I think that the point is that the UK can't ask the US government to take action against any website/company (such as Google) that is based in America. This is pretty much what the UK is doing so the 1st amendment does apply.
You're going to have to find something older than HTML/most if not all things web browser related for it to be called prior art. The relevant patent was filed in February 1990. Based on a very quick skim of certain parts of the patent (I'm not reading the whole thing anytime soon...), it sounds like it was meant to apply to computer programs in general...so if you want to look for prior art you need to find a GUI program from the 80s that used rollovers.
And on this very site the exact article you linked to was dismissed as being pro-Microsoft FUD. And I ran a couple Google searches and I still saw little more than FUD from Microsoft sponsored research or security companies grouping vulnerabilities from all Gecko based browsers as "Mozilla" (which as we all know the average person will read as meaning "Firefox").
I agree with that...my teachers offer online versions of our textbooks as an alternative for doing homework for people who don't want to carry their books home...but I HATE using the online versions. It feels so much harder to get to the page I'm looking for (especially if it comes to an assignment where you will want to frequently swap between the actual section your studying and things like the glossary/index at the back of the book). Of course assuming the IPad books are stored on the IPad itself and not just being downloaded everytime it is used...it might not be as bad. Sometimes the online textbook sites were also being slow as heck to load pages for me.
Unfortunately, at least from Mozilla's interpretation of the H.264 license (said interpretation was where I was getting my information from in grandparent), compiling the source (something which Linux distributions generally do when preparing a package) would count as "manufacturing" the codec and not be considered to be covered under the same H.264 license as whoever wrote the source code. Redistributing a compiled binary of software using H.264 compiled by someone who paid the license would not I guess.
Seriously, based on the article Oracle probably could have chosen to go all copyright infringement lawsuit-happy on every Linux vendor known to man. But instead they relicensed the old code under a free license...*checks the temperature in Hell*
Not unless they also stop charging fees for merely implementing the codec into a browser...because even if Mozilla pays the fairly large fee it won't cover anyone distributing it downstream (Linux Distros). That would mean that MPEG LA would be able to sue the creators of any Linux distribution that includes Firefox without paying MPEG LA.
Considering that the ITC is a US federal agency with its members nominated by the President/confirmed by the Senate and not some international organization like the name implies to anyone who has never heard of it...yep.
Welcome to the country where the general populace will consider Tiger Woods saying something at a press conference to be breaking news and what is happening in Washington, the Middle East, and the Gulf of Mexico to not even be front page worthy.:D
They were already working on 3.6.5 but wanted to push this out right away, so they made a new branch and fixed it there. 3.6.5 will be merged into 3.6.7.
Now then...the reason why 3.6.5 was skipped was to be consistent with the Gecko (the layout engine of Firefox) versions. 1.9.2.4 is what 3.6.4 used and 1.9.2.6 is what 3.6.6 is using. 1.9.2.5 was being used for Fennec (Firefox Mobile) so that version number was unavailable.
And the final reason is that it wouldn't surprise me if the school is at least going to TRY to also mandate that every student lets the school bloat it with filtering/monitoring crap to make sure that the laptop THEY paid for is only used for "school purposes". Would such an attempt get shot down badly? Probably. Are they stupid enough to at least try it? Probably again.
Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a web application on AT&T's website that returned an iPad user's e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries
My heart goes out to the poor journalists heading out to the great google in order to get their big scoop on goatse.
Also to the poor saps who go to Google after reading a random article about it and going "Who the **** is Goatse Security?"
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And then they will instead have your server blocked Great Firewall style.
And then the RIAA will argue that P2P constitutes both and make it 1050 for any song related transfers over that protocol.
I think that the point is that the UK can't ask the US government to take action against any website/company (such as Google) that is based in America. This is pretty much what the UK is doing so the 1st amendment does apply.
Javascript showed up in 1995, this patent was filed in 1990. Fortunately though, the patent expired 9 days ago.
You're going to have to find something older than HTML/most if not all things web browser related for it to be called prior art. The relevant patent was filed in February 1990. Based on a very quick skim of certain parts of the patent (I'm not reading the whole thing anytime soon...), it sounds like it was meant to apply to computer programs in general...so if you want to look for prior art you need to find a GUI program from the 80s that used rollovers.
Lets see how the MAFIAA/Government/ISPs deal with P2P being used like this...
And on this very site the exact article you linked to was dismissed as being pro-Microsoft FUD. And I ran a couple Google searches and I still saw little more than FUD from Microsoft sponsored research or security companies grouping vulnerabilities from all Gecko based browsers as "Mozilla" (which as we all know the average person will read as meaning "Firefox").
I agree with that...my teachers offer online versions of our textbooks as an alternative for doing homework for people who don't want to carry their books home...but I HATE using the online versions. It feels so much harder to get to the page I'm looking for (especially if it comes to an assignment where you will want to frequently swap between the actual section your studying and things like the glossary/index at the back of the book). Of course assuming the IPad books are stored on the IPad itself and not just being downloaded everytime it is used...it might not be as bad. Sometimes the online textbook sites were also being slow as heck to load pages for me.
*waves hand in front of someone* I am the rightful owner of this userid and password. Now THAT would be tricking someone if it worked. :)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0uAlJykfq1qMTViNjdlNzQtNjhiNy00NGFiLTliNjUtMDBkY2MyODBmMTUz&hl=en&authkey=CN-0j8cF There you go...
Unfortunately, at least from Mozilla's interpretation of the H.264 license (said interpretation was where I was getting my information from in grandparent), compiling the source (something which Linux distributions generally do when preparing a package) would count as "manufacturing" the codec and not be considered to be covered under the same H.264 license as whoever wrote the source code. Redistributing a compiled binary of software using H.264 compiled by someone who paid the license would not I guess.
Seriously, based on the article Oracle probably could have chosen to go all copyright infringement lawsuit-happy on every Linux vendor known to man. But instead they relicensed the old code under a free license...*checks the temperature in Hell*
Not unless they also stop charging fees for merely implementing the codec into a browser...because even if Mozilla pays the fairly large fee it won't cover anyone distributing it downstream (Linux Distros). That would mean that MPEG LA would be able to sue the creators of any Linux distribution that includes Firefox without paying MPEG LA.
What do you expect? Kdawson is the one who posted it.
Why wasn't this modded informative....
Considering that the ITC is a US federal agency with its members nominated by the President/confirmed by the Senate and not some international organization like the name implies to anyone who has never heard of it...yep.
Welcome to the country where the general populace will consider Tiger Woods saying something at a press conference to be breaking news and what is happening in Washington, the Middle East, and the Gulf of Mexico to not even be front page worthy. :D
They should have used Blind carbon copy instead of regular carbon copy. ;)
I set dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs back to 10 in my about:config
They were already working on 3.6.5 but wanted to push this out right away, so they made a new branch and fixed it there. 3.6.5 will be merged into 3.6.7.
*dies a little on the inside*
First of all... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f05S9x7BarE
Now then...the reason why 3.6.5 was skipped was to be consistent with the Gecko (the layout engine of Firefox) versions. 1.9.2.4 is what 3.6.4 used and 1.9.2.6 is what 3.6.6 is using. 1.9.2.5 was being used for Fennec (Firefox Mobile) so that version number was unavailable.
That would be hilarious if each and every 3DS game got a M rating with a content descriptor of "3D images". :D
And the final reason is that it wouldn't surprise me if the school is at least going to TRY to also mandate that every student lets the school bloat it with filtering/monitoring crap to make sure that the laptop THEY paid for is only used for "school purposes". Would such an attempt get shot down badly? Probably. Are they stupid enough to at least try it? Probably again.
My heart goes out to the poor journalists heading out to the great google in order to get their big scoop on goatse.
Also to the poor saps who go to Google after reading a random article about it and going "Who the **** is Goatse Security?"
Got a response that at some point included the words "Godwin's Law".
No it was born in 1960....its just that nobody gave a damn about it until it was 13. Such a lonely childhood....