...it wasn't just the shape of the tablet/phone it was about the overall deliberate copying that Samsung did.
Oh yeah? Well then, how come the courts in the UK and in The Netherlands found that Samsung DIDN'T copy Apple? Is it because the jury in the US is the only group of 12 people that "gets it"?
Fucking Apple fanboi moderation is in full force: every single post in agreement with the GP was modded down, including the one I'm replying to (moderated as "Troll", no less).
The Protocols is a fabricated document purporting to be factual. It was originally produced in Russia between 1897 and 1903, possibly by Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky, head of the Paris office of the Russian Secret Police, and unknown others.[2][3]
If we do become a space faring people to future generations he will likely be the best remembered American. Name anyone that accomplished anything greater in the last 200+ years?
Nikola Tesla
And I say this with the utmost fondness for Armstrong and manned spaceflight. I also say this as one who was too young at the time, to witness the landings on the moon.
Wikileaks was neither investigative nor journalism. It was a data dump of sensitive information. Anyone that doesnt know the difference, such as apparently yourself, can offer no opinion that would be worth consuming on the subject. You are already too far gone to have any real grasp of reality.
This is a straw man as big as a house! The GP never said that WikiLeaks was investigative or journalism.
Nobody is truly arguing that breaking copyright is ok.
I am. I'm a researcher, and copyrights have been nothing but a tool for publishers to beat me and my colleagues over the head and collect profits. So I hate them. Copyrights got absolutely NOTHING good for the common person (that includes us, scientists).
Let me be clear: I support licenses (especially CC-style licenses), because giving credit where it is due, is important. But copyrights? Fuck those.
I don't know that Microsoft would strong-arm people to use Win8. MS was spreading quite a bit of FUD on how great Vista was, but the adoption was/is dismal. Still, MS didn't use more nefarious tactics to force people to adopt it.
Time will tell, I guess. Let's return to this discussion a year and a half from now:)
In my view, building a museum to Tesla is important, so the actual genius, vision and true importance for humankind (Tesla) is highlighted, versus the treachery and deviousness that gets you riches (Edison).
The way I see it, this museum is not only going to educate people about what Tesla did for us all, how he enabled the modern society of the West, how he made life easier, what kind of thinker and innovator he was. No, for me this museum will also be a big "Fuck you Edison".
...but this story to me reads as a "Man does not like thing." fluff piece.
Maybe there's more to it. Let me try: even a politician (who, on average, seem to be utterly clueless on technology) realizes that Apples walled garden is a bad thing.
Even Shell or Exxon aren't really comparable enterprises.
Shell or Exxon aren't, but Saudi Aramco definitely is. I remember a story one of my professsors told us during a class on enterpreneurship (in the scientific field): he was working on a project for Saudi Aramco, and the price of petrol was temporarily down. He asked one of his superiors if that was causing them a problem. The answer "nah, this is only an issue for the small guys, like Shell."
I think it's very likely that this is an extension of America and Israels war against Iran, targeting their industrial/economic infrastructure instead of just uranium enrichment. The MO matches that of Stuxnet and we know that they're rather careless about letting their creations escape and cause havoc outside the intended targets. The stories we saw recently about code encrypted under a hash of various file paths sounds strongly like it was intended to match an unknown computer that performs a specific function, rather than a specific computer that was already reconned, otherwise the key could just be a hash of the HDD serial numbers/MAC addresses or other things that are less likely to change. One can imagine that the target computer might be inside an Arabic speaking oil refinery. Typically these refineries and facilities are built by a small number of western contractors. One can also imagine that computers meeting the target configurations exist not only in Iranian facilities but also other countries.
Iran is not an Arabic country, Iranians are not Arabs, they do not speak Arabic - they speak Farsi. It's a completely different language, and while they do use a version of the Arabic script, the words are completely different and folders, paths etc. will be likewise entirely different between an Iranian and an Arab installation.
While I'm a rather happy pirate and pirate supporter, I don't think you can quite count it as "merely linking" if you actively source pirated material to link to. The flimsy excuse the pirate bay has for instance is that it's "just an indexing site" and can just as happily be used for legal material...
The site in question was indeed linking to also non-pirated material. I guess that kinda destroys your entire point.
Slashdot Mirror
You got Apple dictating what is and what isn't acceptable to be sold in the US. Now you'll have to smuggle the goods from the rest of the world.
Fucking pathetic!
....where people can afford to buy the highest tech available anywhere in the world, and that tech is actually manufactured there!
Only because there is no category for stupid.
Then it is in the right category ;) (Apple)
These could have been MeeGo phones, with QT and the nice UI from Nokia N9.
I guess MS would have none of that.
How does it limit customer choice?
Banning a product from the US market limits customer choice by the fact that the US customers cannot buy the banned product, DUH!
I actually feel a bit dirty even to try and clarify this to you; the question itself is utterly moronic.
...it wasn't just the shape of the tablet/phone it was about the overall deliberate copying that Samsung did.
Oh yeah? Well then, how come the courts in the UK and in The Netherlands found that Samsung DIDN'T copy Apple? Is it because the jury in the US is the only group of 12 people that "gets it"?
And I *love* socks.
Please tell us more.
Fucking Apple fanboi moderation is in full force: every single post in agreement with the GP was modded down, including the one I'm replying to (moderated as "Troll", no less).
Soviets Sponsor Spread of AIDS Disinformation
A Soviet political warfare manual comments on 'socialist education'
Soviet methods did not spare their allies.
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police
Add to this: Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
The Protocols is a fabricated document purporting to be factual. It was originally produced in Russia between 1897 and 1903, possibly by Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky, head of the Paris office of the Russian Secret Police, and unknown others.[2][3]
If we do become a space faring people to future generations he will likely be the best remembered American. Name anyone that accomplished anything greater in the last 200+ years?
Nikola Tesla
And I say this with the utmost fondness for Armstrong and manned spaceflight. I also say this as one who was too young at the time, to witness the landings on the moon.
Wikileaks was neither investigative nor journalism. It was a data dump of sensitive information. Anyone that doesnt know the difference, such as apparently yourself, can offer no opinion that would be worth consuming on the subject. You are already too far gone to have any real grasp of reality.
This is a straw man as big as a house! The GP never said that WikiLeaks was investigative or journalism.
Where do we find companies that have respect for user/consumer rights
In the past.
Not many, to be sure, but some where such. The old Nokia, for instance, the one before Kallasvuo.
If I were more cynical, I'd think you wrote the AC comment you're replying to.
My feelings are hurt.
Nobody is truly arguing that breaking copyright is ok.
I am. I'm a researcher, and copyrights have been nothing but a tool for publishers to beat me and my colleagues over the head and collect profits. So I hate them. Copyrights got absolutely NOTHING good for the common person (that includes us, scientists).
Let me be clear: I support licenses (especially CC-style licenses), because giving credit where it is due, is important. But copyrights? Fuck those.
I don't know that Microsoft would strong-arm people to use Win8. MS was spreading quite a bit of FUD on how great Vista was, but the adoption was/is dismal. Still, MS didn't use more nefarious tactics to force people to adopt it.
Time will tell, I guess. Let's return to this discussion a year and a half from now :)
In my view, building a museum to Tesla is important, so the actual genius, vision and true importance for humankind (Tesla) is highlighted, versus the treachery and deviousness that gets you riches (Edison).
The way I see it, this museum is not only going to educate people about what Tesla did for us all, how he enabled the modern society of the West, how he made life easier, what kind of thinker and innovator he was. No, for me this museum will also be a big "Fuck you Edison".
...but this story to me reads as a "Man does not like thing." fluff piece.
Maybe there's more to it. Let me try: even a politician (who, on average, seem to be utterly clueless on technology) realizes that Apples walled garden is a bad thing.
The vast majority of computer users do, in fact, want to run Windows.
That's true.
But does the vast majority of computer users want to run Windows 8 ?
Even Shell or Exxon aren't really comparable enterprises.
Shell or Exxon aren't, but Saudi Aramco definitely is. I remember a story one of my professsors told us during a class on enterpreneurship (in the scientific field): he was working on a project for Saudi Aramco, and the price of petrol was temporarily down. He asked one of his superiors if that was causing them a problem. The answer "nah, this is only an issue for the small guys, like Shell."
How do Nordic countries afford to have all those amenities and MUCH more (like free higher education for all), without having major problems?
That's right: by taxing the rich.
I think it's very likely that this is an extension of America and Israels war against Iran, targeting their industrial/economic infrastructure instead of just uranium enrichment. The MO matches that of Stuxnet and we know that they're rather careless about letting their creations escape and cause havoc outside the intended targets. The stories we saw recently about code encrypted under a hash of various file paths sounds strongly like it was intended to match an unknown computer that performs a specific function, rather than a specific computer that was already reconned, otherwise the key could just be a hash of the HDD serial numbers/MAC addresses or other things that are less likely to change. One can imagine that the target computer might be inside an Arabic speaking oil refinery. Typically these refineries and facilities are built by a small number of western contractors. One can also imagine that computers meeting the target configurations exist not only in Iranian facilities but also other countries.
Iran is not an Arabic country, Iranians are not Arabs, they do not speak Arabic - they speak Farsi. It's a completely different language, and while they do use a version of the Arabic script, the words are completely different and folders, paths etc. will be likewise entirely different between an Iranian and an Arab installation.
oblig: Both Sides
The most civilized nation on Eaarth just sentenced to 4 years in jail a guy for operating a website with links to copyrighted material.
Fuck you, UK:
It's true -- some people do prefer 7" over 9".
I guess I could work in a "Or vagina" joke here, somehow, but I'm lazy.
While I'm a rather happy pirate and pirate supporter, I don't think you can quite count it as "merely linking" if you actively source pirated material to link to. The flimsy excuse the pirate bay has for instance is that it's "just an indexing site" and can just as happily be used for legal material...
The site in question was indeed linking to also non-pirated material. I guess that kinda destroys your entire point.