> A troll who comes after them and knows that they sue even when a case is backed away from (regardless of prejudice) will be less likely to drop the case at that point.
Perhaps, but it also serves to deter future trolls from engaging Newegg in court over patents. Newegg is making it clear that if you sue them over a patent, that suit is going to be taken to a verdict, whether you like it or not.
My favorite of the wavelengths presented is radio, as right in the middle you see a bright radio source that I'm guessing is Sagittarius A, (probably) the location of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
Sure, three months is a long time to fix an issue, but what does Microsoft have to gain by taking longer to fix an issue of this severity than it believes it needs to? If Microsoft released the fixes when they were going to, and Google then released the details of the issues and when they first reported them, Google could still make a stink about Microsoft's turn-around time on critical security bugs, and there wouldn't be any gap between global notification of the issues and a readily available fix for them.
Put another way, Google may have just notified the world of black-hat hackers of an issue they weren't otherwise aware of, an issue that demonstrably will not be patched for some time. If that is the case, then Google just recklessly endangered people's computers in the interest of raising awareness of Microsoft's poor turn around time on these issues. There is also the very real chance that this issue was already known by the black-hat community, in which case there isn't nearly as much lost by reporting here, but that's a gamble Google is making in order to make a point.
I think shizcakes knows that it was not integrated advertising into This American Life, but into the program from the '40s. shizcakes' comment, then, is likely a comment on how hearing the integrated advertising "sounds normal" for a program from the '40s, but does not "read normal" in text.
These regulations seem like a win for Bitcoin as a currency. Most of the clauses themselves don't seem so onerous for any company that intends on legally dealing in Bitcoin, the government gets its framework for dealing with fraud and money laundering, and the licensing itself should act as a signal to worried parties that dealing in Bitcoin with licensed operators is legal, and that the operator itself has taken sufficient measures to guarantee the safety of all funds being managed.
I'm having some difficulty getting competitors, with no indication of how long it will take to find one, and when I did find one, about 3 seconds into the game I was told I lost with my opponent having performed no moves. I feel like this needs some work.
If I had to refrain from saying any joke which someone in the world might find hurtful, I wouldn't have very many jokes to say. Besides, in this case, he was talking about releasing pathogens upon, or lighting up with a flamethrower, half of the babies in a hospital. I can't imagine there are too many people who've had something like that happen to their child.
That is not the same situation. With a politician, one source can contribute X, and another source can contribute Y, and both of their contributions influence the politician. In other words, if the politician loses a source of donations equal to 90% of his or her donations, there is probably nothing that would replace that donation. The only supply is percentage of the politician's time so to speak, which might effect how much someone is willing to donate in the absence of another donation, but probably not in the way the politician would like.
With Mozilla, the supply is one item, the default search engine for the search bar, something which has high demand. That means if Google were to become less interested in paying for the search bar, Bing would be waiting at the gates to do so. They could lose money if that were to happen, given that Google was the highest bidder, but that in no way makes them beholden to Google.
Not sure what you mean by high demand, it has certainly has had strategic value, but the grand total of companies that would be interested in the search box are Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
I wouldn't be looking forward to the next set of negotiations if I had Microsoft and Yahoo as my fallback positions.
Perhaps, but it also serves to deter future trolls from engaging Newegg in court over patents. Newegg is making it clear that if you sue them over a patent, that suit is going to be taken to a verdict, whether you like it or not.