bleh. that's exactly the attitude I've encountered from the older guys and gals. basically, our economy is Windows 95. a bunch of hyped up promises that constantly crashes. you can't blame the individual programmers for accidentally making one of the worst operating systems ever developed, likewise the older generation probably feels they struggled and earned what's theirs but don't feel individually responsible for this work of art.

Apple invents mindfulness and mental well-being. Think Better.

The only thing fancy about the Nest was its case. The electronics were from like 2000s and never updated (https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/nest-thermostat-teardown-), it never bothered to research any other types of semiconductors besides thermometers, and the software didn't have that many features. I think Google was considering being a hardware company like Apple or Oracle for awhile but drifted back into the mass advertising/spying business. Google's profit margin on the Nest was probably somewhere around $150 per unit. Highway robbery for that electronic turd.

Isn't political ideology a protected class from discrimination? They wouldn't be allowed to formulate suspicion based upon religious practices would they? Idk... this scares me for some reason.

This is true. Most big tech corps get their employees to get patents for them (as do a lot of universities). Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, etc. The # of patents each has is staggering in proportion to their actual products. Also true that attorneys from hell (aka patent attorneys) file for them: the USPTO calls it a "patent prosecution" for a reason (i.e., you have to defend your thesis from undergrads with B.S. degrees who are reading your patent application)!

http://patft.uspto.gov/ Patents cover a wide swath of things (bio to math to physics). As for tech patents, some of them are hardware stuff (e.g., some assholes currently own all of the 802.11 patents for silicon fabrication; like methods of reducing SNR or power consumption, etc which is, partially, why IoT chips are so expensive) and some are software (e.g., Amazon.com really has a patent on "a process of one-click checkout" and Apple really does pay them patent royalties for enabling one-click purchasing in iTunes).

Patent lawsuits are over wrongful profiting: you stole an idea, made something with it, and then sold it for $$$. Hire a lawyer before step 2.

hahaha big, beautiful women get love too <3 True story: I used to work with the woman who fought her case to the Supreme Court of California and won, making it illegal in California to discriminate against someone based upon their weight when their obesity problem is due to an underlying medical problem for employment purposes (http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1429&context=californialawreview). I think it's incredibly unfair to simply write off their weight problem as a lack of work ethic or hedonistic desire for food regardless of its health impact (which, actually, aren't that bad https://www.nih.gov/news-event... in the grand scheme of things -- smokers, alcoholics, drug abusers, etc I'm sure are far worse off). https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

*rolling eyes* I have no idea what the submitter's implication is... IMO, there aren't enough highly skilled people period. That's why special talent is shipped in from all over the world to work here. No time for bigotry. Tech hires on merit. EEOC are the biggest trolls ever; every case they litigate is the flameyest mofo ever. If it's that bigoted then how did Tim Cook and Satya Nadella make it to CEO by climbing the ranks of these companies?

http://vignette2.wikia.nocooki... and https://metrouk2.files.wordpre...

Those same companies that built the infrastructure promising a national profit of $19 trillion. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/s.... IMO, the Internet of Thangs will be a good portion done by small businesses for very specific markets or even particular companies. We should all become engineers and build the machines to replace us. "Machines are going to take your job, and then they're going to take your life." Taylor Swift ~~~~ 3

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No. It sounds like what many first year associates do at big law firms.

But maybe everyone that works there is politically "liberal?"

Why would local PD want to "track citizen's traveling habits?" They make money by giving speeding tickets and fighting drugs. Why do they care, what would be easier to track with by Stingray, about ur midnight run to gross fast food or random addresses in the city -- they happen to observe you at -- you travel to?