The thing is utterly horrible. Issuance of support of this bill will in fact, not help the software patent situation at all. I hope people realize that. We need software patents to go away and guess what? This bill isn't it. It's a doublespeak bill.
So yes, please send to your congresscritters, who will ignore your pleas, water down the bill more, and make the only substantial thing it does be enable first to file which will fuck over people who don't file patents before inventions are created. Which, by the way, is incredibly helpful for anticompetitive patenting (hello medical patents where they patent all the equivalents and generics). Good job america.
This is a review on Fox News. That should sum up why this isn't even a story or legitimate article. Apparently fair and biased = let's have an apple fanboy review apple's competition.
The ethanol subsidy has been knowingly misused for decades, so to see this finally end will also help to spell doom to things like HFCS too - since those rely on the ethanol-corn subsidy as well.
Forget that, the government should make it illegal to charge a premium to have an unlocked phone. In the US, the average smartphone is $500 unlocked. Apple wants it even higher? Fuck that. The cost of these phones is nowhere near reality, considering that subsidized on contract is essentially not even half.
While anonymity exists, that's because it is protected by law in a large number of countries, turkey not being one of those. It's not a time issue and it's not squandered, but I hope you realize that a lack of anonymity is a big deal.
of course they cherry pick news. This is like complaining about "search neutrality". Fark is just making it easier to find. Nobody has time to read ALL the news but when something is important they will tend to cover it. I then don't have to poke around looking for "what is news/what is funny today". Al Jazeera covers the rest, which the US is conspicuously silent about.
When was the last time NYT actually made news easier to find that wasn't on their homepage? Right.
Lets see, if I make a trip outside my local area, working for a multinational. Am I going to want to go to the local news company's website (so the internet is promoting local news), or am I going to go to another news website, although both obviously don't mean reading the local news or watching tv news.
Is that really a surprise in this day and age?
Meanwhile, shitty/shoddy reporting has killed news in general, not shortages of staff. Considering that they wont' even cover tough topics pretty much sealed the deal for any form of regular news website being considered legitimate or worth a glance. I'd sooner read fark than new york times, since at least I can get more info from fark, such as when they actually covered iran protests and NYT/CNN/Fox news/ABC/NBC/AP were nowhere to be found. Only Al Jazeera has been stepping up as a news org.
censorship is never for protection of citizens or "protecting the children". It's for protection of business models and corruption. Someday people might learn this. Voluntary censorship is no different.
I think you're missing the part of "the product in question needs to actually be on the market for the trademark to be valid". Unlike patents with non practicing entities, isn't it a requirement for trademark if I recall correctly? the so called idiot test would probably pretty easily pass here:
Ok folks, example a: google laptop, named chromebook example b: no product at all, named chromiumpc.
Are you confused? No. (1 product).
There may be contract law issues or things of that nature but trademark on this is a fucking joke.
these people might want to read trademark law a bit. chromebook and chromiumpc are not exactly the same. If it was chromepc and chromiumpc then there might be an issue, but this is just fishing for a settlement from google in hoping that the judge is an idiot.
hahahahahahaha no. You might want to look around the entire globe before you jump to such a presumption. We have some great universities and a whole lot of filler, but that doesn't do anything about the fact that the school prices are ridiculous for middle class and below, and that our entire country is quickly heading downhill overall.
the most telling factor of him being paid is that when they asked to confirm that he's being paid by someone he completely avoided the issue and refused to answer any comments bout it. Said it was offtopic and refused to reply. Quite informative, actually.
You are completely wrong. A single claim will not ruin android, even if it were in east texas. It takes a claim to stick through the trial to do something, surviving the judge accepting the claim in the first place, and summary judgment. We have gotten to none of those scenarios yet. To ruin android is a far far cry. Remember, no injunctions have been granted, and it will be years before this is sorted out. What if 1 claim stuck, 6 years from now after appeal, and the fee was $500K? To see if there is anything at all, this case will have to go through along with it's appeal. Google has a very strong case and a very strong staff of lawyers as well.
geek as a term just shows a lack of understanding. The US education system in general is mostly a joke and ridiculously overpriced with standards beyond low. No child left behind etc just made it substantially worse.
not only that, but the comments are hilarious as are the arguments:
* A sandbox isolates programs, and iOS's memory organization makes exploitation more difficult.
* Applications that run on the iOS are vetted by Apple and can be removed if found to be malicious.
* Patches can be quickly applied to the iPhone and iPad to close security holes in the operating system.
* The software is regularly reviewed, especially its open source components.
* The platform has the advantage of attacker psychology -- attackers still target smartphones far less than desktop systems.
This is hilarious, considering that the sandbox is the only true thing. Patching is known to break things continually (and done to break things - hello anti-jailbreak?), apple doesn't vet third party apps - you think they vet the browsers or MS office on mac? Said things are open and known security breaches. Same argument can be made for microsoft and google's first party apps being vetted (no shit) on that, and I'm not even a microsoft fan. Attacker psychology? What joke of a phrase is that? That's as anecdotal as it gets.
So in summary, the thing apple does right is put things in a sandbox. that is all. Infoworld sure does have a hardon for apple sometimes.
wow, hi ignorant 75-85%. You are it, in a nutshell. Nice troll!
Do you want me to factually correct every argument which you made which was completely and factually incorrect or do you want me to simply clarify where I said that a revolution is probably the only way to change things but also probably won't help. You somehow seemed to read that into "lets have a revolution". Your critical reading skills are lacking, fool.
I love how you think society is balanced when it has shown that disparity of wealth is worse *now* than it's ever been. We live better now due to efficiencies of scale and market pressure towards free but we don't live wealthier. Try not to get those mixed up.
We have robber barons today. They are the RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, Congress, the patent system, the revolving door of corruption within government politics, the oppressive legal system, and unrestricted "free market capitalism", which when referenced isn't usually in that fashion.
The west bank is littered with people intent to jihad and fling missiles into the heart of israel. Are you truly surprised that they are actively using military force to prevent this? Would you rather they say "please, taliban and PLO, send missiles into jerusalem/tel aviv"?
To focus on this as "military occupation" is to belie the scenario there. While israel is not innocent in their strategies, to point a finger at them is the wrong group to focus on here.
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How about get them to write a better bill
The thing is utterly horrible. Issuance of support of this bill will in fact, not help the software patent situation at all. I hope people realize that. We need software patents to go away and guess what? This bill isn't it. It's a doublespeak bill.
So yes, please send to your congresscritters, who will ignore your pleas, water down the bill more, and make the only substantial thing it does be enable first to file which will fuck over people who don't file patents before inventions are created. Which, by the way, is incredibly helpful for anticompetitive patenting (hello medical patents where they patent all the equivalents and generics). Good job america.
It's summed up more simple than that.
This is a review on Fox News. That should sum up why this isn't even a story or legitimate article. Apparently fair and biased = let's have an apple fanboy review apple's competition.
you have to go above the blend for these things to become more commonplace.
see: E85 and higher proportions of ethanol, and why E85 is barely offered anywhere.
with the 10% we regularly see, it wasn't as likely - it still happened, but it wasn't as much of a "Every fillup might kill your fuel pumps".
The ethanol subsidy has been knowingly misused for decades, so to see this finally end will also help to spell doom to things like HFCS too - since those rely on the ethanol-corn subsidy as well.
Forget that, the government should make it illegal to charge a premium to have an unlocked phone. In the US, the average smartphone is $500 unlocked. Apple wants it even higher? Fuck that. The cost of these phones is nowhere near reality, considering that subsidized on contract is essentially not even half.
While anonymity exists, that's because it is protected by law in a large number of countries, turkey not being one of those. It's not a time issue and it's not squandered, but I hope you realize that a lack of anonymity is a big deal.
of course they cherry pick news. This is like complaining about "search neutrality". Fark is just making it easier to find. Nobody has time to read ALL the news but when something is important they will tend to cover it. I then don't have to poke around looking for "what is news/what is funny today". Al Jazeera covers the rest, which the US is conspicuously silent about.
When was the last time NYT actually made news easier to find that wasn't on their homepage? Right.
Lets see, if I make a trip outside my local area, working for a multinational. Am I going to want to go to the local news company's website (so the internet is promoting local news), or am I going to go to another news website, although both obviously don't mean reading the local news or watching tv news.
Is that really a surprise in this day and age?
Meanwhile, shitty/shoddy reporting has killed news in general, not shortages of staff. Considering that they wont' even cover tough topics pretty much sealed the deal for any form of regular news website being considered legitimate or worth a glance. I'd sooner read fark than new york times, since at least I can get more info from fark, such as when they actually covered iran protests and NYT/CNN/Fox news/ABC/NBC/AP were nowhere to be found. Only Al Jazeera has been stepping up as a news org.
censorship is never for protection of citizens or "protecting the children". It's for protection of business models and corruption. Someday people might learn this. Voluntary censorship is no different.
I think you're missing the part of "the product in question needs to actually be on the market for the trademark to be valid". Unlike patents with non practicing entities, isn't it a requirement for trademark if I recall correctly? the so called idiot test would probably pretty easily pass here:
Ok folks, example a: google laptop, named chromebook
example b: no product at all, named chromiumpc.
Are you confused? No. (1 product).
There may be contract law issues or things of that nature but trademark on this is a fucking joke.
these people might want to read trademark law a bit. chromebook and chromiumpc are not exactly the same. If it was chromepc and chromiumpc then there might be an issue, but this is just fishing for a settlement from google in hoping that the judge is an idiot.
do you realize how much credit an anon post has about something not even accurate? zero.
hahahahahahaha no. You might want to look around the entire globe before you jump to such a presumption. We have some great universities and a whole lot of filler, but that doesn't do anything about the fact that the school prices are ridiculous for middle class and below, and that our entire country is quickly heading downhill overall.
Two strikes? What are you, a civil rights violation in the EU?
the most telling factor of him being paid is that when they asked to confirm that he's being paid by someone he completely avoided the issue and refused to answer any comments bout it. Said it was offtopic and refused to reply. Quite informative, actually.
expert was the funniest title I've seen so far. Patent litigation expert even, considering that he's not even a lawyer.
You are completely wrong. A single claim will not ruin android, even if it were in east texas. It takes a claim to stick through the trial to do something, surviving the judge accepting the claim in the first place, and summary judgment. We have gotten to none of those scenarios yet. To ruin android is a far far cry. Remember, no injunctions have been granted, and it will be years before this is sorted out. What if 1 claim stuck, 6 years from now after appeal, and the fee was $500K? To see if there is anything at all, this case will have to go through along with it's appeal. Google has a very strong case and a very strong staff of lawyers as well.
Your comment is completely inaccurate.
geek as a term just shows a lack of understanding. The US education system in general is mostly a joke and ridiculously overpriced with standards beyond low. No child left behind etc just made it substantially worse.
hahaha. they refuse third party apps is more like what they do. How's that firefox/chrome doing on iOS?
Also, how's all those apps that are arbitrarily refused and/or apps that clearly were not vetted. You think they vet every google app that comes across or can actually control what is used?? Hello HTML5 on that.
Nobody has been willing to challenge this in court, is the issue. I imagine there is plenty of precedent though.
not only that, but the comments are hilarious as are the arguments:
This is hilarious, considering that the sandbox is the only true thing. Patching is known to break things continually (and done to break things - hello anti-jailbreak?), apple doesn't vet third party apps - you think they vet the browsers or MS office on mac? Said things are open and known security breaches. Same argument can be made for microsoft and google's first party apps being vetted (no shit) on that, and I'm not even a microsoft fan.
Attacker psychology? What joke of a phrase is that? That's as anecdotal as it gets.
So in summary, the thing apple does right is put things in a sandbox. that is all. Infoworld sure does have a hardon for apple sometimes.
meanwhile, you already pay to use your data how you want,and now they want a surcharge for using that same data how you want.
alternative currencies find themselves doing illegal stuff?
what do you suppose real currencies do? the exact same thing.
This just in: it's actually harder to track with USD than it is via bitcoins.
wow, hi ignorant 75-85%. You are it, in a nutshell. Nice troll!
Do you want me to factually correct every argument which you made which was completely and factually incorrect or do you want me to simply clarify where I said that a revolution is probably the only way to change things but also probably won't help. You somehow seemed to read that into "lets have a revolution". Your critical reading skills are lacking, fool.
I love how you think society is balanced when it has shown that disparity of wealth is worse *now* than it's ever been. We live better now due to efficiencies of scale and market pressure towards free but we don't live wealthier. Try not to get those mixed up.
We have robber barons today. They are the RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, Congress, the patent system, the revolving door of corruption within government politics, the oppressive legal system, and unrestricted "free market capitalism", which when referenced isn't usually in that fashion.
Oh and the police aggressiveness? Still exists on a daily basis..
The west bank is littered with people intent to jihad and fling missiles into the heart of israel. Are you truly surprised that they are actively using military force to prevent this? Would you rather they say "please, taliban and PLO, send missiles into jerusalem/tel aviv"?
To focus on this as "military occupation" is to belie the scenario there. While israel is not innocent in their strategies, to point a finger at them is the wrong group to focus on here.