Nah, it's called anti-social personality disorder, formerly diagnosed as sociopathy.
The threat and effect are very real. The side effect (these nations escalating their arms) is just something the US thinks they can control--and clearly, they can't.
The US sticks it's nose where it doesn't belong because it's in their interests. Better to have the middle east in turmoil than unified against the west.
How about you've got multiple users on the machine? With Filevault2, any user can unlock the whole disk. As much as I like macs, it's a complete joke. With Filevault1, you had homedir encryption on a per-user basis. My files were secure from other users of the machine.
BTW - dalvik is not a java virtual machine. It can't run Java programs.
Fair enough. It's nearly correct to say that it's an implementation of Java, though, which I think is the only requirement for this discussion.
There are plenty of competing virtual machines. IBM made one, Kaffe is another. GNU classpath is yet another.
Sure. I have no idea if any of those licensed Java from Sun (/Oracle) or not, other than IBM who certainly did. GNU Classpath almost certainly isn't making any money off of it, however, and copyright does not require aggressive defense in order to be maintained. It greatly benefits any owner of Java for Java to be in widespread use if they are trying to make money from its use in any way. Just like it helped Microsoft gain immense cultural penetration to have widespread DOS piracy, which allowed them to nearly monopolize the PC market--it didn't make sense to go after the smaller infringers, because smaller infringers go on to work for large organizations and want to use those skills and tools.
Android is probably one of the largest non-licensed implementations of Java in the world if it isn't the largest. And it's commercial. It's no surprise at all that Oracle went after Google.
There is absolutely no way that Oracle is going to win this one - even they know that the immediate consequences would be disasterous for them, as the whole world drops Java for anything else.
Maybe. Oracle certainly thought Google would settle pre-trial, meaning no ruling on the subject would be made. Persisting after going to trial, though, is insane if they really understand the full implications you suggest.
More realistically, they're going to say that the copyright only applies to implementations of the API, not usage of the API. In other words, to be in violation, you would have to create a system which implements the API. Merely programming using the API and targeting a legal implementation wouldn't be sufficient. It's not just fair use--its regular use. It's what the API is there for. The API is not there for creating a different, compatible JVM.
Remember, the issue is that Google used the Java specification to create a competing virtual machine, not that Google used the Java APIs to create a Java application.
I have no idea if Osama bin Laden is alive, or if he's dead, or if he ever even existed in the first place. All I'm asking for is for some quality evidence to be presented, rather than merely claims, or some speculation built upon assumptions (like you've provided). Until we have some real evidence, we can't say for sure what did or did not happen.
I'll feed. What sort of evidence would you require to prove that he existed at all?
My problem with a tax on wealth is that it essentially eliminates ownership. I already feel that way about my house--I'm taxed on something I own, merely because I own it. If I can't pay the tax, the property is taken from me by the government. I think that a person should be able to own things, so I oppose taxes like this. It has nothing to do with being rich, other than the fact that rich people tend to own more things than poor people.
Clothing in Texas is taxed. Foods which are ready to consume at the time of sale are taxed.
Texas has one "tax free" day per year, sometime in August I think, to help families get their kids ready for school. Taxes on lots of things needed for school (school supplies, clothes, etc.) are removed for that day.
I still run into people who can't send to my.mobi domain because their ISP does some dumb preverification of the e-mail address (I think it's checking for more than 3 characters in the TLD) and automatically rejects.
I also get sites that don't let me buy from them because of my.mobi e-mail address. Stupidly, their support address works just fine, but try to create an account with a.mobi and it gets rejected.
I can't wait to see what happens when these idiots run into dot-word TLDs. I hope.gmail takes off like hotcakes and these people lose sales while they're scrambling and paying some outsourced contractor to figure out why they generate so many rejections.
It eventually got endorsed by Google, yes. And that was either incredibly short-sighted of them (as I've said, evil is relative and almost anyone could find something to claim Google is doing evil -- taking money from porn advertisers, for example?) or it was incredibly political, in that now we sit around debating whether or not Google is evil rather than discussing things that they actually do.
Only in theory. Practically speaking, the political parties in the US have all of the votes locked up (in part due to agreements to not participate in debates with other parties due to the 1996 upset.). And both parties are basically the same.
Google didn't claim to not be evil. They approve an internal motto of "don't be evil" which is far from the same thing. The motto got leaked and they've been paying for it ever since, because nearly any action could be seen as evil by someone.
The bundling problem always had to do with Microsoft using a monopoly in one market (OS) to gain significant market share in another market (web browsers.) It had nothing to do with having to pay for unwanted bundles (at least in the US.) Otherwise, Microsoft might have needed to unbundle things like Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, etc. I sure know that I never would have wanted those, preferring WinVi and a real painting tool.
Honestly, I find that sometimes I want fewer columns. That's why I'm pro-long lines now. Let the client decide how to wrap your lines. My phone either won't display 80 columns, or it displays them in a tiny, tiny font.
With length-80 lines on a length <80 screen, you get jaggies which are even harder to read. EVERY decent mail client (console-included) knows how to wrap long lines, but none of them know how to join shorter lines in a way that is guaranteed to maintain paragraph breaks that the original author intended.
Were those 100 million perfectly random, or was a random deck generator created which has good odds of creating a winnable game? It's pretty easy to generate basic unwinnable subsets of the lower board, and then all permutations with that subset will be unwinnable. There are more subtle unwinnable games, too.
Of course, 52! is a huge space. It would be interesting to see a formal analysis of the game.
And just wait until the lawsuit comes claiming that the wealthy students are being given additional opportunities over the poor students
Much like making fun of the Amish on the Internet, this is a self-defending issue. If they can't afford $20/mo for Internet access, they can't afford the lawyer to sue.
How do you positively validate the identity of a parent in a household where the student is the most computer literate (and perhaps the only English speaker)
I wonder if they're sending those paper notices in English-only.
I never said Zero Tolerance was a good thing. I said that it wasn't idiocy. I believe that it's a calculated decision by the administration in order to make their lives easier. And it's been successful at that.
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When it happens to people, it's called paranoia
Nah, it's called anti-social personality disorder, formerly diagnosed as sociopathy.
The threat and effect are very real. The side effect (these nations escalating their arms) is just something the US thinks they can control--and clearly, they can't.
The US sticks it's nose where it doesn't belong because it's in their interests. Better to have the middle east in turmoil than unified against the west.
Some "strange" reason?
How about you've got multiple users on the machine? With Filevault2, any user can unlock the whole disk. As much as I like macs, it's a complete joke. With Filevault1, you had homedir encryption on a per-user basis. My files were secure from other users of the machine.
BTW - dalvik is not a java virtual machine. It can't run Java programs.
Fair enough. It's nearly correct to say that it's an implementation of Java, though, which I think is the only requirement for this discussion.
There are plenty of competing virtual machines. IBM made one, Kaffe is another. GNU classpath is yet another.
Sure. I have no idea if any of those licensed Java from Sun (/Oracle) or not, other than IBM who certainly did. GNU Classpath almost certainly isn't making any money off of it, however, and copyright does not require aggressive defense in order to be maintained. It greatly benefits any owner of Java for Java to be in widespread use if they are trying to make money from its use in any way. Just like it helped Microsoft gain immense cultural penetration to have widespread DOS piracy, which allowed them to nearly monopolize the PC market--it didn't make sense to go after the smaller infringers, because smaller infringers go on to work for large organizations and want to use those skills and tools.
Android is probably one of the largest non-licensed implementations of Java in the world if it isn't the largest. And it's commercial. It's no surprise at all that Oracle went after Google.
There is absolutely no way that Oracle is going to win this one - even they know that the immediate consequences would be disasterous for them, as the whole world drops Java for anything else.
Maybe. Oracle certainly thought Google would settle pre-trial, meaning no ruling on the subject would be made. Persisting after going to trial, though, is insane if they really understand the full implications you suggest.
More realistically, they're going to say that the copyright only applies to implementations of the API, not usage of the API. In other words, to be in violation, you would have to create a system which implements the API. Merely programming using the API and targeting a legal implementation wouldn't be sufficient. It's not just fair use--its regular use. It's what the API is there for. The API is not there for creating a different, compatible JVM.
Remember, the issue is that Google used the Java specification to create a competing virtual machine, not that Google used the Java APIs to create a Java application.
I have no idea if Osama bin Laden is alive, or if he's dead, or if he ever even existed in the first place. All I'm asking for is for some quality evidence to be presented, rather than merely claims, or some speculation built upon assumptions (like you've provided). Until we have some real evidence, we can't say for sure what did or did not happen.
I'll feed. What sort of evidence would you require to prove that he existed at all?
Sounds like the old insurance scams codified by law. "Gee, that sure is a nice house you have there."
My problem with a tax on wealth is that it essentially eliminates ownership. I already feel that way about my house--I'm taxed on something I own, merely because I own it. If I can't pay the tax, the property is taken from me by the government. I think that a person should be able to own things, so I oppose taxes like this. It has nothing to do with being rich, other than the fact that rich people tend to own more things than poor people.
Clothing in Texas is taxed. Foods which are ready to consume at the time of sale are taxed.
Texas has one "tax free" day per year, sometime in August I think, to help families get their kids ready for school. Taxes on lots of things needed for school (school supplies, clothes, etc.) are removed for that day.
Any other company could do what they do.
You'd think that they would, then. It seems to be profitable.
I still run into people who can't send to my .mobi domain because their ISP does some dumb preverification of the e-mail address (I think it's checking for more than 3 characters in the TLD) and automatically rejects.
I also get sites that don't let me buy from them because of my .mobi e-mail address. Stupidly, their support address works just fine, but try to create an account with a .mobi and it gets rejected.
I can't wait to see what happens when these idiots run into dot-word TLDs. I hope .gmail takes off like hotcakes and these people lose sales while they're scrambling and paying some outsourced contractor to figure out why they generate so many rejections.
It eventually got endorsed by Google, yes. And that was either incredibly short-sighted of them (as I've said, evil is relative and almost anyone could find something to claim Google is doing evil -- taking money from porn advertisers, for example?) or it was incredibly political, in that now we sit around debating whether or not Google is evil rather than discussing things that they actually do.
It's just bewildering. Is this really the USA? And are it's citizens just taking it? Some freedom-loving people.
I don't have time to get mad. American Idol's on.
Only in theory. Practically speaking, the political parties in the US have all of the votes locked up (in part due to agreements to not participate in debates with other parties due to the 1996 upset.). And both parties are basically the same.
A few nits to pick.
Google didn't claim to not be evil. They approve an internal motto of "don't be evil" which is far from the same thing. The motto got leaked and they've been paying for it ever since, because nearly any action could be seen as evil by someone.
Good. Gold is horribly inflated.
The bundling problem always had to do with Microsoft using a monopoly in one market (OS) to gain significant market share in another market (web browsers.) It had nothing to do with having to pay for unwanted bundles (at least in the US.) Otherwise, Microsoft might have needed to unbundle things like Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, etc. I sure know that I never would have wanted those, preferring WinVi and a real painting tool.
Honestly, I find that sometimes I want fewer columns. That's why I'm pro-long lines now. Let the client decide how to wrap your lines. My phone either won't display 80 columns, or it displays them in a tiny, tiny font.
With length-80 lines on a length <80 screen,
you get
jaggies which are even harder to read.
EVERY
decent mail client (console-included) knows
how to
wrap long lines, but none of them know how
to join
shorter lines in a way that is guaranteed to
maintain
paragraph breaks that the original author
intended.
Long-lines all the way.
Were those 100 million perfectly random, or was a random deck generator created which has good odds of creating a winnable game? It's pretty easy to generate basic unwinnable subsets of the lower board, and then all permutations with that subset will be unwinnable. There are more subtle unwinnable games, too.
Of course, 52! is a huge space. It would be interesting to see a formal analysis of the game.
I thought you were talking about the FBI warning, not the RIAA or MPAA.
Those are weaselly. They say that criminal infringement has those penalties. Not all infringement is criminal.
Finally, a reasonable voice in this discussion!
And just wait until the lawsuit comes claiming that the wealthy students are being given additional opportunities over the poor students
Much like making fun of the Amish on the Internet, this is a self-defending issue. If they can't afford $20/mo for Internet access, they can't afford the lawyer to sue.
How do you positively validate the identity of a parent in a household where the student is the most computer literate (and perhaps the only English speaker)
I wonder if they're sending those paper notices in English-only.
That's a horrible story.
I never said Zero Tolerance was a good thing. I said that it wasn't idiocy. I believe that it's a calculated decision by the administration in order to make their lives easier. And it's been successful at that.