who said it wasn't sent to apple? What do you think MobileME is as an easy example. What do you think the maps app is? Even then, that has nothing to do with the issue of: the information is out there and available for tracking via third party apps, pulling the data off your phone, etc.
and the incredible pain in the ass that it is to get any speed limit raised is completely ridiculous. ever tried to get a speed raised? People think you are the fucking antichrist for even daring it.
ISP's don't give two shits what you do with your bandwidth, as it's not a server.
Government does not like that with open wireless it's impossible to pin down who's responsible, which is different. It doesnt' mean they have legal standing for this, but don't like having to do actual work. We've given up so much of our freedoms that the argument against them is "but it makes the government's job harder".
Here you go then. Although it is a major joke to actually think this has never happened, including in major cases. It links to this judicial transcript from a major judge. Or here, let me answer the part specifically in the article, from the judge.
THE COURT: Markman hearings. I have handled a fair number of patent cases. They are not my favorite, mostly because I am always feeling very inadequate to the job. When I feel inadequate to the job, I can't do a great job for you. I am your pupil; you are the teachers. I don't know anything about how these patents work. I can barely do e-mail. Although I have gotten a reputation for being a tech judge, that doesn't physically know how to do it. I know how to order other people how to do it. When you approach me, you need to treat me like your brighter-than-average middle schooler. In other words, I have the brain power to learn just about anything you want to teach me, but what I don't have is the experience to know how to put that in context. Don't ever assume, oh, gee, everybody knows that, we don't need a tutorial. You probably do. I will feel more confident about the decisions that I give you if you will work with me from the basics up. A couple of things about being a good teacher is that you have to basically start where your student is. Don't be teaching physics to Ph.D candidates when what you really need is seventh grade science. I will tell you when you get too basic. But for the most part, if we learn a common vocabulary and common principles, we will be on the same page.
The second thing I would tell you is, you are the teachers, I am the pupil. If you overwhelm me, in other words, if you drop the library on me rather than the best book available, I am likely to be discouraged. You need to pick out the best material that you want me to read in order to get ready.
If 12 of you decide you are going to teach me about a particular concept needed for the Markman, I am not going to be able to absorb twelve different points of view. By necessity, if you want me to understand, you have to come at it with a common teaching point.
I will work hard to understand what you try and tell me. I am not shy about speaking up when I don't understand. You shouldn't consider that a problem.
When I first started doing patents, there was a complicated patent that involved the evolution of the internet itself, and the lawyers gave me a book to read, a single 180-page book and I read it, and then we started on the tutorial. I think the tutorial lasted for a day and a half. I said at the end of it, well, have you taught me everything that an average middle schooler might know about the internet? No, Judge, we got you beyond that. I said, well, have I gotten to high school yet? Well, Judge, we think we got you to high school. I said, did I get to college? The response was junior college, Judge, junior college. That's where we are.
They opened a shitload of cases. Only lately are they getting proper scrutiny. It takes people a little while to open their eyes to this kind of abuse of the legal system.
If they keep it up, it's entirely possible that their lawyers could be sanctioned, but that's also for a judge to decide.
judges barely understand technology, so unless the judges step forward who is going to speak to them about it? Many don't even know how to use email or an ipod.
So you don't even believe in the justice system at all, even when this is an example of times when it actually *works*? wow. Should this just be judge, jury, executioner instead?
Even if Righthaven may be a copyright troll doesn't mean that shouldn't be determined by court. We do have a constitution you know.
Even moreso, saying you cannot handle the traffic should clearly be the definitive factor to tell them that they should, in fact, upgrade their capacity. Yet they aren't?
Uh, that's not even accurate. There's a backup battery in every phone. Pulling the full size battery doesn't stop the back up location tracking, however that one is only there for two purposes:
warranted tracking and emergency location finding. It is not "easily trackable by others".
Nah, both deserve scrutiny, but to try to pull focus towards one or the other is straight up disgenuous. However, there's a difference here in that Apple doesn't tell you this is going on NOR is there a way to turn it off, while android does tell you with every single app AND you can turn it off if you so choose.
So while android is not innocent, how the two are handling the situation is not the same.
No, it's called "apple is innocent focus on android I'm an apple fanboy", to some degree (and not always). The "oh but android!" argument is seriously getting old.
Meanwhile, all cellphones have been doing this for years, and people rightfully can and should be concerned if they are not aware that their location is potentially trackable at almost any time you have a cellphone on. However, to act like "we can just patch so that it's not stored on your phone" doesn't answer the "guess what: it's still available" aspect.
Whether that information is being allowed to be obtained without a subpoena or search warrant however, is also a question to be asked.
Here's the laymans version of dingfelder's reply from me: gamefly is basically netflix for video games. So if you have a console + gamefly, you have a lot of options. It even works for online/multiplayer games. I think it's even the same $10/month as netflix, or $15/month or so?
The post office was charging them extra to send the discs, they sued, they won - they were being treated differently than netflix, and they obviously aren't. It was a stupid post office move - you have a company which is entirely dependent on postal mail, and you want to charge them extra? If you think about it from a business perspective they should do everything they can to cater to netflix and gamefly for example - these companies are basically what is keeping the post office alive.
you kidding? Apple labels this a feature! Do you not remember that mobile me thing which tracks location? Tracking location on a cellphone is pretty trivial anyway, since you're continually connecting to cell towers it's not hard to place where you are/where you are going, generally. I believe there was a study of this from some politician in germany recently.
it's nice for aggregation and specific but fast messages, but otherwise 180 characters doesn't make anything truly useful. Twitter going "Anti-spam" and preventing how fast people can post updates has fucked over that whole "specific but fast messages" part, as well as generally twitter being flooded with way more traffic than they can handle.
Lets see what you need to take advantage of bluray quality if you actually buy the discs.
1: discs ([b]hilariously priced as high as a DVD or above[/b]) 2: reader/decoder/player 3: 1080i/P TV
So unless you use a computer with a bluray drive you're looking at more than the original cost of a PS3 for: a decent 1080P TV plus the player in some form (disc drive, ps3, actual bluray reader, etc).
How hard was it to predict that nobody gave a shit? How many times did the entertainment industry pat themselves on the back before anyone even gave a shit (and still doesn't).
This whole thing falls into question of "why did people think anyone would give a shit about bluray". You can replace bluray with 3d and the whole thing still fits, too, except for the $100 graphics card.
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it's been quite easy for every android phone that exists other than the G1 to keep up with the tech. Hell, droids are on 2.2.2 and g1's are on CM7.
The issue is keeping it stock just won't work. Phone MFR's drop old support for new phones, and it is up to the user to get the rest.
who said it wasn't sent to apple? What do you think MobileME is as an easy example. What do you think the maps app is? Even then, that has nothing to do with the issue of: the information is out there and available for tracking via third party apps, pulling the data off your phone, etc.
Way to uh, sidestep everything and troll.
so because your uncle got killed in an accident both a: it must be speeding and b: we should arrest all speeders?
you might want to pull your head out of your ass just teensy bit to realize that raising speeds or unrestricting them altogether is not necessarily any less safe, and it's more about the particular drivers and their driving conditions.
If you want to be the one driving the speed limit or below in the right lane and causing accidents, traffic and road rage, be my guest.
and the incredible pain in the ass that it is to get any speed limit raised is completely ridiculous. ever tried to get a speed raised? People think you are the fucking antichrist for even daring it.
No, it hasn't.
ISP's don't give two shits what you do with your bandwidth, as it's not a server.
Government does not like that with open wireless it's impossible to pin down who's responsible, which is different. It doesnt' mean they have legal standing for this, but don't like having to do actual work. We've given up so much of our freedoms that the argument against them is "but it makes the government's job harder".
considering that the patents are questionable and don't even cover android, what precisely do you think *these* patents are for?
citation needed?
Here you go then. Although it is a major joke to actually think this has never happened, including in major cases. It links to this judicial transcript from a major judge.
Or here, let me answer the part specifically in the article, from the judge.
They opened a shitload of cases. Only lately are they getting proper scrutiny. It takes people a little while to open their eyes to this kind of abuse of the legal system.
If they keep it up, it's entirely possible that their lawyers could be sanctioned, but that's also for a judge to decide.
judges barely understand technology, so unless the judges step forward who is going to speak to them about it? Many don't even know how to use email or an ipod.
So you don't even believe in the justice system at all, even when this is an example of times when it actually *works*? wow. Should this just be judge, jury, executioner instead?
Even if Righthaven may be a copyright troll doesn't mean that shouldn't be determined by court. We do have a constitution you know.
design patent and software patents don't mix. They are not the same.
Trade dress has nothing to do with this, it's just throwing everything out there and hoping something sticks.
samsung also has unspecified agreements with apple already, which will be the true issue here.
Are you seriously acting surprised that multiple people can come up with the same UI design?
it's not copyrightable in the first place.
Also, iphone UI even noticeably looks the same as samsung's UI.. If you think Apple came up with a unique design, you are sorely mistaken.
Even moreso, saying you cannot handle the traffic should clearly be the definitive factor to tell them that they should, in fact, upgrade their capacity. Yet they aren't?
ATT sure has some blinders on.
The CO2 cost of making computers is the fault of the internet? That's a pretty big leap in terms of conclusions. How exactly did you arrive at that?
The CO2 generated manufacturing something is the fault of the manufacturer, not the fault of the end use of the item.
Uh, that's not even accurate. There's a backup battery in every phone. Pulling the full size battery doesn't stop the back up location tracking, however that one is only there for two purposes:
warranted tracking and emergency location finding. It is not "easily trackable by others".
Nah, both deserve scrutiny, but to try to pull focus towards one or the other is straight up disgenuous. However, there's a difference here in that Apple doesn't tell you this is going on NOR is there a way to turn it off, while android does tell you with every single app AND you can turn it off if you so choose.
So while android is not innocent, how the two are handling the situation is not the same.
No, it's called "apple is innocent focus on android I'm an apple fanboy", to some degree (and not always). The "oh but android!" argument is seriously getting old.
Meanwhile, all cellphones have been doing this for years, and people rightfully can and should be concerned if they are not aware that their location is potentially trackable at almost any time you have a cellphone on. However, to act like "we can just patch so that it's not stored on your phone" doesn't answer the "guess what: it's still available" aspect.
Whether that information is being allowed to be obtained without a subpoena or search warrant however, is also a question to be asked.
Here's the laymans version of dingfelder's reply from me: gamefly is basically netflix for video games. So if you have a console + gamefly, you have a lot of options. It even works for online/multiplayer games. I think it's even the same $10/month as netflix, or $15/month or so?
The post office was charging them extra to send the discs, they sued, they won - they were being treated differently than netflix, and they obviously aren't. It was a stupid post office move - you have a company which is entirely dependent on postal mail, and you want to charge them extra? If you think about it from a business perspective they should do everything they can to cater to netflix and gamefly for example - these companies are basically what is keeping the post office alive.
for you and I, that works. For the average consumer? They don't even know how to connect to their router.
yeah, I get 22/6 on comcast for like $80, so you're definitely getting a better deal.
equally a question of how many ISP's support their users using IPv6? Comcast doesn't exactly allow everyone to use it yet, sadly.
you kidding? Apple labels this a feature! Do you not remember that mobile me thing which tracks location? Tracking location on a cellphone is pretty trivial anyway, since you're continually connecting to cell towers it's not hard to place where you are/where you are going, generally. I believe there was a study of this from some politician in germany recently.
it's nice for aggregation and specific but fast messages, but otherwise 180 characters doesn't make anything truly useful. Twitter going "Anti-spam" and preventing how fast people can post updates has fucked over that whole "specific but fast messages" part, as well as generally twitter being flooded with way more traffic than they can handle.
Do you always refer to yourself as "someone"? Yes, you do need to read the links I post. The linked article clearly states it fixed one problem to create another, dumbfuck.
Bingo.
Lets see what you need to take advantage of bluray quality if you actually buy the discs.
1: discs ([b]hilariously priced as high as a DVD or above[/b])
2: reader/decoder/player
3: 1080i/P TV
So unless you use a computer with a bluray drive you're looking at more than the original cost of a PS3 for: a decent 1080P TV plus the player in some form (disc drive, ps3, actual bluray reader, etc).
How hard was it to predict that nobody gave a shit? How many times did the entertainment industry pat themselves on the back before anyone even gave a shit (and still doesn't).
This whole thing falls into question of "why did people think anyone would give a shit about bluray". You can replace bluray with 3d and the whole thing still fits, too, except for the $100 graphics card.