I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible
The purpose is easy. Extract money from the citizens. That's the only purpose for which the EU exists. This time, through extra car taxes, measuring exactly how many miles you have driven. You'd expect this to reach the headlines - but no such thing. It's sad that Europeans have to read this news on US sites. Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
This is Slashdot, car analogies are always superior. Jobs is like Enzo Ferrari, Gates is like Henry Ford and Ritchie is like the guy who invented the automobile. Whoever that may have been. And how sad this may seem, it still stands.
1 He who, with intent to himself or another unlawful to favor, by force or threat of violence or forcing someone to the issuance of any property which wholly or partly to this or to a third party or to enter into a debt or nullify an outstanding debts, or to the provision of information, is guilty of extortion, punishable by imprisonment not exceeding nine years or a fine of the fifth category. 2 The same penalty shall be the force he meant in the first paragraph, exercised by the threat that data through an automated work saved, unusable or inaccessible will be made or will be deleted. 3 The provisions of the second and third paragraph of Article 312 are applicable to this offense.
Maybe if the tablets were half the price of the iPad
Are you trolling? These tablets are priced at €150, while an iPad starts at €499. Why would you want them to be more expensive? And they have an e-ink screen.
Impossible, the prior art is obvious! In the case of Monsanto one could argue that the seeds have been specifically engineered. However, in this case, it is a direct clone of a naturally bred dog. You cannot get a patent on a copy?
You fail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English (e.g. colour, flavour, honour, neighbour, rumour, labour, humour, harbour) end in -or in American English (cf. color, flavor, honor, neighbor, rumor, labor, humor, harbor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation, this does not occur: e.g. contour, velour, paramour and troubadour are spelled thus the same everywhere. Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur. After the Norman Conquest, the ending became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or, though color has been used occasionally in English since the 15th century. The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings. After the Renaissance, some such borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or ending; many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) now end in -or everywhere. Many words of the -our/-or group do not have a Latin counterpart; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r meaning "shelter", though senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor, a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th- and early 17th-century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words of Latin origin (e.g. color[6]) and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not completely clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only.
They could theoretically block everything but 80 and MITM any SSL connections (or did that cert get removed from IE yet?) to check those too, to prevent VPN connections that mimic HTTPS connections (real thing) and VPNs running over port 80 using deep-packet inspection. They'd also have to check for VPN over DNS (also, real thing). Short of this it's impossible to block VPNs.
How about putting the entire nation's network behind a giant proxy, configured to disallow streams? that would effectively block everything but http..
History is bound to repeat itself. So if your prediction holds, the Chinese will suffer the same fate in a few hundred years (greed locking up the economy), and pass the lead to another part of the world, probably South America.
Dude, all these 'evil' patents will expire within the next 20 years. If these 20 years are crucial for the existence of mankind, we made some booboos in the past and we're beyond repair already. Just sayin'.
dude.. 1,586,590++ entries in your host file..are you for real? what, you think that setting up a local BIND might affect performance? must be a troll and I bit.
Wait. You send a signal in a straight line from A to B, at a large distance. At the speed of light this would take, say 5 nanoseconds. These particles presumably went faster, but still took say, 3 nanoseconds. So no time travel. Still cause and effect.
Funny to see what an absurd profit Apple makes on its customers, compared to the competition, and then have all the fanbois defend that as a unique selling point. The Stockholm syndrome comes to mind...
You could say the same about Apple. I think there are way more people with Samsung products that people with Apple products, therefore, according to your logic, Apple is screwed.
Apple has changed to many other suppliers for its components (the A5 chip comes to mind) so this argument is not valid anymore. Samsung stated that at first, they bent over and let Apple have their way in order to keep a 'healthy' business relation. But after the Galaxy line got blocked in the EU, generating a huge loss, Apple choosing other manufacturers over Samsung, and still acting like a small female dog over patents, Samsung has become quite angry and now Pandora's box is open it seems. I sincerely hope they destroy Apple or at least let them bleed with their childish tactics: crying that they are the underdog while suing all competition out of the market.
The fact that you are comparing the way the Arabs in Palestinian territories live to those trapped in Nazi concentration camps, shows that you have not paid attention in history class. Please observe how terrible life is for these poor people in Gaza: http://goo.gl/H4zY5 and then ask for a refund from your high school.
In case of a one-sided change in the contract to which you will not or can not agree (eg when it contains unfair or invalid terms) the whole contract will be voided by default.
Depends on your country. In the EU it's impossible to sign away these rights and including such terms will effectively void the contract. Bring it on, Sony!
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but .. do you know UNIX ?
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible
The purpose is easy. Extract money from the citizens. That's the only purpose for which the EU exists. This time, through extra car taxes, measuring exactly how many miles you have driven. You'd expect this to reach the headlines - but no such thing. It's sad that Europeans have to read this news on US sites. Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
GP was about dmr, not jobs ...
This is Slashdot, car analogies are always superior. Jobs is like Enzo Ferrari, Gates is like Henry Ford and Ritchie is like the guy who invented the automobile. Whoever that may have been. And how sad this may seem, it still stands.
Dutch law says (autotranslated from this page http://www.wetboek-online.nl/wet/Wetboek%20van%20Strafrecht/317.html)
1 He who, with intent to himself or another unlawful to favor, by force or threat of violence or forcing someone to the issuance of any property which wholly or partly to this or to a third party or to enter into a debt or nullify an outstanding debts, or to the provision of information, is guilty of extortion, punishable by imprisonment not exceeding nine years or a fine of the fifth category.
2 The same penalty shall be the force he meant in the first paragraph, exercised by the threat that data through an automated work saved, unusable or inaccessible will be made or will be deleted.
3 The provisions of the second and third paragraph of Article 312 are applicable to this offense.
I'm not sure it's really applicable.
Maybe if the tablets were half the price of the iPad
Are you trolling? These tablets are priced at €150, while an iPad starts at €499. Why would you want them to be more expensive? And they have an e-ink screen.
How does US law apply here?
Yeah, Apple is really great. Ask my blind nephew how he's going to operate his phone or mp3 player in the post-jobs era. It just works, huh?
Impossible, the prior art is obvious! In the case of Monsanto one could argue that the seeds have been specifically engineered. However, in this case, it is a direct clone of a naturally bred dog. You cannot get a patent on a copy?
You fail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English (e.g. colour, flavour, honour, neighbour, rumour, labour, humour, harbour) end in -or in American English (cf. color, flavor, honor, neighbor, rumor, labor, humor, harbor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation, this does not occur: e.g. contour, velour, paramour and troubadour are spelled thus the same everywhere.
Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur. After the Norman Conquest, the ending became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or, though color has been used occasionally in English since the 15th century. The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings. After the Renaissance, some such borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or ending; many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) now end in -or everywhere. Many words of the -our/-or group do not have a Latin counterpart; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r meaning "shelter", though senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor, a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th- and early 17th-century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words of Latin origin (e.g. color[6]) and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not completely clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only.
They could theoretically block everything but 80 and MITM any SSL connections (or did that cert get removed from IE yet?) to check those too, to prevent VPN connections that mimic HTTPS connections (real thing) and VPNs running over port 80 using deep-packet inspection. They'd also have to check for VPN over DNS (also, real thing). Short of this it's impossible to block VPNs.
How about putting the entire nation's network behind a giant proxy, configured to disallow streams? that would effectively block everything but http..
The term 'aspie' refers to someone presumably diagnosed with the Asperger syndrome. Most visitors here would fit that description.
History is bound to repeat itself. So if your prediction holds, the Chinese will suffer the same fate in a few hundred years (greed locking up the economy), and pass the lead to another part of the world, probably South America.
Dude, all these 'evil' patents will expire within the next 20 years. If these 20 years are crucial for the existence of mankind, we made some booboos in the past and we're beyond repair already. Just sayin'.
dude .. 1,586,590++ entries in your host file ..are you for real?
what, you think that setting up a local BIND might affect performance?
must be a troll and I bit.
exactly, what about prior art .. this is just ignorant, let's see if the USPTO approves this patent.
Wait. You send a signal in a straight line from A to B, at a large distance. At the speed of light this would take, say 5 nanoseconds. These particles presumably went faster, but still took say, 3 nanoseconds. So no time travel. Still cause and effect.
Funny to see what an absurd profit Apple makes on its customers, compared to the competition, and then have all the fanbois defend that as a unique selling point. The Stockholm syndrome comes to mind...
Wish I had mod points :)
You could say the same about Apple. I think there are way more people with Samsung products that people with Apple products, therefore, according to your logic, Apple is screwed.
Apple has changed to many other suppliers for its components (the A5 chip comes to mind) so this argument is not valid anymore. Samsung stated that at first, they bent over and let Apple have their way in order to keep a 'healthy' business relation. But after the Galaxy line got blocked in the EU, generating a huge loss, Apple choosing other manufacturers over Samsung, and still acting like a small female dog over patents, Samsung has become quite angry and now Pandora's box is open it seems. I sincerely hope they destroy Apple or at least let them bleed with their childish tactics: crying that they are the underdog while suing all competition out of the market.
the richest 10% pay for 90% of all taxes .. so take it easy.
The fact that you are comparing the way the Arabs in Palestinian territories live to those trapped in Nazi concentration camps, shows that you have not paid attention in history class. Please observe how terrible life is for these poor people in Gaza: http://goo.gl/H4zY5 and then ask for a refund from your high school.
In case of a one-sided change in the contract to which you will not or can not agree (eg when it contains unfair or invalid terms) the whole contract will be voided by default.
Depends on your country. In the EU it's impossible to sign away these rights and including such terms will effectively void the contract. Bring it on, Sony!