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Until then, frivolous patent holders have free rein to coerce contracts that licence claims they know won't stand re-examination.
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/02/17/federal-circuit-affirm...
> the client computer will know which item is currently being offered for sale. In such a case, the viewer will be able to order it by Simply pressing one button on the TV remote
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/0a/99/bd/431ac01...
They were the first do this "with a shopping cart", and needed a patent examiner tell them how to get the patent claims approved. Genius(!)
> The Patent Owner is also advised that claims 1 and 11 would be considered to be patentable if they were amended to recite providing a shopping cart model
http://homepages.uc.edu/~armstrty/AmazonReExam-20071009.pdf
This is what is wrong with the US PTO: old inventions are patentable for new applications as long as it is novel, without consideration for inventiveness. Is it the "Guinness World Records" of invention, where you can be awarded for using a saw "in a musical ensemble".
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-w...
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/inception-how-usable-are-nest...
Trends in outliers cannot be used to extrapolate trends in mean, unless for very small populations (such that outliers are unreliable).
The article just seems to be an opinion piece to explain away falling improvements in average life-expectancy rather than tackle rising inequality.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-life-expe...
Being poor in the United States is so hazardous to your health, a new study shows, that the average life expectancy of the lowest-income classes in America is now equal to that in Sudan or Pakistan.
1. Stop theorizing.
2. Write lots of software.
3. Learn from your mistakes.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
Success comes when there is nothing left to learn from failure. Fail faster to learn this sooner.
OTOH, a passphrase of substantial creativity [2] may be protected by copyright. Crucially (for any takedown), this would cover transformations by key derivation functions.
IANAL.
[1] https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
[2] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...
> Programming system builders have also been exposed to this lesson, but it seems to have not yet been learned. Project after project designs a set of algorithms and then plunges into construction of customer-deliverable software on a schedule that demands delivery of the first thing built.
> [...] plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (1975)
> a more enterprise solution where I can store a recovery key centrally that a user can’t remove.
The enterprise solution is to not give users administrative privs.
With transparent encryption, Windows decrypts the disk at boot using the TPM. Prior to login the disk is already mounted (decrypted).
It provides an easy way for enterprise to say, "yes- we have FDE".
SQL is a declarative set-oriented language. Read/writing SQL as a procedural language will cause a heap of trouble.
ORM all-too-often defines data structures from code.
Linus Torvalds wrote,
> I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
I see nothing of this act that restricts the applicability of so broad a definition of "deep-fake" so as not to cover the activities of Hollywood, specifically the CGI mapping of actors onto body doubles such as that performed in "The Crow" (1994).
Yet another deeply troubling knee-jerk reaction of an act that promises to catch "just the bad".
Do we reduce failure rates to "acceptable" at the expense of neglecting recovery?
Devops set about to deliver working software frequently.
Both optimise for frequent delivery. The theory and practice of how working is measured is where they differ.
Behaviour depends on how incentives and constraints are structured.
Traditionally, operations had to keep things running and cared little about new functionality. Developers had to deliver new functionality and cared little about keeping things running.
Requiring developers attend 3am outage calls changes incentives, as does requiring operations to own (or get out of the way of) software delivery pipelines.
Individuals produce less taxes than governments spend and consume more than a paycheck. This gap is what got Greece into trouble but it certainly felt like "the good life" while it lasted.
> But at the world level, it's just some of us choosing to consume more than we produce right now, and others of us choosing to consume less than we produce right now.
Every generation since the 1950s has consumed unsustainably high returns on their taxes (by government expenditure and with maturing bonds paid by bonds issued). It's fraudulent when extraordinary returns to earlier generations are funded not by growth but sustained by new generations seeking the same returns.
They absolutely can, by quantitative easing (aka large-scale asset purchases) buying $4 trillion of bonds priced to keep yields in range. This market can remain irrational longer than anyone can remain solvent.
By price-fixing this market they stimulate liquidity. Institutions (such as pensions) that would normally buy safe bonds are forced to invest elsewhere at marginal yields (ie. corporate bonds and MBS). Other, more risky, investors chase growth stocks with marginal yields.
> you should get price inflation or deflation.
Indeed there has been, though currently visible only through asset prices such as bonds, stocks, securities and housing. Who can complain?
The danger comes when the tide goes out and yields go up [1]. All that extra liquidity washes from assets into yields, thereby driving inflation on produce.
[1] And up yields must, to determine how much have been swimming naked.
This.
The US housing market correction from 2006 was 30%. In this time, the US Fed funds rate went from 5.25% to 0.15% cutting banks' monthly cost for a $250k loan from >$1k/m to <$50/m.
In the meanwhile, median LTV has gone from 80% in 2007 to 95% in 2017 [1] and median loan sizes have gone from $175k to $325k. What happens when interest rates normalise and mortgage interest doubles?
The banks have been propped up but the risks have not left the system.
[1] https://www.urban.org/research/publication/housing-finance-g...
> "Why everything I have is broken"
When it comes to the DCMA, that's debatable. In a court of law. Unless, of course, you don't have the money to match their lawyers. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/GeoHot/
Not meaning to be flippant but I guess the difference is that with stateless processing you get disposable machines. Reminds me of Moon (film).
Insist on implementation to back theory.