This is rare good news! Just like guns in these Unites States. You see, guns were created for the sole purpose of inflicting harm and to some extent, kill (take lives), which is illegal.
So if some thug did precisely that, we cannot ban the possession of guns, can we?
Let all those Android device makers under several patent assaults from the like of Microsoft and the like do this:
Remove the "infringing" functionality from your phones but create publicity that the features are available through an extension-like add-on like similar to Firefox or Google's Chrome browser.
Then let's see who these patent litigants will sue. How about that?
"...you know that these three pieces of pork chop came from pig number 123,' said Paul Chang, who leads global strategy for emerging technologies at IBM. The goal is to control disease outbreaks, but theoretically this technology could allow a grocer to put a picture on the store package of the pig you are eating..."
Would anyone be surprised if IBM has a patent on this? Remember, I am talking about the USPTO here. We've seen that in the past.
There are things that I like about Chrome and over the past couple of years Firefox has really pissed me off with their never ending bonehead design decisions...
Please provide some examples. I my case, the problem is with Chrome: The inability to rearrange the tabs the way I see fit.
I have always wondered how Microsoft keeps its staff honest. The open source folks have continued to struggled with closed Microsoft office formats with little or no progress in some areas. Are employees subjected to the same treatment?
One may wonder if Europe and Asia are to follow the U.S.?
Does the US necessarily follow Europe or Asia on other pertinent matters affecting the world? If the answer to that question is "yes" then those entities will follow the US, otherwise it's wishful thinking.
I have been to Philadelphia and Detroit so trust me on this:
If I had just fallen to earth (into these two cities) from some planet, after having heard that the the USA is #1, I would be very disappointed. Here's why:
These two cities were just as rotten as any 3rd world city. Save for one thing, the rats. Sadly they are still rotten.
...which he says have a lot to do with the fact that there is lack of awareness about security in India, and that the majority of such events held there are mostly vendor-driven and free for visitors...
I find this statement dubious given that it is in this US of A where a hospital was forcced to turn away patients because of a [simple] virus.
Lets remember that out beloved Google has also stored "sensitive" data in plain text. In fact there was a submission here at Slashdot....and... this site lists a litany of security breaches all of which happened in (you guessed it)..the USA.
You're seeing lawsuits from Apple because a large part of Samsung's business model relies on copying popular hardware and software designs to exploit customer confusion, as is obvious from a cursory glance between products, and low-quality products being confused with Apple products can end up damaging their brand in the long run. I'm not surprised at all that they'd file lawsuits--any reasonable company would.
You appear to have forgotten that suits arising from the alleged copying by Sammy were dismissed. In fact, pundits were quoted as having said Apple were given a taste of their gravy, by a dress-down.
Android's target demographic is hardcore techies combined with budget buyers unconcerned with smartphone quality.
Where did you get this statement from, or are you just trolling? Did you forget those folks like me who treasure freedom to do as I please [with my gadget], not as some pundit at Apple thinks I should do?
It actually makes very little money for Google, while iOS is generating obscene profits for Apple.
Here we go again...Do products like Chrome or Gmail make Google any cash? Why do [uninformed] people like you always think Google must make cash from Android in a particular way like Apple does from its iOS? Has Google ever put a number on how much it makes from its advertising? From Android, Google makes cash indirectly...through advertising and its doing quite well. In fact better than iOS.
Slashdot still fetishes marketshare as if it's the only metric that matters, but Android is actually like a whole bunch of operating systems with different capabilities.
There's one thing you forget...Sooner or later, the persistent man will finally eat your lunch. At this rate, I do not see Apple being more than a niche player. That's why you saw the lawsuits in earlier months from Apple.
The linked article refers to Florian Mueller as a patent expert. What exactly constitutes one?
When it comes to this particular case, this "expert" predicted Motorola's doom by fronting the ideas that it (Motorola), was suing over what he termed as "standards essential" and therefore "weak" attack or defense patents.
No wonder he sounds humbled by this development on his blog.
I ask because I have never met a single soul that employs it. Never!
But again, I agree that I am no geek. Could it be that case that I am using it without explicit knowledge, since I currently use Windows 7 Home Premium? I also know that Microsoft has tightly woven piece of software into Windows in the past.
Maybe I am using it without specifically agreeing to use it. Is it the case?
whereas Sony focused on explaining the time-consuming certification process."
What certification process is SONY talking about if in the end, (as evidenced by apps that will not correctly run on their devices), apps deemed compatible with Android still will not install/run on all their product portfolio? Who is SONY trying to fool?
...if it were not for the fragmentation that has reared its head in Android land.
After dismissing this issue, Google, I thought, appeared to be creating a solution with ICS 4.0. It seems I am under some kind of delusion. How can Google expect to be a force of change if Android devices are as numerous as OEMs in both hardware and software? It defeats my understanding.
Question is, "for who?" The article is useful for me because I now know which carrier to avoid when I get to the US of America later this month. How about that?
Jon Oberheide, a security researcher who has done a lot of work on Android devices, also analyzed several versions of the Carrier IQ software and found the software has the ability to record some information, but that doesn't mean it's actually doing so.
Can our learned friend Jon elaborate as to whether this is legal under US law? Let him say it is, instead of trying to dampen the outrage surrounding this whole issue. I say this because a further below, he opines by saying the following:
"...the ability to collect such data is a dangerous thing. 'There is a lot of capability to collect sensitive data, which is dangerous in any scenario..."
Key words: "dangerous in any scenario"
There you have it. We surely should expect more from these companies. Someone should go to jail over this.
I think these researchers should look at outsourcing these efforts, and China now has bragging rights to the fastest computer.
After all most of our electronics are all imported. It's sad, but what do you do when "...the ability to determine DNA sequences is starting to outrun the ability of researchers to store, transmit and especially to analyze the data..." as the intro to this submission says?
It's good the government did not approve this merger. Here's why:
First, behind all these statements will be legalese that I describe after each one of them.
After discounting the job-creating impact of AT&T's LTS and other investments, the report asserts that the merger will cost jobs despite public commitments AT&T has made to address this very concern, including the following:
AT&T should know that public commitments are not legally binding.
Commitment that the merger will not result in any job losses for U.S.-based wireless call center employees of T-Mobile or AT&T who are on the payroll when the merger closes;
How many are these? You will not be surprised that there could be a handful of them in the USA. Even then, you could find that these so called call center employees are not directly employed. Many times, companies will outsource services to the extent that there are pay disparities for employees doing the same job.
Commitment to bring 5,000 wireless call center jobs back to the U.S. that today are outsourced to other countries;
Over what period of time may I ask? AT&T could later argue that they meant returning these jobs "over a period of two or three decades!" Imagine that.
Commitment that T-Mobile's non-management employees whose job functions are no longer required because of the merger will be offered another position in the combined company.
What they do not tell you is that the offered position will be at a significantly lower pay, or that these positions will not be permanent, or that they will have conditions attached to them such that employees will fire themselves.
I must admit I grew up in an environment where I was not that exposed to media, be it TV or magazines.
But once a magazine came my way, my thoughts wondered as to what the beauties in the magazines ate! They looked so beautiful...with no "flaws", (for lack of a better word).
In adulthood, I left my community for the big city, hoping to get a good job and to also see the "beauties" on the streets. I must say I was, and still continue to be disappointed. In the decades I have been in the big city, I have not met a single beauty once! Never!
The ones I see on TV and in the magazines are all "fake!" Needless to say, I returned to my old small town, found a real woman and have never regretted it. I have also asked her to show me one beauty if she comes across one if we're together. It's never happened.
Sadly, the practice of photoshopping is damaging our daughters' and sons' self esteem, with eating disorders that have only gotten worse. Sad, sad indeed.
The mosquito could become extinct in a few generations. Here's how this could play out:
Mosquitoes usually fly when fleeing danger. These flightless mosquitoes will not be in position to flee! In a situation where they could survive a whack by flying away, they will surely be killed!
Killed in enough numbers, there will be no female mosquitoes to produce the 'next generation!'
Result: Males will find it difficult to find a mate, resulting in fewer mosquitoes all together.
Folks, the mosquito could get extinct in a few years. Scary indeed.
In the past, I always advocated for, and employed AMD chipped systems. I was once burned by my advocacy when I lost several AMD mobos after they all got fried!
This was a contributory event to my getting fired, though a poorly written application was partly responsible. My employer could not listen because other AMD systems survived. They did because they were to be running the application next.
What is the experience of slashdotters using these systems? Do they still consume lots of power or overheat?
Why would anyone use Apache as a reverse proxy anyway?
Because Apache zealots will tout this [flaw] as a feature and not a flaw.
Remember what we had a few years ago with dependency hell? in rpm based distros?
This 'hell' was fronted as a feature then. All complainants were 'put in their place' by saying they did not know what they were doing in the first place. Sad to say.
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This is rare good news! Just like guns in these Unites States. You see, guns were created for the sole purpose of inflicting harm and to some extent, kill (take lives), which is illegal.
So if some thug did precisely that, we cannot ban the possession of guns, can we?
Let all those Android device makers under several patent assaults from the like of Microsoft and the like do this:
Remove the "infringing" functionality from your phones but create publicity that the features are available through an extension-like add-on like similar to Firefox or Google's Chrome browser.
Then let's see who these patent litigants will sue. How about that?
Surely, it is no longer the "Intel Inside" mantra we had become so used to seeing and hearing in the late 90s and early 2000s. Agree?
Would anyone be surprised if IBM has a patent on this? Remember, I am talking about the USPTO here. We've seen that in the past.
Please provide some examples. I my case, the problem is with Chrome: The inability to rearrange the tabs the way I see fit.
I have always wondered how Microsoft keeps its staff honest. The open source folks have continued to struggled with closed Microsoft office formats with little or no progress in some areas. Are employees subjected to the same treatment?
Does the US necessarily follow Europe or Asia on other pertinent matters affecting the world? If the answer to that question is "yes" then those entities will follow the US, otherwise it's wishful thinking.
I have been to Philadelphia and Detroit so trust me on this:
If I had just fallen to earth (into these two cities) from some planet, after having heard that the the USA is #1, I would be very disappointed. Here's why:
These two cities were just as rotten as any 3rd world city. Save for one thing, the rats. Sadly they are still rotten.
I find this statement dubious given that it is in this US of A where a hospital was forcced to turn away patients because of a [simple] virus.
Lets remember that out beloved Google has also stored "sensitive" data in plain text. In fact there was a submission here at Slashdot....and... this site lists a litany of security breaches all of which happened in (you guessed it)..the USA.
You appear to have forgotten that suits arising from the alleged copying by Sammy were dismissed. In fact, pundits were quoted as having said Apple were given a taste of their gravy, by a dress-down.
Please address this. I am interested.
Where did you get this statement from, or are you just trolling? Did you forget those folks like me who treasure freedom to do as I please [with my gadget], not as some pundit at Apple thinks I should do?
Here we go again...Do products like Chrome or Gmail make Google any cash? Why do [uninformed] people like you always think Google must make cash from Android in a particular way like Apple does from its iOS? Has Google ever put a number on how much it makes from its advertising? From Android, Google makes cash indirectly...through advertising and its doing quite well. In fact better than iOS.
There's one thing you forget...Sooner or later, the persistent man will finally eat your lunch. At this rate, I do not see Apple being more than a niche player. That's why you saw the lawsuits in earlier months from Apple.
Stay tuned.
I love ads on the sites I visit. Without them, these websites look empty. Anyone like me?
The linked article refers to Florian Mueller as a patent expert. What exactly constitutes one?
When it comes to this particular case, this "expert" predicted Motorola's doom by fronting the ideas that it (Motorola), was suing over what he termed as "standards essential" and therefore "weak" attack or defense patents.
No wonder he sounds humbled by this development on his blog.
I ask because I have never met a single soul that employs it. Never!
But again, I agree that I am no geek. Could it be that case that I am using it without explicit knowledge, since I currently use Windows 7 Home Premium? I also know that Microsoft has tightly woven piece of software into Windows in the past.
Maybe I am using it without specifically agreeing to use it. Is it the case?
What certification process is SONY talking about if in the end, (as evidenced by apps that will not correctly run on their devices), apps deemed compatible with Android still will not install/run on all their product portfolio? Who is SONY trying to fool?
...if it were not for the fragmentation that has reared its head in Android land.
After dismissing this issue, Google, I thought, appeared to be creating a solution with ICS 4.0. It seems I am under some kind of delusion. How can Google expect to be a force of change if Android devices are as numerous as OEMs in both hardware and software? It defeats my understanding.
Question is, "for who?" The article is useful for me because I now know which carrier to avoid when I get to the US of America later this month. How about that?
Can our learned friend Jon elaborate as to whether this is legal under US law? Let him say it is, instead of trying to dampen the outrage surrounding this whole issue. I say this because a further below, he opines by saying the following:
Key words: "dangerous in any scenario"
There you have it. We surely should expect more from these companies. Someone should go to jail over this.
I think these researchers should look at outsourcing these efforts, and China now has bragging rights to the fastest computer.
After all most of our electronics are all imported. It's sad, but what do you do when "...the ability to determine DNA sequences is starting to outrun the ability of researchers to store, transmit and especially to analyze the data..." as the intro to this submission says?
It's good the government did not approve this merger. Here's why:
First, behind all these statements will be legalese that I describe after each one of them.
AT&T should know that public commitments are not legally binding.
How many are these? You will not be surprised that there could be a handful of them in the USA. Even then, you could find that these so called call center employees are not directly employed. Many times, companies will outsource services to the extent that there are pay disparities for employees doing the same job.
Over what period of time may I ask? AT&T could later argue that they meant returning these jobs "over a period of two or three decades!" Imagine that.
What they do not tell you is that the offered position will be at a significantly lower pay, or that these positions will not be permanent, or that they will have conditions attached to them such that employees will fire themselves.
Who does AT&T think they are fooling?
Someone please mod this post "Redundant".
I must admit I grew up in an environment where I was not that exposed to media, be it TV or magazines.
But once a magazine came my way, my thoughts wondered as to what the beauties in the magazines ate! They looked so beautiful...with no "flaws", (for lack of a better word).
In adulthood, I left my community for the big city, hoping to get a good job and to also see the "beauties" on the streets. I must say I was, and still continue to be disappointed. In the decades I have been in the big city, I have not met a single beauty once! Never!
The ones I see on TV and in the magazines are all "fake!" Needless to say, I returned to my old small town, found a real woman and have never regretted it. I have also asked her to show me one beauty if she comes across one if we're together. It's never happened.
Sadly, the practice of photoshopping is damaging our daughters' and sons' self esteem, with eating disorders that have only gotten worse. Sad, sad indeed.
The mosquito could become extinct in a few generations. Here's how this could play out:
Mosquitoes usually fly when fleeing danger. These flightless mosquitoes will not be in position to flee! In a situation where they could survive a whack by flying away, they will surely be killed!
Killed in enough numbers, there will be no female mosquitoes to produce the 'next generation!'
Result: Males will find it difficult to find a mate, resulting in fewer mosquitoes all together.
Folks, the mosquito could get extinct in a few years. Scary indeed.
In the past, I always advocated for, and employed AMD chipped systems. I was once burned by my advocacy when I lost several AMD mobos after they all got fried!
This was a contributory event to my getting fired, though a poorly written application was partly responsible. My employer could not listen because other AMD systems survived. They did because they were to be running the application next.
What is the experience of slashdotters using these systems? Do they still consume lots of power or overheat?
Because Apache zealots will tout this [flaw] as a feature and not a flaw.
Remember what we had a few years ago with dependency hell? in rpm based distros?
This 'hell' was fronted as a feature then. All complainants were 'put in their place' by saying they did not know what they were doing in the first place. Sad to say.