Moto's 3G and radio patents had real teeth.

We already knew from a previous court ruling that they were not worth a hill of beans.

The REAL reason the battle is finally over is because Jobs is gone, and Cook is not a "nuclear option" kind of guy. Cook just wants to chill and make billions of dollars per day or whatever. He's the ultimate supply chain nerd that probably hated dealing with legal crap all the time.

People keep taking about Jobs being gone being all bad. But they forget there are real silver linings like this patent settlement that probably would not happen if Jobs were still alive, since he took the copying issue personally.

Banks, on the other hand...how big do you have to be to push paper?

Very big. Otherwise, why would anyone care about your paper-pushing? A bank needs to be so much bigger than anyone indebted to them that should they go bankrupt, they can eat the loss and not notice it - in other words, the utility of money is linear to the bank in the range of the debt.

The problem is that the same institution handles three different function: facilitating economic exchanges (bill paying), saving, and providing funding. The end result is that them crashing gives the economy a nice one-two followed by a crotch kick.

All this metadata, and yet they couldn't prevent Boston bomber?

To be fair, if the NSA stops all terrorist attacks, then there are no terrorist attacks and NSA faces a threat to its existence. On the other hand, if an attack goes through but the NSA is caught completely unaware, it comes across as incompetent. So it has an incentive to be at the verge of but not quite arresting the perpetrator when an attack happens.

Organizations and institutions behave like organisms: they care first and foremost about their own existence, and rising above that requires some level of enlightenment. That can lead to rather perverse incentives, and explains a lot about their otherwise often irrational-seeming behaviour.

"NoSQL" is a pretty bad name actually. They should be called non-relational databases.

A typical file system is a non-relational database. Does that make it NoSQL?

The issue is that by making up a new "right", and creating a new legal standard without any legislation to smooth the rough edges, the European court effectively just took away rights from others, like the right of parents to find out their neighbor is a child molester.

Actually, the right to privacy has long traditions while I've never heard of this supposed right to know about your neighbour's possible criminal history. No rights have been made up or taken away, an existing one was simply adapted to a new environment.

I don't see how a conviction for possessing child porn is irrelevant or outdated.

Who is it relevant for? Vigilantes? Schools and other institutions with legimitate need for this data don't rely on Google to get it, or if they do someone else should also be facing charges.

I really don't see why Joe Average should be able to access anyone's criminal record, which is what this is really about. If you think some crime deserves a punishment lasting for a lifetime, push for it in the legislature. Don't try to circumvent the law by abusing modern technology.

I totally agree. It sounds better in every way and is clearer to boot.

I didn't read the headline your way at all.

Fine, but the tie to Apple is obviously the intent. Note the headline does not come AT ALL from the original source article, so why phrase it that way if not to tie back to the computer company?

If it's no big deal then why does my response bother you enough to post a response?

Fail. Gimp just doesn't cut it. It's very good, but it's not Photoshop. And Photoshop is the 900 lb gorilla in Adobeland.

Now that Apple blew its own dick off by ruining Final Cut Pro, Adobe is in the cat-bird seat. Unfortunately a cloud based Premiere and AfterEffects is bullshit. So sad...

After reading TFA, I'm not sure I like the suggested approach to the "fix" in the code by replacing the two if blocks with a common method where you pass in all sorts of parameters.

Yes duplicate code is bad, I agree that's a "code smell" (one of the worst coding terms every to be invented BTW).

But just as odiferous to me, is a method with a billion arguments like the combined extracted method has. Sure duplicate if statements smell bad, but the replacement is worse and also harder to comprehend.

I know it's in theory more testable, but at what cost when the code is more obsfucated? If the code and tests are harder to understand are you really better off?

The "Apple" had only one bug, the Goto Fail bug - since Apple did not use OpenSSL they never had the second bug.

So why is the headline painting Apple as the source of both bugs?

If it was so practical, why did they wholly cut funding. Seems like they had a long way to go to make the nuclear design feasible to where the crew was safe.

And how many civilians would fly with a nuclear reactor?

Replacing the nuclear reactor with batteries means A LOT of batteries. So I'm not sure how you can claim the whole idea is feasible just from a working nuclear design.

Only thing worse than GOTO statement is COMEFROM statement.

Yet the same people who complain about GOTO because they have to scroll around the source to see what'll happen have no problem with things like object-oriented programming, where it might be literally impossible to figure out what function (out of an unbound set) will actually be called until the code is run.