December might not be the best time but I'd recommend a trip downriver on the River Thames. There's the Thames barrier, and Greenwich park, the National Maritime Museum. And surely no true geek can visit London without visiting the zero meridian.
Controversial? The only controversy is people who want to fly planes but are losing their jobs to video game nerds.
They are controversial because they are rather indiscriminate weapons; figures vary wildly but a midrange one would be that they kill about 10 civilians for each target killed. There's a tradeoff between killing terrorists and alienating the civilian population.
You're misreading what he said, which is understandable with the number of negatives he used. He was making exactly the opposite point, which was that it was your business whether or not you programmed in your free time.
It still doesn't make sense - if it's civil law, why isn't it done on the balance of probabilities (i.e., whichever side is more likely to be true), as is done for other civil cases?
It is on the balance of probabilities; that's why it's not such a big deal as some people are making out. That the court has to decide objectively whether the accusations are true or not is a more significant difference between US and UK law. If I make 10 defamatory statements, and 9 of them are true, and I'm mistaken on the tenth it's still libel.
It's finally happening with cell phone service, too. It always galled me that I had a flat rate on a land line but had to pay minutes on a cell phone.
Personally, I prefer that I don't pay rental on my cell phone, just minutes: I don't make a lot of calls on it. I don't really get this idea that fixed price is always better.
This lady completely denied ever having this phone come into contact with water, even after my wife stated that she just saw her using it in the rain.
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Maybe Apple world is full of shiny, happy people and it never rains there; in my book, if you can't use a phone just because it happens to be raining, it's defective.
"What "free" music from Beethoven is that? Is there any place on the internet where you can legally download "free" music from Beethoven?"
The BBC made all Beethoven's symphonies available online in 2005, to howls of outrage from the music industry. Unfortunately, it was a time limited offer without redistribution rights. Still, they had well over a million downloads.
And that's why SuSE sucks, it still defaults to reiser.
It hasn't since about 2006 in the OpenSuSE versions. Their timing kind of sucked though, since the change was just after the stable Enterprise versions shipped.
The $900 million wasn't just for MySpace though, so it's debateable what the value of the MySpace advertising was worth.
"The $900 million deal between News Corp. and Google might seem to be all about MySpace, but in reality its all about other Fox Interactive properties, such as IGN."
By their own admission a leading UK telecoms company has deprived several charities of a legal revenue stream to line their own corporate pockets
No: they gave the charities some free advertising. The summary on wikileaks is completely FUBAR. Phorm paid for the space, and ran some targeted ads. If they couldn't find a suitable match they ran charity adverts as a default.
I don't like what Phorm are doing but let's not put up strawman complaints that they can slap down.
Since these books are hundreds and hundreds of years old and the current copyright term is 70 years after the death of the author (or less, depending on locaction), one can safely say that these books cannot be copyrighted.
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Maybe they are happier without needy technojerks on their flights.
Ryanair hate all their customers, it's not discriminatory.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you "easily plot" any 2D set of related numbers on an XY graph?
Sure, but consult a patent lawyer first.
Third, this stinks of "Hey listen to us! Then buy our antivirus."
It's an antivirus vendor blog FFS, what did you expect?
Why do so many of them end up as front-page stories? Don't ask me.
Than means that for approx 80% of the people they initially suspected, they were right!
No, it merely reflects that when the database was set up they only retained the DNA of convicted criminals.
December might not be the best time but I'd recommend a trip downriver on the River Thames. There's the Thames barrier, and Greenwich park, the National Maritime Museum. And surely no true geek can visit London without visiting the zero meridian.
If they did their time they'd be buried in a state-owned plot with a small placard to mark the spot and this whole discussion would be nonexistent.
Funny how some people, for all their preaching, have have a blind spot on the most essential human right of all.
Controversial? The only controversy is people who want to fly planes but are losing their jobs to video game nerds.
They are controversial because they are rather indiscriminate weapons; figures vary wildly but a midrange one would be that they kill about 10 civilians for each target killed. There's a tradeoff between killing terrorists and alienating the civilian population.
A Saturn car??? they still make those?? = )
No, a Saturn V. They haven't got all the bugs out of the Ares yet.
Surely the real question is: How many of the people who are using pirated copies would pay for a copy if the pirated copies were not available?
No, that's a different question, and one that is harder to measure. If you read the article, he doesn't assume that the revenue gain is significant.
If I were a games developer, I would be annoyed about the number of freeloaders too. That's just the breaks though.
Yeah and the whole world should be just like him!
You're misreading what he said, which is understandable with the number of negatives he used. He was making exactly the opposite point, which was that it was your business whether or not you programmed in your free time.
From Big Iron to VMs and dedicated Unix machines.
I don't care what part of the political spectrum you fall under, that's change we can all get behind.
Going from VM technology to VM technology - plus ça change (plus c'est la même chose).
Seriously, cameras in people's homes to make sure their kids are being "properly parented
Was an absurd made-up story, and hopefully always will remain so, no matter how many times it gets repeated.
It still doesn't make sense - if it's civil law, why isn't it done on the balance of probabilities (i.e., whichever side is more likely to be true), as is done for other civil cases?
It is on the balance of probabilities; that's why it's not such a big deal as some people are making out. That the court has to decide objectively whether the accusations are true or not is a more significant difference between US and UK law. If I make 10 defamatory statements, and 9 of them are true, and I'm mistaken on the tenth it's still libel.
I'd be interested to know how they're justifying this request to regulators and to the fee-paying public.
Since Ofcom _are_ the reguator, you can do the former by reading the letter.
In the end it's whether the content providers are bluffing, and really would refuse bids from the BBC for premium events if they refused to go along.
It's finally happening with cell phone service, too. It always galled me that I had a flat rate on a land line but had to pay minutes on a cell phone.
Personally, I prefer that I don't pay rental on my cell phone, just minutes: I don't make a lot of calls on it. I don't really get this idea that fixed price is always better.
This lady completely denied ever having this phone come into contact with water, even after my wife stated that she just saw her using it in the rain.
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Maybe Apple world is full of shiny, happy people and it never rains there; in my book, if you can't use a phone just because it happens to be raining, it's defective.
Source please?
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050001
I thought the CIA's policy was to netiher confirm nor deny.
Well then, call the Vice President's Office instead.
"What "free" music from Beethoven is that? Is there any place on the internet where you can legally download "free" music from Beethoven?"
The BBC made all Beethoven's symphonies available online in 2005, to howls of outrage from the music industry. Unfortunately, it was a time limited offer without redistribution rights. Still, they had well over a million downloads.
And that's why SuSE sucks, it still defaults to reiser.
It hasn't since about 2006 in the OpenSuSE versions. Their timing kind of sucked though, since the change was just after the stable Enterprise versions shipped.The $900 million wasn't just for MySpace though, so it's debateable what the value of the MySpace advertising was worth.
"The $900 million deal between News Corp. and Google might seem to be all about MySpace, but in reality its all about other Fox Interactive properties, such as IGN."
http://gigaom.com/2006/08/08/google-myspace/
The iPhone is NOT a traditional device, and no matter your opinion of Apple, you have to admit they changed the rules.
I don't even understand you, let alone agree with you. I just look at it, and think, "Wow, what a stupidly expensive phone!".
By their own admission a leading UK telecoms company has deprived several charities of a legal revenue stream to line their own corporate pockets
No: they gave the charities some free advertising. The summary on wikileaks is completely FUBAR. Phorm paid for the space, and ran some targeted ads. If they couldn't find a suitable match they ran charity adverts as a default.
I don't like what Phorm are doing but let's not put up strawman complaints that they can slap down.
For me it was when Hasbro was fined for anticompetitive practices, including price-fixing Monopoly.
Since these books are hundreds and hundreds of years old and the current copyright term is 70 years after the death of the author (or less, depending on locaction), one can safely say that these books cannot be copyrighted.
Actually, the King James is still copyright in the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version_of_the_Bible#Copyright_status