jballer

By “they” do you mean Facebook? Or the rioters?

…or were you intentionally toeing the line between sarcasm and anarchy?

I'd like to know what possessed the author to celebrate this beautiful plane in Comic Sans

Or maybe because the supply side is full of drivers doing the job for less pay than they should reasonably agree to, betting on a windfall from AB5?

I usually go with @example.com or @contoso.com

Look up the "Moon Machines" documentary series - it's great storytelling with amazing B-roll. The GNC episode has stuff about the core rope, and the "first stage" episode had the story of the surfers who worked on the tanks.

Maybe California mandates the delay to discourage gas consumption...

It's an auction - they used to make great money because there were fewer drivers. If drivers walked away when pay got too low, the pay would rise to equalize with rider demand.

Time Warner Cable in NC throttled it for me. I was only able to watch YouTube in HD through my school's VPN. How backwards is that?

This title is misleading and borderline incorrect. He accepts that unencrypted traffic to specific IPs can be intercepted in accordance with a government order. He does not accept that all unencrypted traffic can be sniffed, or that any encrypted traffic can be decrypted.

Buried in the original form thread[1] there are links to two articles[2][3] about drivers who died when they drove off cliffs in their Model S's. These are absolutely chilling to read in light of the potential suspension issues…

1: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/1573665/

2: http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20150623/man-who-died-...

3: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3318773-181/marin-county-d...

I wrote about something similar with VP8, which is highly patent-encumbered. Google was like:

1. You have a license to our related patents

2. You're on your own if someone else claims that your use of our stuff infringes their patents

    2a. But if the party suing is also a licensee, they lose their license.

3. You lose your license if you come after us for anything.

These kinds of licenses have network effects, and are only really effective in a mutually-assured destruction scenario.

http://ipjournal.law.wfu.edu/2011/03/googles-afraid-its-free...

Look up the documentary series "Moon Machines" - it does an amazing job of telling numerous stories of the engineering feats behind the Appllo project, with first-hand accounts and some pretty awesome B-roll from the archives

I went to law school, passed the patent bar, and worked at the patent office. Even I wouldn't want to write my own claims. There are too many technicalities to deal with in the process. At the very least find a patent agent to do it (agents can draft and manage an application; attorneys can do that plus opine on validity etc.).

"Comprising" means having at least all of the listed elements.

"Consisting of" means having all of the listed elements and nothing more.

"Consisting essentially of" means having all of the listed elements, with more stuff that doesn't materially change the character of the invention (that's where the lawyers come in).

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2111.html

Former patent examiner here. This is the truth. Only thing I'd add is, read the claims broadly. Anything that could possibly be meant by the words in the claim.

If it's broad enough to contemplate what you're doing, look through the spec, correspondence (the "file wrapper"), and general knowledge at the time for arguments to restrict interpretation of scope. Also, talk to a lawyer :(

edit: linked to this in another comment, and it also belongs here: "Broadest Reasonable Interpretation" http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2111.html

emailed! (found you on CL, actually)

This. There's a reason there are regulations for this sort of product–people need to be able to rely on life-saving devices completely and with 100% certainty.

At the very least, I'd suggest researching brudgers' post and adding a notice that the ADA requires accommodation visual alarms.

edit: You really can't add enough disclaimers to something like this. The last thing you want to do is leave someone thinking this is going to save their life. Maybe as a tertiary failsafe, but you can't guarantee that's how it's being used.

Martha says over. http://www.marthastewart.com/248076/toilet-paper-debate edit: it starts at the 8:45 mark in the video