Legislate search queries? Are you kidding? Under what portion of the Constitution could you possibly justify legislating a search engine? Plus, getting the government involved with a marketplace is just a horrible idea. Why give the Fed the foothold in net neutrality the large ISP's have been looking for?
Raehl, you need to read the article before running off at this mouth, my man. The church didn't charge admission. Bars charge admission, but not the church. The only issue that the NFL had was that their projecting it on a 56" TV, which is an asinine aspect of this to get pissy about. This is just a matter of the NFL being a dick.
There is no theft here, only usage. That makes this distasteful, to say the least.
So RTFA and then you may spout non-sense, same as the rest of us.
Look, possession of a stolen object makes you culpable in the crime. Whether you stole it or not is irrelevant, it's still in your possession. Hence the "possession of a stolen object".
Not in this case, I'm afraid. Minerva Industries, Inc. is an unabashed patent troll. I don't think "making a point" is a part of their business plan. Working the patent system is. most certainly, a part of their business plan.
...it's not. FTA, "tip-off's" from anonymous correspondents (paragraph 8) and documents signed by un-named FBI officials (paragraph 4) does not lead me to believe in the veracity of the story. I gave up on conspiracy theories years ago when I realized that human nature doesn't lend itself to keeping secrets very well...particularly government officials.
You have got to be kidding? Did anyone, anyone at all, read the bloody agreement between MicroShaft and Novell? Anyone? No? Gee, what a friggin' surprise.
The deal was regarding compatibility issues. It was a good thing in that it insured MS having to work with the OSS community to enable software to be at least somewhat compatible between platforms. It has, in some respects, worked. Also, it's important to remember that it was an agreement made due to a court case (http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20061218045851480) that MS and Novell were involved in and strictly came about because of patent squabbles.
But who cares about the facts, right? It's just so much damn easier to assume that Novell sold their souls to the devil than to turn on the lights and read the small script. Geez..
From what I read yesterday he fessed up to it. They made a montage video and used it in the story. Hey, honesty may be the best policy but some actions have repercussions.
My. God. Really? Is this incredible twit back again preaching the same sermon but with different analogy's? He wasn't correct the first time he predicted this and, believe it or not, he's not right this time.
There will always be companies for whom technology isn't a differentiator to their core business. However, there will also be those companies for whom IT is viewed as a strategic tool that shouldn't be outsourced to someone who'll "just keep the lights on". To believe otherwise is just, well, silly.
So, please, Mr. Carr, silly walk your idiot self out the door and stop assuming you can predict the future of an entire industry. You're just not that smart.
I'm not a Linux fanboy, even though I use it. Conversely, I'm neither a Windows or OSX hater, though I don't use either one. The fact is this, I don't have a grand in US dollars to spend on a really pretty PC (Apple). I could, however, scrounge up enough spare parts from around and about to build my own PC. However, again, I didn't have a couple of hundred dollars, minimum, to buy an operating system and associated office software (Windows and Office). I did, though, have access to a broadband connection at a friends house who also owned a DVD burner.
Thusly, I have a really inexpensive PC with a damn good Linux distro (openSuSE) that provides me with everything I need while I pauper myself through college as a middle-aged white guy (MAWG).
If I pay for an internet connection, known as a service, and you use it without my consent or knowledge, that is theft. If someone were spliced into your electricity service and running up your monthly cost, trust me, you would view that as theft. So, to be really clear, you can steal a service.
Honestly, you have to be convinced of the logic of his argument?
http://www.med-help.net/DrugAbuse.htmlhttp://teens.drugabuse.gov/mom/tg_effects.asp
You want any more do a brief Google search.
Look, I used to...have a friend who was an abuser, years and years ago. There are any number of personal experiences...of his, where I saw an addict switching between crack and meth, then break out the Riddlin if that's what was around. An addict goes for the high, doesn't matter how he/she gets there.
Geez...
You're kidding, right? You used the statement "educational/vocational/agricultural training" in a tirade against the OLPC? Please, you simple man, think the thought through on your own...
...I'm tired of being reasonable. If Microsoft wants a cheap alternative to provide to developing countries tell 'em to better engineer their OS and hardware platform of choice (Classmate). Asking/demanding anything of a non-profit like OLPC is tasteless and tacky. Screw 'em.
No, they are a search company who has worked out a successful way to tie their core business to a viable method of generating a profit...oh, wait, that's what they're supposed to do! Geez-us, that they make money out of providing a necessary service is neither evil nor under-handed. What, exactly, would you have Google do? Because without cash you get no search, no blogs, no YouTube. A company has obligations to meet, especially to it's employee's and it's stockholders. You want it to be free and open with no type of editing or censoring? Start your own search company and run it solely out of pocket. Let me know how far you get.
Am I to assume that you meant ISS instead of IST? I don't mean to nitpick but I don't understand what you're referring to.
And my thought, for the record, is that NASA is as "steely eyed" as ever.
Great. We "Yanks" love you, too. Now, do you have an opinion of why ICANN shouldn't retain control of the domain registration? Or are you simply so one dimensional that the argument "American's suck!" is all you have? Please, give me a rational, intelligent reason for changing the process that's in place with regard to domain registration and I promise you that I'll pay it sincere attention.
You're kidding, right? You're generalizing an entire nation? That's very enlightened of you, A.C. Now, do you have anything to say that's relevant to ICANN having control of the domain registration?
Twit.
After reading the/. blurb and the article, and deciding I don't care if it's a hoax or not, I have but one thing to say;
AH-HAHAHAHAHA! That's freakin' funny!
Whacha.
Lighten up world. Please.
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Legislate search queries? Are you kidding? Under what portion of the Constitution could you possibly justify legislating a search engine? Plus, getting the government involved with a marketplace is just a horrible idea. Why give the Fed the foothold in net neutrality the large ISP's have been looking for?
Somewhere Eminem is looking around thinking, "There's been a change in the Force," and an RIAA lawyer just started twitching.
Raehl, you need to read the article before running off at this mouth, my man. The church didn't charge admission. Bars charge admission, but not the church. The only issue that the NFL had was that their projecting it on a 56" TV, which is an asinine aspect of this to get pissy about. This is just a matter of the NFL being a dick.
There is no theft here, only usage. That makes this distasteful, to say the least.
So RTFA and then you may spout non-sense, same as the rest of us.
YES, YES, YES...hey, that's what she said!
Look, possession of a stolen object makes you culpable in the crime. Whether you stole it or not is irrelevant, it's still in your possession. Hence the "possession of a stolen object".
Not in this case, I'm afraid. Minerva Industries, Inc. is an unabashed patent troll. I don't think "making a point" is a part of their business plan. Working the patent system is. most certainly, a part of their business plan.
Wow, 17 gbs of pubescent girls doing the "Blue Steel" face. What a mind numbingly waste of bandwidth and time.
...it's not. FTA, "tip-off's" from anonymous correspondents (paragraph 8) and documents signed by un-named FBI officials (paragraph 4) does not lead me to believe in the veracity of the story. I gave up on conspiracy theories years ago when I realized that human nature doesn't lend itself to keeping secrets very well...particularly government officials.
Well, screw it, I'll go completely off-topic; can you be any more bitchy, JSM? Just wondering.
Aww, look, the Anonymous Coward has an idiot opinion to share! Wait, speak slowly, moron, so that we can understand you.
You have got to be kidding? Did anyone, anyone at all, read the bloody agreement between MicroShaft and Novell? Anyone? No? Gee, what a friggin' surprise.
The deal was regarding compatibility issues. It was a good thing in that it insured MS having to work with the OSS community to enable software to be at least somewhat compatible between platforms. It has, in some respects, worked. Also, it's important to remember that it was an agreement made due to a court case (http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20061218045851480) that MS and Novell were involved in and strictly came about because of patent squabbles.
But who cares about the facts, right? It's just so much damn easier to assume that Novell sold their souls to the devil than to turn on the lights and read the small script. Geez..
From what I read yesterday he fessed up to it. They made a montage video and used it in the story. Hey, honesty may be the best policy but some actions have repercussions.
My. God. Really? Is this incredible twit back again preaching the same sermon but with different analogy's? He wasn't correct the first time he predicted this and, believe it or not, he's not right this time.
There will always be companies for whom technology isn't a differentiator to their core business. However, there will also be those companies for whom IT is viewed as a strategic tool that shouldn't be outsourced to someone who'll "just keep the lights on". To believe otherwise is just, well, silly.
So, please, Mr. Carr, silly walk your idiot self out the door and stop assuming you can predict the future of an entire industry. You're just not that smart.
I'm not a Linux fanboy, even though I use it. Conversely, I'm neither a Windows or OSX hater, though I don't use either one. The fact is this, I don't have a grand in US dollars to spend on a really pretty PC (Apple). I could, however, scrounge up enough spare parts from around and about to build my own PC. However, again, I didn't have a couple of hundred dollars, minimum, to buy an operating system and associated office software (Windows and Office). I did, though, have access to a broadband connection at a friends house who also owned a DVD burner.
Thusly, I have a really inexpensive PC with a damn good Linux distro (openSuSE) that provides me with everything I need while I pauper myself through college as a middle-aged white guy (MAWG).
So, to Apple and Microsoft; bite me.
I'm just saying...
If I pay for an internet connection, known as a service, and you use it without my consent or knowledge, that is theft. If someone were spliced into your electricity service and running up your monthly cost, trust me, you would view that as theft. So, to be really clear, you can steal a service.
Honestly, you have to be convinced of the logic of his argument? http://www.med-help.net/DrugAbuse.html http://teens.drugabuse.gov/mom/tg_effects.asp You want any more do a brief Google search. Look, I used to...have a friend who was an abuser, years and years ago. There are any number of personal experiences...of his, where I saw an addict switching between crack and meth, then break out the Riddlin if that's what was around. An addict goes for the high, doesn't matter how he/she gets there.
Yes. Yes it does. Succinctly and correctly. Thank you. For everyone else who wants to buck up and "fight the man", get a friggin' grip. Please.
Geez... You're kidding, right? You used the statement "educational/vocational/agricultural training" in a tirade against the OLPC? Please, you simple man, think the thought through on your own...
...I'm tired of being reasonable. If Microsoft wants a cheap alternative to provide to developing countries tell 'em to better engineer their OS and hardware platform of choice (Classmate). Asking/demanding anything of a non-profit like OLPC is tasteless and tacky. Screw 'em.
No, they are a search company who has worked out a successful way to tie their core business to a viable method of generating a profit...oh, wait, that's what they're supposed to do! Geez-us, that they make money out of providing a necessary service is neither evil nor under-handed. What, exactly, would you have Google do? Because without cash you get no search, no blogs, no YouTube. A company has obligations to meet, especially to it's employee's and it's stockholders. You want it to be free and open with no type of editing or censoring? Start your own search company and run it solely out of pocket. Let me know how far you get.
Why, thank you, flamebait, for that absolutely worthless contribution to the discussion...idiot.
Am I to assume that you meant ISS instead of IST? I don't mean to nitpick but I don't understand what you're referring to. And my thought, for the record, is that NASA is as "steely eyed" as ever.
Great. We "Yanks" love you, too. Now, do you have an opinion of why ICANN shouldn't retain control of the domain registration? Or are you simply so one dimensional that the argument "American's suck!" is all you have? Please, give me a rational, intelligent reason for changing the process that's in place with regard to domain registration and I promise you that I'll pay it sincere attention.
You're kidding, right? You're generalizing an entire nation? That's very enlightened of you, A.C. Now, do you have anything to say that's relevant to ICANN having control of the domain registration? Twit.
You know, this sounds an awful lot like the book Prey by Michael Crichton.
After reading the /. blurb and the article, and deciding I don't care if it's a hoax or not, I have but one thing to say;
AH-HAHAHAHAHA! That's freakin' funny!
Whacha.
Lighten up world. Please.