My point exactly. Apple and Google want patents that they challenge invalidated more quickly, before litigation is complete. Seems fair to me that challenges against patents that Apple and Google hold should get the same treatment. We should err on the side of the claim that patents "hurt innovation", if invalid patents hurt innovation then the same holds true for valid patents. Just trying to give them what they want.

Since invalid patents "hurt innovation", we should make Apple and Google happy, just invalidate all patents that are challenged in court immediately until we can know for sure that they are valid.

I'm not aware of any paladins who worship the Christian god, and hate to break it to ya buddy but comic books were "SJWing" loooong before it was cool.

The code will be automated to deliver the desired goal. Quantity without quality, like 14 billion RPGmaker games or google play. As long as you avoid null pointer exceptions you can use your automated voice complaint system to field issues. Bonus points for cornering and/or flooding the market or any point in between. Baffle them with bullshit, at the end of the day you profit.

I'm kidding of course, there's no way to know how secure our mobile devices are (at least in the US).

I do appreciate the more indepth explanation here, there are a few details I wasn't aware of. That being said there's a contextual concern here. If the data is not collected in a central location it cannot be analyzed. I mean, that's fine if that's your goal, just a private system for individuals to know if they've come in contact with someone of "interest" and no larger entity tracks it or analyzes the data. Is that what's actually going on here though?

I was confused as to how this was decentralized until I saw the quotes, unless decentralized suddenly means "asking permission to use your data". I'm confused as to why the word is used at all.

We gave up privacy long ago, it's just a matter of asking the corporations nicely if the government could kindly look at it.

The owner is scrambling to find the new kid so he can clean it up.

The most prevalent comment I've seen about "robots" "stealing" jobs has been the argument against raising minimum wage because that would lead to more automation. It's also not clear to me how having robots steal jobs would save anyone, there is no mechanism in "modern capitalism" to deal with an inability to pay those who do actual work enough to purchase goods and services.

The number of people without healthcare in the US is half the population of Italy, far larger than the number of Italians over 60.

Amusingly enough, Lord Carrot as retarded as he may be is slightly more trustworthy than Zuck.

Indeed, we've given the government the power to govern. Is condemning sex with 12 year olds the "correct" viewpoint? It didn't appear to be an important topic to you, I'm guessing "censorship" only counts when it's something that you don't like.

I have little doubt that he knows all about Lenny Bruce, it goes to show how bad things have gotten. Your commentary is an excellent example of this. Who gets to decide whether or not drinking bleach is bad for you? Does the government have the right to censor vehicle manufacturer's emissions? Should we allow elected officials to tell incels that they can't have sex with 12 year olds?

If you PM me your credit card and bank account numbers and mail me all of your cash, I have tons of bridges to sell you.