But what is going to happen when advertisers realize that nobody is going to hand around for three minutes to watch the ads? Probably the same thing that happened to web sites when ad people realized that banner ads were being ignored.
They'll start putting streaming ads in the middle of the page, correction songs?
The detail given seems to try to obscure instead of clarify, in my opinion
Having skimmed the patent, I agree. I do not regularly read patents, but it is my understanding that software and process patents like this regularly suffer from this problem - they attempt to obfuscate as much of the details as possible in order to make the claims as broad as possible and to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to do anything useful with the information in the patent.
Nevermind the question of whether software patents are valid or not, this obfuscation is in direct contradiction with the intent of the patent system - to trade a monopoly in the technology for the publication of the information necessary to reproduce the technology.
In the mean time they have made it substantially more difficult to configure the rejection of cookies.
Their intention is to outsource fine-grain cookie control to extensions. I think it is a good idea, but only half-baked. I would like to see them come up with a list of recommended privacy extensions (including cookie handlers), a sort of "Mozilla Recommended" list to make it easier for newbies who care about privacy but don't know enough to necessarily ask the right questions.
Have you ever heard the phrase "all rivers run into the sea"?
Lol, that's like saying we shouldn't worry about flooding because it is always raining somewhere on the planet.
Environmentalism is about not disturbing the balance. The rivers that run into the sea have been doing so for millenia and they didn't just spring up overnight either. They have estuaries with well established ecologies. Rapid and massive change is always destructive.
Well, what reasons are there to invent Gods? The main reason I could come up with is explaining what cannot be explained and thus control what cannot be controlled.
That is the God of the gaps philosophy which is pretty much the most base form of theology.
You're wrong in implying that this solely a matter of politicians "acting" outraged,
This is very simple, and it's unfortunate that you're getting confused. You're wrong in assuming I'm implying that this is solely a matter of politicians.
It is funny how for every fad diet there are tons of people who say it worked for them. That seems to be proof right there that whatever it is that works must be common to all of the diets. My guess is that simply being on a diet makes people more aware of what they are eating and that consciously or unconsciously causes them to eat less. Some people probably find it easier to do that with a specific type of diet, but the underlying mechanism is still the same.
Can you get budget to hire a security penetration tester? There are companies which will do penetration testing and then give you a report documenting all of the vulnerabilities they found. With that in hand you have a much stronger case to convince management to fix the problem because now it is a highly qualified security expert that has documented explicit problems.
I don't know about anybody else, but I think a DDoS is a form of censorship. A website provides information, effectively making it speech. Even if it is speech you disagree with, you should let it be.
On the flip-side what are the penalties for preventing someone from speaking the real world? Shouting down someone giving a speach? Pulling down flyers? Vandalizing a billboard? A crowd blocking entrance to a movie? Seem like misdemeanors at worst to me.
If a political DDOS is analogous to censorship then the penalties also need to match.
Well, there is the invention secrecy act in the US. Not quite what the guy was getting at, but not completely unrelated either.
But otherwise, yeah, that AC is an idiot. First clue should have been his conspiracy theory about slashdot preparing to go anti-iran for nuke patents. Because the slashdot crowd is so pro-patent that would have any meaningful effect on our opinion of iran.
Superpedestrianâ(TM)s products: those red-disc equipped rear bike wheels, housing a sophisticated battery-powered drive system built with U.S.-made parts that can connect to the Internet to learn about its ownerâ(TM)s riding habits.
I don't think you can attribute a difference in creative output to one cause.
It is unhelpful to turn "cities definitely bring more than just anonymity, all the pieces are necessary" into "one cause." The phrase necessary but not sufficient is directly applicable here.
You can't do either one of those things without a whole frack of a lot more data than we currently have about, well, anywhere
And once they get to that point, THEN Taco Cowboy can honestly claim how superior they are (note he's admitted to being chinese in another post in this discussion, so...). Until then, his hypothesis is unsupported by the evidence.
It's pretty much impossible NOT to do something new on the Moon.
You and the other guy made basically the same point are missing the fact that while all that is technically true, it isn't significant to anyone beyond the scientists who are involved. More rock samples, more roving about, etc that's not new in the way that inspires. It is incremental work. Build a permanent base, take core samples from a thousand feet below the surface, etc. That's the kind of thing that makes headlines. But so far all their headlines are nothing new.
In other words, the Indians and the Chinese have much more curiosity than the people in the Western countries, and their curiosities are propelling onwards in strengthening themselves and their respective countries in Science and Technology
I think you are projecting your own biases onto them. Most of this stuff is about national pride, not "curiosity." If it were curiosity they would be doing something new, not repeating what others have already done.
Anyone can pick arbitrary milestones to make a point, but that doesn't make it meaningful.
I think the more informative numbers would be the cost (in inflation adjusted dollars) for the various projects. I don't know what they are, but I suspect China and India are doing their missions for a fraction of what it cost the US to do it, which means they will probably be doing more in the near future.
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It could have gone much. much worse for them: Not for the squeamish.
A Tesla Model S sitting in a garage has enough energy onboard to run a typical single family home for many days.
It would be nice if there was a cheap and easy way to hook up your electric car to power your house during blackouts.
But what is going to happen when advertisers realize that nobody is going to hand around for three minutes to watch the ads? Probably the same thing that happened to web sites when ad people realized that banner ads were being ignored.
They'll start putting streaming ads in the middle of the page, correction songs?
The detail given seems to try to obscure instead of clarify, in my opinion
Having skimmed the patent, I agree. I do not regularly read patents, but it is my understanding that software and process patents like this regularly suffer from this problem - they attempt to obfuscate as much of the details as possible in order to make the claims as broad as possible and to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to do anything useful with the information in the patent.
Nevermind the question of whether software patents are valid or not, this obfuscation is in direct contradiction with the intent of the patent system - to trade a monopoly in the technology for the publication of the information necessary to reproduce the technology.
In the mean time they have made it substantially more difficult to configure the rejection of cookies.
Their intention is to outsource fine-grain cookie control to extensions. I think it is a good idea, but only half-baked. I would like to see them come up with a list of recommended privacy extensions (including cookie handlers), a sort of "Mozilla Recommended" list to make it easier for newbies who care about privacy but don't know enough to necessarily ask the right questions.
Have you ever heard the phrase "all rivers run into the sea"?
Lol, that's like saying we shouldn't worry about flooding because it is always raining somewhere on the planet.
Environmentalism is about not disturbing the balance. The rivers that run into the sea have been doing so for millenia and they didn't just spring up overnight either. They have estuaries with well established ecologies. Rapid and massive change is always destructive.
Well, what reasons are there to invent Gods?
The main reason I could come up with is explaining what cannot be explained and thus control what cannot be controlled.
That is the God of the gaps philosophy which is pretty much the most base form of theology.
Wooooosh!
You're wrong in implying that this solely a matter of politicians "acting" outraged,
This is very simple, and it's unfortunate that you're getting confused. You're wrong in assuming I'm implying that this is solely a matter of politicians.
or whatever the next fad diet to come along is
It is funny how for every fad diet there are tons of people who say it worked for them. That seems to be proof right there that whatever it is that works must be common to all of the diets. My guess is that simply being on a diet makes people more aware of what they are eating and that consciously or unconsciously causes them to eat less. Some people probably find it easier to do that with a specific type of diet, but the underlying mechanism is still the same.
Radioactive is a necessary but not sufficient cause for superpowers.
You are going to need to combine that with spiders, toxic chemicals, a DNA X-factor, experimental drugs, or something else to kick off the process.
I think Lucha Libre masks should qualify.
http://coolmaterial.com/gear/sports-gear/lucha-libre-masks/
Can you get budget to hire a security penetration tester? There are companies which will do penetration testing and then give you a report documenting all of the vulnerabilities they found. With that in hand you have a much stronger case to convince management to fix the problem because now it is a highly qualified security expert that has documented explicit problems.
I don't know about anybody else, but I think a DDoS is a form of censorship. A website provides information, effectively making it speech. Even if it is speech you disagree with, you should let it be.
On the flip-side what are the penalties for preventing someone from speaking the real world? Shouting down someone giving a speach? Pulling down flyers? Vandalizing a billboard? A crowd blocking entrance to a movie? Seem like misdemeanors at worst to me.
If a political DDOS is analogous to censorship then the penalties also need to match.
Well, there is the invention secrecy act in the US. Not quite what the guy was getting at, but not completely unrelated either.
But otherwise, yeah, that AC is an idiot. First clue should have been his conspiracy theory about slashdot preparing to go anti-iran for nuke patents. Because the slashdot crowd is so pro-patent that would have any meaningful effect on our opinion of iran.
From the article:
Superpedestrianâ(TM)s products: those red-disc equipped rear bike wheels, housing a sophisticated battery-powered drive system built with U.S.-made parts that can connect to the Internet to learn about its ownerâ(TM)s riding habits.
Fuck no.
I must be drunk because I could have sworn the title to this story was "Inside the War for Top Developer Taint."
More Dice influence?
TFA could conceivably be titled, "How to turn up the Noise on reality-based social circles".
Only if this specific algorithm were implemented anywhere besides this academic test.
You're the one who has been reducing it to one cause.
If "necessary but not sufficient" isn't clear enough for you, then I have no response that will be better.
We need a search engine that only searches DMCA takedown requests.
Google is halfway there, publishing every(?) takedown request they get.
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/
I don't think you can attribute a difference in creative output to one cause.
It is unhelpful to turn "cities definitely bring more than just anonymity, all the pieces are necessary" into "one cause." The phrase necessary but not sufficient is directly applicable here.
It's in part so that they can get to that point
Why do you think that?
Either way, my point was that Taco Cowboy's headline-level claims are unsupported by the evidence.
You can't do either one of those things without a whole frack of a lot more data than we currently have about, well, anywhere
And once they get to that point, THEN Taco Cowboy can honestly claim how superior they are (note he's admitted to being chinese in another post in this discussion, so...). Until then, his hypothesis is unsupported by the evidence.
It's pretty much impossible NOT to do something new on the Moon.
You and the other guy made basically the same point are missing the fact that while all that is technically true, it isn't significant to anyone beyond the scientists who are involved. More rock samples, more roving about, etc that's not new in the way that inspires. It is incremental work. Build a permanent base, take core samples from a thousand feet below the surface, etc. That's the kind of thing that makes headlines. But so far all their headlines are nothing new.
In other words, the Indians and the Chinese have much more curiosity than the people in the Western countries, and their curiosities are propelling onwards in strengthening themselves and their respective countries in Science and Technology
I think you are projecting your own biases onto them. Most of this stuff is about national pride, not "curiosity." If it were curiosity they would be doing something new, not repeating what others have already done.
Anyone can pick arbitrary milestones to make a point, but that doesn't make it meaningful.
I think the more informative numbers would be the cost (in inflation adjusted dollars) for the various projects. I don't know what they are, but I suspect China and India are doing their missions for a fraction of what it cost the US to do it, which means they will probably be doing more in the near future.