We don't have a written constitution. The law is whatever the acts of parliament say it is. ASBOs are part of the law, and as such are ipso facto legal. There's a tradition of rights such as freedom of speech, due process and so on that politicians have generally respected, but these seem to have been rapidly eroded.
The first one is for potential persistent fare dodgers, and since this hasn't actually been implemented, none of the recipients have been behaving anti-socially. However, persistent fare dodging is antisocial. Attention grabbing "suicide attempts" are also anti-social, and the third was imposed on the cat owner. The cat owner was behsaving antisocailly by allowing an overly agressive cat to roam free.
Are there pink unicorns where you live or are you just an apologist cunt?
If I was an apologist cunt, I would have suggested that ASBOs were a good idea. Instead I'll just say "But of course, there are obvious exceptions". I shouldn't have to say this, because the exceptions are obivous, but since you're an agressive pedantic git, it turns out I have to.
What's your point? Most people use resource hungry applications, including those people who buy from Microsoft, and they consider the investment in hardware to be worth it for the other benefits that the sub-optimal code provides.
And there's the problem. ASBOs, while a total infringement of any sort of due pocess seem to have worked reasonably well They're only imposed on people where it's quite obvious that they are behaving anti-socially - This is usually things like vandalism, and harrasment - and at the moment, the people targetted are clearly acting anti-socially. As a result, they're really quite popular.
There is the potential for abuse, but the general public seems fairly oblivious to this.
What are these high perfomance applications that really need the sheer speed provided by a Java JTI? Is speed really an issue these days? Most of the time, if things are working too slow, people are just going to throw some more hardware at it.
So what's stopping MS from raising their prices so they make another $375 million anyway? They set their prices to maximise profits. If prices go up, number of sales go down. This means they'd make less money.
Engineers hate writing documentation. I rarely see decent docs even for published APIs that people are encouraged to use. The EU is demanding detailed documentation for ones that aredeveloped in an ad-hoc manner, and changed arbitrarily. Most of the coders probably worked out whatthe software does by looking at the code.
Sure, not all software developers are like this, but I'll bet MS are.
So, what about the illegal agreements made without the full knowledge of the board, such as collaborations with other companies to set prices at a certain level?
People can spot Americans abroad from a mile away. Their tendency towards hanging around in tourist areas, acting like tourists and speaking to each other in English with an American accent is probably a much better way of telling if someone's an American than getting an expensive RFID reader. If you want to know whether they have their passport, hold a knife to their throat and ask for it.
The logical conclusion of this is that if an employee decides to kill another one at work, all shareholders would be culpable for murder.
You employ people in these positions with a reasonable expectation that they will operate legally. You can't be aware of everything that goes on in the company. No company gives that level of information to all its inverstor.
That would involve punishing a lot of people for crimes of a handful. Most of the sharehholders had no way of knowing that such illegal activities were going on. Why should they be punished substantially more than they gained?
But the guy was allowing people he doesn't know to use his internet connection. Then a poster replied saying this was dumb. Then you posted something unrelated to the comment, about the woman's daughter. This has no bearing on whether the guy with the open Wi-fi network knew or didn't know who was accessing it.
No iea. All the other developers have their own codebase. Unfinished games are disstinctly not-fun, hobbyists will not find it easy to get the code to work, and small developers would be sued to hell if they tried using it in a product.
A method of only updating part of a page? You mean like an IFRAME, Javascript and the DOM? Not exactly "new". I did a web programming class on it in 2001.
They're not patenting only updating part of a webpage. They're patenting a method of only updating part of a webpage. Iframes, Javascript and DOM are 3 completely different methods, and had they not already been used, would have been eligible for separate patents. They (presumably) have a fourth, which may well be original and non-obvious.
Huge Tsunami's can be 50 feet ABOVE sea level. What exacyly does early warning do?
Tell people to go to a hill 51 feet above sea level? Some people were saved because they knew the warning signs, either through tribal legend or research.
I don't think they'd do this. This could violate the same anti-trust laws that people are accusing eBay of violating.
Antitrust lawsuit
Possible. Legal aggression doesn't seem to be Google's way though.
Competing online auction site
Sensible. Getting critical mass could be difficult, but Google is a trusted name. Yahoo and amazon certainly have reasonably succesful auction sites, so it's possible for another player to move in. Although it would be more in character to offer a search utility for any auction site that accepts Google payments. I hear Google are pretty good at search technology.
Possibly the simplest alphabet to learn is Hangul. Very consistent, scientifically designed, and in everyday use in Korea. May even be responsible for Korea's relatively high literacy rate.
As a written language, it's probably too closeley tailored to Korean (no differenciation between L and R, or V and B, for example), but the concept could be ported to English.
200 years ago, Chinese was still a very common written language in the country, but it seems to have been pretty much replaced by Hangul.
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No, I don't think I am saying that.
We don't have a written constitution. The law is whatever the acts of parliament say it is. ASBOs are part of the law, and as such are ipso facto legal. There's a tradition of rights such as freedom of speech, due process and so on that politicians have generally respected, but these seem to have been rapidly eroded.
The first one is for potential persistent fare dodgers, and since this hasn't actually been implemented, none of the recipients have been behaving anti-socially. However, persistent fare dodging is antisocial. Attention grabbing "suicide attempts" are also anti-social, and the third was imposed on the cat owner. The cat owner was behsaving antisocailly by allowing an overly agressive cat to roam free.
Are there pink unicorns where you live or are you just an apologist cunt?
If I was an apologist cunt, I would have suggested that ASBOs were a good idea. Instead I'll just say "But of course, there are obvious exceptions". I shouldn't have to say this, because the exceptions are obivous, but since you're an agressive pedantic git, it turns out I have to.
What's your point? Most people use resource hungry applications, including those people who buy from Microsoft, and they consider the investment in hardware to be worth it for the other benefits that the sub-optimal code provides.
And there's the problem. ASBOs, while a total infringement of any sort of due pocess seem to have worked reasonably well They're only imposed on people where it's quite obvious that they are behaving anti-socially - This is usually things like vandalism, and harrasment - and at the moment, the people targetted are clearly acting anti-socially. As a result, they're really quite popular.
There is the potential for abuse, but the general public seems fairly oblivious to this.
What are these high perfomance applications that really need the sheer speed provided by a Java JTI? Is speed really an issue these days? Most of the time, if things are working too slow, people are just going to throw some more hardware at it.
So what's stopping MS from raising their prices so they make another $375 million anyway? They set their prices to maximise profits. If prices go up, number of sales go down. This means they'd make less money.
Engineers hate writing documentation. I rarely see decent docs even for published APIs that people are encouraged to use. The EU is demanding detailed documentation for ones that aredeveloped in an ad-hoc manner, and changed arbitrarily. Most of the coders probably worked out whatthe software does by looking at the code.
Sure, not all software developers are like this, but I'll bet MS are.
So, what about the illegal agreements made without the full knowledge of the board, such as collaborations with other companies to set prices at a certain level?
How should they have done so? And do you consider it to be beneficial to society to make investments even more of a gamble?
But he's a paranoid idiot.
People can spot Americans abroad from a mile away. Their tendency towards hanging around in tourist areas, acting like tourists and speaking to each other in English with an American accent is probably a much better way of telling if someone's an American than getting an expensive RFID reader. If you want to know whether they have their passport, hold a knife to their throat and ask for it.
The logical conclusion of this is that if an employee decides to kill another one at work, all shareholders would be culpable for murder.
You employ people in these positions with a reasonable expectation that they will operate legally. You can't be aware of everything that goes on in the company. No company gives that level of information to all its inverstor.
That would involve punishing a lot of people for crimes of a handful. Most of the sharehholders had no way of knowing that such illegal activities were going on. Why should they be punished substantially more than they gained?
But the guy was allowing people he doesn't know to use his internet connection. Then a poster replied saying this was dumb. Then you posted something unrelated to the comment, about the woman's daughter. This has no bearing on whether the guy with the open Wi-fi network knew or didn't know who was accessing it.
Well... It wouldn't violate copyright law, unless someone has previously bludgeoned your teacher to death in a fixed medium.
What would happen to the world if Microsoft said "Ok, enough's enough. 'Frig' you all!" and shuts down!
The people who made the decision would get sued by their shareholders, employees and their customers simultaneously.
Really we're probably looking at something under the Trade secrets area of IP law...
No iea. All the other developers have their own codebase. Unfinished games are disstinctly not-fun, hobbyists will not find it easy to get the code to work, and small developers would be sued to hell if they tried using it in a product.
Huh? Why? You can tax basically anything you want. It is really just an issue of creating the law for it.
I think the basic principle is that you can't tax what you can't measure. Legally you can, but practically, it's unenforcable.
That is a directory with no files but several other directories in it...
I've never found any "evil" way to exploit this, but it's always bothered me a bit.
Would a file called "-rf" in an otherwise empty directory be evil? Someone may well try "rm *" when other options go wrong.
A method of only updating part of a page? You mean like an IFRAME, Javascript and the DOM? Not exactly "new". I did a web programming class on it in 2001.
They're not patenting only updating part of a webpage. They're patenting a method of only updating part of a webpage. Iframes, Javascript and DOM are 3 completely different methods, and had they not already been used, would have been eligible for separate patents. They (presumably) have a fourth, which may well be original and non-obvious.
Huge Tsunami's can be 50 feet ABOVE sea level. What exacyly does early warning do?
Tell people to go to a hill 51 feet above sea level? Some people were saved because they knew the warning signs, either through tribal legend or research.
"Cash and checks are not accepted at Costo Gas Stations"
But what happens if you fill up your car, and then go to pay, but only offer cash? Surely then it becomes a debt and they're obliged to accept it.
Dropping every search result that links to ebay
I don't think they'd do this. This could violate the same anti-trust laws that people are accusing eBay of violating.
Antitrust lawsuit
Possible. Legal aggression doesn't seem to be Google's way though.
Competing online auction site
Sensible. Getting critical mass could be difficult, but Google is a trusted name. Yahoo and amazon certainly have reasonably succesful auction sites, so it's possible for another player to move in. Although it would be more in character to offer a search utility for any auction site that accepts Google payments. I hear Google are pretty good at search technology.
Possibly the simplest alphabet to learn is Hangul. Very consistent, scientifically designed, and in everyday use in Korea. May even be responsible for Korea's relatively high literacy rate.
As a written language, it's probably too closeley tailored to Korean (no differenciation between L and R, or V and B, for example), but the concept could be ported to English.
200 years ago, Chinese was still a very common written language in the country, but it seems to have been pretty much replaced by Hangul.