They are a corporation and they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect their IP from theft. In other words, Apple had no choice but to launch this lawsuit
Nonsense.
I'm pretty sure that a publicly traded company can get in a lot of trouble for failing to protect it's assets against loss. At the very least shareholders tend to cash out or sue depending on their perceived loss of value.
The IF leaks out through the antenna. It is a small leak but it is detectable. This hasn't changed much with modern receivers as Heterodyne conversion is still very common. I don't see UHF/VHF direct conversion being affordable any time soon, and that is likely to have it's own detectable leakage components as well.
In the old days they only had to detect the leakage from CRT scan and see if it matched the current broadcast signal. The LF leakage from a CRT was easy to detect. In flat panels not so much.
No. Sorry. It doesn't. We had observable examples of flight in birds, and insects, as well as related phenomena in the oceans. Our task was to understand the properties of aerodynamics as expressed in our universe and learn to adapt them to our needs.
We have no examples of super-luminal phenomena. We have no examples of standard model smashing phenomena.
Until we find such examples, we are not going to get very far in the solar system, let alone our galactic region.
I'll tell ya though, a little place in my heart died when they discovered the source of the error in neutrino propagation timings. For a brief moment I had hopes that we'd found something... Too bad it turned out to be a faulty data cable.
Would anyone rather have a private company to call in case of fire, than pay tax money for that service? Am I making a weird extrapolation between police and healthcare?
This is a good match. In NYC and other large cities during the mid-1800's it was not unusual to have several private fire battalions serving a district. They were notorious gangsters and thugs who happened to do some firefighting on the side.
And while the Pinkerton Detective Agency was not really a police force it was often used as one. During the unionization riots that grew out of the early industrial revolution, they did indeed take on that role for large corporations. For quite some time were afforded the legal color of a legitimate police force. As you might expect they abused their role rather efficiently.
I think the main comparison in the profit motivated healthcare system we have today is hard to observe. It seldom gets reported on. Eventually, just like the privatized NYC-FDs and Pinkertons the abuses become so obvious that the majority will not tolerate it. However it might take another generation before it happens. Assuming the whole country doesn't get flushed down the toilet in the mean time.
I always feel like the RDBMS is half deaf, and that I must SHOUT and BARK at it to be understood. When I read other's code written in SQL I feel as if they are SHOUTING at me!
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Hearing='partial' AND Shouting='acceptable'
(just a bit of humor, don't take it the wrong way.)
Running the country or, not as the case may be.
Image sensor arrays have a masked region surrounding the portion of the array that is exposed to light. These masked image cells provide black reference and information about the noise floor of the signal chain.
Putting a black swatch on the external color reference would be nearly useless since under typical lighting conditions it would not always look black enough to be a good reference.
Many unscrupulous debt collectors pull a similar scam demanding payment on debts they claim to hold. In some cases they buy debts that have suffered serious data-rot and try and pin them on any person with some matching particulars. They get away with claiming that the mark owes them money because some of the particulars match. They are very aggressive, and often call as well as send demand letters that look like legal instruments, or rather vague utility bills worded like final-notice-to-pay.
If the mark does not do the correct thing: formally challenge the claim with a 'demand for verification of debt' letter, they can be on the hook for a debt that is not theirs.
There is no legal recourse for this scam(except the challenge letter) since the 'collector' can "innocently" plead that they are pursuing a legitimate debt collection even when they no full well they have bad information, or no legitimate information at all.
Had this happen to me last year. Their initial assault appeared as email, phone calls, and snail-mail in a daily, incessant, barrage that did not relent until my demand letter arrived in their office. Then they vanished as suddenly as they had arrived.
most of the VMs I have used in the last 3 years have checkpointing.
1 ) Install the OS, patch it and install relevant apps and other immutable components. 1a) Checkpoint VM image 2 ) Import Work In Progress from Host environment 3 ) do your work, browsing, what-have-you... 4 ) export work products to Host environment 5 ) suspend VM 6 ) Restore Checkpoint
If for some reason your VM doesn't support checkpoints... you could just over-write from a locked copy of the immutable VM image, but then starting up is slower since you'd be cold-booting the working copy of the VM, not waking a suspended VM.
YMMV.
BONUS: some savvy (and maybe most dangerous) malware will refuse to infect a VM... because the authors fear having their malware reverse engineered, and traced back to them.
Apple was on the ropes because they let the clone makers in for a party. The clone makers promised not to fuck Apple over. Well, they fucked Apple over, (no reach around, no lube) drank all the beer, ate all the finger-food, and then tried to kick Apple out of their own house. This forced Apple to compete in a race for the bottom with their own licensees. When Apple begged SJ to come back the first thing he did is grab them by clone licenses and kick them to the curb.
Macintosh market share was growing, but because the clone makers were growing it at Apple's expense, Apple's revenue was falling like a rock.
All of those earlier devices were resistive touch, and could not support multi-touch gestures. It is an inherent limitation of resistive touch systems. When you touch a resistive panel in multiple points you get very ambiguous values that cannot be resolved without a completely different approach. Capacitive touch addressed that by resolving the contact patches of the fingers as bitmap regions on the touch sensing array that can be followed using some basic object tracking methods. There are a lot of similarities with object tracking in video, which use more generalized forms of the tracking methods.
The device demonstrated in the video and many examples of similar devices have (or had) distinct raised bezels much like is typical on any other display device. Notice that the inner edge of the bezel is raised quite a bit above the plane of the touch surface. There are enough differences between that earlier design and Apple's to cast doubt in my mind that Samsung can get any traction with it as prior art.
Only slightly related to this: I worked as a contractor for Apple in the late 80's. I saw some very early drawings and a couple of crude prototypes of a touch device called 'knowledge navigator'. Bill Atkinson and others were brainstorming on ways to get a HyperCard-like interface onto a tablet. Some of the early notions of gesture based interfaces were being worked on at the time using HyperCard as a rapid prototyping environment.
Later (94-96) as a contractor for Microsoft I saw some similar concepts being worked out using WinCE.
Until capacitive touch expanded the depth of the input interface it was all very clunky variations of stylus as mouse-pointer over a LCD panel. All of those devices had display bezels. Most had square corners. Few could even process a finger touch accurately-- the stylus was mandatory, unless you happened to have a nice set of claws glued to your cuticles.
So the Aspbergers angle here doesn't make anyone unemployable.
No not unemployable... I would say anti-social...
Chicks don't dig on assholes. Most Aspies fail on the channels that interesting women frequent.
This is simply human communication 101. If you can't do that... then you are stuck in mamma's basement without a clue.
"Real" women will lot tolerate that.
Broken women will.
You get what you deserve.
everyone sorts this out eventually... unless they are so broken they think they are right....
I think you know what happens to the outliers.
*looking at Colorado.
The new software image is already on Curiosity's local 4GB flash file system. They just need to send the commands to reboot from the new image. According to the Chief Software Engineer during the press conference Fri. morning, they uploaded the R10 image back in June while still in cruise mode.
It is likely all they need to do is change a few boot-loader parameters and reboot to the new image. If it doesn't work, it probably will safemode back to the previous image. They also have a completely independent backup computer that can probably unbrick its twin if something goes sideways.
This kind of stuff is only dangerous when the goal is to prevent end-users from easily reflashing their mobile devices.
Once *ATA drives got into the >100 GB range it became impossible to controller-swap to recover a failed drive. There are unit specific parameters stored in drive controller that compensate for the slight differences between each unit.
At least in the old days SCSI drives were able to build their own parameter tables when performing a low-level format. *ATA drives rarely supported this capability AT ALL.
Now days none of them do. It requires far more support on the controller than manufacturers are willing to invest. Though I don't have specific information to cite, it seems likely that the controller cant write servo information to the platters at all because the hardware is not accurate enough, and this can only track a low-level (servo level) format that has been established during the assembly process.
TL; DR: The magneto-electro-mechanical-digital systems in hard drives are most likely so highly tuned and toleranced now that repair or recovery is out of reach for most entities.
Userland apps should never request admin rights. If they do request escalated privileges you should abort the installation and confirm with the publisher and demand that they explain in gory detail WHY they chose to require escalation to install their app.
Blackbox drivers and middlewear should not be tolerated. If you want to have wheel/admin rights on my machine you'd better be damn clear on why you need those rights and what you do with them. IN WRITING. If I find out later that you lied to me.... you can expect to get sued.
At the end of the day it is the users and reviewers that determine what gets accepted in the market. We need to put our collective foot down on apps that demand privileges that they really don't need, just because it makes their development process cheaper, or enhances their DRM.
My landlord has started replacing traditional door lock/ keyed deadbolt sets on apartments with keyless entry keypad locks with 4 of 10 coding (WTF) and an internal(keyless) deadbolt. So far he has only been doing this for apartments that turn over. The reasoning appears to be that he is sick of dealing with lockouts.
This is the dumbest solution I can imagine for a unsecured building. A patient thief is going to have a fairly easy time trying combos a few at a time until they get a match.
If the landlord starts pushing this on current residents, I'm outta here.
Keyless entry CAN be safe than keyed entry, but no one wants to spend the money to do it right. Heck, they don't even do it right for keyed entry most of the time.
Long live the Steve! Sorry Mr. Ballmer, you have forsaken your name, by lacking Stevie-ness. Please examine the achievements of the following Steves who demonstrate(d) the best qualities of Stevie-ness and you might learn how to redeem your name: (in no particular order, as they came to mind) Steve Tyler Stevie Nicks Stevie Ray Vaughan Stevie Wonder Steven Wright Steve Madden Steve Martin Steve Perry Steve McQueen Steve Vai Steve Wozniak Steve Irwin Steve Winwood Steve Jackson Steve Jobs
We live in a time of mouth-breathing idiots, and they are the norm.
You seem to imply that this is a relatively new phenomenon. I think there is ample evidence in the historical record that epochs need not be factored in. What has changed is that ubiquity in published communication results in this noise-floor being recorded rather than gated/compressed out.
Yes it sucks but it's not the fault of people the forests are on fire.
Actually it is. National wildfire/forest fire suppression policy created a devastating condition where there is too much fuel (duff) available for natural fires. Successful application of the policy increased the severity and destructive capacity of natural forest fires. We are now experiencing the consequences of preventing forest fires.
Classic macs prior to the SE did not have fans. They used convection cooling which worked very well unless you did something dumb.
Examples of dumb things(tm): a) covering the top vents with a ring binder (saw that start a fire in an enginnering lab. bonus points: it was an apple engineer that did this dumb thing) b) stack books/diskdrives on the left side of the machine thus blocking the feed vents that cooled the video control board. c) installing an aftermarket HDD kit in a classic mac without installing a fan kit. The HDD kit messed up the airflow inside the case.
SE, SE/30, and all Mac II derivatives of desktop machines had fans. The 20th anniversary Cube was the one exception.
And if you are pregnant, well.... let's say no more, but I knew one lady who had a craving for fishcakes and blue cheese (with nothing else).
I have yet to find any citable articles on this, but I am of the opinion that the odd pregnancy cravings are driven by the developing baby needing specific building blocks at specific times.
I've noted that pregnant women will frantically sample many foods in quick succession seeking out that which satisfies the cravings. Once they find the right combo for the moment, it doesn't matter how ghastly the combo is. These gastronomic non-sequiters often evolve throughout the pregnancy.
The reason they happen is because most women don't have any idea what a balanced diet means. So the heightened instinctual awareness of pregnancy forces them to seek out the right building blocks to consume. Even to the point of rejecting foods they loved prior to the pregnancy.
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They are a corporation and they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect their IP from theft. In other words, Apple had no choice but to launch this lawsuit
Nonsense.
I'm pretty sure that a publicly traded company can get in a lot of trouble for failing to protect it's assets against loss. At the very least shareholders tend to cash out or sue depending on their perceived loss of value.
The IF leaks out through the antenna. It is a small leak but it is detectable. This hasn't changed much with modern receivers as Heterodyne conversion is still very common. I don't see UHF/VHF direct conversion being affordable any time soon, and that is likely to have it's own detectable leakage components as well.
In the old days they only had to detect the leakage from CRT scan and see if it matched the current broadcast signal. The LF leakage from a CRT was easy to detect. In flat panels not so much.
Copyright infringement is a civil matter.
Not when it is organized as a for-profit venture. That makes it criminal.
Disclaimer: IANAL
The idea of flight still applies. [...]
No. Sorry. It doesn't. We had observable examples of flight in birds, and insects, as well as related phenomena in the oceans. Our task was to understand the properties of aerodynamics as expressed in our universe and learn to adapt them to our needs.
We have no examples of super-luminal phenomena.
We have no examples of standard model smashing phenomena.
Until we find such examples, we are not going to get very far in the solar system, let alone our galactic region.
I'll tell ya though, a little place in my heart died when they discovered the source of the error in neutrino propagation timings. For a brief moment I had hopes that we'd found something... Too bad it turned out to be a faulty data cable.
Would anyone rather have a private company to call in case of fire, than pay tax money for that service? Am I making a weird extrapolation between police and healthcare?
This is a good match. In NYC and other large cities during the mid-1800's it was not unusual to have several private fire battalions serving a district. They were notorious gangsters and thugs who happened to do some firefighting on the side.
And while the Pinkerton Detective Agency was not really a police force it was often used as one. During the unionization riots that grew out of the early industrial revolution, they did indeed take on that role for large corporations. For quite some time were afforded the legal color of a legitimate police force. As you might expect they abused their role rather efficiently.
I think the main comparison in the profit motivated healthcare system we have today is hard to observe. It seldom gets reported on. Eventually, just like the privatized NYC-FDs and Pinkertons the abuses become so obvious that the majority will not tolerate it. However it might take another generation before it happens. Assuming the whole country doesn't get flushed down the toilet in the mean time.
You Sir/Madam win 1(one) Internet!
*giggle*
SQL makes me feel uncomfortable.
I always feel like the RDBMS is half deaf, and that I must SHOUT and BARK at it to be understood. When I read other's code written in SQL I feel as if they are SHOUTING at me!
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Hearing='partial' AND Shouting='acceptable'
he's busy running the country right now.
(just a bit of humor, don't take it the wrong way.)
Running the country or, not as the case may be.
Image sensor arrays have a masked region surrounding the portion of the array that is exposed to light. These masked image cells provide black reference and information about the noise floor of the signal chain.
Putting a black swatch on the external color reference would be nearly useless since under typical lighting conditions it would not always look black enough to be a good reference.
Many unscrupulous debt collectors pull a similar scam demanding payment on debts they claim to hold. In some cases they buy debts that have suffered serious data-rot and try and pin them on any person with some matching particulars. They get away with claiming that the mark owes them money because some of the particulars match. They are very aggressive, and often call as well as send demand letters that look like legal instruments, or rather vague utility bills worded like final-notice-to-pay.
If the mark does not do the correct thing: formally challenge the claim with a 'demand for verification of debt' letter, they can be on the hook for a debt that is not theirs.
There is no legal recourse for this scam(except the challenge letter) since the 'collector' can "innocently" plead that they are pursuing a legitimate debt collection even when they no full well they have bad information, or no legitimate information at all.
Had this happen to me last year. Their initial assault appeared as email, phone calls, and snail-mail in a daily, incessant, barrage that did not relent until my demand letter arrived in their office. Then they vanished as suddenly as they had arrived.
most of the VMs I have used in the last 3 years have checkpointing.
1 ) Install the OS, patch it and install relevant apps and other immutable components.
1a) Checkpoint VM image
2 ) Import Work In Progress from Host environment
3 ) do your work, browsing, what-have-you...
4 ) export work products to Host environment
5 ) suspend VM
6 ) Restore Checkpoint
If for some reason your VM doesn't support checkpoints... you could just over-write from a locked copy of the immutable VM image, but then starting up is slower since you'd be cold-booting the working copy of the VM, not waking a suspended VM.
YMMV.
BONUS: some savvy (and maybe most dangerous) malware will refuse to infect a VM... because the authors fear having their malware reverse engineered, and traced back to them.
No.
Apple was on the ropes because they let the clone makers in for a party. The clone makers promised not to fuck Apple over. Well, they fucked Apple over, (no reach around, no lube) drank all the beer, ate all the finger-food, and then tried to kick Apple out of their own house. This forced Apple to compete in a race for the bottom with their own licensees. When Apple begged SJ to come back the first thing he did is grab them by clone licenses and kick them to the curb.
Macintosh market share was growing, but because the clone makers were growing it at Apple's expense, Apple's revenue was falling like a rock.
All of those earlier devices were resistive touch, and could not support multi-touch gestures. It is an inherent limitation of resistive touch systems. When you touch a resistive panel in multiple points you get very ambiguous values that cannot be resolved without a completely different approach. Capacitive touch addressed that by resolving the contact patches of the fingers as bitmap regions on the touch sensing array that can be followed using some basic object tracking methods. There are a lot of similarities with object tracking in video, which use more generalized forms of the tracking methods.
The device demonstrated in the video and many examples of similar devices have (or had) distinct raised bezels much like is typical on any other display device. Notice that the inner edge of the bezel is raised quite a bit above the plane of the touch surface. There are enough differences between that earlier design and Apple's to cast doubt in my mind that Samsung can get any traction with it as prior art.
Only slightly related to this:
I worked as a contractor for Apple in the late 80's. I saw some very early drawings and a couple of crude prototypes of a touch device called 'knowledge navigator'. Bill Atkinson and others were brainstorming on ways to get a HyperCard-like interface onto a tablet. Some of the early notions of gesture based interfaces were being worked on at the time using HyperCard as a rapid prototyping environment.
Later (94-96) as a contractor for Microsoft I saw some similar concepts being worked out using WinCE.
Until capacitive touch expanded the depth of the input interface it was all very clunky variations of stylus as mouse-pointer over a LCD panel. All of those devices had display bezels. Most had square corners. Few could even process a finger touch accurately-- the stylus was mandatory, unless you happened to have a nice set of claws glued to your cuticles.
So the Aspbergers angle here doesn't make anyone unemployable. No not unemployable... I would say anti-social... Chicks don't dig on assholes. Most Aspies fail on the channels that interesting women frequent. This is simply human communication 101. If you can't do that... then you are stuck in mamma's basement without a clue. "Real" women will lot tolerate that. Broken women will. You get what you deserve. everyone sorts this out eventually... unless they are so broken they think they are right.... I think you know what happens to the outliers. *looking at Colorado.
The new software image is already on Curiosity's local 4GB flash file system. They just need to send the commands to reboot from the new image. According to the Chief Software Engineer during the press conference Fri. morning, they uploaded the R10 image back in June while still in cruise mode.
It is likely all they need to do is change a few boot-loader parameters and reboot to the new image. If it doesn't work, it probably will safemode back to the previous image. They also have a completely independent backup computer that can probably unbrick its twin if something goes sideways.
This kind of stuff is only dangerous when the goal is to prevent end-users from easily reflashing their mobile devices.
This.
Bravo *claps*
Once *ATA drives got into the >100 GB range it became impossible to controller-swap to recover a failed drive. There are unit specific parameters stored in drive controller that compensate for the slight differences between each unit.
At least in the old days SCSI drives were able to build their own parameter tables when performing a low-level format. *ATA drives rarely supported this capability AT ALL.
Now days none of them do. It requires far more support on the controller than manufacturers are willing to invest. Though I don't have specific information to cite, it seems likely that the controller cant write servo information to the platters at all because the hardware is not accurate enough, and this can only track a low-level (servo level) format that has been established during the assembly process.
TL; DR: The magneto-electro-mechanical-digital systems in hard drives are most likely so highly tuned and toleranced now that repair or recovery is out of reach for most entities.
Userland apps should never request admin rights.
If they do request escalated privileges you should abort the installation and confirm with the publisher and demand that they explain in gory detail WHY they chose to require escalation to install their app.
Blackbox drivers and middlewear should not be tolerated. If you want to have wheel/admin rights on my machine you'd better be damn clear on why you need those rights and what you do with them. IN WRITING.
If I find out later that you lied to me.... you can expect to get sued.
At the end of the day it is the users and reviewers that determine what gets accepted in the market. We need to put our collective foot down on apps that demand privileges that they really don't need, just because it makes their development process cheaper, or enhances their DRM.
^^ this
My landlord has started replacing traditional door lock/ keyed deadbolt sets on apartments with keyless entry keypad locks with 4 of 10 coding (WTF) and an internal(keyless) deadbolt. So far he has only been doing this for apartments that turn over. The reasoning appears to be that he is sick of dealing with lockouts.
This is the dumbest solution I can imagine for a unsecured building. A patient thief is going to have a fairly easy time trying combos a few at a time until they get a match.
If the landlord starts pushing this on current residents, I'm outta here.
Keyless entry CAN be safe than keyed entry, but no one wants to spend the money to do it right. Heck, they don't even do it right for keyed entry most of the time.
Long live the Steve!
Sorry Mr. Ballmer, you have forsaken your name, by lacking Stevie-ness. Please examine the achievements of the following Steves who demonstrate(d) the best qualities of Stevie-ness and you might learn how to redeem your name:
(in no particular order, as they came to mind)
Steve Tyler
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Wonder
Steven Wright
Steve Madden
Steve Martin
Steve Perry
Steve McQueen
Steve Vai
Steve Wozniak
Steve Irwin
Steve Winwood
Steve Jackson
Steve Jobs
We live in a time of mouth-breathing idiots, and they are the norm.
You seem to imply that this is a relatively new phenomenon. I think there is ample evidence in the historical record that epochs need not be factored in.
What has changed is that ubiquity in published communication results in this noise-floor being recorded rather than gated/compressed out.
Yes it sucks but it's not the fault of people the forests are on fire.
Actually it is. National wildfire/forest fire suppression policy created a devastating condition where there is too much fuel (duff) available for natural fires.
Successful application of the policy increased the severity and destructive capacity of natural forest fires. We are now experiencing the consequences of preventing forest fires.
It's all fun and games until The Powers That Be find a large reptile skeleton imbedded in the parking structure next door to your Math...
Umm ... As long as we are talking about U ser I nterface, BSOD had absolutely nothing for the U ser to I nterface with
Are you kidding me?
BSOD is the penultimate Modal Diolog Box!!
CTRL-ALT-DEL to dismiss it.
Classic macs prior to the SE did not have fans.
They used convection cooling which worked very well unless you did something dumb.
Examples of dumb things(tm):
a) covering the top vents with a ring binder (saw that start a fire in an enginnering lab. bonus points: it was an apple engineer that did this dumb thing)
b) stack books/diskdrives on the left side of the machine thus blocking the feed vents that cooled the video control board.
c) installing an aftermarket HDD kit in a classic mac without installing a fan kit. The HDD kit messed up the airflow inside the case.
SE, SE/30, and all Mac II derivatives of desktop machines had fans. The 20th anniversary Cube was the one exception.
And if you are pregnant, well.... let's say no more, but I knew one lady who had a craving for fishcakes and blue cheese (with nothing else).
I have yet to find any citable articles on this, but I am of the opinion that the odd pregnancy cravings are driven by the developing baby needing specific building blocks at specific times.
I've noted that pregnant women will frantically sample many foods in quick succession seeking out that which satisfies the cravings. Once they find the right combo for the moment, it doesn't matter how ghastly the combo is. These gastronomic non-sequiters often evolve throughout the pregnancy.
The reason they happen is because most women don't have any idea what a balanced diet means. So the heightened instinctual awareness of pregnancy forces them to seek out the right building blocks to consume. Even to the point of rejecting foods they loved prior to the pregnancy.