Of course you would. Everyone with power uses it for good things. Just ask them (and they really believe it, too. Why wouldn't they with everyone around them telling them how good they are?)
So don't make the odds too high. Having a picture of you parked at a red meter does not obligate them to send you a ticket. They can just ticket a randomly-selected subset of the observed violations (and the bureaucrats can perhaps make a bit of money on the side arranging for you to be in that subset...)
...if a webpage is serving content from another website, such as with advertising networks, we're pretty much doomed no matter what the markup language, aren't we?
Only if you accept that "content".
basically, the concept of privacy on the internet is void.
People have always been able to see you when you walk down the street. I guess privacy has always been dead.
> Being able to store things with flash is fine...
No it isn't. Creatures such as Flash should never be able to store or read anything. They should be locked in their sandboxes with only the input the browser chooses to give them.
Could impact "software metrics" though. "Three months and you guys have produced only one LOC? You're all fired. We're sending the job to a guy in India who guarantees 20 LOCs per day from each programmer."
Because the dark fiber is where it is, not where it is needed. One of the fibers that crosses my land runs from Spring Valley, Wisconsin to Elmwood, Wisconsin. Is that going to help with a bandwidth shortage between New York and Chicago?
Can the car sense what is beyond the car in front of them presently to know to hit the brakes, should the car in front not be showing signs of needing to slow down?
Can you rely on more than one human driver in a thousand doing that?
I tried to tell them that tubes and transistors were just a fad. Relays were good enough for the Z4 and they're good enough for us. These kids and their newfangled gadgets...
The problem here is not with TOSBack, or any related software, but that companies are able to change contracts after acceptance simply by putting them online.
Unfortunately it is the "slack-jawed, mouth breathing rednecks from the hinterlands" who tend to make the most noise and get the most attention.
No. It is the "slack-jawed, mouth breathing bluenecks from the cities" who tend to make the most noise and get the most attention. The "slack-jawed, mouth breathing rednecks from the cities" come in second. The "slack-jawed, mouth breathing rednecks from the hinterlands" come in a distant third.
It's also bullshit. Yes, they might be able to tie him up in court, but it would cost them more than it would cost him. That's why companies often pay up rather than fight patents that are weaker than his might have been. Cheaper to license or purchase the patent, unless the owner is insanely greedy.
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> I would use my superpowers to do good things.
Of course you would. Everyone with power uses it for good things. Just ask them (and they really believe it, too. Why wouldn't they with everyone around them telling them how good they are?)
In other words, not well at all.
Very human indeed. Has it found God yet?
So don't make the odds too high. Having a picture of you parked at a red meter does not obligate them to send you a ticket. They can just ticket a randomly-selected subset of the observed violations (and the bureaucrats can perhaps make a bit of money on the side arranging for you to be in that subset...)
Only if you accept that "content".
People have always been able to see you when you walk down the street. I guess privacy has always been dead.
> ...we will turn to cross-platform plugins like Flash to actually get stuff done.
"Stuff" that doesn't need doing.
> Being able to store things with flash is fine...
No it isn't. Creatures such as Flash should never be able to store or read anything. They should be locked in their sandboxes with only the input the browser chooses to give them.
The solution is obvious. Ban newlines.
Could impact "software metrics" though. "Three months and you guys have produced only one LOC? You're all fired. We're sending the job to a guy in India who guarantees 20 LOCs per day from each programmer."
...and is simple. Vacinnia is popular for research. ...Oh. That kind of "virus". Never mind.
They would use circular polarization multiplexing. They already use phase shift modulation as well as wavelength division multiplexing.
Why should it? You've established that you want malware, so it lets you have malware.
Or just get rid of network neutrality so that ISPs can filter packets with the evil bit set.
Because the dark fiber is where it is, not where it is needed. One of the fibers that crosses my land runs from Spring Valley, Wisconsin to Elmwood, Wisconsin. Is that going to help with a bandwidth shortage between New York and Chicago?
> Or figure out a way of getting cyber criminals off the net.
Be serious. There's no hope of getting rid of Microsoft Windows in the forseeable future.
Can you rely on more than one human driver in a thousand doing that?
I never would have guessed it.
I tried to tell them that tubes and transistors were just a fad. Relays were good enough for the Z4 and they're good enough for us. These kids and their newfangled gadgets...
16,000. 300 was the number in the state of Wisconsin.
> What do you think about open sourcing that voice recognition software?
Who is going to pay the patent royalties?
They were buying voice clips and paying in service.
No they aren't.
No. It is the "slack-jawed, mouth breathing bluenecks from the cities" who tend to make the most noise and get the most attention. The "slack-jawed, mouth breathing rednecks from the cities" come in second. The "slack-jawed, mouth breathing rednecks from the hinterlands" come in a distant third.
> Never understood the 'not obvious to the layperson' requirement...
There is no such requirement in the USA.
It's also bullshit. Yes, they might be able to tie him up in court, but it would cost them more than it would cost him. That's why companies often pay up rather than fight patents that are weaker than his might have been. Cheaper to license or purchase the patent, unless the owner is insanely greedy.
So create an account, lock it down tight, and never use it.
If you read Usenet using Google Groups you deserve anything you get.