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  1. Re:Highly misleading headline on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression I could download it from a google owned website (the code).

  2. Re:Highly misleading headline on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 1

    The op in this thread uses the word copyright and is quoting Google.

  3. Re:Highly misleading headline on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google is still distributing illegal copies.

    "The 1976 Copyright Act, as amended in 1999, authorizes statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work infringed in cases of willful infringement and from $750 up to $30,000 in cases of non-willful infringement."

    Google is making copies, they are possibly illegal. Doesn't matter the license they thought they had, they can still be held responsible up $30,000 a copy.

    (source for quote https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=6-93+Intellectual+Property+Counseling+%26+Litigation+93.syn&srctype=smi&srcid=2A4E&key=5aad85e0a403aa12c7b112ffd6180668)

  4. Re:Highly misleading headline on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 1

    Not so duh I would think.

    Google distributes it (makes copies).

    They would not be willful or knowingly infringing, but they would still be infringing.

  5. Re:windows does not WORK for me, linux does... on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 0

    Interesting,

    you're description of Windows 7 sounds like every Windows install ever.

    Install, and hunt for drivers one at a time. Thankfully the network would usually work if I had an old add in card lying around.

    With Linux (for a long time now, since Red Hat 5.x) boot off CD, and everything worked, or it didn't, but very little futzing around. Of course this meant things like 3-D acceleration didn't work (later NVIDIA drivers fixed this, and they are pretty much an equivelent install as a Windows graphics driver). Sound wouldn't always work, but it was rare that it would ever work, if it didn't right off the bat). Network pretty much always worked, except for Win Modems for a while.

    But Windows almost always needed a sound driver, a graphics driver, and sometimes a network driver (which is a real pain, and was also quite likely with a Win Modem).

    Also, when running without a graphics driver, the graphic on Windows was abysmal (800 x 600 low color).

  6. Re:Harden up on Agloves Allow For Touchscreen Use On Cold Days · · Score: 1

    Is it really that crazy to want to be able to make a phone call while outside?

  7. Re:Asians on South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over Edgy Simpsons Intro · · Score: 1

    http://www.nicerent.com/mn_seoul_real_estate_advenced/advenced_list.asp?strFind=find

    Looks like it'd be hard to live on 1/3 of a decent US salary.

    (I searched for small (under 700 sqft) 1 bedroom, in high rise)

    I know plenty in NYC doing just fine in the 40k/year range (not having a car saves them a whole lot). And they're rents aren't too bad (only a bout 4k/year per a bedroom more than where I am, which is fairly average).

    I don't think big cities anywhere have a low cost of living, because the rent is so damned much.

  8. Re:Wait what? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 1

    It's actually worse than that. Generally a broken hip is the beginning of the end for an elderly woman, with over 50% living the rest of their lives in an old folk's home.

    I'm not going to rtfa, but if she was actually hit by both children, it really sounds like malice too.

    I would say the parents are a fairer target though, as whatever happened, the girls had way too little supervision.

  9. Re:And this is why people stick with other OSes on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    It is more than a dock.

    The way they implemented the thumbnails, and thumbnail hover is absolutely great (note I mocked this feature when it was announced). When hovering over a thumbnail, all other windows go transparent, so you can see where it is instantly, when clicked on, the window comes to the front, and all others re-appear.

    Also, the top, right, and left snaps for window moving (for full screen, right-half, and left-half) are a pleasure too.

    Windows 7 does a great job at managing Windows, and if it had an expose like feature, it would be a fantastic (arguably as good as any other, which is a huge improvement from XP, or Visa).

    I honestly look forward to the Windows 7 Dock getting cribbed by compiz.

    In the end I still prefer Compiz with the virtual desktops, shrinking of windows to monitor them, easy always on top, and more; but Windows 7 has a realy good Window manager, and is a HUGE leap forward for working with lots of windows.

  10. Re:And this is why people stick with other OSes on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    Moving my close window button to be immediately next to my open new window button (the menu) has on more than one occasion caused me trouble.

  11. Re:And this is why people stick with other OSes on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    Have. You uses windows 7?

    As a window manager it is worlds ahead of vista.

    In some respects it is better than gnome or is better than gnome, kde, or is x.

    Not all though, lack of an expose type feature being one of it's largest failings.

  12. Re:Quake II was released in 1997. on Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's · · Score: 1

    Were you logged in, and just checked the anon box?

    If so, you lost your mods...

  13. Re:what about servers? on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Probably this:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/131094

    It's the first thing I thought, and somebody posted to it that it hit /.

  14. Re:Yes office, on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    I don't believe females lurk here, but I know there is an invisible pink unicorn.

  15. Re:sped up video? on A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you mean it's something short of impressive?

  16. Re:Wal-Mart should follow suit on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Back in the 18th and early 19th centuries, most Americans had their own livelihoods, often organized as family businesses where each worker was involved or at least consulted in most every other aspect of the business.

    Back in the 18th and 19th centuries there was a huge unpaid hard labor force, that wasn't consulted in anything at all.

    Perhaps 5/8s of the white population was working for themselves (20% slaves, 5/8's of the remaining 80% would be needed to reach most), or in an intimate relationship with the boss, but I highly doubt that. There were many people that were subsistence farmers, indentured servants, working for other assholes, etc.

    This is of course ignoring the close to 50% of the population that had no choice in whether they worked or not.

    Now I do agree with the statement In short, a reluctance or outright refusal to think for onesself is the root cause of many of the U.S.'s failings., but that's about the only thing that made any sense. It's almost like I'm responding to a post I wrote.

  17. Re:Deceiving? on AMD Demos Llano Fusion APU, Radeon 6800 Series · · Score: 1

    I think in the GF 3-4 range there were a lot of GF4-mx cards.

    These were essentially low-middle end GF3 cards, and for some things my GF2 TI outperformed it (with less CPU to boot).

  18. Re:Just in time... on Details of Android 3.0, SIP, Video Chat · · Score: 1

    Agreed on the keyboard and trackball.

    Especially the keyboard. By far the best phone keyboard I've ever used.

    1.6 was a huge leap, and it looks like apps are starting to be 2.1+ now (skype for example) so there is that too. Also, sync to FB, and sync to multiple accounts are nice features. Really motorola should drop blur and use plain old android if it is causing issues. Most of what blur offers on 1.5 is now in android (soft keyboard, facebook integration, outlook email).

    The 1.5 in the cliq is a real pain, can't even use google navigation.

  19. Re:Trade relations game theory on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    It depends how one assumes the costs and benefits of a trade war go.

    Some would argue it goes as follows for a trade war:

          Open Closed
    Open (3,3) (1,2)

    Closed (2,1) (1,1)

    Note, I wouldn't, I think it'd be similar to a prisoners dilemma.

  20. Re:Wal-Mart should follow suit on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet the majority of the voting populous doesn't know what the word "majority" means (as clearly you do not either).

  21. Re:"Alien vs. Predator" Movie or Video Game? on AMD Demos Llano Fusion APU, Radeon 6800 Series · · Score: 1

    You want Ontario or Zecate (Bobcat based APUs).

    Both offer h.264 accelerated playback and are 9W or 18W.

    I am seeing mixed info actually on what is available dual cs single core at what wattage.

    The 9W is definitely single core, faster than Atom, with decentish GPU (accelerated video), the Zecate I think is 18W with a single core.

    I imagine they will not quite double when going dual core (as the graphics part will not increase).

    And they are supposed to have tech to completely shut down parts of the chip that aren't used, making a single threaded workload use the equivalent power of a single core, and idle under 1 watt.

    The Llano would be more power than either of them.

  22. Re:Video chat to compete with the iPhone on Details of Android 3.0, SIP, Video Chat · · Score: 1

    Funny how my experience with people using skype doesn't match yours.

    With skype it's how everyone I know does it, and it probably has a lot to do with the fact that everyone has a laptop with camera, mic, and speakers, so there is no need to buy a special device.

    It's also way better quality than stuff was back then. Even as phones get enough resolution, I would be someone surprised to see video take off there, because of shaky hands holding it, and not a particularly large screen, but video chat in general is alive and well with everyone I know that has friends in different continents (note, I just IM, so not me).

  23. Re:But Linux on the desktop is dead. on Ubuntu 10.10 Multitouch Support Demo · · Score: 1

    I hope they get something better than dash.

    Or more familiar anyway (though I've tried dash a few times and thwomp it speedwise with my phone in portrait mode)

  24. Re:Then you're a prisoner on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    I actually read an interesting article that said increased home ownership as of late could slow economic recovery, as people cannot as freely move to where the jobs are at.

  25. Re:Price and glasses, most likely on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    I'm going to say 2 pairs even.

    At least then you can buy them to show off.