Comment Re: Stupid judge/jury. (Score 1) 324
Good. If it really easy to get a patent overthrown, only patents which are strongly defensible will be granted. And then everyone (but the patent trolls) wins.
Good. If it really easy to get a patent overthrown, only patents which are strongly defensible will be granted. And then everyone (but the patent trolls) wins.
Regardless if there was an official link, it is probably true that Bitcoin really took off when illegal/quasi-legal enterprises like Silk Road started using them. That's not to say Silk Road created Bitcoin or that all Bitcoin commerce is illegal, just that it would never have grown to real prominence without it.
Thanks Obama!
It doesn't come with Windows or OSX.
Not exactly hard to do, but still exceedingly rare for laptops in the US.
What precisely are you afraid of? And I'm being serious, what could the app access that you find worrying? It does grab your location, but that is trivial for any law enforcement agency these days.
If this app helps the FCC ensure that wireless companies are honest, I'm all for it.
Get it now, because no one in their right might is going to import electronics into Venezuela anytime soon.
Isn't vaguely socialist dictatorship great?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! It would be the slowest, worst cluster ever!
Don't get on too high of a horse; Microsoft is also looking at Netflix and saying "WTF? Even we don't use Silverlight anymore."
Yahoo's recent desperate moves (e.e. buying Tumblr) are hardly indicative of the industry, but rather one company that really shouldn't be as big as it is. Silicon Valley as a whole is a lot more healthy than Yahoo.
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The government of Switzerland may disagree that Geneva is an international city. Cosmopolitan might be the world you are looking for.
Also, it wasn't the web that prevented closed-garden internets, but rather universities. Until the mid 1990s, nearly everyone on the Internet (on any protocol) was at a university or research institute (like CERN). The universities weren't trying to make a profit, so they embraced an open architecture. It was US dominated, because then as now, most large research universities are in the US. Then, mainly US companies took that university network and popularized it. So, it's very much the fault of the US university system that the internet is so open.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.