Foxcon legal department assessed the cost of litigation to fight against bogus patents potentially higher than just pay those damn mafioso.
That or they agreed to pay for patents in exchange for discounts elsewhere, making the patents appear to be more legit (or at least more widely accepted) but not really adding any cost.
Not that much different from CD's in cereal boxes. I seem to remember some video-game related stuff back in the NES days, and more recently I've seen various consumer products coming with game discs etc.
While I like my kickstarter projects, I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with the constant emails with "our funding is now at $XX".
Seriously, I can view the webpage. I don't need an update every few hours.
Worse, is the "Hey, while you've pledge to give us money, how about you also give money to X, Y, and Z"
Yeah, it's nice to help out these projects - and sometimes to know about related projects - but sometimes it feels like I've heard more about "get that little bit of extra funding" or "fund my friends" that I have about the actual projects themselves. Also haven't yet had a software-based project come to fruition.
Also the "founder" of North Korea's birthday, and apparently a day where it's not unexpected for them to do something extra-crazy.
However, that said the Boston Marathon seems like an odd target for external terrorism, unless it's the beginning of something worse. I wasn't even aware it was happening until the bombing.
IP doesn't identify a person, which I think is true, it does identify a connection
Except that those an eminently spoofable. Depending on your type of ISP (xDSL, cable, etc), they may not be able to truly tag a connection down to a particular customer's connection, but only to the ISP's node which hosts many customers' connections.
For your average consumer, not so easily, but MAC's are *NOT* a hard-coded unique identifier in all cases. In Unix-like OS's this is pretty easy to do, and on Windows there exist apps like "MAC Makeup"
When you start dealing with routers, it becomes even easier as almost all of them have a facility to fake the MAC of another machine. Normally this is done to make it easier for a user to switch routers etc when they have a MAC-bound DHCP address.
Many ISP's *are* using smart modem/router combo's these days, they're still fairly vulnerable in this regard.
2. The War on Drugs is undeniably racist. All ethnic groups use drugs at essentially equal levels, but certain minorities comprise the greatest number by far of those convicted.
Does that also take into account income levels/regions? Inability to afford a decent lawyer is likely a strong factor as well.
The biggest rational fears are with the few scud missiles they have, which are inaccurate and slow.
We of course America and not S Korea, which has major civilian population centres within range of bombarding artillery etc. Not that it's a new threat, but it is a new leader and possibly a new flavour of crazy, especially if the international community doesn't give into his tantrums as they have with past leaders
Actually, I've wondered what the possibility of a joint-op with China would be. While I doubt you'd see them working under US command or visa-versa, it could be a case of "you start from the top and we'll start from the bottom" scenario.
That would give China a chance to exercise some military muscle while actually looking like a good guy in the international community. As it's a fairly expansionist country I wouldn't be surprised if they tended to hold onto any territory they seized, though.
Yes the Freedom [REDACTED] Act has certainly made it [REDACTED] for us to see what the government is [REDACTED] to. It's not like they [REDACTED] any important information these days and thumb their nose at the act, after all.
The whole "what would happen to an astronaut" is the misleading sensationalist that's been pollution this site lately. It seems they're really going from "News for Nerds" to "Fox News for people who may buy computer and sciency stuff from places like Thinkgeek" (though thinkgeek is awesome BTW) in order to gain bigger audience.
End result is it drives away the core audience that used to make this site awesome, as it dumbs down the really interesting science parts beyond recognition.
Which is where courts are supposed to use reasonable correlation. If you've had glowing performance reviews for the last few quarters, came out of the closet last week and were suddenly fired with no previous issues, then you've probably got a case for discrimination if the "official" reason for your firing was that your TPS report was late by 5 min.
What's especially bad is the time it's taking even the "Valve" games to come to Linux. Platform support isn't very useful without product.
If they'd at least migrated a few more of their own titles (Left 4 Dead 1/2, Half Life 2, etc), it would be more viable. Hell, basically all you can play is the original CS and TF2... not even newer CS:GO.
Based on the article, it sounds like there's more evidence that the compartments were used to smuggle money. Still makes it likely the proceeds were from something illegal though. Along those lines it could have been drugs, prohibited substances, documents, endangered species, etc.
I was under under the impression that there was the ability to have immediate action based on critical need (lives endangered etc), after which the warrant could be requested. The caveat being that frivolous use of this would be dealt with harshly.
E.G. if it's used in a non-critical event, any evidence obtained would be considered tainted/inadmissible.
Well, I'd assume to be online they're probably going to have some sort of fiber-optic connection. Even if it's redundant, it's going to plug into the greater infrastructure somewhere and it shouldn't be *too* hard to sever if the police really had a mind to do so.
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Foxcon legal department assessed the cost of litigation to fight against bogus patents potentially higher than just pay those damn mafioso.
That or they agreed to pay for patents in exchange for discounts elsewhere, making the patents appear to be more legit (or at least more widely accepted) but not really adding any cost.
Not that much different from CD's in cereal boxes. I seem to remember some video-game related stuff back in the NES days, and more recently I've seen various consumer products coming with game discs etc.
Heck, Burger King has their own games as well.
As mentioned in the linked article, advergaming is not exactly new, even if in this case the DLC itself isn't about toothpaste.
Most people are wealthy because of a fortunate string of events
It seems that these days may people are wealthy because they have no moral qualms about stepping over others and/or bilking them out of money...
While I like my kickstarter projects, I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with the constant emails with "our funding is now at $XX".
Seriously, I can view the webpage. I don't need an update every few hours.
Worse, is the "Hey, while you've pledge to give us money, how about you also give money to X, Y, and Z"
Yeah, it's nice to help out these projects - and sometimes to know about related projects - but sometimes it feels like I've heard more about "get that little bit of extra funding" or "fund my friends" that I have about the actual projects themselves. Also haven't yet had a software-based project come to fruition.
While I agree that the MS Visual Studio is a good IDE over all, there are better alternatives out there
Care to suggest a few?
(currently using eclipse for Java/C++ coding, happy but always welcome new suggestions)
Also the "founder" of North Korea's birthday, and apparently a day where it's not unexpected for them to do something extra-crazy.
However, that said the Boston Marathon seems like an odd target for external terrorism, unless it's the beginning of something worse. I wasn't even aware it was happening until the bombing.
It's not really any less true for a good many other languages...
If I'm old and wrinkly but don't lose my (admittedly odd) sense of humor, I'd be tempted to rick-roll my family.
As a final farewall, he's a few pictures of my wrinkly butt. The code to the account with your inheritance is hidden somewhere in there...
IP doesn't identify a person, which I think is true, it does identify a connection
Except that those an eminently spoofable. Depending on your type of ISP (xDSL, cable, etc), they may not be able to truly tag a connection down to a particular customer's connection, but only to the ISP's node which hosts many customers' connections.
For your average consumer, not so easily, but MAC's are *NOT* a hard-coded unique identifier in all cases. In Unix-like OS's this is pretty easy to do, and on Windows there exist apps like "MAC Makeup"
When you start dealing with routers, it becomes even easier as almost all of them have a facility to fake the MAC of another machine. Normally this is done to make it easier for a user to switch routers etc when they have a MAC-bound DHCP address.
Many ISP's *are* using smart modem/router combo's these days, they're still fairly vulnerable in this regard.
Wealth too is transitory. It's often gone within two generations, and usually less.
Newer wealth, perhaps. Recognisable faces such as Gates, Zuckerberg, etc.
However, old money, often invested through hard-to-trace organizations, is likely a big factor as well.
2. The War on Drugs is undeniably racist. All ethnic groups use drugs at essentially equal levels, but certain minorities comprise the greatest number by far of those convicted.
Does that also take into account income levels/regions? Inability to afford a decent lawyer is likely a strong factor as well.
The biggest rational fears are with the few scud missiles they have, which are inaccurate and slow.
We of course America and not S Korea, which has major civilian population centres within range of bombarding artillery etc. Not that it's a new threat, but it is a new leader and possibly a new flavour of crazy, especially if the international community doesn't give into his tantrums as they have with past leaders
Actually, I've wondered what the possibility of a joint-op with China would be. While I doubt you'd see them working under US command or visa-versa, it could be a case of "you start from the top and we'll start from the bottom" scenario.
That would give China a chance to exercise some military muscle while actually looking like a good guy in the international community. As it's a fairly expansionist country I wouldn't be surprised if they tended to hold onto any territory they seized, though.
Yes the Freedom [REDACTED] Act has certainly made it [REDACTED] for us to see what the government is [REDACTED] to. It's not like they [REDACTED] any important information these days and thumb their nose at the act, after all.
It appears there are still some real geeks here (who know more than I).
Thanks for the correction/enlightenment!
The whole "what would happen to an astronaut" is the misleading sensationalist that's been pollution this site lately. It seems they're really going from "News for Nerds" to "Fox News for people who may buy computer and sciency stuff from places like Thinkgeek" (though thinkgeek is awesome BTW) in order to gain bigger audience.
End result is it drives away the core audience that used to make this site awesome, as it dumbs down the really interesting science parts beyond recognition.
If one checks medical info, personal finances etc at work, are they entitled to that too?
Which is where courts are supposed to use reasonable correlation. If you've had glowing performance reviews for the last few quarters, came out of the closet last week and were suddenly fired with no previous issues, then you've probably got a case for discrimination if the "official" reason for your firing was that your TPS report was late by 5 min.
What's especially bad is the time it's taking even the "Valve" games to come to Linux. Platform support isn't very useful without product.
If they'd at least migrated a few more of their own titles (Left 4 Dead 1/2, Half Life 2, etc), it would be more viable. Hell, basically all you can play is the original CS and TF2... not even newer CS:GO.
Then maybe they should stop using the word "purchase" and instead use the word "license".
Ditto for digital game "sales"
Based on the article, it sounds like there's more evidence that the compartments were used to smuggle money. Still makes it likely the proceeds were from something illegal though. Along those lines it could have been drugs, prohibited substances, documents, endangered species, etc.
Not every problem, but perhaps the issues of the "justice" system being broken in many cases.
Hmmm... well it does seem an awful lot comes out from a tiny cavity, but if it's liquid then you'd better change your underw...
Oh, wait. You probably meant gasoline/petrol? Not something I'd want to have embedded in the nanogaps of my clothing etc though.
I was under under the impression that there was the ability to have immediate action based on critical need (lives endangered etc), after which the warrant could be requested. The caveat being that frivolous use of this would be dealt with harshly.
E.G. if it's used in a non-critical event, any evidence obtained would be considered tainted/inadmissible.
Well, I'd assume to be online they're probably going to have some sort of fiber-optic connection. Even if it's redundant, it's going to plug into the greater infrastructure somewhere and it shouldn't be *too* hard to sever if the police really had a mind to do so.