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Stranger things have happened so I'll hold off with ordering a tinfoil hat for now. But... it was the court=judge who invalidated the patent. Maybe.... or the judge/court got a clue that two invalidated were "obvious". Needless to say, I'm surprised also.
I'm actually wondering if a few of my conservative Christian acquaintances are correct, these are the "end times" and so cats and dogs will be living together.
That's the trouble with some members of the public, they will accept that changing a tyre, then 4 weeks later their brake light bulb blowing is not a connected issue,
I quite disagree. I replaced a leaking radiator hose on my former mother-in-law's car and two days later the radio died. It was a rather old car that should have seen the scrap heap a decade earlier. But, guess who was to blame?
I've been around far too many people who want to blame everyone else for their a) own stupidity b) lack of knowledge and/or c) just won't take any responsibility for their actions. It's those people who keep the ambulance chasers in business.
If AT&T and the other few telcos left had fulfilled their promises and done the right thing would Google even be interested in rolling out fiber? The blame in this case, rests with them.
Where I'm at, CenturyLink (formerlyQwest) has been saying for almost 10 years now that "you'll be getting fiber in the next 12 months. Hasn't happened. They haven't even started laying the backbone fiber yet.
Fool me once, shame on you,. Fool me twice, shame on me. Lately that's all the telcos in the States have done is try to fool everyone from the FCC/FTC down to the customers. A pox on them.
Two comments;
1) So the TPP has one good thing in it. Pity only the one. If there's more good things, no one has said a word.
2) Given the way Congress and courts work, this will not be over soon. Even if Congress passes a law, I think the government could argue that the case can still be tried as a "grandfather" case. I remember reading on lawsuits and prosecutions "grandfathered " in some years ago but those were at State level and not national so... maybe it would go away.
PC sales down, they blame MS. Well, ok.. Win10 sucks, that's true. I can get Win10 without buying a new PC. So HP, how about offering another OS and one not full of HP bloatware? It gets worse with every generation HP PC. I've got one (in the last two years) HP that was basically unusable due to the bloatware from HP. Ended up buy Win7 and doing a clean install and minimal cleanup of bloat.
Printer/Ink sales down... they blame what, the paperless office generation? How about again, the crapware? We have a fairly new ENVY for the wife. Nice printer but it keeps offering HP Rewards and to order ink from HP. And there's no way to turn it off. The prices they charge for ink are outrageous compared to other printers. My old HP 9800 just keeps chugging along and as long as the ink cartridge fits, it runs. I'd buy another one but... seems HP doesn't care about the 11X14 market.
I don't think that health organizations (or almost any company) will ever take security seriously until the manglement (and in this case, the doctors also) get hit and hit hard by the miscreants. As long as it's just patient or customer info, no worries for them. The minute they get up some morning and find that the company has been attacked and their bank account cleaned out, then maybe... just maybe security will be taken to heart. The sad thing is, not many companies have taken the attacks that have already happened to heart.
The iceberg that is Yelp is deeper than anyone thinks. Yelp has issues and this is but one of them.
However, in this case, I see it as a widespread problem with call-centers in the States (maybe other countries, I have no idea. I work in one and I know people who work in other centers. For the most part, those working the phones are paid as cheaply as the company can get away with. On top of that, after about 5-6 years, they get rid of them because the natural progression of pay raises causes the budget for the call center to go over a certain amount. The only ones there longer than 5-6 years are the manglement, IT, maybe a sales department.
Locked drawers of a filing cabinet? Woefully insecure as the locks are easily popped. May I recommend an all steel safe with combination lock that only you have the combination to? Also immerse the safe in a large tank of seawater filled with hungry sharks. That should do it.
As a Vietnam vet you'll be well aware that the US armed forces for that war was mostly draftees
I enlisted and was not drafted. I'm pissy because you seem to think that those who are/were in the military are to blame. I have a feeling that you would have been standing on the sidelines spitting on the returnees much like certain others did. Put the blame where it belongs. On the government leaders. Should we also blame all the wars in the past on the military? I don't think so....
Yes, it was a losing effort. Again because of the government leadership. LBJ and his daily polls on his popularity played a big part in the loss. Yes, it was wrong. The French got kicked out and so did we. Wrong tactics for the wrong war. There's a pattern here.
You still seem to think the military picks wars and go fights them without being directed. As unpopular as Vietnam was, the leaders still chose to fight it.
Well said. As a Vietnam Vet I well remember the hate and anger we military took because it was "our fault". We even took some crap from certain CongressCritters. A certain President and his wife hated the military for "their wars".
One last time, buttheads such as Youngone seems to be... It's not the military who decides to go to war or who to go to war with. It's the government leadership (such that it is).
Well, yes. For this phone, as will the next and the next and the next... ad infinitum ad nauseam. The first one is the hardest battle. Ideally, they all should be hard battles with each case on it's own merit. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the way the system works.
The old saying applies: Give a mouse a cookie and soon, he'll want a glass of milk.
Supposedly, and it's depending on the news sources and who can be trusted, they were working quietly and Apple asked for a court order. For some reason, the FBI when public instead of secret court. Apparently Apple has worked on some 70 phones for the FBI previously.
Now how much of this real, how much is BS, and how much is theatre, I have no idea.
Doubtful anything county related was super secret and requires a high level of encryption.
As I recall, he worked for one of the health type departments which necessitates following HIPPA. And that opens up another can of worms. If the phone were lost, then other people's private heath information would be accessible to anyone who picked the phone up.
Boils down to "screwed if you do, screwed if you don't".
I'm probably missing the obvious here... As a standalone charging unit, the offering makes a lot of sense for a niche set of consumers, looking for something to keep their mobile devices charged while they are on outdoor excursions and away from the grid.
If I'm off on an outdoor excursion, say into the woods, why would worry about my smartphone not working? I take it "off the grid" means power only and not coverage but where I go, there's no coverage either.
With my maths hat on there was a 7 day outage earlier in the year plus this 1 and then taking and into account the leap year that's Office 358.
Anyone care to guess the final number for the end of year? My money is on Office 323. Maybe El Reg should have an official countdown just for fun?
I'm not a Nigerian prince, but if you'll email me your banking particulars I will make a bet on this in your name with a very honest bookie.
They probably thought of it only after they got in a vehicle that matched the description of what the shooter was driving. Better safe than sorry!
Maybe it's just me. But if I were in the vehicle that matched the description, I don't think I'd make a joke to the driver. What if he's that deranged and answers "yes'?
But of course we can't hold the ancestors responsible for whatever happened in the past and unfortunately this works for the ancient Soviet Union too.
It's been pushed some here in the States for some things. We (the government) finally agreed to the Japanese Interment reparations. There's now the movement slowly rising to pay reparations for slavery which may get through after all the BlackLivesMatter and Confederate flag crap ends. But, the problems were acknowledged long after the fact... but then, it's about money these days.
There's a lot of other countries that don't even acknowledge the things they've done in the past.
Eyesight is an issue here also, even though I had flight pay in the military. Now I do wonder, why don't they drop the standards a tad for the early launches? I'd sign up in a minute even if it meant only a 50-50 chance of making it back.
I suppose the we should expect openness from an UN organization? How about openness from our own governments first? They all just seem to be "good ol' boy" networks that line pockets and laugh about the stuff they've pulled in the quest for power.
If we can't get openness, can we nuke from space? Please.
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