be able to sue google and say "Hey google derives 90% of their revenue from the application of this algorithm, we feel we are entitled to at least 50% of google's revenue". And, if they can get a jury of 12 uninformed, generally marginally educated people in the eastern district of Texas to see it there way, well, then thats what it will be. Unless google wants to spend untold millions fighting.
Much easer to spend the 3-500k pushing the patent through.