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by abpavel 11y ago
Just by global warming being solved by you being cold today, right? You know, the world is a bit larger than Games/Movies/Musics/Web. Like seriously, try some fluid dynamics, or neutron leakage. Just because it's express
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by abpavel 11y ago
So what should I do? My patents have limited geopolitical enforcement jurisdictions, whereas the Internet is global. Plus, I'm deemed evil, even though It's not easy to create something novel. MP3 patent https://www.goo
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by abpavel 11y ago
Well, obviously, I'm not a web developer. Nor am I a music producer, nor a film maker. As the world becomes increasingly more digital, more technologies can be expressed as code. You all like MPEG-4, but many patents are involved there
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by abpavel 11y ago
Because I've invented something unseen before, spent a fortune developing a method, patented it, also spending a fortune on legal, and don't want script kiddies to mooch off my talent that easily. I have a sense of proprietorship
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by abpavel 11y ago
But I do have a patent, in multiple countries, and have legal advice. How is that suppose to stop people like the op? He clearly didn't bother with any of it, and EFF is on the side of crooks like him. So I spend all my fortune on R&am
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by abpavel 11y ago
This stomps on motivation to develop any novell code, because for all the years of hard work you put into r&d, there will alway be a lot of people who are just waiting for something to slip through your fingers, so they can steal it and
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ESPN bets on Drone Racing(wired.com)
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How ESPN Should Approach Drone Racing
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by abpavel 11y ago
The actual mortality rate from both Chernobyl and Fukushima are so low, I'm not even sure what are we talking about half the time. Fear? Fear of a fear? People store yellow cake at home just for fun, and it's perfectly legal and O
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by abpavel 11y ago
I wonder what would be the actual figure without settlement, since settlement in corp vs. gov cases means that a corp has calculated that it is cheaper to settle than to argue in the court of law. What where they avoiding? Brand damage? Man
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by abpavel 11y ago
Should add "in the English speaking world". Baidu, vkontakte, etc. have their own regional powers.
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by abpavel 11y ago
Network infrastructure mean IP, not "everything I use". Network operations are responsible for the network infrastructure. Cassandra is not network infrastructure, it's just another application, one of tens of thousands that
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by abpavel 11y ago
It's sad, however the ethics of human worth are much harder now, with human-caused global events even prompting creation of official organizations, such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction
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by abpavel 11y ago
"I want the ability to create app-like experiences on the OS with web technology. Very little seems to be happening in that regard as far as I can tell" I'm not sure why this doesn't sound like a compelling reason for a
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by abpavel 11y ago
6-member permanent security council members with veto ensures that nothing related to their interests is passed. It also shows who governs U.N.
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by abpavel 11y ago
The problem is not in patents or capitalism, but in perpetual extension of intellectual property in a Disney-like fashion. The point of "Cyclical" is that there is a cycle - a life-cycle of development, then intellectual monopoly
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by abpavel 11y ago
When I asked the team live on Google Hangout chat why they didn't use RTG, for a mission where solar power is a risky bet, their answer was that there were too many political obstructions to getting any reasonable amount of fissile mat
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by abpavel 11y ago
It's especially frightening for us Europeans, that TTIP can overrule existing local legislature, and that officials representing EU states only have access to the full text of 600 pages for 2 hours every thursday, accompanied by two se
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by abpavel 11y ago
Shouldn't it be called patent extension racket?
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by abpavel 11y ago
Coming from a man who created aptly named "Windows", where FBI never needs to ask for access.
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by abpavel 11y ago
Bill Gates: "Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said 'don't make me cut this ribbon because you'll make me cut it many times'" ...Well, that sums up his understanding of the the
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by abpavel 11y ago
Sadly this is a tough sell, given that the general public perceives "encryption" as "password", unaware of the underlying technology and implications. It's doubly sadly that it was a government employee, in a govern
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by abpavel 11y ago
Clearly an ad. Are you all blind? Click on the domain name to see the history of postings.
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by abpavel 11y ago
This is not an attack vector, because: 1. TCP SNs are usually moving. By default they don't need to, as that's part of the core ideology (thanks Postel!) but today they are usually moving. 2. Since connection has to be live before