But iOS doesn't have a 90% marketshare. And also, many legislators have a hard time understanding that smartphones are actually computers with an OS and software...
Protesting in China is dangerous and in a very immediate sort of way.
As it was in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt...
Tien Anmen suppression could succeed because the army could cut every communication. People were completely unaware of what was happening 100 kilometers from there. Nowadays, it can spread really quickly.
Obama is "committed" to act on every part, Romney think Obama failed.
None talked about patents, about IP laws being a problem in innovation. None talked about nuclear energy when asked about their energy plans. On net neutrality, Romney begins to talk like he really understand what this is about then goes on to criticize Obama for one of the few things he did correctly.
People of Amercia, I regret that you have such a poor choice, but if you think they are equivalent, please read about Romney on foreign relations or religion. I know they are not an important subject in US elections, but they explain why most of the world root for Obama.
One wants a theocracy, the other call the PATRIOT act a crucial tool for the US government. I'm considering myself lucky I am not a US citizen, forced to choose between the plague and the cholera, as we say here...
That a mainstream news outlet (like CNN) would discover that leak suddenly and act all surprised would be ridiculous, given that the general public ought to know, 11 years after 9/11, how privacy has been dismantled by intelligence agencies.
But slashdot? How is anyone surprised? Haven't we seen the news about the official spyware installed on all iPhone (yes and a lot of Android phones too)? Aren't we ranting all day long about the circulation of privacy data without overseeing?
There is one thing that ought to outrage us more than usual : the fact that this data was not securely stored. But the lack of privacy... well, where is the news?
1) Simple : the patents office "research for prior art" consists of little more than thinking of something obvious they have already seen and making a few Google search.
2) The courts don't ignore it, but they consider a patent valid until a court has ruled otherwise.
Huh ? Following Penny Arcade regularly, I didn't know about this controversy. Apparently some people have been offended by that joke: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/11/
I... just don't understand how this kind of outrage works. How can someone construe the comic as saying that rape is fun or something to mock? They point out that most med-fan video games give us a disney-land version of a medieval universe where there is a lot of unacceptable things happening : slavery, murder, torture, violent monsters, snatched children, eternal damnation, violent battles, lost limbs and, yes rape. I just don't get it : the guy is a slave, chained, whipped all day long, can be killed when his master wants, can be tortured for fun, and the thing people focus on is... rape?
So yes, if you understood this as an endorsement of rape you clearly missed the point totally and it is fair to make fun of you in a non-offensive and totally tongue-in-cheek way.
Here is the deal : we tell the satellite owner the trajectory of the salvage machine beforehand. If they don't move the satellite, it is considered that it is a dangerous one that cannot avoid collision and that it is fair to be salvage instead of being destroyed, like it would have been if this was a regular satellite.
That sounds strange. Does it mean that an author of a C++ compiler can be held liable of any patent that his compiler allows to infringe? That the ability to add codecs to a video player makes the authors of the player liable for any infringing codec?
Hear! Hear! Choose proprietary today : get bitten in the ass in ten years. And worse : you'll give these OSS hippies something to brag about. So chose wisely, and chose open technologies from day one.
This is why every country should have a similar program, at least for their officials. I don't understand why it is so hard to get? Russia and China does that. When will European countries get it too?
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Is horrible American television that prevalent?
Actually, yes. CSI, 24 are popular here (France) even to the point where judges and policemen complain about people knowing more about how the law works in America than in France.
When I say that Mars rovers are things that could have been done with Cold War technologies, I pass for a boring unenthusiastic guy. But the thing is, we have been there, we have done that. When will we send an autonomous robot on Mars? Or one that can build stuff there? Or one that can dig deep enough to get to the water that we know is there, thanks to a high-tech spectrometer that scanned underground resources from orbit. Now that's a new piece of impressive tech that no one talks about.
How about trying to analyze and test filtering and electrolyse ice water that we know exist because we have pictures of it ? But forget about it. Yay remote controlled cars!
Would this allow the creation of lasers that stay focused on a longer distance? This could allow easier very long range communication or even power transmission over very large distances.
As someone exterior from the US, there is something I don't understand... What do people wait to file a class action to protest against bad security in banks ?
Don't forget that it is also probably because they anticipated the "rape" case that US did several "firsts in history" to his organization :
- removed from Amazon with no notice
- VISA accounts seized
- Matercard accounts seized
- Paypal account revoked
- DNS registers erased (threatening the credibility of ICANN as a political neutral entity, which is kind of a big deal)
These things have been done outside any legal process. In fact, wikileaks is apparently currently winning the trial to recover their funds.
When you are the head of an organization that has been the target of such an aggressive campaign, outside the rules, by the US government, I think that you won a strict application of presumption of innocence.
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But iOS doesn't have a 90% marketshare. And also, many legislators have a hard time understanding that smartphones are actually computers with an OS and software...
... but why don't they build the rocket on the take-off location and remove the building instead? It seems like a smaller effort, no?
As you aptly put it, we lack a free beer with "free" as in "freedom".
Protesting in China is dangerous and in a very immediate sort of way.
As it was in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt...
Tien Anmen suppression could succeed because the army could cut every communication. People were completely unaware of what was happening 100 kilometers from there. Nowadays, it can spread really quickly.
Say, when will the revolt begin?
Usually they blame a subcontractor.
Obama is "committed" to act on every part, Romney think Obama failed.
None talked about patents, about IP laws being a problem in innovation. None talked about nuclear energy when asked about their energy plans. On net neutrality, Romney begins to talk like he really understand what this is about then goes on to criticize Obama for one of the few things he did correctly.
People of Amercia, I regret that you have such a poor choice, but if you think they are equivalent, please read about Romney on foreign relations or religion. I know they are not an important subject in US elections, but they explain why most of the world root for Obama.
One wants a theocracy, the other call the PATRIOT act a crucial tool for the US government. I'm considering myself lucky I am not a US citizen, forced to choose between the plague and the cholera, as we say here...
That a mainstream news outlet (like CNN) would discover that leak suddenly and act all surprised would be ridiculous, given that the general public ought to know, 11 years after 9/11, how privacy has been dismantled by intelligence agencies.
But slashdot? How is anyone surprised? Haven't we seen the news about the official spyware installed on all iPhone (yes and a lot of Android phones too)? Aren't we ranting all day long about the circulation of privacy data without overseeing?
There is one thing that ought to outrage us more than usual : the fact that this data was not securely stored. But the lack of privacy... well, where is the news?
They won't fight without him.
1) Simple : the patents office "research for prior art" consists of little more than thinking of something obvious they have already seen and making a few Google search.
2) The courts don't ignore it, but they consider a patent valid until a court has ruled otherwise.
Minority report had an interesting vision : 4 seats facing each other in front of a small table. The direction of the car is irrelevant.
Huh ? Following Penny Arcade regularly, I didn't know about this controversy. Apparently some people have been offended by that joke :
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/11/
I... just don't understand how this kind of outrage works. How can someone construe the comic as saying that rape is fun or something to mock? They point out that most med-fan video games give us a disney-land version of a medieval universe where there is a lot of unacceptable things happening : slavery, murder, torture, violent monsters, snatched children, eternal damnation, violent battles, lost limbs and, yes rape. I just don't get it : the guy is a slave, chained, whipped all day long, can be killed when his master wants, can be tortured for fun, and the thing people focus on is... rape?
So yes, if you understood this as an endorsement of rape you clearly missed the point totally and it is fair to make fun of you in a non-offensive and totally tongue-in-cheek way.
Here is the deal : we tell the satellite owner the trajectory of the salvage machine beforehand. If they don't move the satellite, it is considered that it is a dangerous one that cannot avoid collision and that it is fair to be salvage instead of being destroyed, like it would have been if this was a regular satellite.
That sounds strange. Does it mean that an author of a C++ compiler can be held liable of any patent that his compiler allows to infringe? That the ability to add codecs to a video player makes the authors of the player liable for any infringing codec?
Hear! Hear! Choose proprietary today : get bitten in the ass in ten years. And worse : you'll give these OSS hippies something to brag about. So chose wisely, and chose open technologies from day one.
This is why every country should have a similar program, at least for their officials. I don't understand why it is so hard to get? Russia and China does that. When will European countries get it too?
Is horrible American television that prevalent?
Actually, yes. CSI, 24 are popular here (France) even to the point where judges and policemen complain about people knowing more about how the law works in America than in France.
Repeat the hollywood success story : make a zone where innovation is not hindered by patents.
When I say that Mars rovers are things that could have been done with Cold War technologies, I pass for a boring unenthusiastic guy. But the thing is, we have been there, we have done that. When will we send an autonomous robot on Mars? Or one that can build stuff there? Or one that can dig deep enough to get to the water that we know is there, thanks to a high-tech spectrometer that scanned underground resources from orbit. Now that's a new piece of impressive tech that no one talks about.
How about trying to analyze and test filtering and electrolyse ice water that we know exist because we have pictures of it ? But forget about it. Yay remote controlled cars!
If we ever get to 600 years, it will be because we have kicked out senescence or slowed it. Why don't people understand this ?
I wish they updated this one regularly. This is the biggest "fuck you" they can do to the whole RIAA.
Would this allow the creation of lasers that stay focused on a longer distance? This could allow easier very long range communication or even power transmission over very large distances.
As someone exterior from the US, there is something I don't understand... What do people wait to file a class action to protest against bad security in banks ?
Don't forget that it is also probably because they anticipated the "rape" case that US did several "firsts in history" to his organization :
- removed from Amazon with no notice
- VISA accounts seized
- Matercard accounts seized
- Paypal account revoked
- DNS registers erased (threatening the credibility of ICANN as a political neutral entity, which is kind of a big deal)
These things have been done outside any legal process. In fact, wikileaks is apparently currently winning the trial to recover their funds.
When you are the head of an organization that has been the target of such an aggressive campaign, outside the rules, by the US government, I think that you won a strict application of presumption of innocence.