I used an 'infringing' data structure in 1997, when I was 16 and a novice C developer playing with a small beowulf cluster.
These structures are so unbelievably common it blows my mind that the prior art did not make the courtroom lynch the plaintiffs. That this was decided in favor of the Bedrock patentwhores (which is a far better term than patent trolls, I feel) has made me a very sad panda.
What are we all working for, when some dickhead hires a lawyer and sues everyone for a 35-year old idea?
Can we find documentation to this effect? (regulatory requirements on baseband firmware, sensor-capabilities of baseband hardware on any specific device).
It'd be tremendously interesting to dig into and discover the mechanism by which this capability works, if it indeed exists. My guess would be that device manufacturers are onboard, or that the standards mandate this sort of capability. Either way, something like that should destroy the public trust.
What about the radio firmware? On my phone, the baseband image is several megabytes, and very proprietary. I can't even know its capabilities because the manufacturer hasn't released any details.
Prosecutor can't expect to win, and there is no chance of plea. This is a situation where the prosecutor is going forward explicitly to bankrupt the accused.
The interesting thing here is not the PDF, but the backstory - it may suggest the US Govt believes BoA is the target of the next Wikileaks leak.
The PDF appears to mostly be a "You can trust us to protect you against future leaks" sideshow. Presumably Palantir/etc want to build some smarts into BoA.
Sure, now Sony will have to evaluate new DRM for new games. Big whoop. By antagonizing like this, all they're doing is digging the hole deeper. Adding back the OtherOS option would have been reason enough for the fail0verflow folks to quit.
Honestly, if a prisoner is learning social skills that don't have to do with keestering or smashing your face in, and wants to gain expertise in making friends in the most accepting demographic of our times (pencil and paper RPG players)? I'm okay with that.
As far as #2... I'd rather someone was toying around with imaginary shivs than real ones. Prisoner's still have first amendment rights, which necessarily includes storytelling.
The key questions in determining the cost relationship in peering is how important the peering relationship is to each party, and how much data is going each way, how fast. It is a distraction to assume that all peering relationships are free ones, though free peering relationships do exist.
When content delivered over the peering relationship enters the equation, one business is basically using this as leverage to prevent its other business partner from developing its own internal relationships. It's extortion, plain and simple, and I very much want Level3 to prevail in this nonsense. Network neutrality is about more than the question of charging customers for their movies, it's about preventing monopolist assholes like Comcast from engaging in anticompetitive behavior and taking over the backbone.
Slashdot Mirror
I just realized how bloody important it is to educate the fucktards of east texas.
Someone should really start a software patent education program in east texas and pay people to attend.
Clean-on-access is a little strange, but not that uncommon.
I'm sure they did.
I used an 'infringing' data structure in 1997, when I was 16 and a novice C developer playing with a small beowulf cluster.
These structures are so unbelievably common it blows my mind that the prior art did not make the courtroom lynch the plaintiffs. That this was decided in favor of the Bedrock patentwhores (which is a far better term than patent trolls, I feel) has made me a very sad panda.
What are we all working for, when some dickhead hires a lawyer and sues everyone for a 35-year old idea?
the patent is 1999
You must be rather special to have failed to realize I am not talking about the burner.
This is the kind of awesomeness that won't be possible anymore under First to File, which some asshats are very keen on switching to.
Can we find documentation to this effect? (regulatory requirements on baseband firmware, sensor-capabilities of baseband hardware on any specific device).
It'd be tremendously interesting to dig into and discover the mechanism by which this capability works, if it indeed exists. My guess would be that device manufacturers are onboard, or that the standards mandate this sort of capability. Either way, something like that should destroy the public trust.
What about the radio firmware? On my phone, the baseband image is several megabytes, and very proprietary. I can't even know its capabilities because the manufacturer hasn't released any details.
Probably is the serial killer.
Someone should get this gigantic asshole on the Daily Show.
I don't think he had to lie. He said he was doing a project.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/05/us/judge-drops-charges-of-delivering-drugs-to-an-unborn-baby.html
Replace the word 'cocaine' with 'alcohol', and this looks ridiculous. Same guy. Goes for BS cases he can't win.
Getting a search warrant isn't that hard; my guess is that prosecutor tague was hoping to find drugs, given his record.
Prosecutor can't expect to win, and there is no chance of plea. This is a situation where the prosecutor is going forward explicitly to bankrupt the accused.
I vote 'suspicious'. In the interest of good relations, though, you normally let these folks go.
The interesting thing here is not the PDF, but the backstory - it may suggest the US Govt believes BoA is the target of the next Wikileaks leak.
The PDF appears to mostly be a "You can trust us to protect you against future leaks" sideshow. Presumably Palantir/etc want to build some smarts into BoA.
Sure, now Sony will have to evaluate new DRM for new games. Big whoop. By antagonizing like this, all they're doing is digging the hole deeper. Adding back the OtherOS option would have been reason enough for the fail0verflow folks to quit.
The GMs job is to find a way to say 'Yes', and if he can't, find a way to get someone to say something he can say 'Yes' to.
Honestly, if a prisoner is learning social skills that don't have to do with keestering or smashing your face in, and wants to gain expertise in making friends in the most accepting demographic of our times (pencil and paper RPG players)? I'm okay with that.
As far as #2... I'd rather someone was toying around with imaginary shivs than real ones. Prisoner's still have first amendment rights, which necessarily includes storytelling.
This ruling seems to open the door for GMless games, though, as the (INCREDIBLY FLAT) heirarchy is the underpinning of the security concerns claim.
Wooooooow.
Digital Sky, anyone?
The key questions in determining the cost relationship in peering is how important the peering relationship is to each party, and how much data is going each way, how fast. It is a distraction to assume that all peering relationships are free ones, though free peering relationships do exist.
When content delivered over the peering relationship enters the equation, one business is basically using this as leverage to prevent its other business partner from developing its own internal relationships. It's extortion, plain and simple, and I very much want Level3 to prevail in this nonsense. Network neutrality is about more than the question of charging customers for their movies, it's about preventing monopolist assholes like Comcast from engaging in anticompetitive behavior and taking over the backbone.
This is like the billionth time I've posted it but...
JAVASCRIPT IS THE DEATH OF THE WEB
EFF's Panopticlick demonstrates that IP mobility is only a start, too.
The right way to be free is either to be an evil haxxor criminal who steals machine time
or
To have very stock machines and VMs dedicated to individual privacy-intensive applications, and never cross the streams.
Ignoring extremely determined opponents, though, finding effective ways to defeat advances in craplets and cookies is a very good start, though.