This is a Federal Circuit court, so the next (and last) step would be to appeal it to the SCOTUS. Let's hope it gets on the docket so this type of egregious misuser of the legal system (the patent trolls) can get the press coverage only a Supreme Court case can give it.
"made up in part from materials delivered to Earth the planet by from space". Seriously?
Without those specific instructions the meteorite may have delivered the materials to 'Earth the constellation' or 'Earth the nebula' or even 'Earth the meteorite' and it would never have done it's job. BTW, it's a good thing "from space" was on the whitelist.
me asking: Is there anything that terrorists can't use?
Hmm, let us think about it and we'll get back to you. If you're kind enough to provide us with your contact list we'll be more than happy to deliver the our decision to everyone for you... in person... with extreme prejudice.
they (Cooley) are also the ones who make the rating system in the first place. Thus, the issue, and why people are calling BS on cooley (and quite appropriately so).
FTFA (emphasis mine):
Cooley's own rankings explanation says that they got rid of pesky things like "reputation"
If Cooley developed the ranking system, and they've removed reputation from how schools are ranked, how can they sue someone for saying something might affect their reputation?
Has anyone checked at the planning office to see if they are planning to put in a bypass?
Our requests for information seem to be disrupted by some as-of-yet unknown atmospheric disturbance. I'm sure they'll get back to us at their earliest convenience.
That's sooooo adorably naive! Everybody knows that if it turns out to be a useful power source, the governments of the world will compete with one another to turn it into a weapon. Space Race 2.0: Fuck The Manhattan Project, Shit Just Got Real!
Talk about naive. SkyNet will use it against us while we bicker between ourselves whether or not to put the anti-matter weapons on sharks or just in the hands of evil corporations.
You can buy a $99 tablet at Walgreens. Of course, it's a piece of shit compared to the iPad, but if you really want a cheap tablet, they are available.
It's a piece of shit compared to the iPad, quality Android tablets, HP's WebOS tablet and RIM's Playbook. It's even crap when compared to other low-end craptastic tablets (either 'dime store' Android offerings hacked together from second rate parts and companies, or other Android wanna-be's). At some point the value to the consumer will become the yardstick upon which purchases are based. The real question is will other players (besides iOS & Android) survive the lack of apps and features in their current crop of offerings. WebOS has a lot of upside, and Playbook needs to handle web, email, etc without pairing with a separate Blackberry.
Consumers are impatient and fickle, but they also have relatively short memories.
It is still science though - however useless it is, not science fiction.
I wonder.. has SETI found anything at all that is the least bit scientifically interesting?
You would think that it would be the Search for Extra Terrestrial Unexpecteds, instead of Intelligence.
They haven't found anything yet, and may never find anything at all. That certainly doesn't stop government agencies from spending millions and millions listening in on an undisclosed (yet presumably large) number of phone calls hoping to hear something besides Not Intelligent noise.
Sometimes the possibility of finding something is the only motivation (or justification) for searching for something. Hoping to stumble across it is not good research.
I'm not questioning why the manifesto was made public, but why people would go public with the fact they may be onto hidden information contained within that manifesto.
Basically, they are crowdsourcing with the hope that someone can solve it (you know, just in case those links turn out to be warnings that other attacks may be planned or scheduled). It's better to know this kind of thing sooner rather than later.
There are a lot of people who aren't professionals in particular fields but excel in them far beyond others. If only 1,000 people around the world give this a shot (even if only a small percentage actually excel in this type of thing) their chances of solving it go up drastically. Since this (domestic) terrorist was a tad crazy it may take someone who's a little 'out there' to solve it. We generally don't want those types of people working in the military or law enforcement (no mater what TV's & movies say) but they certainly have something to offer (especially in this type of situation).
MS is adding 'extensions' to JavaScript so it can access system resources in Windows 8 (their new 'full screen' native Win 8 applications). With these extensions the exploit writers can now use the same code to infect web pages, Office 15 documents and the new Windows 8 applications. So I guess you're right: if this doesn't kill it off, nothing will.
"don't have direct evidence that conclusively points to a particular nation state" behind the scheme
If all IP's point back to one country that country either is the victim of being a patsy "They must have routed all their traffic trough our unsuspecting country. We were set up! Those bastards!!" or they they did it. Do we think any country is going to admit it even if they are caught red handed? Of course not.
Macs aren't as vulnerable because they don't have a big enough footprint so they aren't stumbling upon the infected sites or aren't being targeted directly. Windows, including Windows 7, is still more prevalent and more vulnerable.
How many times are we going to get the same stories? If the user is willing to do anything the app or websites tells them to, well, you can't protect them.
How about we try a new roll playing game where everyone acts like adults and business people and resolve their differences without suing everyone and invoking copyrights, trademarks and patents?
The big question that seemed/seems lost in all this "The electric car is gonna save the world!" hype is how an energy grid that can barely handle our energy needs AS IT IS is supposed to function when a significant portion of the population replaces their evil petroleum cars with electricity-draining electrics.
There's plenty of off-peak capacity. The problem arrises when everyone who drove their electric cars to work needs to charge them before they can make the drive home.
Easter eggs are cool, the flight simulator was the best feature in Excel 97(?).
This Easter egg is just some monkeys dancing under some text that translates to 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. Who knows what it could have been had someone wanted to be a bit more sinister.
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This is a Federal Circuit court, so the next (and last) step would be to appeal it to the SCOTUS. Let's hope it gets on the docket so this type of egregious misuser of the legal system (the patent trolls) can get the press coverage only a Supreme Court case can give it.
All computers are less secure ... when you hook them up.
If that were true then hooking my computer up to the internet could end is disaster! It's a good thing I'm using a Siemen's SCADA firewall.
It works, but at this speed not production-ready. a proof of concept, not much more.
Next, let's see how fast it works using GPU's.
Those are the kind best though materials of.
I try to suppress my grammar-Nazism but wtf type of sentence is that?
The sentence read in Yoda's voice and come to you it will.
C) God created Man by throwing rocks at the Earth.
Is there a 'glass houses' joke in there somewhere?
"made up in part from materials delivered to Earth the planet by from space". Seriously?
Without those specific instructions the meteorite may have delivered the materials to 'Earth the constellation' or 'Earth the nebula' or even 'Earth the meteorite' and it would never have done it's job. BTW, it's a good thing "from space" was on the whitelist.
Spokesman: "Hey guys, The Blade Runner wants permission to race in the World Championships."
At least they didn't call him Steve Austin
me asking: Is there anything that terrorists can't use?
Hmm, let us think about it and we'll get back to you. If you're kind enough to provide us with your contact list we'll be more than happy to deliver the our decision to everyone for you ... in person ... with extreme prejudice.
they (Cooley) are also the ones who make the rating system in the first place. Thus, the issue, and why people are calling BS on cooley (and quite appropriately so).
FTFA (emphasis mine):
Cooley's own rankings explanation says that they got rid of pesky things like "reputation"
If Cooley developed the ranking system, and they've removed reputation from how schools are ranked, how can they sue someone for saying something might affect their reputation?
Has anyone checked at the planning office to see if they are planning to put in a bypass?
Our requests for information seem to be disrupted by some as-of-yet unknown atmospheric disturbance. I'm sure they'll get back to us at their earliest convenience.
That's sooooo adorably naive! Everybody knows that if it turns out to be a useful power source, the governments of the world will compete with one another to turn it into a weapon. Space Race 2.0: Fuck The Manhattan Project, Shit Just Got Real!
Talk about naive. SkyNet will use it against us while we bicker between ourselves whether or not to put the anti-matter weapons on sharks or just in the hands of evil corporations.
You can buy a $99 tablet at Walgreens. Of course, it's a piece of shit compared to the iPad, but if you really want a cheap tablet, they are available.
It's a piece of shit compared to the iPad, quality Android tablets, HP's WebOS tablet and RIM's Playbook. It's even crap when compared to other low-end craptastic tablets (either 'dime store' Android offerings hacked together from second rate parts and companies, or other Android wanna-be's). At some point the value to the consumer will become the yardstick upon which purchases are based. The real question is will other players (besides iOS & Android) survive the lack of apps and features in their current crop of offerings. WebOS has a lot of upside, and Playbook needs to handle web, email, etc without pairing with a separate Blackberry.
Consumers are impatient and fickle, but they also have relatively short memories.
...about what SETI *hasn't* found
Um, ok ... Did you hear the one about SETI finding enough funding to do their research? No, that's OK, no one has. ;-)
It is still science though - however useless it is, not science fiction.
I wonder.. has SETI found anything at all that is the least bit scientifically interesting?
You would think that it would be the Search for Extra Terrestrial Unexpecteds, instead of Intelligence.
They haven't found anything yet, and may never find anything at all. That certainly doesn't stop government agencies from spending millions and millions listening in on an undisclosed (yet presumably large) number of phone calls hoping to hear something besides Not Intelligent noise.
Sometimes the possibility of finding something is the only motivation (or justification) for searching for something. Hoping to stumble across it is not good research.
Could this be a giant honey pot?
I'm not questioning why the manifesto was made public, but why people would go public with the fact they may be onto hidden information contained within that manifesto.
Basically, they are crowdsourcing with the hope that someone can solve it (you know, just in case those links turn out to be warnings that other attacks may be planned or scheduled). It's better to know this kind of thing sooner rather than later.
There are a lot of people who aren't professionals in particular fields but excel in them far beyond others. If only 1,000 people around the world give this a shot (even if only a small percentage actually excel in this type of thing) their chances of solving it go up drastically. Since this (domestic) terrorist was a tad crazy it may take someone who's a little 'out there' to solve it. We generally don't want those types of people working in the military or law enforcement (no mater what TV's & movies say) but they certainly have something to offer (especially in this type of situation).
Ok Microsoft... why the hell are you allowing Flash inside Word and Excel documents in the first place?!?
Because exploits, um, I mean macros via JavaScript & HTML5 won't be available until Office 15.
If this won't kill it off, nothing will !!
MS is adding 'extensions' to JavaScript so it can access system resources in Windows 8 (their new 'full screen' native Win 8 applications). With these extensions the exploit writers can now use the same code to infect web pages, Office 15 documents and the new Windows 8 applications. So I guess you're right: if this doesn't kill it off, nothing will.
"don't have direct evidence that conclusively points to a particular nation state" behind the scheme
If all IP's point back to one country that country either is the victim of being a patsy "They must have routed all their traffic trough our unsuspecting country. We were set up! Those bastards!!" or they they did it. Do we think any country is going to admit it even if they are caught red handed? Of course not.
The car crashed while being driven by a person.
Maybe he was looking at the GPS and not paying attention to the road.
Wash. Rinse Repeat.
Macs aren't as vulnerable because they don't have a big enough footprint so they aren't stumbling upon the infected sites or aren't being targeted directly. Windows, including Windows 7, is still more prevalent and more vulnerable.
How many times are we going to get the same stories? If the user is willing to do anything the app or websites tells them to, well, you can't protect them.
How about we try a new roll playing game where everyone acts like adults and business people and resolve their differences without suing everyone and invoking copyrights, trademarks and patents?
The big question that seemed/seems lost in all this "The electric car is gonna save the world!" hype is how an energy grid that can barely handle our energy needs AS IT IS is supposed to function when a significant portion of the population replaces their evil petroleum cars with electricity-draining electrics.
There's plenty of off-peak capacity. The problem arrises when everyone who drove their electric cars to work needs to charge them before they can make the drive home.
Better yet, you can run WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3!!
Only if you still have that keyboard map/Rosetta stone they included. I think it was ctrl-option-shift-F13 to insert "WTF?"
Easter eggs are cool, the flight simulator was the best feature in Excel 97(?).
This Easter egg is just some monkeys dancing under some text that translates to 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. Who knows what it could have been had someone wanted to be a bit more sinister.