The tiny fraction can still wipe out the human race
They could certainly wipe out many urban population centers, and kill billions of people. They would also cause major economic disruption, and a collapse in trade that may kill billions more.
Unless the number of each of those "billions" is only 2, then that's just about the entire human species.
At least for now, other client programs can still use Jabber/XMPP to connect to GTalk. I'm a KDE user, so I use Kopete or KDE-Telepathy, and I don't know offhand if they currently work on Windows. I assume Pidgin still works with GTalk.
Can't this be said about any video game that doesn't include unrealistic activity? Why not just drive cars? Why not just play football? Why not chuck rocks at pigs?
For most people, driving a race car or playing professional football are unrealistic activities. They also involve a large amount of physical danger.
and shipping a title for a platform when it doesn't actually work on that platform, or has issues that nobody ever even bothered to check because they don't want to spend any time on QA for the platform is worse for the company's PR than not shipping the title for that platform in the first place.
Then why is EA shipping games for any platform at all?
Because of course they've avoided raising their rates out of the kindness of their hearts, but all of this new regulation is forcing them to do it against their will.
I keep hearing from free-market capitalists that prices would naturally trend towards whatever the market will bear. If that's true, then regulation would never increase prices. After all, if the sellers could get away with raising the price, they would have already done so.
I hope so. The longer the fccstays the fuckout of t he Internet, th e better.
You see, if we already Net Neutrality rules in place, your ISP wouldn't be able to screw up your connection so badly that your text isn't even making it through in the right order.
Parasitic in that they hose their drivers. They produce nothing of real value, they just take a cut. Like a racketeer.
I don't really care about Uber personally, but it's a bit disingenuous to say that they provide no value at all. There is some non-zero value to the infrastructure for connecting customers with drivers that they maintain. I doubt it's worth $40 billion, but it's worth more than nothing.
It would really be nice to have a stable next-gen file system that can scale. ZFS is for the most part FreeBSD only and I'm just not reayd to switch to FreeBSD.
There's a Linux version of ZFS. As far as I know, it works quite well, though I can't make any guarantees.
It's also possible that the employer will settle relatively quickly. If an employer relies that heavily on such non-compete clauses, they certainly don't want to risk having a judicial precedent that nullifies that part of their contracts.
as we all know, if a bad actor behaves badly and there is no punishment, what reason does he have to change his bad ways?
the fact that the US fellates all corporations, as a form of religion, is what allows them to continue the bad behavior. in fact, it encourages it by rewarding 'profit, above all else'.
it really seems clear to me that we have chosen the wrong 'god' to worship. profit, above all else, WILL be our downfall. it has started already and many of us see it. but our words are not being heard;(
It started with a good idea: make it so that a person who makes a mistake running their business can't be sued into personal oblivion. If you remove that major risk factor, it will encourage (or more accurately, not heavily discourage) more people to start their own businesses. Eventually, though, corporations got big enough that they could use this merely to shield themselves from the consequences of any actions they take, so there's no risk at all to doing things that would likely destroy most small businesses.
Not if they're adhering to the OSI networking model. HTTP is an Application protocol, while encryption is a Presentation layer function. There shouldn't be any dependencies between layers.
Having now read TFA, I must partially retract my previous statement. Venturebeat isn't raising the angry mob, but Slashdot is.
No, it's not just Slashdot. It's also whoever came up with this line (either VentureBeat or the company's marketing department):
for example, substituting in synonyms or reordering steps in a process, thereby generating tens of thousands of potentially patentable inventions.
First, substituting synonyms doesn't really work. Within a patent's claims, different words are presumed to have different meanings (i.e. if you meant the same thing in two places, you would have used the same word). So if you have one claim that says something is "big" and another claim that says something is "large", with the rest of the two claims being identical, you'll need to explain the difference between "big" and "large", or else one of the claims will be invalidated.
Second, the steps in a method patent are considered unordered, unless some language imposes an ordering, such as saying, "After X, doing Y". Simply reordering the steps in a method does not by itself create a different invention, so one of the two claims would be invalid.
And most professional athletes make less money during their careers (which frequently only last for a few years) than an upper-middle class professional, such as a software developer or an engineer, will make during theirs.
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Uh... you know *why* Iran wants nukes, right? It is precisely because a nearby military rival has them.
That's not what Iran says.
The tiny fraction can still wipe out the human race
They could certainly wipe out many urban population centers, and kill billions of people. They would also cause major economic disruption, and a collapse in trade that may kill billions more.
Unless the number of each of those "billions" is only 2, then that's just about the entire human species.
A zombie vegetarian with an insatiable lust for green beans isn't exactly a future doomsday preppers are imagining.
I like green beans, you insensitive clod!
Because s/flu/zombie/ and s/zombie/flu/ aren't exactly processor-intensive operations.
"The state with the lowest survival rate? â" New Jersey."
They say this like it's a BAD thing....
Or like it isn't a true statement regardless of zombie apocalypse.
Is there any part of "Godless Killing Machine" that isn't more true when you make the bear a zombie?
At least for now, other client programs can still use Jabber/XMPP to connect to GTalk. I'm a KDE user, so I use Kopete or KDE-Telepathy, and I don't know offhand if they currently work on Windows. I assume Pidgin still works with GTalk.
Can't this be said about any video game that doesn't include unrealistic activity? Why not just drive cars? Why not just play football? Why not chuck rocks at pigs?
For most people, driving a race car or playing professional football are unrealistic activities. They also involve a large amount of physical danger.
You see, if we already Net Neutrality rules in place...
My ISP wouldn't be able to screw up my connection so badly that entire words get dropped.
and shipping a title for a platform when it doesn't actually work on that platform, or has issues that nobody ever even bothered to check because they don't want to spend any time on QA for the platform is worse for the company's PR than not shipping the title for that platform in the first place.
Then why is EA shipping games for any platform at all?
Because of course they've avoided raising their rates out of the kindness of their hearts, but all of this new regulation is forcing them to do it against their will.
I keep hearing from free-market capitalists that prices would naturally trend towards whatever the market will bear. If that's true, then regulation would never increase prices. After all, if the sellers could get away with raising the price, they would have already done so.
I hope so. The longer the fccstays the fuckout of t he Internet, th e better.
You see, if we already Net Neutrality rules in place, your ISP wouldn't be able to screw up your connection so badly that your text isn't even making it through in the right order.
Parasitic in that they hose their drivers. They produce nothing of real value, they just take a cut. Like a racketeer.
I don't really care about Uber personally, but it's a bit disingenuous to say that they provide no value at all. There is some non-zero value to the infrastructure for connecting customers with drivers that they maintain. I doubt it's worth $40 billion, but it's worth more than nothing.
I don't know, what we have *is* working with basic freedoms. I'll take liberty over cheap speeds any day.
Like your freedom to purchase a streaming movie subscription from Netflix?
A bill requires multiple 2/3rds Senate votes to make it to the president... I wonder how many US born citizens understand this?
Apparently not you, otherwise you would know that normal filibuster votes are 3/5, not 2/3.
It would really be nice to have a stable next-gen file system that can scale. ZFS is for the most part FreeBSD only and I'm just not reayd to switch to FreeBSD.
There's a Linux version of ZFS. As far as I know, it works quite well, though I can't make any guarantees.
Nope, he can't be that guy. That guy had his pot stolen.
This is also known as the Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice.
It's also possible that the employer will settle relatively quickly. If an employer relies that heavily on such non-compete clauses, they certainly don't want to risk having a judicial precedent that nullifies that part of their contracts.
as we all know, if a bad actor behaves badly and there is no punishment, what reason does he have to change his bad ways?
the fact that the US fellates all corporations, as a form of religion, is what allows them to continue the bad behavior. in fact, it encourages it by rewarding 'profit, above all else'.
it really seems clear to me that we have chosen the wrong 'god' to worship. profit, above all else, WILL be our downfall. it has started already and many of us see it. but our words are not being heard ;(
It started with a good idea: make it so that a person who makes a mistake running their business can't be sued into personal oblivion. If you remove that major risk factor, it will encourage (or more accurately, not heavily discourage) more people to start their own businesses. Eventually, though, corporations got big enough that they could use this merely to shield themselves from the consequences of any actions they take, so there's no risk at all to doing things that would likely destroy most small businesses.
This is why we can't have nice things.
You missed that episode of South Park, didn't you?
HTTP/2 over TLS could have been made mandatory.
Not if they're adhering to the OSI networking model. HTTP is an Application protocol, while encryption is a Presentation layer function. There shouldn't be any dependencies between layers.
Having now read TFA, I must partially retract my previous statement. Venturebeat isn't raising the angry mob, but Slashdot is.
No, it's not just Slashdot. It's also whoever came up with this line (either VentureBeat or the company's marketing department):
First, substituting synonyms doesn't really work. Within a patent's claims, different words are presumed to have different meanings (i.e. if you meant the same thing in two places, you would have used the same word). So if you have one claim that says something is "big" and another claim that says something is "large", with the rest of the two claims being identical, you'll need to explain the difference between "big" and "large", or else one of the claims will be invalidated.
Second, the steps in a method patent are considered unordered, unless some language imposes an ordering, such as saying, "After X, doing Y". Simply reordering the steps in a method does not by itself create a different invention, so one of the two claims would be invalid.
And most professional athletes make less money during their careers (which frequently only last for a few years) than an upper-middle class professional, such as a software developer or an engineer, will make during theirs.
High drivers go right through red lights.
I thought most states allowed going right through a red light?