Comment Historical anaolgy (Score 3, Insightful) 625
Discuss.
Discuss.
Because if you patent stuff that makes sure that it is not used. Consider the car and oil industries. They are reputed to have patented all sorts of things to stop them. This is why we have not had any alternatives to fuel guzzling junkhepas until very recently..
First, I'd like to see a citation for your "reputed" claim.
Second, the reason why we have not had alternatives for gas guzzlers is not for lack of trying. It's because the alternatives are not competitive from a technical or economic standpoint, neither of which are a direct result of being held back by hostile patent holders.
Capturing HTTP "remember me" cookies for seems like it would be dangerous since they might be reused back in the lab to access all the data stored at the social or webmail site.
It would be helpful on this issue to understand the magnitude and makeup of the data, and how much of it is actually valuable / dangerous.
It's kinda fun to see all of the typical dodges and rationalizations so totally and utterly obliterated, and the apologists sitting there in a daze, with nothing better to say.
From a manufacturer's point of view, I can't say I blame them for having this stance.
Letting manufacturers dictate end user actions by threatening their hardware warranty is the nasty, nasty direction the computing world is taking. Just accepting it is probably the worst of all possible courses of action.
Interesting point, but a reasonable person will recognize that manufacturers can only guarantee a product as tested. Trying to think of a car analogy here...
reCAPTCHA was also undermined by its use of just 58 unique words
I'm really surprised the corpus was so small. Would have expected to be on the order of thousands.
Modern commercial passenger aircraft are barely flown by the pilot anyway.
Old joke.
In the future the cockpit will have a pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is to feed the dog, and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.
What if the US or UK (or any other country for that matter) issued digital cash? We would suddenly have an anonymous currency that can be kept on credit chips (or smartphones) and traded, just like paper money.
The one and only question I have is what would be the motivation for the US or UK to create anonymous digital cash?
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