People used to believe photographic evidence (which came to existfairly recently). Then came Photoshop; someone with enough patience is now capable of faking one single frame very convincingly. Photos are no longer believed; world yet to end. People have a habit of believing video evidence (which came to exist even more recently). Then came AI; someone with enough patience will soon be capable of faking a clip very convincingly. Videos will no longer be believed; world is expected to survive.
A thing that 1. is a blank screen in its default state, instead of showing time 2. has to be taken off every night to recharge may be smart, but is not a watch.
There are still enough Pebbles around to get yourself a stash. Also, the battery is soldered at two points to the power leads, so changing it is doable.
"A Russian company with close ties to KGB squashes a patent troll, remains a Russian company with close ties to KGB. The Congress will still advise anyone who's not out of their minds not to trust their computers to the Russian company with close ties to KGB". FIFY.
They are (to the extent it is applicable to anything that's Russian) a private company, at least on the US market, and they can hide or disclose whatever parts of the code they want, unless there's a subpoena or a search warrant. But by the same token, of course no agency in their right mind, much less a government agency, can possibly contemplate using anything developed by a KGB man.
Now how are you guys going to go about that money transfers that the former persident agreed to? $100B a year, if I remember correctly. The world is waiting.
How does that work? The same way as in Russia, where the providers are obligated to be a MITM (and replace a certificate if it's HTTPS)? Isn't that more of an outrage, then, than what they choose to block or what penalties they put in place?
If you remember that little hubbub about Russia's attempt to block certain pages of Wikipedia, it failed only because Wikimedia set the HSTS; they simply expected to utilize the providers' MITM backdoors the way they did it with every other page that makes its way into the proscribed list (that gets added to regularly), but when the entire site went down with a big warning "forgery in progress, turn back now, you're not clicking through", they panicked and backtracked. But not for long. So here's a way out of that predicament. Now ru.wikipedia.org will have to decide if they want to pack up and disappear or permit that which they fought off a year ago; and if they choose wrong, it'll be their fault - the law is clear, innit?
A prominent author refuses to stop using a typewriter, even though the warranty on it had expired and the manufacturer no longer makes them. A misguided luddite refuses to stop using a 1950s Packard, even though the company that produced it no longer exists. A world-renowned musician refuses to stop using his Stradivarius, even though...
is and has always been a disgusting kludge on top of the 32-bit (that they finally managed to get in decent shape). Faced with the necessity to build something just as ugly for another product, I'm not sure I would have reacted differently than they did.
Oh, and the bit about valuing the feedback is priceless, of course.
Cooperate - and get two hours of grilling and a borked laptop. And the half-assed apology. Tell the feds to go get a clue about procedure and return with a warrant - get the half-assed apology and keep your electronics in working order.
It's just another way of diverting the flow of government money into a few carefully chosen pockets. As is the nano-technology research program, and the snow-free winters mentioned earlier today. Think about it: an open-ended grant with no accountability for a quarter century - and likely ever? They'll get a couple government defaults and an odd coup in between, who's going to care about the small stuff.
Google street maps are not by Google (so far; this may change, of course). TomTom owns Tele Atlas (which owns GDT), and is therefore one of only 2 companies with established road network data business (the other one being Nokia, nee NAVTEQ - and Tele Atlas has always had a better coverage outside North America). The exponential explosion in geocoding devices cannot be anything but good for the licensing revenue of these 2 companies. Garmin, though, has no prayer in this segment and would do good to concentrate on hiking market.
But they'd better hurry up with "Mr. Fusion" which will be needed to power that thing, and finally buy the license for that demon of Mr. Maxwell's to cool it.
Oh great. Another batch of "that does it, I am ditching Comcast". Note also that they didn't even have to do anything yet, just put out a press release, and the troublemakers (sharers in this case) are busy playing the Crack Suicide Squad - which is exactly what's required from the point of view of the ISPs. Just get them off your own lawn, and report progress to RIAA. There's always enough lemmings (who don't know and don't care) to pay the bills.
Now, if the comments were running to the side of "that does it, I'm getting Comcast accounts for everyone and the dog and sharing like it's 1999", that would make more sense as a response. Otherwise, get used to the periodical pronouncements - they don't cost anything and are having at least some effect.
Many of the Slashdotters actually pay for the opportunity to, among other things, answer questions like that. If you do not derive satisfaction from doing it, just step aside, no one is forcing you to post.
Vista is the automatic transmission, XP is a manual. There's more to break down in an automatic, it saps the power of the engine, and it robs you of a certain degree of control over your car; but we are conditioned to think that slushboxes are an upgrade, and that when both are offered, it costs extra to have them (while some models don't come with the manual at all). I never understood that logic (as well as its "bigger car is better car" counterpart), and Europeans don't seem to be infected by it. Even in the US cars sometimes came with a "no-cost manual option" (admittedly, these were mostly Corvettes and BMWs); now it's time to drop the "no-cost" part of it. Still, some people (me included) would choose it, on both desktops and four wheels.
Their game is already not a shutout, and this run is nothing that a few judgments in their favor in other cases won't cure; then it should be easy to spin it as a minor procedural setback: "so the judge didn't like our theory in this particular case; big deal, we got lots of 'em left. You, yes, you there; wanna play those odds?". Going all out pursuing one guy sends exactly the wrong message - that they care how each individual case turns out; they can't and they shouldn't.
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People used to believe photographic evidence (which came to existfairly recently). Then came Photoshop; someone with enough patience is now capable of faking one single frame very convincingly. Photos are no longer believed; world yet to end.
People have a habit of believing video evidence (which came to exist even more recently). Then came AI; someone with enough patience will soon be capable of faking a clip very convincingly. Videos will no longer be believed; world is expected to survive.
A thing that
1. is a blank screen in its default state, instead of showing time
2. has to be taken off every night to recharge
may be smart, but is not a watch.
There are still enough Pebbles around to get yourself a stash. Also, the battery is soldered at two points to the power leads, so changing it is doable.
"Government strangles a nuclear plant, plans to bribe the company with billions of tax money to build solar instead."
"A Russian company with close ties to KGB squashes a patent troll, remains a Russian company with close ties to KGB. The Congress will still advise anyone who's not out of their minds not to trust their computers to the Russian company with close ties to KGB".
FIFY.
They are (to the extent it is applicable to anything that's Russian) a private company, at least on the US market, and they can hide or disclose whatever parts of the code they want, unless there's a subpoena or a search warrant. But by the same token, of course no agency in their right mind, much less a government agency, can possibly contemplate using anything developed by a KGB man.
How is "mainly made up of easy-to-recycle materials" in any way informative? No one said they were 50%+ cadmium.
Yeah. The "Pope chooses a Catholic to be appointed cardinal" kind of news. But hey, that's apparently "stuff that matters" these days.
Now how are you guys going to go about that money transfers that the former persident agreed to? $100B a year, if I remember correctly. The world is waiting.
"Our flight should prove that it's possible to make long-distance flights using solar energy if you only ever need to fly east"?
"lags in processing invoices for federal grants": "We can't be bothered to catch the money that's falling down on us".
How does that work? The same way as in Russia, where the providers are obligated to be a MITM (and replace a certificate if it's HTTPS)? Isn't that more of an outrage, then, than what they choose to block or what penalties they put in place?
If you remember that little hubbub about Russia's attempt to block certain pages of Wikipedia, it failed only because Wikimedia set the HSTS; they simply expected to utilize the providers' MITM backdoors the way they did it with every other page that makes its way into the proscribed list (that gets added to regularly), but when the entire site went down with a big warning "forgery in progress, turn back now, you're not clicking through", they panicked and backtracked. But not for long. So here's a way out of that predicament. Now ru.wikipedia.org will have to decide if they want to pack up and disappear or permit that which they fought off a year ago; and if they choose wrong, it'll be their fault - the law is clear, innit?
A prominent author refuses to stop using a typewriter, even though the warranty on it had expired and the manufacturer no longer makes them.
A misguided luddite refuses to stop using a 1950s Packard, even though the company that produced it no longer exists.
A world-renowned musician refuses to stop using his Stradivarius, even though...
multiphysicist at engineering software firm
Or, to use a more widely known term, not physicist.
is and has always been a disgusting kludge on top of the 32-bit (that they finally managed to get in decent shape). Faced with the necessity to build something just as ugly for another product, I'm not sure I would have reacted differently than they did.
Oh, and the bit about valuing the feedback is priceless, of course.
now let us all hurry up and move our entire digital lives to the Cloud!
Cooperate - and get two hours of grilling and a borked laptop. And the half-assed apology.
Tell the feds to go get a clue about procedure and return with a warrant - get the half-assed apology and keep your electronics in working order.
It's just another way of diverting the flow of government money into a few carefully chosen pockets. As is the nano-technology research program, and the snow-free winters mentioned earlier today. Think about it: an open-ended grant with no accountability for a quarter century - and likely ever? They'll get a couple government defaults and an odd coup in between, who's going to care about the small stuff.
Google street maps are not by Google (so far; this may change, of course). TomTom owns Tele Atlas (which owns GDT), and is therefore one of only 2 companies with established road network data business (the other one being Nokia, nee NAVTEQ - and Tele Atlas has always had a better coverage outside North America). The exponential explosion in geocoding devices cannot be anything but good for the licensing revenue of these 2 companies. Garmin, though, has no prayer in this segment and would do good to concentrate on hiking market.
But they'd better hurry up with "Mr. Fusion" which will be needed to power that thing, and finally buy the license for that demon of Mr. Maxwell's to cool it.
Oh great. Another batch of "that does it, I am ditching Comcast". Note also that they didn't even have to do anything yet, just put out a press release, and the troublemakers (sharers in this case) are busy playing the Crack Suicide Squad - which is exactly what's required from the point of view of the ISPs. Just get them off your own lawn, and report progress to RIAA. There's always enough lemmings (who don't know and don't care) to pay the bills.
Now, if the comments were running to the side of "that does it, I'm getting Comcast accounts for everyone and the dog and sharing like it's 1999", that would make more sense as a response. Otherwise, get used to the periodical pronouncements - they don't cost anything and are having at least some effect.
1.2 kW per household? A hair dryer eats more than this.
Many of the Slashdotters actually pay for the opportunity to, among other things, answer questions like that. If you do not derive satisfaction from doing it, just step aside, no one is forcing you to post.
Vista is the automatic transmission, XP is a manual. There's more to break down in an automatic, it saps the power of the engine, and it robs you of a certain degree of control over your car; but we are conditioned to think that slushboxes are an upgrade, and that when both are offered, it costs extra to have them (while some models don't come with the manual at all). I never understood that logic (as well as its "bigger car is better car" counterpart), and Europeans don't seem to be infected by it. Even in the US cars sometimes came with a "no-cost manual option" (admittedly, these were mostly Corvettes and BMWs); now it's time to drop the "no-cost" part of it. Still, some people (me included) would choose it, on both desktops and four wheels.
Their game is already not a shutout, and this run is nothing that a few judgments in their favor in other cases won't cure; then it should be easy to spin it as a minor procedural setback: "so the judge didn't like our theory in this particular case; big deal, we got lots of 'em left. You, yes, you there; wanna play those odds?". Going all out pursuing one guy sends exactly the wrong message - that they care how each individual case turns out; they can't and they shouldn't.