You going to seriously deny "the devil finds work for idle hands"? See all the recent works on elite overproduction to move this into the modern age.
In any case, boiling this ocean is not a job for heavy equipment manufactures like John Deere
Or beacons of one sort or another at the edges of a field, make them cheap, maybe in the early days just put radar reflectors on top, have a bunch so not all have to be in exactly the right place.
The human going into the field problem also doesn't require sophistication like that Waymo programming for uncommitted pedestrians hanging out just a foot or two into the road as discussed in a previous topic. Just stop if you see one, maybe use Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) tech to decide if it's a farmer coming out to do something or an trespasser in which case you phone the farmer etc.
In general, the types of sites in the article are all highly constrained environments, for farms often surveyed and palted more than a century ago. As you say, ideal for early autonomous machinery.
if our immune systems can't see them, they shouldn't be able to compromise us anyway.
It does see them. But the antibody cocktail of the first response, does not bind to any of the surface structures of the target.
Why wouldn't the adoptive immune see them? It sees almost everything except what's been winnowed out of the fleet as "self." Autoimmune diseases come from errors in that.
There's also the primitive innate immune system which doesn't do that sort of recognition.
He may be forced to reactivate the updates, but this doesn't means that he must provide them at the same QoS than he does for his paying customers.
Paying customers of wordpress.com all the way to WordPress VIP, no, and it's likely by benefit of co-location they already get better OoS for updates. But he has to provide WPE the same QoS everyone else in the community gets. He must very specifically "restore WPEngine's and Related Entities' access to wordpress.org as it existed as of September 20, 2024"
Yes it cost money, but it has always done so, and for everybody, not just WPE. And Automatic has known since the beginning that there were competitors reliant on that access. But so far, it has chosen ignore it and eat the cost as part of its business, and it still does for everybody but WPE. That's what is a problem.
Automattic, two t's because as we've discovered from this mess Matt Mullenweg IS every part of WordPress including his "personal website" wordpress.org and his effective control of the useless 501(c)(3) foundation, according to their request for a bond from WPE for the injunction, spends $800,000 per year for the entire community
Automattic and Matt asked for a bond of twice that amount, in case WPE eventually loses the case and should be charged for the period from the preliminary injunction to the end of the case. In the absence of evidence submitted by them on the "marginal" cost of supporting WPE:
the Court finds that any harm to Defendants resulting from the issuance of preliminary injunctive relief is unlikely, as it merely requires them to revert to business as usual as of September 20, 2024. Accordingly, the Court declines to require WPEngine to post a bond.
See pages 39-40 in what's currently the bottom entry. It's not much money, and given that WPE was forced into scraping wordpress.org to find updates of the plugins its customers used, WordPress may well end up spending less after the reversion. If they have been using and/or selling the information default Wordpress regularly phones home, which was used to create the now banned wordpressenginetracker.com
Given that Matt hardwired the entire community to get updates from wordpress.org and successfully fought the creation of any official mirrors, it's very debatable this is a real problem except in Matt's rage quitting mind.
3. The complaint seems to be centred around the claim that Automatic did not, in fact, transfer WordPress' IP to Word Press Foundation.
Not in the least true, and it's hard to believe you read and understood the complaint when you missed things like attempted extortion, which in the hearing WPE's lawyers believed was their strongest claim, or tortuious interference, which the judge believed was the strongest as a matter of law since there are complexities in California's laws against extortion, and is what she went with in the preliminary injunction order as a claim WPE was likely to succeed in.
Or the felonious violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) done to the 2 million users of the ACF plugin. There's even more in their amended complaint, you should be looking a CourtListener for a free version of the official record.
The IP transfer you refer to just helps establish Matt has not been dealing with the whole WordPress community in good faith. What you think and believe the original complaint "seems" to say doesn't matter in the least when you're not at all tracking what's going on.
As WordPress is GPL and source is freely available, WPE can easily replace hardcoded links and replace with their own...
And what would that point to? You tell us with your postings that you haven't read the order. In this case, because wordpress.org is the canonical place to update plugins, and WPE was denied any access besides throttled, indirect (they were IP blocked as I recall) scraping so they don't know when a plugin has been changed.
You're also demanding they go and change every customer's running code, which has a host of problems including backups made prior to the change. This they could work out, but Matt deliberately made this as hard as possible by not giving them any warning.
2. they want to profit from the free repo hosting on wordpress.org
Which per Auttomatic and Matt in their demand for a bond is a grand total of $800,000 a year for the entire WordPress community. Something Cloudflare among others has offered to cover in terms of bandwidth. You're gaslighting us by uncritically accepting Matt's gaslighting.
Also, just because you did [provide independent services to everyone under the sun] in the past doesn't make you obligated to continue to do so going forward. Use of those services are governed by a separate "terms of service" agreement, which almost certainly includes a clause along the lines of "we reserve the right to change these terms at any time."
That all too common tech bro conceit turns out not to be true as this case is demonstrating, it's just not normally worth going to court over instead of switching vendors.
Matt has in his own words, see the end of page 17 and the X conversation in the following page escalated his jihad against WPE to the point of possibly "taking over the company," which he also described as a "distressed asset," this after they turned down his "decide in a few hours" demand for 8% of their revenue.
Many reasons the law, if used, don't let you get away with what he's attempting, the judge details enough of them in her order to pass the four prong test necessary to issue a preliminary injunction.
You're right in spirit, although not as many specifics of the 42 page long order which had to justify this extreme measure with a standard four prong test. (It's very well written and potentially worth the time to read, it lays everything out so someone new to all this, like an appeals court panel, can start right in.)
One of the things WPE is suing about is promissory estoppel, which does not require the implied intent to later switch in bait-and-switch, but does require you to not rugpull someone who's depending on your explicit promises.
The other point you make about monopoly is relevant and cited in the order:
Prabhakar [a WPE employee] Reply Decl. [paragraph sign]; 9. He explains that "[t]he WordPress software is hardcoded to download plugins from wordpress.org using the administrative panel." Id. As a result, "the WordPress administrative panel can only download plugins from wordpress.org."
The bottom line is that until the case is finished, Automattic is required to return to the status quo before Matt started his jihad against WPE. Matt claims to find this morally onerous, but it's not practically so. He and the Automattic people he ordered to attack WPE had to do quite a bit of work, now they just have to undo that and treat WPE, WPE's customers, every user of ACF, etc. like everyone else as they'd previously done and promised to do.
This preliminary injunction is a very small "step against freedom of association" compared to the many that started in the 1950s. Take your restaurant analogy and add that the "abusive" customer is black. It should be very clear the legitimacy of your removing him hinges on his genuinely being abusive, and saying it was because he accepted private equity would not fly, especially since you have from BlackRock. The judge and her clerks covered this e.g. in the Balance of Equities section:
Defendants argue that issuing preliminary injunctive relief would be equivalent to "compel[ling] specific performance by Defendants of a contract that does not exist, and to force Defendants to continue to provide free services to a private equity-backed company that would rather not expend the sources itself." Id. Finally, Defendants assert that mandating the access WPEngine demands "would contradict the accepted legal axiom that " ' a business generally has the right to refuse to deal with its competitors.' " Id. (quoting CoStar Group, Inc. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc., 619 F. Supp. 3d. 983, 989-990 (C.D. Cal. 2022)).
These arguments ignore that Defendants' recent conduct is what WPEngine seeks to remedy by this motion for interim injunctive relief. It asks to revert to the status quo while the ultimate determination of the merits of the parties' respective positions remains pending. Defendants' reliance on CoStar Group is thus misplaced. That decision resolved a motion to dismiss, not a motion for preliminary injunction. Moreover, the valuable information at issue in that case was not public. See id. at 992. Here, however, WordPress has been, until recently, available to WPEngine on the same terms as other users, or at least on the terms that were in place up until September 25, 2024. Requiring Defendants to restore access on those terms while this action proceeds imposes a minimal burden. See Henry Schein, Inc. v. Cook, 191 F. Supp. 3d 1072, 1077 (N.D. Cal. 2016) (finding balance of hardships tips in favor of plaintiff seeking an injunction when it would merely require defendant to comply with provisions of an existing agreement).
See also the following Public Interest section, one of four "prongs" which per Winter v. Nat. Res. Def. Council, Inc. must be satisfied to grant a PI. Matt's supply chain attack on ACF hit its 2 million users, and the judged cited a "WPEngine customer explaining that the ACF plugin takeover caused a day of unexpected work and stating that '[n]ow [his] clients are feeling the results of this mess too, as their websites are directly affected.'"
If you claim you run 40% of the world's websites and you hardcode "your personal website" into it day to day functioning, your promises have serious weight. See my Wikipedia link above for one of the legal principles in play.
Your suggested remedy, "If I owned WordPress.org I would be seriously tempted to just close up shop and walk away out of principle." would have avoided this mess with WP Engine if done at the beginning, although I don't know if he'd be in jeopardy of losing a class action suit by the entire community who depended on his decades of promises. Easily avoided by handing his "personal website" to some entity he's not involved with, just closing it out of spite would harm many unrelated people.
In general you need to learn a lot about the law, but for the point you brought up, see promissory estoppel.
It would be better if your analogy of WP Engine being "some rude asshole comes in and starts disrupting your customers" matched any of the facts in the case, including from or claimed by Automattic and Matt Mullenweg. Especially when it does largely match his on the record behavior, a lot of which was cited in the preliminary injunction by the judge.
the Target data breach came through the HVAC system
Which would be the equivalent of these attackers compromising an operational control system and using a segregation failure to work their way into the billing system.
But unlike a retail store, water systems don't colocate operations and meters, the latter are at the extremes of the system, connected only by water pipes.
So far less than 20 people have died from this virus.
Over 1700 of people die from flu daily.
I can see why you'd want to hide your identity in posting the above, at some level you realize the "So far" for 2019-nCoV tells us little about how many people will get it in the future, it could become worse than the seasonal flu you're comparing it to.
They killed our geniuses and replaced them with clerics.
Iran currently has an average IQ of 84, that has consequences on top of public policy that has for example crashed the country's fertility rate.
Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.
