Comment This will be fun (Score 2) 173
Now it's a war of training AI to find the "poisoned" images and "cure" them to be used in training but if it makes people feel safe lets do it!
Comment Missing option: I already worked from home (Score 1) 65
A lot of us now work from home as part of our jobs. This works out great for a lot of tech companies because they can hire whomever fits the job role instead of being stuck with the local talent pool.
Submission + - NYSE moves to Linux
An anonymous reader writes: Even the old mainframe strongholds, the financial markets, are moving away from big iron. The New York Stock Exchange is one of them, as it's leaving the mainframe for AIX and Linux. They're doing it to save money; it seems that transactions are going to cost half as much on Unix and Linux as they did on the mainframe.
Through the Patent Looking Glass with Microsoft 187
Andy Updegrove writes "By now you've probably read more than you want to about Microsoft's announcement that it owns 235 patents underlying leading open source software, including many opinions about whether Microsoft's new assertions do, or don't, represent a real threat to Linux, OpenOffice, and other OSS. To get to the bottom of the issue, though, you have to take a deep dive into how patent cross licensing works these days. When you do, you realize that patents don't mean what they used to, and have far more defensive than offensive value in the marketplace today. It also becomes apparent that it really doesn't matter whether Microsoft has valid patents or not, because so many other companies do as well. Today, what companies worry about isn't asserting their patents against other companies, but maintaining their freedom of activity. In this case, the open source community can simply ride the coattails of the major vendors, because Microsoft doesn't hold enough cards to win the hand, much less the game." Relatedly The Register is reporting that the author of the main report being used by Microsoft to support their patent claims has come out against Microsoft's interpretation of his work and Jonathan Schwartz gives some free advice to the overly litigious.
Comment Thank you (Score 1) 294
Now if we could just get them to put Firefly back on the air. :)
Comment Re:I agree with you, but let's consider WATCHES (Score 2, Informative) 446
Synthetic sapphire is way cheaper than that. I bought one about an inch across for under $10. Real synthetic sapphire too, leaves a horrific gouge in quartz if the two come into contact.
