That people believe such "warnings" in large enough numbers to make it worthwhile for the crooks to make them, is a sign, that FBI has an image problem.
Ironically, the same people that fall for these scams usually think nothing of ignoring the FBI warnings that play at the beginning of movies...
It seems to me that if more people sued when patents were not implemented, we might have less patents out there making every developers life worse. Patent trolls might think twice before setting up shop.
That's one theory.
Or maybe patent trolls will just include the threat of legal action for not including the technology from their new "safety patent" as leverage when they go after companies making real products which have a potential to hurt people.
"That's a real nice widget you got there... Be a real shame if someone lost an eye and some ambulance chasers somehow discovered you refused to license our patented anti-eye-gouging technology..."
Even if it was a total flop, a $1 billion flop would still look brilliant compared to Microsoft buying LinkedIn... or Microsoft buying Nokia... or... Microsoft buying aQuantive... or... well, whoever ends up actually buying Yahoo, because even Microsoft learns from their mistakes.
Oh... I had just kinda assumed Ballmer would've changed up to something more modern, being in charge of a tech company and all that. Plus he's getting older and those chairs aren't getting any lighter.
So,... this system reduces the number of rear end collisions by slamming on the breaks after it hits something?
A stopped out-of-control vehicle is a shitload safer than a moving out-of-control vehicle.
It's not exactly a novel concept; RV's and pretty much any towable trailer containing a battery and braking system have had automatic brakes in case of hitch failure for ages (I had a 1979 RV with a stock system).
So what North Korea has done is perfectly legal both by its own laws and by international law.
It's worth noting that North Korea doesn't even get a mention in the USTR Special 301 Report, so obviously they're not doing anything wrong or dodgy as far as copyright goes. Unless that report is a load of crap or something.
They DO care a tiny bit about the customers' health. Not as much as to earn a Nobel price, but just barely enough to make sure that customer lives long enough to return again and spend their money again.
True enough, but I'm willing to bet that the point where the health versus profit curve peaks is not a place where the average person should or wants to be.
If the industry has any brains then that curve and any research behind it will be buried deeply enough that the inevitable obesity epidemic fast food industry lawsuits won't discover it.
I'm pretty sure that I can safely say that every damn ghost hunter/big foot hunter/alien hunter etc reality show needs to die a painful death.
Somewhere, there's a network exec poring over a script for a reality television program in which a ghost hunter, big foot hunter, and alien hunter are stuck on a remote island and have to fight each other to death...
There were wars in Ireland as late as the 1980s between groups of Christians.
The Lebanese Civil War might be a better example, although when you get down to it "Christianity" is often so intertwined with a distinct ethnic identity that it's not really a fight over religion so much as history... the usual "your grandfather killed my granduncle, so I'm gonna kill you now" shit.
That's not even getting into the nutball cults like the Lord's Resistance Army (who's background is still based on typical inter-tribal griefs).
In practice, religion is just another box on the checklist of reasons people kill each other. Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or any fragments thereof can be talked into killing members of any religion, including their own, if the boxes checked off don't match closely enough.
Yeah..I was reading about this new game and thinking, "Really?"...they're banking on a game that you just push one button to jump, and they're counting on this being a hit?
It sounds like some pump and dump traders were banking on the game being a hit.
I'd assume that everyone else would've already be aware that most game releases aren't going to be hits, or even break even, and you gotta roll out a lot of products to get a hit like Pokemon GO.
Trump: "I never said anything about draining a swamp!"
Everyone: "Whaaaaa... ?"
Trump: "I know more about draining swamps than anyone, and you can bet I'd turn it into the Sahara if I was going to do that! Nice place, the Sahara; you can get a real tan there, not like these New York City tans. And those Arabs... I'll tell you, nobody can deal with those Arabs like me!
blah....
blather...
blah....... and I'm telling you, we're going to drain that swamp!"
The management has to know this will get them sacked, and yet they still protected their team.
The management probably assumes they're getting sacked anyway and are taking the opportunity to show both middle fingers at the people who'll do the sacking.
I wouldn't quit working, but I'd definitely quit my job.
People who start companies and then become billionaires through those companies are a different kind of person from the average windfall winner; they frequently keep on at the same "job", but the sort of personality which takes a company from scratch to being worth billions isn't likely to see what their doing as a "job" so much as an obsession. That and being at the helm of the ship has gotta be a lot more interesting than being chained to an oar.
Stop using Netgear firmware. I operate under the assumption that the stock firmware on any consumer wireless device is probably a bug riddled privacy disaster and replace it with something sane ASAP.
Obviously, that sucks for people who can't dabble in firmware replacements, but there's a limit to what I can fix...
Best I can figure is they want to eliminate any delay between the light turning green and the Audi driver leaning on the horn to let the person in front of them know that it's time to go.
Most of those people don't have the skills for those positions, let alone any experience in the areas that they're assigned to.
They rarely do... I'd say Finance is the only one where the minister usually has a solid background and skillset for the job.
The politicians generally are there to handle the politics, PR, take the flack for the bureaucrats who do the day-to-day stuff, and be an interface between Cabinet and the appointed deputy ministers who take care of keeping a department running. Even at the DM level there's rarely a department-specific skillset... they get shuffled around so much that their primary skill is in running departments. It's not until you get down to the ADM level that I'd even think to make assumptions about specialisation.
And with no pressing issues in Canada, all is safe.
I won't argue that this hour of code stuff isn't a frivolous waste of time, but I do have to say that Trudeau has a couple hundred thousand employees plus an entire Cabinet of supposedly competent politicians who's collective job is to sort that stuff out and generally keep things running.
If the PM is so critical that all that it all falls apart should he divert his attention elsewhere for a few hours, then we're fucked.
If they want revenue they should really get with the times and...
The music industry doesn't "get with the times". They'll be dragged into the times kicking and screaming, but not before they shit all over the bed and generally make everyone's lives as miserable as possible.
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I'm inclined to say that many of the people writing up these pieces aren't really journalists, either.
Ironically, the same people that fall for these scams usually think nothing of ignoring the FBI warnings that play at the beginning of movies...
That's one theory.
Or maybe patent trolls will just include the threat of legal action for not including the technology from their new "safety patent" as leverage when they go after companies making real products which have a potential to hurt people.
"That's a real nice widget you got there... Be a real shame if someone lost an eye and some ambulance chasers somehow discovered you refused to license our patented anti-eye-gouging technology..."
It's not so much that they bought LinkedIn... it seems kinda dumb, but okay, sure, sometimes you need to move out of your comfort zone.
But $26.2 billion? In USD, not Z$?
Understand that I'm not really singling Microsoft out here... I'd question *any* company that dropped $26.2 billion on LinkedIn.
Even if it was a total flop, a $1 billion flop would still look brilliant compared to Microsoft buying LinkedIn... or Microsoft buying Nokia... or... Microsoft buying aQuantive... or... well, whoever ends up actually buying Yahoo, because even Microsoft learns from their mistakes.
Oh... I had just kinda assumed Ballmer would've changed up to something more modern, being in charge of a tech company and all that. Plus he's getting older and those chairs aren't getting any lighter.
I'm surprised, actually. I'd have thought Ballmer would go through phones a lot faster than that...
A stopped out-of-control vehicle is a shitload safer than a moving out-of-control vehicle.
It's not exactly a novel concept; RV's and pretty much any towable trailer containing a battery and braking system have had automatic brakes in case of hitch failure for ages (I had a 1979 RV with a stock system).
It's worth noting that North Korea doesn't even get a mention in the USTR Special 301 Report, so obviously they're not doing anything wrong or dodgy as far as copyright goes. Unless that report is a load of crap or something.
True enough, but I'm willing to bet that the point where the health versus profit curve peaks is not a place where the average person should or wants to be.
If the industry has any brains then that curve and any research behind it will be buried deeply enough that the inevitable obesity epidemic fast food industry lawsuits won't discover it.
Were they thinking that Russian intelligence agencies would forget Snowden was in their country, or that they wouldn't keep tabs on him.
Or were they thinking that someone granted asylum would casually blow off representatives of the country giving him asylum?
Or do they just think people are so stupid that they'll think this was somehow a shocking revelation?
Somewhere, there's a network exec poring over a script for a reality television program in which a ghost hunter, big foot hunter, and alien hunter are stuck on a remote island and have to fight each other to death...
I... I might watch it.
I wonder how much AT&T will charge telemarketers to get around the spam filter?
Or does everyone think AT&T is adding this feature to help customers?
Yep, pretty much. Religion is just another ingredient in the identity blender, and not always the strongest flavour.
The Lebanese Civil War might be a better example, although when you get down to it "Christianity" is often so intertwined with a distinct ethnic identity that it's not really a fight over religion so much as history... the usual "your grandfather killed my granduncle, so I'm gonna kill you now" shit.
That's not even getting into the nutball cults like the Lord's Resistance Army (who's background is still based on typical inter-tribal griefs).
In practice, religion is just another box on the checklist of reasons people kill each other. Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or any fragments thereof can be talked into killing members of any religion, including their own, if the boxes checked off don't match closely enough.
It sounds like some pump and dump traders were banking on the game being a hit.
I'd assume that everyone else would've already be aware that most game releases aren't going to be hits, or even break even, and you gotta roll out a lot of products to get a hit like Pokemon GO.
Trump: "I never said anything about draining a swamp!"
Everyone: "Whaaaaa... ?"
Trump: "I know more about draining swamps than anyone, and you can bet I'd turn it into the Sahara if I was going to do that! Nice place, the Sahara; you can get a real tan there, not like these New York City tans. And those Arabs... I'll tell you, nobody can deal with those Arabs like me!
blah....
blather...
blah.... ... and I'm telling you, we're going to drain that swamp!"
Everyone: ".... ffffffuuuuuuuccccckkkkkk..."
The management probably assumes they're getting sacked anyway and are taking the opportunity to show both middle fingers at the people who'll do the sacking.
I wouldn't quit working, but I'd definitely quit my job.
People who start companies and then become billionaires through those companies are a different kind of person from the average windfall winner; they frequently keep on at the same "job", but the sort of personality which takes a company from scratch to being worth billions isn't likely to see what their doing as a "job" so much as an obsession. That and being at the helm of the ship has gotta be a lot more interesting than being chained to an oar.
Stop using Netgear firmware. I operate under the assumption that the stock firmware on any consumer wireless device is probably a bug riddled privacy disaster and replace it with something sane ASAP.
Obviously, that sucks for people who can't dabble in firmware replacements, but there's a limit to what I can fix...
Best I can figure is they want to eliminate any delay between the light turning green and the Audi driver leaning on the horn to let the person in front of them know that it's time to go.
Thought so.
They rarely do... I'd say Finance is the only one where the minister usually has a solid background and skillset for the job.
The politicians generally are there to handle the politics, PR, take the flack for the bureaucrats who do the day-to-day stuff, and be an interface between Cabinet and the appointed deputy ministers who take care of keeping a department running. Even at the DM level there's rarely a department-specific skillset... they get shuffled around so much that their primary skill is in running departments. It's not until you get down to the ADM level that I'd even think to make assumptions about specialisation.
I won't argue that this hour of code stuff isn't a frivolous waste of time, but I do have to say that Trudeau has a couple hundred thousand employees plus an entire Cabinet of supposedly competent politicians who's collective job is to sort that stuff out and generally keep things running.
If the PM is so critical that all that it all falls apart should he divert his attention elsewhere for a few hours, then we're fucked.
The music industry doesn't "get with the times". They'll be dragged into the times kicking and screaming, but not before they shit all over the bed and generally make everyone's lives as miserable as possible.