riferguson

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by riferguson 16y ago
...which won a Grammy last year for "Best Bluegrass Album", and for which he is actively touring right now. So, yeah, his point is "here are the royalty riches you can expect when you make an award winning album and drag yourself all over t
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Myhrvold's IV sues Hynix, Altera, McAfee and Symantec, among others(intellectualventures.com)
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by riferguson 16y ago
"Easy", as in least effort on your part, or "easy", as in highest probability of success? Not at all the same thing.
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by riferguson 16y ago
Judge Learned Hand: "Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and ove
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by riferguson 16y ago
I stand corrected. Apple has one patent in the H.264 pool, US 7292636, and one in the MPEG-4 Systems pool, US 6134243. I have no idea if either of these would be relevant to Theora. For what it's worth, there are hundreds of patents in the
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by riferguson 16y ago
Presumably it would be the holders of the putatively infringed patents that would be assembling the "pool". I don't think Apple is in the Video Codec patent-holding business. As a major licensee of H.264, you'd have to presume Apple be in a
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by riferguson 16y ago
Once again, Gabe and Tycho have the important insight: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
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by riferguson 17y ago
If the job involves writing code, you're going to be asked to write code in the interview. The "reverse-a-linked-list" question is an attempt at "minimal coding question that anyone should be able to do in 15 minutes at a whiteboard". It's
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by riferguson 17y ago
Three things: First, those are questions for a variety of different positions all mixed together. Product manager candidates get asked different questions than engineering candidates. Second, yes, Microsoft tracks the effectiveness of inter
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by riferguson 17y ago
I have absolutely no opinion about the validity of this particular patent, but I want to forestall a bunch of random griping. Please, please don't post commentary that involves "just reading the patent" and thinking (a) you know what it mea
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by riferguson 17y ago
Every reference to the GPL in the article is to version 3 of the license, which does not contain the language you reference. Care to try again?
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by riferguson 18y ago
You're missing mine, I'm afraid: I've made no claim about anyone having to do anything. Indeed, if I was in Charlie's shoes, I wouldn't be working on spec. Let me put it another way. There are two markets for exploits: the legitimate one,
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by riferguson 18y ago
I will go and read the paper. Thanks for the pointer.
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by riferguson 18y ago
[Let's use "Alice" as the name of our hypothetical security researcher.] If the Bad Guys can get the exploit from someone else, then Apple equally could pay someone other than Alice to disclose it to them. Your premise assumes the work is f
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by riferguson 18y ago
I have no problem with you, Charlie, or anyone else being paid top dollar for his or her work, particularly in an important field like security research. Indeed, I think it's a great idea for Apple and the other vendors to reimburse 3rd par
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by riferguson 18y ago
Miller says that the bugs have a market value beyond $5000 -- indeed, he claims that an IE8 exploit has a "market value" of over $50k. But that market value exists only if you're willing to sell the exploits to people who either (a) are pla
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by riferguson 18y ago
Dude, Google is your friend. Mike was being coy when he described himself as a "former Microsoft employee", but dismissing him as a "random investor from Texas" is silly. http://people.forbes.com/profile/michael-j-maples/49137 http://que
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by riferguson 18y ago
It's not clear from the video, but the utility power number probably includes environmental stuff like cooling and lights. Just dividing one number by the other isn't going to give you the size of the power supply for each machine.