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I wonder if they employ psychologists?
They employ multiple psychologists, each specializing in different areas of operation. This can be a huge help when attempting to understand why customers, partners, and employees behave the way they do. Add in the fact that by employing a large number of highly intelligent people, their employee population undoubtedly has a higher than average number of people with certain personality imbalances. It comes with the territory.
I can't disagree with the premise of your argument. Companies should be held accountable for their actions.
That said, I'd really like to see a bar graph with two values on it, one for the amount of IP theft perpetrated by US-based companies, and one for IP theft perpetrated by Chinese firms. I imagine in might look something like this.
Of course it does. The difference is primarily that you don't get yourself locked into a single platform for years to come that winds up costing a small fortune in licensing fees, and your overhead for managing the systems is lower over that period as well. I've worked on both sides of this equation for over a decade.
This is business as usual for governments and Microsoft. The government in question threatens to roll out an open source solution to a large number of machines, problems magically pop up early in the deployment, and Microsoft pitches their solution for next to nothing in upfront costs. Note that the ongoing costs of managing the deployment down the road are virtually never considered, and the taxpayers wind up getting screwed with a "solution" that eats up enormous amounts of money in overhead, future licensing fees, and security issues.
Crap, now I've gotta chug as many of these vodka and Red Bull drinks as possible before the health inspector bursts in... better tell the bartender my home address now so she can tell the cabbie where I live later.
Thank you very much for voicing your views on this matter. I strongly suspect there are a lot of Germans who agree with your position. The fact that something makes its way into law doesn't necessarily mean a majority of the citizens think it's a good idea. That fact seems to have been conveniently forgotten by many posters who've been running around claiming that Germans support this nonsense.
Here's the deal: it is the law here in the United States, and I am under absolutely no obligation to honor German laws on this matter.
Once again, if a newspaper reports on a conviction of any kind, I can go back through their archives two decades later and still read about it. You can argue all you want about you THINK freedom of speech should be... fact is, that doesn't make you right.
The entire point of archival services like 301Works is to prevent link rot. From the article:
Participating companies will provide regular backups of their URL mappings to the 301Works.org service. In the event of the closure of a participating organization, technical control of the shortening service domain will be transferred to 301Works.org in order to continue redirecting existing shortened URLs to their intended destinations.
Proper handling of the final destination of these links is the responsibility of webmasters operating the targeted sites. Competent operators use HTTP redirection to correctly handle outdated inbound links. Failure to do so in the case of shortened URLs causes no additional problems beyond those caused by people attempting to use the original links.
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I wonder if they employ psychologists?
They employ multiple psychologists, each specializing in different areas of operation. This can be a huge help when attempting to understand why customers, partners, and employees behave the way they do. Add in the fact that by employing a large number of highly intelligent people, their employee population undoubtedly has a higher than average number of people with certain personality imbalances. It comes with the territory.
I can't disagree with the premise of your argument. Companies should be held accountable for their actions.
That said, I'd really like to see a bar graph with two values on it, one for the amount of IP theft perpetrated by US-based companies, and one for IP theft perpetrated by Chinese firms. I imagine in might look something like this.
Holy crap, that sucks.
Where was Linux desktop and driver support 10 years ago?
That's funny. Go ahead and install Ubuntu on and given system and watch in utter disbelief as everything "just works."
Oh, what's that? You haven't actually used Linux in ten years? Well, that would explain your stupidity.
While I agree with your sentiment, there's no parallel between the example cited and the current discussion.
It's making news because it's an approach that actually has mass-market appeal.
I nominate this post as one of the most informative posts ever made to Slashdot.
Of course it does. The difference is primarily that you don't get yourself locked into a single platform for years to come that winds up costing a small fortune in licensing fees, and your overhead for managing the systems is lower over that period as well. I've worked on both sides of this equation for over a decade.
This is business as usual for governments and Microsoft. The government in question threatens to roll out an open source solution to a large number of machines, problems magically pop up early in the deployment, and Microsoft pitches their solution for next to nothing in upfront costs. Note that the ongoing costs of managing the deployment down the road are virtually never considered, and the taxpayers wind up getting screwed with a "solution" that eats up enormous amounts of money in overhead, future licensing fees, and security issues.
My idea of the what the rights should be applies to the Germans who are able to see the copies I posted myself:
Walter Sedlmayr (German translation)
Walter Sedlmayr (English)
There's nothing the Germans authorities can do about it, either.
Sir, I salute you.
That's easily determined. I keep a note in my wallet to that effect, along with a note on my iPhone.
I've honestly got to ask how you know this...
I was going for "+-1, WTF" but your mod suggestion works, too.
Crap, now I've gotta chug as many of these vodka and Red Bull drinks as possible before the health inspector bursts in... better tell the bartender my home address now so she can tell the cabbie where I live later.
I'm sorry, but there are better methods for rickrolling than using generic URL shortening sites.
Thank you very much for voicing your views on this matter. I strongly suspect there are a lot of Germans who agree with your position. The fact that something makes its way into law doesn't necessarily mean a majority of the citizens think it's a good idea. That fact seems to have been conveniently forgotten by many posters who've been running around claiming that Germans support this nonsense.
s/your mom/urmom/
;). Urmom is kind of a cultish thing around my office.
Fixed that for ya
You definitely appear to be ethanol fueled this evening ;).
[insert Chuck Norris joke here]
There's already one rule 34 response to your comment; I anticipate more are on the way.
I bet life forms from these environments would be really hot.
Here's the deal: it is the law here in the United States, and I am under absolutely no obligation to honor German laws on this matter.
Once again, if a newspaper reports on a conviction of any kind, I can go back through their archives two decades later and still read about it. You can argue all you want about you THINK freedom of speech should be... fact is, that doesn't make you right.
Participating companies will provide regular backups of their URL mappings to the 301Works.org service. In the event of the closure of a participating organization, technical control of the shortening service domain will be transferred to 301Works.org in order to continue redirecting existing shortened URLs to their intended destinations.
Proper handling of the final destination of these links is the responsibility of webmasters operating the targeted sites. Competent operators use HTTP redirection to correctly handle outdated inbound links. Failure to do so in the case of shortened URLs causes no additional problems beyond those caused by people attempting to use the original links.
You may indeed be right; it would be difficult to make him disappear as long as he's something of a celebrity. It would look bad, at the very least.