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I wonder if it is simply a move to insure they are not sued in the same manner they were by Oracle.
Or, they could just be evil. 
If it is an effort to patent public domain item it is in fact evil.
Determining the difference could be almost (or entirely impossible) since to know you'd have to get to the heart of intent.
Interesting story.
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This highlights the worse way the patent system is broken, but which few talk about; works and derivative works are patentable but ONLY if they are not obvious to practitioners of the craft. This is a case where the derivative work is blatantly obvious.
(A second problem is that a patent should describe and actual invention. That is, a practitioner of the craft should be able to use the patent to recreate the thing that was patented. I've read a lot of patents and most are ideas. Software patents are the worst. I can't count the number of patents I've read where there is little to no connection between the contents of the patent and what is being claimed to be patented.)
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I agree with you 100%! When I was doing research for my app C'YaPass (C'YaPass: Forget All Your Passwords | Get C'YaPass[^]) and the novel way that I create a SHA-256 hash password from a drawn figure on a grid salted with string key, I read so many patents my eyes glazed over.
Anyway, I found patents that were great ideas but the people who sit around patenting things have never implemented. Implementation is worth so much more than scribbling down ideas. I probably found a patent that would've negated my idea but the people who wrote the patent wrote it 20-odd years ago and never implemented it. Believe me, implementing is far more difficult because you are up against the real world and the way things work or do not work.
The patent system is definitely broke because you could ingeniously implement something that you thought up independently only to find that some patent troll had written down an idea close to it years ago. Terrible.
I open-sourced all my code so it is a moot point for me.
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The simple soultion would be for the inventor to point out the military applications of his invention. 
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Then Google won?t be able to patent it, but the NSA or another Acronyms-Division will claim it directly and make it theirs.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In the early days of computing, 1 + 1 didn’t always equal 10
In the summer of 2016, USDS assigned me to the IRS to work on a project called Online Accounts...
The IRS has a lot of mainframes. And as millions of Americans recently found out, many of them are quite old. So as I wandered about meeting different types of engineers and chatting about their day-to-day blockers I started to learn much more about how these machines worked. It was a fascinating rabbit hole that exposed me to things like “decimal machines” and “2 out of 5 code”. It revealed something to me that I had not ever considered:
Computers did not always use binary code.
This is a fascinating dive into the weird and wonderful world of early computing architectures before the world settled on binary 2's compliment arithmetic.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation nearly two years ago, and more than 15 years after former CEO Steve Ballmer labeled Linux “a cancer.” Microsoft heads to Reddit to calm developer nerves
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If you're like me, then you'd do pretty much anything to have your own R2-D2 or BB-8 robotic buddy. Just imagine the adorable adventures you'd have together! *turns to robot* "Don't get technical with me."
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the link is to the prior chatbot article.
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Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. You mean, buzz and hooplah failed to manifest into reality?
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Intel's recent demonstration of a 28-core processor running at 5GHz has certainly stirred the pot here at Computex, particularly because the presentation appeared to imply this would be a shipping chip with a 5.0GHz stock speed. "Oh no. I forgot to say the demo was overclocked. Do you think if we tell them now, they'll believe us?"
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Sean Ewington wrote: Oh no. I forgot to say the demo was overclocked. Do you think if we tell them now, they'll believe us?
No, no we won't.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Another EU antitrust fine for Google is coming down the pipeline in mid-July over allegations Google has used its Android mobile operating system to beat out rivals Most interesting man in the world meme: I don’t always test my code, but when I do I prefer to test it on production.
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Another EU antitrust fine for Google is coming down the pipeline in mid-July over allegations Google has used its Android mobile operating system to beat out rivals In June of last year, the EU slapped Google with a record $2.8 billion fine for anti-trust practices
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With net neutrality rules scheduled to be repealed on Monday, Senate Democrats are calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan to schedule a vote that could preserve the broadband regulations. *Aragorn reaches for arrows* Boromir: "Leave it. It is over."
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Google, reeling from an employee protest over the use of artificial intelligence for military purposes, said Thursday that it would not use A.I. for weapons or for surveillance that violates human rights. But it will continue to work with governments and the military. "We're just working with the military in their fuzzier, cuddlier programs."
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Also covered in this MIT article: [^] Quote: AI smarts: Summit is the first supercomputer designed from the ground up to handle machine learning, neural networks, and other AI applications. Its many thousands of AI-optimized chips from Nvidia and IBM can handle demanding tasks, such as crunching through mountains of reports and medical images to help unearth hidden causes of diseases.
Supersized: The machine’s 4,608 servers and associated gear fill the space of two tennis courts and weigh more than a large commercial aircraft.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I need to get my bitcoin miner on that rig!  
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The VPNFilter malware that infected over 500,000 routers and NAS devices across 54 countries during the past few months is much worse than previously thought. I have a bad feeling about this.
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Cisco said last month that VPNFilter does not use zero days to infect devices, meaning all the listed models are vulnerable via exploits against older firmware releases, and updating to the latest firmware version keeps devices out of the malware's reach. Not quite as bad as it may seem at first glance. They also make no mention of popular custom firmware so I imagine it targets the factory default.
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For a generation, Americans have been outsourcing work to India, where companies like Infosys grew bigger than Facebook and Google combined and created a new middle class. It seemed as though the boom would last forever. Infosys founder: The challenge of reinventing a company is like “changing the wheels of an aircraft midflight.”
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Ryan Dahl looks back on Node.js and talks about what he thinks about it. Mea culpa, it's a video.
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People. The hardest part of building a business. Step #1: Don't read online guides. Step #2: Lose all hope. Step #3: Repeat.
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