The class in question was given IN PERSON. I didn't carefully review the article but that happened. Anything about Linkedin Learning is a deliberate decoy, same as the coke can. This is my last post on the topic. You may now reiterate that I'm wrong and pretend it never happened. Whatever makes you feel comfortable.

My point is, why does the HDMI licencing mob care if the implementation is open or closed given that they will.get there royalty (or penalties from a court for companies that don't pay) for every port anyway?

That is the way with trademarks. X management has been very clear about stopping to use the name Twitter;
which means they won't use it anymore, therefore, they have no business continuing to claim a trademark.

That said the artists who drew the Twitter icon still get the copyright to their Logo and art assets, so another company shouldn't be able to just start using those. They will need to have to have their own art created.

If Elon really cared about the Twitter mark it would be, or would have been extremely easy; to keep a service Live using the mark.
Such as a Testbed website for X, for example, or an extra service to still be marketed under the Twitter name.. so called "Token use" wouldn't be sufficient, But you only need to have one actual service still using the branding to prevent it from being "abandoned". You can have a limited service with 100 customers, and still have the rights to your trademark. So If Elon/Twitter/X cares about this in the slightest; they should be able to easily block this proceeding. And you just need to resume use of it within 3 years to avoid it being abandoned under US law. So it's odd for them to petition the trademark office so early.. X can apply a new use of the mark within any schedule they want before that date. The attempt to usurp their IP would easily be blocked if X still cares in the slightest.

My understanding is that if you want to make a HDMI device you need to pay a license fee (covering patents and etc) and that the HDMI people can and will use you if you use HDMI without paying.

And if they control IP rights that allow them to force everyone to pay up, why would this stuff (which isn't even the full spec, just the bits bring done in the driver rather than the firmware or hardware) bring open cause a problem?

Yeah, thing is they actually did that. I'm guessing you don't want to believe it because it supports a "side" you don't like. That or you're just lying for the same reason. Sorry, bub. You don't get your own facts. To get even slimier, they made a similar story (the coke can) and paid a reputation company to pump it to the top of results to disguise things. Here's my receipt.

They can unwind deals after they are complete. It's pretty rare, because it's messy and expensive for all parties involved.

Also, given the rubber-stamping of the last dozen or so media mergers, it would be difficult for the government to explain why this particular merger would be harmful, while the last dozen mega-mergers and divestitures were just fine.

I'm not mad at Coke for their ads, but they've earned my lifelong boycott for telling their employees to be less white.

I care about the kids, and I don't think this is treading on them, I think it's pushing them to have IRL relationships, and that's a good thing. I say that as a nerd who had few friends when I was a teen (in the 80s), but even normal, social kids today have far fewer real friendships and many of the geeky kids like I was now have none at all.

We're a social species, we need and crave socialization, but social media is to real relationships like drugs are to the normal joys of life; a false but massively-amped substitute for the real thing, addictive and harmful. It's perfectly possible to get high or drunk from time to time and still enjoy real life, but you have to use the artificial happiness in moderation and control. There are really good reasons why we try to keep kids away from drugs and alcohol, and keep adults away from the really powerful and addictive stuff, and get them into treatment when they get hooked (well, in the US we mostly just put them in prison, but some parts of the world are getting smarter and focusing on treatment).

The same logic applies to social media. We need to figure out how to tame its effects on adults, especially those who are for some reason especially vulnerable and get very warped by it. IMO, it makes perfect sense to just try to keep kids off of it entirely, especially since we don't really understand it yet.

True. If we were to make the decision based on medical and scientific bases, the drinking age would be 25.

ofc this does not include boarding schools, but again you don't get a criminal record there either.

huh, I did not know you where allowed to leave prison every day at (this time ofc varies from place to place) at lets say 14:00, don't have to show up in weekends and holydays. So no school is not like prison at all, allso you don't end up with a permanent criminal record when you've finished school ( not from going to school anyway) as apposed to prison. Your comparison is at least somewhat flawed

Well notallowing under 16s to drive on public roads probably has more to do with peiople not deaming them responsible enough to operate vehicles of 500KG+ moving at speed, and no driving scools feels comfortable in certifying them. Drinking age is a whole other cattle of fish, and it gas more to do with colture + tradition than anything so let's not start down that rathole

Yea percentage rises from 0 are kind of fucked

And the CEO + pard collects their bonuses on a quarterly bases, so as lonng as the stock prize doen't collapse before trheir option loclins expire they don't care

The poiling frog is a myth, frogs (unless drugged or otherwise compromised) will jump out of the put no matter how slowly you raise the temp (well at least try to, if the pot has sides that are to hight for them this will ofc fail, but that has more to do with physics than survival instincts. We need to find a better example