IANAL but, having read a lot of coverage here on slashdot, it seems pretty clear to me that Apple's only path forward was to close up shop, fire everyone, and grant all of their IP & physical assets to Samsung. Anything else would be a tragic miscarriage of justice.
"Are you tired of the walled garden offered by Apple on their iOS devices? Well, now you can purchase a similarly priced Windows device that offers the same walled garden 'features' while providing a different selection* of applications and all of Windows award winning** look and feel."
*and by 'different selection', we mean 'limited subset' and a crippled and/or difficult to use copy of Office. **we didn't threaten them to not send free samples if we didn't get positive reviews, but we are pretty sure the review sites got our point.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (*) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (*) Users of facebook will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (*) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (*) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (*) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (*) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
Son. This is Texas. The fix has been in for the past sixty years. Just because the machine doesn't call itself a "machine" doesn't change the effect. Just because the machine changes party does not mean it changes its stripe.
My 8 year old daughter was happily clacking away on a learn-to-type game when she accidentally hit the windows key. Bye-Bye game. And no clear way to get back to it. She was completely flummoxed.
I have been using Win8 as my exclusive home operating system for a couple months now. I've gotten used to the tablet-yness, but I still don't see the point. Why do I have to treat my desktop computer as a tablet?
... rather then the ER which is free if you don't have insurance.
No. While it is true that the ER cannot deny you care, they will bill you if you do not have insurance. Failure to pay will have all of the same implications of ignoring any other bill.
This "we don't have to insure the poor because they can just go to the ER" trope has got to stop.
Keep in mind that this will not be built by the government, it will be built by government contractors. The laws will be much more like: A robot may not decrease corporate profits or, through inaction, allow corporate profits to decline. Well, I say "laws" but there is really just the one.
I don't think Jordan is a valid counter example. He had enough characters to conform to at least one of each possible stereotype.
(Also, the Min/Elayne/Aviendha/Rand love tri^H^H^Hquadrangle that turned me off of the whole series. Hardly the archetype of strong, independent female characters.)
30% of the energy in the fuels gets used for moving
Oh, it's worse than that. At steady state, the very best that a perfect engine (frictionless bearings, dragless intake, massless pistions, etc) can achieve is around 35% at steady state. Add real-world parasitic losses and acceleration and I'm pretty sure the efficiency drops into the teens.
I will grant that calculating losses between the power plant and the car battery is difficult, but your average combined cycle power plant is starting off at 60% Carnot efficiency, has proportionally lower parasitic losses, and can be much more cost efficient in pollution controls. I.e. it is more difficult to reduce one ton of carbon emissions at each of 100 tailpipes than 100 tons at one stack.
*pfff* we have to have at least three Apple related stories a day so that all the karma whores can get in their Samsung >> Apple, lol round corners, and lawsuit jokes.
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IANAL but, having read a lot of coverage here on slashdot, it seems pretty clear to me that Apple's only path forward was to close up shop, fire everyone, and grant all of their IP & physical assets to Samsung. Anything else would be a tragic miscarriage of justice.
Why not NetBSD? Oh, wait. It probably already does.
"Are you tired of the walled garden offered by Apple on their iOS devices? Well, now you can purchase a similarly priced Windows device that offers the same walled garden 'features' while providing a different selection* of applications and all of Windows award winning** look and feel."
*and by 'different selection', we mean 'limited subset' and a crippled and/or difficult to use copy of Office.
**we didn't threaten them to not send free samples if we didn't get positive reviews, but we are pretty sure the review sites got our point.
I recognize that the facebook/email analogy fails on a more than one element, but much of the standard form applies.
Your patent advocates a
(*) technical ( ) legislative (*) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(*) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(*) Users of facebook will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(*) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(*) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(*) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(*) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Son. This is Texas. The fix has been in for the past sixty years. Just because the machine doesn't call itself a "machine" doesn't change the effect. Just because the machine changes party does not mean it changes its stripe.
My 8 year old daughter was happily clacking away on a learn-to-type game when she accidentally hit the windows key. Bye-Bye game. And no clear way to get back to it. She was completely flummoxed.
I have been using Win8 as my exclusive home operating system for a couple months now. I've gotten used to the tablet-yness, but I still don't see the point. Why do I have to treat my desktop computer as a tablet?
The lead designer is John Bigboote.
Dude. You know Tolkien was a language nerd, right?
I had $100 ten years ago. Rather than putting it in a bank, I converted it into about a week's worth of gourmet cheeseburgers.
I call this the Whimpy Model of Economics. (I wonder how many cheeseburgers I could get with the Nobel prize money)
I ain't gonna pay $100 per month with capped data just so these leeches can resell my usage habits to the highest bidder.
Fuck those fucking fuckers.
LMWTFY
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Examples_of_use
... rather then the ER which is free if you don't have insurance.
No. While it is true that the ER cannot deny you care, they will bill you if you do not have insurance. Failure to pay will have all of the same implications of ignoring any other bill.
This "we don't have to insure the poor because they can just go to the ER" trope has got to stop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_(United_States)
While I suspect you are joking, I will play it straight.
Does it run NetBSD?
Can you do it in the cloud?
Keep in mind that this will not be built by the government, it will be built by government contractors. The laws will be much more like: A robot may not decrease corporate profits or, through inaction, allow corporate profits to decline. Well, I say "laws" but there is really just the one.
I don't think Jordan is a valid counter example. He had enough characters to conform to at least one of each possible stereotype.
(Also, the Min/Elayne/Aviendha/Rand love tri^H^H^Hquadrangle that turned me off of the whole series. Hardly the archetype of strong, independent female characters.)
The manager is part of the team, just not your team.
30% of the energy in the fuels gets used for moving
Oh, it's worse than that. At steady state, the very best that a perfect engine (frictionless bearings, dragless intake, massless pistions, etc) can achieve is around 35% at steady state. Add real-world parasitic losses and acceleration and I'm pretty sure the efficiency drops into the teens.
I will grant that calculating losses between the power plant and the car battery is difficult, but your average combined cycle power plant is starting off at 60% Carnot efficiency, has proportionally lower parasitic losses, and can be much more cost efficient in pollution controls. I.e. it is more difficult to reduce one ton of carbon emissions at each of 100 tailpipes than 100 tons at one stack.
Strictly speaking, the perpetrators in this case were motivated by capitalism, not communism.
(yes you were making a joke. but really, its been 21 years since the USSR went kaputnik)
I imagine there is a lower bound on the system's sensitivity.
*pfff* we have to have at least three Apple related stories a day so that all the karma whores can get in their Samsung >> Apple, lol round corners, and lawsuit jokes.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
47% of all statistics are made up.
Well, Saddam Hussein was planning to switch to the Euro....
He was also planning to stockpile weapons of mass destruction. We all know how that turned out.