"Definitely" -- how do you know this? Citation please.
I actually don't know for certain and I was in Google Patent Litigation (as tech advisor). I never had a case before the ITC so I can't say 100%, but AFAIK only the PTO or a regular Federal court can declare a patent invalid.
But maybe they can say "well, this will probably be declared invalid, so we're going to stay the order." Like a German court can do. So please tell us one way or the other.
However the Federal Circuit has held that “ITC findings neither purport to be, nor can they be, regarded as binding interpretations of the U.S. patent laws in particular factual contexts.
OK, we're splitting hairs, but an ITC determination that your patent is invalid doesn't render it useless in other contexts.
You can, and everyone always does, litigate invalidity before ITC. (I am an IP litigator who has done it.) Note that the ITC cannot itself invalidate patents like district courts do, but they can--and often do--decline to issue an exclusion order because they believe the patent at issue is invalid.
For what it's worth, this isn't limited to invalidity. For example, ITC findings that a product infringes also are not binding on courts. The reason for all this is that the ITC is an administrative agency rather than an Article III tribunal.
SMS is indeed trash. Unfortunately nobody seems willing to go out of their way to accommodate the minority of android users in their friend group. My techy friends use Signal, but efforts to get people to join me there have been quite fruitless.
My sister joined matrix, but she didn't remember her password the next time I tried to reach her there.
I don’t know what things are like in Android land, but if 95% of your messaging is in one app it feels like a real hassle to adopt another app for just one person/group.
Would you start using a second podcast app just to listen to one individual podcast? Or would you just go without?
I’ve always assumed Android users are used to multiple messaging apps already. Is that the case?
> I don’t know what things are like in Android land, but if 95% of your messaging is in one app it feels like a real hassle to adopt another app for just one person/group.
I'm experiencing that with WhatsApp (in Israel it's pretty much 95%+ WhatsApp). I moved from Android to iOS, and WA have yet to add cross-platform migration ("in the coming months"), and I don't trust any of the 3-4 sketchy apps that offer this. So I end up using WhatsApp Web and switched to texting for family members.
This led to more than a couple "oops I forgot I need to text you" because iOS Safari doesn't allow web notifications, and I didn't check WhatsApp Web yet.
That’s it. I don’t have work stuff on my phone. I suppose if I did I’d have Google Chat.
For some reason I don’t see Messages and Slack as competitors in my mind. They fit in different “categories” (for whatever reason). Messages is for everything but one long running group chat that used to be on-prem at my last job as a sort of social room. I think of it more like IRC and not personal messages. Messages is 95% one-on-one for me.
How so? Signal supports Android and has a cross-platform desktop app (that supports not only macOS, but also Linux and Windows), while iMessage does neither. Signal also has perfect forward secrecy, while iMessage does not.[1] Signal even allows everyone to create and publish sticker packs free of charge,[2] while iMessage requires a $99/year Apple Developer subscription to do the same.[3] I suppose Signal doesn't let you create Animoji or Memoji, but that's not essential to me.
I have been using multiple Signal groups with different sides of the family for a few years now. Honestly, I have yet to run into any problems and few of the groups have roughly 25-100 new messages per day.
Signal isn't that great, but it has cross platform which isn't insignificant (even for you, don't you want to be able to switch computing platforms without losing everything?). However Telegram just blows them all out of the water with the UX, DX, search, stickers, polls, etc.
I think the point is that people either consciously or subconsciously know that green bubble conversations are genuinely worse, not that people literally like the color blue better.
Yeah, exactly. When I see a green bubble from someone I almost have an aversion to texting them because I know there will be a bunch of papercuts making the experience shittier.
> Hey there. I'm a uni student, and displaying ads on my website helps support me in my studies. I'll try my best to share my love of crystal growing with you. Please consider supporting me by disabling your ad blocker. Thank you!
Ads are toxic and privacy-destroying. Give me the option of sending you a couple bucks and I’ll gladly do so, but no, I will not let some horrible ad network run arbitrary JavaScript on my processor to drain my battery, spy on me, and waste my attention on more shit I don’t need or want.
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
I run a website of guides, and have a paypal donate button, and I think about 1 in 10,000 visitors donate. Donations are mostly $1 or so, but I got a $1000 one once.
You're right, the fish are safer to eat. However, I know a relative that died ice fishing and a friend of my fathers that died in a boating accident. Being on the water comes with its own set of risks.
I've never picked a toxic mushroom. So while it's a risk one should be aware of, and you should know how to do it right, it's not that dangerous if you follow the safety advice. Just like most people don't get killed by sharks or fall of anboat.and drown when going fishing.
> Since the cessation of atmospheric nuclear testing, background radiation has decreased to very near natural levels,[4] making special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive applications, as brand-new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature that it can generally be used in such applications
Apparently there’s less money in those scuttled ships now than there was 50 years ago.
Look at the pictures on the website and I think you'll follow me.
I was thinking of brown specifically but black has the same effect. When it's partially covered the color will be the average of the two. Probably black if it's near pavement, brown if exposed to nature.
