No, they'll just be cruising through stop signs and red lights, or going down the lane against traffic further from home. You have an interesting idea, assuming it can generate enough juice to drive a car even a few miles, but it doesn't deal with the moronically suicidal asshats that make up far too large of a percentage of the bicyclists. (Hope you have a lower percentage than we do, I'd say ours is about 80%.)
I've seen it happen at a software company. They have a Knowledge Base that the technicians recorded every solution, the causes, and any fixes that we could find. There was a bit of duplication of entries due to some issues being described or even experienced improperly, not to mention the occasional insufficient or improper use of keywords and descriptions. Some higher up got the bright idea of merging the duplicate documents to save storage space. That was fine. Then they decided to expand it to eliminate entries that hadn't been accessed in 6 months or longer. That was moronic. Sure enough, it wasn't long before it turned around and bit us in the backside. But management wouldn't budge. They refused to restore the old documents, even when it was on something we now needed, nor would they stop deleting stuff that hadn't been accessed for a while. To add insult to injury, they would then use the count of how many documents you had in the KB against you if it wasn't high enough. Well, Soandso, you only have 120 documents, why should I listen to you instead of Otherguy, he's got 14657 documents and is in charge of the KB cleanup. You see, the guys doing the KB cleanup and deduplication were going through all the documents and replacing the owner/creator names with their own so they could bloat their own credit, and management (at least the part I had to deal with) was too stupid to understand this. I have no idea how they rationalized that somebody who'd only worked for the company for less than 2 years could have written thousands of documents that were over 4 years old.
Yes, in a somewhat different form, this probably affects all companies in one way or another.
We have a lot of divergent lifeforms from what was taught when I was little. They used to say nothing could survive in the vacuum of space, the bottom of the ocean, in geysers, highly acidic conditions and so many other places. If they knew about the oceanic geothermal vents (like the black smokers) back then, they'd have sworn they would be lifeless. Now of course, we have the entire category of Extremophiles that live in those very places and conditions.
Additionally, we have lifeforms that have copper based blood instead of iron, ones that respire sulfur instead oxygen, and diatoms build their skeletons/shells/cell walls out of silica. And now they may have found one that exchanges its phospates for deadly arsenic and lives.
All in all, there are significant portions of life on this world that was considered science fiction several decades ago. Does that mean it's possible that life in other parts of the universe can be very different than ours? Sort of. It means that our understanding of what is necessary for life is incomplete due to our exposure to only our own type of biology. There may be very strange biochemistry out there, but most of it that we might recognize as life will probably be similar to ours. (That's the biochemistry, not the form, or if intelligent, culture.)
A aerial reconnaissance is not an attack, much less a first strike by any definition. Sure it's pisses off the target, and is subject to being shot down, but nobody considers it an act of war, that takes killing somebody or capturing/taking something/somewhere. For that matter, until either the other side admits to losing the drone, or Iran coughs it up to a recognized 3rd party, like the UN for example, it's just propaganda on Irans part. I've seen the B.S. propaganda countries will say in an attempt to gain leverage. Remember the whole USA bombing Libya back in the 80s? I remember them showing an "unexploded bomb" that was actually only part of a high drag fin that wasn't even used in that operation. They also claimed bombing of civilian neighborhoods and showed photos of an area covered with potholes, but the bombs the USA used were larger than most of the potholes themselves and would have leveled the area instead of making potholes. Those holes, if they were caused during that incident, would have been from their own SAM falling down on the city due to stupidity in both the shooters (don't shoot into your own city), and the missile designers (on a miss, it should have self destructed).
I don't care what side you want to take (or not), but when it comes to countries and their propensity for propaganda, don't believe word of mouth, demand proof. (Something which the article doesn't provide any of.)
Ok, so I agree with some of their targets, even if I don't agree with their methods, but this one is different. Yes, the big banks need to be brought to heel. So they want to do it by stealing money from people. The people they are stealing the money from are the customers, not the company, banks issue credit cards, not use them. Sure, the people can dispute the charges, but that doesn't always work, and then who gets screwed, either way, it's not the bank. Now for all those false charges that get reversed, that's money the charity sort of had, and then had it taken away. That's going to be a real pain in the neck for them and their accountants, and if there's enough of them, it's going to cost them enough money to cause problems. (That's problems for the charities, not the banks.)
Yeah, real well thought out, punish the other victims, even if they aren't too bright, oh, and smack around the charities while you're at it. Try thinking these things through before going of half cocked.
True, but now that their stupidity is out in the open, rather than admit to it and correct the mistake, they instead tell the people they've been jacking around to shut up and worship me or I will take my ball and go home. That still qualifies as stupidity, but I think corporate malice lies at its root as well.
A few years back some researchers (Australian?) accidentally made an infector much much more dangerous. That's why the scientist need to share this data. It's so they can understand this process and use that knowledge to defeat diseases. It's like getting over a canyon a persistent but ignorant person can eventually succeed by throwing rocks at it till it fills up, but an engineer can design and build a bridge in a fraction of the time and resources. With regards to the fears of terrorists, it's not a high probability, most of them wouldn't have the vaguest idea what to do with that information, the few that are left know enough to not be stupid enough to release a superplague on the planet. Your biggest worry should be the Military making a superplague, and being stupid enough to let someone dumb enough to use it actually get access to some of it.
If you stop research because you are afraid that terrorists might use it, you would have to stop all research of any kind.
Targets are easy, and there is no viable way to protect them all. Anyone who's played a lot of the in depth strategy games would know that. For example, this last black friday would make a fantastic terrorist targeting opportunity. I can't see that kind of 'security' garbage being implemented at every major store/sale in the country, can you. Of course, you could also target a public pool during a hot summer, that'll get a couple hundred people easy. For that matter, why wait till conditions are good, make your own. If you're in a big city, use facebook, twitter, and other things to set up a really huge flashmob, right to your pre-arranged and boobytrapped killingfield. Heck, you could even post the film to youtube for extra awefulness.
You can bet the terrorists have thought of all of these and many other far more devious things. Although it's true that you need to think of things like this to be able to combat it, the problem is there are too many possibilities to cope with. Security needs to be of the soft variety the quietly watches out for abnormal activities. Hard security needs to be placed at infrastructure critical points, and sorry, but civilian passenger flight terminals is NOT one of them. Sure people get crowded in there, but it's not really a lot of people, and there have always been easier targets with a higher 'yield' to terrorists. Attacking a plane or airport tends to be done when there are other concerns involved, otherwise it's a waste of resources. (Not that all terrorists are good at any of that stuff, but enough are.)
The TSA needs to learn/employ real security and lay off the techno-woogie and ball-fondling, but then again, nobody said the TSA was smarter than the terrorists.
I'll put that right there with my perpetual motion machine. Sure you can detect ir, and lying for some people may cause a discernable alteration, but I'd bet it's nothing compared to the standard variations of the vast sea of inherited characteristics of humanity, combined with the multiple and growing stress factors involved in airport 'security' these days. At best that system could probably only give a highly trained examiner in laboratory conditions a 2 or 3% improvement over random chance at detecting lies, and we all know that TSA personnel don't even qualify as moderately trained in this stuff.
Wonder how it would work on my family, considering my wife and daughters temperatures are about 2 full degrees higher than mine. And to be honest, I don't react well to being grilled by anyone. My daughter on the other hand is a little nuclear meltdown on her own that loves telling made up stories to everyone about anything. She seems to consider being questioned nothing but an opportunity to spin tales based on whatever questions she's asked. You should try asking her where she left her shoes sometime. So far she hasn't claimed ninjas were involved, she tends to save those for events involving presents rather than missing clothes.
hmmm.... maybe pink skulls and actual rabbit entrails hanging on the back, that should dissuade anyone from wanting it, including the unfortunate owner.:)
It's possible to break the club in under 30 seconds (seen it done in under 10) using a relatively inexpensive item that will fit into oversize pockets, and has so many other legal uses you can buy it in various stores.
I'm not telling, but if you do a little research, I bet you can find out. Hint, make the lock tumblers cold and brittle.
I've seen lots of tapes fail because the company keeps using the same one, two, or maybe three tapes for backups for years, and never checks to see if they are storing the information properly. The moment they need it, it fails like broken clockwork, only worse, because no matter how long you keep trying, it won't get it right twice a day.
as techies, and especially recovery people say: So, when did your data become important to you, before or after you lost it?
Sorry, but this is just a yawn, now when they used a computer to make a paralyzed person walk, now that was news. I think that was over a decade ago, but I'm being too lazy this morning to look it up. These guys on the other hand aren't doing anything new, unless you consider adding in a toy robot to play wastebin basketball some kind of advancement.
And of course, having Democracy, Republic, or any other such words in the title of a nation tends to be nothing more than whitewash, or if you prefer, politically based marketing spin, or even complete bull shit, whichever you prefer.
Whatever it ends up being, it won't be an iphone. The government, and especially the military don't want someone else telling them how to do things, and the approval process for istuff apps isn't going to fly with them either.
If they were all jailbroken and approved government security and encryption software was preloaded, then maybe...
Historically, the attempts by missionaries to convert cannibal tribes was greatly simplified when they introduced pigs. The cannibals were reported to claim it tastes like human. As bizarre as this sounds, it is NOT a joke.
It's not fake, artificial, or synthetic. It is cultured meat. I guess you could even call it vat meat, sci-fi has since before I was born. But in no way shape or form is it fake/artificial/synthetic. It was just grown without the rest of the animal.
For those of you that think it would be a generic meat slurry, that's not correct either. It would actually be chicken, or beef, or mutton, or albacore tuna, or whatever species provided the cell sample for that batch. It's true that diet of the animal changes the meat flavors (some species more than others), but that can be duplicated by changing the nutrient feed. Again, this isn't a new idea, and some people have thought a lot about it, even though they didn't have the technology to do it yet. Three big things seem to keep coming up as it's big points. Efficiency, Product Control, No animal slaughters.
Would I eat it? You know, the opportunity hasn't arisen, but I'd be willing to give it a try. At the moment, it's in kind of a primitive state, but eventually I'd expect those products to be of a higher quality than the old style. Although the first person to request a 'test tube steak' needs to get hit with a cutting board to the face, unless they're 12, in which case it's to be expected.:)
Oh, one final thought for you. I know this idea seems strange at first, but really, do you actually know what you are eating right now? Do you actually claim to know what a twinkie is made of? Or for that matter, what is Disodium Inosinate, TBHQ, or Acesulfame Potassium? Sure you can find out, but you haven't, and yet you eat foods with these and many other 'mystery' ingredients all the time. So why raise a huge fuss over actual chicken meat that was grown a lab as opposed to a poop covered chicken hutch? Think about it.
Not Food of the Gods. I read the story he's referring to a long time ago but can't recall the name. The whole thing takes place as testimony in a trial. They go through and explain how the various food companies are always trying to come up with new and more popular products to beat their competition, and how each company does it's best to reverse engineer or flat out steal the others secrets. One company got a new product that people were absolutely loco for, and it took the others a while to find out what it was. It ends with the lawyer saying something like, "Before we continue, there is another archaic word you aren't familiar with that needs to be defined before we continue, cannibalism...".
Something you have to understand about the story, the people in it had been eating pretty much nothing but cultured designer foods for so many generations, that many words and concepts we find common they don't even know. Most of them were completely unaware that a lot of their food was cell cultures of actual animals. Many of them react to that revalation much like many of us would respond if we were introduced to a pet cow and that evening informed the burger we just ate was the same cow.
I seem to recall some talk of that kind of stuff before. Apparently they have to in good faith attest that they have the copyrights to those items they send takedown notices for, or else they open themselves up for a lot of potential legal issues. I really have no bloody idea what that would be, but I'm sure suing them by both the ones that received the takedown notice, and the actual owner of the copyrighted material that WB claimed to own, would both be able to sue them.
I'm not a laywer, but we've seen this stuff come up in the forums before on small takedowns.
Moderators? On slashdot? Those guys are lucky they can handle the inappropriate language, spam posts, and stuff that will get them arrested. Everything else is information, misinformation, or more likely, opinion. They don't mess with those.
Yes, microsoft has done some messed up things. They are a large successful company so that's a given.
On the other hand, they've done lots of development and innovation. Lots of slashdotters would never admit to that, but the record stands.
Microsoft has definitely bought companies for their tech/patents. Well duh... If you have this bright idea of something cool and you find out someone else beat you to it, but the market is still wide open you have some choices. You can give up and leave, but that never makes you any money. You can develop your own version, but might suffer a total smackdown in a lawsuit. Either way the lawyers will bork everything and charge you more arms and legs than you want to think about. Or the third option. If the other guy is small, buy him out, get all his expertise and patents, and get better on the dev side than option one, and with regards to option two, it's probably cheaper, and will need far less asprin.
Of course, if you like, we can list the bad and stupid things done by lots of companies, but if we just limit it to computer (s/w & h/w) companies, the list will still take days to type, and that's just the overview.
since the guy obviously can't tell the difference between a request and a demand in the first place, of course the only thing he has left is to make jokes or be a jerk. guess that means this post is me being a jerk as well. seems that's become S.O.P. for most slashdotters these days
yeah, google gave up proper boolean operations a long long time ago, now they try to outsmart the user, but with a very stupid algorithm. Very frustrating.
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No, they'll just be cruising through stop signs and red lights, or going down the lane against traffic further from home.
You have an interesting idea, assuming it can generate enough juice to drive a car even a few miles, but it doesn't deal with the moronically suicidal asshats that make up far too large of a percentage of the bicyclists. (Hope you have a lower percentage than we do, I'd say ours is about 80%.)
I've seen it happen at a software company. They have a Knowledge Base that the technicians recorded every solution, the causes, and any fixes that we could find. There was a bit of duplication of entries due to some issues being described or even experienced improperly, not to mention the occasional insufficient or improper use of keywords and descriptions.
Some higher up got the bright idea of merging the duplicate documents to save storage space. That was fine. Then they decided to expand it to eliminate entries that hadn't been accessed in 6 months or longer. That was moronic. Sure enough, it wasn't long before it turned around and bit us in the backside. But management wouldn't budge. They refused to restore the old documents, even when it was on something we now needed, nor would they stop deleting stuff that hadn't been accessed for a while.
To add insult to injury, they would then use the count of how many documents you had in the KB against you if it wasn't high enough. Well, Soandso, you only have 120 documents, why should I listen to you instead of Otherguy, he's got 14657 documents and is in charge of the KB cleanup.
You see, the guys doing the KB cleanup and deduplication were going through all the documents and replacing the owner/creator names with their own so they could bloat their own credit, and management (at least the part I had to deal with) was too stupid to understand this. I have no idea how they rationalized that somebody who'd only worked for the company for less than 2 years could have written thousands of documents that were over 4 years old.
Yes, in a somewhat different form, this probably affects all companies in one way or another.
We have a lot of divergent lifeforms from what was taught when I was little.
They used to say nothing could survive in the vacuum of space, the bottom of the ocean, in geysers, highly acidic conditions and so many other places. If they knew about the oceanic geothermal vents (like the black smokers) back then, they'd have sworn they would be lifeless.
Now of course, we have the entire category of Extremophiles that live in those very places and conditions.
Additionally, we have lifeforms that have copper based blood instead of iron, ones that respire sulfur instead oxygen, and diatoms build their skeletons/shells/cell walls out of silica. And now they may have found one that exchanges its phospates for deadly arsenic and lives.
All in all, there are significant portions of life on this world that was considered science fiction several decades ago. Does that mean it's possible that life in other parts of the universe can be very different than ours? Sort of. It means that our understanding of what is necessary for life is incomplete due to our exposure to only our own type of biology. There may be very strange biochemistry out there, but most of it that we might recognize as life will probably be similar to ours. (That's the biochemistry, not the form, or if intelligent, culture.)
A aerial reconnaissance is not an attack, much less a first strike by any definition.
Sure it's pisses off the target, and is subject to being shot down, but nobody considers it an act of war, that takes killing somebody or capturing/taking something/somewhere.
For that matter, until either the other side admits to losing the drone, or Iran coughs it up to a recognized 3rd party, like the UN for example, it's just propaganda on Irans part. I've seen the B.S. propaganda countries will say in an attempt to gain leverage. Remember the whole USA bombing Libya back in the 80s? I remember them showing an "unexploded bomb" that was actually only part of a high drag fin that wasn't even used in that operation. They also claimed bombing of civilian neighborhoods and showed photos of an area covered with potholes, but the bombs the USA used were larger than most of the potholes themselves and would have leveled the area instead of making potholes. Those holes, if they were caused during that incident, would have been from their own SAM falling down on the city due to stupidity in both the shooters (don't shoot into your own city), and the missile designers (on a miss, it should have self destructed).
I don't care what side you want to take (or not), but when it comes to countries and their propensity for propaganda, don't believe word of mouth, demand proof.
(Something which the article doesn't provide any of.)
Ok, so I agree with some of their targets, even if I don't agree with their methods, but this one is different.
Yes, the big banks need to be brought to heel.
So they want to do it by stealing money from people.
The people they are stealing the money from are the customers, not the company, banks issue credit cards, not use them.
Sure, the people can dispute the charges, but that doesn't always work, and then who gets screwed, either way, it's not the bank.
Now for all those false charges that get reversed, that's money the charity sort of had, and then had it taken away. That's going to be a real pain in the neck for them and their accountants, and if there's enough of them, it's going to cost them enough money to cause problems. (That's problems for the charities, not the banks.)
Yeah, real well thought out, punish the other victims, even if they aren't too bright, oh, and smack around the charities while you're at it.
Try thinking these things through before going of half cocked.
True, but now that their stupidity is out in the open, rather than admit to it and correct the mistake, they instead tell the people they've been jacking around to shut up and worship me or I will take my ball and go home. That still qualifies as stupidity, but I think corporate malice lies at its root as well.
A few years back some researchers (Australian?) accidentally made an infector much much more dangerous. That's why the scientist need to share this data. It's so they can understand this process and use that knowledge to defeat diseases. It's like getting over a canyon a persistent but ignorant person can eventually succeed by throwing rocks at it till it fills up, but an engineer can design and build a bridge in a fraction of the time and resources.
With regards to the fears of terrorists, it's not a high probability, most of them wouldn't have the vaguest idea what to do with that information, the few that are left know enough to not be stupid enough to release a superplague on the planet. Your biggest worry should be the Military making a superplague, and being stupid enough to let someone dumb enough to use it actually get access to some of it.
If you stop research because you are afraid that terrorists might use it, you would have to stop all research of any kind.
Haven't most of the SyFy(lis) channels movies been cheap monster movies, with but a single monster each?
Not all, just most.
Targets are easy, and there is no viable way to protect them all. Anyone who's played a lot of the in depth strategy games would know that. For example, this last black friday would make a fantastic terrorist targeting opportunity. I can't see that kind of 'security' garbage being implemented at every major store/sale in the country, can you. Of course, you could also target a public pool during a hot summer, that'll get a couple hundred people easy.
For that matter, why wait till conditions are good, make your own. If you're in a big city, use facebook, twitter, and other things to set up a really huge flashmob, right to your pre-arranged and boobytrapped killingfield. Heck, you could even post the film to youtube for extra awefulness.
You can bet the terrorists have thought of all of these and many other far more devious things. Although it's true that you need to think of things like this to be able to combat it, the problem is there are too many possibilities to cope with. Security needs to be of the soft variety the quietly watches out for abnormal activities. Hard security needs to be placed at infrastructure critical points, and sorry, but civilian passenger flight terminals is NOT one of them. Sure people get crowded in there, but it's not really a lot of people, and there have always been easier targets with a higher 'yield' to terrorists. Attacking a plane or airport tends to be done when there are other concerns involved, otherwise it's a waste of resources. (Not that all terrorists are good at any of that stuff, but enough are.)
The TSA needs to learn/employ real security and lay off the techno-woogie and ball-fondling, but then again, nobody said the TSA was smarter than the terrorists.
I'll put that right there with my perpetual motion machine. Sure you can detect ir, and lying for some people may cause a discernable alteration, but I'd bet it's nothing compared to the standard variations of the vast sea of inherited characteristics of humanity, combined with the multiple and growing stress factors involved in airport 'security' these days. At best that system could probably only give a highly trained examiner in laboratory conditions a 2 or 3% improvement over random chance at detecting lies, and we all know that TSA personnel don't even qualify as moderately trained in this stuff.
Wonder how it would work on my family, considering my wife and daughters temperatures are about 2 full degrees higher than mine. And to be honest, I don't react well to being grilled by anyone. My daughter on the other hand is a little nuclear meltdown on her own that loves telling made up stories to everyone about anything. She seems to consider being questioned nothing but an opportunity to spin tales based on whatever questions she's asked. You should try asking her where she left her shoes sometime. So far she hasn't claimed ninjas were involved, she tends to save those for events involving presents rather than missing clothes.
hmmm.... maybe pink skulls and actual rabbit entrails hanging on the back, that should dissuade anyone from wanting it, including the unfortunate owner. :)
It's possible to break the club in under 30 seconds (seen it done in under 10) using a relatively inexpensive item that will fit into oversize pockets, and has so many other legal uses you can buy it in various stores.
I'm not telling, but if you do a little research, I bet you can find out. Hint, make the lock tumblers cold and brittle.
I've seen lots of tapes fail because the company keeps using the same one, two, or maybe three tapes for backups for years, and never checks to see if they are storing the information properly. The moment they need it, it fails like broken clockwork, only worse, because no matter how long you keep trying, it won't get it right twice a day.
as techies, and especially recovery people say: So, when did your data become important to you, before or after you lost it?
Sorry, but this is just a yawn, now when they used a computer to make a paralyzed person walk, now that was news. I think that was over a decade ago, but I'm being too lazy this morning to look it up. These guys on the other hand aren't doing anything new, unless you consider adding in a toy robot to play wastebin basketball some kind of advancement.
And of course, having Democracy, Republic, or any other such words in the title of a nation tends to be nothing more than whitewash, or if you prefer, politically based marketing spin, or even complete bull shit, whichever you prefer.
as I recall, the way he pronounced it was with a heavy emphasis on -mock-, which kind of sums up his entire reign.
Whatever it ends up being, it won't be an iphone. The government, and especially the military don't want someone else telling them how to do things, and the approval process for istuff apps isn't going to fly with them either.
If they were all jailbroken and approved government security and encryption software was preloaded, then maybe...
Historically, the attempts by missionaries to convert cannibal tribes was greatly simplified when they introduced pigs.
The cannibals were reported to claim it tastes like human.
As bizarre as this sounds, it is NOT a joke.
It's not fake, artificial, or synthetic. It is cultured meat. I guess you could even call it vat meat, sci-fi has since before I was born.
:)
But in no way shape or form is it fake/artificial/synthetic. It was just grown without the rest of the animal.
For those of you that think it would be a generic meat slurry, that's not correct either. It would actually be chicken, or beef, or mutton, or albacore tuna, or whatever species provided the cell sample for that batch. It's true that diet of the animal changes the meat flavors (some species more than others), but that can be duplicated by changing the nutrient feed.
Again, this isn't a new idea, and some people have thought a lot about it, even though they didn't have the technology to do it yet. Three big things seem to keep coming up as it's big points. Efficiency, Product Control, No animal slaughters.
Would I eat it? You know, the opportunity hasn't arisen, but I'd be willing to give it a try.
At the moment, it's in kind of a primitive state, but eventually I'd expect those products to be of a higher quality than the old style.
Although the first person to request a 'test tube steak' needs to get hit with a cutting board to the face, unless they're 12, in which case it's to be expected.
Oh, one final thought for you. I know this idea seems strange at first, but really, do you actually know what you are eating right now? Do you actually claim to know what a twinkie is made of? Or for that matter, what is Disodium Inosinate, TBHQ, or Acesulfame Potassium? Sure you can find out, but you haven't, and yet you eat foods with these and many other 'mystery' ingredients all the time. So why raise a huge fuss over actual chicken meat that was grown a lab as opposed to a poop covered chicken hutch? Think about it.
Not Food of the Gods. I read the story he's referring to a long time ago but can't recall the name. The whole thing takes place as testimony in a trial. They go through and explain how the various food companies are always trying to come up with new and more popular products to beat their competition, and how each company does it's best to reverse engineer or flat out steal the others secrets. One company got a new product that people were absolutely loco for, and it took the others a while to find out what it was. It ends with the lawyer saying something like, "Before we continue, there is another archaic word you aren't familiar with that needs to be defined before we continue, cannibalism...".
Something you have to understand about the story, the people in it had been eating pretty much nothing but cultured designer foods for so many generations, that many words and concepts we find common they don't even know. Most of them were completely unaware that a lot of their food was cell cultures of actual animals. Many of them react to that revalation much like many of us would respond if we were introduced to a pet cow and that evening informed the burger we just ate was the same cow.
I seem to recall some talk of that kind of stuff before. Apparently they have to in good faith attest that they have the copyrights to those items they send takedown notices for, or else they open themselves up for a lot of potential legal issues. I really have no bloody idea what that would be, but I'm sure suing them by both the ones that received the takedown notice, and the actual owner of the copyrighted material that WB claimed to own, would both be able to sue them.
I'm not a laywer, but we've seen this stuff come up in the forums before on small takedowns.
Yes:
test as in an engineer trying to find the problems,
not test as in this affects your grade...
Moderators? On slashdot?
Those guys are lucky they can handle the inappropriate language, spam posts, and stuff that will get them arrested. Everything else is information, misinformation, or more likely, opinion. They don't mess with those.
Yes, microsoft has done some messed up things. They are a large successful company so that's a given.
On the other hand, they've done lots of development and innovation. Lots of slashdotters would never admit to that, but the record stands.
Microsoft has definitely bought companies for their tech/patents. Well duh... If you have this bright idea of something cool and you find out someone else beat you to it, but the market is still wide open you have some choices.
You can give up and leave, but that never makes you any money.
You can develop your own version, but might suffer a total smackdown in a lawsuit. Either way the lawyers will bork everything and charge you more arms and legs than you want to think about.
Or the third option. If the other guy is small, buy him out, get all his expertise and patents, and get better on the dev side than option one, and with regards to option two, it's probably cheaper, and will need far less asprin.
Of course, if you like, we can list the bad and stupid things done by lots of companies, but if we just limit it to computer (s/w & h/w) companies, the list will still take days to type, and that's just the overview.
Love or Hate MS/Apple/etc, I really don't care.
since the guy obviously can't tell the difference between a request and a demand in the first place, of course the only thing he has left is to make jokes or be a jerk.
guess that means this post is me being a jerk as well.
seems that's become S.O.P. for most slashdotters these days
yeah, google gave up proper boolean operations a long long time ago, now they try to outsmart the user, but with a very stupid algorithm. Very frustrating.