Delaware is already a sizeable patent district -- e.g., most pharmaceutical patent cases are filed there, and they had ~10% of all cases filed last year.
Problem is they're not staffed for this kind of additional volume -- they only had three judges to start with, and then Judge Robinson took senior status this spring. With this sort of flood now looming, it's not clear who's going to want to sign up to replace her.
Maybe one of the "Judges" from East Texas can transfer up there, since their caseload is going to be considerably lighter...
The whole east Texas crap has been the bane of the tech industry for decades.
I don't know why someone can't investigate the East Texas District Court. They've obviously not be acting in the interests of Justice for many a DECADE...
Can someone tell me why I should [perhaps] want to use this OS?
Back in the day, you could run multiple nodes of your favorite BBS software in OS/2 on a single machine. The alternative was DOS with DESQview and QEMM. Those who had the money or were funded by their users swore by OS/2 for running multiple nodes. Some these BBSes might still be around.
OS/2 was a multitasking monster!
I remember fooling around with OS/2 Warp, and spinning-up program after program and watching, fascinated, as they all just Marched along.
..as was the Apple flavor, called AppleScript/s/. At one point (before the investors brought Jobs back), the Frenchies must have had a fleet of Amiga computers in the basement at 1 Infinite Loop along with a surgical team carefully innovating everything for Apple's System 7 (even knock-offs of Amiga GfxBase, the MIDI integration and Speech). Here in the future, Apple recently let their AppleScript master go on his way and on their billion-user platforms (iOS, tvOS and watchOS) they don't allow third-parties to integrate any standardized-APIs into their mobile apps, or any APIs at all for that matter, except for whatever deep-URL-hooks or quasi-background-tasks they can "make work". They just bought some third-party company called Workflow, so maybe some announcements at WWDC? While the whole syntax of AppleScript was always way more verbose (like the original Jobs-era HyperCard language) than ARexx, the concept was the same --and on macOS Sierra these days, they implement that concept using additional nomenclature besides AppleScript, like JavaScript and MacPython. Whatever Apple does with scripting, I hope it allows integration across all devices in the same realm (Apple ID/Family)...otherwise, this is the #1 reason to build a new operating system and go save some (now) broke-arse manufacturing company that was locked out of the Apple ecoSystem.
AppleScript isn't HyperTalk-Like. It is a direct descendant of HyperTalk.
And the MIDI integration in MacOS Classic (and later, OS X/macOS) was actually purchased from a company with a Mac OS (classic) software subsystem called OMS (Open Music System).
Long gone are the days where you could run a current Linux distro effectively as a desktop OS on some 486-based motherboard with 128k of RAM, gathering dust in your closet. Outdated hardware is outdated hardware, and you'll just as likely want to purchase new hardware to run a modern Linux distro effectively as you would to run a modern version of MacOS.
The only difference is that, when you go to sell that Wintel-cum-Linux computer in 5 years, you'll get about 5% of the initial purchase price (if that), whereas you'll get about 50% for a used Mac. So, with Macs, once you're "on the train", the subsequent "tickets" are actually much cheaper than with the Wintel crapola, and so, over time, Macs actually beat the cost of even the cheapest Wintel crap.
And, as has been proven time and again, it you pump up your Linux box to meet or exceed Mac specs and features, it tends to cost as much, or even more than an equivalent Mac. So where's you "expensive hardware dongle" argument now?
I know you, and you'll keep bleating and moving goalposts to defend your demonstrably-indefensible argument; but why not quit before you make a further ass of yourself?
And with Lixux you get shitty sound support, no mainstream software, iffy WiFi, crappy systemd, a choice of several UIs; all of them crappy, and, perhaps most important to most users new to Linux, a most unhelpful "community", that when asked for help, almost universally derides the one seeking help, rather than actually, um, helping.
Apple III from 1980s called, and want its SOS back.
Don't denigrate SOS, man!
It was actually a pretty damn nice OS for its day; too bad it had unreliable hardware to run on for the first couple of years. Then, when the hardware finally WAS reliable, nobody trusted it.
Virus writers will target the largest market portion. If that's Windows, they'll write viruses for Windows. If it's Mac, they'll write viruses for Mac. If it's Linux, they will start writing viruses for Linux.
Just because more vulnerabilities in Windows are known, does not mean there are less total in Linux. And short of taking away admin/sudo access from users completely, malware can always social engineer it's way into administrative privileges during an installer or something similar.
I keep hearing this, but here we are at nearly 20 years of OS X/macOS, and there STILL isn't a single self-replicating (Worm-type) Virus for Macs.
Even Linux can't make that claim, and its Marketshare is about five-times smaller than OS X/macOS.
"While Microsoft makes its own efforts by rushing out patches and sharing concerns with other companies, it also chastises customers who could have closed the WannaCry hole two months earlier but didn't."
If Microsoft didn't dress up Windows 10 deployment campaigns as security patches maybe people would have applied important updates, instead, many people got fed up of cleaning up the Windows 10 installer so turned of auto update instead.
Glad I'm no longer dependent on Windows.
Exactly!
That's why I turned off WU on my Win7 work laptop.
Then, when I went to download the "Security Only" Update for Windows 7 (and others), part of MS17-010, it downloaded, spun for about 5 minutes, and then declared it didn't install. No explanation. Just. No.
Yup, beginning to look like Apple and Android, along with Linux. All oses make you run their specific type of program. So what's so bad about win10? Keyloggers? On all three. Ads? On all three, specific updates sameo, the difference is, that win supports legacy hardware, the only one different, is Linux. They do the same, support legacy, Apple and Android have definite drop dead dates. No longer support. I may have to look at arm to get support for my four year old tablet, cool.
Excuse me, unlike Windows 10, Spyware Edition, there are no general-purpose "keyloggers" in macOS or iOS.
You can also "opt-out" of Spotlight searches being sent out for deeper searching, and prevent certain anonymized iTunes library and usage info from being sent out (and that's not a keylogger). And after those two are defeated by their readily-accessible and clearly-marked GUI "switches", I don't believe there are any other "keyloggers" at the OS-level in those two OSes.
There are absolutely no "ads" at the OS-level on macOS or iOS.
I would imagine that TVOS and watchOS are the same on both points; but I don't have any personal experience with them.
Dogs can tell the direction of smells because, unlike humans, they have "stereo smell". Their nostrils are sensed separately by their left and right hemispheres. Ours are not.
I can watch my dog sniffing a treat I am holding out for him, and he definitely samples it with one nostril, then the other, back and forth, until he has satisfied himself that It's acceptable for consumption.
In other news, Microsoft and Apple team up to add more walls to their gardens. The combined effort will be called Mapple On Line. CDs are already in the mail.
Too bad no one with a computer newer than 2012 can use them for anything more than a coaster for their coffee cup!
I'm not defending them at all. You're just moving the goalposts on definitions when you say they took something away.
Apple doesn't do that with its OS because you simply can't buy it. It's "free" but only available bundled with expensive hardware. If either option is abusive, I vote that it's the latter. That's a much bigger than $50 penalty for a full-featured OS.
So, would it be less abusive if Apple still charged $129 for the OS?
And Apple hardware, feature-for-feature isn't "overpriced". That meme has been proven wrong again and again. (Besides, speaking of "moving the goalposts" , now you have jumped completely over to the Hardware "Kingdom"!!!)
And of course you'd find Apple's policy of including the FULL OS (less Server Extensions, which are simply not part of the "base OS", and then, only cost $20) "abusive", while simultaneously giving Microsoft a pass for pulling features from its "base OS", then charging $50 (after December) to put them back?
If that isn't the textbook definition of "Shill", I don't know what is...
It's still in the OS. You're just not getting that version. And the OEM (if it makes it outside the surface) probably won't have to pay anything for it, but Windows 10 Pro is always an option.
This separate version already existed with RT, if only because of CPU compatibility.
Excuse me, SHILL, if it isn't in the OS-build that is loaded on the product when you open the box, then, for all intents and purposes, IT ISN'T IN THE OS!!!
Why does MS CONSTANTLY have to play these anti-consumer, artificial-product-distinction games? Apple doesn't do that with its OS!
And before you mention macOS Server Extensions, there IS a clear delineation of "roles" for machines so-equipped, like there are between Windows "Desktop" and Windows "Server". But all those "micro-versions" of Windows "Desktop" are simply asinine, and are nothing but a crass money-grab.
(and a touch of Jony Ive having way too much power)
It's more than a touch, he's in charge of hardware design from top to bottom. And since he likes thin and hates ports, we only get crap products.
So THAT's why the top 5 laptop companies ALL crow about being able to shave another 0.1 mm off their laptops' thickness! Jony Ive is secretly working at all of those companies! Simultaneously!
And that's why the 2016 15" MacBook Pro has significantly more raw I/O bandwidth (80 Gbps) of any laptop, as well as the hands-down most flexible I/O of any laptop: Because Jony Ive "Hates Ports"...
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't it be horrible if you found out you were about to be laid off from a Slashdot article?
...or better yet, having it appear on the National News on a TV screen behind you, while you were speaking to a room full of your co-workers?
Disabling SMB1 is not enough to stop the EternalRocks worm, which includes the EternalChampion (SMB2) and EternalSynergy (SMB3) exploits.
Have I mentioned that I hate Windows?
Delaware is already a sizeable patent district -- e.g., most pharmaceutical patent cases are filed there, and they had ~10% of all cases filed last year.
Problem is they're not staffed for this kind of additional volume -- they only had three judges to start with, and then Judge Robinson took senior status this spring. With this sort of flood now looming, it's not clear who's going to want to sign up to replace her.
Maybe one of the "Judges" from East Texas can transfer up there, since their caseload is going to be considerably lighter...
The whole east Texas crap has been the bane of the tech industry for decades.
I don't know why someone can't investigate the East Texas District Court. They've obviously not be acting in the interests of Justice for many a DECADE...
thinks that this will just create more patent infringement friendly jurisdictions, as the wealth gets.... redistributed
Yeah. Now it'll be whatever District serves Delaware...
That's bullshit! Reveton back in 2012 used to demand Ukash or Paysafecard.
Ok, so that's one.
Name 3 others and I'll believe you. And they can't be variants of Reveton.
Simple as that.
The world never (or almost never) had such a thing as Ransomware until untraceable, auto-laundering methods of payment like Bitcoin.
Even cash is traceable, because you have to send it somewhere!
Stop Bitcoin, and its ilk, and you will take the "Ransom" motive out of "Ransomware". Just. Like. That.
Can someone tell me why I should [perhaps] want to use this OS?
Back in the day, you could run multiple nodes of your favorite BBS software in OS/2 on a single machine. The alternative was DOS with DESQview and QEMM. Those who had the money or were funded by their users swore by OS/2 for running multiple nodes. Some these BBSes might still be around.
OS/2 was a multitasking monster!
I remember fooling around with OS/2 Warp, and spinning-up program after program and watching, fascinated, as they all just Marched along.
| Rex and its Amiga version Arexx were awesome
AppleScript isn't HyperTalk-Like. It is a direct descendant of HyperTalk.
And the MIDI integration in MacOS Classic (and later, OS X/macOS) was actually purchased from a company with a Mac OS (classic) software subsystem called OMS (Open Music System).
Or everybody could just quit panicking and patch their systems.
I tried.
I downloaded MS17-010 for 64 bit Win 7 (which I run in my work laptop), and after churning for a few mins, it said that the Update Wasn't Installed.
So I simply disabled SMB1 and am hoping for the best.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!
It has a rather expensive hardware dongle.
So does Linux.
Long gone are the days where you could run a current Linux distro effectively as a desktop OS on some 486-based motherboard with 128k of RAM, gathering dust in your closet. Outdated hardware is outdated hardware, and you'll just as likely want to purchase new hardware to run a modern Linux distro effectively as you would to run a modern version of MacOS.
The only difference is that, when you go to sell that Wintel-cum-Linux computer in 5 years, you'll get about 5% of the initial purchase price (if that), whereas you'll get about 50% for a used Mac. So, with Macs, once you're "on the train", the subsequent "tickets" are actually much cheaper than with the Wintel crapola, and so, over time, Macs actually beat the cost of even the cheapest Wintel crap.
And, as has been proven time and again, it you pump up your Linux box to meet or exceed Mac specs and features, it tends to cost as much, or even more than an equivalent Mac. So where's you "expensive hardware dongle" argument now?
I know you, and you'll keep bleating and moving goalposts to defend your demonstrably-indefensible argument; but why not quit before you make a further ass of yourself?
And with Lixux you get shitty sound support, no mainstream software, iffy WiFi, crappy systemd, a choice of several UIs; all of them crappy, and, perhaps most important to most users new to Linux, a most unhelpful "community", that when asked for help, almost universally derides the one seeking help, rather than actually, um, helping.
Yeah, where do I sign?
Apple III from 1980s called, and want its SOS back.
Don't denigrate SOS, man!
It was actually a pretty damn nice OS for its day; too bad it had unreliable hardware to run on for the first couple of years. Then, when the hardware finally WAS reliable, nobody trusted it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wanna signal an "SOS" for somebody to please rescue me from this nightmare that Windows of today is. Sadly, Linux is not an alternative.
macOS is.
Mac is not reasonably popular, it is less than 5%.
You're wrong.
It is almost TEN TIMES as popular as Linux.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-m...
Virus writers will target the largest market portion. If that's Windows, they'll write viruses for Windows. If it's Mac, they'll write viruses for Mac. If it's Linux, they will start writing viruses for Linux.
Just because more vulnerabilities in Windows are known, does not mean there are less total in Linux. And short of taking away admin/sudo access from users completely, malware can always social engineer it's way into administrative privileges during an installer or something similar.
I keep hearing this, but here we are at nearly 20 years of OS X/macOS, and there STILL isn't a single self-replicating (Worm-type) Virus for Macs.
Even Linux can't make that claim, and its Marketshare is about five-times smaller than OS X/macOS.
oh my god. Are you retarded? We're not talking about a scanner like an image scanner. We're talking about a touch screen display.
Actually, you are the retarded one.
It's actually both.
Reinstall to fix. Just like Windows. Are they working to port systemd into the fragmented collection of various Apple oses?
Dumbass.
They literally wrote launchd, that was eventually corrupted into systemd.
Only they did it right, released it to the planet twelve years ago, and the FOSStards STILL couldn't get it right!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
"While Microsoft makes its own efforts by rushing out patches and sharing concerns with other companies, it also chastises customers who could have closed the WannaCry hole two months earlier but didn't."
If Microsoft didn't dress up Windows 10 deployment campaigns as security patches maybe people would have applied important updates, instead, many people got fed up of cleaning up the Windows 10 installer so turned of auto update instead.
Glad I'm no longer dependent on Windows.
Exactly!
That's why I turned off WU on my Win7 work laptop.
Then, when I went to download the "Security Only" Update for Windows 7 (and others), part of MS17-010, it downloaded, spun for about 5 minutes, and then declared it didn't install. No explanation. Just. No.
Sigh...
Yup, beginning to look like Apple and Android, along with Linux. All oses make you run their specific type of program. So what's so bad about win10? Keyloggers? On all three. Ads? On all three, specific updates sameo, the difference is, that win supports legacy hardware, the only one different, is Linux. They do the same, support legacy, Apple and Android have definite drop dead dates. No longer support. I may have to look at arm to get support for my four year old tablet, cool.
Excuse me, unlike Windows 10, Spyware Edition, there are no general-purpose "keyloggers" in macOS or iOS.
You can also "opt-out" of Spotlight searches being sent out for deeper searching, and prevent certain anonymized iTunes library and usage info from being sent out (and that's not a keylogger). And after those two are defeated by their readily-accessible and clearly-marked GUI "switches", I don't believe there are any other "keyloggers" at the OS-level in those two OSes.
There are absolutely no "ads" at the OS-level on macOS or iOS.
I would imagine that TVOS and watchOS are the same on both points; but I don't have any personal experience with them.
Dogs can tell the direction of smells because, unlike humans, they have "stereo smell". Their nostrils are sensed separately by their left and right hemispheres. Ours are not.
I can watch my dog sniffing a treat I am holding out for him, and he definitely samples it with one nostril, then the other, back and forth, until he has satisfied himself that It's acceptable for consumption.
In other news, Microsoft and Apple team up to add more walls to their gardens. The combined effort will be called Mapple On Line. CDs are already in the mail.
Too bad no one with a computer newer than 2012 can use them for anything more than a coaster for their coffee cup!
I'm not defending them at all. You're just moving the goalposts on definitions when you say they took something away.
Apple doesn't do that with its OS because you simply can't buy it. It's "free" but only available bundled with expensive hardware. If either option is abusive, I vote that it's the latter. That's a much bigger than $50 penalty for a full-featured OS.
So, would it be less abusive if Apple still charged $129 for the OS?
And Apple hardware, feature-for-feature isn't "overpriced". That meme has been proven wrong again and again. (Besides, speaking of "moving the goalposts" , now you have jumped completely over to the Hardware "Kingdom"!!!)
And of course you'd find Apple's policy of including the FULL OS (less Server Extensions, which are simply not part of the "base OS", and then, only cost $20) "abusive", while simultaneously giving Microsoft a pass for pulling features from its "base OS" , then charging $50 (after December) to put them back?
If that isn't the textbook definition of "Shill", I don't know what is...
It's still in the OS. You're just not getting that version. And the OEM (if it makes it outside the surface) probably won't have to pay anything for it, but Windows 10 Pro is always an option.
This separate version already existed with RT, if only because of CPU compatibility.
Excuse me, SHILL, if it isn't in the OS-build that is loaded on the product when you open the box, then, for all intents and purposes, IT ISN'T IN THE OS!!!
Why does MS CONSTANTLY have to play these anti-consumer, artificial-product-distinction games? Apple doesn't do that with its OS!
And before you mention macOS Server Extensions, there IS a clear delineation of "roles" for machines so-equipped, like there are between Windows "Desktop" and Windows "Server". But all those "micro-versions" of Windows "Desktop" are simply asinine, and are nothing but a crass money-grab.
It's more than a touch, he's in charge of hardware design from top to bottom. And since he likes thin and hates ports, we only get crap products.
So THAT's why the top 5 laptop companies ALL crow about being able to shave another 0.1 mm off their laptops' thickness! Jony Ive is secretly working at all of those companies! Simultaneously!
And that's why the 2016 15" MacBook Pro has significantly more raw I/O bandwidth (80 Gbps) of any laptop, as well as the hands-down most flexible I/O of any laptop: Because Jony Ive "Hates Ports"...
1. Spread FUD about USB-C, and in so doing, about the new MBPs.
Apple goes all-USB-c ---> nerds rage.
Microsoft sticks with USB-A ---> nerds rage.
Now THAT's funny!
(And sadly, also true...)