As set down by John Perry Barlow: The internet treats censorship like damage, and routes around it. Yet another attempt to disprove this...

Good news doesn't sell newspapers, or collect clicks. Those "millions" that didn't get the second dose (within a target timeframe) amounted to 8%!

But a headline reading "Vaccine program a success! 92% get both doses!" won't get as many clicks I guess.

Grumble grumble... Nor would mentioning that 1 dose of the mRNA vaccines is proving to be (yes, from collected, peer-reviewed data) more effective than past vaccines for other diseases, or some of the single-dose more conventional COVID vaccines.

This starts out as the usual story -- patent owner "invites" someone to take a license, pricing it as a business decision -- we'll license our patent for $30k, knowing it will cost the target at least 10x that to start a patent defense, and way more than that to actually roll the dice and take it to trial (which in ND Cal will take a few years).

How refreshing it is to find an organization such as Wikimedia that responds by showing that not only are they not interested in spending $X for a license, they are willing to spend 10X, 20X, or more to invalidate the patents.

Read the attached documentcloud doc -- Wikimedia filed a DJ (Declaratory Judgement) action in Federal Court, asking the Court to declare the four patents invalid and not infringed. (Preparing and filing the DJ probably cost more than the proposed license fee -- I think they're serious about this!)

This puts Wikimedia in the driver's seat (and they're driving an effing tank), and Wordlogic in the position of ... target.

Going to be an interesting one to watch.

Remember that there are two sides to this--
What one side considers a hardened, secure defensive structure,
The other side sees as a target-rich environment...

When Apple was planning the Infinite Loop Campus, the city (Cupertino) insisted Apple have on-site food service -- they were afraid of the traffic that would be caused by all those employees going off to forage for lunch over more or less the same period of time.

But now providing such services are unfair to local businesses?

I know, logically you can't have it both ways, but arguments such as this are seldom based in logic.

Amazing lack of detail in the article, but how is this different from or better than Eidson's PTP protocols, also known as IEEE 1588? That lets you synchronize and time stamp packets on a network, at least on the LAN - extended LAN.

...the merger being blocked (or at least impeded) by AT&T

Maybe not in a manner easily traced back to AT&T, but isn't that what friends are for?

How is he (or his successor) going to feel when they see this same language in Chinese, or other language, as an assault on the entry of U.S. designed products into other markets?

The U.S., under more rational administrations in the past, has decried "non-tariff barriers to entry" against U.S. products and services, such as the language now being used by the FCC.
What's good for the goose is mighty damn fine for the gander -- and I hope you like the taste of it, because it's going to be rammed down our throats (or into other orifices) by other nations barring U.S. products from their markets.

So much history (and transition of Apple as a company) involved in Lisa...
68k with custom memory map, two very funky disk interfaces (twiggy and pippin), big bitmapped display (rectangular, not square like the Macintosh)
As much as possible written in Pascal, designed and documented!
I'll call it the first large scale Apple project designed and built by engineers, particularly software engineers (the design part is important)
Yes, Apple /// SOS was designed and built by software professionals (Tom Root, Bob Etheredge, and many more), but not at all the scope of Lisa which went from the core OS out to the document model
Such incredible effort went into Lisa -- the origins of Quickdraw graphics (Atkinson), modeless text editing (Tesler), software design on a large scale, a document model rather than an app-centric model

Of course some issues (problems), such as applications software tied to the serial number of the machine, not enough RAM, not enough disk space, not enough CPU horsepower
And even though many of the foundations for the Macintosh came from Lisa (mouse, bitmapped screen, Quickdraw, overall engineering rigor), with very few exceptions, if you worked on Lisa, Steve considered you to be second rate (a view not shared by most of engineering)
Lisa also lead the way in other ways -- the locked-down, invitation only secrecy and internal isolation that was anathema to the Apple ][ and Apple /// worlds of that time, but which has come to define the current Apple.

Lisa was an amazing development, particularly at that time in Apple's history. I have so much respect for those people, and for the Apple /// team as well. At the time, the biggest knock both these projects took was not matching the (incredible for the time) sales volume of the Apple ][.

I saw this happen from across the street in Bandley 3... An incredible time at Apple, and in the computer racket.
(Apple Employee 1xxx)

This is like a scene out of Repo Man, J Frank Parnell:
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.

Hey, where's the headline about this being patched back in March?

Oh, but it takes time to verify that these patches won't...

Yeah, and how long is it going to take you to recover from getting slammed, and at what cost? For something that was patched TWO MONTHS AGO.

Not a zero day, a YESTER-DAY!

And if you're still relying on XP...

...With an Apple Watch 2 -- I liked the pebble, but it's been abandoned (and mine is getting flakey).

As are the Silicon Valley homes of Tandem Computers, and HP's computer division -- both sites swallowed up to become the Apple Spaceship

Notable not only for what it holds, but also for where it is -- in the shell of what had been an industry-leading company -- Silicon Graphics.

Remember, all are as Rome...

Help Wombat and Help Advanced Wombat

Datatrieve was an early Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) database product for PDP-11 and later, VAX Don't know if it ran on the PDP-10 or not..
Don't remember the name of the guy who did it, but it was a well received hack in the field (and us software types didn't care what management thought of it).