The problem is, this covers ANY laptop that is thinner on one edge, which is purely an evolutionary change as some parts (like the HD) get smaller, while other parts (like the battery) don't. Are they supposed to artificially thicken the front edge to the same height as the battery, just to avoid this patent?
Besides, the keyboard itself has been wedge-shaped since before apple existed, so the idea itself (a wedge shaped computer/computer accessory) is clearly unpatentable.
This LinkedIn hack could lead to even more high-profile hacks, due to the unique user base that LinkedIn has
On most sites (like Facebook) most of the stupid passwords will belong to stupid 13 year old kids with nothing of value to hackers, but on a site like LinkedIn you are more likely to get the password for some computer illiterate corporate executive. In many cases this is the same simplistic password he uses at work, where he insisted he be given admin-level access on all of their servers "because hes an executive"
Computer security is always about the weakest link in the chain, and when one of those "links" partied his way though business college and never thinks twice about password reuse, you have a pretty weak chain. LinkedIn is like an x-ray showing the hackers who the weak links are.
Even if you do destroy the drive, PLEASE leave the HD cage in the case! I hate getting computers from businesses that are missing both the HD AND the proprietary cage, especially when it's an entire pallet of computers and the PC manufacturer no longer stocks the cages.
Who do you think paid for those PSA's to be made and aired? The Tobacco companies? It was money raised from cigarette taxes, which just shows that it was money well spent.
The end result of this is that US websites would just block EU users entirely, and US ISPs would stop allowing their users to connect to EU sites (the ISP would have to pay the taxes)
This might be prove to be a form of censorship even more effective than the great firewall of china. Companies WANT to break through the Chinese firewall, but will do absolutely anything just to avoid taxes.
Why do you assume somebody will fuck up if he isn't an expert in the field?
Because we have all rescued too many amateurs from too many fuck-ups.
How many times have you gotten a call from someone who tried to "fix" their computer by reinstalling windows and just made things worse? (now the computer is still broken, AND all their files were erased by the destructive factory restore)
Of course they are out of their league with stuxnet and flame. The AV companies are used to fighting teenage hackers and Russian mobsters, they aren't prepared to fight the two of the highest funded militaries in the world (USA and Israel). It's hard to beat the enemy when they outnumber and "outgun" you by a factor of 100,000
Solar flares (specifically neutrino radiation) affects decay rates of all radioactive materials. Carbon 14 dating assumes that the half-life is fairly constant, but the base level of neutrino radiation could have been much higher or lower for extended periods in the past, making carbon 14 gradually less accurate the farther you go back.
When the original Boston tea party happened (1773), there weren't armed guards and locked doors protecting the cargo, and there weren't security cameras recording everything with the police only a phone call away.
Damaging Telecom property (as much as I would love to) is probably an considered an act of terrorism, at which point you don't even get due process, you just "disappear" to gitmo
You may very well be on to something here, especially when you look at IQ vs rarity. 15% roughly equates to the number of people with an IQ over 117 http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtable.aspx.
I really do believe that religion is a symptom of the unwillingness or inability of some people to understand the answers that science has provided. They take the easy way out and go for the answers that are simple and easy to understand. I'm the kind of person who loves to explain how things work, and it's frustrating when people just don't WANT to know, like they are afraid their brain will get full or something (and when asked about it, they get hostile)
You mean Chrome looks like Opera plus google integration?
Every browser on the market today is an Opera ripoff, Opera was doing tabbed browsing for years before the open mozilla project, way before firefox and chrome came out.
If it was his network, there wouldn't be "legal issues" with installing software on the actual network PCs. Therefore it's not his network, and/or he isn't keeping an eye on the kids
Private companies lose business to other companies when they provide bad goods and services.
Comcast and AT&T are both FAMOUS for having bad goods and services, yet they are so profitable that they can afford to simply buy-up the competition.
You assume that "free market"=choice. What if every airport within 200 miles uses the same evil screening company that you hate (but the airline LOVES, because it's cheap and effective)? You end up either driving, or dealing with a bunch of gropers, which is the same situation we are in now.
There is no such thing as competition when you have local monopolies.
What is it about "privatized" that makes you think there would be "no government oversight or accountability".
Because there is a huge push in the US right now to prevent government oversight of private corporations, since it's considered "tampering" with a free market economy. (the current corporate backlash against the EPA is probably the best example). The trend over the last 30 years has been to deregulate one industry after another, I'm sure airline security is next.
Every company I have ever worked for will bend over backward and then turn themselves inside-out for the sake of keeping the insurance company happy.
If the insurance company tells the airline that the monthly premium will go up if the airline doesn't hire more security, then the airline will hire more security. The airline can't just switch to a different insurer, because there is very little competition in the billion-dollar-policy range, and they can't just go without insurance. Things get even more interesting when you find that the insurance company is also the largest shareholder of a private security company. (insurance companies have to invest those premiums somewhere).
Why are the lower courts (where most cases happen) required to consider the rulings of higher courts if those decisions are not part of (or at least attached to) the law? (Roe v. Wade is the most public example of this)
Also, what in the world makes you think the government has shifted toward the Left?
Just because we realized that old age sucks and people can't work when they are 80? (mediacare and SS) Just because we realized that taking raw materials and turning them into finished products creates other byproducts which destroy the environment? (EPA and environmental regulations) Just because we realized that you can't enslave people? (minimum wage, anti-trust, unions)
Maybe you are correct, maybe we are moving "Left" of where we used to be. Or maybe you just have your directions mixed up, and we are simply moving FORWARD.
When someone explicitly tells you "Nothing to see here. Move along." it means they WANT you to stop looking and they WANT you to move along. Otherwise why would they have said it?
We don't elect representatives anymore, and we haven't since roughly 1970.
Our representatives are appointed for us by the electoral college, Diebold, and mass media.
People vote for whoever they are told to vote for, and if that doesn't work the some of the votes just "disappear", (or "extra" votes show up) and if THAT doesn't work, the system is allowed to simply ignore the votes altogether and appoint whoever they want for president.
You cannot seriously tell me that we elect our officials, in a world where the republication party can receive more VOTES in an particular region than there were VOTERS in that same region.
Judiciary is allowed to change existing laws, it's called case law and it has been part of our government from the very beginning. It was put in place as a protection from corrupt representatives.
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The problem is, this covers ANY laptop that is thinner on one edge, which is purely an evolutionary change as some parts (like the HD) get smaller, while other parts (like the battery) don't. Are they supposed to artificially thicken the front edge to the same height as the battery, just to avoid this patent?
Besides, the keyboard itself has been wedge-shaped since before apple existed, so the idea itself (a wedge shaped computer/computer accessory) is clearly unpatentable.
Maybe that would teach the USPTO about accountability; if you successfully get a patent invalidated in court, the USPTO has to pay your legal fees.
This LinkedIn hack could lead to even more high-profile hacks, due to the unique user base that LinkedIn has
On most sites (like Facebook) most of the stupid passwords will belong to stupid 13 year old kids with nothing of value to hackers, but on a site like LinkedIn you are more likely to get the password for some computer illiterate corporate executive. In many cases this is the same simplistic password he uses at work, where he insisted he be given admin-level access on all of their servers "because hes an executive"
Computer security is always about the weakest link in the chain, and when one of those "links" partied his way though business college and never thinks twice about password reuse, you have a pretty weak chain. LinkedIn is like an x-ray showing the hackers who the weak links are.
Even if you do destroy the drive, PLEASE leave the HD cage in the case! I hate getting computers from businesses that are missing both the HD AND the proprietary cage, especially when it's an entire pallet of computers and the PC manufacturer no longer stocks the cages.
Who do you think paid for those PSA's to be made and aired? The Tobacco companies? It was money raised from cigarette taxes, which just shows that it was money well spent.
The end result of this is that US websites would just block EU users entirely, and US ISPs would stop allowing their users to connect to EU sites (the ISP would have to pay the taxes)
This might be prove to be a form of censorship even more effective than the great firewall of china. Companies WANT to break through the Chinese firewall, but will do absolutely anything just to avoid taxes.
Just don't hire Verizon, they will have you spending $24 million on routers that you don't need
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/11/1937235/west-virginia-buys-22k-routers-with-stimulus-puts-them-in-small-schools
Why do you assume somebody will fuck up if he isn't an expert in the field?
Because we have all rescued too many amateurs from too many fuck-ups.
How many times have you gotten a call from someone who tried to "fix" their computer by reinstalling windows and just made things worse? (now the computer is still broken, AND all their files were erased by the destructive factory restore)
Of course they are out of their league with stuxnet and flame. The AV companies are used to fighting teenage hackers and Russian mobsters, they aren't prepared to fight the two of the highest funded militaries in the world (USA and Israel). It's hard to beat the enemy when they outnumber and "outgun" you by a factor of 100,000
Carbon dating is already broken
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2010/08/23/the-strange-case-of-solar-flares-and-radioactive-elements/
Solar flares (specifically neutrino radiation) affects decay rates of all radioactive materials. Carbon 14 dating assumes that the half-life is fairly constant, but the base level of neutrino radiation could have been much higher or lower for extended periods in the past, making carbon 14 gradually less accurate the farther you go back.
When the original Boston tea party happened (1773), there weren't armed guards and locked doors protecting the cargo, and there weren't security cameras recording everything with the police only a phone call away.
Damaging Telecom property (as much as I would love to) is probably an considered an act of terrorism, at which point you don't even get due process, you just "disappear" to gitmo
You may very well be on to something here, especially when you look at IQ vs rarity. 15% roughly equates to the number of people with an IQ over 117 http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtable.aspx.
I really do believe that religion is a symptom of the unwillingness or inability of some people to understand the answers that science has provided. They take the easy way out and go for the answers that are simple and easy to understand. I'm the kind of person who loves to explain how things work, and it's frustrating when people just don't WANT to know, like they are afraid their brain will get full or something (and when asked about it, they get hostile)
Thats more of the UPer/Northern Wisconsin/Fargo accent, which was mostly influenced by Norwegian and German
"Ya dere hey, and so."
I did see that movie, and it was the first thing I thought of when I read the headline
You mean Chrome looks like Opera plus google integration?
Every browser on the market today is an Opera ripoff, Opera was doing tabbed browsing for years before the open mozilla project, way before firefox and chrome came out.
This wasn't a summary of an article, it was an "ask slashdot" question.
Somebody didn't RTFTitle
If it was his network, there wouldn't be "legal issues" with installing software on the actual network PCs. Therefore it's not his network, and/or he isn't keeping an eye on the kids
Private companies lose business to other companies when they provide bad goods and services.
Comcast and AT&T are both FAMOUS for having bad goods and services, yet they are so profitable that they can afford to simply buy-up the competition.
You assume that "free market"=choice. What if every airport within 200 miles uses the same evil screening company that you hate (but the airline LOVES, because it's cheap and effective)? You end up either driving, or dealing with a bunch of gropers, which is the same situation we are in now.
There is no such thing as competition when you have local monopolies.
What is it about "privatized" that makes you think there would be "no government oversight or accountability".
Because there is a huge push in the US right now to prevent government oversight of private corporations, since it's considered "tampering" with a free market economy. (the current corporate backlash against the EPA is probably the best example). The trend over the last 30 years has been to deregulate one industry after another, I'm sure airline security is next.
At most airports, the TSA insists on "groping" the flight crew as well
Every company I have ever worked for will bend over backward and then turn themselves inside-out for the sake of keeping the insurance company happy.
If the insurance company tells the airline that the monthly premium will go up if the airline doesn't hire more security, then the airline will hire more security.
The airline can't just switch to a different insurer, because there is very little competition in the billion-dollar-policy range, and they can't just go without insurance.
Things get even more interesting when you find that the insurance company is also the largest shareholder of a private security company. (insurance companies have to invest those premiums somewhere).
Why are the lower courts (where most cases happen) required to consider the rulings of higher courts if those decisions are not part of (or at least attached to) the law? (Roe v. Wade is the most public example of this)
Also, what in the world makes you think the government has shifted toward the Left?
Just because we realized that old age sucks and people can't work when they are 80? (mediacare and SS)
Just because we realized that taking raw materials and turning them into finished products creates other byproducts which destroy the environment? (EPA and environmental regulations)
Just because we realized that you can't enslave people? (minimum wage, anti-trust, unions)
Maybe you are correct, maybe we are moving "Left" of where we used to be. Or maybe you just have your directions mixed up, and we are simply moving FORWARD.
When someone explicitly tells you "Nothing to see here. Move along." it means they WANT you to stop looking and they WANT you to move along. Otherwise why would they have said it?
The majority says "no you can't"
The majority says "what the hell are you talking about? It's not getting hotter outside"
Just because the majority is ignorant, doesn't mean that ignorance is the correct course of action
We don't elect representatives anymore, and we haven't since roughly 1970.
Our representatives are appointed for us by the electoral college, Diebold, and mass media.
People vote for whoever they are told to vote for, and if that doesn't work the some of the votes just "disappear", (or "extra" votes show up) and if THAT doesn't work, the system is allowed to simply ignore the votes altogether and appoint whoever they want for president.
You cannot seriously tell me that we elect our officials, in a world where the republication party can receive more VOTES in an particular region than there were VOTERS in that same region.
Judiciary is allowed to change existing laws, it's called case law and it has been part of our government from the very beginning. It was put in place as a protection from corrupt representatives.
what if the local government won't let you put up a windmill, or what if you rent your home and don't own it?
Some of us aren't even able to choose how we get our TV service, let alone our power service.