Comment Re:Didn't they try this with Microsoft (Score 1) 81
because they didn't like their browser?
Well, did anyone on God's green earth like it?
Comment Re:We need a infosec recall law (Score 4, Informative) 135
I am not sure if the DOT/NTSB/whatever can't require a recall of vehicles older than 10 years but it might be at the owners cost at that point.
I don't know if it's a special case, but I did get a free airbag replacement a few years back on a vehicle that was 21 years old at the time.
Comment Re:That's a shame (Score 1) 32
I know plenty about the patent process, and I assure you I'm on plenty of patents. My old employer would routinely come around asking if anybody had done anything that could conceivably be patented, no matter how stupid or obvious. This was because big companies negotiate patent deals largely based on the count of patents they have vs the other companies.
It may take a few years, but the main thing involved with getting patents issued is the perseverance of your patent attorneys.
Like I said, this whole industry would not exist if the USPTO didn't hand out as many patents as they possibly can.
Comment Re:That's a shame (Score 0) 32
It actually seems like a great first level search for prior art.
The top brass at the patent office realizes that at the end of the day, they get paid to issue patents.
Finding prior art interferes with that goal. It's for the best to proscribe tools that would make finding prior art too easy.
Comment Re:There's nothing stopping anyone (Score 1) 108
Um, you don't need to "change" anything. You just type in the URL of whatever search engine you want. Does the government really need to get involved in this?
LOL. You still think you still think that browser bars are for "typing URLs".
Comment Bureaucracy (Score 3, Interesting) 63
Jassy says the return-to-office requirement will strengthen the company's culture, which he believes has suffered since the pandemic and become overly bureaucratic
So too much bureaucracy is the result of employees working from home. It has nothing at all to do with Amazon enjoying a near monopoly in their line of business for decades with nearly impossible barriers to entry for any potential competitors?
Comment Next up: (Score 3, Funny) 14
Biological qubits.
Where each qubit comprises a cat.
Comment Venn diagram (Score 1) 44
Just how big is this subset: People who are contrarian enough to go find and purchase a niche machine with an alternate CPU, but who are also not contrarian enough to load an alternate OS?
Comment Re:communication "days"? (Score 1) 42
You will make supervisors angry.
Only if they're perseverating imbeciles.
Comment Re:communication "days"? (Score 1) 42
If someone in a business says a project will take days, they do not mean even 2 days, but 3 or more.
That's pure bullshit.
Comment Re:communication "days"? (Score 1) 42
Why is it so hard for you to understand that 1.92 > 1?
Comment Re:communication "days"? (Score 2) 42
No, I'm talking about implication of saying "days to communicate."
Specifically: 1.92 days.
Comment The first command they sent (Score 2) 42
No matter what, the first step to try while trying to remotely diagnose any problem is:
"Unplug the power cord, then wait for 30 seconds. Then plug it back in and let us know if you still have the problem."
Comment Re:communication "days"? (Score 2) 42
Voyager is 23.0 light hours from the Earth. Round trip comm would be less than 2 days, by two hours. Saying "days" for communication is misleading.
Are you seriously claiming that it is more correct to say "1.92 day" than "1.92 days"?
Comment Re:10th planet. (Score 2, Interesting) 145
I'm so very, very sorry that you felt that my pointing out that Pluto is not a planet was a personal attack.
I know that you deserve a safe space, and going forward I will no longer make statements that trigger your Pluto classification issues. I'll also let you be so that you can work to resolve your apparent gender identity fixation.
So long, and good luck with your recovery.
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