Jobs was notorious for stealing the ideas of others.
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/if-android-is-a-stolen-product-then-so-was-the-iphone.ars
It is more a case of "us knowns us". The old boys network.
That is still corruption. Anything other than an arms-length transaction is corruption.
Does not matter the actually mechanisms that are used to communicate. It just like organized crime. If the Godfather says "we have a problem in Miami, I need you to take care of" that is really no different than conspiering to commit murder.
Lets not kid ourselves about this. If MS said to Long: "we may have a lucrative position for you at MS, and by the way, how do you feel about these google practises?" Then it's exactly the same thing as MS making a outright deal. In fact, it's worse .
These sorts of under-the-table transactions are basically the definition of corruption.
I don't think most people get that kind of a sentence for murder.
I saw one case on this "I Survived" show they have on Biography channel: a woman shot her husband six times in the chest, and she was sentenced to six days for aggravated assault. Six days for unloading a gun into somebody's chest, 20 years for stealing internet; what a wonderful justice system we have.
Apple sues over garbage can icons, and rounded corners, and slide-to-unlock, and other such junk IP.
Apple's latest flood of lawsuits are not about protecting Apple's ideas. The lawsuits are about Apple breaking their competitor's kneecaps, because that's the way Apple likes to "compete."
That is what bothers me. If a bunch of ignorant Apple zealots want to insist that Apple invented rounded corners, slide to unlock, and all things shinny; that's fine with me.
But, Apple pulling a Tonya Harding like stunt, to get Samsung devices pulled off market, because Apple does not want to compete with Android ICS; is very low scam, even for Apple.
It took Apple to realize the key technology innovation was touch sensing for both phones and slates
Nope, there were touch screens way before Apple.
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/if-android-is-a-stolen-product-then-so-was-the-iphone.ars
Sun's Star7 was wireless device with a touch screen, color icons, music player, and even kinetic scrolling, back in 1992. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg8OBYixL0
The man, once the world's richest, has basically given away his fortune to humanitarian aid and to help develop the world.
Humanitarian? Do you realize the Gates Foundation support ALEC - along with many other scams.
The "American Legislative Exchange Council" has a reputation that you would not believe. It's like they are some James Bond Villian, something like SPECTRE maybe.
> National Public Radio, NPR, has aired several programs about ALEC and its influence in the drafting of legislation
> For ALEC Exposed, the Center for Media and Democracy made a new website
> Simultaneously, The Nation devoted a special edition of its magazine to breaking the story on ALEC Exposed
> On July 14, 2011, the Los Angeles Times announced that government watchdog Common Cause would issue a challenge to ALEC's nonprofit status, on the grounds that ALEC "spends most of its resources lobbying, in violation of the rules governing nonprofit organizations."
> . . . prison labor for the private sector was legally barred for years, to avoid unfair competition with private companies. But this has changed thanks to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), its Prison Industries Act,
> Somewhat more familiar is ALEC’s instrumental role in the explosion of the US prison population in the past few decades. ALEC helped pioneer some of the toughest sentencing laws on the books today, like mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, “three strikes” laws, and “truth in sentencing” laws.
12 Things You Need to Know About the Uprising in Wisconsin
Monday, 21 February 2011 19:03
> What's happening in Wisconsin is not complicated. At the beginning of this year, the state was on course to end 2011 with a budget surplus of $120 million. As Ezra Klein explained, newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker then " signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy experiment that lowers overall tax revenues (among other things). The new legislation was not offset, and it turned a surplus into a deficit." (Update: please see this note for more detail on the cause of the budget gap.)
> Walker then used the deficit he'd created as the justification for assaulting his state's public employees. He used a law cooked up by a right-wing advocacy group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC likes to fly beneath the radar, but I described the organization in a 2005 article as "the connective tissue that links state legislators with right-wing think tanks, leading anti-tax activists and corporate money." Similar laws are on the table in Ohio and Indiana.
> Summary: A citizens-hostile front group turns out to be funded by the Gates Foundation
> IN OUR daily links we occasionally include links about ALEC, a controversial AstroTurfing/lobbying group for corporate power. It turns out that Bill Gates is funding them. “Knowingly or not, the Gates Foundation has just stepped on a political landmine,” says this one report. What about the Koch ties that we wrote about some days ago?
Only people who come from third world countries - countries which are known for cheap labor, and not known for technology innovation - qualify as "best and brightest."
Who are either unemployed, or not working in engineering.
Maybe all US techies are stupid? That would explain why the US practically invented the entire IT industry. And what the US did not invent came from Europe.
India and China (where all new techies are coming from) have not been known for technology innovation for several centuries, at least.
Funny how all the "best and brightest" come from countries where people earn about $2 a day.
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Or are you in denial about that?
Jobs was notorious for stealing the ideas of others.
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/if-android-is-a-stolen-product-then-so-was-the-iphone.ars
Seems like it might infringe on the idea behind iTunes, or App Store, or something.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work".
It is more a case of "us knowns us". The old boys network.
That is still corruption. Anything other than an arms-length transaction is corruption.
Does not matter the actually mechanisms that are used to communicate. It just like organized crime. If the Godfather says "we have a problem in Miami, I need you to take care of" that is really no different than conspiering to commit murder.
Lets not kid ourselves about this. If MS said to Long: "we may have a lucrative position for you at MS, and by the way, how do you feel about these google practises?" Then it's exactly the same thing as MS making a outright deal. In fact, it's worse .
These sorts of under-the-table transactions are basically the definition of corruption.
Microsoft sponsors several so-called "think tanks" which, invariably, support the MS point of view.
Lots of MNCs do the same thing.
I don't think most people get that kind of a sentence for murder.
I saw one case on this "I Survived" show they have on Biography channel: a woman shot her husband six times in the chest, and she was sentenced to six days for aggravated assault. Six days for unloading a gun into somebody's chest, 20 years for stealing internet; what a wonderful justice system we have.
Apple sues over garbage can icons, and rounded corners, and slide-to-unlock, and other such junk IP.
Apple's latest flood of lawsuits are not about protecting Apple's ideas. The lawsuits are about Apple breaking their competitor's kneecaps, because that's the way Apple likes to "compete."
That is what bothers me. If a bunch of ignorant Apple zealots want to insist that Apple invented rounded corners, slide to unlock, and all things shinny; that's fine with me.
But, Apple pulling a Tonya Harding like stunt, to get Samsung devices pulled off market, because Apple does not want to compete with Android ICS; is very low scam, even for Apple.
It took Apple to realize the key technology innovation was touch sensing for both phones and slates
Nope, there were touch screens way before Apple.
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/if-android-is-a-stolen-product-then-so-was-the-iphone.ars
Sun's Star7 was wireless device with a touch screen, color icons, music player, and even kinetic scrolling, back in 1992.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg8OBYixL0
Google the following: gates foundation site:techrights.org
Read all the article that appear.
You are welcome.
I think the case was about copyright trade dress, not patents. I am not even sure if there were software patents at the time.
Also, I'm not sure if Apple had $4,000,000,000 in cash at the time.
If you want to get anal about definitions, then please tell us where the word "plagiarism" appears in the lawsuit?
The man, once the world's richest, has basically given away his fortune to humanitarian aid and to help develop the world.
Humanitarian? Do you realize the Gates Foundation support ALEC - along with many other scams.
The "American Legislative Exchange Council" has a reputation that you would not believe. It's like they are some James Bond Villian, something like SPECTRE maybe.
> National Public Radio, NPR, has aired several programs about ALEC and its influence in the drafting of legislation
> For ALEC Exposed, the Center for Media and Democracy made a new website
> Simultaneously, The Nation devoted a special edition of its magazine to breaking the story on ALEC Exposed
> On July 14, 2011, the Los Angeles Times announced that government watchdog Common Cause would issue a challenge to ALEC's nonprofit status, on the grounds that ALEC "spends most of its resources lobbying, in violation of the rules governing nonprofit organizations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
It just goes on and on.
The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor
> . . . prison labor for the private sector was legally barred for years, to avoid unfair competition with private companies. But this has changed thanks to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), its Prison Industries Act,
> Somewhat more familiar is ALEC’s instrumental role in the explosion of the US prison population in the past few decades. ALEC helped pioneer some of the toughest sentencing laws on the books today, like mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, “three strikes” laws, and “truth in sentencing” laws.
http://www.thenation.com/article/162478/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor
12 Things You Need to Know About the Uprising in Wisconsin
Monday, 21 February 2011 19:03
> What's happening in Wisconsin is not complicated. At the beginning of this year, the state was on course to end 2011 with a budget surplus of $120 million. As Ezra Klein explained, newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker then " signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy experiment that lowers overall tax revenues (among other things). The new legislation was not offset, and it turned a surplus into a deficit." (Update: please see this note for more detail on the cause of the budget gap.)
> Walker then used the deficit he'd created as the justification for assaulting his state's public employees. He used a law cooked up by a right-wing advocacy group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC likes to fly beneath the radar, but I described the organization in a 2005 article as "the connective tissue that links state legislators with right-wing think tanks, leading anti-tax activists and corporate money." Similar laws are on the table in Ohio and Indiana.
http://techsunite.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=3&layout=blog&Itemid=58&limitsta...
And now this comes out in techrights:
Bill Gates Funds ALEC
02.27.12
> Summary: A citizens-hostile front group turns out to be funded by the Gates Foundation
> IN OUR daily links we occasionally include links about ALEC, a controversial AstroTurfing/lobbying group for corporate power. It turns out that Bill Gates is funding them. “Knowingly or not, the Gates Foundation has just stepped on a political landmine,” says this one report. What about the Koch ties that we wrote about some days ago?
http://techrights.org/2012/02/27/alec-and-gates-foundation/
I never saw the need for OO in PHP either. I think the language was faster, and made more sense, without it.
But that's just me.
Apple started the junk IP lawsuits in the 1980s.
Japan beats US in "ladder to heaven" race
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153671/the-ladder-race
for our own people.
If foreign workers are a great expense, then we should stop allowing foreign workers.
H1B are not the "best and brightest" - far from it. According to the US GAO, 54% of H1Bs are entry level, only 7% work at the advanced level.
H1Bs are cheap labor used to replace American workers. H1Bs are also used to help with the offshoring of US jobs.
YES, foreigners CREATE jobs in the USA, they don't take them away.
Bullshit.
H1Bs are not legally allowed to create jobs in the USA. H1Bs are used to replace US workers with foreign workers. Watch "No Thanks for Everything."
If immigrants are creating so many jobs, then why is the suffering the worst long-term unemployment since the great depression?
Last I heard, Foxconn workers were getting $0.35 an hour, working 14 hours days, and often considered suicide to preferable.
Only people who come from third world countries - countries which are known for cheap labor, and not known for technology innovation - qualify as "best and brightest."
Very well writen post, thank you.
It's nice to know that somebody gets it.
Who are either unemployed, or not working in engineering.
Maybe all US techies are stupid? That would explain why the US practically invented the entire IT industry. And what the US did not invent came from Europe.
India and China (where all new techies are coming from) have not been known for technology innovation for several centuries, at least.
Funny how all the "best and brightest" come from countries where people earn about $2 a day.