Court fees cover a teensy part of the government that protects those rights. I pay all sorts of fees for my home, too, but that doesn’t get me out of paying property taxes on it. As far as I can tell, this is yet another way for corporations to avoid the taxes that the rest of us have to pay.
If patents are real property, and a company testifies in court that theirs is with a billion dollars, then surely they’ve been paying property taxes on that $1B, right? Because if not, you and I are subsidizing their welfare queen asses by paying our taxes to support the court system that they are using to enforce their “property” rights.
I don’t want to hear a damn thing from a patent holding company until they show tax returns demonstrating that they’re paying their fair share to maintain the legal system they disproportionately consume.
Vizio TVs log your habits, and the others probably do too. I have a Vizio smartass TV but use it purely as a dumb display, primarily because:
I trust Apple to respect my privacy way more than any TV manufacturer, and
The TV's built-in apps were utter out-of-date shit with terrible UIs. The Amazon Prime app was too old to connect to Amazon for several months, for instance.
A TV screen isn't obsolete until it dies or its technology is genuinely behind the times (e.g. an older 4:3 CRT). I upgrade and replace things connected to a TV regularly, but as long as the screen itself still looks good and supports modern hardware, there's little reason to upgrade it. I have a 10 year old LCD in my bedroom. Can you imagine how useless it'd be if it only supported services that existed in 2007?
I have zero incentive whatsoever to let me TV do anything more than display the output of other, better, more respectful devices. There's literally nothing a TV can do for me that requires a network connection of any sort.
Companies can also obtain an ARM architectural licence for designing their own CPU cores using the ARM instruction sets. These cores must comply fully with the ARM architecture. Companies that have designed cores that implement an ARM architecture include Apple, AppliedMicro, Broadcom, Cavium, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Samsung Electronics.
Yours is an incredibly (and wrongly) narrow interpretation of the Apple/ARM relationship. Apple licenses the right to design their own CPUs, and then actually design them.
Fair points regarding the SoC work. If you buy directly from Qualcomm, and Qualcomm says "we only sell this SoC with a modem onboard", then you're kind of stuck. If Apple goes through with designing their own, though, and offers it out under RAND, then that could be an enormous bargaining chip for Samsung down the road.
So Apple designs almost every component in an iPhone except for the radio. Qualcomm thinks they're entitled to a percent of the whole device price because... well, I don't know. Because they're special or something. Is their magic radio really more valuable to an iPhone than to a cheap Android? Of course not. But they continue to want to charge Apple several times more for the exact same price just because they (think they) can. I can't imagine a plausible scenario in which Apple wouldn't design Qualcomm out of their supply line. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they turned around and offered to license their non-Qualcomm radio at cost to anyone else who wants to use it.
And furthermore, what's wrong with entertainment? If you're on a business trip and want to relax with Netflix or Angry Birds to unwind at the end of a long day, there's nothing in the world wrong with having those on your "pure work" device. No sane boss will begrudge their employees that. These aren't just words: I would refuse (and have! refused) to carry a work-issued device that was so locked down that I couldn't use it for the occasional 10 minutes of down time.
This is great for my workload, which looks a lot like "spin a large cluster up, slam it for about 20 minutes, then shut it down". Since the previous minimum was 1 hour, I foresee massive drops in our on-demand costs. It also means that the complicated scheduler we were considering, which was going to be optimized for keeping machines loaded until they were x hours and 58 minutes old, can be tossed out. Seriously, thanks Amazon!
Maciej Ceglowski, a Polish-American web developer,
...better known as the owner of Pinboard (which recently bought Delicious!), and is somewhat well-known on Twitter for his snarky, witty commentary. He's not just some random guy with a blog.
...except for the part when the modern telescreen (eye-roll) can be turned off in the Settings app, and the other part where no one's making you buy this telescreen (but you can buy an alternate one with an OS written by an advertising company that knows far more about you than Big Brother could ever hope to).
No, no, no. Reframe that: what politician do you think if going to stand up and take responsibility for taking down one of America's most hated financial institutions, that has just directly caused an identity theft disaster of unimaginable proportions upon the citizenry? I bet you'd get a few takers.
I support the death penalty. So much, in fact, that I want to see Equifax executed - in this case, by having its corporate charter revoked. They're not "too big to fail". They're not providing a valuable product to our economy. They're not America's Last Great Hope at manufacturing or anything like that. They're a rent-seeking parasite on the economy who obviously can never again be trusty with the weaponizable data they collect on everyone who lives here. Cut off its head - sacrifice it on the altar of accountability and justice - and call it done.
And as we'd lock up a street-level criminal until their trial, Equifax should be imprisoned by having its bank accounts and stock trades frozen immediately. Sure, that means it can't pay its CEO. Yes, it means its employees will break up with it in favor of more upstanding members of society. Yeah, it means it won't be able to pay rent and will probably get evicted. If all that's good enough for Joe Accused Weed Dealer, it's good enough for Equifax Accused Stalker.
Free speech is an idea that came out of the age of enlightenment and the general gist is that we should let people have their say rather than censoring them because that just bottles up their anger and pisses them off even more.
Turns out, we're debating this in an article about a study that concludes otherwise.
Expressing thought and emotion is one of those basics rights
To be clear, you have the absolute right to express yourself. You have no right to express yourself in my living room after I've told you to leave.
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Exactly, yes. Your damages should be limited to the amount that you declared and paid taxes on.
Court fees cover a teensy part of the government that protects those rights. I pay all sorts of fees for my home, too, but that doesn’t get me out of paying property taxes on it. As far as I can tell, this is yet another way for corporations to avoid the taxes that the rest of us have to pay.
Trump didn't seat a Supreme Court justice (after the Republicans bizarrely refused to hear Obama's appointee)?
I don’t want to hear a damn thing from a patent holding company until they show tax returns demonstrating that they’re paying their fair share to maintain the legal system they disproportionately consume.
Most banking systems don't live on the open Internet.
No, but my "ooh shiny shiny" also has a VPN so that I can poke at (a limited number of) internal hosts to trouble shoot stuff from home.
I am using 10 year old RAZR. So yes people do hang onto things rather than go "ooh shiny shiny".
That's nice, grandpa. I used my "ooh shiny shiny" to SSH into a workstation and fix something during my bus commute this morning.
Vizio TVs log your habits, and the others probably do too. I have a Vizio smartass TV but use it purely as a dumb display, primarily because:
I have zero incentive whatsoever to let me TV do anything more than display the output of other, better, more respectful devices. There's literally nothing a TV can do for me that requires a network connection of any sort.
Not realizing you can accomplish the same end electronically....
Yes, when I think "technologically incompetent", I think NASA.
It really does take a rocket scientist to keep a $(#@)%{@* printer working.
processor from ARM (under license)
From Wikipedia:
Yours is an incredibly (and wrongly) narrow interpretation of the Apple/ARM relationship. Apple licenses the right to design their own CPUs, and then actually design them.
Apple isn't designing a radio chip (yet).
That's the rumor, anyway (to be taken with a large grain of salt, of course).
Fair points regarding the SoC work. If you buy directly from Qualcomm, and Qualcomm says "we only sell this SoC with a modem onboard", then you're kind of stuck. If Apple goes through with designing their own, though, and offers it out under RAND, then that could be an enormous bargaining chip for Samsung down the road.
It's not like they design their own CPUs or anything. That'd be crazytalk!
So Apple designs almost every component in an iPhone except for the radio. Qualcomm thinks they're entitled to a percent of the whole device price because... well, I don't know. Because they're special or something. Is their magic radio really more valuable to an iPhone than to a cheap Android? Of course not. But they continue to want to charge Apple several times more for the exact same price just because they (think they) can. I can't imagine a plausible scenario in which Apple wouldn't design Qualcomm out of their supply line. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they turned around and offered to license their non-Qualcomm radio at cost to anyone else who wants to use it.
And now even assembler only vaguely resembles what the CPU is actually doing.
Run along, you.
And furthermore, what's wrong with entertainment? If you're on a business trip and want to relax with Netflix or Angry Birds to unwind at the end of a long day, there's nothing in the world wrong with having those on your "pure work" device. No sane boss will begrudge their employees that. These aren't just words: I would refuse (and have! refused) to carry a work-issued device that was so locked down that I couldn't use it for the occasional 10 minutes of down time.
This is great for my workload, which looks a lot like "spin a large cluster up, slam it for about 20 minutes, then shut it down". Since the previous minimum was 1 hour, I foresee massive drops in our on-demand costs. It also means that the complicated scheduler we were considering, which was going to be optimized for keeping machines loaded until they were x hours and 58 minutes old, can be tossed out. Seriously, thanks Amazon!
He acquired the crap out of it. Choice comment:
...and he ends with:
Maciej Ceglowski, a Polish-American web developer,
...better known as the owner of Pinboard (which recently bought Delicious!), and is somewhat well-known on Twitter for his snarky, witty commentary. He's not just some random guy with a blog.
...except for the part when the modern telescreen (eye-roll) can be turned off in the Settings app, and the other part where no one's making you buy this telescreen (but you can buy an alternate one with an OS written by an advertising company that knows far more about you than Big Brother could ever hope to).
Does Logic Pro 9 not run under newer versions?
No, no, no. Reframe that: what politician do you think if going to stand up and take responsibility for taking down one of America's most hated financial institutions, that has just directly caused an identity theft disaster of unimaginable proportions upon the citizenry? I bet you'd get a few takers.
I support the death penalty. So much, in fact, that I want to see Equifax executed - in this case, by having its corporate charter revoked. They're not "too big to fail". They're not providing a valuable product to our economy. They're not America's Last Great Hope at manufacturing or anything like that. They're a rent-seeking parasite on the economy who obviously can never again be trusty with the weaponizable data they collect on everyone who lives here. Cut off its head - sacrifice it on the altar of accountability and justice - and call it done.
And as we'd lock up a street-level criminal until their trial, Equifax should be imprisoned by having its bank accounts and stock trades frozen immediately. Sure, that means it can't pay its CEO. Yes, it means its employees will break up with it in favor of more upstanding members of society. Yeah, it means it won't be able to pay rent and will probably get evicted. If all that's good enough for Joe Accused Weed Dealer, it's good enough for Equifax Accused Stalker.
Hah, nice!
Free speech is an idea that came out of the age of enlightenment and the general gist is that we should let people have their say rather than censoring them because that just bottles up their anger and pisses them off even more.
Turns out, we're debating this in an article about a study that concludes otherwise.
Expressing thought and emotion is one of those basics rights
To be clear, you have the absolute right to express yourself. You have no right to express yourself in my living room after I've told you to leave.