Denial of certiorari sets no precedent. They could have rejected this case for any number of reasons, from a full calendar to the suit involving side issues which would make any ruling muddy to not liking the name of the defendant. They denied without comment.
Many of them don't even understand how computers actually work.
Given that understanding how (modern) computers actually work requires a working knowledge of quantum mechanics (not in any CS curriculum I've ever seen), not surprising.
Patents must be specific enough to describe a particular set of implementations of an idea, rather than just the general idea itself. Despite Slashdot's love of the phrase, "on a computer" does not a patent make.
Not only does "on a computer" make a patent, "on a machine readable medium" (Beauregard claim) is quite sufficient.
On the other hand, that specificity can be problematic when it comes time to actually use the exclusivity a patent provides.
Doctrine of equivalents.
Stop apologizing for the patent system; it's broken.
The Frigidaire slide-in oven has a fan to cool the controls; it's noisy. The Kitchen Aid (as of a couple of years ago) has no such fan. It's quiet. Unfortunately the controls tend to overheat and fail. Also the door glass explodes spontaneously. Still want the quiet one?
The guy running the roofing business, though? He'll have to wait a couple of years or become a pilot and an expert on navigating section 333's paperwork mill
Or he'll just do it. The FAA doesn't have the manpower to catch him... and even if they do catch him once, the fine is $10,000 and thus lots cheaper than doing it legally.
Personally I think the solution is to speak up even when you don't care that much. You can't convince the fringe players that they're wrong, but you can demonstrate to them (and others) that the fringe viewpoint is a minority one.
Well, we know one thing that DOESN'T work -- censoring the "fringe" players, and make agreements with all the other forums you can find to also censor them. All that does is convince them that there's a conspiracy to silence them. (why this should convince them so is left as an exercise)
Probably living in a forest, breathing fresh air, eating natural food and drinking source water is less carcinogenic?
Trees pump out all sorts of carcinogenic crap. The Great Smokey Mountains aren't smokey from man-made pollution or fire, after all. If the canopy isn't too heavy, living outdoors means susceptibility to skin cancer. Natural food, especially plants also contains all sorts of toxins. And water in nature can contain lead and arsenic and kill you too. But if you live like that, your chance of cancer might be cut down by getting bitten by a snake or attacked by a wolf or a bear or something, or just hypothermia.
Everyone over the age of 5 knows a Public Service Announcement is propaganda. Of course the comments were more influential; they didn't have to clear a high bar. Give it a few years and everyone will know the comments are mostly from shills, trolls, and know-nothings, and we'll be back to the healthy status quo of no one with any sense believing anything they read without triple-checking it.
Tell me again how many people in leadership positions aren't cishet white men?
Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Corporation.
Kathleen Hogan, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Microsoft Corporation
Amy Hood, Executive Vice President and CFO, Microsoft Corporation
Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President, Business Development, Microsoft Corporation
Qi Lu, Executive Vice President, Applications and Services, Microsoft Corporation
Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research, Microsoft Corporation
That's 6 out of 15 on Microsoft's Senior Leader page.
Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
Angela Ahrendts, Senior Vice President, Retail and Online Stores, Apple
Lisa Jackson, Vice President, Environmental Initiatives, Apple
Denise Young Smith, Vice President, Human Resources, Apple
4 out of 15 for Apple (and no Asians), but still not all cishet white male. (Additionally, Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet Software and Services might qualify as Hispanic)
For Google, we've got
David C. Drummond, Senior Vice President of Corporate Developmenr and Chief Legal Officer, Google
Amit Singhal, Senior Vice President, Search, Google
Lorraine Twohill, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, Google
Rachel Whetstone, Senior Vice President, Communications and Policy, Google
Sanjay Ghemawat, Senior Fellow, Google
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President, Ads and Comemrce, Google
Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President, Android, Chrome, and Apps, Google
Susan Wojcicki, Senior Vice President, YouTube
That's 8 out of 20. (Also two Iranians)
Facebook has 1 out of 5 (Sheryl Sandberg, COO)
Shut your mouth with your "model minority" bullwark.
The only people campaigning to keep women out of STEM (CS and Engineering anyway in particular) are your allies. You know, the ones who say the guys in the field are so horrible that women have to be on constant guard, that the level of sexism and misogyny is so high that it's nearly intolerable. The ones who talk about "microaggressions" as if life is free of difficulty for cishet white males and we are making it difficult for others. The ones who claim women have few opportunities for advancement in the field, and will just end up leaving. You want to know who is keeping women out of CS and engineering? Look in the mirror.
You just have to understand what "diversity" means. You'd think it would mean that across employees, you had a varied set of genders, races, nationalities, etc, right? Nope. Diversity applies to an individual person. If you're a white male or an asian male, you're non-diverse. If you're anything else, you're diverse. A company made of 100% black women has perfect diversity; a company with 20% white American men, 20% white European men, 20% Korean men, 20% Japanese men, and 20% Chinese men has no diversity at all.
A group of people rigs the game to the where where they have a stranglehold, to the detriment of ALL others. That same group (or their progeny) then cries that those not-so-fairly won advantages shouldn't be taken away for the sake of the industry...and themselves.
Yes, tell me again how those Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people have had the game rigged against them by that bogeyman of bogeymen, the cis-white-hetero-male.
Either Google has extremely high turnover of employees that have kids in daycare for the numbers to drop that far in such a short time or their explanation is only half-true
Or the parents provided up-to-date records to the daycare when they enrolled their kids, then never updated them because no one asked.
Any felony conviction is a death sentence for someone who isn't into manual labor. Even if you don't serve a day. Unless you're Kevin Mitnick or Martha Stewart I guess.
Murder doesn't require intention that someone should die. An action where it is reasonably foreseeable that someone could die, and someone dies as a result, is murder.
It's a lesser degree of homicide, sometimes termed "murder", sometimes "voluntary manslaughter".
If a swatting call that results in death is murder, then a swatting call that doesn't result in death would be attempted murder.
This doesn't actually follow. An attempt does require intent, even if there are circumstances where the underlying crime would not.
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Denial of certiorari sets no precedent. They could have rejected this case for any number of reasons, from a full calendar to the suit involving side issues which would make any ruling muddy to not liking the name of the defendant. They denied without comment.
But enough about Randi Harper.
And I'm just sitting here, drinking water delivered via privatized infrastructure.
Given that understanding how (modern) computers actually work requires a working knowledge of quantum mechanics (not in any CS curriculum I've ever seen), not surprising.
They get hot from being above an oven.
Not only does "on a computer" make a patent, "on a machine readable medium" (Beauregard claim) is quite sufficient.
Doctrine of equivalents.
Stop apologizing for the patent system; it's broken.
The Frigidaire slide-in oven has a fan to cool the controls; it's noisy. The Kitchen Aid (as of a couple of years ago) has no such fan. It's quiet. Unfortunately the controls tend to overheat and fail. Also the door glass explodes spontaneously. Still want the quiet one?
Or he'll just do it. The FAA doesn't have the manpower to catch him... and even if they do catch him once, the fine is $10,000 and thus lots cheaper than doing it legally.
It turns out "Jo Seong-jin" rhymes with "Tonya Harding".
and now trying to make it up on volume? I'll pass on that business plan.
Well, we know one thing that DOESN'T work -- censoring the "fringe" players, and make agreements with all the other forums you can find to also censor them. All that does is convince them that there's a conspiracy to silence them. (why this should convince them so is left as an exercise)
Trees pump out all sorts of carcinogenic crap. The Great Smokey Mountains aren't smokey from man-made pollution or fire, after all. If the canopy isn't too heavy, living outdoors means susceptibility to skin cancer. Natural food, especially plants also contains all sorts of toxins. And water in nature can contain lead and arsenic and kill you too. But if you live like that, your chance of cancer might be cut down by getting bitten by a snake or attacked by a wolf or a bear or something, or just hypothermia.
Everyone over the age of 5 knows a Public Service Announcement is propaganda. Of course the comments were more influential; they didn't have to clear a high bar. Give it a few years and everyone will know the comments are mostly from shills, trolls, and know-nothings, and we'll be back to the healthy status quo of no one with any sense believing anything they read without triple-checking it.
You missed the memo. Leftists don't believe in free speech any more. The whole "Freeze Peach" thing comes from the left.
That's 6 out of 15 on Microsoft's Senior Leader page.
4 out of 15 for Apple (and no Asians), but still not all cishet white male.
(Additionally, Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet Software and Services might qualify as Hispanic)
For Google, we've got
That's 8 out of 20. (Also two Iranians)
Facebook has 1 out of 5 (Sheryl Sandberg, COO)
Your term, not mine.
Little known fact: _Benson_ and _The Golden Girls_ were the same show.
And was posting from Serbia.
The only people campaigning to keep women out of STEM (CS and Engineering anyway in particular) are your allies. You know, the ones who say the guys in the field are so horrible that women have to be on constant guard, that the level of sexism and misogyny is so high that it's nearly intolerable. The ones who talk about "microaggressions" as if life is free of difficulty for cishet white males and we are making it difficult for others. The ones who claim women have few opportunities for advancement in the field, and will just end up leaving. You want to know who is keeping women out of CS and engineering? Look in the mirror.
You just have to understand what "diversity" means. You'd think it would mean that across employees, you had a varied set of genders, races, nationalities, etc, right? Nope. Diversity applies to an individual person. If you're a white male or an asian male, you're non-diverse. If you're anything else, you're diverse. A company made of 100% black women has perfect diversity; a company with 20% white American men, 20% white European men, 20% Korean men, 20% Japanese men, and 20% Chinese men has no diversity at all.
Yeah, but life with a felony conviction is like being in a gulag without the State even having to spend money on you.
Yes, tell me again how those Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people have had the game rigged against them by that bogeyman of bogeymen, the cis-white-hetero-male.
Or the parents provided up-to-date records to the daycare when they enrolled their kids, then never updated them because no one asked.
Any felony conviction is a death sentence for someone who isn't into manual labor. Even if you don't serve a day. Unless you're Kevin Mitnick or Martha Stewart I guess.
It's a lesser degree of homicide, sometimes termed "murder", sometimes "voluntary manslaughter".
This doesn't actually follow. An attempt does require intent, even if there are circumstances where the underlying crime would not.
1) Generate startup
2) Obtain domain name for stake in startup
3) Declare bankruptcy
4) Buy substantially all assets (including domain name) of startup.
5) Repeat