The entire patent system was created to spur innovation. But it's not like anyone can churn out a quality phone anyways, so the patent is not really as valid of a barrier as it once was. Second, in fast moving tech, patents should expire much sooner, say 5 years. This way, either you move forward, or you die. No massive sell offs to patent trolls.
Shhhh! You'll wake the tree huggers who only want to use biodegradable elf farts powering windmills in Denmark! Just imagine if a nuclear plant melts down! The entire world's salt supply will kill us all!.
As I've always said, solar and wind are great, where its sunny and windy. We need to stop the fantasy science and at LEAST use today's available science to solve today's problems. You wanna develop space solar panels and beam down power? Fine, we'll close the nuclear plants AFTER you get it working.
Nobody is mentioning either that Microsoft will never sue Google and risk losing a billion in revenue from shaking down makers. The fact is that makers love this. They pay a fee and get protection. This is what they'd have to do anyways if they didn't use Android. Android is the only really free option, and this fee is certainly better than paying for Windows 7 Mobile and not selling millions of units to boot.
Microsoft is happy, handset makers are happy enough to only pay $15 per phone. And Google doesn't care about Microsoft's little side game, because it effectively keeps MS out of a real phone competitor because the handset makers would quickly countersue and or enter joint deals and kill MS's billion dollar baby.
It's equilibrium. And with everyone fighting Apple which could easily overtake a crippled Android (and I love android to pieces, but they'd get crushed in a single generation of stagnation), it's a lose-lose to go to course with Apple laughing at it all.
Jesux proposed to remove '"kills" and "aborts" and "daemons"' and other anti-christian parts from linux and redistribute it. It was a colossal fail (or more likely a hoax), but it gave us all a pretty good laugh at the time. That was what, 12 years ago? I think that was far more offensive.
This is why you use a hidden volume. Don't people read the Truecrypt manual? You can therefore give them the passphrase to a sanitized volume devoid of anything incriminating. It is impossible to prove that there exists a second, hidden volume. If a laptop is encrypted at all, you can't prove you forgot a password or that it isn't encrypted. But for crying out loud, there is a single easy step to take for 100% plausible deniability.
Then you let your lawyer fight on principle, without really giving a shit personally if you win or lose.
That is true, but that is also true in the real world. The first thing I did was invite everyone I could. And I treat it more like Twitter, and immediately followed about half a dozen people who post regularly... MG Siegler, Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, Marc Andreesen, Tom Anderson, and Kevin Rose.
Kinda makes you more weary of TSA scanners, doesn't it? Light is not just visible light. Radio waves are light waves, just at a different frequency.
Next time you go through a scanner and you suddenly think, "Hmmm, can I haz cheezburger?" think about if that impulse was internally or externally generated.
Yes, let's have a LAWYER tell us about how all botnets can be taken down. The phrase "If someone says that a botnet is indestructible, they are not being very creative legally" has got to be the goddamn funniest quote of the month! It's a botnet, not an ordinance. I don't give a damn how "legally creative" you get. You can't apply human laws as if they were universal laws of physics. Some young adult in China running a headless botnet via P2P C&C using anonymizing routers is beyond your insignificant "legal creativity".
IF you know who and where they are THEN you can use legal means to shut them down. But the point is you DONT know who they are OR where they are.
The point is that someone will post sexual activity at a time when they didn't have sexual activity with the person who believes they're exclusive. IE - Wife posts sexual activity at 2pm while the husband is at work.
"At least you understand that it's not their location or nationality that makes them useless"
Yes, if you are speaking about racism...
But a thick accent is unrecognizable. I can very well discriminate if I don't understand someone. I don't have to be "sensitive" if my complaint is that I don't know what the hell they are saying over the phone.
I don't have the patience to listen to someone repeat the same thing 8 times because I have no idea what they are saying. And I'm a good listener. I've worked with a few Japanese who's English was so bad, I couldn't even make out half the words. I've conversed with Spanish speakers who only used maybe 1/3 English words and exaggerated gestures. But on the phone, it is different. If you have a thick Indian accent, and especially male voices, I don't understand a word. So when I call the satellite company because my box is on the fritz, I now generally hang up and call back until I get the same nice lady from Minnesota, who also has a thick accent, but who I can generally understand.
It's not about being knowledge. The Indian guy may have graduated from MIT. But if I don't understand what he's saying, he's useless to me. I also have problems understanding heavy French accents.
I'm sure the lady from Minnesota sounds like a Martian to the guy from India. Nor would I be good tech support to someone speaking Japanese or Spanish. The point is that support is about relativity. I rather take someone without a clue, but knows my culture and accent well enough to communicate with me.
It is about culture, language, accent, and all that. That's not the same as someone who is simply racist. Relativism is not racism. I want someone who can communicate in a near relative way with me. I don't have "cultural guilt" and feel that I owe another country more patience or consideration than I have for workers in my own country.
I'm sorry, but if I don't understand you, I don't want to have to rely on you, and most likely you don't want to rely on my either.
I'm liberal, but I'm not some weeping, soft belly liberal. I can demand to speak with someone who makes sense to me if the company wishes to have me as a customer. I don't give a damn if that means they close down the call center. And quite frankly, I think people in India can demand the same thing of the services provided to them.
It's obviously a publicity stunt, as there is no real money to be gained from this. He has (successfully) made himself famous, now placed on Wikipedia and on news outlets eating up bitcoin news *cough*slashdot*cough*. Fame CAN be bought.
The other thing to consider is whether or not this is a ploy to unmask the original creator of Bitcoin, who disappeared and remains completely anonymous. The lawyer might argue in a court case that only the original creator can defend or fight his claim. In that case... who is this lawyer working for that is trying to unmask the bitcoin creator?
Or at least don't run it under VMWare, run Wubi... Which is good just for trying, but not a real good long term solution. Ubuntu supports dual boot, and that is the right way to go, especially if you don't want to uninstall your OEM copy of Windows.
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The entire patent system was created to spur innovation. But it's not like anyone can churn out a quality phone anyways, so the patent is not really as valid of a barrier as it once was. Second, in fast moving tech, patents should expire much sooner, say 5 years. This way, either you move forward, or you die. No massive sell offs to patent trolls.
Shhhh! You'll wake the tree huggers who only want to use biodegradable elf farts powering windmills in Denmark! Just imagine if a nuclear plant melts down! The entire world's salt supply will kill us all!.
As I've always said, solar and wind are great, where its sunny and windy. We need to stop the fantasy science and at LEAST use today's available science to solve today's problems. You wanna develop space solar panels and beam down power? Fine, we'll close the nuclear plants AFTER you get it working.
I'm running the Tricorder App on Android and it agrees, there is no life on iPad.
Nobody is mentioning either that Microsoft will never sue Google and risk losing a billion in revenue from shaking down makers. The fact is that makers love this. They pay a fee and get protection. This is what they'd have to do anyways if they didn't use Android. Android is the only really free option, and this fee is certainly better than paying for Windows 7 Mobile and not selling millions of units to boot.
Microsoft is happy, handset makers are happy enough to only pay $15 per phone. And Google doesn't care about Microsoft's little side game, because it effectively keeps MS out of a real phone competitor because the handset makers would quickly countersue and or enter joint deals and kill MS's billion dollar baby.
It's equilibrium. And with everyone fighting Apple which could easily overtake a crippled Android (and I love android to pieces, but they'd get crushed in a single generation of stagnation), it's a lose-lose to go to course with Apple laughing at it all.
George Bush got into Yale. Anything is possible.
News International papers targeted Gordon Brown
Newspapers obtained details from the former prime minister's bank account and legal file and his family's medical records - Thanks to Jeff Jarvis for the story.
Yeah, and "from wherever" for me NEVER includes apps from China.
FSCK you!
Jesux proposed to remove '"kills" and "aborts" and "daemons"' and other anti-christian parts from linux and redistribute it. It was a colossal fail (or more likely a hoax), but it gave us all a pretty good laugh at the time. That was what, 12 years ago? I think that was far more offensive.
This is why you use a hidden volume. Don't people read the Truecrypt manual? You can therefore give them the passphrase to a sanitized volume devoid of anything incriminating. It is impossible to prove that there exists a second, hidden volume. If a laptop is encrypted at all, you can't prove you forgot a password or that it isn't encrypted. But for crying out loud, there is a single easy step to take for 100% plausible deniability.
Then you let your lawyer fight on principle, without really giving a shit personally if you win or lose.
That is true, but that is also true in the real world. The first thing I did was invite everyone I could. And I treat it more like Twitter, and immediately followed about half a dozen people who post regularly... MG Siegler, Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, Marc Andreesen, Tom Anderson, and Kevin Rose.
FFIX would be really confusing.
... it is rough around the edges. But hey, a week old and already better privacy than my years on facebook, and far more addicting.
Kinda makes you more weary of TSA scanners, doesn't it? Light is not just visible light. Radio waves are light waves, just at a different frequency.
Next time you go through a scanner and you suddenly think, "Hmmm, can I haz cheezburger?" think about if that impulse was internally or externally generated.
Yes, let's have a LAWYER tell us about how all botnets can be taken down. The phrase "If someone says that a botnet is indestructible, they are not being very creative legally" has got to be the goddamn funniest quote of the month! It's a botnet, not an ordinance. I don't give a damn how "legally creative" you get. You can't apply human laws as if they were universal laws of physics. Some young adult in China running a headless botnet via P2P C&C using anonymizing routers is beyond your insignificant "legal creativity".
IF you know who and where they are THEN you can use legal means to shut them down. But the point is you DONT know who they are OR where they are.
The only reason pen and paper are "secure" is that they aren't online. Take the f#$%ing database offline, Florida!
The point is that someone will post sexual activity at a time when they didn't have sexual activity with the person who believes they're exclusive. IE - Wife posts sexual activity at 2pm while the husband is at work.
"At least you understand that it's not their location or nationality that makes them useless"
Yes, if you are speaking about racism...
But a thick accent is unrecognizable. I can very well discriminate if I don't understand someone. I don't have to be "sensitive" if my complaint is that I don't know what the hell they are saying over the phone.
I don't have the patience to listen to someone repeat the same thing 8 times because I have no idea what they are saying. And I'm a good listener. I've worked with a few Japanese who's English was so bad, I couldn't even make out half the words. I've conversed with Spanish speakers who only used maybe 1/3 English words and exaggerated gestures. But on the phone, it is different. If you have a thick Indian accent, and especially male voices, I don't understand a word. So when I call the satellite company because my box is on the fritz, I now generally hang up and call back until I get the same nice lady from Minnesota, who also has a thick accent, but who I can generally understand.
It's not about being knowledge. The Indian guy may have graduated from MIT. But if I don't understand what he's saying, he's useless to me. I also have problems understanding heavy French accents.
I'm sure the lady from Minnesota sounds like a Martian to the guy from India. Nor would I be good tech support to someone speaking Japanese or Spanish. The point is that support is about relativity. I rather take someone without a clue, but knows my culture and accent well enough to communicate with me.
It is about culture, language, accent, and all that. That's not the same as someone who is simply racist. Relativism is not racism. I want someone who can communicate in a near relative way with me. I don't have "cultural guilt" and feel that I owe another country more patience or consideration than I have for workers in my own country.
I'm sorry, but if I don't understand you, I don't want to have to rely on you, and most likely you don't want to rely on my either.
I'm liberal, but I'm not some weeping, soft belly liberal. I can demand to speak with someone who makes sense to me if the company wishes to have me as a customer. I don't give a damn if that means they close down the call center. And quite frankly, I think people in India can demand the same thing of the services provided to them.
That, and now dump Firefox for Chromium. Then dump Thunderbird all together and just add a link to Gmail.com.
It's obviously a publicity stunt, as there is no real money to be gained from this. He has (successfully) made himself famous, now placed on Wikipedia and on news outlets eating up bitcoin news *cough*slashdot*cough*. Fame CAN be bought.
The other thing to consider is whether or not this is a ploy to unmask the original creator of Bitcoin, who disappeared and remains completely anonymous. The lawyer might argue in a court case that only the original creator can defend or fight his claim. In that case... who is this lawyer working for that is trying to unmask the bitcoin creator?
This is true, and I disagree with GP also. However, it can kill "good" bacteria, which is a vector for infection by more dangerous microbes.
Or at least don't run it under VMWare, run Wubi... Which is good just for trying, but not a real good long term solution. Ubuntu supports dual boot, and that is the right way to go, especially if you don't want to uninstall your OEM copy of Windows.
It's been bought by Google and rebranded +Coin.
The link is for the NY Post. The NYT doesn't block, but has a 20 article limit.
...iPad2 users can finally visit the NYT website without purchasing a broken $20 a month app?
Apple: Site blocked? Don't worry, we have a broken app for that.