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The end may be in sight for software patents—which have long been highly controversial in the tech industry—in the wake of a remarkable appeals court ruling that described such patents as a “deadweight loss on the nation’s economy” and a threat to the First Amendment’s free speech protections. "Because generically-implemented software is an 'idea' insufficiently linked to any defining physical structure other than a standard computer, it is a precursor to technology rather than technology itself."
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And this is bad how?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Software patents are bad. I don't think he implied that it was bad to be eliminating them.
They should be ready for a fight. Some big names rely heavily on their software patents for income.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ok.
Quote: They should be ready for a fight. Yep.
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Long overdue.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The scope of Alphabet’s ambition for the Google brand is clear: it wants Google’s information organizing brain to be embedded right at the domestic center — i.e. where it’s all but impossible for consumers not to feed it with a steady stream of highly personal data. Made by Google. Documented by Google. Stored by Google. Abused by Google.
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Google? They are still around?
LOL. They should change their motto to "Hey, at least we are not Monsanto."
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Google Pixel owners receive free unlimited Google Photos storage at original picture and 4k video quality. Apple’s telling me to pay up or else and it feels like extortion. Cheeky, or deceptive?
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Why not both?
Or did you intend it to be Boolean algebra?
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Surely the EU will come to Apple's aid and slap Google silly for this anti-competitiveness...
Wait! The EU hates Apple as much as it hates Google... what is an abusive overlord to do?
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Big companies have a way of accidentally stepping on little companies as they move around sometimes, crushing a thriving business with a minor change to their Terms of Service or a decision to stop publishing a certain data feed. But every once in awhile, one of those seemingly random little steps manages to squish up the dirt under one of us little guys, leaving us better off than we were before. How AWS helped the little guy (inadvertently).
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This piece is just an opinion, and like any JavaScript framework, it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article. Not news, per se, but amusing.
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Pretty good explanation. I feel I am ready to develop some web app now!
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Should I have posted this[^] here instead
This space for rent
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So sad....
because it's so true.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts. Not your typical start-up fairy tale.
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It seems Spotify is in for trouble as numerous music lovers are reporting that its freemium streaming service is pushing malware-infested ads to its users. Show's over, folks. Nothing to see here.
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Slipping on Google's Daydream View headset, I'm instantly immersed in a new world. Someone described the headset as underpants. Is there something I'm missing?
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Uber driver Nathan Stachelek was pulled off to the side of the road when he saw the self-driving car turn the wrong way. Yea, but does it go the wrong way on a one-way street more than I do?
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If a self-driving car can navigate Pittsburgh, Cleveland will be simple.
My question is, what happens when a self-driving car runs out of juice on a hill?
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Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. If Yahoo scans customer emails, but has no customers, does it reveal any information?
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Would that include the accounts badged as ATT.net and administered by Yahoo! (including ameritech.net and so on)?
And in that case, were other CEO's consulted as well? Which other firms would be included?
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During comments in Houston, Neal Lane says the Moon is a good testbed. For NASA, the South Pole of the Moon may eventually return as a target for human outposts.
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Because that's where she sent all her "deleted" emails. She wants them back.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You may have thought it was just a cloud computing service, but Microsoft's Azure Cloud is on its way to become the first artificial intelligence supercomputer, according to the company's CEO Satya Nadella. "My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer (and it backs up in the Cloud)."
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