If we find out in the future that the brain itself uses these algorithms being patented, does this mean it counts as prior art, therefore invalidating them?
From wikipedia:
Prior art (state of the art or background art), in most systems of patent law, constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality.
Since there is no restriction on form, then you could argue that the art has been made available to the public.
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
We'll never know the answer to this, because we'll never know what apps would have been available if side-loading existed.
It probably will be. The police were likely just mad for being called out and wanted to punish/intimidate him. Whether it sticks or not isn't really the point.
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Or someone could have a real gun in a potato sack. If you saw someone carrying a potato sack, and assumed there wasn't a gun in there, a malicious person could carry a potato sack with a gun in it to catch people off guard, too!
You don't mind it because you go from air conditioned building to air conditioned building. Spending a couple of hours in heat like that isn't a big deal, but living with it 24 hours a day will run you down in a hurry.
No jobs naturally exist, which cost more in wages than the wealth they generate for the employer.
True, but what is the minimum natural wage a job can have? Suppose for a particular set of fields, there is a greater supply of workers than needed, why wouldn't the wage for any job in that field approach zero, regardless of the profit made by the employer?
A long time ago, gold was only used to make jewelry and trinkets, and few people had use for it. But it was rare, so demand always outstripped supply which meant the price stayed relatively high. It was also lightweight, durable, easy split, and comparatively easy to distinguish the real thing versus fakes. It was around the best store of value available in the day. So eventually people who had no need for it's original uses as jewelry, used it as such. This increased the amount of value a piece of gold could have, which in turn, increased its demand. Eventually this feedback loop slowed and came into equilabrium and this is how gold became so valuable today.
Sure there are crashes and bubbles but the price of gold always is a premium over its use as a trade good, because it also is a convienent store of value.
BTC also is useful to a small group of people, where bureaucratic red tape, high fees, and/or lack of trust makes trading with traditional currencies less convienent. And it too is useful as a store of value. You can hold 0.0001 as easily as 1 million BTC. You can transfer it quick and easily to anyone. You can even plausibly deny you own it. This gives it the status of best store of value for some use cases, today. So, I believe, eventually it, too, will go through same feedback loop that gold did.
The lack of "understanding" of some poster on slashdot is so terrifying as to leave you mentally disturbed? Holy shit, how do you get out of bed in the morning?
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The only reason people don't invest in US currency is because the USA has the ability to print as much of it as they want, and do!
Well, you just said it, so everything should be fine and good from hereon in.
From wikipedia:
Prior art (state of the art or background art), in most systems of patent law, constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality.
Since there is no restriction on form, then you could argue that the art has been made available to the public.
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
We'll never know the answer to this, because we'll never know what apps would have been available if side-loading existed.
From the article: The new terms do not apply to everyone -- it all depends on when you bought your Apple device.
So Slashdot decided to change that sentence for some reason.
Ha ha! (punches Marvin in the gut)
It probably will be. The police were likely just mad for being called out and wanted to punish/intimidate him. Whether it sticks or not isn't really the point.
Or someone could have a real gun in a potato sack. If you saw someone carrying a potato sack, and assumed there wasn't a gun in there, a malicious person could carry a potato sack with a gun in it to catch people off guard, too!
You don't mind it because you go from air conditioned building to air conditioned building. Spending a couple of hours in heat like that isn't a big deal, but living with it 24 hours a day will run you down in a hurry.
Where? https://news.ycombinator.com/ has some interesting stuff, but it also gets quite political and divided sometimes.
No jobs naturally exist, which cost more in wages than the wealth they generate for the employer.
True, but what is the minimum natural wage a job can have? Suppose for a particular set of fields, there is a greater supply of workers than needed, why wouldn't the wage for any job in that field approach zero, regardless of the profit made by the employer?
Presence.
They care about it bad, man, bad!
It's just a DOS attack. Shouldn't really even be called an exploit, no information is gathered, nothing is lost.
Do you not see the irony in your comment considering google provides most of its services for free?
Then what about "European"? Is that a free land grab for the next Democratic Republic of Europe or some such?
$10,000,000 settlement / 100,000,000 plaintiffs = $0.10 per plaintiff.
What, you think the lawyers working on this class action don't deserve to get paid?!?!?!?
Just wondering if you ever tried Chess 960?
(I miss the old slashdot)
Step 3: Profit!!!^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ... er, Revenue!!!
Did you paraphrase this from the Department of Homeland Seurity bomb threat response model?
But what about first mover advantage? The stability and security of bitcoin is far ahead of all the other crypto currencies.
A long time ago, gold was only used to make jewelry and trinkets, and few people had use for it. But it was rare, so demand always outstripped supply which meant the price stayed relatively high. It was also lightweight, durable, easy split, and comparatively easy to distinguish the real thing versus fakes. It was around the best store of value available in the day. So eventually people who had no need for it's original uses as jewelry, used it as such. This increased the amount of value a piece of gold could have, which in turn, increased its demand. Eventually this feedback loop slowed and came into equilabrium and this is how gold became so valuable today.
Sure there are crashes and bubbles but the price of gold always is a premium over its use as a trade good, because it also is a convienent store of value.
BTC also is useful to a small group of people, where bureaucratic red tape, high fees, and/or lack of trust makes trading with traditional currencies less convienent. And it too is useful as a store of value. You can hold 0.0001 as easily as 1 million BTC. You can transfer it quick and easily to anyone. You can even plausibly deny you own it. This gives it the status of best store of value for some use cases, today. So, I believe, eventually it, too, will go through same feedback loop that gold did.
The lack of "understanding" of some poster on slashdot is so terrifying as to leave you mentally disturbed? Holy shit, how do you get out of bed in the morning?
It isn't a zombie movie. It's a pretty good time travel flick.