Illegal or not i'll do whatever i want with my phone. I may as well take a hammer and test its screen, oh wait, is that illegal too? Patents, IP, copyright, SOPA, PIPA, lawsuits.. fuck them
I dont know MediaFire's business, but could someone clarify this for me - is a company that sells storage obligated to keep an eye on its clients' files for copyright infringement?
Politicians being bribed by industries? Is this news? That's the essence of most democracies. Anyway IMO this petition scheme is only used to create the illusion to the people that they can participate in the government and change something for the better. They even made up a term for this, its called "electronic government". Well it takes more than a few thousand signatures or facebook groups or whatever you call it, to trigger an investigation on a senator (former or not). Probably a lobby with more power and influence (aka money) than the RIAA/MPAA combined ? Now that would be a good start.
Considering that we live in a galaxy with ~400 billion stars and there billions of other similar galaxies out there, our solar system is not "so special" for sure!
In a sane justice system this lawsuit would be rejected the moment it was filed. Has Kodak been living in a different universe for the last 5 or six years? If i recall correctly all those violating products have been in the market for some time now
Opponents of the bill include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, DynDNS, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Mozilla Corporation, the Wikimedia Foundation and human rights organizations such as Reporters Without Borders the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU, and Human Rights Watch.
Forget for a moment mozilla, wikipedia or the other non-profit organizations - with all those companies (amazon, yahoo, facebook, google) opposing SOPA, isn't it very weird that this proposed law hasn't been canceled already? Does the MPAA/RIAA block have more lobby-power than all those companies combined?
You can be interested in career opportunities like for example as a consultant or part time partner..Who the fuck are they to say what you can and can't do in your spare time anyway? There's either a very misleading article summary here or a very very stupid employer. If its the latter, then what's up next? 24/7/365 surveillance of their employees? I hope he wins this case.
THIS.
Anti-doping is a joke. Every single athlete that competes in word-class level is on drugs one way or another. Or if he isn't NOW, he will be in a few years when another scandal erupts and he gets stripped of his medals (Marion Jones is the brightest example). This anti-doping hypocrisy must stop, if the athletes want to risk their health for world records and money, well let them have it, its their choice.
My first thought was that this could be "easy money" for any company that buys such an insurance. But OTOH the insurance companies will probably want a minimum set of specifications or even access to the client's firewalls, systems etc. This is going to be interesting
I was about to post the exact same thing. According to the article
The DOE foresees that this sort of software could play a vital role in smart grids, in which millions of energy consuming end-devices would have connectivity of some sort.
What a load of crap. These "new programs" sound more like a high school or an open source project. Since when a government agency cares about a Unix admin's toolbox so much that decides to fund something that could (and probably already has) been solved with a script. wtf?
The story is 6 months old and there have been no updates from Appleaday since though there's been plenty of news stories about it. A good advertisement you say, hmmm.
Do you happen to live in Luxemburg? It might was a good ad for the local community there anyway
I hope the owners of the restaurant stand their ground and take the case to the courts.
nevertheless this case is a pretty good advertisement for their business
I had one idiot shine his fucking keychain laser at my face at a fucking bar. The "average person" with a laser pointer is a fucking menace.
At a bar? Thats kids play. Once while I was taking a turn on my *motorcycle*, somewhere from the deep dark ahead a laser emerged pointing right at my helmet's visor. Pretty fucked up people indeed.
I use perl for my daily tasks (scripts etc) at work and this "forgiving syntax" has been a time saver.. imho perl is (or should be) just an administrator's tool, nothing more. And yes, its true that reading someone else's code is usually a bad experience and you probably end up writing the program yourself from scratch
No, because taking out a dictator in the absence of a local revolutionary force to combat the regime means that we have to not just take out the dictator but the rest of their military and government ourselves, so we become occupiers that hope to eventually hand the country back to its own people. You know, like in Iraq.
Like I already said above in my reply to ArcherB's comment, we could have easily taken out Gaddafi when he officially visited France in 2007 and Italy in 2009 (both countries are NATO allies). What we are talking about here is a Dictator with whom the western world had *officially* very good diplomatic relationships during the past years. Sarkozy & Berlusconi condemning Gaddafi as an oppressor while 2 years earlier they were welcoming him in their countries as an ally is hypocrisy at least. They could have at least waited a few more years like the US did with Saddam (another ex-ally of the west) so that the rest of the world forgot about it. Unfortunately for them, now we have Google:P
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Illegal or not i'll do whatever i want with my phone. I may as well take a hammer and test its screen, oh wait, is that illegal too? Patents, IP, copyright, SOPA, PIPA, lawsuits.. fuck them
...but then i took an arrow to the knee
I dont know MediaFire's business, but could someone clarify this for me - is a company that sells storage obligated to keep an eye on its clients' files for copyright infringement?
At first i thought this was about RON Paul. Now that would be fun to watch
Politicians being bribed by industries? Is this news? That's the essence of most democracies. Anyway IMO this petition scheme is only used to create the illusion to the people that they can participate in the government and change something for the better. They even made up a term for this, its called "electronic government". Well it takes more than a few thousand signatures or facebook groups or whatever you call it, to trigger an investigation on a senator (former or not). Probably a lobby with more power and influence (aka money) than the RIAA/MPAA combined ? Now that would be a good start.
Microsoft sues Samsung for Windows patent infringement
PIPA is the greek word for "blowjob"
Considering that we live in a galaxy with ~400 billion stars and there billions of other similar galaxies out there, our solar system is not "so special" for sure!
In a sane justice system this lawsuit would be rejected the moment it was filed. Has Kodak been living in a different universe for the last 5 or six years? If i recall correctly all those violating products have been in the market for some time now
Why do companies shoot themselves in their feet? I don't know, but companies do it all the time.
We should probably just ask HP
and do this in Antarctica where the weather conditions will be much more harsh than in the desert
Opponents of the bill include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, DynDNS, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Mozilla Corporation, the Wikimedia Foundation and human rights organizations such as Reporters Without Borders the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU, and Human Rights Watch.
Forget for a moment mozilla, wikipedia or the other non-profit organizations - with all those companies (amazon, yahoo, facebook, google) opposing SOPA, isn't it very weird that this proposed law hasn't been canceled already? Does the MPAA/RIAA block have more lobby-power than all those companies combined?
You can be interested in career opportunities like for example as a consultant or part time partner..Who the fuck are they to say what you can and can't do in your spare time anyway? There's either a very misleading article summary here or a very very stupid employer. If its the latter, then what's up next? 24/7/365 surveillance of their employees? I hope he wins this case.
THIS. Anti-doping is a joke. Every single athlete that competes in word-class level is on drugs one way or another. Or if he isn't NOW, he will be in a few years when another scandal erupts and he gets stripped of his medals (Marion Jones is the brightest example). This anti-doping hypocrisy must stop, if the athletes want to risk their health for world records and money, well let them have it, its their choice.
My first thought was that this could be "easy money" for any company that buys such an insurance. But OTOH the insurance companies will probably want a minimum set of specifications or even access to the client's firewalls, systems etc. This is going to be interesting
The DOE foresees that this sort of software could play a vital role in smart grids, in which millions of energy consuming end-devices would have connectivity of some sort.
What a load of crap. These "new programs" sound more like a high school or an open source project. Since when a government agency cares about a Unix admin's toolbox so much that decides to fund something that could (and probably already has) been solved with a script. wtf?
This. Bring Steam on Linux and i'll gladly delete the windows partition.
The story is 6 months old and there have been no updates from Appleaday since though there's been plenty of news stories about it. A good advertisement you say, hmmm.
Do you happen to live in Luxemburg? It might was a good ad for the local community there anyway
I hope the owners of the restaurant stand their ground and take the case to the courts. nevertheless this case is a pretty good advertisement for their business
WTF?
Smartphones & tablets? Oh they better have good lawyers
I had one idiot shine his fucking keychain laser at my face at a fucking bar. The "average person" with a laser pointer is a fucking menace.
At a bar? Thats kids play. Once while I was taking a turn on my *motorcycle*, somewhere from the deep dark ahead a laser emerged pointing right at my helmet's visor. Pretty fucked up people indeed.
I use perl for my daily tasks (scripts etc) at work and this "forgiving syntax" has been a time saver.. imho perl is (or should be) just an administrator's tool, nothing more. And yes, its true that reading someone else's code is usually a bad experience and you probably end up writing the program yourself from scratch
Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools
1) patent
2) lawsuit
3) profit!
No, because taking out a dictator in the absence of a local revolutionary force to combat the regime means that we have to not just take out the dictator but the rest of their military and government ourselves, so we become occupiers that hope to eventually hand the country back to its own people. You know, like in Iraq.
Like I already said above in my reply to ArcherB's comment, we could have easily taken out Gaddafi when he officially visited France in 2007 and Italy in 2009 (both countries are NATO allies). What we are talking about here is a Dictator with whom the western world had *officially* very good diplomatic relationships during the past years. Sarkozy & Berlusconi condemning Gaddafi as an oppressor while 2 years earlier they were welcoming him in their countries as an ally is hypocrisy at least. They could have at least waited a few more years like the US did with Saddam (another ex-ally of the west) so that the rest of the world forgot about it. Unfortunately for them, now we have Google :P