That's the same e-mail and phone (almost) that I gave Oracle, too. Do people actually give their real information to Oracle, just to download docs for products they've paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for?
Maybe you should exercise that right and get a real job?
Also, I don't buy your comment about "there are no unions". Start one. Get your coworkers to all quit on the same day if you don't get paid 15 minute breaks. That's a union.
The case isn't about copying, it's about the act of spidering.
Also, if copying is illegal, what about copying the website to your browser cache when you display the page? Let's ban that; that will be GREAT for the web.
A case should be thrown out even if robots.txt was ignored. What if robots.txt contains a parse error or was temporarily inaccessible?
If you want something published on the public internet to be private, require viewers to enter a password or present a cryptographic certificate. Everything else is public.
> Availability is a key facet of security. There's no fuckin' point having a "secure" system which you can't even use.
Sure there is. Think, for example, of a data warehouse containing social security numbers. Would you prefer that that system go down entirely, or that the contents of the database is exposed. A system that detects trouble and shuts itself down until someone fixes it sounds good to me.
Also, by your standards, a power failure is a security hole. That's just not true.
Manufacturing algae is probably more efficient than manufacturing solar panels. In addition, compare what happens to a solar cell when it's reached its end-of-life to an alga that's reached its end-of-life.
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> Say "Tough cookies"?
Yes.
Yeah, I hate visiting sites and seeing them render properly! That really sucks! Fuck firefox!
You: Your honor, my cat opened the bag before I read the EULA.
Judge: Toshiba, just pay them the freakin' $80 for Vista.
Toshiba: OK.
> Why even bother writing anything to the disk at all?
Do you want a laptop with a broken disk? Burn-in is when they test to make sure that the hardware actually works.
I'm not complaining about welfare, I'm just saying that people simply don't starve to death in the US... even if the "man" doesn't like them.
Of course, you won't get to have an 8-core workstation... but you will have something resembling food.
> People don't starve to death in the long term.
Not in the Welfare States of America, anyway.
That's the same e-mail and phone (almost) that I gave Oracle, too. Do people actually give their real information to Oracle, just to download docs for products they've paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for?
No, they don't.
> "It's a right to work state" and that's that
Maybe you should exercise that right and get a real job?
Also, I don't buy your comment about "there are no unions". Start one. Get your coworkers to all quit on the same day if you don't get paid 15 minute breaks. That's a union.
Is it engineering where this is happening, or is it the cleaning staff? The article didn't mention that.
I doubt google would shaft their engineering department.
> Yea, nothing like sending your citizen's personal information oversees. Sounds like a hell of a plan.
It's a much better idea to bring the overseas workers in on H1-B visas instead!
Or, there's no way an underpaid American worker would compromise the data for some extra cash on the side. Only ferreners would do that! Terrorists!
Was that a poem?
One sentence per line.
Not much meaning.
Please try posting again.
Good plagiarism.
Choose to shut the fuck up. Choose to be modded down. Please choose to kill yourself.
Probably, but you could just boot from a livecd or put your ~/.firefox on a ramdisk.
The case isn't about copying, it's about the act of spidering.
Also, if copying is illegal, what about copying the website to your browser cache when you display the page? Let's ban that; that will be GREAT for the web.
A case should be thrown out even if robots.txt was ignored. What if robots.txt contains a parse error or was temporarily inaccessible?
If you want something published on the public internet to be private, require viewers to enter a password or present a cryptographic certificate. Everything else is public.
> Availability is a key facet of security. There's no fuckin' point having a "secure" system which you can't even use.
Sure there is. Think, for example, of a data warehouse containing social security numbers. Would you prefer that that system go down entirely, or that the contents of the database is exposed. A system that detects trouble and shuts itself down until someone fixes it sounds good to me.
Also, by your standards, a power failure is a security hole. That's just not true.
Manufacturing algae is probably more efficient than manufacturing solar panels. In addition, compare what happens to a solar cell when it's reached its end-of-life to an alga that's reached its end-of-life.
> doesn't mean the design problem doesn't exist; just that it hasn't affected me.
Hey, I think I see you outside -- in a body bag.
> but insert standard comment about how it's OK for free software to have bugs here
It's a common comment because it's the whole point of free software. Bug 104956 is your fault because you haven't patched it yet.
Just upload your code to CPAN, and the CPAN Testers will test it for you. Easy!
Who cares if it's popular? If it solves your problem, use it.
What about social networking sites that aren't located in the US, like mixi?
> Ubuntu and Debian steer clear of MP3 support and other patent/licensing minefields in order to stay relatively "pure" in the GNU sense.
Really? Debian's apps have MP3 working out of the box... Ubuntu is the one worried about license issues.
> "I notice that you have not offered me $PERK, where $PERK is an unsigned integer variable, 4 bytes long, automatically allocated on the stack."
:)
If someone said this in their interview ("dollar sign perk") I would immediately hire them, regardless of how the rest of the interview went
> I've seen the login screen my doctor uses, but I can't remember the name of the app offhand.
iDeath -- now with iLife integration.