Comment Re:Not true! (Score 1) 353
You're right it's a brain-wash! And it's good for your hair, too!
You're right it's a brain-wash! And it's good for your hair, too!
Seeing as these companies stop issuing software updates for previous models before (in some cases well before) telcos' scheduled replacements for the last ones they sent to customers come up, it's hard not to read these statements as basically "the security of our customers is a such a high priority that we will actually try to ensure it, some of the time, if you're lucky".
Also before anybody points it out, I think it's fair to call a polite letter from the DOJ requesting co-operation "enforcing the law" -- because everybody knows what's next if they don't play ball.
I mean, you're right, UC Berkley is wussing out here, they've basically said "screw you guys I'm going home" because they don't want to spend $ to make their content accessible to people with disabilities. But are you saying that the government is wrong to try to enforce the law here, or that this law shouldn't be a law in the first place?
So Republicans pass laws they don't mean, or what?
I mean, is spending taxpayer money on education in the first place a Soviet style result?
It doesn't relieve them of the requirement AFAICT, but if they're like most universities they already have facilities in place to provide assistance to students with disabilities that will prepare closed captions or other replacement materials on a course-by-course basis and by request. Combined with limiting the potential audience to students (i.e. reducing the number of people that an ADA complaint could possibly come from), they may not feel they are likely to get into trouble.
Perhaps there are gems of unsung first-party contributions hiding in their huge number of public repositories? https://github.com/vmware
This. For anyone who missed the story so far, VMware is a bit busy dealing with their commitment to open source at the moment (https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq.html). This news could also tell us something about the Linux Foundation's commitment to open source and/or unwillingness to let a fundraising opportunity like this pass by?
Imagine what their company could be worth if their software had a good UI?
"its Xenix e-mail system (the predecessor to today's Exchange.)"
So, sendmail, I guess?
What do you mean by "public usage"? Usage of a technique is not in itself prior art, but if the usage is public in the sense that someone has documented it publicly in some way, then that documentation could be prior art.
Some detail about USPTO's criteria for deciding what "publication" qualifies: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offi...
What do databases have to do with anything?
That was my reaction too: it's not too difficult to notice that the search in Slack is searching chat messages that you have never seen locally, is it? What's more, this feature is not unusual among HipChat clones... Even Discord just launched search.
I'm not sure who the misunderstanding belongs to -- the people at Fast Company reporting the story as it is at the Gawker people the story was about.
Reporters need to get computer literate... and then hopefully go beyond that to become involved in choosing products that do what they need them to do.
Reporters need to realize that understanding the features of a software product can mostly be done by using it, and paying attention to what is happening and figuring out why.
There is a lot of discussion in the security blogosphere about the security of various messaging platforms that are trying to focus on actual security features, and while there is value in the details that they are hashing out, just knowing what software they are talking about is better than sticking your head in the sand.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
