With Amazon's AWS unit releasing Chime (new Skype competitor) they simply need to expose Chime APIs as long-running Alexa Skills... and update Echo firmware to handle multiple concurrent tasks (i.e. concurrent app-switching) and expanding functionality (i.e. add camera)... game, set, match.
The patent was issued 10 years ago (February 2007) and they allege infringement based on theOffline Downloads feature.
Hello Blackbird? This is Netflix. We will happily invalidate your '362patent by virtue of presenting prior art in the realm of offline distribution of digital media via our original DVD-by-mail business which lead to Blockbuster going bankrupt. Also theconcept ofdownloading media for offline consumption already existed before the patent was either issued (e.g. Apple iTunes) or was even conceived (e.g. TiVO in the early 2000's, Napster in the 1990's, BBS/Usenet in the 1980's). FURTHERMORE there are methods published in open standards (e.g. HTML5) which basically make these claims overly broad as tocause everybody to infringe. K THX BYE.
He is unable to go to Australia without first going through UK territory, which would result in extradition to Sweden.
Any official flag-carrying convoy representing a territory (i.e. Ecuador or Australia) carries with it the same sovereign protections as the consulate or embassy properties [usually]. The hub-bub about Assange leaving the embassy and immediately considered on UK territory is in the event hehails ataxicab, takes an Uber/Lyft, rents a car, walks around, or any other type of transportation outsidethe compound withoutthe established protections ofasovereign flag-carrying state. [In other words, don't believe everything you see onTV...]
Summary's links are fact-free ads.
I found this one, that has the merit to link to the arXiv article about the process.
Fromarticle at TheStack:
It seems here that RAISR has added fur detail – and it invites speculation as to what the algorithm would consider an accurate reconstruction of a person’s skin or other significant details.
I suspect the result is the addition of fur tothe photo of a humanforehead.
@donaldm, the Opera Neon is the Chromium engine but sneakily carries over theMSIE browsing history upon first install/run. Fortunately it does not carry over browsing history after that first-run scenario. (If it did, then it'd almost be cool... on second thought, it's the Vivaldi browser.)
"but a small little meaningless release every once in a while never hurt anybody." FUCK anybody who says that. I get enough small meaningless updates all the time, and I'm about ready to chuck this fucking computer crap out the window because of it.
I'm fairly certain that the Internet would not care.
@greenbird, where do you draw the line? When prayer rules/rights/wrongs are dictated, or termination for smoking at home (cuz the employer doesn't like the idea), or restricting bathroom breaksto 5 minutes once every 2 hours (even if you're pregnant), or when a hello/goodbye handshake or high-five is reclassified physical contact and an overt precursor to aggravated sexual assault (cuz you know that's what ALWAYS happens).
@110010001000, where do you draw the line? When prayer rules/rights/wrongs are dictated, or termination for smoking at home (cuz the employer doesn't like the idea), or restricting bathroom breaksto 5 minutes once every 2 hours (even if you're pregnant), or when a hello/goodbye handshake or high-five is reclassified physical contact and an overt precursor to aggravated sexual assault (cuz you know that's what ALWAYS happens).
Whenever a company sets up a registration page on the Internet, they do not setup infrastructure in every potential customer country. That places undue burden on startups to invest in various upfront startup costs.
And when a foreign citizen signs up on the Internet, they might not be physically in the location of their (single or multiple) citizenship. The website cannot reliable ascertain when a registered user is accessing from their country of citizenship or simply a country of access (e.g. cybercafé).
Whatever the reasons driving Russia's desire to have greater access to their citizen's information, they should simply be more dramatic and sever themselves from the Internet. This would assure that only Russian-hosted properties would be accessible to Russian -- but of course I doubt it has to do with Russians-within-Russia who rely on Russian ISPs.
What's most likely: Russia is interested in monitoring Russians abroad. Since Russia cannot [legally] monitor foreign ISPs, they want the foreign web properties their citizens do visit to relocate their operations domestically.
Their end-game: greater access to information of Russian citizens abroad, including ex-pats and refugees.
Every new software, platform, framework, library, protocol, language, compiler... is rife with shortcuts (by design or accidentally) which are, relatively speaking, considered 'bad programming ideas' from generations of folks who did not prioritize them previously. So every modern program basically sucks for the same reason.
Most films these days are not worth the price of admission! Add all other factors (from parking to concessions and gun violence) and there's no "social experience" which can make the product (film) any better.
Some theater companies are making solid efforts (IMAX, table seating, adult drinks), but even James is guilty of producing crappy movies not worth the price of piracy... much less the price of admission.
You're not holding your breath because that's hard... it requires effort and putting down your selfie stick. For a generation, it requires them to ask how they can help others, and considering the impacts of their actions.
Most seem to forget that technology like smartphone apps are temporary boxed-in containers intended to bring missing platform functionality. For example, when navigation features became built-in to the platforms, then their third-party app equivalents became redundant -- or had to scale up to justify its competitive value. Same goes for media players, etc.
Similarly, as the underlying platforms (hardware and software alike) evolved to provide improved UX via other containers [mobile browsers] then the need for a mobile app disappeared. The only salvation for mobile apps, in this vein, is as containers for personal settings to otherwise server-side web apps (like news readers).
The realm of games, however, remains unmatched on mobile devices... so apps rule that dimension.
It's for their financial reporting purposes. They want to increase their revenue reporting on a monthly basis -- and subscriptions provides a clearer path of monthly usage rather than the cyclicality of perpetual license purchases.
A customer is now a referred to as a "subscriber" because JetBrains Sales/Marketing Dept wants to be hip... and this "subscriber" has the option to renew or not... and this "subscriber" has a perpetual (non-subscription) license. This is all fluff.
In reality, it's business as usual with a single twist: an optional payment plan instead of a single up-front fee.
PS: They want to change their Financial Revenue Recognition model in hopes of increasing their marketing metrics for customer engagement. They don't care how convoluted the story sounds when they don't just say it.
The innovators of the next generation of digital media storage already exist! It's called "Google" and is operated by a philanthropic corporation named "Alphabet" and they have the means to preserve, transform, index, and search the media assets to better develop patterns and similarities between various generations' communication choices.
Seriously, though, we cannot undo the decisions and mistakes from all past generations who have communicated in any modern or dead language... yet chose to not preserve their copies (or had them destroyed by ISIS/ISIL or some-such groups). Information is not meant to exist forever; the Internet is a means of communication and not preservation.
And what if we do manage to preserve an entire generation's worth of media -- what value could such rough add? It simply becomes a massive corpus of junk by the next generation's digital archeologists. They'll surely find their diamond, but it'll come at great expense.
I have dwelled on and architected a pair of solutions that leverage the blockchain and other crypto-currency ideas into an electronic voting platform -- and there's still work to be done on my part.
From my research and analysis, the only pathway to success in the electronic voting space is to synthesize a core technology platform that is compatible across various political systems' core electoral rules. Then, apply the nuances of regional election laws and regulations to the adaptation of the core technology.
The core technology would contain some form of blockchain, but only to cover the span of an individual round of elections among a finite set of candidates and voters. The encryption keys and underlying one-way salts should be in the possession of the institution staging the election (i.e. authority who would declare the winners) while the entire encryption scheme should be public knowledge as to develop trust among the voters that the tech is trustworthy.
My proof of concept is already in the works at home... on my PC... which is turned off today... because I'm busy with my full-time job... sigh.
If their BBC interview is any indication, provide these guys/gals with your credentials and they'll gladly pass it along to the next set of bandits (GoP)... except, since this is a new service, they'll also take your money AND they'll gladly take down your organization.
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With Amazon's AWS unit releasing Chime (new Skype competitor) they simply need to expose Chime APIs as long-running Alexa Skills... and update Echo firmware to handle multiple concurrent tasks (i.e. concurrent app-switching) and expanding functionality (i.e. add camera)... game, set, match.
Blackbird should sue Newegg since their app allows for offline caching of some of their catalog contents (for when yougo offline).
Then, Newegg would happily tear a new one up Blackbird's behind.
The patent was issued 10 years ago (February 2007) and they allege infringement based on theOffline Downloads feature.
Hello Blackbird? This is Netflix. We will happily invalidate your '362patent by virtue of presenting prior art in the realm of offline distribution of digital media via our original DVD-by-mail business which lead to Blockbuster going bankrupt. Also theconcept ofdownloading media for offline consumption already existed before the patent was either issued (e.g. Apple iTunes) or was even conceived (e.g. TiVO in the early 2000's, Napster in the 1990's, BBS/Usenet in the 1980's). FURTHERMORE there are methods published in open standards (e.g. HTML5) which basically make these claims overly broad as tocause everybody to infringe. K THX BYE.
He is unable to go to Australia without first going through UK territory, which would result in extradition to Sweden.
Any official flag-carrying convoy representing a territory (i.e. Ecuador or Australia) carries with it the same sovereign protections as the consulate or embassy properties [usually]. The hub-bub about Assange leaving the embassy and immediately considered on UK territory is in the event hehails ataxicab, takes an Uber/Lyft, rents a car, walks around, or any other type of transportation outsidethe compound withoutthe established protections ofasovereign flag-carrying state. [In other words, don't believe everything you see onTV...]
Summary's links are fact-free ads. I found this one, that has the merit to link to the arXiv article about the process.
Fromarticle at TheStack:
It seems here that RAISR has added fur detail – and it invites speculation as to what the algorithm would consider an accurate reconstruction of a person’s skin or other significant details.
I suspect the result is the addition of fur tothe photo of a humanforehead.
51.99 billion of those are probably just copies of this and these...
Yup. Basically.
@donaldm, the Opera Neon is the Chromium engine but sneakily carries over theMSIE browsing history upon first install/run. Fortunately it does not carry over browsing history after that first-run scenario. (If it did, then it'd almost be cool... on second thought, it's the Vivaldi browser.)
Errr, nope. Just downloaded and running it. Seems fine on Mac OS.
@MrDilliard, rather impressive considering the page (http://www.opera.com/computer/neon) clearly states "Opera Neon concept browser for Windows"
"but a small little meaningless release every once in a while never hurt anybody." FUCK anybody who says that. I get enough small meaningless updates all the time, and I'm about ready to chuck this fucking computer crap out the window because of it.
I'm fairly certain that the Internet would not care.
Remember how the United States imported German scientists to develop nuclear weapons and other such gizmos?
Why do I get the feeling that China brought in North Korean scientists?
@greenbird, where do you draw the line? When prayer rules/rights/wrongs are dictated, or termination for smoking at home (cuz the employer doesn't like the idea), or restricting bathroom breaksto 5 minutes once every 2 hours (even if you're pregnant), or when a hello/goodbye handshake or high-five is reclassified physical contact and an overt precursor to aggravated sexual assault (cuz you know that's what ALWAYS happens).
@110010001000, where do you draw the line? When prayer rules/rights/wrongs are dictated, or termination for smoking at home (cuz the employer doesn't like the idea), or restricting bathroom breaksto 5 minutes once every 2 hours (even if you're pregnant), or when a hello/goodbye handshake or high-five is reclassified physical contact and an overt precursor to aggravated sexual assault (cuz you know that's what ALWAYS happens).
So their setup was a little too 'open' for open-source advocates. They closed access and rotated security keys. Problem solved.
Whenever a company sets up a registration page on the Internet, they do not setup infrastructure in every potential customer country. That places undue burden on startups to invest in various upfront startup costs.
And when a foreign citizen signs up on the Internet, they might not be physically in the location of their (single or multiple) citizenship. The website cannot reliable ascertain when a registered user is accessing from their country of citizenship or simply a country of access (e.g. cybercafé).
Whatever the reasons driving Russia's desire to have greater access to their citizen's information, they should simply be more dramatic and sever themselves from the Internet. This would assure that only Russian-hosted properties would be accessible to Russian -- but of course I doubt it has to do with Russians-within-Russia who rely on Russian ISPs.
What's most likely: Russia is interested in monitoring Russians abroad. Since Russia cannot [legally] monitor foreign ISPs, they want the foreign web properties their citizens do visit to relocate their operations domestically.
Their end-game: greater access to information of Russian citizens abroad, including ex-pats and refugees.
Every new software, platform, framework, library, protocol, language, compiler... is rife with shortcuts (by design or accidentally) which are, relatively speaking, considered 'bad programming ideas' from generations of folks who did not prioritize them previously. So every modern program basically sucks for the same reason.
Most films these days are not worth the price of admission! Add all other factors (from parking to concessions and gun violence) and there's no "social experience" which can make the product (film) any better.
Some theater companies are making solid efforts (IMAX, table seating, adult drinks), but even James is guilty of producing crappy movies not worth the price of piracy... much less the price of admission.
You're not holding your breath because that's hard... it requires effort and putting down your selfie stick. For a generation, it requires them to ask how they can help others, and considering the impacts of their actions.
What we need is not a better incognito mode, but for tech journalists to stop pontificating about technology they do not understand.
Exactly. There's nothing to read into their ramblings except that, as journalists, they have daily/weekly story and word count quotas.
Yes.
Most seem to forget that technology like smartphone apps are temporary boxed-in containers intended to bring missing platform functionality. For example, when navigation features became built-in to the platforms, then their third-party app equivalents became redundant -- or had to scale up to justify its competitive value. Same goes for media players, etc.
Similarly, as the underlying platforms (hardware and software alike) evolved to provide improved UX via other containers [mobile browsers] then the need for a mobile app disappeared. The only salvation for mobile apps, in this vein, is as containers for personal settings to otherwise server-side web apps (like news readers). The realm of games, however, remains unmatched on mobile devices... so apps rule that dimension.
If I were a gambler, I would bet on "incompetence on HP's part" -- they're known to be behind-the-ball on basically everything.
It's for their financial reporting purposes. They want to increase their revenue reporting on a monthly basis -- and subscriptions provides a clearer path of monthly usage rather than the cyclicality of perpetual license purchases.
A customer is now a referred to as a "subscriber" because JetBrains Sales/Marketing Dept wants to be hip... and this "subscriber" has the option to renew or not... and this "subscriber" has a perpetual (non-subscription) license. This is all fluff.
In reality, it's business as usual with a single twist: an optional payment plan instead of a single up-front fee.
PS: They want to change their Financial Revenue Recognition model in hopes of increasing their marketing metrics for customer engagement. They don't care how convoluted the story sounds when they don't just say it.
The innovators of the next generation of digital media storage already exist! It's called "Google" and is operated by a philanthropic corporation named "Alphabet" and they have the means to preserve, transform, index, and search the media assets to better develop patterns and similarities between various generations' communication choices.
Seriously, though, we cannot undo the decisions and mistakes from all past generations who have communicated in any modern or dead language... yet chose to not preserve their copies (or had them destroyed by ISIS/ISIL or some-such groups). Information is not meant to exist forever; the Internet is a means of communication and not preservation.
And what if we do manage to preserve an entire generation's worth of media -- what value could such rough add? It simply becomes a massive corpus of junk by the next generation's digital archeologists. They'll surely find their diamond, but it'll come at great expense.
I have dwelled on and architected a pair of solutions that leverage the blockchain and other crypto-currency ideas into an electronic voting platform -- and there's still work to be done on my part.
From my research and analysis, the only pathway to success in the electronic voting space is to synthesize a core technology platform that is compatible across various political systems' core electoral rules. Then, apply the nuances of regional election laws and regulations to the adaptation of the core technology.
The core technology would contain some form of blockchain, but only to cover the span of an individual round of elections among a finite set of candidates and voters. The encryption keys and underlying one-way salts should be in the possession of the institution staging the election (i.e. authority who would declare the winners) while the entire encryption scheme should be public knowledge as to develop trust among the voters that the tech is trustworthy.
My proof of concept is already in the works at home... on my PC... which is turned off today... because I'm busy with my full-time job... sigh.
If their BBC interview is any indication, provide these guys/gals with your credentials and they'll gladly pass it along to the next set of bandits (GoP)... except, since this is a new service, they'll also take your money AND they'll gladly take down your organization.
It's merely a sucker's bet.