Despite the fact that SCO's attorneys were on the verge of being sanctioned for failing to produce any evidence last time, the way the case ended is SCO and IBM both just dropped the case without real resolution. Now we have a savvy attorney from Xinuos making the argument:

"But if we thought that infringement claims accrue at the time of copying, it might be that if IBM then uses the code again at a later time, there's a new infringement claim."

Even though exactly what was initially copied by IBM that was uniquely SCO content was never really made clear by SCO despite years of legal maneuvering.

This is just old fashioned gray mail. The only reason Xinuos exists is to extort money from IBM, so that is what they are going to do.

These numbers are based on a sampling of 60,000 households by the Bureau of Labor Statistics called the "Current Population Survey". Then the results of the survey are applied to the population as a whole.
IF any work was done for pay in the last week
THEN EMPLOYED
ELSE
__IF are they temporarily absent from a job
__THEN EMPLOYED
__ELSE
____IF actively looked for work in the last 4 weeks
____THEN UNEMPLOYEED
____ELSE NOT_IN_LABOR_FORCE

The market cap of BTC is much larger than the available liquidity of BTC. The "modernization" of the BTC market with things like options trading that help window losses also brings features like automated trading and triggers. The two largest holders of BTC, BlackRock and Strategy account for all available liquidity if they were to suddenly sell everything. But there are other whales with large enough positions that could kick off a cascading series of automatic trades and a collapse of liquidity. It only takes one large enough whale to kick off an avalanche of automatic trades to destroy this tulip market. These trigger settings are opaque to but are a risk to everyone who is betting that they will not trip.

Then there is the 1 MHW overhead on every single transaction which translates to roughly a $1 million per month electric bill (miners generally pay less for electricity than we do). Which requires that at least that much new cash keep coming into the system. If people only used BTC for illicit purposes to launder fiat currency transactions (which on net do not add fresh currency) the BTC ecosystem would slowly bleed out. New investors have to keep being added or the whole thing unravels eventually.

If mining becomes unprofitable for long enough and the hash rate drops, mining difficulty will drop by 75% every 2016 blocks. It could take months before mining again becomes profitable when the block reward falls behind the cost of the electricity to produce a block. Right now this is around $20,000/BTC. If people are trying to bail at a rate higher than 400 transactions per minute, the queue to be in a block will start getting longer and transaction times could grow to days, weeks, even months. We have already seen the backlog grow to as long as 560,000 unconfirmed transactions -- this is not a hypothetical scenario. If BTC is declining and the transaction timeframe becomes worrisome, more people will decide to sell and a this could lead to a bank run and whale triggers.

There are fundamental known structural weaknesses to BTC that have been ignored while the value went up and up, but are going to show themselves when the price is stagnant or falls for too long.

The vast majority of the ports in the world do not care if a container debarks one ship and eventually embarks on another without going through their customers and entering their country. There are major world ports that are considered "hubs" just like airports for people. 85% of the containers that arrive in Singapore for instance are transshipped.

It is extremely difficult once a container has left one port to know where it is really going to wind up. The logistics databases can be updated after a container has left one port and none of the top 6 companies managing the flow of the world's containers are U.S. corporations.

There are even businesses in 3rd world countries that all they do is completely unpackage and re-package the contents of shipping containers to eliminate the possibility of hidden tracking devices.

Even if the magical tech envisioned in the Chip Security Act worked, all it would tell us is what we already know, that boards and chips are winding up in places the U.S. government declared that they should not. If we can't stop specialized gas centrifuge components from getting into Iran, we aren't going to be able to keep commodity chips from getting into China.

A gross profit of only $2000 per vehicle in no way has to mean every vehicle has a negative net profit. The net profit is likely near $0, +/-500, which is a little different than the scale of the losses the article seems to imply. That they can capture so much of the market at so close to profitability is scary, but this is what happens when you shift all of your production to another country for their cheaper labor ... within a couple of decades they are producing cheaper products than the ones they were hired to make. Britain shifted production to the U.S. in the 1780s ... this has been occurring throughout history.

It is cheaper to make identical high end and low end chips and use a minimum number of mutable bits to disable features that it is to design two completely different chips. This isn't enshitification or a conspiracy, this is just Standard Operating Procedures for companies making complicated technical products. This is not a new practice. In the late 1970s the only difference between a 0.25 MIP and a 0.50 MIP HP3000 was one jumper on the motherboard, but the latter "product" cost significantly more (when you purchased the system you signed a contract asserting you would not modify the system). It is far more cost effective to have different levels of products be essentially identical and curtail capabilities than it is to actually make different chips.

There was likely some sort of internal feature review where it was noticed that a bit that marketing said to disable years ago had not in fact been disabled, so they "fixed" this issue in the AGESA 1.2.7.0, release.

When Blackberries came along managers stopped seeing anything more than the first couple of lines of text in emails, so you not only had to get your point across succinctly you had to do it in a way that what you wrote could be forwarded up the chain without detonating a shit storm.

Now it seems this is how one has to communicate with everyone, not just an irritating boss.

Unfortunately, most technical issues cannot be relayed in 2 sentences.

Fox must not understand just how toxic their brand is to half the country. Anything they buy is going to lose half its customers overnight when there are cheap, competitive alternatives.

The overhead on Bitcoin is $15 to $25 million per day for the electricity of the miners. This overhead requires constant new fools and when new fools stop injecting cash into the ecosystem the whole thing implodes. That hasn't happened yet, there is at least this level of new fools coming along every day or the miners would not be able to turn their block rewards into the cash needed to pay their electric companies. This is how Bitcoin will end -- a bank run followed by a bunch of overdue electric bills.

A few police officers pacing traffic would have cost a lot less than $33 million.

This needs to be explained to the police in terms they understand: Would they bet on one horse in a race featuring 100 horses if the odds were all roughly the same? The way they are using this facial recognition software and running off and arresting the "best" match is statistically much dumber than betting on a 100-horse race.

The software companies are at fault too. They should be returning ranking numbers that reflect the nature of the size of the U.S. population versus the trained data. The user should be looking at rankings with numbers like 0.000000931 instead of 93.1. The numbers the companies are using are designed first and foremost to give the impression that the software works -- these numbers are for sales purposes, not really an indication of how good a particular result is. The sales team would have a hard time making a sale if the numbers actually reflected the likelihood of correctness. Cyber security tools have the same problem -- their initial configurations are more about convincing the buyer the tool works than actually protecting their network.

O’Connell is an officer with a documented history of volatility and poor judgment, having previously been terminated from the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office for threatening to “blow up” the agency, later reinstated, then arrested for domestic battery before resigning under the weight of those charges. Jacksonville Beach PD hired him anyway, assigned him as lead investigator on a sensitive child luring case, and later promoted him to corporal after his investigation resulted in the wrongful arrest and prosecution of an innocent man.

TCBRs are a standard grid component exactly for this purpose. The power engineers of the grids should not be connecting data centers to their grids unless they have used these as part of the circuit or required the data center to incorporate them. This is just plain engineering malpractice. They know what these data centers are drawing and they know what that means in terms of risk to the grid.

These $500k components make the most sense as being owned by the grid because they can cover multiple data centers from one nearby vantage point on the grid. The grid operators are probably not charging the billion-dollar data centers enough for the connection fee for political reasons and then don't have the budget for installing these things.

It is well known that churches are sociopath factories. You cannot have the ritual, the delegation of moral authority and the trappings of religion without dampening the empathy of the adherents. Some people are sufficiently susceptible that they will become full blown sociopaths in almost any religion. Some religions are so empathy dampening, like those where parents turn their 10 year old daughter over to a monster to be his 30th "wife", that everyone involved is a sociopath. This little flaw of how religion directly damages society is overlooked by its adherents just like capitalists overlook the flaws in their system.

Anyone that equates praying for those in need with helping those in need is a sociopath. It is a fairly simple test for religious adherents ... just ask. Prayer is free, empathy is not.

You easily could have answered your own question before posting a rhetorical question that demonstrates your bias. Iran produces around 233,000 engineering and technology students a year -- with women making up 50% to 70% of STEM grads. 5% of the Iranian population has a graduate degree.

Iran is not a backwards, uneducated country -- it is just ruled by a committee of ruthless idiots that have a lot in common with our current president.