Comment Re:Easy detection method #48 (Score 1) 227
(2) If it falls out of the sky, it was a drone
Or an Airbus A380
SCNR
At least it's no longer flying in restricted airspace...
(2) If it falls out of the sky, it was a drone
Or an Airbus A380
SCNR
At least it's no longer flying in restricted airspace...
Maybe - but I find it more likely that the government is simply just promoting a pro-IP stance because our economy is so heavily dependent on protecting those sorts of provisions.
Meddia is not the same thing as software, so your examples really don't apply in this case. Better examples are:
ASHTON-TATE CORP. v. FOX SOFTWARE, INC. -- NO. CV 88-6837 TJH (TX).
Lotus Development Corp. v. Paperback Software International. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. June 28, 1990. 740 F.Supp. 37, 15 USPQ2d 1577
The interpretation that the federal government is holding forth here is that both of these cases were adjudicated incorrectly.
If the Supreme Court fails to hear the current case, both of those previous cases are defacto overturned.
You can effectively say "goodbye" to the software industry, if companies are allowed to enforce interface copyrights. At least in the U.S.. Obviously, other countries will just ignore the U.S.'s idiocy, and continue on their merry way, and quickly surpass the U.S. in software development, just as they have in other economic areas.
Easy detection method #48:
(1) Send out a large electromagnetic pulse
(2) If it falls out of the sky, it was a drone
What about an autonomous drone which is just flying to certain GPS coordinates and then detonating? Or even just using inertial guidance and image processing?
SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.
Or Google has been resisting the NSA a little too much.
This.
It's pretty obvious that this is a punishment for adding encryption to Android devices, and for going to SSL for all web transactions, making it much more difficult to spy, despite administrative objections.
The recommendation is clearly punitive because Google has pissed the executive off, and consistently opted on the side of data protection, and has disclosed many of the recently discovered OpenSSL and SSSL protocol flaws which made eavesdropping easier.
Well, both Microsoft and Linux are led by Finns, right? Maybe it's the Finns...
I think you might take a look at Afghanistan and what it helped do to the soviets
The Soviet involvement in Afghanistan was more along the lines of:
Boris: "We need something to distract the people at home! They are getting restless!"
Piotr: "How about a war? That's always worked in the past!"
Boris: "Yes, but against who? We have to pick something close enough to be threatening, but far enough away that they won't come here!"
Piotr: "How about Afghanistan?"
Boris: "Perfect! Whoever heard of a Moslem holding a grudge?"
So... would a foundry based on this tech... be a "wood-chipper"?
Russia would like for us to continue gifting them with cash for 40-year-old missle motors, it's our own government that doesn't want them any longer. For good reason. That did not cause SpaceX to enter the competitive process, they want the U.S. military as a customer. But it probably did make it go faster.
Also, ULA is flying 1960 technology, stuff that Mercury astronauts used, and only recently came up with concept drawings for something new due to competitive pressure from SpaceX. So, I am sure that folks within the Air Force wished for a better vendor but had no choice.
Aren't there like 40 things called string theory, ranging from merely odd or unlikely all the way up to batshit crazy?
Much more than 40!
For every string theorist, there are two string theories (something to do with pair production....).
Those of you who block ads but still consume the services of sites that run them without paying into any subscription fee, why do you freeload?
I already paid for my internet service. Why should I have to pay again?
You are advocating the Verizon/Netflix model.
I maintain that democracy only works for small city states.
Then thank god we aren't a democracy! We're a republic.
The article seems to indicate that hammering the accelerator bypasses the pedestrian avoidance system.
In case you *want* to run someone over? Brilliant!
HOST SYSTEM NOT RESPONDING, PROBABLY DOWN. DO YOU WANT TO WAIT? (Y/N)