yes, in fact, you are reading it wrong. Qualcomm is being a patent troll. Jeez, I remember when discussions of this nature on Slashdot were conducted with references, stayed OT and refrained from just saying stuff just to be saying stuff. This Apple Vs Qualcoom has been going on for a long time and has bee amply discussed here. The consensus is that Q is way stretching their claim to try to get money from Apple.

No - Qualcomm made a dubious claim to rights that do not directly apply to Apple's usage. IOW it's a shakedown by Q. The problem is the courts aren't tech savvy enough to understand it all.

The previous program allowed $50 for poor households, so all thsi does is cut in down $20. Gee thanks... They announced it like it was a it was a big thing, not a cut back.

My wife passed - she was a singer songwriter with 10Cds. I inherited the estate and set about to wrote a wiki bio for her. An general outline was put up, and I fleshed it out. But when I went to put it up I was blocked because "I was family" Nevermind I own all the rights the recordings, as heir. And I quickly found out I was trying to convinced some kiddie (he couldn't have been over 20 - his replies read like those of a 7th grader) that I was the only person who could write an accurate bio for her, because I had all of the material. I even got told to post references, when I have the source material right here. And any other reference material from any other sources had to be cleared through me, anyway. Nope. Kiddie got mad and threw a tantrum for questioning him. Now there is an incomplete wiki post fer her that I can't fix.

Republican congress people and presidents wrote them after receiving "donations" and "advice". Go look at under which administrations these were written and passed and taht will tell you all you need to know . Those loopholes were bought.

its cyber attacks, whether or not the US retaliates or not. Probably the only sure way to stop them is to create what amounts to cyber land mines - if a system is being attacked,, the "Land mine" attacks the attacker and shuts down their computer system

the failure and blowback of GOP economic policies, starting with Regan. The Texas GOP caused the problem to begin with. Then they refused to protect their power grid. Then they wanted to secede. Then when disaster hits, the GOP scatters like cockroaches. Then when they come out, they blame it on, who else? Democrats. THEN when AOC raises now 4 million in aid and goes the Texas to help, AND when Biden approved emergency help, they say not one word of gratitude. Biden send them 60 generators and fuel for them and the generators just sat at the airport. Cruz who made a total idiot of himself by going on vacation, instead of helping, decides to do a highly fake photo op, in hopes he can upstage AOC. Hey Cruz how about you raise 4 mil for Texas? Nah, you can't without pocketing part of it. The blackout clearly show that the GOP will screw up S&it like this, every time. This is the cause and effect to be aware of. Just like 9/11 (Bush ignored pdb warnings), just like Katrina (Bush stole the money that was slated to fix the levees) this is a disaster of GOP making.

The people, for voting in corrupt Republicans over and over. This is squarely on the backs of Texas leadership, and they are all Republicans.

"Whether you believe the decision was justified or not, many people are understandably uncomfortable with the idea that tech companies have the power to ban elected leaders" Such a transparent framing, designed to hide the actual basis for the ban - lying and inciting. Politician, sewer worker, IT specialist - all the same if they lie and incite others to break the law. They should be banned. As it is, you can be banned for profanity.

the truth is CA could secede and do much better than it is already doing. It is near self sufficient and what it needs it has plenty of things to trade for. So if Justniz doesn't like CA then his state should quit taking money from CA and other Democratic states. It is a fact that GOP are not self sufficient and they need money to keep going. So what does that tel you about GOP economic policies? I read these "commie state of CA" posts and always laugh because the Goopers are being kept afloat by CA money. They should shut up and stop being taker states - maybe CA is doing something right? You Think?

I disagree also. CA is the world's fifth largest economy. They are effectively their own country. What CA does is clamp down when things are happening that adversely affect its people, and quite a bit of that clamping is on businesses that create problems. And Bloomberg is all about letting business do whatever they want. So here comes Bloomberg with a slam piece. Let's backtrack a little and see what business CA brought the hammer down on, who has the ear of someone at Bloomberg.

because Kim's site was NOT designed to specifically break US copyright laws by storing copyrighted material. Data is data, and Kim's site had no filters to reject non copyright material. Or pictures of your family, back ups to data, etc. The US is trying to say that that was the only purpose for his site, but, no, it wasn't. It was just a cheap unfiltered storage site. And they can't prove his site was designed to specifically get around the US copyright laws. SO they are trying to wear him out with continuing litigation, in hopes some judge will slip up and ignore the fact the US case has no foundation

and what is the difference between KIm's website and dropbox? or Facebook?

Kim has never been to the US and is not a US citizen but a citizen of NZ, right? And the US is claiming that Kim broke a US law, but that law is not on the NZ books. So another country wants to take a NZ citizen to their country to stand trial for a law in that country, but not his native country, even though he is not a US citizen, and has never been to the US and did not do business in the US or have a business in the US? So far do I have this correct? Now the charge itself - the US is claiming that Kim broke copyright laws on the US. However, Kim did not directly do that - he ran a server and rented space to people who may or may not have broken the US law, and no one knows if those people were in the US and subject to US laws. So it's kind of like an apartment building owner who lives out of the country, being charged and extradited because one of his tenants was selling pot. None of this makes any sense to me

when it's about facts, is the perennial go to for Repubs trying to hide from their crimes. They hate the spotlight of truth. They hate being exposed as crooks. So they try to turn it around and make a lot of noise about partisanship as a distraction.