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  1. A U.S. patent and a Korean patent can arise from an application pursuant to the Patent Cooperation Treaty of 1970. This establishes, among other things, a filing date and a preliminary search for prior art on which national patent examiners can rely, though each member country has the authority to grant a patent or not.

  2. Been around since Super Bomberman on PUBG and Epic Games, Makers of Two of the World's Most Popular Video Games, Set To Battle in Court (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    the heavy focus on exploring for gear in a collapsing play area is fairly recent.

    4-player Super Bomberman and Bomberman 64, published by Hudson Soft, were around in the 1990s. Both had last man standing, exploring for gear (bomb and flame powerups), and a collapsing play area once less than a minute remained in a 2-minute match. But I'll grant that in the timescale of the law in question, which reaches back to 1923, video games themselves are "fairly recent."

  3. Market penetration doesn't pay rent on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Market penetration doesn't put a roof over a developer's head. Dollars do. The dollars per user ratio between Apple App Store and Google Play Store is so high that it overwhelms the latter's greater market penetration.

  4. How will that not remain possible as people vote with their wallets and support manufacturers that do allow unlocking of devices?

    For the same reason people can't buy netbooks that ship with X11/Linux in stores. Instead, you end up with Chromebooks that, once put in developer mode, destroy the file system if someone turns one on and looks at it funny.

    If you're that worried about it then you should start a campaign to educate people about it and make sure they voice their opinions on why they are making the choices they are.

    Do you have any tips for teaching people to care?

  5. Buy a phone that you can unlock instead?

    How will that remain possible as other major phone manufacturers targeting major western markets follow the example of Huawei?

  6. Re: Nine times the store revenue per user on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Though Apple App Store has fewer apps than Google Play Store, these fewer apps still produce more dollars of revenue.

  7. Re:Install size and attack surface on There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    It's about tricking a website's script processor into calling a vulnerable program and thereby gaining the equivalent of shell access as the owner of the script.

  8. Chi-Rho = XP on Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When you write out the Greek letters Chi-Rho, you get something that looks much like "XP".

  9. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Google itunes on linux returns "How to Use iTunes on Linux" by Sam Costello, which states: "If the initial installation doesn't work properly, try an earlier version of iTunes. The only downside of this, of course, is that earlier versions may not have the latest features or support syncing with the latest iOS devices." If old iTunes doesn't work with your device model, and new iTunes doesn't work with your distribution's package of Wine, what's the next step?

  10. $0 needs symlinks, which need Windows 10 on There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    That's because $0 isn't very helpful without symlinks, and creating a symlink on Windows prior to Windows 10 buid 14972 requires administrator privilege even if the owner of the symlink and the owner of the target file are the same.

  11. Re:So what is the problem they're trying to solve? on U.S. Passes 'Right to Try' Law Allowing Experimental Medical Treatments (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's relevant because we're not talking about approved treatments, this is about unapproved experimental treatments.

    If a treatment has been approved in one or more major markets in Europe but not yet in the United States, should it be described as "approved" or "unapproved" in discussions like this?

  12. People are free to do as they like with their own networks.

    Except build them out in the first place. Though U.S. law bans cities from awarding cable franchises that are de jure exclusive, cities can still make them de facto exclusive by imposing a buildout timeframe on all new franchises that is prohibitively rapid for a small company.

  13. Install size and attack surface on There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 2

    Installing more programs by default makes the install image larger (in megabytes) and take longer (in seconds). It also increases the attack surface, as more lines of code generally* mean more defects that an intruder can exploit to either gain initial access or elevate privilege.

    * Assuming a constant defect rate measured in defects per thousand lines.

  14. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, iTunes was rated "Garbage" in Wine's AppDB.

  15. Re:Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Requiring manufacturers and carriers to preinstall Google apps doesn't lock out third-party competitors to Google apps. Apple, by contrast, locks out competitors to App Store and WebKit.

  16. Nine times the store revenue per user on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if Apple is 13 percent of the mobile user base, it can still make a majority of app store revenue. Apple App Store's revenue per user is nine times that of Google Play Store (source: "Apple is pulling further ahead of Google in this one key area" by Kif Leswing), and 0.13 times 9 is more than 0.87 times 1. Or what has changed in the nearly two years since the publication of Leswing's article?

  17. Re:Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a hypothetical. Neither iOS nor Android blocks third-party search engines. But the effect of Apple's blocking of third-party app stores and web browser engines is as if Android blocked third-party search engines (which it doesn't).

  18. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A Debian Developer is one step above Debian Maintainer in the Debian power structure. Becoming a DD requires, among other things, flying to a key signing party to meet other Debian Developers.

  19. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The article makes it seem like Cydia Impactor requires a $120 Windows license in which to run iTunes.

  20. Has to last from start of bus trip to end on Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    1a) Your local nuclear power plant still meters the energy that it sells to your local power distributor, which in turn probably passes the metering on to you.
    1b) During that other 10 percent, it still has to last between when you're on mains at one end of the bus trip and when you're on mains at the other.

  21. Re:Millions of Android devices ... on Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Android is a Linux system.

    Technically correct (the best kind of correct).

    Then let me narrow it: I don't want Edge on my X11/Linux programming laptop.

  22. AV publishers pay PC makers a commission on Microsoft Explains Why Windows Defender Isn't Ranked Higher in New Antivirus Tests (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So what's the incentive for Dell to keep including this option?

    You answer your own question:

    If the license is already free for Dell, just start asking for money from the AV vendor to install their product

    So the incentive is the same as that for any of the other "bloatware" or "trialware" included on most Windows PCs or Android phones: the AV publisher pays Dell gets a commission on new installs. You'll notice that Windows 10 Signature Edition PCs and Google Pixel phones, which specifically exclude third-party bloatware, carry a higher MSRP because the manufacturer isn't getting that sweet, sweet commission revenue. The same is true of PCs including a free operating system. I looked on Dell's website a couple months ago, and an XPS 13 with Ubuntu cost $50 more than an XPS 13 with identical specs and Windows 10. Again, no commission.

  23. Re:Well, there goes the competition... on Vevo To Shut Down Site, Giving In To YouTube Empire (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you get paid on Vimeo?

    Patreon. It worked for Explosm when YouTube demonetized its Cyanide & Happiness shorts.

  24. Re:Well, there goes the competition... on Vevo To Shut Down Site, Giving In To YouTube Empire (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vimeo's guidelines impose some practical problems. The biggest is a ban on "commercial content". I failed to find a bright line between permitted "showcase your creative work" and prohibited "Product demos and tutorials". Another is that only a video's author can upload it, not just someone with permission to upload on the author's behalf. This means videos created by a minor or by someone behind a harshly capped Internet connection can't be uploaded at all.

  25. Question 2: A vocal minority of users file support tickets to the following effect: "I don't want any JavaScript. I liked HTML better back when it was a document format." What should I tell them?