Three products? Why not five?

I typically drink a lot of tea as well and it's possible to sip it at that temperature, but you wouldn't take a mouthful and swallow it. Also, when someone does drink something that hot in small quantities they're typically moving it around their mouth fast enough so that it's not staying in one spot for long enough to cause damage. Spilling it yourself is going to cause some of it to puddle or soak into clothing where it will remain in one spot for long enough to start burning.

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It's very likely that there are dozens of other ways of achieving a similar effect, much like there are loads of different designs (and patents) for internal combustion engines.

Even if this patent is worthless in the sense that anyone can get around it, it provides protection for Amazon as it's significantly more difficult for anyone else to sue them for anything related to cameras when Amazon can point out that they received their own patent for the method that they're using which is legally recognized as different from existing methods. Considering the legal fees associated with patent litigation, this patent is far from worthless if it prevents millions of dollars spent fighting a court battle.

My understanding has been that they are capable of bypassing the OS restriction on unsuccessful login attempts before the phone's data is wiped. Since most people just use a 4-digit pin, it wouldn't take very long to brute force even if they don't know what the salt is.

It probably makes sense for Amazon to do it though considering they have their own infrastructure for handling payments and their own huge customer base. They don't own the content that's being sold either, so I imagine that Apple's 30% cut eats into potential profits by a large amount.

Wikipedia has a decent summary with some links to various research articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggression#Gender

It seems to be a little of both, with some differences being attributed to social norms and others being related to sex-based developmental differences between girls and boys.

That said, I'm wondering if it's a moot point as we're begging the question to begin with as we're assuming that aggression is the important factor that accounts for the difference that we're seeing. I don't know if you could expect to get an answer, but it would probably be better to ask Bezos what skills he values in his employees and what qualities possessed by his current employees lead to their hiring. Once we know that, we can have a discussion about whether these are traits more frequently seen in men and how those attributes fall into that nature vs. nurture spectrum.

it's not name calling. it's an objective description of the content of your character

you are truly the poster boy for mindless cynicism. 100% loser

If they were a former employee, sure, but I can't imagine anyone currently working at either company who would be willing to throw their job away. They obviously won't be fired over the lawsuit, but in a few months some HR drone will have started to find some performance or behavior problems that will eventually lead to their termination.

Unions aren't inherently good or bad. They can accomplish both good in ensuring that workers receive fair wages and that companies provide a safe work environment, but they are just as capable of protecting incompetent workers and demanding their members out of their jobs.

Personally I believe that unions should neither be forbidden or required. However, like too many other things it seems that the people who feel strongly about such things want an all or nothing approach in one direction or the other.

I want us to be as successful at controlling corruption as Canada and the Nordic countries.

I didn't know such a goal counts as science fiction.

I described a certain mindless cynic in my post. You are exactly such a loser. You are the problem.

so you want to be the poster child of exactly the sort of loser i am describing?

when i describe a pathetic attitude, it helps not to respond by exactly fitting the pathetic description

or perhaps canada is actually doing a much better job of controlling corruption